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Sogreblute on 23 July 2022
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Shatts said:
Farsala said:

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.

This is why you should never look at COMG preorders to gauge interest in a game or even the Famitsu Most Wanted list. Those are die-hard gamers that pay attention to that stuff and will preorder games and list their most anticipated games. An excellent example is Animal Crossing NH and FF7R. Both came out a few weeks from each other and on the Most Wanted list FF7R was always ahead of Animal Crossing. We all know what happened with both games. Animal Crossing sold 10X more than FF7R and is still selling more despite having a PS5 and PC version added to the list of platforms.