slaughterking
Member
Hino will just announce Time Travelers Boost Ogre Turbo edition for this holiday season and a sequel to be released in Summer 2013 to spite us.
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Japanese Sales: 2012 Jul 09 - Jul 15
- Thread starter Chris1964
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It's official, 7-eleven will sell Download Cards of both Nintendo games coming next week.
http://andriasang.com/con207/3ds_dnld_cards/
http://andriasang.com/con207/3ds_dnld_cards/
Nintendo called Onitore "Oni-Training" in the latest Iwata Asks. Guess they're still working on what to call it, then. 
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/xl/0/4
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/xl/0/4
Captain Smoker
Member
Did they give any reason?
Nah, at this rate we'll get Inazuma Eleven Go x Time Travelers because why the hell not. And Chrono Stone already dealt with time travel!
More than I expected.
You Are Viewtiful
Member
Great sellthrough for Digimon. About expected for Rune Facotry/Kirby. Surprising to see Vita version of that baseball game outsell the PSP and PS3 versions, unless that's only about sell through %.
Poor Hino
Poor Hino
Smiles and Cries
Member
how badly will DD gimp the software sales in these charts now?
For at least two Vita games it seems there are at least a third of sales unaccounted for in the current tracking methods.
More like a quarter last time we heard about Gravity Daze.
Maybe the low end of that range, but probably still a bit below that. Last sold-through figure we have is 56K at the end of February selling 5K that week. It's very easy to imagine it having sold at least another 10K at retail though the first three weeks of March + whatever is still on shelves. Still possibly 25K sold digitally by this point, which is a huge percentage of the retail sales.
In the 100K for GD thread.
First day sellthrough
Digimon World Re
Rune Factory 4: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - 50-60%
Kirby's Dream Collection: Special Edition - 20-30%
Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012 - 20-30% (PSV>PS3>PSP at sellthrough)
Time Travelers - 10%
Rune Factory 4 did decent enough for the first day, I wonder how much it will do for the first week.
So far 3DS has been great for MMV and they also announced a couple of weeks ago that pre-orders started very strong for RF4 compared to its predecessors.
Everyone's clear that this is worldwide, not Japan only, right?
walking fiend
Member
wow@10%
That's good to hear. I remember reading months ago about the retailers comparing HM and RF4 (implying RF4 were pretty high at the time), but that was still a bit too early to estimate the growth of the newest instalment at that point.
Sammy Samusu
Member
From Azalyn:
PS3 - 11
PSP - 11
PSV - 5 (soldout)
And Chris did post "at sellthrough".
SE didn't make any money off any more than 2M of that though. People really need to stop comparing shipment figures with actual sales for most publishers. Price protection (and thus overshipping) in the west really skews the numbers in a good many cases. XIII-2 was ridiculously overshipped to the west. Amazon is selling it @ $20. Once you take off the retailer cut, licensing fees to Sony/MS, shipping and packaging, etc., SE isn't making a damn thing off the game. They're just trying to recoup their licensing fees that they already paid to MS/Sony on all those extra copies at this point.
Sure it is, that's why it's at clearance price everywhere.
Nintendo called Onitore "Oni-Training" in the latest Iwata Asks. Guess they're still working on what to call it, then.
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/xl/0/4
nah, tore is just short for training. so both names are the same. It's the japanese way of shortening loanwords and a pretty common thing to do.
Nintendo called Onitore "Oni-Training" in the latest Iwata Asks. Guess they're still working on what to call it, then.
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/xl/0/4
donny, we already went over this:
Demonic Training: Learn the ways of Satan in minutes a day!
It better, damn it!!Pfft, as if that game is ever coming out.
Yeah, I know. Just commenting on that they translated half the name, but didn't just go with the literal translation for Oni in the text. Probably means they recognize calling it Demon Training would be a poor choice for sales. :lol
Will go over real well with the Brain Age 1/2 crowd. Million-seller incoming!
On a side note, I think calling Rhythm Tengoku "Rhythm Heaven" in the U.S. might've played into its poor performance. Demon and Heaven have connotations to them that would distract/take away from the purpose of the game(s). If they had called it Rhythm Paradise, it might've done better, in my opinion.
I don't think so...
if they'd call rythm heaven paradise instead, that would cause massiv confusion.
(and paradise sold really bad...)
Damn 1 million, how much are they expecting to sell in the first week? I'm guessing the sell through rate is gonna look terrible but I guess Nintendo isn't too concerned about that.
Looks like they have actually came prepared for this game's opening week unlike FE and such. Good to see! Just another 6 days for the Japanese to wait for!
BishopLamont
Banned
What makes you think it'll have a low sell through rate?
Cygnus X-1
Member
Impressive. If I recall correctly, the opening of NSMB on DS was 865k. Let's see how far can NSMB2 go.
BishopLamont
Banned
I predict a near sellout/sellout, despite DD being available.
There won't be a sellout with Saturday release.
It will probably look disappointing to a lot of people when compared to previous entries. The disappointment will be deceptive though - NSMB2 is releasing on Saturday, whereas NSMB DS and NSMB Wii both released on Thursday. So 2 days vs 4 days for previous entries. Plus, as of now, we have no idea how digital sales will go, but they will certainly replace some portion of retail as well.
Just to keep in mind that it won't be a direct comparison with the previous NSMB releases. Nevertheless, I don't think retail has to worry about whether it will eventually be able to sell those 1M copies or not.
BishopLamont
Banned
Oh 2 days only, that changes everything then.
I'm thinking 50-70% sell through, not low but not something that would make us go "daaammnnn". But I'm assuming Nintendo is more concerned about stock availability than some percentage.
It will but it has nothing to do with the platform.
I was more implying the users who bought the system, 3DS isn't racking in that casual crowd like the DS did back then.
electroplankton
Banned
Did not Nintendo already register the name Demon Training in the US?
BishopLamont
Banned
Really doubt they're gonna call it Demon Training. Isn't it called Brain Age anyway?
electroplankton
Banned
In PAL regions, it's still Brain Training.
Cosmonaut X
Member
I'd imagine something like :
Dr Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training
...would be their best bet. It gets the spirit of it being difficult and challenging, without the literal confusion of "Demon Training".
Dr Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training
...would be their best bet. It gets the spirit of it being difficult and challenging, without the literal confusion of "Demon Training".
I didn't know we had such big Brain Age, and Nintendogs fans on GAF.
electroplankton
Banned
A bigger groups than Medarot fans
just take a look at the community thread