Famitsu Sales: Week 50, 2025 (Dec 08 - Dec 14)

[Otter]

Sephiran said:

Otter said:

The PS4 had a home console monopoly for a good 4 years though, I think the fact it didnt achieve more than 10m reflects that the games just weren't inherently appealing to the Japanese audience. As opposed to the audience not funding the games because they were on playstation 

Its true that pretty much all big Japanese third party games have seen a decline in Japan over the years, most notably Final Fantasy, but Resident Evil and many others have also declined heavily, and they are all pretty much dependant on western sales these days. But multiplatform releases are not always about getting big boost in sales, studios port games all the time to Xbox just to add a percentage here and there to their total sales, which Nintendo releases should also be able to deliver.

Oh there's no doubt of its value, if FFVII R can add 200k to its sales in Japan thats a win. Just that you will essentially still have the top 30 dominated by Nintendo games selling in their 100th week what big 3rd party games are selling in their 4th