Octopath Traveler shows that the Japanese turn-based role still has quite a crowd. Play against it that it is a Nintendo Switch exclusive and has a limited market, so the achievement is considerable.
From time to time some sales figures are given that show whether a game has sold a lot or not. In this case, Square Enix has given approximate sales figures for one of the most important games released last year: Octopath Traveler. Its sales figure: one and a half million copies worldwide.
Sell a lot Octopath Traveler, a win for the JRPG
The project was announced as a title that takes advantage of current technology to offer an experience with current graphics and design techniques alongside a classic Japanese RPG story like Final Fantasy VI or Chrono Trigger. The result is that Octopath Traveler looks like a huge moving diorama that pays homage to an SNES RPG but plays like a modern RPG title. All this has made it add up to a million and a half copies worldwide. Digital and physical figures are counted.
These are many copies sold for a game of a genre that is said to not sell much due to the reduced success of titles like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, to the detriment of games that mimic the open world like Final Fantasy XV. In addition, it is an exclusive title for Nintendo Switch, so the figures could be considerably better if it were released on PC or Playstation 4 to expand its audience. This is good news that shows that a Japanese RPG does not need to be overly ambitious to sell a not inconsiderable amount of figures for a game that is not AAA. Square Enix is continuing the world with a mobile prequel that we don't even know if it will come out of Japan, but we imagine they will want to empower the game as a new pillar of the company as they did with NieR: Automata after its unexpected success.
Source: Gamasutra
