Predict the lifetimes sales of Pokémon Legends Z-A

[firebush03]

Zippy6 said:

firebush03 said:

For reference, this launch places Z-A as the second largest of Pokémon on Switch… meaning that, yes, Z-A outperformed a mainline entry (SwSh) which launched in mid-November. Unless you had unreasonable expectations, this should’ve been a much larger launch than expected. And with an entire holiday season in Z-A’s favor, it’ll most certainly smash through Arceus’s 14mil figure.

Why should selling only 4% more than Arceus, while having a much bigger installbase, and being a crossgen release, be "much larger than expected", "unless you had unreasonable expectation."

Are you saying people should have expected it to do worse than Arceus?

With how things were looking, it seemed as though Arceus would’ve benefitted a lot more from a “larger launch-weaker legs” situation due to releasing outside of the holidays. I was genuinely wondering if it’d even hit 1mil… but it appears Spain & UK are not accurate metrics for the JP market.