Good opening for the Fantasy Life sequel, do we know how this compares with the 3DS game opening week ?

Edit : 

I checked.

The original had an opening weekend of 126K sold which means FF i did just as good as the original if you count the digital ratio being higher since then.

Also it has already sold 500K worldwide, so hopefully the legs stay on for a while

Basically identical to last week hardware wise and Clair Obscur going up a lot due to excellent word of mouth shows that I really need to play that soon.

The reason is that Japan is not the only country in the world. It's a popular platform overall and Japanese games are selling more overseas than ever so a Japenese developer not releasing a PS5 version of a notable game is just gonna be a bad business decision in most cases. This new Fantasy Life is doing quite well on PC with nearly half the reviews being in English so worldwide it's probably doing at least decently on the PS5.

Dude, Japan is a dying video game market. The West is what matters the most and that is where a game console must dominate to win and is exactly what Playstation is doing. 🫵🤣 

The west is the important market to dominate in the gaming market. Japan gaming has been dead long ago.

Japan is a dying video game market. The West is what matters the most and that is where a game console must dominate to win and is exactly what Playstation is doing.

I don't understand why you spam every single Famitsu sales thread with this. If you think it makes Nintendo look bad that they ''only sell in Japan'', its not like Nintendo hasn't sold a ton of consoles in the west as well. Soon Nintendo will start selling millions of consoles in the west with the Switch 2 as well. But yes it will be a big advantage for the Switch 2 that it will sell tens of millions of consoles in Japan alone, something PS will never be able to do in the future.

To put that into perspective, its likely that the fact that Switch 2 will sell big numbers in Japan is what will push it into higher lifetime sales than PS5. Because PS higher popularity in Europe is not enough to make up the vast difference in sales in the Japanese market for Sony.

Pretty sure that has to do with trolling or console warring in some capacity considering what he's blating is just not true. 

Top 30: https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-software-sales-5-19-25-5-25-25-top-30/

1. [NSW] Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time – 82,968 / NEW
2. [NSW] Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Battle Destiny Remastered – 26,130 / NEW
3. [PS5] Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time – 10,730 / NEW
4. [NSW] Minecraft – 5,911 / 3,895,674
5. [NSW] Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana – 5,596 / NEW
6. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 4,522 / 1,590,124
7. [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree – 4,511 / 1,304,912
8. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 4,127 / 6,332,032
9. [PS5] Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – 4,098 / 19,337
10. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 4,051 / 8,132,631

11. [NSW] Ayakashi Gohan: Oomori for S – 1,986 / NEW
12. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 1,955 / 5,760,499
13. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Violet – 1,775 / 5,564,075
14. [NSW] Capcom Fighting Collection 2 – 1,633 / 9,434
15. [NSW] Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You Emotional – 1,589 / 25,791
16. [NSW] Donkey Kong Country Returns HD – 1,339 / 267,611
17. [NSW] The Battle Cats Unite – 1,269 / 340,089
18. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 1,267 / 1,407,292
19. [PS5] Monster Hunter Wilds – 1,184 / 812,230
20. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 1,102 / 1,204,569
21. [NSW] Pikmin 4 – 1,074 / 1,318,349
22. [NSW] Splatoon 3 – 1,046 / 4,444,131
23. [NSW] The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy – 1,011 / 31,492
24. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder – 1,006 / 2,014,848
25. [NSW] Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 Special Price – 965 / 259,614
26. [NSW] The Exit 8 / Platform 8 – 908 / 38,285
27. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 898 / 2,384,495
28. [NSW] Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 879 / 2,067,859
29. [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition – 866 / 113,492
30. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival – 828 / 431,237

NS - 27
PS5 - 3

How much did it sell on PC?

There's no concrete numbers for that but based on it having over 5600 reviews currently it's surely already easily over 100k sold on there with it still getting hundreds of reviews a day and still being close to the top of the best sellers list. Its peak concurrent players hit 51k today which is not much lower than its all time peak of 65k so its legs are looking good so far.  

Switch's YTD in its 9th year is still higher than the lifetime sales of Xbox Series.

That said, Series has sold nearly 6 times more than the lifetime sales of the Xbone and counting, in one of the few wins for Xbox this gen.