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The story
A new title on Nintendo Switch, ‘Chameleon,’ has caused a stir after landing at No. 3 on the revenue-based sales chart despite costing just 630 yen (about $4). Some in the thread praised it as ‘another Nintendo-born hit, following Minecraft, Suika Game, and Exit 8,’ while others pointed out that official figures put worldwide sales at only 100,000 units, sparking debate over whether it really deserves to be called a ‘massive viral hit.’ There were also posts that mixed up PC (Steam) numbers with Switch numbers, with bold claims of ‘1 million concurrent players’ quickly getting corrected.
What people said
Why couldn't they get from Splatoon to a hide-and-seek concept?
Nintendo gets to skip the development effort and still rake in the profit — perfect for them.
Is this really a game Nintendo needed to make, though?
So in the end we're stuck playing the knockoff version?
LOL, 'Chameleon' is basically made of prefab assets 🤪
Nintendo was the one who made all of them blow up, wasn't it?
What does PlayStation even have?
They made a Zelda ripoff popular, though.
Such shabby graphics lol
So blocky/pixelated lmaooo
A game that isn't even 4K these days? My eyes are rotting.
Go play some basketball outside for once. (5ch slang for 'go touch grass')
That says it all.
Did something happen?
I think we're past 'did something happen' and into 'something already happened'
There's just too much bad news lately.
are about on par with Switch 2 console sales.
Well, compared to PC it's a pretty tiny market.
Unlike the free-to-play charts, actual money's changing hands here, nice.
No wonder the market's heating up and more people are ditching PlayStation.
Say what you will, but Switch 2 is starting to outsell now.
The transition [to Switch 2] is going smoothly.
If Elden Ring sold 20,000 downloads,
then Chameleon sold 300,000 downloads.
But the official announcement caps worldwide sales at just 100,000.
It only hit No. 3 because nothing else is selling.
Guess that just exposed how weak this sales chart really is.
Only 100,000 sold worldwide, though?
How do you get to 1 million concurrent players from that?
You're seriously underestimating Nintendo.
Can you even read the numbers?
That's the PC version.
Here's the Switch version's numbers.
You can clearly tell the boom already died down.
Compared to PC, the Switch 2 market is pathetically tiny lol
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Switch software sales charts come in two types: unit-based and revenue (price)-based. This time it was the latter that sparked discussion. A low-priced title landing near the top of a revenue-based chart doesn’t necessarily mean explosive unit sales — there’s a structural quirk where rankings climb more easily during periods when few high-priced, major titles are competing. As one thread comment pointed out, ‘it only hit No. 3 because nothing else is selling,’ so chart position shouldn’t be conflated with actual sales volume or genuine buzz. Several posts also mixed up concurrent-player counts and sales figures between the PC (Steam) version and the Switch version — a common source of confusion worth keeping in mind whenever these ‘viral hit’ stories circulate across platforms.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, ‘Geha’) thread “Nintendo’s Chameleon is a massive hit! Surprisingly deep gameplay for just 500 yen“.
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