US Sales: November 2025 (Circana)

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Sephiran said:

Blood_Tears said:

I think you're missing his point as Europe just doesn't buy EA Sports FC. He gave examples of Red Dead, The Last of us, Horizon, CyberPunk, The Witcher 3 etc. The line of thinking there is the "West" would include Europe as well as the US because the purchasing tastes are so similar there for gaming and is still West of Japan. For example CoD tops both the US and Europe charts at times. 

So Europe likes EA Sports as well AAA games on PS while Japan enjoys Nintendo games, why would that mean that Japan has bad taste in gaming?

In the west they buy Nintendo games too, and in large numbers. How much did Breath of the Wild sell in Japan? Was it even 3m? So, it sold 30m copies outside of Japan.

In the west they buy everything across every genre. Nintendo games, Sports games, shooters and everything else. Games that are good generally do well in the west. RDR2 sold more than any CoD or FIFA game ever. They just get released every year and are over represented in sales charts. 

In Japan it doesn’t matter how good some games are, they just will never sell. Even Expedition 33, a JRPG basically, sold poorly just because it wasn’t made in Japan. If you look at all the Goty games of this decade and look at their sales numbers in Japan, they are all shockingly bad to low. That’s Clair Obscur, Astro Bot, BG3, Elden Ring, It Takes Two and the last of us pt.ii. BG3 probably sold almost nothing in Japan, and 20m overall. All the games that sell millions in Japan though, they all sell millions in the west too. We play those games on top of all the other games already mentioned. It’s not an either/or situation, we’re buying both.