Famitsu Sales: Week 51, 2022 (12 Dec - 18 Dec)

[Mar1217]

Farsala said:

Kakadu18 said:

Right now on Amazon Japan the official PS5 GT7 bundle is at #9 in the best seller charts and the official PS5 HFW bundle is at #27.

If you bothered to do even the slightest bit of research you'd know that both of these games are being pushed in the charts by bundles. They are the only PS5 games with legs and the only ones that keep being sold through bundles. It was similar with the PS5 version of GoW Ragnarök having better legs than the PS4 version while being bundled. Not a single non bundled game had any legs whatsoever.

These games were not bundled "at some point", they are being sold through bundles right now, everywhere. Chris Dring from GamesIndustry.biz who shares UK data very often said that HFW for example gets pushed a lot by bundles even in the UK.

That means that without these bundles they wouldn't be anywhere close to where they are now.

Yeah, for real, retailers are taking full advantage of customers and forcing extra games upon them. Even up to a few weeks ago one retailer required you to trade in your PS4 in order to purchase a PS5, just so they can get those juicy resale profits.

Which retailers did this ?

Despicable.org