Japan sales (Week 28) Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - July 9-15, 2018

[outlawauron]

Jranation said:

ryuzaki57 said:

Now that Dengeki is up, the moment you were all waiting for : market share data!!

Shining Resonance (PS3) 93106 (75%)

Shining Resonance Refrain (PS4) 27623 (22%)

Shining Resonance Refrain (NS) 3756 (3%)

I'm puzzled about Octopath's outstanding success. Look at the following pictures

Switch owners had the choice between an old-looking RPG and a modern RPG with waifus, modern graphics & animation, and they massively picked the one with weak graphics. I believe that can send a wrong message to 3rd parties : now SquareEnix or anyone can make a PSOne-looking RPG, slap exclusive + nostalgia on it and say "hey, Switch fans, this is just for you". Result being that Switch would get less and less high-end games and more old-school ones with low production values.

Sorry but not all Switch owners are a weeb

I mean, he's comparing to two non-mainstream JRPGs. They're appealing to the same niche fanbase. Octopath has broader appeal of course, but you know that Ryuzaki prefers more anime-inspired games than retro-styled games.