Octopath shipping over 1m this early is only surprising to people who underestimated its selling potential.

hopefully the game hits like 3m life time

Comedy gold, he certainty loves a good cliff lol

I admit I am fairly surprised considering I am pretty negative about the game.

*Munch...Munch...Munch...*Cogh*cough* Goddammit! Someone left the beak on this crow!

That's amazing, @Square-Enix should be happy. 2m lifetime seems 99% possible.

If you're implying that what I said wasn't a rational thing to say, then I'll disagree. From my point of view, people who didn't believe Octopath would ship 1m after one month probably projected the game to sell less than 2m lifetime, which to me is underestimating its selling potential.  Kirby and Xenoblade 2 shipped 1m+ in a month and those two games are about in the same sensible sales range compared to Octopath Traveler (around 2-3m).  If a game that's not as accessible to non-JRPG fans like Xenoblade 2 could ship 1m in a month, then Octopath should be able to do it as well.  Also, Kirby and Tropical Freeze (another game that probably shipped 1m+ in a month) had similar pre-order performances chart-wise on Amazon compared to Octopath Traveler which made it relatively safe to guess that Octopath would sell 1m in less than a month.

At any rate, a third party game selling so well on Switch is a very good sign. The system is proving itself a healthy ecosystem for those who properly invest in it. Square's recent move to set up a new department for making Switch games should pay off handsomely, and other Japanese devs would be wise to follow suit.

Oh I share your annoyance, the old "Nintendo gamers love everything Nintendo make and never try anything else" thing is such rubbish.

Well deserved!

The games' still sold out in Japan, UK, Spain, France and I think Switzerland. It's seems to be doing really well pretty much everywhere from the look of things. 2 million is a lock imo.

Well, except "it's nothing mind blowing"