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

[Kai_Mao]

Kerotan said:

Kai_Mao said:

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.

If those were portable franchise you might see much legs. Japan market is biased towards portable devices.

Except the original Splatoon was able to show incredible legs on a, as you want to describe, traditional home console. It was a new online multiplayer IP so those factors should have given the original game a significant disadvantage. Not to mention being on the Wii U, a struggling console. Portable or not, Splatoon has evolved into the console online multiplayer game in Japan.