About BL games (To the staff)

[Lipp]

@Nargrakhan

Hmm… reading this stuff on sales makes me wonder… Where does Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side rank on sales within the otome/BL market? According to Konami, Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 3rd Story is the best selling entry in the franchise. It sold over 150,000 copies on the Nintendo DS. That success was so big, they recycled the Tokimeki Memorial 4 engine and ported an improved version to PSP. I believe that version sold 50,000 copies.

But I never saw Konami ever make a publicity statement, to claim Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 3rd Story was the best selling otome title on the market (a respective claim they always make with the normal TokiMemo series). What otome (or BL) has sold more than 200,000 copies?

There’s probably less than 20 galge in the history of gaming, that have ever broken the 200K mark. I would think otome/BL have even fewer. Either Konami is being very modest about their success, or something out there had all the Japanese girl gamers swooning for their digital love, and I’ve sadly never heard of it.

If it helps:

PS2 version:
1 - 110,628~ sales - http://geimin.net/da/db/2002_ne_fa/index.php
2nd one didn’t make the charts

DS version:
1 - 66943~ sales - http://geimin.net/da/07/rank_mc.php
2 - 129043~ sales - http://geimin.net/da/db/2008_ne_mc/index.php