Recently released remake Star Ocean The Second Story R is enjoying a decent physical debut in Japan, the latest Famitsu sales charts reveal. It's not remotely surprising, but the classic RPG revival sold best on Nintendo Switch, followed by PS5 and then PS4. In total, the title moved just over 50,000 copies — which obviously isn't amazing, but it's a solid start for today's Japanese retail market. You would assume most of the game's sales will be digital.
As per usual, the rest of the Japanese charts aren't really relevant to us PlayStation fans, thanks to Nintendo's retail dominance. It's at least worth noting that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is still in the top 10, we suppose. It's sold a solid 96,000 physical copies so far.
Anyway, we reckon Star Ocean The Second Story R deserves all the success it can get. In our humble opinion, it's a fantastic remake of an often overlooked RPG.
Are you playing through Star Ocean The Second Story R? Are you happy to see it doing reasonably well for itself? Await further data from Square Enix in the comments section below.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
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Happy to see it doing well, especially considering the series is on the brink with Tri Ace struggling financially.
When you consider that there are at least 30 mil Switches sold in Japan vs 10 mil PS consoles, that Star Ocean ratio isn't actually bad on the PS side, no matter what Sony haters will say.
For the first time, I'm heavily considering buying a Star Ocean game. Still not a fan of the combat, but it looks superb otherwise.
Yeah. Those numbers may seem really low, but for a Star Ocean game? That's huge.
Shame Square Enix is most likely gonna see it as a failure as per usual with their ridiculous expected sale numbers.
Due to the many games in November I had no intention to buy it and just focus on LAD Gaiden + Super Mario RPG, but I keep getting tempted by it, especially when I have £18 in my PS Store Wallet to invest towards it which would take it down from £45 to £27
I preordered it (Digitally) and I'm about 8hrs in. It's really good. Just havent had enough time to play it recently but plan to get a few hours in tonight.
@Sam_ATLUS Give the demo a try!
Well it's already had 3 releases in Japan and now a 4th u can only buy the same game so many times except those crazy ass gta5 re buyer's looking to get the shark packs smh 🤦
The best star ocean game. No doubt about it.
@Terra_Custodes Their is a remaster of the first game that came out a few years back they didn't put this much effort into it though which is a Shame as that game could have benefited from alot of the qol stuff that they added to this one.
@Terra_Custodes Yeah the game is currently on sale on the PSN store at the moment along with the other games
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