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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan sales (Week 1): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - January 01-07, 2018

Farsala on 11 January 2018
tbone51 said:
Farsala said:
Well FFXV is inching closer to the best selling FF's in the world, and at the same time the worst selling in Japan. Apparently now it is over 7m WW. https://www.dualshockers.com/monster-hunter-world-sales-10-million-copies/ I wonder why they didn't focus on Japan?

Also for full comparison is last known digital numbers:

Zelda BoTW Wii U+ Switch= ~62k
FFXV= 29. [PS4] Final Fantasy XV - 749 / 92.389 (Square Enix) - {29/11/2016}

Estimate in japan ff will be around 1.2mil to 1.3mil lifetime (ship+digital) while Zelda is already well over 1mil now. Itll be ship+digital at minimum 1.3mil at this rate. How high can it go is any1 guess. I doubt 2mil lol. That would be crazy

 

That said ff is still bigger in japan than Zelda unless they both continue to incline and decline in sales

 

WW zelda will easily outsell ff. Might possibly even double sales (very low chance but possible)

Botw is likely to be the #1 selling zelda game WW then?

PAOerfulone said:

Well, I wouldn't say it shrunk drastically from the PS2.

PS2/Xbox/GameCube/DC combined install base - 30 million
PS3/360/Wii combined install base - 24.9 million

PS4/XBO/Wii U combined install base - 9.1 million

Even though the market shrunk in the 7th gen from 6th gen, it was still pretty healthy. It was this generation where it dropped like a rock, but even then, the PS4 is expected to at least match the PS3's install base.

But, I see what you mean by how Final Fantasy has appealed less and less to Japanese gamers and more towards Western ones.

The consoles that FF is actually on did shrink drastically in Japan though. In fact the consoles are declining just as fast if not faster than FF in Japan.

PS2- 23m

PS3/360 - 12m

PS4/XB1 - ~6m so far.

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TheBraveGallade on 11 January 2018
PAOerfulone said:

Well, I wouldn't say it shrunk drastically from the PS2.

PS2/Xbox/GameCube/DC combined install base - 30 million
PS3/360/Wii combined install base - 24.9 million

PS4/XBO/Wii U combined install base - 9.1 million

Even though the market shrunk in the 7th gen from 6th gen, it was still pretty healthy. It was this generation where it dropped like a rock, but even then, the PS4 is expected to at least match the PS3's install base.

But, I see what you mean by how Final Fantasy has appealed less and less to Japanese gamers and more towards Western ones.

Considering the wii's gimmicky nature... I disagree. Most third parties jumped to psp and ds at this time, and people who bought the wii... bought the wii seperatly. The wii was in a different category.



SuperNova on 11 January 2018
PAOerfulone said:
So, I did some calculations for Breath of the Wild,

1,000,000 - 802,811 = 197,189.

With 51 weeks left in the year, it would need to sell an average of 3,866 copies per week to pass 1 million copies sold physically on the Switch alone by the end of the year.

Heh, I did something similar when I saw the numbers. It would take 40 weeks to hit 1million with an average of 5000 per week wich is about what we have seen Zelda do for most of this year. It would take six more weeks like this current one to hit 1million.

Overall 1million by holyday 2018 is a safe bet at this point.



Kai_Mao on 11 January 2018

It’s amazing that Splatoon 2 has become the first 2 million seller in hone consoles in Japan since Wii Party in 2010. Though I guess it shows how much the industry has struggled in Japan despite the PS4’s success. Not even DQ or FF have made it with their latest installments. MHW might make it but we’ll see. Pretty crazy since Splatoon is only in its second installment and is already taking Japan by storm.



Keybladewielder on 11 January 2018

Great week for Switch and PS4. Splatoon and Mario Odyssey are completely slaying and it's really nice to see that Xenoblade 2 is actually having some legs, unlike Xenoblade X.



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Shikamo on 11 January 2018

Dat Xeno Legs



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TheWPCTraveler on 11 January 2018
NoCtiS_NoX said:
I will post my tables later for MC. I am exhausted with the Famitsu numbers and fixing some numbers from last week.
                       
17./22. [NSW] Sumikko Gurashi: Sumikko Park e Youkoso - / 60-80% (+82%) (Nippon Columbia) {2017.12.07} (¥5.800) 9,410 5,164 43,330 80-100% (-52%)

Noctis, I think that the week-on-week percentage change for this game should be 43% rather than the -52% in the OP.

Or that somehow the last week and this week numbers have been swapped.



 
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TheWPCTraveler on 11 January 2018
Shikamo said:

Dat Xeno Legs

...

Why?

Why do these things exist?!



 
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Cloudman on 11 January 2018

Dang, there's a boost for almost all consoles, minus the Xbox

Also, that color for Xbox is a little hard on my eyes... @_@



 

              

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