Hot on the heels of Horizon Forbidden West and Elden Ring, the Japanese chart is finally coming back to life thanks to the launches of two other notable releases. Starting with Gran Turismo 7, the latest in a franchise that has also had its heyday in Japan, especially the first episode, the fuel for which drove it to 2 million sales in the archipelago. With 138,000 copies sold, the majority of which on PS5 (a major first in Japan), Gran Turismo 7 has a launch similar to that of Gran Turismo Sport in 2017, but the advantage should turn in favor of the first named thanks to dematerialization more pronounced. If we remain what is happening far from the record start of a Gran Turismo 2 (750,000 sales), the launch of Gran Turismo 7 seems able to equal or even exceed that of Gran Turismo 6 in 2013 (188,000 sales).
At the risk of not surprising anyone, the other big launch of the week is not for Babylon’s Fall but for Triangle Strategy with 86,298 cartridges sold. An admirable performance for a tactical RPG coupled with a new license, not far from the 93,000 sales of a game like Bravely Default II that Square Enix launched a year earlier on the same platform. Meanwhile, Elden Ring is holding on comfortably for its second week on the market and can aim for 400,000 sales within a week or two. Adding the other platforms and the downloads, FromSoftware has in its hands the biggest success in its history, whether we are talking about Japan or the rest of the world.
Thanks to another great week, the Switch crossed the 24 million consoles sold mark in Japan and is approaching the 24.5 million of the Nintendo 3DS, which implies an entry soon on the big podium alongside the Nintendo DS and the Game Boy. With 32 million consoles sold each, these will be quiet for quite some time to come. Good week also for the PlayStation 5 (more than 25,000 sales) whose trajectory remains for the moment similar to the sales of the PS4 in its time.
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