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Overseas outlet Game Business reported, citing figures compiled by research firm Ampere Analysis, that “Marvel’s Wolverine” had sold approximately 6.16 million units worldwide (about 95% digital). On 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board, the numbers kicked off comparisons with Nintendo titles’ sales figures, but the conversation quickly turned to the reliability of Ampere Analysis’s estimates themselves. Pointing to the firm’s estimate of 1.4 million units for “Death Stranding 2” — a number never officially confirmed in the publisher’s earnings reports — posters repeatedly argued that “this outfit’s analysis can’t be trusted,” and the thread devolved into everyone demanding sources from each other.
What people said
Capcom's digital figures include the key-card versions too, you know
Wait, what?! So Fire Emblem sold more than 2.16 million copies?
If you can't answer that, I'll take it as you losing the argument, deal?
If you don't answer, I'm putting you on my ignore list (NG = 5ch's built-in "mute this poster" feature).
Guess getting caught making stuff up was embarrassing, huh.
1,000,000 units
Derby Stallion
30,000 units
If you exclude Mario Kart World — whose sales are mostly bundle copies — Switch 2 only has one million-seller to its name.
So, source?
https://www.gamebusiness.jp/article/2026/10/10/28283.html
Opening up a lead of over 2 million copies on FE with this (verb garbled in the original post, but the gist is "crushing it")
There's a weird part in there again lol
If you want the source for Rhythm Heaven's 1 million and Derby Stallion's 30,000, right here —
go ahead and take a look
https://www.famitsu.com/ranking/game-sales
And yet Death Stranding 2 wasn't even mentioned in the earnings report.
Don't forget — it got quietly written off without any official numbers, simply because it didn't sell.
This place's analysis really can't be trusted…
Death Stranding 2 left quite a legacy behind, huh.
There's zero point in this nonsense hype job being pushed by fanboys who can't keep their personal feelings separate from the facts.
CAN'T. BE. TRUSTED!
Nah, 2.16 million isn't enough.
2 million times 9,000 yen already comes out to 18 billion yen in sales.
I'd call that a big success.
But Wolverine's budget is reportedly $30 billion, you know.
Factor in the development costs and that's not enough.
Opening sales of 2 million aren't that different from Spider-Man's.
Fire sales have already started everywhere — what's the outlook for it growing from here?
$30 billion comes out to about 3 trillion yen.
There's no way that's right.
Actually, that works out to 4 trillion.
Though it's probably a typo for $300 million.
703
The source is the thread title — is that a problem?
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1791498989/704
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, Metascore 88! PS5 version alone drags it down to 83 due to loads of bugs and freezing 😭
Apparently "the thread title is the source" is good enough.
Oh, this is that fake thread "Nishi-kun" (slang nickname for a Nintendo fanboy) was spreading around the other day, huh?
Guess it really does go both ways.
Actually, looking now, the PC version has dropped to 85.
Guess it really was just a review-count issue after all.
It sells well and you get to keep the quality high — nothing but upside.
The guy who keeps misusing "pasokonga" (slangy/garbled way of saying "PC version") only ever shows up when stock's actually circulating, huh.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Sales estimates from third-party research firms like Ampere Analysis are a different thing from the official figures publishers disclose in their earnings reports — they’re ultimately just estimates built on market data. The thread’s cited figure of 1.4 million units for “Death Stranding 2” doesn’t appear anywhere in Kojima Productions’ earnings materials either, and was brought up as an example of the gap between such estimates and actual disclosed results. Meanwhile, the claim in response 2 that “PlayStation software will drop physical disc versions starting January 2028” is an actual industry policy, not speculation, reflecting the fact that digital sales already make up 80-90% of the market. That said, the thread also saw an error where a development budget of “$30 billion” was really meant to be around “$300 million” — a good reminder that in these cross-platform sales-comparison threads, numbers tend to spread unchecked and take on a life of their own.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, aka “Geha”) thread “[Bad News for Nintendo Fanboys] “Marvel’s Wolverine” Actually Sold 6.16 Million Copies lololol.”
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