@jznrpg
You are right that Steam numbers aren’t everything, but they are the only data that is always publicly available that can be used to compare numbers from one game to the next. Obviously we get charts from certain regions, and those can be helpful, but they are imperfect. A game can launch in a slow week and be #1 while a different game that launches in a bigger week can sell more units but only come in at #3 due to heavier competition. Same thing with monthly charts: a game that launches at the end of a month will get its biggest weeks of sales split between two months, so it might only be #3 in one and #5 in the next when it would have been #1 had it been launched early in a month.
I’ll be interested to see the PSN charts through the rest of the year, together with the Circana charts for October. If SH2 ranks high in October on both, and stays high on the PSN charts through the end of the year, I’ll be pretty confident it did well on PS5.
