Mar1217 said:
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. |
I had no idea Xenoblade sold that much with digital included. I really forgot about digital ratios and PC releases. With digital included I think Final Fantasy XVI might have passed half million too.
About PC release do you mean SMT V? I think it was Switch exclusive. But with digital it should have moved close to 200k in first week. Persona 3 Reload was multiplat with Xbox and PC
Mobile games definitely took a portion of JRPG audience. Fire Emblem Heroes for instance is significantly bigger than its console counterparts
Dragon Quest is the last man in the list of mainstream JRPGs in Japan, and I have a feeling 3 HD will sell close to 1 million first week, really hope to not be wrong lol
