Reported earlier this week, ANTHEM topped the latest UK charts, but its numbers were apparently rather low, meaning that many are expecting it to drop like a rock. Funnily enough, it looks like the same thing could be happening in Japan, where BioWare's sci-fi shooter flew straight to the top of the pile on PS4.
ANTHEM managed to move 78,000 copies in Japan at launch, which isn't too bad, but it didn't exactly have much competition. The only other new top ten entry on Sony's system was the complete edition re-release of NieR: Automata, coming in with 21,000 copies.
As we've come to expect, though, only super mega ultimate blockbusters boost PS4 hardware numbers these days, and so the current-gen console continues to move around 18,000 units per week with the PS4 Pro included.
Hardware sales
- Switch – 53,270 (65,958)
- PlayStation 4 – 10,632 (11,792)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 6,956 (7,892)
- PlayStation Vita – 3,600 (1,767)
- New 2DS LL – 3,388 (3,358)
- New 3DS LL – 1,052 (1,254)
- 2DS – 113 (142)
- Xbox One X – 51 (55)
- Xbox One – 21 (13)
Software sales
- [PS4] Anthem (Limited Edition Included) (Electronic Arts, 02/22/19) – 77,938 (New)
- [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo, 01/11/19) – 23,235 (455,006)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 22,430 (2,883,416)
- [PS4] NieR: Automata Game of the YoRHa Edition (Square Enix, 02/21/19) – 21,326 (New)
- [PS4] Jump Force (Bandai Namco, 02/14/19) – 17,471 (94,365)
- [PS4] Kingdom Hearts III (Limited Edition Included) (Square Enix, 01/25/19) – 14,258 (770,068)
- [PS4] Far Cry: New Dawn (Ubisoft, 02/15/19) – 12,384 (38,668)
- [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee! (Bundle Editions Included) (Nintendo, 11/16/18) – 11,057 (1,501,846)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 9,308 (2,142,329)
- [NSW] Super Mario Party (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 8,770 (1,027,695)
- [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 8,380 (615,882)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 7,748 (1,299,813)
- [NSW] Girls und Panzer: Dream Tank Match DX (Bandai Namco, 02/21/19) – 7,651 (New)
- [PS4] Catherine: Full Body (Limited Edition Included) (Atlus, 02/14/19) – 7,031 (58,855)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 5,962 (2,938,590)
- [PS4] Resident Evil 2 (Z Version and Limited Edition Included) (Capcom, 01/25/19) – 5,781 (344,273)
- [PS4] Metro Exodus (Spike Chunsoft, 02/15/19) – 5,187 (22,701)
- [NSW] Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy (Capcom, 02/21/19) – 4,419 (New)
- [PS4] Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy (Capcom, 02/21/19) – 3,783 (New)
- [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Limited Edition and Bundle Versions Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 2,724 (1,954,432)
[source 4gamer.net, via gematsu.com]
Comments 15
78K isn't bad - that's more than 2nd, 3rd and 4th sold combined. Wasn't that more than Far Cry sold too in its opening week?
Those xbox hardware numbers always make me chuckle
Just change the javelins to gundams, it will sell 10x of that lol.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi
72 from last week 68 is steady momentum.
Finally bought Nier. DOES NOT WORK. Heard it was patched into a disaster. Compete edition coming to States? I really wanna play and cant find a work around to get my copy to install
@wiiware make a world event to get Marvel IronMan armor in the US and the servers will crash
@Nyne11Tyme Doesn't work? Huh?
I just checked other games and these sales seems, pretty bad.
For comparison:
PS4] Kingdom Hearts III (Limited Edition Included) (Square Enix, 01/25/19) – 610,077 (New)
[PS4] Resident Evil 2 (Z Version and Limited Edition Included) (Capcom, 01/25/19) – 252,848 (New)
And Anthem just barely beaten Fallout 76:
[PS4] Fallout 76 (Limited Edition Included) (Bethesda Softworks, 11/15/18) – 73,489 (New)
@get2sammyb i get multipe errors when either installing or trying to load the game. Lots of claims on reddit that last several patches did more harm than good. With those being able to load losing audio, infinite load loops, corrupted saves. And then some like me that the game in its current patch state is non fucntioning
Resident Evil 2's life to date sales are very discouraging. It should be selling much better.
Japanese people absolutely love mech and iron man.
Also they love grind games.
Anthem should be doing pretty well here.
Expectations of Japanese players are entirely different.
Far cry new dawn is actually pretty fun so far.
@Nyne11Tyme wow thats really sucks man. Did u get physical copy of it?
Or woman, not trying to sound sexist, sorry.
Still enjoying the game. Been playing nearly a week and not finished the story and at level 20. Playing online is smooth going and the loading screens are my only issue at this point. Haven't even touched end game and already had lots of fun. I understand many of the complaints, but there is a great game waiting to be built upon here!
@ellsworth004 yea physical...I like having the box if i can lol. Im super frustrated.
Can u uninstall it, disconnect ps4 from internet and install it without updates?
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