Japan sales (Week 7): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - February 12-18, 2018

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tbone51 said:

Jranation said:

Well I said splatoon cause it is the 2nd game in the series. Im sure MK8D and Zelda were also doing Amazing in their own circumstances, but MK8 and Zelda have created their stance within the market for many years now. 

Thats the thing, thats not true for zelda.

 

The last 20 years even hh zeldas have never sold this well, its a single player game thats been in the top 20 since launch and its still selling 10k+ a week. Its current baseline so far in Q1 2018 is higher than baseline for May-Oct of last year. No zelda game has sold this well for the longest.

 

Splat2 is a new ip still but its multiplayer shooter which is a genre suppose to be legging it out.

 

Going by reactions i think more people are surprised about zelda legs than splat2. Could be just me thouvh lol

But its also a genre that hasn't really gotten that much traction in Japan compared to the rest of the world. You don't see games like CoD, Battlefield, etc. stay for months on the Japanese charts.