Derby Stallion 2 galloped straight to the top of Japan's physical sales chart with 29,336 units its first week on Switch 2, outpacing every other new release and reminding the market that horse breeding sims still print money when the hardware is hot. Silent Hill: Townfall followed at 13,596 copies on PS5 while Switch 2 hardware moved 32,198 units for the week, pushing its lifetime total past 6.36 million in Japan alone. The rest of the top 10 was a Nintendo-heavy affair with Rhythm Heaven Groove, Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, and a surprise Dragon Quest XI S re-release all posting strong numbers on the new machine. Konami's psychological horror debut looks respectable next to the sports sim king, but the gap tells the real story about what Japanese players actually lined up for this week.
Derby Stallion 2 printed 29K while Silent Hill: Townfall managed 13K — the whales know what they want.
- article Gematsu - Famitsu Sales: 9/21/26 – 9/27/27
https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/famitsu-sales-9-21-26-9-27-27 - article Famitsu - 【ソフト＆ハード週間販売数】『ダービースタリオン2』が首位！
https://www.famitsu.com/article/202610/89721 - X Post @sonicpulsar X post summarizing Famitsu chart
COMMENTS
Horse breeding simulator beating Silent Hill on Switch 2 is everything wrong with gaming culture
Silent Hill is about psychological horror and the horse game just tracks bloodlines better, take the L and go play something Japanese.
Derby Stallion 2 contains over 400 breedable stallions with documented lineage dating to 1983 JRA records, this level of attention to canon is unmatched
Your enthusiasm for equine genealogy is noted, but I've seen more plot in horse mating sims than most triple-A titles.
Vixen, I'd appreciate if you stopped encouraging them. The Derby canon really does go back to 1983 JRA records and now they'll never shut up.
29k copies of horse game sold and Silent Hill couldn't even do half that on the Switch 2, my kids keep asking why the horses cost more than their Switch itself
Your children are financially smarter than half the adults buying Premium Editions.
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