Probably poised to eventually come a million seller. Not too shabby for a game that kinda underperformed at launch but then started getting serious word of mouth from industry legends like Sakurai and Yoko Taro. The late Switch port definitely helped as well.
Sadly the anniversary stream basically confirms that Vanillaware is separate from Sega/Atlus’s multiplat push/initiative, as no PC (or Xbox) port was announced there. Xbox won’t happen till MS pays but I think they’re missing out hard by not being on PC.
Holiday season. And I guess the good news about seeing big Xbox shipments now is, if the “Famitsu course correct” theory is true, it -does- actually mean they are sending bigger Xbox shipments for the holiday season.
It seems Sony is solving PS5 supply issues for Japan, which probably plays into why their number has been decent lately. I’ve also heard PS5 scalper prices over there are beginning to falter.
The only shame is that Sony is able to achieve by selling expensive overpriced console while Microsoft has to offer cheap console - Series S or cheaper than PS5 Series X. They really need to find a way to get back “must have” energy to Xbox that existed in Xbox 360 era.
[NSW] Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope – 17,647 / NEW
[NSW] Minecraft – 11,005 / 2,877,634
[NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 10,519 / 4,928,165
[NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 9,211 / 793,064
[NSW] u-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel: Dawn of the Battle Royale!! Let’s Go! Go Rush!! – 7,396 / NEW
[NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 5,787 / 5,021,094
[NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 4,579 / 1,072,681
[PS5] Horizon Forbidden West – 4,444 / 116,777
Hardware Sales
Switch – 152.284 (27.229.302)
PlayStation 5 – 27.835 (2.219.252)
PlayStation 4 – 4.211 (9.404.084)
Xbox Series X|S – 1.854 (394.852)
3DS – 111 (24.596.902)
Not much to say about the software side. Some games that haven’t been in the top 10 for a while have come back, must be Christmas gifts.
Xbox’s holiday boost looks to be over already lol, back to normal. PS4 seems to be clearing out back stock that retailers were saving for holidays.
Jim Ryan personally apologized to Japanese audiences on Playstation Awards for bad PS5 stock to Japan for a while and said they have done changes to fix this, so I’m not gonna expect anymore Xbox > PS5 weeks lol.
Handhelds have more sales opportunities than regular consoles. For example parents with multiple kids might buy one PS5 or XBX for the kids to share (on one TV), alternatively they might buy a Switch for each kid. The handheld nature of the Switch also means it gets more abuse during travel, or it gets lost/stolen meaning having to buy another.
