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SinCityAssassin · Mar 13, 2017

In last week's Media Create and Famitsu listings, Super Bomberman R ranged between 36,623 units sold and 39,609 units sold respectively. Which means that at launch alone, it's beaten the lifetime japanese sales of every other game in the series (traditional and spin off) over the last 15 years. Let's hope that tells Konami that maybe this franchise will be worth properly supporting after all. It is worth noting that Konami is open to reviving other old franchises based on how they see Bomberman perform.

https://twitter.com/oscarlemaire/status/839492523542343681

What A Time To Be Alive · Mar 13, 2017

Well being a launch title in a pretty anemic launch lineup helped a lot.

phantasmic_glaive · Mar 13, 2017

But I wanted to say bombaman

Jk. Glad the Bman is back!

Jon Carter · Mar 13, 2017

Hot off the press breaking news.

Roi · Mar 13, 2017

Wow those sales of all the other titles are abysmal. Now I understand why they didn't put to much effort in this title.

Hero of Legend · Mar 13, 2017

Even if 39k isn't huge on its own, this fact can only mean great things for Bomberman's future, and Nintendo were the ones to get this started, very likely when talks happened to bring Momotaro back.

As for when led to its development, was told that both Nintendo and Konami came together to help make it happen in the first place,

Hopefully Nintendo gets the keys for the next entry, and either gives it to ND Cube, Valhalla (who did Momotaro 3DS), or even Racjin (the Bomberman Land games). Any would be far better than Konami themselves, as sadly Super Bomberman R isn't that good it seems.

Occam · Mar 13, 2017

It feels like it's the only one, too.

Red Arremer · Mar 13, 2017

People wanted an actual Bomberman game and not some sort of RPG action adventure spinoff? Shocking.

LordKano · Mar 13, 2017

Second Konami IP resurrected by Nintendo. Next step is Castlevania.

DMONKUMA · Mar 13, 2017

LordKano said:
Second Konami IP resurrected by Nintendo. Next step is Castlevania.

Wait what was the first?

Dingens · Mar 13, 2017

I kinda wish it was more like Bomberman64 though...
still miss its story mode

Hero of Legend · Mar 13, 2017

DMONKUMA said:
Wait what was the first?

Momotaro.

Both were Hudson's IPs, not of Konami's creation.

gondwana · Mar 13, 2017

namco could have farted out another half-baked ridge racer and made some coin with how horrible this launch lineup is

LordKano · Mar 13, 2017

DMONKUMA said:
Wait what was the first?

Momotaro Densetsu in Japan

Hero of Legend · Mar 13, 2017

gondwana said:
namco could have farted out another half-baked ridge racer and made some coin with how horrible this launch lineup is

I know right? Seriously.

(regarding Ridge Racer)

Rymuth · Mar 13, 2017

LordKano said:
Second Konami IP resurrected by Nintendo. Next step is Castlevania.

Bloody Roar, mate. Bloody freaking Roar

Risette · Mar 13, 2017

I'm glad it didn't bomb but.. hopefully the next one is better.

ekim · Mar 13, 2017

Unfortunately the unresponsive and floaty controls kill it. (Yes even in SP)

DMONKUMA · Mar 13, 2017

LordKano said:
Momotaro Densetsu in Japan

Hero of Legend said:
Momotaro. Both were Hudson's IPs, not of Konami's creation.

Ah ok.

Hero of Legend · Mar 13, 2017

Rymuth said:
Bloody Roar, mate. Bloody freaking Roar

They can even get 8ing back to work on it, not like they're doing much else these days are they?

SatoAilDarko · Mar 13, 2017

In the US this was one of four physical launch games I saw in stores.

Jon Carter · Mar 13, 2017

gondwana said:
namco could have farted out another half-baked ridge racer and made some coin with how horrible this launch lineup is

Not having Ridge Racer at the launch of a new system still hurts. They make for amazing launch games. I played Ridge Racer 3D daily for months, having a blast with the 3DS while people were complaining about the software drought. Fast RMX is probably a fantastic launch racer, but I already have Neo on Wii U.

SatoAilDarko said:
In the US this was one of four physical launch games I saw in stores.

Skylanders Imaginators Switch is in the Skylanders section.

bon · Mar 13, 2017

Do Bonk next, then Adventure Island.

Resistance100 · Mar 13, 2017

Geddon Bomberman. Still great fun in local multiplayer

Hero of Legend · Mar 13, 2017

bon said:
Do Bonk next, then Adventure Island.

Red Entertainment still exists (and works with Nintendo on the new Fire Emblem games IIRC), and I think they co-created both Bonk and Adventure Island with Hudson, so they'd be fit to return on those. They do make their own games... once in a blue moon, they did Domino Rally/Go! Go! Minon on Wii.

giancarlo123x · Mar 13, 2017

Bombergirl is coming for that ass. 😉

SinCityAssassin · Mar 13, 2017

ekim said:
Unfortunately the unresponsive and floaty controls kill it. (Yes even in SP)

Let's hope Konami's a competent bomberman patcher.

ArtHands · Mar 13, 2017

Bomberman is a timeless series. Glad to see it doing well.

Zalman · Mar 13, 2017

Been having fun with this game's local multiplayer. Glad it's doing well and I hope we get more games.

Garou · Mar 13, 2017

LordKano said:
Momotaro Densetsu in Japan

Dentetsu, not Densetsu

It's about trains, not legends.

Drkirby · Mar 13, 2017

Thats kind of sad, with how bad of a Bomberman game it is.

ffvorax · Mar 13, 2017

Being one of the few titles available for sure helped.

Still waiting for my Bomberman Vita/PS4. (I know it will never happen...

)

SatoAilDarko · Mar 13, 2017

bon said:
Do Bonk next, then Adventure Island.

I've always wanted a full 3D Bonk platformer. Other 2D mascots like Mario, Sonic, Mega Man and Rayman got one.

There was actually a WiiWare Adventure Island in 2009.

WiiWare had a lot of new entries in classic series.

ramparter · Mar 13, 2017

What A Time To Be Alive said:
Well being a launch title in a pretty anemic launch lineup helped a lot.

Yeah, it's really funny that of all companies it was Konami that seized the opportunity of having one of the very few (only retail actually?) 3rd party games on Switch launch.

ryushe · Mar 13, 2017

Part of me is ecstatic that this did well.

The other half is... well, have you guys played it game?

Alex_Mexico · Mar 13, 2017

I wonder if this success found on Switch could result in Konami bringing the game to other platforms.

Or perhaps, *gasp*, more Bomberman games!

SinCityAssassin · Mar 13, 2017

ramparter said:
Yeah, it's really funny that of all companies it was Konami that seized the opportunity of having one of the very few (only retail actually?) 3rd party games on Switch launch.

Just Dance and Skylanders were also physical.

Vitacat · Mar 13, 2017

Hopefully this encourages them to get that promised patch out asap.

Red Arremer · Mar 13, 2017

Rymuth said:
Bloody Roar, mate. Bloody freaking Roar

Man Nintendo should just buy up Konami's IPs, at the very least the lesser known ones. Konami can keep Silent Hill and Metal Gear.

ramparter · Mar 13, 2017

SinCityAssassin said:
Just Dance and Skylanders were also physical.

Thanks, for correcting me. Still a non game and a game already released on every other console.

Red Arremer said:
Man Nintendo should just buy up Konami's IPs, at the very least the lesser known ones. Konami can keep Silent Hill and Metal Gear.

And Mystical Ninja - I feel this IP is perfect for Nintendo audience.

J@hranimo · Mar 13, 2017

Drkirby said:
Thats kind of sad, with how bad of a Bomberman game it is.

The thirst was real.

I didn't buy it though.

salromano · Mar 13, 2017

It's actually only around 10,000 or so units off from outselling every other Bomberman game on that chart combined.

-Mutsukki- · Mar 13, 2017

Garou said:
Dentetsu, not Densetsu
It's about trains, not legends.

This is really important because there is an actual Momotaro Densetsu with the same characters but for some reason the train focused spin-off is absurdly more popular

jonno394 · Mar 13, 2017

ramparter said:
And Mystical Ninja - I feel this IP is perfect for Nintendo audience.

Yes please, outside of Castlevania, this is my favourite konami series.

clay_ghost · Mar 13, 2017

salromano said:
It's actually only around 10,000 or so units off from outselling every other Bomberman game on that chart combined.

It should easily reach that lol. Sad to hear it's not that good since I was interested to buy it. Maybe I will wait for a price drop.

MindGamingMantis · Mar 13, 2017

Occam said:
It feels like it's the only one, too.

This. It's the only Bomberman in 15 years lol

Inb4nosenseofhumor

Unknown Soldier · Mar 13, 2017

The trick is to be a launch title I guess.

clay_ghost · Mar 13, 2017

Unknown Soldier said:
The trick is to be a launch title I guess.

If only the 3DS version made it, that looked very nice too.

spekkeh · Mar 13, 2017

Well this will surely mean it will drop in price quickly FML.

Red Arremer · Mar 13, 2017

ramparter said:
And Mystical Ninja - I feel this IP is perfect for Nintendo audience.

I think you misread what I said - Konami can keep Metal Gear and Silent Hill (also add in Yugioh to that), and Nintendo should grab all of Konami's other, lesser known series. That includes but is not limited to Goemon, but also the likes of Gradius, Twinbee, Sparkster, Contra, Hudson's library, among others. Also Castlevania of course.
It also would be great if Nintendo then revived all those wacky games from Konami's Famicom days that only cameo'd in stuff like Wai Wai World or Parodius, such as Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa, Yume Penguin Monogatari, Getsu Fuuma Den, Boku no Dracula-kun, Moai-kun, and so on.

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