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Yo-kai Watch: sales of related merchandise reaches 200 billion Yen

Just after the its Level-5 Vision 2015 event, yesterday, Level-5 sent out a press release to show us (once more) that Yo-kai Watch is a real phenomenom in Japan. It’s not just the games that are popular: pretty much everything with Yo-kai Watch somewhere on the packaging is selling really well. In fact, if you’ve been in Japan in the past few months, you have probably noticed that Level-5’s franchise was pretty much everywhere.

In its press release, Level-5 announces that total sales of Yo-kai Watch related merchandise (excluding games, music and publishing) have reached 200 billion Yen… that’s 1.531 billion euros, 1.121 billion pounds or 1.667 billion dollars.That’s definitely a lot of money, especially when you add the 7 million copies shipped for the two games (including 6 millions for Yo-kai Watch 2 alone), 10 million books, and the 7.6 billion Yen of revenue for the first movie (coming out on DVD/BR in July, just before Yo-kai Watch Busters).

Since the Yo-kai Watch franchise is so popular, it’s no wonder that Level-5 had so many Yo-kai Watch announcements yesterday:

Yo-kai Watch Busters for July (Nintendo 3DS)
Yo-kai Watch 3 for the Nintendo 3DS
Yo-kai Sangoku-shi for the Nintendo 3DS
a partnership with Nintendo for the Yo-kai Watch games in the West
a new movie, a new season for the anime, a new watch and more.

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Source: Famitsu

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