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NPD September 2019: NBA 2K20 #1, already #1 year-to-date, Borderlands 3 #2, Link's Awakening #4, Gears 5 #7, Code Vein #8
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I'm glad we cleared that up. Perhaps in future don't try to frame it as only bundles doing the work when it's clearly not just a bundle effect at play.
he's positively jumping for joy going by his / her posts
A year ago a lot of press with Game Pass helping exclusive to sell more like Sea of Thieves and State of Decay, now the game is selling shit because of Game Pass. What the change now?
The "excuse" would be Nintendo having paid for that content, not Squareenix. Which, at least for the music, is almost certainly the case. That'd be a lawsuit and a half.
Ah thanks for that, I hadn't realized the 19th ranking we got was just for September. That paints a much more decent picture in terms of digital sales.
I'm not. Not only is it a tactics RPG that released in July, but I imagine its sales drift more heavily digital as time passes.
5M+ in the west? Persona 5, Xenoblade 2 and Fire Emblem had good sales, maybe even very good sales for an AAA, but they weren't in the top 10 best selling game and probably won't ever be in this list (FF XV was 10th in 2016 and Final Fantasy VII Remake will probably be in the top 5 in 2020).
I wouldn't describe Pokémon as a "JRPG".
Uh... Well what else would it be? It's literally exactly that....
you claim it's a 'bad debut' and have been trying really hard to spin this as a franchise decline in this conversation. It may fit your narrative to ignore the effect of Gamepass, but it doesn't make any logical sense when this effect was expected and welcomed by MS.
I thought we knew that sales outside of Japan were ~400k at some point last Fall. Considering it was a front loaded JRPG it likely isn't much more than that now. 500k seems like a fair estimate.
And that includes Asia, so Western sales are likely even less.
Pity that Nintendo wont share download sales.
Any info regarding how much Daemon X Machina and Dragon Quest XI S sold by the way? Too bad about Control as well.
Good news about Borderlands, Link's Awakening and Code Vein at least :)
Any info regarding how much Daemon X Machina and Dragon Quest XI S sold by the way? Too bad about Control as well.
Good news about Borderlands, Link's Awakening and Code Vein at least :)
It's a party game like Mario Kart, Smash, Fire Emblem and literally every Nintendo game ever.
No we've never known anything other than 4m shipment after two months of the western release and retail sales in Japan of 3,089,164. That's it.
I don't know. A creature battle game? We say some games are "Pokémon-like" (Yo-Kai Watch, Dragon Quest Monsters), so for me it's more its own genre than a regular JRPG.
I can't find it now but people were throwing around 400k and 500k for sales outside of Japan for DQXI for months now. I thought that came from somewhere official.
considering that number also includes non-japanese asian sales, 400-500K is a good estimate for western sales on PS4/PC.
Gotcha, that makes sense. Still an estimate of course, but it's better than nothing.
They have no idea what they're talking about.
Also the post below yours includes Famitsu digital estimates which is hilarious considering he just said "famitsu digital estimates are pulled out of someone's ass" XD
Don't trust people who have an agenda.
that, and catherine was tracked for 33 days VS DQ11 for 9 days.
still, a pretty bad result for dragon quest in the end.
And no Steam figures.
It probably did alright.
But I would like player figures, Gamepass makes sales figures less impactful, I'm a big fan and played it on both X and PC but didn't pay a cent for it.
yep :(
personally i felt like 11S had so much going for it (switch being a popular new-ish platform with good RPG base, the game getting a ton of marketing in the west by nintendo, hero getting into smash, etc), turns out that didn't matter that much in the end. at this point, i'd be happy if we don't go back to the 3DS days were the localizations were up in the air and SE couldn't be bothered. as long as the games get localized, i'm happy. maybe it's destined to stay a semi-niche series in the west :(
XIS had the highest chances of succeeding in the West out of all the DQ games.
I think this is as high as it goes
It's the first physical Switch game I've bought since the console launched. I'd say it has a pretty decent chance to chart.
To clarify, Nintendo will only report DQXI sales if the total is above one million, and only if it reaches that number before March 31st 2020.
they also occasionally report numbers under 1 million if it's interesting info (they did for bayo 1+2 on switch), but it's likely that they won't give numbers for DQ for a while.
Everyone says this is bad for Gears, but like this is a huge factor to put in. People are still buying this game regardless
Such a shame about DQ XI, if there is one late Switch port that deserved to do well, this was it. Unlike Doom, Skyrim and the rest, this isn't just a simple port, Square Enix really went the extra mile to improve the game substantially and make the wait worth it. I really don't understand this bad performance. Wasn't Octopath Traveller 1st place in its first month? You'd think there'd be a large market for traditional JRPGs on the Switch. Hopefully it did better in Europe.
It's a shame this isn't counting japanese sales because S-E is publishing it themselves, because it really would need it to reach one million :(