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Shatts on 22 July 2022
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Farsala said:
psychicscubadiver said:

Not gonna lie, it still surprises me to see over half the games on pre-order be Playstation while Switch is sweeping famitsu with 30 of the top 30 in sales. Is this because niche games that don't get large sales are commonly pre-ordered? Are pre-orders endemic to the Playstation ecosystem, or is there just a strong brand preference among COMG shoppers?

Famitsu is sales, not preorders.

At any given time Nintendo has 2 or 3 games up for preorder, thus it makes the chart like Splatoon 3 and Xenoblade. Sony and 3rd partys on the other hand will often have preorders open long before with a vast amount of games, some of which aren't on one console or the other. Just think about how long Final Fantasy Versus XIII dominated the charts and yet never came to be.

PS4/PS5 is 2 consoles while Switch is 1 so a popular game gets 2 SKUs in COMG chart for PS and 1 from Switch.

COMG has a massive bias towards anime games.

Yeah and someone explained this alr but preorders are done by dedicated fans. Casual games won't typically get as much preorders, but would sell more. Popular franchises would obviously earn more, and anime games/licensed games would also bcuz there are most likely a dedicated fanbase for that IP.