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Re: Story Of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In Less Than A Month

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:01:59 GMT

@Coffee-Waffle My budget does not appreciate you over there instigating reckless behavior. 😂

By Ryu_Niiyama

Re: Story Of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In Less Than A Month

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:01:59 GMT

Glad to see it sold so well. Curious to see the platform break down and how many physical sales they had.

By jorel262

Re: Story Of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In Less Than A Month

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:01:18 GMT

@Ryu_Niiyama @Ks123
The Story of Seasons games are also usually better, according to reviews and fan feedback.

By jorel262

Re: Story Of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In Less Than A Month

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:06:34 GMT

@Anti-Matter Thanks, in that case I won't play it.

These games should be laid back. This type of time management gives me a huge amount of unneeded "stress". Obviously not real stress, but not the laid-back feeling I am looking for when playing a game like this.

By Daniel36

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:51:58 GMT

Hopefully sales figures like this convince more developers not to use game key cards. Seems Rune Factory and this both sold well, and they were both full physicals.

By AStupidID

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:49:24 GMT

@Daniel36
The game counted 1 minute in game = 1 second in real life so 1 hour in the game = 1 minute in real life.
Time flow with style like this already implemented on modern Story of Seasons games, no more elapsed every 10 minutes in game = 6 seconds in real life.

By Anti-Matter

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:46:32 GMT

I like the look of this game a lot. Important question though, for those who've played it;

Is there a day-timer? Like, does it take my character half an hour just to walk to the door? Another half an hour to pull some weeds out of the ground? I severely dislike such a mechanic.

By Daniel36

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 02:02:54 GMT

How bazaar
How bazaar, how bazaar

By Woshiernog

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:10:49 GMT

@Ks123 Original Series is Story of Seasons and is known in Japan as Bokujo Monogatari (Farm Story/Tales). Natsume translated the series in the west and named it Harvest Moon (they own that name). When Natsume lost the translation rights they made their own games and used the name they owned. But Story of Seasons never ended (in Japan it is still just Bokujo Monogatari).

By Ryu_Niiyama

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:41:17 GMT

@Ryu_Niiyama
I was weak and bought the game after trying to talk myself out of it. I have no regrets.

The central mechanic of the game, the Bazaar, looked like it would be boring to me so I tried to convince myself that I didn't need to buy this game. Now I find myself looking at what day it is and trying to plan to make the most out of each Bazaar day. In classic farming sim fashion though I get distracted by something else I need to do instead.

By Jade37

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:17:41 GMT

I’m sorry I still can’t quite wrap my head around the whole difference between Story of Seasons vs Harvest Moon lore. Don’t come at me lol

By Ks123

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:04:08 GMT

Great.
I hope Marvelous will keep continue to use game card to sell their games for Switch 2.
Kudos to every developer or publisher who choose game card to sell their games for Switch 2.
Customers are deserved for great products with respect.

By Anti-Matter

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:57:46 GMT

@Ryu_Niiyama Buy, Buy, Buy !

Way better than I thought.

By Coffee-Waffle

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:00:17 GMT

Very deserved. Such a fantastic game, definitely one of the best on the Switch 2 so far. Really nice to see both this and Guardians of Azuma do well, both series got a glow up this year and it paid off.

By silver-crescent

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:48:19 GMT

Congrats! This game is definitely in my top 5 life sim/farming games of all time.

They're finally back after all these years.

By puddinggirl

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:51:47 GMT

I play this game to destress after playing Silksong.

By Sambuc

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:36:15 GMT

must resist, must resist, must resist…

By Ryu_Niiyama

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:25:41 GMT

Well deserved, been loving this so far. Between Grand Bazaar, Guardians of Azuma, and Fields of Mistria, we're in a real golden age of farming sims right now

By CactuarDavid

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:21:34 GMT

What I've seen and heard of the game shows that it deserves these copies sold 😃. I myself won't be picking it up since I'm busy with other games, but I envy the people who do get to play it.

By ShieldHero

Re: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:08:06 GMT

@Altaria_97 I thought the same 😂 but didn’t want to be rude!

@LostAutumn 🙉

By Coffee-Waffle