COMG! Japan Pre-Order Chart

[Kakadu18]

theDX said:

This isn't directed at anyone in particular but I've seen several messages about this game's performance at COMG. As the OP of this thread I have only one thing to say: We're talking about 1 to 2 sales here for each version. I've seen this being called a "massive outlier" by COMG and the implication by some is that again, COMG is not reliable because this <10k seller isn't ranking in the expected Switch > PS4 > PS5 order.

People need to relax and take this for what it is. This is the only retailer chart (both pre-orders and sales) that we get numbers for. For the upper region of sales (10+ generally) it's noticeably more accurate and this is where top sellers and major new games end up anyway.
I can only roll my eyes at people who dismiss these charts because a game's ratio was x800 and not x1300 like it's prequel or something when the general ballpark of x1000 is more accurate than most people's predictions, not to mention that people often base their predictions on the pre-order charts to begin with.

This is a very slow week with the #20 game selling just one copy. At this point everything is just statistical noise. That's just what happens when you have a small sample size + slow week. What this tells us that the Centennial Case isn't an overperformer and nothing else. There is no need to draw detailed impressions from the sales chart for this game.

I know that, I was just pointing this out. I personally just take COMG as a reference point.