Famitsu sales: Week 16, 2022 - (11th Apr - 17th Apr)

[Agente42]

IcaroRibeiro said:

Agente42 said:

The decline has some factors:

1) the big Third parties are attached to sony space, Sony ecosystem is decreasing in two generations. So the sales of big third decreasing along.

2) Digital ratio increase, but in Japan market counts, best case scenario, 30-35%. Japan is the more physical market we know. 

3) Sony focuses on the European and US market, with few games development for the Asia market in mind. So aggravates sony lost the Japanese market.

And other tidbits, Switch stop the market from severe decreasing overall. The sony market is decreasing not market at all. 

Monster Hunter Rise sales on Switch were okay-ish considering the userbase, when "World" debuted on Ps4 with a third of Switch userbase everybody said Playstation caused a decline of Monster Hunter, but hopefully Rise would sell mote and... that didn't happened.

Aside of Momotaro what was the last big third party hit in Japan ? Every other franchise seems to have their sales declining instead of increasing 

Looks more like an overall lack of interest for third party games on Switch, while Nintendo IPs are getting more and more popular. 

Monster Hunter world has more content than Rise, the game is pale in content when compared with World. The game sells well for a Monster Hunter but lacks content when compared with World.  The sales legs are hurting because of this. With digital surpassing 3,8 million and World sells 3,3 million. 

Momotaro has the best sales historic in Switch. 3,5 million only in the Japanese market.

All the other big games skipped Switch. How do you demand big sales with zero big AAA games on Switch, aside from Monster Hunter?

Last edited by Agente42 - on 25 April 2022