Weekly Famitsu Sales Thread Top 30

It's over

Nintendo won

Such a shame

switch still selling more than any other consoles

switch games still selling more than any other consoles

what happened to the boycott?

Sony became obsessed with western movie games when TLOU ps3 got so much praise

When are we going to talk more about those dirty stinking snoys and how much better and cooler we are?

U mad?

Nta but it does seem snoys are rent free in your mind all the time along with him

Why do you want tendies to make fun of you so bad?

I never mentioned snoys though?? quit projecting

How do I get a gf like this?

Someone noticed a long time ago Sony only succeeds when other companies fuck it up

I really want to play Fantasy Life but I'm holding off so I can play it on Switch 2.

PlayStation 4 – 25

sony really is scared of the ps4 being taken off the list and their crossgen games being forced to stand on their own aren't they?

2 more weeks

And that going be really fun week.

We migh actually get the report next week from Nintendo themselves like it happened with TOTK.

It's gonna be comfy playing MKW while watching this place burn down.

the con man left level 5 last year, which makes sense why level 5 is doing better now

me too anon, i just want a cart with the game

L5 is promoting fantasy life on PS tho.

really? and it only sold 10k?

[PS5] Monster Hunter Wilds (Capcom, 02/28/25) – 1,184 (812,230)

it's really not getting to 1m is it?

its not even gonna hit 850k
and i thought this was an easy 1,250,000 seller

gematsu.com/2025/05/fantasy-life-i-the-girl-who-steals-time-sales-top-500000

Dunno, but most of bulk must be switch sales.

The game is that bad?

How many more weeks until the Switch 2 numbers are up?

Isn't that the Mexican girl?

Did you know that that if you type haplogroup Q famous people you get...

According to commercial tests conducted by other members of the Jewish Oppenheimer family, the American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) belonged to haplogroup Q1b. Oppenheimer played a major role in the Manhattan Project and is considered one of the fathers of the atomic bomb.

The third person is Larry David.

see

im happy it sold 500k
level 5 needs a win

HUNGARIANS!

it lacks so much content, even worse than world

World but worse and PS5

Isn't doing great on PC either.

Do we know any Hungarian?

Borderline incomplete at launch, doubled down on more story and characters and said story and characters are lame, pitiful amount of content at launch even when compared to other games among other things.

Maybe they can, with the Switch 2 port

Relying on 3rd Parties and sheer power of hardware can only get you so far

Reminder that the Witcher 3's definitive version is the Switch one.

Do Middle Easterners know about Anon Babble? I'm kinda new here as well.

Political bait take

Correct take

Does the Switch 2 version have a cart? Or is it another keycard?

They kicked him out of the company and redid the game because playtesters hated whatever was produced first.

That would be fine per se but their modus operandi is downright stupid.

They spooked away every single A and AA developer in favor of those big and costly games. Nintendo went other way around and send devkits to ton of smaller publishers and devs.

It's up to Rise 2 on the Switch 2 to save the series in Japan now, otherwise very soon it's gonna end up like FF.

That's a good point as well.
The complete lack of single A and AA games only exacerbated the long droughts between the AAA releases.
I will also say that Nintendo was also really smart with the way they released their games and holding off releasing them until the right time

fuck, i just found out level 5 cancelled all physical release for it on the switch and switch 2 outside of japan
guess i'll buy a jap cart from playasia and pay for an upgrade

People forget that reason that PS1 and PS2 are considered great was because it had lot of options inbetween releases. Sure GTA and FF is great but then you have stuff like disgaea, ace combat and ton of other stuff that are good but don't really sell that much.

It builds audience.

For example, Nintendo had fuck all Vns on their consoles and now switch release is a must for ton of stuff, it even got stuff like Sci;adv, umineko and even Fate of all things.

They are doing this thing of supporting some types of games in one gen and throwing them away in the next since the PS2 era
Most people were ok with it because to them Sony was "growing up" with their audience but it didn't work out very well in the long run
They've been saying for decades that mascots were a thing of the past and look where Sony is now

Weeb games are more popular than ever

Sony made sure to slap them harder than before with PS5.

Anti 2d policy, forced dubbing, cockblocked ports, list is really big. Not saying that nintendo is a saint, but compared to what SIE did....

I didn't mind it too much going from the PS1, PS2, and PS3 era where Naughty Dog, Insomniac, and later Sucker Punch with others tried to make a new series for the new Playstation but with 5 just stalling on everything that isn't a port or a remake really kills the hype. I can be shown a trailer to a game and in the back of my mind it's "I either got to wait like 4-5 years from now to play this or it's going to be quietly cancelled. Even if I get to play it, would it be worth the wait?"

I'm so glad VNs moved on to nintendo to survive. My wife loves the otomate ones, currently playing cafe enchante

you kind of need a humiliation fetish to still be a sony fan these days, so it makes sense.

remember ton of anime showcasing PSP or vita if not something that looks like

Now every anime and mango console is blatantly a switch

You can even see popping in official gacha art.

youtube grifters are now claiming thr Switch 2 is always online

Why are they doing this when we are less than a week away from launch? Someone should nake a crowbcat like video comp with all the pre release misinfo and just debunk them in a month or so.

ironically enough back in the PS2 era GTA was one of the filler franchises with near yearly releases

For example, Nintendo had fuck all Vns on their consoles and now switch release is a must for ton of stuff, it even got stuff like Sci;adv, umineko and even Fate of all things.

Praise be to japanese VNs and adventure games!

You see it a lot in porn too
But serious, I remember some anon said a lot of animes shows Sony consoles because they are funded by some company Sony owns

Aniplex have near monopoly on anime publishing. The other end is Kadokawa.

That's why whole fuzz about purchase was big deal, vidya was irrelevant on subject.

i hope they never delete any of their video.
don't be cowards like when they made their 2017 switch predictions, and then deleted them

pic rel was a nigger coward that deleted the vid
what makes you think the rest won't?

Pretty sure that's a cracker.

Xbox Series S – 197 (337,333)

Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 101 (20,710)

Xbox Series X – 72 (320,528)

You know, I've seen quite a few people say that the new Xbox handheld will give the Switch 2 a hard time and like
LMAO

[NSW] FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time (LEVEL-5, 05/21/25) – 82,968 (New) (82,968)

[PS5] FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time (LEVEL-5, 05/21/25) – 10,730 (New) (10,730)

Why don't Sony fans support third party games?

Their schtick is that you shouldn't support games. Just the hardware.

You'd have to be extremely retarded to believe that any piece of handheld hardware running Windows is going to give anyone but the poor fuckers who bought it a hard time.

only if they make COD and other activision games exclusive to it

why would they play real games on their glorified giant phone? they only play gachaslop

nintendoeverything.com/microsoft-enters-10-year-commitment-to-bring-call-of-duty-to-nintendo-platforms/

They literally can't lol.

Because they're console war fags that hate the fact that people are buying the switch over their preferred platform. Spreading misinformation is all they got

Is this fantasy life game even good

no. he didn't.
He nearly killed it actually.

BotW and TotK

Noice.
Pink Chad still goin strong too.
As are Pikchads.
And Squids can't be beaten.

did nintendo even ask for this?

they moved to california and gave up making games to make antiwhite shit and put 90% of their budget on concord and the last of us

fix'd that lad.

is the Switch 2 getting all the black ops now?

keep delaying the Switch release of Fantasy Life to make it multiplat

it ends up selling best on the Switch anyway

Fucking morons

lol, no.

IT was part of Acti blizz trial, Nintendo did fuck all, but got ton of shit for free.

I gotta say there was a surprising lack of MS games at the Switch 2 direct.

Hopefully at the Jube Direct. Need them to put the MCC with split-screen coop.

They probably didn’t expect the game to do good

lol nintendo wins by doing absolutely nothing

red hair gal has a NOtSplatoon NowSwitch

Damn.
Japanese just fucking adore squids.

Is there anything legally binding that requires Microsoft to follow through with this?
Since we haven't see any CoD on the Switch.

Nintendo should cut ties with gamefreak and hire Level 5 to make Pokemon games. They already have experience from Yo-kai Watch, what could possibly go wrong?

The memes that came out of that trial were fucking great.
I need a part2
Thanks bungie. lmao.

Yes contract is legally binding, and they did for FTC trial thanks to retard ass Sony demands.

It probably wasn't valid for switch because it would require immediate effort, but now clock is ticking.

Probably a combination of just too insanely difficult to put on Switch 1 but with BO6 still on fucking PS4 and Xbone, putting it on Switch 2 probably isn't that much of a Herculean effort.

Honestly I'd rather just have the legacy CODs to rerun the campaigns.

im so pissed that they didn't allow for it to be recorded. I fucking laugh so hard at all the dumb shit the FTC said on behalf of sony. fucking "ultra luxury console market"

what could possibly go wrong?

Lawsuits for one.
Due to how the Pokemon IP is owned you quite literally can not cut out Gamefreak or The Pokemon Company.
Nintendo would need to buy out both...and that's like 2.5-5bil.
It's literally not worth it in any universe.
There's no real way to fix the Pokemon IP. Just give up. Move on.

I'd rather just have the legacy CODs to rerun the campaigns.

That would be nice. I'd love to play the older campaigns on the switch 2.

They literally can't due how IP and pokemon company is setup.

Too late for that, bandai at least gobbled whole thing when Digimon started to get big, or at least 90% due vjump fuckery.

The LobCorp remake will be released on switch 2 thanks to its mouse mode, trust.

I hope we get a Time Stranger Switch 2 port announcement sooner than later

nvidia got arsed to port Portal 2 to switch

Orange box had shield port but didn't got released on Switch despite using same hardware

Sure, valve fixed lot of shit with then recent update, but still weird.I would prefer L4D2 port, current playerbase is ass.

Are the ports any good?

youtube.com/watch?v=h7ZzVDahhQU

Yep, it run good, a little better than deck. Source is really optimized and Nvidia know their shit.

No issues as far as I did recall. Portal 2 on Switch doesn't have the level editor section however, but the port is an easier way to play splitscreen co-op on the other hand.

Home consoles had been on the downturn in Japan for a long time. Since the 7th console gen. So, abandoning handhelds was strike one. Strike two was introducing new content policies in 2018 focused on censoring Japanese games. This included some very anti-Japanese measures like requiring the entire content review progress to be done in English regardless of where you're actually releasing the game.

Strike three was the PS5. It's like the machine was made to spite the Japanese market. On top of being ungodly huge and awkwardly shaped making space conscious setups difficult, they also removed the option to use the control scheme the Japanese have used for the entirety of Playstation's life. If you've ever imported a Japanese game and found yourself mixing up O and X, well, imagine that's every game and Sony just tells you to suck it up and deal with it.

I would prefer L4D2 port

Valve pulled L4D1 and 2 from xbox store along with orange box and other stuff. I wonder why

How long till stellar blade port, that would be really funny when it happens.

introducing new content policies in 2018 focused on censoring Japanese games.

Genuinely no idea what they got out of this.

It won them the Western market.

The problem is that all three console manufacturers are trying to do this now. II's why some people thinkit might be because of the credit card companies and banks forcing their hand.

Western market only play fifa and fortnight.

That comes from their own data.

all three console manufacturers are trying to do this now.

A literal porn game released in Japan on the switch a week ago. If Nintendo's doing it it's expressly to comply with some kind of western guideline.

If Nintendo's doing it it's expressly to comply with some kind of western guideline.

It's why I brought up credit card companies and banks. It's all incredibly inconsistent and just shows someone can be shit out of luck one time and then succeed without issue the next time.

Eh, it's not home consoles that's been on the downturn, but Playstation.
Xbox never mattered in Japan, but Wii pulled respectable numbers and rebounded from GameCube while PS3 massively declined.
Then we have Wii U that was a failure WW, but PS4 still declined further despite being a success everywhere else. Despite being a massive failures 22% of Wii U owners were Japanese, but for the successful PS4 it was only 7%.
The so called "death of home consoles in Japan" is just Playstation dying in the country because of the shift to CINEMATIC EXPERIENCES during gen 7.
It can't be blamed on the form factor when there's only one data point. Wii U and Xbox One didn't fail in Japan because they were home consoles.

They didn't beat Xbox using Fifa and Fortnite which was on both platforms, they beat Xbox by having better Western exclusives which they invested in both financially and morally, which was what resonated with the Americans and Europeans. They knew Sony was one of us.

Unfortunately they irreparably ruined the western gaming industry by doing that, but at least the last of us had the heartwarming cinematic story.

They ruined nothing, they only catered to the tastes of the majority of the English-speaking world. 6 billion people vs 100 million Japanese, which is more important?

Kind of like how Nintendo is beating them both now because they actually have exclusives worth a damn and gets most if the games worth playing on any of the consoles.

Eh, it's not home consoles that's been on the downturn, but Playstation.

No, it was home consoles. PSP blew far past either PS3's or Wii's numbers. And while the Wii had stronger hardware sales in Japan, PS3's software sales were much better. Of course, the DS kicked all of their asses in sales. It was common knowledge that Japan was leaning more and more towards handhelds and what we see today is the result of that.

They ruined nothing

Only company to ever shutter a studio 2 weeks after their game released btw.

which is more important?

Those 6 billion don't buy games but MTX, so I guess you can make far more money from the japanese.

The jmJapanese, considering the West isn't buying games anymore.

Japan was leaning more and more towards handhelds

The Wii U had a better attach rate than the PS4 in Japan btw.

nintendo japan intentionally decoupled NoA from themselves and then cut off ties further by banning the use of gaijin (((credit cards))) on the japanese eshop
and then tripled down by doing mass firings on NoA leaving them as a skeleton crew, the western side of nintendo is pretty much a yatch with broken engines in the middle of international seas now

Wrong, every company is now seeking to pivot to the West
automaton-media.com/en/news/like-a-dragon-pirate-yakuza-in-hawaii-is-selling-better-overseas-than-in-japan-which-hasnt-been-the-case-for-past-games-in-the-series

I wonder why NoE is (generally) more in contact with NCL while NoA has this weird adversarial relationship. I always think back at the original release of xenoblade.

Game fails in Japan because it's basically Piss5 exclusive

UHM THEY'RE SEEKING A MOVE TO THE WEST

6/10

Shame that the pre-orders for the Switch 2 in Japan capped out at 60k. It's not looking good for the system over there at all

Got a source for that, anon? I'm looking at Media Create's numbers from 2016. Wii U's hardware LTD wasn't that far behind PS4's but PS4's software sales just for that year were quadruple Wii U's. And that was basically the last year of the Wii U's life while the PS4 got a second wind from MHW.

Ironically enough pirates was the game where RGG both backpedaled from their "we don't localize, we censor the original too for parity" declaration (we are back to almost no JP original audio matching the EN subs, unlike the previous game) but also when the franchise in general fully changed course back to making a game for japan first.

Americans always had that weird ass butthurt with japan in general.

Notice how europe or even south america is more welcoming to their culture than anglosphere.

Check the medians

Why would you look after all of the WiiU's major titles came out?

mihomo announced Genshin

Switch 2 came and still nothing out of it.

What's the best way to play Fantasy Life I? Switch? Ps5 using ps portal? Steam deck?

Because Europeans in general don't have an irrational hate for Japan while a good chunk of American identity comes from nuking Japan twice (thrice if you count the Plaza accords)

a surprising amount of americans are STILL triggered by pearl harbor

kikes

Dokev finally getting news.

PC or switch 2 in a week.

Grim for the Japanese console market. Mobile dominates once again.

If you loved world or mh4, then you'll love it, it's spiritual successor to them.
If you liked classic style monster hunter like gu, rise. Then not
Also ps5 isn't very popular in japan

Fate Collab boost

Adding a global passive for paypigs boost

Chinese multiplier

Still will be BTFOd by Mario Kart's day one sales

You will never be a real game.

Still posting those chink ass numbers when Pokemon and FGO obliterate everything.

combined

kek, chinkoids really are pathetic
hilarious they still had to do that after finally reaching x10 for chink games and a x0.5 nerf for JP ones

wilds is the spiritual successor to world or mh4

classic style monster hunter like gu, rise

i think you mixed up mh4 and rise,

If you loved world or mh4, then you'll love it, it's spiritual successor to them.

????? What, also Rise is so much better than Wilds it's not even funny. At least it does the monster fighter meme well.

Fate collab hasnt even started yet tho

How the fuck does the Gundam Seed game have high sales?
Even for it's time (and on the Vita) it was a cashgrab.

Kira "Jesus" Yamato

New gundam is airing

Do the math.

Are you retarded or actually pretending?
4, World, Wilds
Forced story that you need to go through(4 was the first time monster hunter actually forced people to do caravan quests to unlock hub endgame)
Big focus on "choosen one" storytelling, with player being destined hero to change the corrupt world, instead of just a hunter who's good at his job
Forced cinematic shit in the middle of hunts

Wilds is spiritual successor to 4 and world, just like world was a 4 2.0
Main mh team has very obvious preferences when it comes to how they design their games.

First we've got software data for the Wii U's first two years on the market, 2012 and 2013:

776580

1,978,062

Now for 2014, 2015, and 2016.
Wii U:

2.826.564

3.926.000

2.206.047

PS4:

2.441.876

5.114.598

8.672.086

Now let's look at hardware sales. Again, 2014, 2015, and 2016. All LTD.
Wii U:

2.123.283

3.020.662

3.313.209

PS4:

925.570

2.301.077

4.100.667

Now let's start adding software sales and compare.
First, let's add Wii U's 2012, 2013, and 2014 numbers together. You get:

5,581,206

Compared to LTD hardware sales in 2014, that's about, what, a 2.5 attach rate? PS4 roughly on par for its first year of sales.

Okay, let's add in 2015's numbers.
Wii U:

9,507,206

Okay, that's a roughly 3 to 1 attach rate there.

PS4:

7,556,474

Once again we see a 3 to 1 attach rate, give or take.

Finally, let's add in 2016's software sales.
Wii U:
11,713,253
A fair bit shy of 4 to 1, and the only reason it got that close was because hardware sales fell off like a rock.

PS4:

16,228,560

Narrowly missing that 4 to 1 attach rate again, but at this point it's surpassed the Wii U by every other metric.

So there doesn't appear to be any point in their life as competitors where the attach rate for Wii U was higher than PS4. Except maybe by the tiniest of margins that I couldn't be bothered to calculate.

I figured it'd be a relatively strong year for either platform, but clearly I should have chosen 2015 instead. Would have still demonstrated my point.

And Vita bombed spectacularly.
Almost as if there's something else at play here other than form factor. (Hint: PSP had Monster Hunter, Vita didn't)

It was common knowledge that Japan was leaning more and more towards handhelds

No, it was common Snoy cope without any ground in reality. "Nips just don't like home consoles! It's not Sony's fault!".
Same shit happened with "Nips live in hamster cages they have no space for a home console!".
Cope regurgitated ad nauseam so much many people started to believe it.

And Vita bombed spectacularly.

The Vita had a strong niche in Japan and for the first couple of years the PS4 had to struggle to keep up in sales. Don't get me wrong, it was still a massive flop compared to the PSP but the fact that PS4 struggled against it initially speaks for itself.

No, it was common Snoy cope without any ground in reality.

Explain why the PSP sold more than the Wii in Japan then.

The official word for the gaijin credit card ban was because of exchange rates (which makes sense considering even Japanese versions of games have multiple languages built into them so you could save a pretty penny buying from the JP eShop).

I just wish they'd let us buy nintendo points from the JP eShop instead of having to buy them from third party websites (amazon doesn't sell JP eShop cards outside of Japan either).

Nintendo consoles have reputation of being for woman and kids, while PS is a console for grown ups and otaku.

AC and pokemon being the biggest seller don't help but Sony capitalized on that for quite a while, and allowed publisher do retard ass small batches while Nintendo asked for something like 50k.

A literal porn game released in Japan on the switch a week ago

Which one?

They could've had ZZZ launch with 2.0 on Switch 2

Problem is that mihoyo burned bridges hard, not mention fatigue from community.

It can boost numbers but nothing really significant, other gacha might have better chance.

So there doesn't appear to be any point in their life as competitors where the attach rate for Wii U was higher than PS4

You can't even read your own statistics

You are acting like that wasn't because they paid every reviewer and their mother to shill it a 10000/10

Yeah pretty much.
No one makes games like nintendo and I'm too poor to afford a switch 2
So please can you spare a link

Okay, anon, just to make sure I had everything right I decided to calculate the attach rate.

For 2014, both consoles had an attach rate of 2.6. Rounded down, with PS4 edging out Wii U by a very slight margin that doesn't even matter. So that's 2.6 in 2014.

In 2015, the attach rate is 3.1 rounded down for Wii U and 3.2 rounded down for PS4.

And lastly in 2016 the attach rate is 3.5 rounded down for Wii U and 3.9 rounded down for PS4. All the numbers are sourced from Media Create's yearly reports. Can you tell me where I'm wrong? I openly admit I'm not the greatest in math, so if you can show me where I'm wrong you'll probably get a concession out of me.

link please

it's spiritual successor to them

lol yeah, okay. It's about as much of a spiritual successor as piss in cornflakes is to milk.

Still no link

Xhe is having another meltdown

Xhe might actually kill xherself when the switch 2 emulator releases

anymore

There was a point where anyone cared?

Sony is still "growing up with its audience", that's why they are on their deathbed right now

Nips didn't take to waggle and Wii had to compete with DS.
PSP was the only good Playstation platform at the time and thats where MH blew up. It also received tons of games from beloved (at the time franchises) like exclusive Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Metal Gear Solid + remasters of cult classics like Tactics Ogre.

you are mentally ì'll

PS3 had mainline Final Fantasy which was still a draw when XIII released and quickly signaled the franchise's ruination. PS3 also had MGS4. Remasters and ports are not system sellers, if you've been paying attention to these charts at all they sell significantly worse than the original release.

PSP had a great library, I will not contest that, but PS3 had a better one by the end of its life. PSP still outsold it in Japan, though... because it's portable. Portables are more compatible with the Japanese lifestyle. Whether you're a respectable participant in society getting your gaming done in-between schooling/work, or some shut-in otaku with little space for a full console and display. Handhelds are just more accommodating for a busy and space conscious culture like Japan.

"growing up with its audience"

I never understood this mentality. The audience you have are going to die or abandon you, so why go into the grave WITH them?

Reminder that during that trial, the judge proclaimed Nintendo as the undisputed market leader and PC was deemed to be the "Ultra Luxury" option.

Because Sony's own audience mindbroke them into doing it

Probably the japanese given how much the western industry has been crashing in the past few years

PSP also had a far larger library games that did appeal to the Japanese (between JRPGs, visual novels including otome, etc.) in addition of being able to play many PS1 games as eboots from the PSN. Having all of that into a portable console made it attractive, but westerners believe that only the form factor matters there. Not the games somehow.
Much like the same westerners simply ignore that the Switch is also a home console, since it's a hybrid, and there have been a bunch of titles successful in Japan that were focused on home use.

You might as well as stop trying to act you know anything about Japan before embarrassing yourself further

Americans think that they are in charge no matter what. NoA is populated by what is essentially the corporate version of Dobson. Nintendo is clearly an american company, and it must bow to american standards. Western Euros minus the brits are massive weebs so their leadership wants japanese games.

retard

yeah, you are

People who were too young or didn't have one can't realize how good was PSP.
I tried to play mine but it become a brick. :(

Borderline incomplete at launch

Borderline

It was objectively incomplete at launch. The amount of shit in the first update that every previous game had at release and was blatantly just held back to pad out the lacking post-launch content was ridiculous, and I dread to think how barren future updates will be if they had to do that for the very first one.

No one said the games didn't matter retard, the PS3 was also full of games that appealed to Japan. The PSP edged it out by being a handheld.

Much like the same westerners simply ignore that the Switch is also a home console, since it's a hybrid

And see, this cope is the only reason you're even arguing against what's been common knowledge for over 15 years now. You can't concede that for all intents and purposes, the Switch is a handheld. You can toss out the dock and enjoy it exclusively as a handheld for its entire life. They even sell a model that can't dock at all. But for some reason there are people who want to deny that the Switch is a handheld, just so they can claim Nintendo abandoned handhelds, when in fact it's the exact opposite where Nintendo consolidated their whole platform into the most consistently successful niche they've had. Mother fucking handhelds.

PS3 was expensive to buy, expensive to develop for and it took ages for those games to come out. The sheer breadth of releases on PSP mogged PS3. Tons of devs moved from PS2 to PSP because PS3 budgets were too big for them.

Portables are more compatible with the Japanese lifestyle

Now you are regurgitating another Snoy cope made up by people whose closest connection to Japan is eating Korean instant ramen.
If there are games nips want to play they will buy the system no matter the form factor.
That's why Wii U has disproportionate Japanese userbase in Japan compared to PS4. That's why Splatoon sold 1.5 million units on 3.2 million Wii Us. You couldn't play it on a train, btw.

The onyl reason I say Wilds wasn't imcomplete and just barebones instead is because when Rise released its story wasn't even finished.
Granted there was reasons for this like Covid but at least in Wilds the story was concluded.

But for some reason there are people who want to deny that the Switch is a handheld, just so they can claim Nintendo abandoned handhelds, when in fact it's the exact opposite where Nintendo consolidated their whole platform into the most consistently successful niche they've had. Mother fucking handhelds.

What? No one ever said that? It's the opposite in fact. People keep insisting it's just "handheld with TV out" while missing that it's both. It's a hybrid. That's why it outsold DS in Japan. It appeals to both audiences.

They even sell a model that can't dock at all

Worst selling model in Japan by far, btw. Funny how it turns out, eh?

That's why Wii U has disproportionate Japanese userbase in Japan compared to PS4

3.3m lifetime sales is still flop territory for a console. Even the Vita did better than that. Clearly your argument that Japan will eat up whatever they like regardless of form factor is wrong.

That's why Splatoon sold 1.5 million units on 3.2 million Wii Us.

So it appealed enough to Japan that nearly half the people who bought a Wii U bought Splatoon. That doesn't change the fact that the hardware flopped. Everyone else waited for a platform more attractive to them, like the Switch.

Worst selling model in Japan by far, btw. Funny how it turns out, eh?

The dockable Switch models have better battery life than the lite, so that's possibly a factor. Consumers also generally prefer having the option to dock, and a docked Switch's footprint isn't very large to begin with. According to Nintendo, handheld mode is the preferred way to play by a small margin.

the PS3 was also full of games that appealed to Japan. The PSP edged it out by being a handheld.

PS3 was also stupidly expensive in Japan back when it first released, for 59,980円 (in 2006) until the Slim version came out at 29,980円 in 2009.
Meanwhile, both the PSP-1000 and 2000 were priced around 20,000円, the DS Lite at 16,800円 . The choice for anyone on budget was clear.

You can't concede that for all intents and purposes, the Switch is a handheld. You can toss out the dock and enjoy it exclusively as a handheld for its entire life.

It's both a home console and portable console, and the reverse use is also true where you can never (or rarely) use the console as a handheld.

Like I said, you should posting before embarrassing yourself further with your false ideas of portable consoles and Japan.

[NSW] The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (Aniplex, 04/24/25) – 1,011 (31,492)

I'm surprised that this didn't do better, Raincode had a pretty great launch.

Shouldn't have censored the switch version then

The switch has been declining for over a month now.......

Almost like there is a new system coming out....

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Battle Destiny Remastered

Completely forgot about this one, damn. #2 in charts? Did Breakers 4 sale that much? It dropped harder than anything I've ever seen, with only a hundred players on Steam.

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

Did it flop even for its own expectations?

[NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition (Nintendo, 03/20/25) – 866 (113,492)

It stayed in the top 30 more time that i would imagined, but i doubt it could kept hanging next week or the one after

866

top 30

physical sales are starting to be embarrasing

Even mobile is better

1. [NSW] Gundam Breaker 4 – 52,825 / NEW

3. [PS5] Gundam Breaker 4 – 32,518 / NEW

6. [PS4] Gundam Breaker 4 – 13,175 / NEW

It did good numbers

Gee, you'd almost think people were holding out for a new major console release or something!

Is funny how the second best rated game on the PSP is an Nintendo DS game
I loved GTA Chinatown Wars