What seems a bit strange to me- don't get me wrong- but Sonic X Shadow Generations crossed 1 million sales in 24 hours WW according to Sega. How can it be that the best selling version barly crossed 7k in 3 days in Japan? May it be that Sega was talking about shipped numbers? A digital rate this high i cannot imagine...

It's Romance Week in Japan. How titillating.

Switch hardware is kicking ass, as usual.

Its because almost all Sonic sales came from the west, Sonic has always been a minor franchise in Japan.

Alongside the Japan just being a lessor contributor in terms of its sales we really have to properly acknowledge that physical retail charts are a very incomplete picture of modern sales, even in the japanese market which has been slower to adopt digital.

Good week for the Switch and considering the PS5 is just about 4 years old now I wonder how much longer till the PS4's final top 10 charting game is released. Sometime next year feels quite likely for that.

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Steam

Well one thing seems to be likely now - looks like Switch will indeed hit 3 million this year. Needs 600k now with 9 weeks left, so it just needs to do 1k less than it did this week on average for the next 9 weeks. And with the holidays, even if there is only a small holiday bump for Switch, that seems very likely.

Ok but only 7k? Astro was already low with 13k. Digital might be high but if we estimate total launch sales for Sonic in Japan we would look at 7 k for Switch, maybe 5k for PS5 with PS4/ Xbox(one) basically inexistent with maybe 5k more we would be looking at a maximum of 17k. 1 million worldwide should put japan at around 100- 200k. 9% physical? For JAPAN? Sorry i don't quite buy that.

Why do you think consoles sales in Japan should account for 10-20% of global sales across consoles and PC?

I don't see any reason to think that Sonic sold anywhere near 100k on consoles in Japan, let alone 200k.