Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity UPDATE: 3.5M in the first quarter

[UnderwaterFunktown]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

UnderwaterFunktown said:

50 %+ isn't really a steep drop though, it's pretty common I think. Some games (especially JRPGs) drop 80 % in week 2.

And one thing to consider is that sales and shipments are the same for digital copies, so if the game only shipped 500k between November 24 and the end of the year, the majority of that can probably be contributed to its digital sales in that timeframe.

That was a typo, it was supposed to be 80%+

In other words, demand drops very quickly for these games, physical or otherwise. Being a Nintendo title possibly give it some legs, but still just minimal progression

Fair enough, makes more sense with 80 %+. Still think it had to have been overshipped though, at least in the sense that I don't think sales were nearly at 3 mil when they reported 3 mil shipped, it's just not realistic otherwise considering that it's the holiday quarter and using the games sales trajectory on Famitsu as a guideline. But I suppose you could just see it as stocking up for the whole holiday right away, in which case you wouldn't really call it "overshipping".