Pretty decent sales for Like a Dragon and Octopath. Considering around half of PS5 ssales are digital, this week wasn't bad software wise. Hogwarts probably also sold a few thousand units.

Kirby's Return to Dream Land is one of my favorite Kirby games along with Super Star and the original Dream Land for NES. Good to see it doing well!

Hogwarts Legacy still showing legs.

PS5 seems like it will be competition in Japan after all, which is only good for the market. Any company needs that, and i think Nintendo laid back a little lately.

How ? They keep releasing gamed, 3rd 1st party game since January and we're only early March

At this rate PS5 will sell 4m+ this year in Japan and that would also outsell the Switch which is insane . We never thought PS5 could outsell the Switch until maybe Switch's successor launch

Their pricing for the Switch... how the hell does a Switch V2 is the same price as a Xbox series S... or even the Series S has been found more affordable. Same thing for their games. 6 Year old games shouldn't still be full price. And some of those old games barely sell anymore. I would gladly pick MM2 if it wasn't 80 bucks in Canada.

Thanks for the detailed reply. Forgot to exclude launch but it looks like it wasn't far behind PS4's launch month! Would be nice if the baseline settles at around 40k after demand is met.

Switch 2 is around the corner though, I reckon that may deal a heavy blow on any serious PS5 progress in Japan, especially if it gets Dragon Quest 12 and the next Monster Hunter on day 1. I'm of the opinion that Sony should have prioritized Japan much earlier at the cost of slightly lower western sales, but I guess it wouldn't have made much of a difference, thanks to the pandemic slowing everything down.

This is quite obvious, that Kirby RoT Deluxe will become the best selling version against its Wii counterpart, thanks to the higher userbase and the fact Kirby has never been this popular in a while there. Will also be the top selling game of the year in Japan for a while too.

I'm actually surprised Octopath Traveler II managed to get as high as it did since it kinda disappointed on the pre-orders side. Still, this is technically slightly under what the original did on launch and it wasn't multiplat as well. As expected, the Switch version dwarfed the PS5 version too.

Return to Dreamland short is RtD.

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