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

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Otter said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

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.

It opened with 137k across both platforms, I'm not sure why we'd ignore PS5 especially since the PS4's age means we'd expect lower engagement & lack of PS5 units in Japan mean a limited audience so early in its life. Irrelevant games do not open to 137k. Maybe that could be a big underperformance for the franchise but all fingers point towards it easily outperforming GT Sports including digital which is data we'll never get for Japan. Elsewhere like the UK, digital accounted for 57% of sales, would be nice to have some light shed on current digital performances in Japan in 2022 but we'll have to go without... The game none the less has a high sell through. To call an individual product a flop, it has to be contextualised within a contemporary context and expectations, otherwise again we'd be here calling the Wii a flop because it didn't get close to the 20m NES/SNES managed in Japan. 

We are comparing software sales, not hardware sales. Nintendo games still sell very well, but Sony games don't.