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ILLUMINATION’s Super Real Mahjong: Venus Returns topped Japan’s domestic Steam sales chart for a 5th consecutive day as of September 1, according to a report by gamebiz.jp, sparking discussion on 5channel’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board. While some expressed surprise that a mahjong-themed title could keep selling this well, opinions split over its modest 49th-place global ranking — some called it proof of how small the Japanese market is, while others argued it simply reflects a lack of competition from other titles.
As of 9:54 AM on September 1, ILLUMINATION’s Super Real Mahjong: Venus Returns holds the #1 spot on the domestic Steam sales chart — its 5th straight day at the top. While hard sales data is limited, this could arguably be one of the standout success stories in the industry’s long history.
Source: gamebiz.jp / Original article here
What people said
Fair enough.
Though I have no idea why you'd strip while playing mahjong in the first place.
If this ever came out on PS, they'd cover the whole thing in mysterious light and fog (a jab at Sony's censorship policies).
Here we go again, hyping up the Vita's specs with no limit (lol)
Apparently the clothes and the way the hair moves during the strip scenes aren't motion-capture — it's all hand-animated. A 3D designer on X was completely floored by it.
It's simply that nothing else is selling, that's all.
Feels like she's been turned into a proper, wholesome iM@S-style idol now (a pun on 真, "true/proper," implying she lost her edge).
There's an auto mode — you can clear it just by watching, so don't worry.
Just get one pair and four triplets and you're good (rough version).
Learn the yaku called tanyao and just keep calling tiles nonstop — you'll win.
#1 in Japan but #49 globally…
Really shows how small Japan's Steam market is.
I think it just means Japan and the rest of the world want different things. It's mahjong, after all.
Meaning there's still plenty of room for it to catch on elsewhere.
If anything, the fact that something like this stays at #1 just shows how garbage the Japanese market is.
Don't you dare mock the mahjong that Naoki Yoshida proudly added to FF14…
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It just means a wide variety of games are selling. It doesn't have to be only big titles — if enough small ones sell, that adds up to an even bigger market.
No, it's simply that nothing's selling — this is #1, after all.
From where I sit, console (CS) looks like a market where only famous titles sell and everything else struggles to get noticed.
That market isn't limited to Japan though.
DLsite > Steam
Do you even know how many copies this game has actually sold?
And there aren't any major blockbusters releasing right now anyway — what would satisfy you as a #1?
Probably around 10,000 units worldwide?
No way that's true.
The problem is that such a trashy game is sitting at #1 in the Japanese market.
You were the one raging since launch day about how badly you wanted to play it, saying this is exactly the game PSVR2 needed.
Background and key points of the discussion
Steam’s domestic sales charts don’t publish actual unit-sales figures, so the “roughly 10,000 units worldwide” number floated in the thread is a user estimate, not official data. Opinions in the thread split over why a #1 domestic ranking translates to only 49th place globally: some saw it as evidence that the Japanese market is small, while others argued it simply means nothing else is selling well, or that different countries want different genres. Worth noting: strip-mahjong games are a long-established genre in Japan but largely unfamiliar overseas, so the ranking gap alone doesn’t straightforwardly reflect relative market size — a nuance readers may easily miss. This article also omits some exchanges involving sexual content and age-related remarks.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “[Steam (9/1)] ‘Super Real Mahjong VR’ takes #1 for the 5th straight day!!“
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