A whole lot of gains today.

Famitsu is sales, not preorders.

At any given time Nintendo has 2 or 3 games up for preorder, thus it makes the chart like Splatoon 3 and Xenoblade. Sony and 3rd partys on the other hand will often have preorders open long before with a vast amount of games, some of which aren't on one console or the other. Just think about how long Final Fantasy Versus XIII dominated the charts and yet never came to be.

PS4/PS5 is 2 consoles while Switch is 1 so a popular game gets 2 SKUs in COMG chart for PS and 1 from Switch.

COMG has a massive bias towards anime games.

Yeah and someone explained this alr but preorders are done by dedicated fans. Casual games won't typically get as much preorders, but would sell more. Popular franchises would obviously earn more, and anime games/licensed games would also bcuz there are most likely a dedicated fanbase for that IP.

This is why you should never look at COMG preorders to gauge interest in a game or even the Famitsu Most Wanted list. Those are die-hard gamers that pay attention to that stuff and will preorder games and list their most anticipated games. An excellent example is Animal Crossing NH and FF7R. Both came out a few weeks from each other and on the Most Wanted list FF7R was always ahead of Animal Crossing. We all know what happened with both games. Animal Crossing sold 10X more than FF7R and is still selling more despite having a PS5 and PC version added to the list of platforms.

The COMG preorders list is very good at what it does. It gauges interest in games to be pre-ordered and provides a proper ballpark estimate for what interest there is in a title before its released. There is no better enumerated metric available which can do this.

However what some people in this thread are being confused by is that it is not a gauge of what titles will have longstanding (evergreen) sales. The only thing it gauges is interest in a product prior to release and then the weekly list can be used to estimate opening week sales.

Less than a Week!

Estimated total with Average LE (Special Edition) points from past Xenoblade Switch Games = 82 + 40 = 122!

*Xenoblade 3 is still in the top 5 in Amazon JP + a Free Poster Edition in the top 55

*Xenoblade 1 is still in the top 100 in Amazon JP

No points haha ??

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is now exactly on par with FE: Three Houses final preorder number. But that one included the special edition.

Yeah, Easy Peasy.

2 more weeks passed for my simple comparison of Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3.

78 days left

Splatoon 2- 297 (+8)

Splatoon 3- 189 (+0)

57 days left

Splatoon 2- 463 (+12)

Splatoon 3- 224 (+0)

So Splatoon 3 has gained 35 pts in 3 weeks vs Splatoon 2 gaining 166 pts.

43 days left

Splatoon 2- 597 (+11)

Splatoon 3- 259 (+2)

Splatoon 2 gained 134, Splatoon 3 gained 35 pts. A small change in pace for both games with both games doing slightly better now.