The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge was the best-selling boxed game in Japan in September, with more than 200,000 copies sold.
Although it was only on sale for four days, with Famitsu’s updated listings including data from August 26 to September 29, this was more than double the selection of items sold through any other game in the years. last days.
Its closest competitor was Bandai Namco’s Gundam Breaker 4 on Move, which hit just under 68,000 devices and was the second big hype game of the day. When the PS5 and PS4 versions were combined, Gundam Breaker 4 sold almost 130,000 devices, and that’s next in a full day of sales (excluding August 29).
The luck of the mechanical game led Bandai Namco to become the second-best publisher in terms of profits, behind Nintendo. Gundam Breaker 4 has already surpassed the total sales of 2018’s new Gundam Breaker, which sold 106,000 copies, while 2016’s Gundam Breaker 3 controlled 190,000 during its own release day.
More than half of Control’s 30 games (18, to be exact) were new releases. Other impressive hits included Umamusume’s Move version of Cygames: Beautiful Derby – Party Sprint on Refuse.3 (just over 50,000 sales), Enix’s Sq. Optical of Mana on PS5 and PS4 (a mixed sales of 54,000), and Astro Bot from PlayStation (35,000).
Nintendo only had one alternate new cut on Control 30 – the new Famicom Detective Club day trip Emio: The Smiling Guy with 31,000 copies sold – but it took nine spots on the list thanks to the continued luck of Animal Crossing, Nintendo Transfer Sports, and Mario Kart 8, the latter of which has already sold six million copies in Japan.
In any case, there were only three new Western releases breaking into the charts, with EA Sports FC 25 at Transfer and PS5 at Refuse.27 and 28 respectively (a combined figure of 16,500 sales), and Ubisoft’s Megastar Wars Outlaws at Refuse. 29 (12,500).
Transfer OLED was once again the best-selling console of the day with 193,647 devices; To tell the truth, it represented exactly 50% of gross hardware sales, so one in every two units sold last day was once an OLED Transfer.
The PS5 represented 15.6% of hardware sales with 60,427 devices, compared to the 86,000 it sold the previous day.
Listed below are the top 10 best-selling physical games in Japan from August 29, 2024 to September 29, 2024, courtesy of Famitsu:
| Score | Platform | Identify | Writer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transfer | The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge | nintendo |
| 2 | Transfer | Gundam 4 Circuit Breaker | Bandai Namco |
| 3 | Transfer | Umamuse: Pretty Darby – Sprint Birthday Celebration | cygames |
| 4 | PS5 | Gundam 4 Circuit Breaker | Bandai Namco |
| 5 | Transfer | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | nintendo |
| 6 | PS5 | Mana Optics | Squares. Enix |
| 7 | Transfer | Nintendo Transfer Sports activities | nintendo |
| 8 | PS5 | Astrobot | Sony Interactive Entertainment |
| 9 | Transfer | Animal Crossing new horizons | nintendo |
| 10 | Transfer | Emio: The Smiling Boy – Famicom Detective Membership | nintendo |
