The genre has come a long way since the days of its inception.
Every Thursday we share the weekly Famitsu sales charts, which tracks physical boxed game sales and hardware sales in Japan. This week’s chart covers October 2 – 8, as Detective Pikachu Returns takes the top spot on this Famitsu chart packed with new entries.
Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
Switch OLED Model – 100,019 (5,798,181)
PlayStation 5 – 31,995 (3,901,786)
Switch – 5,137 (19,566,247)
Switch Lite – 5,085 (5,517,733)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 1,759 (586,897)
PlayStation 4 – 1,020 (7,898,896)
Xbox Series X – 571 (223,801)
Xbox Series (4,409)
Xbox Series S – 424 (289,261)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 21 (1,192,423
Quantic Dream has sent Gamereactor a press release stating that Detroit: Become Human now has sold more than 2,5 million copies on PC, making it surpass 8 million across all platforms.
That's great. Quantic Dream took everything they learned from their past games and built the most refined, coherent and interesting game and story yet. I even bought it on both PS4 and PC.
I preferred Beyond Two Souls. Still, Detroit was an exceptional experience just like Heavy Rain. Definitely happy to see the game has sold well over the years.
Beyond was outstanding. Their other games were great, but BTS was my favorite so far.
It took them nearly 5 years to accomplish that compared to a game that's just come out. Willing to bet a majority of those sales were heavily discounted too. Quantic Dream games were always heavily spruiked by Sony as exclusive graphical showpieces for the Playstation, so I'm sure that helped out too.
For reference the original Dead Space sold 2 Million over its lifetime, so some new IP from a new studio approaching that in its first year or so really isn't that bad.
Interested in learning more info about player decision-based video games? This compounded list of games offers some of the best choices.
People must play detroit; it does such a good job at making every decision feel like it counts; knowing at any moment the wrong decision can be born of what you think is the right thing to do, or your decision may kill someone (Primary or supporting). Amazing game for sure.