Japan sales (Week 26) Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - June 25 - July 1, 2018

[Mnementh]

zorg1000 said:

Mnementh said:

Ys started with 28K on PS4, so 6K is kinda meh.

EDIT: I kinda missed Minecraft release on Switch last week. Has anyone numbers on how Minecraft started first weeks on other platforms? In this case Vita is also an interesting comparison, Minecraft on Vita is big in Japan.

Ya 6k isnt too great but then again it is a year old port of a year old port so not too much should have been expected, apparently its doing pretty good in the west.

I dont remember the exact numbers but someone did a comparison on resetera, Switch version of Minecraft had the best debut of all versions.

Thanks. And cool, I somehow expected Minecraft could be a title which goes well with the Switch, but no hard data. Let's see what numbers VGC spits out.

 

Mar1217 said:

zorg1000 said:

Ya 6k isnt too great but then again it is a year old port of a year old port so not too much should have been expected, apparently its doing pretty good in the west.

I dont remember the exact numbers but someone did a comparison on resetera, Switch version of Minecraft had the best debut of all versions.

Seems like it was more targeted toward the western market

Apparently, Ys VIII on Switch had a bigger global launch on Switch than both PS4 and Vita separately. I hope that gave Falcom the kick in the ass needed to wake up and realize it is missing out on a lot of sales by ignoring Nintendo.

— Stealth (@Stealth40k) July 4, 2018

2 months before Kirby reach the 600K mark in Japan (Digital not counted)

Oh, interesting. Which brings up the question, why the japanese version did worse? Maybe on PS4 and Vita the game didn't got the proper attention outside of japan. The sales ratio is also kinda lopsided. Japanese sales on PS4 are three times as big as in europe or the US, overall half of the sales come from japan. On Vita it is even more extreme, sales are ten times as big in japan as in europe or the US and Vita sales are more than 75% of overall sales. Maybe sales on Switch will be more evenly shared between the regions.