I have to admit that after the glowing reviews came pouring in and knowing the game is very different from the previous ones, I honestly thought there was a chance for God of War to explode in Japan like selling 2-3 times what God of War 3 did. Sadly, it did not happen.

Is this just a thing you're doing to get at Kerotan or is this real? God of War has sold very well. It's surpassing expectations. How is the budget of the game relevant when it's doing better than everyone has expected in every region. As far as MonHun, it's keeping well digitally so it's not like it's falling off the map completely.

Was the commentary powerful like advertised?

slow numbers for game chart...hope this change soon

Wow, summer is boring as shit in terms of sales.

The dockless Switch will give consumers an option that is in range of portable pricing which should help as we're entering the summer months the key point this year should be when Fire Emblem is due for release as the series has quite an impact over there although Smash may hit in September to launch the online service.

Ok Switch numbers.
Ouch ps4 numbers.
Eek top selling game numbers.

20k as the top selling game for the week is really low

like others have said, summer is not being too kind in japan at the moment for everyone.

So its not even going to do 1k sales? 

I was talking about how the hardware sales. You were saying the PS4 still have stock issues. But what train wreck said is that 1month Japan PS4 = 1 Week US PS4. 

Soooo it feels like Sony doesn't care about Japan. 

Very well and surpassing expectations is very subjective. It does slightly better than GoW III, something that could've been reasonably expected. So it does fine, without a question. But I just think the extensive praise is misplaced, as it is a mid-level IP for Japan. Sure, nothing new, but I don't see the same praise for baseball, which actually did better. This is not to diminish GoW, it is just not an IP doing very well in japan.

EDIT: And he said it will have decent legs. This is difficult too parse, as again decent is very open to interpretation, but even now some weeks old it is outlegged by multiple 2017 titles.

Frigging Snack World outlegs it and has actually barely lower overall sales. So doing 'very well' is only appliable if you start with very low expectations. And that bothers me, because on the other hand titles that sell ten times as much are talked down, because of even higher expectations. Can we keep it all in relation?

And budget actually is an expression of expected sales on the side of the developer/publisher (in most cases). So big budget means big expectations.