{"id":8192,"date":"2021-11-18T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/?p=8192"},"modified":"2021-12-02T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:10:18","slug":"see-how-shin-megami-tensei-v-compares-in-japan-to-past-entries-in-the-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/2021\/11\/18\/see-how-shin-megami-tensei-v-compares-in-japan-to-past-entries-in-the-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"See how Shin Megami Tensei V compares in Japan, to past entries in the franchise!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This past Friday, November 12th, Shin Megami Tensei launched in Japan and sold 143,247 copies (confirmed by Famitsu), with there being a shortage in special edition stock and even regular units to a degree. This number is impressive and only represents physical sales, so I thought I&#8217;d see just how it stacks up to other entries in the series. Check it out:<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulGaleNetwork\/status\/1461346537896767506\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulGaleNetwork\/status\/1461346537896767506\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulGaleNetwork\/status\/1461346537896767506<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If SMTV moved just 42,000 copies on eShop, that would make this entry the highest opening in franchise history, in Japan. 77.7% physical vs 22.3% digital. It&#8217;s worth noting however, that RPG&#8217;s like this tend to be pretty high in favor of physical sales, but even if the digital portion is 20% of the total, we&#8217;re looking at a game that easily passes the current #2 and is overall, a great start for the game.<br><br>Have you picked up Shin Megami Tensei V yet and if so, how are you enjoying it thus far?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Friday, November 12th, Shin Megami Tensei launched in Japan and sold 143,247 copies (confirmed by Famitsu), with there being a shortage in special edition stock and even regular units to a degree. This number is impressive and only represents physical sales, so I thought I&#8217;d see just how it stacks up to other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[165],"tags":[2573,247,20,2061,9,39,286,476,2570,3013],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8195,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions\/8195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}