Well the number is shipped, not sold. Usually that distinction isnt important to make but considering it only sold like 80k first week, it is. It's at 111k in 2 weeks, so it will probably take anywhere from 6 to 9 weeks just to sell 200k physical in Japan. All things considered, a flop

Fair to note, it has pretty high digital sales. First week shipments were ~172k, putting it digitally at 28k in Japan. It is pretty overshipped though, so now we just have to see if it has decent legs so Capcom has to ship more to retailers. But it's MH on a portable, it'll be fine.

I just thought, what if those digital numbers are so high because people outside of Japan are buying it through the Japanese eShop? 🤔 Probably a very small percentage, but that would be pretty cool. Region free ftw!

How do you know it has sold 28k digitally? That still puts first week over shipped by about 85k

I think the problem is that digital sales in Japan usually aren't enough to make impressive sales figures. Even if it did 113k that wouldn't be good.

Decent legs also won't make it impressive either.

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=248279948

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I really don't know what I could get from that, or how that proves anything. I'm not denying it sold 28k digitally , I genuinely don't get how the logic in that post makes sense lol.

My man

First week MHXX Switch sold 84.277, which is 48,95% of the initial shipments. So total units shipped are 172.170.

The tweet about 300k units shipped says >200k in Japan, and there were 172k shipped physically, so the remaining 28k has to be digital downloads.

But I thought digital sales weren't included with shipped figures?  So you're saying because they "shipped" 200,000 in japan, and because 172k of those were physical, then that means it did 28k digital? Are the 172k and 200k figure the same source? Why would you put in digital sales "as shipped"? wtf

But I thought digital sales weren't included with shipped figures?  So you're saying because they "shipped" 200,000 in japan, and because 172k of those were physical, then that means it did 28k digital? Are the 172k and 200k figure the same source? Why would you put in digital sales "as shipped"? wtf

As far as I know, most companies announce sales nunbers as shipped + digital nowadays.

The 172k comes from Media Create, and 200k from Ace Sec. I don't know how accurate the latter is, but MC is the best/most trusted tracker in Japan.