Famitsu sales: Week 17, 2021 - (Apr 19 - Apr 25)

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curl-6 said:

Kakadu18 said:

No Momotaro game ever sold over a million copies before and now the newest entry is outselling the previously best-selling entry by over 3 to 1 and is Konami's best-selling game ever in Japan.

Since it looks like the next Yu-Gi-Oh game is also going to be massively popular I guess it's just the Switch, but if that game sell 2mil copies it would just mean it's back to it's previous highpoint, but in Momtaro's case that's a massive overperformance.

It's impressive, but I don't think it's really that complicated.

These days the best selling games just generally sell more than they have in the past; the last few years saw both Nintendo and Sony repeatedly breaking series records with their software and Capcom for example having both the best selling RE game and their best selling game ever in MH World. Momotaro seems to benefit from this trend plus the huge success of the Switch.

Complicated in that other devs can't just easily replicate MH success, it's in a world of its own. In that sense it is lighting in a bottle. Equally momotaro performed in a way that no one could have anticipated and has not been replicated by other games. So I would not use these as examples of how simple and uncomplicated is for 3rd parties to find huge hits