It is being advertised as a GamePass game, neither Xbox nor PC. That is the bigger Platform for Microsoft these days. Next year customers will be able to play these games on any device using Xcloud. 

You don't need to push hard to convince people to spend $10, or even $2 for new customers, to play the game instead of $60 

Ugh! Now that Amazon bundled the cards for the consoles together, the flood of virtual money packs for NBA 2K20 are getting even more apparent. Seriously, who buys this crap???

I've just seen Daemon X Machina at the 86th spot in the hourly rankings, does anybody know if it was already down there in the past few days or if it just showed up ? It seems to be performing way worse than Astral Chain, maybe more people will go digital on this one ?

It's slowly rising. For instance, at the time of writing this, it's already on the 74th spot.

And yes, it's not doing too hot. Probably a casualty of having too many games in a short timeframe incoming: Astral Chain, Daemon X Machina, Link's Awakening, Dragon Quest XI S, Ni no Kuni... September was already Jam-packed with great games before the Direct dropped another ton onto the month. Being a more niche  type of game, it's getting squashed between the better-known titles of the month's releases.

On the other hand, the demo might have pushed people to buy the game in the eShop instead, but I still think it might struggle to reach the million

Yesterday I found out the game is 5 pounds cheaper than other full price titles on the UK e-shop but it doesn't seem to be the case elsewhere, while AC definitely seems to have more traction in Europe compared to Japan and the US I think DxM will have a bigger splash in Japan and US, maybe this territory division will help push the sales forward, I have a hard time believing an exclusive published from Nintendo will flop unless the reviews are really bad

Daemon X Machina not doing too bad in Japan, U.S. tho... Those reviews killed any smidgen of hope

Apparently Astral Chain is sold out on Amazon US since going on its page reveals the game will be back in stock on September 25th, this is a really good sign

Link's awakening beat the Switch gift cards for the third spot, the first game who managed to do so after they got combined together.

Also, Ring Fit Adventure is doing very well, charting on the 14th spot right now.

Switch Lite not trending that high 5 days out

It did when it's preorders started, so I wouldn't be worried about that. Especially if you think about it, the Lite had now 2 entire months where it could rack up preorders, it will be a huge launch for Nintendo. The question is more on how it will continue after it's release.