Oh, hey there! So, I stumbled across this game—Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. Seriously, who comes up with these names? Anyway, it popped onto the scene on May 21, and boom, 800,000 copies sold. In just 12 days. Wild, right? Level-5 and Nintendo teamed up on this one, letting you live a different life on Switch, PC, PS5, PS4, and Xbox Series X/S. Options galore.
Now, let’s rewind a bit. This is a sequel, popping out nearly 13 years after the first Fantasy Life. Yeah, not your typical franchise pacing. The original was stuck on the Nintendo 3DS and mainly lounged around in Japan. This new one’s out there everywhere at once, and I guess that kinda helps your sales numbers, huh?
So, Twitter’s buzzing – or whatever sound birds make – with news about this game crossing 800,000 sales. And the level of excitement? It’s hitting the roof, all within just under two weeks. The developers are literally banking on hitting a million by the end of June. If they nail it, that’s a trailer-load of units in just about a month. Kind of epic for a game genre that doesn’t usually grab headlines.
But wait. Here’s some number soup. In May, the game zipped past half a million sales in, get this, three days. That’s like 150,000 copies flying off shelves daily. Then things slowed a bit, but hey, it’s still selling. They’re about 200,000 shy of the lifetime sales of the OG Fantasy Life, which hit 1.11 million by December 2022. Yeah, I read that somewhere – I think it was the 2023 CESA Games White Paper.
Oh, and there’s a twist in our little game tale! This June 5, it’s jumping onto the Switch 2 as a launch title. Might be the big push it needs to hit that million mark — or maybe not. Who knows? Stay tuned, I guess.
