Octopath Traveler, the Nintendo Switch exclusive RPG from Square-Enix, has reached one million sales worldwide. This figure includes both the physical copies sold, and the downloaded copies from the Nintendo eShop. This makes it the first third-party title on the system to achieve this milestone. This is particularly impressive, considering that the game was released less than a month ago, on the 13th of July.

Thanks to your incredible support, #OCTOPATHTRAVELER has now shipped 1 million units globally, including #NintendoSwitch #eShop downloads. The developers at Square Enix would like to thank you for making this possible. pic.twitter.com/qAjYAwYPLB

— Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) August 3, 2018

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List of titles selling over one million

 

[Lazyboss]

I don't like this game after all, in the beginning it was pretty neat, nice graphics, interesting battle system, beautiful music, but after 20+ hours I drop it cause a story is so bland & boring, dialogs predictable, characters uninspired, gameplay is repetitive & there's too much grinding for my taste. I wouldn't put Octopath in my Hall of Fame list.

Same here, I stopped playing after like 20 hours.
I was so excited to play this game as I liked the battle system and the music, but after few hours it become repetitive and the story is super boring, there is no connection between the characters, and this is a very important thing in RPG games.

 

[huma_dawii]

I hope it sells more, that way Square Enix see the NS potential!

 

[jakkal]

@Natehaxx
@All of Reswitched High Horse Warriors

 

[JimmyCall]

I find the game a bit restrictive and entailed a lot of reading through dialogue boxes and pages, but the battles are fun. It can only get better if companies take note of the sales potential in Switch RPG's.

 

[RookieKid]

Nice to hear it's doing well, I've still not bought it yet, but I'm planning to.

 

[Daisy]

Honestly, I couldn't get like 20 minutes into the demo. Waay too much boring dialogue, unfortunately... Hopefully Square-Enix sees that the Switch is doing well, though, and brings more games over. TWEWY 2..? Please?

 

[deinonychus71]

Well deserved.

I don't understand how anyone can have issues with the grinding in this game, it's pretty well balanced if you play it the intended way.

 

[Asia81]

Same here, I stopped playing after like 20 hours.
I was so excited to play this game as I liked the battle system and the music, but after few hours it become repetitive and the story is super boring, there is no connection between the characters, and this is a very important thing in RPG games.

There is one, as well as many further explanations of the stories.
End all 8 stories and you'll fight the real final boss, very hard to kill.

 

[Nerdtendo]

 

[Lazyboss]

There is one, as well as many further explanations of the stories.
End all 8 stories and you'll fight the real final boss, very hard to kill.

I know about that, but I won't spend another 50 hours to reach that 1 chapter because it's not worth it.

 

[Pluupy]

I hope Square Enix realizes people like this format and localizes Seiken Densetsu collection so the west can finally play Secret of Mana 3.

 

[RedBlueGreen]

havent played it but what from what i have seen an read it seem like a pretty overrated game. aside from the artstyle it doesnt seem much diffrent from all the other jrpgs

That can be said about most genres though, and it doesn't matter how good or bad the game is.

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Bravely Third confirmed.

 

[mario5555]

I hope Square Enix realizes people like this format and localizes Seiken Densetsu collection so the west can finally play Secret of Mana 3.

There's no official translation (they won't use fan work) so this won't happen. Profit vs Effort and SE doesn't see enough $$$ to make it worthwhile.

A note on the sales. The artificial scarcity that came up a few weeks ago immensely helped to drive sales (I was one of them) all over YT everyone was like "it's sold out EVERYWHERE" so people (like me) bought it as fast as they could (I would have preferred waiting for a sale) so that helped drive a lot of the sales in the last few weeks as well.

 

[Hells Malice]

At least it proves anyone with RPGmaker and a ton of shitty shaders can make a successful game.
Honestly a fairly mediocre game. Meh writing, generic characters, and a half baked combat system that wishes it was Bravely Default.

I'm actually baffled as to how it has done so well. Usually turn based games are just insta-thrown in the trash, even if they do have good combat. This one doesn't even have that. The graphics bounce between RPGmaker+shaders and an HD minecraft texture pack, also with shaders. None of the characters have any depth, and none even really ever interact. It's pretty clear they fired their writers before the project began.

Hopefully we see less of this garbage, and more actually good jRPGs like Bravely Default/Second.

 

[supergamer368]

I can’t wait to get this game, the sales numbers alone demonstrate it’s worth buying. The demo was awesome.

 

[Sakitoshi]

I'm actually baffled as to how it has done so well.

I'm not.
obviously is gonna sell like there are no other games, because there aren't, is the only high profile exclusive release in a while.

 

[DarthDub]

Live A Live needs to come westward!

 

[leon315]

I'll have you know this game would have sold even more millions if it had not been for piracy. I have no sources to back up this claim but you'll just have to believe me /s

CONSIDER all TX users pirated this game, so just find about how many TX OS was sold and we can probably figure it out

 

[Captain_N]

And the publishers/developers say no one likes snes style rpgs... Hey indies, looking at you also. Where ya snes jrpgs?

 

[jahrs]

Theres the error in thought tx/sx sold does not equal number of the games that wouldve been bought just the number of people who bought sx/tx stuff for other games.

Im on the ship that states that piracy is more for trying games that lack demos. That way i can try before i buy for example shining resonance refrain had a demo i tried i liked the game and bought it from the eshop. Octopath also did and i tried it and i didnt buy it because it wasnt interesting enough. if more games had more demos thered be less pirates due to post-buyers gaming regrets.