Famitsu Sales: Week 37, 2025 (Sep 08 - Sep 14)

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curl-6 said:

Otter said:

Very curious to see how Borderlands and other third parties perform on S2.

There's a lot of sentiment about franchises like Resident Evil etc declining because they were stuck on Playstation but I kinda suspect it was the other way round. Playstation hardware decline and newer baseline (8-9m LT) is more a reflection of Japans lack of interest in most modern "AAA" titles

It's a chicken and egg situation; a big part of the reason say Final Fantasy lost a lot of its selling power is cos Gen Z Japanese gamers didn't grow up with it like Millennials did cos they had a DS/PSP/3DS rather than a PS3/PS4.

Similar for RE where the latest mainline games weren't on the systems most Japanese owned, leading to them not having as much of a nostalgic attachment to the series.

To add to that. First person games are notoriously unpopular in Japan. That why RE8 got a DLC with third person view (which gave it a nice boost) and RE9 will get it out of the box.