Famitsu sales: Week 13, 2022 - (21st Mar - 27th Mar)

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Otter said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Playstation has quite a few titles on the Famitsu charts right now, but the only one I'd describe as "not a flop" is Elden Ring, and that is because the game is doing extremely well everywhere. In fact, I'd say that's the only Playstation title that hasn't flopped all year. GT7, I believe, has probably exceeded some people's expectations, but that is because our expectations for the Gran Turismo franchise are pretty low in general. This used to be Playstation's flagship title at one point. Everything else is falling off the charts quickly and often debuting low too.

I would not be surprised if in a month or so we see some 29/30 weeks where Elden Ring is the only Playstation title on the chart.

GT7 is certainly not a flop. There's whole spectrum between success and failure and flop is somewhere at the bottom towards failure lol. Sure it was a much bigger franchise 12 years ago, but that's well over a decade now. New baselines and expectations are established. It'd be like calling the Wii a flop because it only managed half of SNES numbers in Japan

GT1 sold over 2m in Japan.  GT2-4 each sold over 1m.  The PS4 SKU of GT7 is now at 100k, and it's never going to get anywhere close to 1m.  It was a once mighty franchise, that now is really a non-factor in the Japanese market.  I'd call it a flop, in the sense that it's not really meant to be relevant in Japan anymore while it used to be a huge franchise.