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shikamaru317 on 23 September 2023
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Ryuu96 said:
shikamaru317 said:

Sales breakdown for the Japanese D3 Publisher game Ed-0: Zombie Uprising, which released 2 months ago. Xbox sales were about 50% of PS5 (with no physical release like Sony got, digital only) and 63% of Steam; overall, Xbox accounted for 21% of sales. Game was a flop though, with just 13,000 copies sold so far in 2 months.

This makes me confused, Lmao. Of course we can't extrapolate this to all titles but 21% of sales for a niche ass title that I've never heard of and without a physical release versus other consoles and 20% including PS AND Steam. Those are pretty good numbers for a niche title. Regardless of whether it flopped on all platforms.

Surely something like Earth Defence Force wouldn't do worse than this?

Yeah, it is very strange indeed. While Xbox accounting for 21% of sales on a JP game might not scale all the way up from this niche title to AA JP titles that sell like 500k+ and AAA JP games that sell like 3m+, if Xbox can manage even 10% of total sales on those bigger JP games, 10% should be well over the break even threshold from the porting costs and well into profitability. So why then does it seem like so many JP devs/pubs go out of their way to skip Xbox releases?

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 23 September 2023