Expectations were too high for Sonic Crossworlds. MK World is not a relevant comparison, Kirby Air Riders vs Sonic Crossworlds is the realistic sales comparison.

Is NS5 a Switch 2 or PS5? lol

On one had, I expect the desire for a kart racer to be stronger on PS5 due to the lack of Mario. On the other hand it is definitely a game people would prefer to get on the go.

I know some people are surprised by the weak performance but despite being a sonic fan, I've never got the excitement for sonic racing. The movment and animation just lacks fluidity & charm. And with no brand power carrying in in Japan, I didn't expect much

An extremely rare feat for a franchise to repeak on Playstation. I guess this is down to the setting and visual style resonating quite strongly

Still a lot of Konami fans wanting to see what they cooked with their big new release.

Keep it up Konami we need a great comeback (to give us a new CastleVania)!

NS1 to 170 million

In think it will sell less physical units than GoT due to digital being more popular and digital only consoles. So I am going to say around 125k physical 

Even the mainline Sonic games arent popular in Japan. I dont think any recent releases did more than 20k first week on any platform.

Kirby Air Riders is going to outsell Racing Crossworlds lifetime sales as well, by a lot, in the first week of release.

Mario Kart World really shouldnt be a relevant comparison in the first place.

PS5, sorry the source article made a typo haha

Fixed it, thanks

I didn't think Silent Hill of all things would do that but yeah the Switch 1 is the more surprising one. The Switch 2 has been having supply issues there the entire time basically from what I've seen though so I imagine that is a factor.

Sounds like a good prediction.  Truth is, using physical sales as a barometer for performance is getting more and more troublesome by the day.  I think I am part of that problem.  I am ashamed to admit that I have only purchased one physical PS5 game since it launched in 2020.  

My intuition tells me though that this particular release may out perform GoT.  I come to that conclusion from the headlines out of Japan.  I do not remember hearing reports like this for GoT.  I'm going to predict 165K.  Even if it is more popular, I predict that a more popular digital format as well as digital only consoles, as you stated, will keep it from outperforming GoT by too much.    Excited to see the result in about a day.