Return to Popolocrois Fails To Attract The Harvest Moon Audience In Japan

On June 18th, Marvelous released Return to Popolocrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale in Japan, and the game sold 46,491 copies in its first week. Japanese sales tracker Media Create reports that Popolocrois saw a sell-through of 58.99%.   That’s a slow start compared to the two prior Harvest Moon games on Nintendo 3DS, 2012’s Harvest Moon: A New Beginning (81,131 copies sold at launch with a sell-through of 74.23%) and 2014’s Story of Seasons (130,782 copies sold at launch with a sell-through of 73.07%).   With this information at hand, one can surmise that due to being a Popolocrois game, Return to Popolocrois failed to capture the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons audience.