Shenmue I & II releases in Japan, selling over 30k units its debut week

If you guys didn’t know, we actually got Shenmue I & II early in the West. Some folks say we got it early to bug test it for its Japanese release, who knows. What we do know is that Shenmue I & II hit Japanese store shelves on November 22, 2018 and charted number for on the Japanese Media Create charts. The top spot was given to Pokemon: Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee! (which seems to track both games as one) but the impressive debut this week came from EA’s Battlefield V which garnered 110,653 sales in its debut week, really making Shenmue I & II’s 37,529 units seem rather weak. But at the end of the day, Shenmue I & II is a port and Battlefield V is a brand new game, so comparing them sales wise is useless.

You can check the full media create chart on Gematsu or after the break:

[NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee! (Bundle Editions Included) (Nintendo, 11/16/18) – 162,467 (823,707)
[PS4] Battlefield V (Electronic Arts, 11/20/18) – 110,653 (New)
[PS4] Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories (Granzella, 11/22/18) – 42,272 (New)
[PS4] Shenmue I & II (Limited Edition Included) (Sega, 11/22/18) – 37,529 (New)
[NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 24,450 (370,077)
[PS4] Fallout 76 (Limited Edition Included) (Bethesda Softworks, 11/15/18) – 11,800 (85,289)
[NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 11,714 (1,847,777)
[NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 10,527 (2,709,412)
[PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII (SIE, 10/12/18) – 10,052 (470,942)
[NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 9,818 (375,166)
[NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 6,883 (1,166,281)
[3DS] Luigi’s Mansion (Nintendo, 11/08/18) – 6,640 (43,329)
[NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 5,309 (1,850,991)
[3DS] Neko Tomo (Bandai Namco, 11/22/18) – 5,212 (New)
[PS4] Red Dead Redemption 2 (Limited Editions Included) (Take-Two Interactive, 10/26/18) – 4,411 (196,592)
[3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon (The Pokemon Company, 11/17/17) – 4,169 (1,764,472)
[NSW] Kirby: Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 3,996 (646,201)
[NSW] Nari Kids Park HUGtto! PreCure (Bandai Namco, 11/21/18) – 3,301 (New)
[PS4] Hitman 2 (Warner Bros. Interactive, 11/15/18) – 2,821 (12,983)
[NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 2,650 (228,067)