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On 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board, the update to Famitsu’s game software sales ranking Top 30 became a hot topic. The focus was the multiplatform showdown for ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms 14’ — despite there being no Switch 2 version of the game, the original Switch version outsold the PS5 version. Other points raised included how the Switch port of ‘Metal Gear’ (including older entries) has outsold the PS5 version in cumulative totals, and the discussion kept circling back — as it does almost every week — to PS5 software underperforming.
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And one of them's barely hanging on at #30, the other's a total flop
Next week two will probably drop off and two new ones will come in, so we'll be back to 27-3 again
Well, Entergram has basically pulled out of PlayStation at this point
Apparently that second one got burned pretty badly — the art book bundled with the limited edition was 'missing' from just the PS4 version
They ended up doing this weird thing where it shipped in separate boxes, like some three-part delivery method
Not clear whether Sony even nitpicks what goes inside limited editions
Ah, this is about an eroge (adult game) port
Actually, doesn't Giga not do ports anymore?
The ones doing ports these days are Domiru's 'Ares' and… what was the other one again…
HOOK also recently set up their own in-house porting label
Switch wins
Somehow blew right past the handicap of not even having a Switch 2 version
Honestly, that's kind of hilarious
PS5 just keeps limbo-ing under a bar that's already on the floor
PS5: 15,732 units
Switch 1+2: 17,662 units (didn't chart this week; figure's through last week)
If action is all you need, I'd recommend 'Totsu Raba,' which sold like crazy this year
The writer's a light novel author so it's got that kind of vibe
If you want robots though, that's tough
Horror, fantasy, and pure-love titles come out steadily, but robot games are basically nonexistent
'Trash-tation' (a mocking nickname for PlayStation) just can't sell software
Switch has 38 million units out there in the wild and it can still only sell this much?
Then why do you keep showing up here every week?
Can't help it, it's just the truth lol
Yeah, I get checking once every six months and going 'yep, still not selling,' but I don't get what saying the same thing every single week accomplishes
Must be rough having reality pointed out to you week after week lol
Isn't the real problem that it's not selling every single week, though?
Honestly it should just fully withdraw the way Vita already did
What first-party titles are even left besides 'Space Baldy'? Was there anything else?
Saros: 'Yeah, fair'
That's selling worse than Saros, which only moved 4,400 units despite a 7-million-unit install base
Toukon: 'True that'
There's no map expansions like Genshin keeps getting, so that's just not happening lol
Given the licensing costs and development scale it's clearly running at a loss, but hey, I'm happy about it anyway!
Wouldn't you still be happy to win even against a third-party 'complete edition' title?
From here on out, it's PlayStation's turn
You always say that, but… starting when, exactly?
So is nobody actually buying it after all?
Stock shortage
This is exactly why missed sales opportunities suck
Looking back later, you can't tell if it was really a shortage or not — it just ends up looking like a game with a front-loaded launch
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Famitsu’s software sales ranking is based on physical sell-through figures compiled from POS data at major retailers nationwide, and does not include digital download sales. Because of this, platforms with a higher proportion of digital sales tend to show smaller numbers on the ranking than their actual total sales. It’s also worth noting that the case discussed in the thread — where the Switch versions of ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms 14’ and ‘Metal Gear’ outsold their PS5 counterparts — is based on cumulative totals including older releases, not a figure reflecting the new title’s momentum on its own. On the Hardware/Industry (Geha) board, debates over which platform comes out on top using this weekly ranking as ammunition have become a regular fixture, and this thread followed that same familiar pattern.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “[10/18] Famitsu Top 30 Update.”
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