Japanese Charts: Mario Party Jamboree Holds Off A Bunch Of New Releases

The sales figure that Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven got is what Visions of Mana could had gotten had Square Enix not ignore the Switch platform in Japan. I would had triple dipped on Visions of Mana like I did Romancing SaGa 2 had it got a Switch version. This is also surprising too considering this was the second time Romancing SaGa 2 got remade on Switch so a higher sales figure was unlikely but it did. Also odd that only the Switch version of Sonic X Shadow Generations made it to the top 10, seem like Sony is not doing a good job of marketing their versions of that game for the Japanese crowd.

Those are shockingly low numbers for a Sonic game. Especially compared to Call of Duty. Really hope Sega doesn't write it off as a failure because I want more characters to be playable in Sonic games again.

Do japanese people not like Sonic? Those are horrible numbers

@JR150 Didn't it sell 1mio copies within it's first day? I'd say that very good, just not in the japanese market

65K sales every week is simply not a system in need of a next gen lol. At tthis rate, the Switch will be the first retro console you can have nostalgia for...and still go into a high street shop and buy one brand new hahaha!

Sonic was designed with western appeal in mind, this isn't shocking

9000+ of PS5, stay on number 3.
Not bad. 🙂

@Serpenterror It'll release on Switch 2. It was probably too much of a stretch to get on Switch 1 without sacrificing too much of its visual identity, or Square couldve just thought their resources were better deployed focusing on a launch window Switch 2 port instead.

@Scoopz doubt it will come to switch 2 the company that made it already disbanded

Terrible PS5 figures.

@mariomaster96 Sonic really never had much appeal in Japan as far as I know. Compared to Western countries where the series is more popular in.

There's a lot of Romance in the Japanese charts this week.

@Anti-Matter If Switch was hitting 9k a week, THEN I would be saying Nintendo desperately need something new.

@Olliemar28
9000+ unit of PS5 sold from my perspective was still good when the number compared with Xbox sales that looked abysmal.
When PS5 sales still able to stay on Top 3, that looked good for me.
At least it's not Wii U sales situation.
Also, I said "Not bad" for PS5 sales, I didn't say "Wonderful" or "Incredible" or something like that.
Not bad that means Decent for me.
Not awesome but still better than Xbox sales and I'm content with 9000+ until 10000+ sales of PS5 currently.
Other people said PS5 sales was bad, but I see the number from different perspective.

Mario Party’s numbers staying strong for 2nd week, love to see it!

I wonder how Playstation 5 Pro has performed. Maybe the Japanese have been waiting for that all this time?

@Anti-Matter XBox is dead ove there. I can't imagine what kind of money sink that is. There seems to be some scope for layoffs there. I understand that kind of thinking nets you millions in bonus!

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot Doesn't help that the creator was arrested.

@Scoopz nothing about Visions looks like too much for a Gen 9 hybrid running the likes of NieR Automata. It's even made in UE4 that Switch advertised support for since launch. I'm more inclined to suspect mere pipeline hijinks turning the game into a crossgen release at latest.

@johnedwin Doesnt have to involve the original developer. Doom and Witcher 3 werent ported to Switch by the original developer.

@nhSnork I just hope it does make it to Switch 2. The Mana series just feels at home on Nintendo systems 😄

Anyone else think the same 367 bought Romancing SaGa 2 on both Switch and PS4?

Jokes aside, it’s crazy it sold nearly five times more copies on Switch than PS4, and almost double the PS5. Just shows how Nintendo really is at the top.

@GrailUK
Switch sales that suddenly dropped to under 10K, it indicates Nintendo needs a wake up call.
It also indicates the hardware of Switch is already outdated and became unacceptable to play certain 3rd party multi platform games on Switch.
The Switch sales currently is great, but also followed by bad treatments of certain 3rd party games (code in box, partial download, streaming only, poor optimization, etc) and I'm not happy to see the Switch version of 3rd party games got the worst performance compared with PS5 version, even for very small size game (under 1GB to 5 GB games).
And it made me not interested to get into Switch version of 3rd party games and my attention is now on PS5 sales and for the 3rd party kids games on PS5.
Tell me, how could Bluey cannot reach 60 fps on Switch but it was smooth 60 fps on PS5 and the game size itself was really small (700 MB + 200 MB for update) and not AAA quality ?
I'm tired with this 30 fps excuse for Switch just because the assumption of Nintendo gamers will not really bothering the 30 fps.

@GrailUK honestly, itd be cool if even after the next console came out they just kept on making more switch 1 models and made the less demanding games cross-gen

Good total numbers for Romancing SaGa 2.

There is an xbox series x digital?
I really haven't been paying attention to Microsoft for awhile now.

@Anti-Matter Sigh. Sony and Microsoft let the third party tail wag the dog decades ago. Look how they squabbled over Activision. Now, I will concede third party support is strong, but please don't fall in to the trap of thinking it's the be all and end all. We get it. You were brought up with playstation. Nintendo is a different animal. Trying to project Sony on to them does nothing but suck the joy out of what makes Nintendo Nintendo

@Anti-Matter I don’t know if you know but the ps5 is more powerful than the switch.

@Anti-Matter I think when some of us say PS5 sales are bad, we mean that in the sense that there are only two contenders. Xbox is no competition to anything this gen in Japan so it's a 2 horse race where good quality games and form factor are wiping the floor with the PS5. Which ever way you spin it, a console at it's midpoint doing 10k per month is pretty abysmal.

@Serpenterror Well said. Yep. That vanished from our 'visions' in the sales charts so quickly. Not even in those top 40 lists after 2 weeks! Bet it would have hung around with the Switch audience.

I'm happy that Echos of Wisdom is holding up so well!

@Mana_Knight For Japan there are no top 40 lists after two weeks. Famitsu publishes the top 30 for this same week tomorrow.

@Anti-Matter The storage space a game takes up has nothing to do with it's framerate performance. Also there are two PS5 models there. You completely ignore the other one.

@Duncanballs
But from my perspective, even the PS5 sales is between 9000 - 10000 units per week, I saw it as a good result.
PS5 is still selling, still some peoples want to buy PS5 machine + the games whichever PS5 games they bought.
And PS5 is still on number 3 compared with XBOX that looked really abysmal.
Being on Top 3 is really give me a hope that PS5 will still survive and the support of 3rd party kids games for PS5 such as Outright Games / Microids / Team17 / GameMill / Maximum Entertainment / etc will keep going.
I really need those 3rd party kids games by those publishers for my PS5 since I prioritize 3rd party games than 1st party Nintendo games.
I would say Super Mario Party Jamboree looked interesting, the sales was really great but it was not the game I will play very soon / in heartbeat since my attention currently is building more 3rd party kids games for my PS5.
Back to PS5 sales situation, when I see the number suddenly bellow than 5000 and dropped below than 5th position, it will make me really worried like Wii U sales situation.

@Anti-Matter then just focus on ps5. It's bombing in Japan and I hate to be the one to tell you this but the fact that it's in it's 4th year and the only game people actively give a collective crap about is astro bot. You know a game that sold really well in the first couple of weeks of release but Sony never promoted. Why? Because all they care about is trying to push live services and a non live service game doing amazingly well vs a turd like concord destroys that narrative that they deluded themselves with.

@traceman Their 'creativity' (investment lol) is far too cynical and safe.

@traceman

For me, I refuse to buy PS5 until it has a respectable library of next generation games! The fact that the vast majority of its library is shared with the PS4 doesn’t interest me in the slightest because….I can play those games on my PS4!

And I never thought I’d see somebody using Bluey running at 60 fps as an example. Lol

@BanjoPickles I don't have a ps5 either I was just trying to give some cold hard facts. Also imagine using a licensed game of all things as a benchmark for framerates 🤣

@GrailUK couldn't agree more.

lol imagine if the new Mana game was on Switch day 1. Would have done a lot better. Good for Romance Saga for getting a win. Switch audience showed up for it.

A Sonic game (especially one with Shadow who only the West really loves) doing poorly in Japan was expected. Frontiers did barely over 40k on launch all platforms combined including the Switch (that did over half the sales).

Also wild I’m seeing someone here actually defending PS5 sales with cope rhetoric. You don’t even see that in PushSquare and that is the PlayStation adjacent site lol.

@BanjoPickles
I mean Bluey was really running on 60 fps on PS5 but 30 fps on Switch.
Bluey is a very small GB size game and when Switch version cannot push the performance into 60 fps, I felt disappointed.
That's why I invested my money on PS5 Fat machine to play 3rd party kids games from PS4 / PS5 with 60 fps performance as possible.

@Arawn93
I still defended PS5 for different reason.
I see PS5 as a great machine to play both PS4 & PS5 3rd party kids games with better performance as possible.
I really need the support of the 3rd party kids games for PS4 & PS5 as those games are the only I care about.
I don't buy PS4 & PS5 for AAA games.
I bought PS5 for playing 3rd party kids games like Bluey (I bought it on my birthday last time), Barbie, Kao the Kangaroo, Paw Patrol, Doraemon Story of Seasons, Paleo Pines, etc.
When I see the PS5 sales still stay on Top 3 with decent sales around 9000 - 10000 units, I'm already content and it gave me some relief that the support from publishers such as Outright Games, Microids, Team17, Maximum Entertainment, PQube, GameMill, etc will keep going on PS5.
I don't expect the PS5 sales will be like PS4 vs Wii U sales situation because I knew Switch sales currently way much better than PS5, but as long PS5 sales is still way much better than XBOX, it makes me happy.
And that's why I keep cheering on PS5 sales here on Nintendolife because this is the only website I can give some appreciation for PS5 sales report weekly.

@Anti-Matter or you could go to push square just saying.

Well, 34 unit of PS4 has been sold. 🙂
That's very understandable, PS4 is entering its Twilight age on 11th anniversary this November 2024.
I love my PS4 Slim White too. 😘
And thank you for the wonderful 3rd party kids games on PS4 I can play.

@Anti-Matter unless you are tied to Japanese releases, Sony is bombing in Japan but not worldwide so no need to cheer them on for fear of collapse in the Japanese markets. I think what we are saying, is you are on a Nintendo site and only ever talk about Playstation. Entirely up to you but you don't have to publish all of your thoughts and the same ones each time. This isn't a site where you can't talk about Sony or Xbox, it just kills the conversation when it's all of time on a Nintendo fan site.

@Duncanballs
I personally don't have that much to say some of 1st party Switch games release like Super Mario Party Jamboree or Super Mario Wonder, etc because I don't have that much hype with those games.
I still have curiosity or little interest to consider those games but again, if I don't have that much with those 1st party Nintendo games, I will not say it a lot.
The only the highest hype of 1st party Nintendo game I have is ACNH since the gameplay became more like The Sims style (more decorating, less talking) and that's why you still see me posted screen shots and or talking about ACNH until today.

Btw, the games I talked about a lot (3rd party games) were actually also on Switch (Nintendo machine) but I never want to discuss about the Switch version because I keep finding bad performance or bad treatments for the Switch version so I talked the PS4 / PS5 for the same 3rd party kids games on here because I only like the PS4 / PS5 version for having better result than Switch version.

When I see the Switch sales currently, I slowly clapped my hand as indicated it was impressive sales BUT also followed with the flaws for the 3rd party games on Switch so I cannot give the same energy for Switch sales like before because I already felt disappointed with Switch hardware that cannot even perform 60 fps for the under 1 GB 3rd party games on Switch.
60 fps is really matter for me, especially for the smaller games that doesn't need very big power to perform.
Everytime I see Switch sales weekly, I still give a slow handclap with poker face 😐 because I admit the Switch sales was impressive (by objective judgement) but also still disappointed at the same time to see the bad treatment of 3rd party games on Switch (by my subjective judgement).
And currently, when I see PS5 sales weekly, I see a contender that still struggle to maintain in Top 3 position but I gave them support and some smile 😊, hoping PS5 will keep selling better or at least survived because I already content with the 3rd party kids games on PS5.

@Anti-Matter I hear your point and see what you mean - as a 3rd party machine the ps5 sales aren't bad. Whats a little confusing is your no interest in 1st party games but you continue to review them on here in your Games section - like Zelda Echoes got a 5/10, is there a reason you do that? Not attacking at all, just curious

@CammyUnofficial
I didn't say I have no interest at all with 1st party Nintendo games.
I still have some or little interest with certain 1st party Nintendo games like Mario games, Kirby games, Star Fox games on GameCube, etc. And because I have little interest with them (Maybe around 11% - 20% interest level) so I don't play those games oftenly if I already have the games and I will not get them in heartbeat because I felt not really interested to get the game quickly. Even if I suddenly pick them by randomly, I might neglected the games for having less engagement with the games after for a while playing.
But, I also have higher interest level of 1st party Switch games such as Mii games(40 - 60%), ACNH (90%), 1-2-Switch & Everybody 1-2-Switch (40 - 50%), ARMS (70 - 80%), etc because the gameplay and their genre really closed with my gaming forte and ACNH is my highest interest of 1st party Nintendo game.

Oh, about the score of 5/10 for Echoes of Wisdom, I personally don't have any interest with Zelda franchise as you keep finding me I keep saying about no interest with Zelda franchise on other articles / threads, but the Chibi looking Zelda games kinds looked intriguing so it gave me some curiosity for 5 - 10%.
Since I didn't grow up by Zelda franchise nor even adoring them, I gave the score for Echoes of wisdom 5 from 10 because the characters and environments looked cute but the gameplay and its popularity didn't look very appealing for me so I rated 5 from 10 for not really impressed but I still see the gaming potential.
Actually I already have two Chibi Zelda games: Windwaker Wii U and Tri Force 3DS, but I neglected the games after playing them for a while, not because the games were bad but I didn't feel engaged a lot with the franchise.
I randomly pick them just for curiosity to test my engagement with the Chibi Zelda games and it looked like my engagement with Chibi Zelda games were only 2% - 5% so no wonder I felt bored or uninterested to continue the games further after playing for a while.

@Anti-Matter understood and thanks for the response. It's a shame Echoes didn't appeal to you, seemed like it might given your tastes but so be it.

I recently gave up on Skyward Sword out of disinterest so I get ya

Maybe I'm weird but I see this as a race between three, not nine. PS5 is in 3rd place. That's last place. That's bad. PS5 is selling poorly in Japan. Last place.

Shockingly Xbox is in 6th place in a race of three. The internet explorer of consoles somehow.

@Purgatorium
I don't think being on number 3 for PS5 is bad.
That's from my perspective.

@Anti-Matter
Where's your perspective coming from?

@Purgatorium
Just because the number of PS5 being sold is below than Switch sales, it doesn't mean PS5 is not worthy to play.
Again, the customer have their choice to choose the machines and being on Top 3 for PS5 is not that bad from my perspective.
There are still some peoples want to buy PS5 machines and it indicates something good.
Also, Switch sales with that really big number and stay on number 1 is also followed by its flaws that made me disappointed (code in box, partial download, streaming only, poor optimization, etc).
With those flaws from current Switch hardware, I would rather sacrifice its portability and choose PS5 version to play 3rd party kids games with better performance.
Also, I'm 3rd party gamer with top priority on 3rd party games than 1st party Nintendo games.

@Anti-Matter
I see. Certainly some people believe that a console with lower sales is less worthy to play. I'm not one of those people, so we agree about that.

I'm saying that from a different perspective the PS5 is a distant last place in a contest between only 3 consoles. I don't think that would hurt the availability of games you want to play. From PS5 gamers perspective, and from your perspective, it's probably fine. From a Sony executive's perspective, it's probably not great. But maybe in the Japanese market it's actually really good. I have no idea.