Super Robot Wars Sales: 15 First-Week Figures and Series Totals

This article collects sales records for the Super Robot Wars games, limited to figures checked directly against the original report. First-week sales in Japan, as published by sales trackers, were confirmed for fifteen titles, and the four titles with a Steam version have Steam's public figures in the same table. Series shipment totals published by Bandai Namco are given year by year. Numbers that circulate widely but whose original source could not be found are left out and listed separately at the end under "Figures that could not be confirmed."

Before reading the numbers

The word "sales" points to different things. This article keeps four of them apart.

• First-week sales (the core of this article). The number of units sold in the launch week, estimated by Japanese sales trackers from retail sales. It estimates what stores actually sold, not what the publisher shipped to distributors. Download sales are mostly not included.
• Cumulative shipments. The number Bandai Namco publishes. It counts units shipped to distributors and is published only for the series as a whole. The Fact Book says "including PC versions," and the 2021 announcement notes that download and Steam versions are included. It cannot go on the same chart as first-week sales.
• Steam's public figures. Bandai Namco does not announce Steam unit sales per title. What can be confirmed on the Steam side is not unit sales but three things: the position in Steam's public weekly top 100 by revenue, the highest number of people running the game at the same time (peak concurrent players), and the number of user reviews. None of the three can be added to first-week sales.
• Sales trackers. Figures from Media Create, Famitsu and ASCII Research Institute are used. Each tracker counts differently, so figures from different trackers can only be compared roughly. The table names the tracker for each title.

Records by title — first-week sales in Japan and Steam in one table

The fifteen confirmed titles are listed in release order. For titles released on more than one platform, the per-platform figures are added together; the breakdown is in the evidence table below. V, X, 30 and Y, which have a Steam version, carry the Steam figures on the same row.

Only what this table shows is stated here.

• The largest confirmed figure is Z in 2008. 388,868 units on a single platform, PS2.
• The two 2nd Z games on PSP are around 300,000 units. Hakai-hen at 307,000 and Saisei-hen at 265,000.
• The two 3rd Z games reach 270,000 and 230,000 across two platforms. The Inside article that reported the ranking described Jigoku-hen as "about the same level as the previous Saisei-hen."
• All seven titles confirmed after Tengoku-hen (April 2015) are below 200,000. The largest is V at 183,887, and the latest, Y, is 91,501.
• 30 and Y were also released on Steam, but first-week sales do not include Steam. The Japanese trackers count packaged copies sold in stores. First-week sales for these two titles are therefore smaller than the titles' total sales.
• In its Steam launch week, 30 ranked #12 worldwide by revenue and Y ranked #23. V and X, which came to Steam about two years after their console versions, ranked #62 and #94. 30 was the first title released on Steam on the same day as its console versions.
• On Steam, 30 is an order of magnitude above the two earlier titles. Its peak concurrent players are about 13 times V's and about 20 times X's, and its review count is more than three times theirs.
• By first-week sales in Japan alone, 30 (131,235) is smaller than V (183,887), but with Steam alongside, that order cannot be read as is. From 30 onward, Japanese retail tracking shows only part of a title's sales.
• Y's peak concurrent players are about half of 30's. Review counts cannot be compared directly because the time since release differs (five years for 30, a little over one year for Y).

There is another figure for T. 4Gamer reported T for the same week as "132,000 units in total." It appears to come from a different tracker than the Famitsu figure (118,746), but the sentence does not state the period or the tracker, so the table uses the Famitsu figure.

First-week sales as a chart

This draws only the "First-week sales in Japan" column of the table above as bars.

Steam revenue rank by region in the launch week

Every week Steam publishes its top 100 by revenue for each region. A week runs from Tuesday to the following Tuesday, and free-to-play games are ranked too. It shows positions only, not unit sales.

• All four titles ranked higher in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong than in the United States. In the United States 30 was #29 and Y was #77, while V and X were not in the top 100.
• Y was #2 in Korea. That is the highest Korean position among the four.
• gamebiz, which records Japan's Steam sales ranking daily, reported that Y was #1 in Japan on the morning of its release day, August 28, 2025. For the week it was #3.
• This rank is a position relative to the other games sold on Steam that week. Titles released at different times cannot be compared in sales volume by rank alone.

Peak concurrent players come from Steam Charts, and review counts are the all-language totals returned by the Steam store; both were checked on October 11, 2026. Review counts keep growing. Third-party estimates of Steam unit sales differ from one another several times over for the same title, so they are not used in this article.

Series totals

Bandai Namco Holdings lists the cumulative shipments of the Super Robot Wars series in its annual Fact Book. The figure covers April 1991 through the end of March of that year and is marked "including PC versions." For the earlier period, two points confirmed from a company announcement and an article are shown.

• The total passed 20 million at the end of March 2022, at 20.06 million. No separate announcement of the milestone was found.
• On November 15, 2021, for the series' 30th anniversary, "cumulative shipments surpass 19 million" was announced. The note to that announcement says the figure "includes download versions and downloads from STEAM." By the Fact Book, the total was already 19.10 million at the end of March 2020.
• The 2014 announcement and the Fact Book say "shipments," while the 2016 figure is one the article calls "units sold." The wording differs, and that should be kept in mind when reading these as one line.

Subtracting the previous year's Fact Book figure gives how much the whole series grew in that fiscal year (April to the following March).

• The growth is the sum of every title, platform and region in the series. It is not the unit sales of the one title released that year, and it is not split to show how many units were Steam.
• In the fiscal year 30 was released, the series total grew by 820,000 units. That is more than six times 30's first-week retail sales in Japan of 131,235.
• In the fiscal year Y was released, it grew by 530,000 units. Y's first-week retail sales in Japan were 91,501.

Figures for older titles cited in an article

A 2008 weekly ranking article on Dengeki Online cited figures for two older titles when describing Z's first week. The sentence does not state the period or the tracker, so they are kept out of the chart above and shown separately.

The article wrote that Z "did not reach 3rd Alpha's 451,000 but started close to IMPACT."

Evidence table

For L and V, marked "(derived)," no launch-week article was found, so the figure is the second-week cumulative total minus the second-week sales from the second-week ranking table. If both numbers in that table are right, so is the first-week figure, but it was not read directly from a launch-week article.

Estimated revenue

Formula: first-week unit sales in Japan × the standard edition's suggested retail price at release (before tax). This is a value calculated by this site, not a revenue figure announced by the company. The calculation is done in yen and shown in US dollars on English pages (Japanese pages show yen as is, Korean pages show won).

How the dollar conversion works. The yen amount is divided by the average yen-per-dollar rate of the year the title was released. The titles were released in different years, so applying one point-in-time rate to all of them would move older amounts away from their value at the time. The annual averages are published by the Federal Reserve, so anyone can redo the calculation with the same numbers. There is no inflation adjustment, so a 2017 dollar and a 2025 dollar here are not of equal worth. Z and T are not calculated because their prices could not be confirmed.

• V: Famitsu's release article lists the standard edition at ¥8,600 for PS4 and ¥7,600 for PS Vita (both before tax). The per-platform first-week sales are the derived figures in the evidence table above.
• X: GAME Watch lists the standard edition at ¥8,600 for PS4 and ¥7,600 for PS Vita (tax not included).
• The unit figures for V and X include limited editions. Limited editions cost more, at ¥12,600 and ¥11,600, so this value, multiplied at the standard price, is smaller than the real one.
• 30: The official blog and GAME Watch list the standard edition at ¥9,460 (tax included). The calculation uses ¥8,600, with the 10% tax removed.
• Y: The official product information lists the standard edition at "¥8,900 + tax."

Limits of this calculation

• Discounts, sales and second-hand trade are not reflected.
• Sales outside Japan, sales after the launch week, and download and Steam sales are left out.
• The dollar amounts are Japanese list prices moved across by exchange rate. They are not prices charged outside Japan or the value of sales outside Japan.
• Development costs, distribution fees and royalties are not calculated. This amount is therefore not revenue but a "value at list price."

Figures that could not be confirmed

These are widely quoted figures whose original source could not be found while writing this article. That does not mean they are wrong; it means this site could not confirm the evidence.

• Lifetime sales of older titles. For games from the 1990s to the early 2000s, such as 4th, F and F Final, Alpha and Alpha Gaiden, and 2nd Alpha, no original tracker article was found. For Alpha, one wiki sentence says 700,000 and another list says 750,000, so neither is used.
• Shin Super Robot Wars (PS, 1996). A Famitsu feature says only "the first in the series to exceed 500,000," with no period or counting method.
• Worldwide sales per title and Steam unit sales. No per-title figure combining overseas, download and Steam sales of 30 or Y was found. Bandai Namco's announcements and Fact Books, and articles in Japanese, Korean and English-language game media, were searched, but only series totals appear. The "Steam unit sales" cell in the table therefore reads "Not announced," and Steam's public weekly revenue rank, peak concurrent players and review count are given.
• Many handheld titles. For K, UX, NEO, OE and the OG games before 2nd OG, no launch-week article was found.
• Year-by-year totals before March 2019. The Fact Book figures confirmed start at the end of March 2019. Before that, only the two points in 2014 and 2016 were confirmed.
• Prices before tax for Z and T. They could not be confirmed in official material, so no value is calculated.

What this article does not do

• It does not judge a title's popularity or reception by its sales.
• It does not fill in sales of unconfirmed titles with estimates.
• It does not use figures from wikis or personal sites that were not checked against the original tracker article.