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An estimate claiming that the PS5 version of “Marvel’s Wolverine” has sold 1.9 million copies worldwide became a hot topic in a 5ch gaming thread. However, the figure wasn’t officially announced by Sony or any other official source — it came from an estimate by the overseas market analysis firm Alinea Analytics, prompting a wave of skepticism in the thread along the lines of “Wait, this isn’t even an official announcement?” Comparisons were drawn to actual sales figures for the Spider-Man series, Death Stranding 2, and Fire Emblem Engage, with opinions split on whether 1.9 million was a solid showing or a disappointing one. The thread also spun off into a cultural debate over how the comparison image ordered the titles (whether to read left-to-right or right-to-left).
What people said
It's not fabricated —
https://doope.jp/2026/09170941.html
The source… this isn't even an official announcement, is it? lol
It's just an estimate.
That image is probably AI-generated.
Alinea Analytics is probably the most reliable firm out there for this kind of thing.
This source has the image, check it out.
Who even reads Hachima (a gaming blog known for clickbait)? Trash site.
But that's basically the same as Spider-Man's numbers?
People who've actually played it are rating it highly — this could be a GOTY contender.
Normally you'd arrange these in release order — Spider-Man on the left, Wolverine on the far right, right?
Are you maybe not Japanese?
Japan has a right-to-left reading culture, you know.
When you sort manga or documents in numerical order, do you actually arrange them right to left?
If it's supposed to be read right to left, then the scores and titles should've been edited to read right to left too.
FE 3±○・(I doubt it actually sold 1.9 million worldwide lol)
Why are you even comparing it to FE?
Wolverine's a $300 million AAA title, isn't it?
Slapping an "ONLY ON" label on a garbage game like this is hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
Bet it stung that PHYSINT — the culmination of the legendary Kojima's career — got hit with "ONLY ON XBOX," huh? lmaooo
Death Stranding 2 only sold 1.8 million, but PHYSINT's gonna sell 1.9 million in 3 days? lol
What would it even take to get this done right?
Expecting "Old Man Distribution" (a poster notorious for obsessing over shipment numbers) to actually learn anything is a waste of time.
Did you actually buy Wolverine?
Be honest.
https://imgu.jp/i/028c4915sO.jpeg
Does this actually prove you bought it?
I don't know the first thing about PlayStation stuff, so I can't tell if it's fake.
Though 9s are starting to show up more now too.
After the last "10-point purge," more people are dodging it by shaving off just 1-2 points instead.
Classic Sony. Same company that let a firm estimate 22 million PS Vita units sold, then quietly revised it down to 5 million after pulling the console from the market.
Similar stuff's happening overseas too, so this really does feel off.
Even Engage sold about that much, so it should be fine.
Lifetime sales will easily clear 6 million, you know.
Still pretty pathetic though, lol
Easily in the red, lol
Background and Key Points of the Debate
In recent years, Sony has often declined to officially announce individual sales figures even for its flagship titles, and this time’s “1.9 million” figure — sourced from an overseas market analysis firm rather than Sony itself — became the main point of contention in the thread. Since analysis firms estimate sales based on public data and retail sales trends, there’s inherent room for calculation error or agenda, and the distrust in the thread was fueled by a past example that came up repeatedly: Sony’s initial estimate of 22 million PS Vita units sold, which was quietly revised down to 5 million after the console was discontinued. The comparisons to Spider-Man and Death Stranding 2 are also estimate-versus-estimate matchups, and it’s worth noting that none of these figures can be treated as official proof of sales. The debate over the left-right ordering in the comparison image stemmed from the cultural difference between Japanese manga’s right-to-left reading direction and the Western convention of arranging things left to right — a topic that heated up independently of the actual sales numbers themselves.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “[BREAKING] “Marvel’s Wolverine” PS5 Version Reportedly Sells 1.9 Million Units.”
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