Edit. New tweet, the previous one had a mistake.
This is very impressive.
Near 2 million in JP
3 milion across EU and Americas.
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MHW: 5M copies sold, 60% outside Japan, 30% via digital
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Edit. New tweet, the previous one had a mistake.
This is very impressive.
Near 2 million in JP
3 milion across EU and Americas.
60% outside of Japan wow that's huge considering the game used to be mostly played in Japan. Guess that's what happens when the game is released not on a handheld and I'm so glad they did.
Honestly, I doubt it. The series wasn't ready. It took many years of iteration to get to this point and it's now paying off.
Small notice: Capcom usually tends to consider "Japan" as "Japan + Asia", as showed by some of their recent shipments (example: MHXX Switch version and USFII). So, 60% overseas shouldn't include Asia.
Still, huge numbers, much more than what everyone (me included) expected.
Still, huge numbers, much more than what everyone (me included) expected.
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Well, Famitsu estimate 2m including digital in japan first week ( 1.35 physical ), so that's not far off i guess.
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All of this is sold to consumer in the West or is he just restating the 5 million shipped news and giving us regional breakdown?
It is almost assuredly shipped + digital sales.
Longterm Western performance is still to be seen depending on if Capcom stuffed channels like previous games this gen.
It's shipped to retailers + digital sell-through to customers. Capcom does this often.
Right, that's what I was thinking. I'm very interested to see how it does in the West.
Digital sales are almost always included with shipped physical sales as they are both a sold unit.
(sorry for quoting NeoGAF)
https://www./threads/capcom-usf2-proved-to-be-a-smash-hit.1412482/
Back at the end of June 2017, Ultra Street Fighter II wasn't that higher than 20k at retail, and there was no massive overshipment. This means that they must've included additional territories for such shipment to make sense.
But they said 5 millions shipped a few days ago. How is it still 5 millions when we add digital ?
I wonder what the split was between XB1 and PS4. With the larger user base, Japan exclusivity and marketing deal I'd guess 80/20 in Sony's favour.
For a while there was an insistence that Japanese games don't matter. I guess we can lay that argument to rest now, right?
It was a fake argument. Japanese games never left and kept succeeding big time across generations.