Well I wanted to buy a copy of the game, but the physical version is not even available anymore.

£50 on Amazon.co.uk, 41€ on Amazon.de, $64 on Amazon.com right now.

Impressive numbers for Octopath Traveler and not bad legs , I wonder how much it's sold in Japan until now and why it's the only title that excludes Japanese sales.

The numbers are coming from Nintendo and they didn't publish Octopath in Japan.

Oh, so $quare-Enix actually published the game themselves there.

Heads up - numbers in this thread are as of end of 2020, says end of 2021 on the frontpage.

They publish all their games that Nintendo publishes in the West themselves in Japan. That includes also Triangle Strategy, Bravely Default II, all Dragon Quest games and The World Ends With You Final Remix.

True, there's no denying that not having a reconizable name made it a harder sell, but it probably still could have helped a bit.

To me it feels like that initial end-of-direct spot was the only thing they really did to push the game. That made it seems like they wanted it to be a fairly big deal, but after that they kinda neglected it. I actually feel like they did more to push Daemon X Machina and that wasn't even their IP (not that Daemon X Machina did better in the end though, since reception was mixed).

Cool to see!

Very nice results for Yoshi, Octopath, and Xenoblade 2. For the kind of games they are, they're probably very lucrative.

At the very least, I'm happy Astral Chain managed to sell over a million, it deserves that much.

I doubt any First Partyish N-Switch game hasn't been profitable at this point. Like some surely paid for themselves more than others, but when Breath had a 2 million min requirement to break even, I think everyone else is quite fine.