Hey, you got any info on the sales regarding the visual novel, and its remake? Just trying to see how successful/well known it might have been for Japan.
I didn't have any info at all when you sent this, but after digging deeper on the matter, I can safely say: I still don't have any solid info. :P
I mostly tried searching Japanese sites for any discussion on or reference to "未来日記13人目の日記所有者" sales numbers, and I came up completely dry. All I can tell you is two things:
We have to logically assume that the existence of the enhanced/expanded "RE:WRITE" re-release implies that the first release was profitable enough to justify putting in that additional work + manufacturing the new production run. So I presume the first release was "successful"... even if we have no idea what the metric of said "success" would be.
VGChartz estimates about 10,000 units of the "RE:WRITE" version were sold through to customers — though that's ofc based on VGChartz's notoriously unreliable methodoogy :P
(For anyone unaware: VGChartz reps speak directly to a small number of retail shops who are willing to repeatedly provide stas of their location's physical sales over a given period of time. From there, the VGChartz crew assumes that every similar retail location in that entire country had similar sales, so they simply multiply the initial data out x the number of similar retail shops in the nation, resulting in the extrapolated numbers by they print. Which is some pretty shitty logic. But because it's preferable to the absolutely zero data we most typically receive on game sales, people do still sometimes cite VGC's numbers as a possible baseline.)
Sorry I can't be of more help. If anyone else can track down any further information, please let us know!
