the game is sitting very close to its peak despite that peak happening 6 months ago. congrats to the team
It is a bit hard to tell as Sega tends to give IP sales rather than single game sales. For example here 3.8 million units is listed for the entire IP in the fiscal year 2020-2021.It usually does around this number, I believe?
Also, full credit to Miles for acknowledging the cost of living crisis, but the yearly value proposition of FM is absolutely extraordinary. I think it's a valid means of escaping for several hundred hours if you're actively looking to cut down entertainment spending elsewhere.
Oh interestingly, I played that so much back in the day but felt like it got stale so I dropped it and was never quite impressed with FHM.Game of forever. I must have hundreds to thousands of hours in pretty much every SI footy release since Championship Manager back in the day.
I gotta give a shoutout to Eastside Hockey Manager too. It's a bit older engine-wise so its missing a lot of the nice upgrades in the last decade to Football Manager simulation and management engine but god damn is it not the best hockey management game out there. It just recently received a new beta branch that has fixed many bugs and allowed more customization of leagues and rules. There are some absolutely fabulous Steam Workshop rosters available and its so much better in terms of league simulation than OOTP Developments Franchise Hockey Manager.
75% off right now and worth checking out if you like hockey and FM type games:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/301120/Eastside_Hockey_Manager/
I know plenty of people who ONLY play this game so doesn't surprise me honestly! Same people who have been playing various versions (champ man) of it since I was teen 20+ years ago so concurrent is usually always highHonestly thought it would be higher. Right now it has 70k concurrent.