RolStoppable said:
A 173% increase to a base value of 4.875m results in ~13.3m, so a 172.9% in unit sales can be ruled out. Either the provided increase by Famitsu is wrong or the comparison is revenue-based. I believe it's the latter. |
IMO, its more likely the website that the OP linked from just phrased the title incorrectly.
The Famitsu website source is talking about hardware sale numbers and not revenue numbers.
edit: Yup you are correct. Looked at the source article to find where the information was gathered.
translated the part where the info is located
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201801/09149462.html
単位(Units):億円 (PER 100 MILLION YEN[PER 1 MILLION USD])
2017年(year)(53週(weeks))
ハード(hardware):2023.7(昨年対比 (contrast compared to prior year) 172.9%)
ソフト(software):1893.8(昨年対比 (contrast) 103.8%)
合計(total):3917.5(昨年対比 (contrast) 130.8%)
2016年(year)(52週(weeks))
ハード(hardware):1170.5
ソフト(software):1824.3
合計(total):2994.8