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A thread went up on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board after someone posted an image claiming a certain title had surpassed 1.7 million copies sold. Commenters quickly pointed out that the number in the image seemed to shrink a little with each repost, fueling suspicion it might be an AI-generated fake. The fact that no official sales figures have been announced even a week after launch is also being read as a telling silence. As is tradition, the thread spiraled into the usual Nintendo-vs-PlayStation fan slap-fight, with plenty of posts comparing the number to sales of past hit titles.
What people said
Reviewing a game without even buying it is unhinged (lit. "makes your blood vessels pop")
Basically, a game that can only brag about sales numbers instead of whether it's actually fun is 100% trash.
Back when JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle came out, plenty of people responded to "this isn't fun" with "it sold 500k copies!"
Just curious — did the people who said ASB was boring also happen to be part of those 500k buyers?
Does that somehow make it good, then?
You mean the Nintendo fanboys ("Nishi-kun")?
Nintendo's officially washed up ("owakon") — now they're brawling it out on the stock exchange too
Did the guy who started this thread even buy Wolverine himself?
He got a taste of attention and now he's hooked — go for it, keep it up
If it's bad enough, there's a chance no clear numbers ever surface, even at earnings — like with Saros or Death Stranding 2
The types who normally love bragging about numbers are dead silent instead of bragging
You're supposed to read between the lines
Doubtful it'll even hit that cumulatively, lol
Even Fire Emblem Engage sold 2 million, so that's nothing
Also, SIE (Sony) probably won't even bother announcing unless it's past 3 million
If it's not close to 6 million the contract gets pulled, so maybe they're holding off until then?
Can sales numbers even go down?
VGChartz numbers genuinely do drop over time, that's just how it works
But real talk, it's probably just not selling well at all
They only put out a hype sales flash like "fast! too fast!" once it clears 1 million, 1.5 million, or 2 million
Could be refunds piling up on Steam
Well, babies are angels, so it can't be helped
The pro-PlayStation gaming press ("Goki media") all dropping mysterious sourceless numbers at once means this thing genuinely isn't selling
Classic pattern: about a year later they'll quietly slip out some embarrassingly low official figure
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Talk about real-world game sales figures comes up constantly on the Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board, and numbers from images with no official backing often take on a life of their own — this time, too, some suspected the source image might be AI-generated. Hardware makers and publishers tend to eagerly announce round-number milestones and strong results, while sitting on unfavorable numbers until financial results are released — and the thread’s “read between the lines on the silence” reaction reflects that well-known industry pattern. Note that replies naming and criticizing specific X (formerly Twitter) accounts, or containing language disparaging individual posters, have been excluded from this article.
*This article was compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [“Geha”]) thread “[Bad News for Nintendo Fans] Wolverine Breaks 1.7 Million Copies!“.
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