Famitsu: Super Mario Party Jamboree leads Japanese physical sales chart in October 2024
Atlus launched the most successful new IP in Japan by physical sales.
Famitsu only accounts for physical sales.
Game Sales
Super Mario Party Jamboree cartridges were purchased over 227,500 times in the first two weeks of October.
Unusually for Japan, the top 10 includes 7 PlayStation 5 games. In second place is Metaphor: ReFantazio with 133,000 copies on PS4 and PS5. This is a record for disc version sales among all new IPs in 2024.
Combined sales of Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven on PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch total 115,000 copies.
Nintendo accounts for 35.9% of all physical sales in October ($23.3 million); Atlus has 13.2% ($8.4 million).
976,500 boxed games for Nintendo Switch were sold in October. This represents 64.4% of the total sales volume.
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Hardware Sales
Nintendo Switch leads in sales - in October, the console was purchased 242,400 times in Japan.
PlayStation 5 is far behind - 47,600 consoles.