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On a side note, knowing that Sea of Stars is in many ways a spiritual successor to Chrono Trigger, I tried looking up its sales data. Concrete data is hard to find because it's still quite new, but apparently it sold 250,000 copies in its first week, which is almost as many total copies as Chrono Trigger sold on the SNES outside of Japan. It wouldn't actually surprise me if it ends up outselling the game that inspired it, which I thought that was kind of interesting.

Maximothelad posted...

And you are 100% wrong! Kids from 2010 on have grown up on iPhones / iPads / Youtube / Netflix, etc.. Maybe their parents have a few DVD's or CD's laying but this generation is NOT BUYING PHYSICAL MEDIA ! They do not care. You are just in denial at this point. You know what the #1 CD sold last month in the USA? 412 copies. Want to know what the DVD / Blu Ray was? It was so low they don't even report it anymore because everyone streams now or uses spotify.

Got a citation for those numbers? Some quick googling is only giving me 2022 figures, namely that 33.4 million CD albums shipped, but nothing as recent as last month (and, in fact, monthly sales statistics are pretty rare). That's obviously still a massive decrease from the 900 million or so that shipped each year around 2000, which is not surprising because streaming and digital distribution have become the dominant formats, but it's also quite thoroughly at odds with the narrative you're pushing of "nobody born before 2010 buys CDs."

As for DVDs, I did find this interesting list:
https://www.the-numbers.com/weekly-dvd-sales-chart

Several months old (which, again, makes me question your claim that you have credible data from two weeks ago), but very much not "so low they don't even report it anymore," and a few orders of magnitude higher than 412. I'm also going to go out on a limb and guess that Paw Patrol: Big Truck Pups was generally purchased for people born after 2010, so looks like "Kids born in 2010 have never owned or used a CD / DVD / Blu ray" is not only demonstrably false, I've now demonstrated it to be false. Whoopsie.