{"id":4497,"date":"2021-10-20T17:19:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T08:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2021-10-20T17:19:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T08:19:03","slug":"20211020-4497","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20211020-4497\/","title":{"rendered":"Danganronpa series shipments exceed 5 million units, with the first game being the most shipped title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Publication date of the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20211020-179597\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a>: 2021-10-20 13:18 (JST)<br>Translated by. Ryuki Ishii <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Spike Chunsoft has announced that the total worldwide shipments of <strong><em>Danganronpa<\/em> <\/strong>series surpassed five million units. The worldwide sales of the PC version of <em>Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc<\/em> and <em>Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair <\/em>have both topped one million units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u300c\u30c0\u30f3\u30ac\u30f3\u30ed\u30f3\u30d1\u300d\u30b7\u30ea\u30fc\u30ba\u306e\u5168\u4e16\u754c\u7d2f\u8a08\u51fa\u8377\u6570\u304c500\u4e07\u672c\u3092\u7a81\u7834\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\uff01<br><br>11\u6708\u306b\u306f\u3001Nintendo Switch\u300e\u30c0\u30f3\u30ac\u30f3\u30ed\u30f3\u30d1 \u30c8\u30ea\u30ed\u30b8\u30fc\u30d1\u30c3\u30af + \u30cf\u30c3\u30d4\u30fc\u30c0\u30f3\u30ac\u30f3\u30ed\u30f3\u30d1\uff33 \u8d85\u9ad8\u6821\u7d1a\u306e\u5357\u56fd\u30b5\u30a4\u30b3\u30ed\u5408\u5bbf\u300f\u767a\u58f2\u3084\u300110\u5468\u5e74\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u3082\u958b\u50ac\u3057\u307e\u3059\u306e\u3067\u5f15\u304d\u7d9a\u304d\u3088\u308d\u3057\u304f\u304a\u9858\u3044\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rbtnKDx59S\">https:\/\/t.co\/rbtnKDx59S<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B9Xmsu5eho\">pic.twitter.com\/B9Xmsu5eho<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30c0\u30f3\u30ac\u30f3\u30ed\u30f3\u30d1\u516c\u5f0f (@dangan_official) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dangan_official\/status\/1450641718861172741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>Danganronpa <\/em>series is known as a high-speed murder mystery adventure game where talented high school students take on a challenge to determine the killer through series of Class Trials. The first game in the series, <em>Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc<\/em>, was originally released back in 2010 for the PlayStation Portable. Since then, a total of four titles (including the spin-off) have been released on multiple platforms, along with anime, manga, novels, and other adaptations. The PC version of the games are selling particularly well outside of Japan, with a total of three million units sold so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Breakdown of shipments by titles was also revealed. Most shipped title in the series is the first game <em>Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc<\/em>, comprising 36% of shipments. <em>Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair<\/em> comes next with 33%,<em> Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony<\/em> is 21%, and <em>Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls <\/em>is 10%. It should be noted that bundles of multiple titles were also released, so there are some count duplications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Danganronpa Decadence | Nintendo Switch\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uGtAU2WVnms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The trilogy pack, <em>Danganronpa Decadence<\/em>, is scheduled to be released for Nintendo Switch on December 3 (North America and Europe). <em>Danganronpa Decadence<\/em> will include the three mainline titles and a boardgame-style bonus game called <em>Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp<\/em>. All four games will also be available for individual purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danganronpa.com\/10th_anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary event<\/a> will be held in Japan on November 27 (JST). The cast of the event and the fans will look back on the past 10 years of the series together. There will be live performances of songs from the series as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to the future of the series, Spike Chunsoft mentioned that there will be more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danganronpa series shipments exceed 5 million units, with the first game being the most shipped title.<br \/>\nThe PC version of the games are selling particularly well outside of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-4497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Danganronpa series shipments exceed 5 million units, with the first game being the most shipped title<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Danganronpa series shipments exceed 5 million units, with the first game being the best-selling title. 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