After a forced break due to the Golden Week holiday, Famitsu is back in business and is releasing its estimates for not one but two weeks of sales. New license from Korea but well promoted by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Stellar Blade achieved a good performance with 67,131 copies sold and stock shortages observed almost everywhere in Japan. Incidentally, the game from the Shift Up studio is also the most downloaded title of the month on the PlayStation Store in Japan.
Technically, Stellar Blade is not, however, the best-selling game of this double week, a status which goes to the one that could have been called “Suikoden 6” if Konami were a little more interested in video games. Combining its Switch, PS5 and PS4 sales, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes totals 73,126 copies sold. Enough to pay a nice tribute to the late creative director Yoshitaka Murayama, who left us shortly before the game's release. Speaking of posthumous games, we cannot say that the 10,260 PS5 copies of Sand Land do honor to the legendary Akira Toriyama . The absence of a Switch version doesn't help, of course, but it would be more accurate to say that Bandai Namco completely missed the mark with its cross-media project based on this one shot released in 2000.
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At a time when Takashi Kiryu has walked his talk by canceling the development of several unannounced titles with the aim of becoming “ more selective “, one might wonder how Square Enix's CEO views the SaGa franchise, the latest of which Emerald Beyond has sold 27,969 copies on consoles. This is not anecdotal, but will it be enough for the franchise to still find its place in the future? More popular as a meme than as a video game, El Shaddai went unnoticed as part of its Switch port with 1,971 sales. Endless Ocean Luminous, on the other hand, is already doing better than its two predecessors released on Wii in 2007 and 2009. Excluding the top 10, note that the exclusives Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Rise of the Ronin have accumulated 327,251 and 118,347 sales respectively.
In terms of console sales, the Switch is making its first million in 2024 thanks to the 100,000 additional consoles sold in the space of two weeks. As Nintendo's recent financial report showed, the Switch has been selling more in Japan than in all of Europe since last year. For its part, with almost 5.5 million sales, the PS5 has just surpassed the Nintendo 64's total and has the Saturn's 5.9 million sales as its next milestone.