Famitsu Sales: Week 09, 2026 (Feb 23 - Mar 01)

[Blood_Tears]

curl-6 said:

Blood_Tears said:

There's definitely no audience at the moment for these 3rd party games in Japan on Switch. DQ remasters being the exception as that is more in line with Nintendo's less graphic intensive and more child like 1st party line up of games for Japan.

Selling out at multiple retailers isn't "no audience".

That's right, that's why pre-orders exist. If the pre-orders are low at retail then you're going to get low shipments to retail. Capcom saw those numbers and based their initial shipment low on a console with over 4.5M install base in Japan based on the data they had. 

Tsujimoto and Capcom don't really care about retail since they have over 90% digital ratio and the less physical they ship the less % they have to split with retail overall.