Most Successful "Original" New IPs in Japan This Gen! Not That Many?!

These 6 Games!

*List Excludes Gen 8 Ports and/or Gen 7 Releases  *Spin Offs (HW/Nintendo Land/DQH)

[3DS] Youkai Watch 1.3mil+ (Level-5)

[3DS] Fantasy Life 400k+ (Level-5)

[PSV] Freedom Wars 300k+ (Sony)

[3DS] Bravely Default 300k+ (Square Enix)

[PS4] BloodBorne 250k+ 

[WiiU] Splatoon 250k+ (Nintendo)      "Still Majorly Growing"

BONUS: Given Away by every PS4 at launch..... Can say successful, but arguably not. It could have been subbed for anything!

[PS4] Knack 400k+

Yokai Watch is just insane. Just goes to show what cross media can do in Japan.

Its also crazy to think how much of a huge established series it's already become in Japan and it hasn't even had its first game released over here in NA

But I thought games weren`t a success unless they at least reach a mil... ; )

Honestly, I`m finding it harder to tell what is a success and what is not... We can say these games were successes, right...? o: Though YW, that was a major success... o:

Also, seeing how Fantasy Life jumped to smartphones, it`s hard to tell if it really was a success... O:

Splatoon going to do 500k+ in japan lifetime, thats crazy :0

1 million maybe the standard for success globally, not in Japan alone.

In japan, There isnt even that many games that hit over 500k

Yokai Watch did really well.. but so did Splatoon!

Shit knack is in second place? Jesus

A new IP to sell 100k is incredible. Japan Sales are different.

I think This generation only like 40 games are over 300k. 30 of them are probably on 3DS