COMG! Japan Pre-Order Chart

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heavenmercenary01 said:

xMetroid said:

SMT V gonna do pretty well i'm sure. Pokemon seem to underperform.
Hopefully Metroid won't do too bad in japan. Hope it does well since the 2D plateformer genre on Switch isn't too saturated in 1st party and it's still strong in japan.

Unfortunately, you can predict that metroid will do well in every market in the world but not in Japan. They're just giving 0 f*ck about the game. The hype is everywhere around the world but in japan the game is having no attention. It's like that and there's nothing that can be done about it, japanese don't care about Metroid no matter how good the games are. 99% of sales will be western , and that's mainly the targeted audience from the beginning. It's a mature Nintendo game afterall, that's not what japanese expect from Nintendo.

Metroid Dread is charting on Amazon Japan right now at #61. It will definitely sell over 100k over there. The way you describe it it sounds like you don't see it reach 50k.

Just a reminder that Metroid Fusion sold 155k in Japan. That's 10%. It'll likely grow more outside of Japan though.