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Japan Charts: The SWITCH OLED effect is felt

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Famitsu (Abbreviation Fami, ファミ 通) is a Japanese video game magazine, available in four versions: Weekly, PlayStation, Xbox, Wii + DS. The magazine deals with the news of the Games, and publishes previews and tests whose notes are apprehended by players around the world. Released for the first time in 1986 under the name Family Computer Tsūshin (ファミリー コンピュータ 通信, Famirīkonpyūta Tsūshin, literally Family Computer ), the magazine is now selling about 800,000 copies for the Weekly version. Other versions are monthly and sell between 150,000 and 300,000 copies each. Here are the best sellers of games and consoles in Japan for the week from 11 to 17 October 2021, established and communicated as always by Famitsu magazine . Failure of big competition, Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles remains at the top of sales this week in Japan despite a big slide of more than 80% which will probably seek to disappear from the top 10 in a short time. Recall that the game of CyberConnect2 has been d...

Japan charts: Tales of Arise and Warioware make their entry

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Here are the best sellers of games and consoles in Japan for the week of 6 to 12 September 2021, established and communicated as always by Famitsu magazine. It s a good big RPG that has just disembark on the Japanese market as elsewhere. With just over 200,000 copies sold for Tales of Arise , the start of Tales of continues to go down from the peak of Tales of Xillia on PS3 (512,000). However, the figure must be nuanced so much the importance of box sales has strongly declined over the years. At a minimum, the progression of the dematerialized suggests that Tales of Arise has probably equaled or even exceeded the 234,000 sales of Tales of Berseria five years earlier. Beyond Japan, the game especially took advantage of a multi-platform global exit and a very nice critical home to achieve the best launch of the series of the series and take only the million sales in a few days. Let s add that even if the bar is not high, Tales of Arise is also the best launch of a PS5 game in Japan....