Famitsu Sales: 8/21/23 – 8/27/23 [Update]
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon opens at 163,342 retail copies sold.![](https://www.gematsu.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Famitsu-Sales_08-31-23-320x180.jpg)
Famitsu has published its estimated physical game software and hardware sales data for Japan for the week of August 21, 2023 to August 27, 2023.
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon was the highest selling new release and overall game of the week, moving 115,393 units on PlayStation 5 and 47,949 on PlayStation 4 for an opening week total of 163,342 retail copies sold.
On the hardware side, the Switch family sold 71,702 units, the PlayStation 5 family sold 42,730 units, the Xbox Series family sold 3,440 units, and the PlayStation 4 family sold 672 units.
Get the full sales charts below.
Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
- [PS5] Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (FromSoftware, 08/25/23) – 115,393 (New)
- [PS4] Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (FromSoftware, 08/25/23) – 47,949 (New)
- [NSW] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 07/21/23) – 31,312 (752,593)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 10,200 (5,453,841)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo, 05/12/23) – 7,656 (1,840,742)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 7,486 (3,243,441)
- [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 5,797 (3,447,789)
- [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11/18/22) – 5,450 (5,106,417)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 5,037 (5,270,870)
- [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 4,768 (4,097,939)
- [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 4,187 (1,163,091)
- [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 3,835 (7,521,701)
- [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 3,696 (1,289,310)
- [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 06/05/20) – 3,026 (1,155,392)
- [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 2,881 (2,914,164)
- [NSW] eBASEBALL Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 (Konami, 04/21/22) – 2,680 (293,514)
- [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival (Bandai Namco, 09/22/22) – 2,502 (208,114)
- [NSW] Natsu-Mon! 20th Century Summer Vacation (Spike Chunsoft, 07/28/23) – 2,228 (42,492)
- [NSW] Unreal Life (room6, 08/24/23) – 2,157 (New)
- [NSW] Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe (Nintendo, 02/24/23) – 1,957 (477,360)
- [PS5] Immortals of Aveum (Electronic Arts, 08/24/23) – 1,923 (New)
- [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo, 02/12/21) – 1,720 (1,180,798)
- [NSW] Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 Special Price (SEGA, 11/17/22) – 1,649 (86,384)
- [NSW] D.C.III P.S. ~Da Capo III Plus Story~ (Entergram, 08/24/23) – 1,632 (New)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 1,566 (2,238,948)
- [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo, 01/11/19) – 1,429 (1,286,820)
- [PS5] Final Fantasy XVI (Square Enix, 06/22/23) – 1,321 (414,216)
- [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Nintendo, 03/25/22) – 1,313 (1,052,704)
- [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 1,310 (2,170,648)
- [NSW] ARK: Survival Evolved (Spike Chunsoft, 02/24/23) – 1,142 (65,412)
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
- Switch OLED Model – 52,125 (5,425,811)
- PlayStation 5 – 38,217 (3,661,356)
- Switch Lite – 10,597 (5,467,783)
- Switch – 8,980 (19,514,351)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 4,513 (566,571)
- Xbox Series X – 2,869 (215,291)
- PlayStation 4 – 672 (7,894,565)
- Xbox Series S – 571 (270,460)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 59 (1,192,209)
Update 10:05 p.m.: Famitsu has published the top 11 to 30 game software sales, which have been added to the post.