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Media Create Sales: Week 22, 2020 (May 25 - May 31)

Reki

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Oct 25, 2017
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Good numbers for DE, happy for it.

Dunno if it can outsell XC2 - being a re-release and all, legs should be worse - but nice numbers nonetheless.

Was the RFA stock situation sorted out? Haven't been following in a while.
 
Zalman

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Oct 25, 2017
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Chris1964 said:
It must be the same people who buy these games

Famitsu Sales: Week 10, 2018 (Mar 05 - Mar 11)
07./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Decisive Edition <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2018.03.08} (¥3.980) - 11.821 / NEW <40-60%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 17, 2018 (Apr 23 - Apr 29)
11./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II - Relentless Edition <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2018.04.26} (¥3.980) - 11.728 / NEW <40-60%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 17, 2020 (Apr 20 - Apr 26)
07./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Zero - Kai <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2020.04.23} (¥3.980) - 10.979 / NEW <60-80%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 22, 2020 (May 25 - May 31)
04./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Azure - Kai <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2020.05.28} (¥3.980) - 12.047 / NEW
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This is both hilarious and sad considering there's an incredibly obvious growth opportunity in front of their noses.
 
Comic Obsessed

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Oct 27, 2017
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XCDE did less than XC2 but is not that bad and digitally should be fine. Rest of the world should be much better.

Good Switch hardware overall.
 
sir_crocodile

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Oct 25, 2017
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hiska-kun said:
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In retrospect the subtitle "New Horizons" was pretty apt
 
Zaimokuza

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May 14, 2020
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Chris1964 said:
It must be the same people who buy these games

Famitsu Sales: Week 10, 2018 (Mar 05 - Mar 11)
07./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Decisive Edition <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2018.03.08} (¥3.980) - 11.821 / NEW <40-60%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 17, 2018 (Apr 23 - Apr 29)
11./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II - Relentless Edition <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2018.04.26} (¥3.980) - 11.728 / NEW <40-60%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 17, 2020 (Apr 20 - Apr 26)
07./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Zero - Kai <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2020.04.23} (¥3.980) - 10.979 / NEW <60-80%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 22, 2020 (May 25 - May 31)
04./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Azure - Kai <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2020.05.28} (¥3.980) - 12.047 / NEW
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How much do The Legend of Heroes games usually sell? The series is pretty famous but these sales seem really low, especially since these threads taught me that jrpgs don't have legs
 
Arynio

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Oct 27, 2017
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Really nice numbers for the 3rd retail release of Xenoblade (4th overall although lol WiiU), surpassing the launch of both the original Wii and the N3DS versions. Was hoping for 100k & #1, but it's close enough. Also extremely close to the launch of Xenoblade 2, and as others have pointed already, maybe even above when factoring in digital. Being the third release of the game, though, I don't believe its legs will be as long as many people think, but hopefully I'm wrong on this. Any early signs of its 2nd week performance?

The increased HW helped AC offset the natural decline and hold on to the 100k for one additional (last?) week, as we hypothesised. Switch in beast mode, selling as much as supplies allow for. As does RingFit.
 
HaremKing

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Mpl90 said:
As weird as this may sound, this is a legit surprise, even more than Xenoblade DE's debut

07./00. [NSW] Uta no Prince-Sama: Amazing Aria & Sweet Serenade Love for Nintendo Switch <Uta no Prince-Sama: Amazing Aria \ Uta no Prince-Sama: Sweet Serenade> <ADV> (Broccoli) {2020.05.28} (¥5.800) - 9.216 / NEW

PSV Uta no Prince-Sama: Amazing Aria & Sweet Serenade Love 14.352 14.352 Broccoli 19/10/2017
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Repeat Love did around 8,400 so a modest increase is understandable. I wonder when we'll start seeing the fujo/otome Switch late ports beating the fujo/otome Vita late ports.
 
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Chris1964

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Oct 25, 2017
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Uta no Prince-Sama Debut gets a re-release on Switch at the end of February but first new game of Broccoli for the system is Jack Jeanne at 3 December.
 

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Chris1964 said:
It must be the same people who buy these games

Famitsu Sales: Week 10, 2018 (Mar 05 - Mar 11)
07./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Decisive Edition <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2018.03.08} (¥3.980) - 11.821 / NEW <40-60%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 17, 2018 (Apr 23 - Apr 29)
11./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II - Relentless Edition <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2018.04.26} (¥3.980) - 11.728 / NEW <40-60%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 17, 2020 (Apr 20 - Apr 26)
07./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Zero - Kai <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2020.04.23} (¥3.980) - 10.979 / NEW <60-80%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 22, 2020 (May 25 - May 31)
04./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Azure - Kai <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2020.05.28} (¥3.980) - 12.047 / NEW
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if only there was a way to expand that audience...
 
ILikeFeet

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Chris1964 said:
It must be the same people who buy these games

Famitsu Sales: Week 10, 2018 (Mar 05 - Mar 11)
07./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Decisive Edition <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2018.03.08} (¥3.980) - 11.821 / NEW <40-60%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 17, 2018 (Apr 23 - Apr 29)
11./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II - Relentless Edition <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2018.04.26} (¥3.980) - 11.728 / NEW <40-60%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 17, 2020 (Apr 20 - Apr 26)
07./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Zero - Kai <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2020.04.23} (¥3.980) - 10.979 / NEW <60-80%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 22, 2020 (May 25 - May 31)
04./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Azure - Kai <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2020.05.28} (¥3.980) - 12.047 / NEW
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Falcom fans are nothing if not consistent
 
fiendcode

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Oct 26, 2017
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Chris1964 said:
It must be the same people who buy these games

Famitsu Sales: Week 10, 2018 (Mar 05 - Mar 11)
07./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Decisive Edition <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2018.03.08} (¥3.980) - 11.821 / NEW <40-60%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 17, 2018 (Apr 23 - Apr 29)
11./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II - Relentless Edition <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2018.04.26} (¥3.980) - 11.728 / NEW <40-60%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 17, 2020 (Apr 20 - Apr 26)
07./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Zero - Kai <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2020.04.23} (¥3.980) - 10.979 / NEW <60-80%>

Famitsu Sales: Week 22, 2020 (May 25 - May 31)
04./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Azure - Kai <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2020.05.28} (¥3.980) - 12.047 / NEW
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I'm sure they all greatly exceeded Kondo's expectations as well.
 
7Suna

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Zaimokuza said:
How much do The Legend of Heroes games usually sell? The series is pretty famous but these sales seem really low, especially since these threads taught me that jrpgs don't have legs
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02./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV - The End of Saga # <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2018.09.27} (¥7.800) - 85.161 / NEW

"The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III has achieved first place in the weekly sales ranking!" said the developer (as translated by Gematsu). "This time, the rate of digital version sales was by far higher than previous entries in the series, but we were able to achieve over 100,000 units in the first week with physical version sales alone."

Trails JRPG Series Has Shipped Over 4.5 Million Copies;
 
faint

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Oct 27, 2017
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Do we have any expectations/predictions about how Clubhouse Games will perform next week? I'm quite curious about how that'll perform. I feel like it may have some nice legs even if the opening is small.
 
Aostia82

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Oct 27, 2017
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sir_crocodile said:
Xenoblade Wii - 79,163
Xenoblade N3DS - 43.762
Xenoblade X 88,544
Xenoblade 2 97.274
Torna 4.744
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wow, so the best debut ever for the specific game (XB1) and almost in line (considering digital it probably is) with the best debut (Xeboblade 2)

not bad


Btw:

01./01. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2020.03.20} (¥5.980) - 102.749 / 4.685.419 (+0%)
INCREDIBLE! Its legs adn total sales are insane!

02./00. [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition # <RPG> (Nintendo) {2020.05.29} (¥5.980) - 90.789 / NEW
Ad mentioned, very solid debut!

03./02. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure <HOB> (Nintendo) {2019.10.18} (¥7.980) - 39.518 / 956.559 (+236%)
WOW at those legs! It will be great to see it cross the 1 millon mark (at retail)
 
Kresnik

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Oct 26, 2017
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DarkDetective said:
Yeah, that's a very high number for a re-release (not sure if it's a port or a remaster).
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It's a re-re-release. They're originally PSP titles that were packaged together on Vita then re-released on Switch.

Looks about in line with what you'd think? Modest drop but people re-buying them on the new otome platform.
 
Kouriozan

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Oct 25, 2017
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I see that Ring Fit thirst is still strong, Japan getting ready for the Olympic next year.
 
GamingCJ

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Zalman said:
This is both hilarious and sad considering there's an incredibly obvious growth opportunity in front of their noses.
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mazi said:
if only there was a way to expand that audience...
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I know this thread is always toxic against Falcom and can only repeat the same port begging over and over again.

But please, at least look up that you are talking about ports from old games, and even these sell better than those Kiseki games that were actually ported to Switch.

As 7Suna above pointed out, the main titles sell about 100k opening week on PS4.
 
ikaben

ikaben

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Oct 27, 2017
564
At first I thought XDE had a 100K+ debut, then I saw the wow percentage. AC is a unique beast indeed.
 
fiendcode

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Oct 26, 2017
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GamingCJ said:
I know this thread is always toxic against Falcom and can only repeat the same port begging over and over again.

But please, at least look up that you are talking about ports from old games, and even these sell better than those Kiseki games that were actually ported to Switch.

As 7Suna above pointed out, the main titles sell about 100k opening week on PS4.
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The only Kiseki on Switch is CS3 which sold only slightly less than these. If Ys VIII is any indication though the majority of overseas sales may end up being on Switch and potentially global sales as a result too. We'll see...
 
ika

ika

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Oct 27, 2017
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Pretty happy with XCDE numbers considering probable digital numbers. Even if it didn't cross the 100K line and #1 position it's a great result.

Can't wait to see worldwide results in three months or so, it should do 1M+ easily.
 
Zaimokuza

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7Suna said:
02./00. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV - The End of Saga # <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2018.09.27} (¥7.800) - 85.161 / NEW

"The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III has achieved first place in the weekly sales ranking!" said the developer (as translated by Gematsu). "This time, the rate of digital version sales was by far higher than previous entries in the series, but we were able to achieve over 100,000 units in the first week with physical version sales alone."

Trails JRPG Series Has Shipped Over 4.5 Million Copies;
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Thank you, so that just means the new versions don't sell a lot. The trails series means 9 games, right? Did they all sell more or less the same or are they becoming more popular?
 
GamingCJ

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fiendcode said:
The only Kiseki on Switch is CS3 which sold only slightly less than these. If Ys VIII is any indication though the majority of overseas sales may end up being on Switch and potentially global sales as a result too. We'll see...
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We are not talking oversea here, that's NISAs territory.

CS3 is MUCH newer than Zero and Ao, and yet it only sold like 6k on Switch IIRC. It's totally abysmal, yet users here pretend like Falcom can't do math.
 
Mpl90

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While these late ports don't show the real potential of the franchise (new games do), comparisons between PS4 and NSW ports shouldn't ignote the price difference: PS4 ones are budget-priced, while NSW ones are premium-priced.
 
ShyMel

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Oct 31, 2017
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I forgot that the UtaPri combo pack on Switch came out last week so that was a nice surprise. Hopefully Dairoku shows up in the top 30 list.
 
Vinnk

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Oct 26, 2017
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GamingCJ said:
I know this thread is always toxic against Falcom and can only repeat the same port begging over and over again.

But please, at least look up that you are talking about ports from old games, and even these sell better than those Kiseki games that were actually ported to Switch.

As 7Suna above pointed out, the main titles sell about 100k opening week on PS4.
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So you are arguing that Switch versions would not sell enough additional copies to be worth doing? I don't think anyone here expects they would sell better than the PS4 versions. The argument many people are making is that Falcom is leaving money on the table.
 

Adventureracing

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Nov 7, 2017
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Finally some switch HW. Now to see what level it drops to again. RFA about to cross 1 million and still remains totally sold out, who knows how high the demand is. AC also still selling 100K+ is amazing and I can't help but feel if Nintendo could supply enough HW it would stay somewhere up there.
 
fiendcode

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GamingCJ said:
We are not talking oversea here, that's NISAs territory.

CS3 is MUCH newer than Zero and Ao, and yet it only sold like 6k on Switch IIRC. It's totally abysmal, yet users here pretend like Falcom can't do math.
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Japan for CS3 was N1's territory too, that's irrelevant. The point was growth potential in general.

CS3 Switch wasn't that much newer than CS1/2 Kai either and didn't exactly benefit from Falcom directly supporting the platform and committing all future support to it exclusively. Building audiences isn't easy but it's even harder when you actively work against it from every angle. If Falcom had backed Switch like they did PSP/PS3/PSV/PS4/will PS5 then the crusty CS3 port (and Ys VIII port btw) probably would've sold the whole 3-6k more to be in line with these ports. And more importantly Trails in general wouldn't have shed nearly half it's total sales like it did going PS4 only.
 
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Chris1964

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If pull priced Switch late ports that Falcom has no involvement don't worth it, these PS4 budget releases don't worth it either.
 
Luke88

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The dream for Xenoblade DE becoming the #1 best selling in the series lives, Digital should allow it to exceed 2, I really hope it has legs.

Ring Fit is just bullying everyone with his legs at this point, half a year after release selling close to 40k
 
PillFencer

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[NDS] Pokemon Diamond / Pearl <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2006.09.28} (¥4.800)

15 weeks at >100k

Week 40, 2006 - 1.586.360 / NEW
Week 41, 2006 - 433.793 / 2.020.153
Week 42, 2006 - 291.178 / 2.311.331
Week 43, 2006 - 231.627 / 2.542.958
Week 44, 2006 - 209.288 / 2.752.246
Week 45, 2006 - 183.048 / 2.935.294
Week 46, 2006 - 124.738 / 3.060.032
Week 47, 2006 - 101.113 / 3.161.145
Week 48, 2006 - 110.946 / 3.272.091
Week 49, 2006 - 100.215 / 3.372.306
Week 50, 2006 - 151.036 / 3.523.342
Week 51, 2006 - 225.228 / 3.748.570
Week 52, 2006 - 429.017 / 4.177.587
Week 53, 2006 - 125.228 / 4.302.815
Week 01, 2007 - 214.274 / 4.517.089


[NDS] New Super Mario Bros. <ACT> (Nintendo) {2006.05.25} (¥4.800)

15 weeks at >100k

Week 22, 2006 - 865.024 / NEW
Week 23, 2006 - 315.197 / 1.180.221
Week 24, 2006 - 242.932 / 1.423.153
Week 25, 2006 - 204.007 / 1.627.160
Week 26, 2006 - 169.852 / 1.797.012
Week 27, 2006 - 153.047 / 1.950.059
Week 28, 2006 - 132.375 / 2.082.434
Week 29, 2006 - 120.220 / 2.202.654
Week 30, 2006 - 146.837 / 2.349.491
Week 31, 2006 - 114.471 / 2.463.962
Week 32, 2006 - 103.008 / 2.566.970
Week 33, 2006 - 119.991 / 2.686.961
Week 34, 2006 - 115.335 / 2.802.296

Week 52, 2006 - 185.021 / 3.737.742

Week 01, 2007 - 130.021 / 3.948.235


[NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2020.03.20} (¥5.980)

11 weeks at >100k (so far)

Week 12, 2020 - 1.880.626 / NEW
Week 13, 2020 - 727.791 / 2.608.417
Week 14, 2020 - 423.367 / 3.031.784
Week 15, 2020 - 292.876 / 3.324.660
Week 16, 2020 - 286.586 / 3.611.246
Week 17, 2020 - 283.913 / 3.895.159
Week 18, 2020 - 260.357 / 4.155.516
Week 19, 2020 - 194.942 / 4.350.458
Week 20, 2020 - 129.659 / 4.480.117
Week 21, 2020 - 102.553 / 4.582.670
Week 22, 2020 - 102.749 / 4.685.419


[GMB] Pokemon Gold / Silver |GameBoy/GameBoy Color/Super GameBoy| <RPG> (Nintendo) {1999.11.21} (¥3.800)

11 weeks at >100k

Week 47, 1999 - 1.425.768 / NEW
Week 48, 1999 - 438.280 / 1.864.049
Week 49, 1999 - 453.500 / 2.317.549
Week 50, 1999 - 301.003 / 2.618.551
Week 51, 1999 - 436.828 / 3.055.379
Week 52, 1999 - 573.427 / 3.628.627
Week 01, 2000 - 477.507 / 4.106.134
Week 02, 2000 - 258.734 / 4.364.868
Week 03, 2000 - 145.778 / 4.510.646
Week 04, 2000 - 144.733 / 4.655.379
Week 05, 2000 - 120.138 / 4.775.517
 
ikaben

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Oct 27, 2017
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I think it has little to do with port begging, more like criticism and ridicule.
 

klanar

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Jun 9, 2018
398
So far for switch, April is 250k shipments and May is 270k shipments when excluding 150k week shipped from last quarter. I expect about 300k(75k/wk) shipped in the next 4 weeks in June. This is a total of 820k shipments for Q1, plus covering the first week of July, it could be 900k shipped for Q1. This is with stock problems but lets see if it can reach 1M shipments.
 
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