{"id":8797,"date":"2023-08-30T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/?p=8797"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:08:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:08:51","slug":"famitsu-sales-hardware-and-software-for-august-14th-august-20th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/2023\/08\/30\/famitsu-sales-hardware-and-software-for-august-14th-august-20th-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Famitsu Sales: Hardware and Software for August 14th \u2013 August 20th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here is the best selling software and hardware in Japan, for the week of August 14th \u2013 August 20th courtesy&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/\">Famitsu<\/a>.<br><br><strong>Software<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Pikmin 4 (NS) &#8211; 54,904<br>2) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (NS) &#8211; 16,859<br>3) The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (NS) &#8211; 12,861<br>4) Minecraft (NS) &#8211; 9,994<br>5) Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Pok\u00e9mon Violet (NS) &#8211; 7,996<br>6) Splatoon 3 (NS) &#8211; 7,586<br>7) Nintendo Switch Sports (NS) &#8211; 7,386<br>8) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (NS) &#8211; 7,313<br>9) Mario Party Superstars (NS) &#8211; 5,909<br>10) Animal Crossing: New Horizons (NS) &#8211; 5,699<br><br><strong>Hardware:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Nintendo Switch \u2013 77,780<br>2) PlayStation 5 \u2013 37,411<br>3) Xbox Series \u2013 1,327<br>4) PlayStation 4 \u2013 611<br>5) Nintendo 3DS \u2013 97<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pikmin 4 was once again the best selling game of the week, with the rest of the Top 10 also being quite familiar. Something of interest though is that next week, the gap between Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild will be less than 400,000, physical, in Japan. Very impressive considering how long each game was out for.<br><br>In hardware, Nintendo Switch was the best selling console for the week, also besting itself last year in the same week. Now, 2022&#8217;s NS sales are only 152,000 ahead of how much the platform has sold this year. The gap is continuing to close. See you next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the best selling software and hardware in Japan, for the week of August 14th \u2013 August 20th courtesy&nbsp;Famitsu. Software: 1) Pikmin 4 (NS) &#8211; 54,9042) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (NS) &#8211; 16,8593) The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (NS) &#8211; 12,8614) Minecraft (NS) &#8211; 9,9945) Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Pok\u00e9mon Violet (NS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[165],"tags":[247,2410,9,39,286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8799,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions\/8799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}