Famitsu Sales: Week 8, 2024 (Feb 19 - Feb 25)

[Kai_Mao]

Mar1217 said:

Shtinamin_ said:

GTAV sold 1.81M in Japan as of August 2023. Salnax made a post of most sold Western games in Japan back in Nov 4 2020. GTA V was #6 on that list.

"Breakdown

• PS3: 880,877 retail + 2,519 digital
• PS4: 774,453 retail + 115,749 digital
• PS5: 1,551 retail
• X360: 33,894 retail"

So I expect GTA VI to sell near 2M in Japan for its lifetime.

2M is huge for a Western game, but compared to what Nintendo brings to the table nowadays it is child's play.

Considering the number of peeps who had to double down on the game due to its close next gen re-release. I doubt about such good results

I think if the PS6 and the next Xbox come out, GTAVI will release in those platforms and follow GTAV’s path to get to 2 million. Though it kinda depends considering that PS5 is dragging a bit behind PS4’s pace in Japan (or I’m probably wrong there).

Next week should be interesting. Would be kinda funny if, despite Rebirth’s acclaim and hype around the world, Rebirth does well in its debut but repeats what XVI did and NOT push PS5 consoles for the weeks of its time in the charts. I’m not predicting that, but it would reflect a different time compared to when the original VII came out and completely made the N64 irrelevant in Japan and skyrocket the PS1 into the dominating position it ended up keeping.