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The UK’s weekly physical software chart became a hot topic on 5channel’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board. Marvel’s new game “Wolverine” reportedly opened at roughly three times the first-week sales of “Death Stranding 2” — but since Death Stranding 2 itself had a weak launch, down 66% from its predecessor, opinions were split on whether that was really a fair comparison. Meanwhile, the new Fire Emblem title “Fortune’s Weave” sold 26% below “Three Houses,” though some argued it was actually holding up well once you factor in the difference in console install base between the two launches.
What people said
Then why are you mixing and matching your comparisons like that? Something wrong with your brain?
Matching Switch's opening numbers while exclusive means the platform transition was a success
With the Spider-Man movie's huge success, Sony's got the upper hand in negotiations
Why'd you leave out the inconvenient part?
[60% below Spider-Man 2, and slightly below Ghost of Yōtei.] Almost 3x Death Stranding 2.
>[60% below Spider-Man 2, and slightly below Ghost of Yōtei.] Almost 3x Death Stranding 2.
Feels like a math word problem. Sony won't disclose actual sales figures, so we're stuck doing this pointless arithmetic like idiots.
Uhhh???
So if Wolverine's high-end estimate is 1.9 million, that means…?
That tells you a lot.
Wasn't Switch already past 100 million units sold by the time Engage launched?
Maybe it's the Concord curse.
It really is sad that PlayStation's future got snuffed out.
September 6, 2024 is its death anniversary, so next year, for its third-year memorial (a Buddhist rite marking the anniversary of a death), let's hold a service to calm its raging spirit and pray for consoles to keep going.
Install base went up and it's still under half the sales lol
>Almost 3x Death Stranding 2
DS2 already flopped hard in the UK, so being told this is "3x that" doesn't really mean much…
https://x.com/Chris_Dring/status/1939386768211509434
> "Death Stranding 2" topped the UK physical charts last week. Its launch sales were 66% below the original Death Stranding.
So Wolverine ≈ Death Stranding 1?
"Roman Empire" lol. Unlike Three Houses, this one's actually pretty close to the Xenoblade series in tone — there was no need whatsoever to dress it up with that historical-game veneer.
Sounds like they don't know about Three Houses' lore — the modern civilization wiped out in that world, the old humans, the leftover missiles still lying around, that kind of stuff.
Though it does seem to back up the case for cutting Kojima loose.
Judging purely by sales — they shut down Japan Studio and botched the ○/✕ confirm-button swap for the West (a long-running sore point for Japanese players), driving users away.
Still going to keep at it?
What SRPG is "broadly appealing" to begin with anyway?
If you aim for mass appeal you just end up with a game like Wolverine lol
Compared to Three Houses it's shaky.
I want to hope the digital download rate is higher now than back then, but…
Going by install base, it's actually doing better than Three Houses.
Three Houses had a lot of physical sales though.
Summon Three Houses characters via DLC! It transcends time itself lol
The physical-copy ratio is probably high.
Pretty sure it's not on one of those key cards (a card that just unlocks a download rather than holding the full game), so it saves storage space, and there's no physical voucher either.
Fortune's Weave's sales are down 26% from Three Houses
"Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave's UK launch sales (physical) are 26% below Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and broadly similar to Fire Emblem: Engage. Seems pretty decent"
That's just because the install-base gap versus the Three Houses era has shrunk, so it actually looks fairly solid to me.
Switch was at 50 million units back in the Three Houses days.
Pretty sure it was close to 45 million.
Is Engage really regarded as that much of a seller?
Three Houses was a long-tail hit that racked up numbers over time.
Engage was probably selling pretty well in its first week too.
Background and Talking Points
This kind of UK first-week data is compiled by industry watchers from GfK’s physical sales charts, and since actual unit sales aren’t publicly disclosed, posters in the thread noted that these numbers can really only be discussed as relative comparisons between titles. Death Stranding 2 already had a rough showing, down 66% from its predecessor, so stacking a “3x” comparison on top of that looks flashy — but the impression changes a lot depending on the baseline being compared against. As for the new Fire Emblem title, a 26% drop from Three Houses looks like a step back at face value, but since Switch’s install base was far smaller when Three Houses launched, opinion in the thread was split on whether a straight sales comparison is even fair. Posters also pointed to factors that don’t show up on the charts, like the ratio of physical to digital sales — which is exactly why it’s hard to draw firm conclusions from a single first-week snapshot like this.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5channel (Hardware/Industry [Geha]) thread “[Sad News] UK: “Wolverine sold 3x what DS2 did, Fortune’s Weave down 26% from Three Houses”.”
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