The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Debuts in 1st Place on the Japanese Charts - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 October 2024 / 6,153 Views
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (NS) has debuted in first place on the retail charts in Japan with sales of 200,121 units, according to Famitsu for the week ending September 29, 2024.
The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki – Farewell, O Zemuria (PS5) debuted in second place with sales of 29,554 units. The PlayStation 4 version debuted in third place with sales of 17,838 units.
EA Sports FC 25 (NS) debuted in fourth place with sales of 13,332 units. The PS5 version debuted in fifth place with sales of 13,265, while the PS4 version debuted in seventh place with sales of 6,379 units.
Moeyo! Otome Doushi: Kayuu Koigatari (NS) debuted in ninth place with sales of 5,396 units.
Astro Bot (PS5) is in sixth place with sales of 6,381 units, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (NS) is in eighth place with sales of 6,030 units and Animal Crossing: New Horizons (NS) is in 10th place with sales of 5,383 units.
The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling platform with 74,351 units sold. The PlayStation 5 sold 10,799 units, the Xbox Series X|S sold 557 units, and the PlayStation 4 sold 31 units.
Here are the best-selling games in Japan:
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo, 09/26/24) – 200,121 (New)
- [PS5] The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki – Farewell, O Zemuria (Nihon Falcom, 09/26/24) – 29,554 (New)
- [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki – Farewell, O Zemuria (Nihon Falcom, 09/26/24) – 17,838 (New)
- [NSW] EA Sports FC 25 (Electronic Arts, 09/27/24) – 13,332 (New)
- [PS5] EA Sports FC 25 (Electronic Arts, 09/27/24) – 13,265 (New)
- [PS5] ASTRO BOT (Sony Interactive Entertainment, 09/06/24) – 6,381 (34,902)
- [PS4] EA Sports FC 25 (Electronic Arts, 09/27/24) – 6,379 (New)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 6,030 (6,011,624)
- [NSW] Moeyo! Otome Doushi: Kayuu Koigatari (Idea Factory, 09/26/24) – 5,396 (New)
- [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 5,383 (7,920,305)
Here is the hardware breakdown (followed by lifetime sales):
- Switch OLED Model – 34,464 (7,937,041)
- Switch Lite – 34,924 (6,098,660)
- PlayStation 5 – 8,978 (5,202,821)
- Switch – 4,963 (19,906,981)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 1,821 (855,321)
- Xbox Series S – 370 (319,278)
- Xbox Series X – 187 (307,457)
- PlayStation 4 – 31 (7,928,508)
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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And... just like that Zelda EoW outsold lifetime sales of Asstrobot in Japan. Just wait until the dust settles and Asstrobot will only eat more Zelda's dust WW. Facts.
Astrobot can still sell well, but they'll have to cut the price to $30(and port it to PC).
Astro Bot will do 10m+ on PS5 alone. Some of you guys are going to look pretty dumb in a year or two.
Based on what? Your hopes and dreams or some trend you can actually substantiate?
Based on player numbers from video game tracking websites that have sample sizes in the tens of thousands. Number of people that played Astro Bot is about 4x the number of people that played Star Wars Outlaws on PS5. It was just over double the number of people that played Space Marine 2. Extrapolating player numbers out would put its launch week at about 2m.
It also has very solid legs from available player numbers and from available weekly sales charts. In Japan it’s basically staying steady in numbers, in France it went back up to No.1 spot in its third week for example.
It’s opening and legs are both much stronger than something like Ratchet and Clank: Rift apart and we know that game sold 3.97m copies as of some point between February and June 2023, which is less than 2 years.
So your evidence is it's doing a bit better than games that didn't sell all that well? The price has to be reduced. it's the only chance it's got. It's opening week just got dwarfed by EoW.
Japan physical sales are completely irrelavent. God of War sold 46k in Japan and went onto sell 20m+ worldwide. Ragnarok sold 40k first week and hit 15m worldwide in a year.
Trying to extrapolate sales from Japanese sales charts is a beyond ridiculous.
It isn't any more or less relevant than the French charts, but whatever fits your narrative. Super Mario RPG remake did 3.3 million in 6 months where it took Ratchet and clank 2 years to get to 3.9 million and Outlaws is considered a flop. If your argument is it's doing better than those games that's not a good sign.
Astrobot will sell, but won't do 10 million in a year and will need a reduced price. Same as how Crash and Spiro sold after they were heavily discounted.
The French chart is way more relavent because most non-japanese charts are fairly representative of broader sales patters. Japanese sales data is completely irrelevant to extrapolating any kind of data other than Japanese sales since the territory is completely insular and behaves completely different from every other market.
Ratchet’s 3.9M in under 2 years(as a $70 game too) is incredibly impressive. How much super mario RPG sold is completely irrelavent. GTAV sold 150M, every game is rubbish compared to that then..
Whether outlaws is a flop or not is irrelavent, because it’s a known data point. It’s sold around 1M copies according to leaks. So knowing how well Astro Bot did relative to that gives an incredibly useful point of reference.
My claim is that Astro Bot would sell 10m lifetime on PS5 alone and all data points point towards that being accurate, regardless of how many copies super mario RPG sold in 6 months(this is called not a relevant data point)
Super Mario RPG was a remake of a 25 year old game at $60. Pikmin 4 did slightly better than that in less than a year at the same price. Ratchet and clank needing 2 years to top those games is not good.
Not sure why you even bring up GTAV but I'm more impressed with MK8D selling over 60 million on a single platform over GTAV selling 150M on multiple platforms over multiple platform generations.
I can agree Astrobot will get to 10 million, like Spiro got to 10 million. it will take several years and a reduced price(and a PC port).
Also Outlaws being a flop is relevant when you want to compare player numbers. If Astrobot's player numbers are 4 time better than a game no one is playing, that's not a flex.
I can see this doing 10 million within the calendar year. maybe a few million over that.
