May is typically the weakest month of the year in Japan, so you can't properly judge how summer is going to be. Last year was an outlier because of TotK's release, but this year should be back to normal.

In other words, panic mode based on weak May sales is ill-advised.

That seems like a strange argument. Surely you just need to keep the usual relative weakness in mind when imagining how the following few months will go, like take how it does in May but expect it to be somewhat higher.

It's an argument based on history. We've had too many years on VGC with a negative overreaction to the general market performance in May.

Not keeping in mind proper context when extrapolating stuff like this is definitely too common yeah. I guess it felt like you were saying to not do that based on May at all but if it's more of a general reminder to everyone to keep the context in mind then that's completely fine.

It's going to catch last year ps5.

2nd best Week 16 happening in its 8th year is absurd!

BOTW just casually charting more than 7 years after its release, and in a country that used to be lukewarm on the series too.
Funny to see it neck and neck with TOTK in weekly sales, and Super Mario Party and Superstars also neck and neck.
Bit of intra-series competition haha

This may might be an outlier with paper mario and endless ocean most may's are pretty weak the only exception being last year.

It's Golden Week in Japan, so no new Famitsu numbers today. Next week will be a two week combined total.