Famitsu Sales: Week 16, 2024 (Apr 15 - Apr 21)

[Norion]

RolStoppable said:

Norion said:

If that thing about a Japanese retailer having a sale that just ended is true I am quite interested in how the first few weeks following Golden Week go since those will be very telling for how it's gonna sell during Summer.

May is typically the weakest month of the year in Japan, so you can't properly judge how summer is going to be. Last year was an outlier because of TotK's release, but this year should be back to normal.

In other words, panic mode based on weak May sales is ill-advised.

That seems like a strange argument. Surely you just need to keep the usual relative weakness in mind when imagining how the following few months will go, like take how it does in May but expect it to be somewhat higher.