TheLegendaryN
Member
Those are some impressive results!
Is it a good game? If so, I might pick it up on PC.
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Those are some impressive results!
Is it a good game? If so, I might pick it up on PC.
Kresnik258
Member
Heh, well deserved. I liked this game far more than I thought I would.
I suppose a gigantic share of sales comes from Asia.
Famitsu
PSV Root Letter 4.928 4.928 Kadokawa Games 6/16/2016
PS4 Root Letter 4.272 4.272 Kadokawa Games 6/16/2016
Steamspy
http://steamspy.com/app/543240
Rpg genre bruh.^_^
Kresnik258
Member
It was 200k by January this year:
http://gematsu.com/2017/01/root-letter-worldwide-sales-top-200000
Western sales will be a big chunk of it.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Mario RPG used to sell a lot before they ruined and milked the franchise to death. ^_^
The game saw a Western release in October (Europe) / November (US), so Western launch + post-launch sales are already counted there.
frankie_baby
Member
So MC is the outlier then, could we be seeing them edge up in advance of splat2, with then more more for this week
frankie_baby
Member
Pokemon
Kresnik258
Member
When did it release in Asia?
I'm saying western sales probably made up the vast majority of that 200k based on what we know about Japanese sales.
DarkLordMalik
Member
I hope Capcom someday brings the whole Ace Attorney series to Switch. VC or remaster.
Nintendo needs to bring back the Famicom Detective Club.
Even the Nintendo DS was probably a good time to do it.
Haha. They will do it lol. This is Capcom after all.^_^
We already had rerelease on ds,wii,and 3ds. Another one on switch should be guaranted lol.
They brought all the mainline entries from DS to 3DS even when 3ds was backwards compatible.
I'll be shocked if they don't bring them to Switch.
Never heard of this game before but man this looks cool.
It'd be awesome if they can bring back the franchise.
The game also dropped like a brick after launch on amazon. Went from occupying 2 spots in the top 10 to having only 1 SKU in 27th place within two days after release.
I find it very hard to believe they've not at least had a brief discussion about the viability of a Fire Emblem VN, at least!
WhatWeLeftBehind
Member
Interesting question, I had a hard time thinking of something as pretty much all the genres I play have prominent Nintendo games in them, so I went to my local bookstore to check out how they have the games organized and what Nintendo has in those categories.
RPG: Pokemon, Mario & Luigi, Paper Mario
Action: Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Splatoon
Adventure: Animal Crossing
Simulation: Fire Emblem, Tomodachi Collection
Love Simulation: *nothing*
Fighting: Smash Bros, Arms
Sports: Mario Sports, Mario and Sonic at the Olympics
Racing: Mario Kart
Horse Racing: *nothing*
Rhythm: Rhythm Heaven
Board*Puzzle: *Puzzle & Dragon Super Mario Edition* *Momotaro no Dentetsu*
Learning & Educational: Brain Age, Flower & Animal 3D Picture Book
There certainly are things missing, but they were not in stock so I could not tell how they would get sorted. Nintendo does have some gaps it seems though.
Liabe Brave
Member
No. We have no way of knowing which tracker, if any, is most accurate to reality. The average of them all is slightly more likely to be correct, but this is not guaranteed by any means. So it's possible to make this presumption, but not "safe to say".
Graphics Horse
Member
I can only think of 2d platformers as something that I'd really call a monopoly in terms of publisher, but as a platform holder they hold a few.
Breath of the wild is a tentative step into the open world asshole genre but maybe Aonuma is planning on going further towards that with the thief idea he spoke of.
Breath of the wild is a tentative step into the open world asshole genre but maybe Aonuma is planning on going further towards that with the thief idea he spoke of.
I think monopoly is the wrong word, but they have the most sales in many of their entries in most genres.
I wanted to expand a bit on this by posting the same kind of statistic, just by expanding on all the games that eventually crossed / reached 100,000 units sold. Same period (up to those consoles first post-launch March)
Famitsu, via Gamedatalibrary
3DS
PSV
PS4
Well yeah but in absence of a definite answer, the most probable one is the average of them, so around 31k.
Jon Carter
Member
I had never heard of that genre before. Is it referring to dark and deep adventure games?
The more I look at this, the more I'm imagining it will be marginally above the PlayStation platforms, but well below the 3DS. I imagine deviation from that expectation would also be in a downward direction rather than an upward one.
Mind, I don't think there's anything especially problematic with that. The industry is just not going to float a dedicated device to the levels the 3DS hit, if not just due to the development resources required to make a game these days.
I also don't feel there are strong signs that support is deviating meaningfully than how it started appearing for the Vita or the PS4 in terms of volume. Those were both pretty barren at this point. It could certainly fail to manifest, but as I mentioned earlier, it will be... a long time before we can really assess that on a like for like basis.
Liabe Brave
Member
This is a justifiable estimate to settle on, yes. But "most probable" does not mean "very probable", or even "more probable than not". Choosing that number is almost purely for our convenience, and not an indication that 31k is significantly more likely to be true. It's useful to say that Switch sold about 31k, but it's not "safe to say".
A lot of people feel that delays are endemic to their smartphone business, but I feel it's actually a problem across the company, and just shows more frequently with their smartphone games because they have 5000 smartphone games announced.
I feel they are stretching themselves so thin right now that they are unable to do anything at all. All these delays seems to support this view if u ask me.
Somewhere on the way they forgot how to finish projects. At this rate their next published game will be by Level 5 Comcept.
Graphics Horse
Member
Haha no, maybe I should have phrased it better
James Scott
Banned
Feels like a strategic delay more than a quality assurance one.
Similar to KH2.8 which was basically done but delayed to sell better
but during that time Tales and others were selling a lot more as well.
I need a new M&L though. I think one will get announced next year imo.
Skullwaker
Member
I'd like a new Paper Mario, but apparently Nintendo wants that series to burn in a raging dumpster fire.
I liked Color Splash for what it was, but man. C'mon, Nintendo.
This will always be my biggest gaming disappointment, sigh...
Skullwaker
Member
Honestly same. The most I could hope for at this point is a remake/remaster of TTYD for the Switch, because I doubt they'll re-establish the RPG elements in a new entry.
PM may be too long gone.
M&L still has a chance to live.
Which stinks because I preferred PM.
or a fan game
M&L still has a chance to live.
Which stinks because I preferred PM.
or a fan game
James Scott
Banned
M&L's modern outings are considerably worse than Color Splash.
Hope they both get a retooling.
Hope they both get a retooling.
Skullwaker
Member
I actually enjoyed Color Splash more than Dream Team, weirdly enough. Something about the M&L games just doesn't do it for me.
Granted, that was the only one that I played, but the other ones don't look wildly different.
Granted, that was the only one that I played, but the other ones don't look wildly different.
Woh dude, the first three Mario & Luigi games are arguably better RPG than any Paper Mario. The others are just average or bad games.
I hope the upcoming remake of Superstar Saga will sell well enough to give a better direction for future games.
I actually don't have the game.
But the world they constructed is 10x more interesting than recent ML games. Music, Graphics and writing are all top tier.
NPCs and Boss choice not so much
But gameplay is gameplay. And gameplay is bad.
I couldn't justify getting it
Skullwaker
Member
Is Dream Team considered average/bad? I thought it had a good reputation.
I've heard fantastic things about Superstar Saga and Bowser's Inside Story though, so I should at least try those out eventually. SS's remake might be an opportune time to give it a go.
Fair enough. The other aspects of CS carried the weight of the game for me, but I understand why the battle system would turn people off completely.
test_account
XP-39C²
I think the different trackers are using different shipment numbers. Both Media Create and Dengeki has Gundam at about the same number (~122k). I think its unlikely that Gundam only sold about 1k during the next three days, going by Media Create's 60% first day sell-through.
I'm curious to how they come up with the shipment numbers. I would think that it would be a static number, but i guess its based on estimates.
TheLegendaryN
Member
Ni no Kuni isn't the only game that got delayed recently tho. Just like Nirolak said, it's a company-wide problem. Whether it's mobile, 3DS, whatever, it's been ages since the announcements of so many games, yet we still haven't heard much of them since (without release date update after the initial announcement); and the rest all gets delayed, and not just once but multiple times.
One (imo) extreme example is Youkai Watch for Smartphones (port of the first game). That game got announced at Level-5 Vision 2016 (on 27 July 2016) and was announced as a Fall 2016 release. And it still isn't out yet. It's been a year. It should've been out in a couple of months. What the heck are they doing over there?
Those other things are what almost got me to a buy a JRPG in which I had zero interest in ever fighting a single battle. So that's pretty impressive feat lol
I doubt SS remake will have any imapact going forward.
The first 4 M&L games didn't reuse sprites like this.
The last 2 have reused sprites. I think M&L SS is just another way to make a game for cheap (as was Paper Jam noted by the shorter dev time and reused assets) that might sell decently.
Yeah Dream Team(from what I can tell) is considered average at best. SS, Partners in Time and Bowser's Inside Story are amazing.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves though. This can't be true in a world where The Thousand Year Door exists.