Famitsu Sales: Week 47, 2025 (Nov 17 - Nov 23)

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Otter said:

pikashoe said:

Did astro bot sell particularly well anywhere, last I saw it had only sold around 2.3 million worldwide. Which for a game that won goty, was extremely critically acclaimed and was marketed pretty heavily seems kind of low.

Where did you get the 2.3m from? Edit: Alinea Analytics is not reliable

It had a pretty mild opening but good legs.

In the UK it spent 2 weeks at number 1, over 4 weeks in the top 5 and was top 20 for pretty much 4months, often climbing back into the top 10 including Christmas week.

In the US it was ranked as 13th best selling PS5 game of 2024 in the US (3 months of sales). This was all before any bundles (march 2025). It remained No.11 best selling PSN game in January. It's not a crazy seller but it sold well and charted much better then it did in Japan where it only spent 4 weeks in the top 30 versus (16+ weeks in Europe/US)

It didn't bomb, or even really do badly, it's more that it deserved better sales given how high quality it was.

I feel like if the same game had released on Switch/2 as an exclusive it would have sold 20 million plus just cos that audience is more amenable to cartoony platformers.