Xbox One Manages to Top Multiple Japanese Retailers’ Best Sellers Charts on its Pre-Order Debut

[Zekkyou]

gergroy said:

Zekkyou said:

"(Japanese gamers love racing games and the Forza series is definitely popular)"

I lol'd.

Why was that funny?

Because these days most racing games sell like crap in Japan. The genre has become pretty niche for the most part.

The highest selling Forza was 3 at 0.1m (FM4 dropped to 0.06m). Need for Speed, Burnout, F1 etc have similarly bad sales. Even Gran Turismo has seen a big drop off (from 1 to 5: 2.54m -> 1.69m -> 1.87m -> 1.1m -> 0.81m).

Mario Kart is probably the biggest racing series left in Japan, but MK8 will likley still rank pretty low compared to many of its predecessors (in part due to the WiiU's sales of course).