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curl-6 on 27 October 2025
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Sephiran said:

Interesting to compare sales of Demon Slayer: Hinokami Chronicles 2 with 1 in Japan.

Demon Slayer 1:

Switch 1: 178,877.
PS4: 150,560.
PS5: 38,257.

Demon Slayer 2:

Switch 1: 139,111.
PS5: 20,877.
PS4: 5099.

The Switch 1 SKU of Demon Slayer 2 due to its good legs will seemingly do fairly similar lifetime sales as Demon Slayer 1, but for some reason there has been a huge decline of PS sales for Demon Slayer 2 compared to 1, with PS4 naturally declining heavily. But what is most surprising is that there is a decline even for the PS5 SKU even though the PS5 user base is much higher today compared to 2021 when Demon Slayer 1 released.

But Demon Slayer 2 really shows that certain genres and franchises have collapsed when it comes to PS ecosystem sales in Japan from the PS4 to PS5 generation. Demon Slayer went from making most of its sales on the PS ecosystem in Japan to be as heavily dominated by Switch as something like Fantasy Life in the span of a few years.

Part of it will be physical sales declining as people shift to digital, but also while the PS4 base is obviously less active now than it was then, a lot of them haven't upgraded to PS5, moving to other platforms instead.