Video Game Market Analysis Thread

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The loud hate mob on anyone who played the game really did a number on those sales

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1878

No clue why people thought they would affect the sales lol.

The Trans community is like 0.01 of the population, they have no power in any aspect of society and are among the most hated people on Earth.

It was always overblown, they’re a marginalized community for a reason.

1879

No wonder Sony is scared.

1880

Yeah, mild shock.

1881

Ladies and gents, it’s happened. An Xbox game charted in the weekly Famitsu sales. First time since… I think it was Final Fantasy XV in 2016 lmao

  1. [PS5] Hogwarts Legacy – 39,958 / 104,154
  2. [PS5] Wild Hearts – 26,905 / NEW
  3. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Violet – 23,593 / 4,860,103
  4. [NSW] Tales of Symphonia Remastered – 21,860 / NEW
  5. [NSW] Splatoon 3 – 12,958 / 3,889,142
  6. [NSW] Theatrhythm Final Bar Line – 11,565 / NEW
  7. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 9,227 / 5,163,206
  8. [PS4] Tales of Symphonia Remastered – 7,503 / NEW
  9. [NSW] Minecraft – 6,573 / 3,046,881
  10. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 5,773 / 1,007,103
  11. [PS5] Gran Turismo 7 – 5,772 / 286,767
  12. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 4,587 / 5,126,484
  13. [NSW] Fire Emblem Engage – 4,494 / 197,681
  14. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 4,243 / 1,179,334

15. [XSX] Forza Horizon 5 – 3,943 / 6,445

  1. [PS4] Theatrhythm Final Bar Line – 3,610 / NEW
  2. [NSW] Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl – 3,348 / 2,627,027
  3. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 3,028 / 2,138,196
  4. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 2,967 / 7,432,677
  5. [NSW] Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life – 2,948 / 57,909
  6. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 2,872 / 1,088,417
  7. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 2,870 / 2,847,033
  8. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 2,793 / 3,350,243
  9. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 2,786 / 1,000,201
  10. [NSW] Dragon Quest Treasures – 2,231 / 274,333
  11. [PS5] Horizon Forbidden West – 2,209 / 151,755
  12. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival – 2,106 / 154,655
  13. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak Set – 1,791 / 308,555
  14. [NSW] FIFA 23 Legacy Edition – 1,657 / 89,446
  15. [NSW] Bayonetta 3 – 1,582 / 71,442

Famitsu publishes the top 30 about 12 hours after publishing the top 10.

Anyway, Forza is here because it looks like the increased Series X supply was the Forza Horizon 5 bundle. Still, quite shocking to see an Xbox game in there. It’s been… a long time.

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1882

Sony is about to send double amount with more bundles.

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1883

This is only physical games right?

1884

Yes Famitsu sales are physical only. Xbox physical releases largely died off in Japan and essentially only XGS games get physical releases there (which are largely played on Game Pass or purchased digitally on Series S) so Xbox stopped appearing in the Famitsu charts because of that.

But because you are “forced” to get FH5 bundled with the Series X it appeared there lol.

This is also just weekly numbers.

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1885

Thanks! Its just that I couldn’t stop noticing that, despite PS5 shipments increasing greatly this past weeks it seems weird to me the lack of games charting in that platform. I assume GT7 and Horizon FB are there thanks to bundles?

Hope it does not sound like console warring or anything but it started coughing my attention since their stock improved. Could this mean their digital ratios is really high? has it been like that for a while or it’s just a “pattern” that started appearing?

I would really appreciate you insight since you are the expert in the Japanese market in here!

1886

Amazing, guess that boycott failed. :rofl:

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1887

Those are bundle titles, it checks out. Most of these bundle games get sold off very cheap on second hand markets, maybe you’ll even start seeing Forza copies here lol, I posted about it here:

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Now that is a long and ongoing conversation that sparks many heated debates and casualties on the Installbase forums lol. Some theorized reasons for it include vast quantities of JP PS5s being sold off to China’s grey market, people buying PS5 just to play Genshin Impact and Apex Legends ( :sweat_smile: ), people buying PS5 and just playing their old PS4 library ( :grimacing:), and other silly things.

If you ask me, there’s signs that PS5’s digital attach rate in Japan isn’t that amazing either. Recently I posted about Disgaea 7 passing Forspoken on the JP PS Store’s “Top Paid” section. Disgaea 7 only opened with 3,568 on PlayStation 4, and 2,324 on PlayStation 5 physically on the Famitsu charts. Even if an insane 90% digital attach rate (unheard of for Japan) was applied, the sales still wouldn’t be that high.

Nihon Falcom (my favorite developer lol) also revealed their Playstation digital attach rate and said it was below 20%, and they were counting DLC purchases in that number too apparently.

We’ve also recently had Capcom come out and say that the Nintendo Switch is “over 90% of the Japanese market”. They surely would have been using their own physical and digital data to gauge this.

This is the first year PS5 has been readily available in Japan, and Sony has been trying to “correct” things over there after ignoring the region for so long by doing domestic only marketing campaigns for more Japanese market tailored games. The situation could start changing for the better this year.

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1888

The people who boycotted are completely entitled to it. Don’t really think it’s cool to make fun of them.

The people who were toxic deserve to get made fun of but they don’t speak for everyone that boycotted.

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1889

Thanks! Do you know if PC gaming is big there or nah? Or is ir growing or just used to play F2P games?

Will be interesting to see PS5’s software perfomance in the coming months/years.

1890

It was always about creating awareness about jkr’s transphobia and bigotry and it succeeded in that way imo. The people who thought gamers were actually gonna boycott harry potter to support anything in the world are too naive.

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1891

Are these numbers trustworthy?

1892

Na

1893

i dunno because there’s some info conflict VGChartz (I’m not saying it’s reliable) says xbox has more than 20mi, but this info says it’s has 18mi

1894

VGChartz is always off by 5-10 million. :rofl:

Xbox does not give numbers anymore. So how do these people come up with these numbers? unless it from court papers?

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1895

Only for Sony and Nintendo.

MS won’t tell us anything Xbox related unless it’s doing really well or hits a milestone.

1896

Xbox is just an estimate with the data that’s out there. It sounds about right but we can’t say that’s the exact amount.