Decent sales for Metaphor considering SMT V did 140k in a much bigger userbase and is a new IP. Only slightly behind Persona 3 Reload 110k, but far worse than the 330k Persona 5 did years ago |
I don't remember if it had a PC day one release as well ? Otherwise, I do think it has prolly done around 200K first week when you include digital numbers in the mix.
Also is your last comment about the state of physical sales for JRPG in the market or overall ?
Cuz we know for a fact from the last White Papers sale numbers that Xenoblade Chronicles 3 sold 500K+ the last time it was published. The XC games had a tendency to benefit a lot from the vouchers promo they offer weirdly enough. Quite the outlier from the usual Nintendo physical/digital ratio there.
But priorities in the genre have changed honestly, the mobile are BIG into the genre financial pie with the plethora of gacha JRPG on mobile/PC and also if you look at the usual price for those games, they're bigger investments than other games in general.
Anyway, I'm not afraid the genre can find success in some right places, but it's gone from it's A day there, that's for sure.
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