Famitsu: The Japanese gaming market in August 2024
All top-10 titles by sales are on Nintendo Switch—a complete domination.
Famitsu only takes physical sales into account.
Game Sales
Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 remained the leader in August. The game was purchased by 76,000 people on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Combined physical sales of the project have surpassed 336,000 copies over six weeks. Its predecessor, eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2022, sold 259,000 copies in the same period.
Otherwise, August turned out to be a calm month. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe returned to second place (50,000 copies). Nintendo Switch Sports climbed to third place—baseball was added to the game.
One of the few new releases of the month, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ISEKAI Chronicles, ranked 8th with the Nintendo Switch version (23,000 copies). The PS5 version sold an additional 6,000 copies.
In August, Nintendo accounted for 40.9% of all physical sales in Japan (¥2.3 billion - $16.1 million). Konami had 16%.
In terms of platforms, the Nintendo Switch dominated with 88.1% of the total market. 883,789 games were purchased for this system in August.
Hardware Sales
Unsurprisingly, the Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console of the month, with 228,000 sales.
The PlayStation 5 sold 104,000 units in August.