GTA V is the first Western-published game to sell over a million units in Japan

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Ka-pi96 said:

mountaindewslave said:

when compared with how much it sold in the rest of the world (what like 40+ million total) it really is not that impressive

you have to understand that while it's cool that it broke some sort of threshold, however it was a giant game and percentage / proportionate wise (Japan sales compared to worldwide) it sold similarly to how well games usually do there

its just that GTA 5 is one of the biggest games of all time

That's kind of the point isn't it? Now it's the biggest western published game in Japan as well, why should that be less impressive since it broke records elsewhere as well? Breaking records is still impressive regardless of how many others it broke.

Exactly. Gotta love how GTA sales in Japan are downplayed, of all places, because it's "huge everywhere else". Lmao. What about all the Nintendo games that are big in Japan and even bigger in the rest of the world? Do the sales not deserve a mention because Japan is tiny compared to the world?