What this is
Worldwide shipments of Bandai's ONE PIECE Card Game a year after launch: more than 1 billion cards by summer 2023.
How it’s built
- From a Bandai announcement reported by gamebiz, a Japanese games business site: 'worldwide shipments passed 1 billion cards this summer'.
What we assumed
- 'This summer' means by about August 2023.The announcement gives the season, not a date; the game launched in July 2022.
Sanity check
A count of cards shipped across Japanese, English and Chinese editions, not sales value. For scale, Pokémon made about 9.7bn cards in a single year around then.
The value
- 1,000 million cards cumulative
Where it comes from
Japanese-language article: Bandai Namco, 2023 gamebiz (Bandai release) · 10 August 2023 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
今夏世界出荷数は10億枚を突破