Nintendo probably couldn’t have asked for a better debut for ARMS in Japan. The game sold around 100,000 between June 16 and June 18. As a new IP on a system that’s in its early lifecycle, that’s not bad at all.

Some new information really puts into perspective just how well ARMS did. It had the best debut for an unlicensed fighting game in Japan over the past seven years. ARMS beat out the likes of Street Fighter (more than double the sales of Street Fighter V), BlazBlue, The King of Fighters, and Tekken.

Note that due to the nature of the graph (unlicensed), franchises like Dragon Ball and One Piece aren’t represented. Super Smash Bros. also isn’t here, but the graph mainly isn’t focusing on characters from non-fighting games.

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Reinvigorating the market, one new gameplay experience at a time.

Wow, Tekken 7 bombed in Japan. I was expecting much higher sales than that!

Nice! Hopefully it will have decent legs!

COMG numbers looked dissapointing but somehow ARMS suprised us!

I really wonder what happened to fighting games in Japan...I mean, yeah, arcades aren't what they used to be, but its crazy seeing even something so prestige like Street Fighter go from over 120,000 FW for SFIV to just over 40,000 for SFV. Same with Tekken. Of course, SFV launched with very little for a fifth game while Tekken 7 appeared to launch with all its content from the arcades. So what happened? ARMS is pretty much the first fighting game in Japan to reach over 100,000 FW units since Tekken 6 and SSFIV, which is like over 7 years ago. And this isn't counting Smash 4 with over 200,000 FW units sold on Wii U and over a million on 3DS.

Didn't ARMS sell another 20k or so with those download cards?

you know what happen, if its not on a handeld prepare for bad sales, its nintendo economics, if  they want future games to sell, they know what to do, ignore it ans stay with small sales

famitsu counts download cards, so 100k physical copies and 20k download codes.

You shouldn't have. Tekken hasn't done well there in quite a while.