Not necessarily. FF XI wasn't inline with the series sales and it became Square-Enix's most successful venture ever because of subscription fees. MMOs are a whole nother kettle of fish.
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Media Create Sales: Week 31, 2012 (Jul 30 - Aug 05)
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Not necessarily. FF XI wasn't inline with the series sales and it became Square-Enix's most successful venture ever because of subscription fees. MMOs are a whole nother kettle of fish.
Sammy Samusu
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25./23. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G # <ACT> (Capcom) {2011.12.10} (¥5.800) - 6.219 / 1.509.779 (-17%)
Oh oh oh oh oh. Now we are heading to 1.51M!
Oh oh oh oh oh. Now we are heading to 1.51M!
We got the yearly population surveys and a variety of sub announcements for 11.
Never got anything really for 14 to my knowledge.
Opus Angelorum
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In the last two weeks, the 3DS hold sold almost half of the PSVita total sales to date in Japan.
wow, could you be more obvious that you're new to following Japanese sales trends?
Isn't a bit too early to call NSMB2 disappointing, especially considering there will be some Holidays in the following weeks and the nature of the game? It could start doing at least 100k per week for the following months, remember.
Diddy Kong
Banned
Nice Wii bump!
perhaps.
but numbers like these are usually what you see for spinoff DQ games, and not the mainline titles.
Not really.
metalslimer
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What? It's possible that the game will start selling like 100k weekly like MPl said, but the first two weeks are tracking far below the other two. Unless you were talking about the DQX statement in which I was probably optimistic in thinking the subscribers would hold like 11. It still could end up being the most profitable game in the series with the Wii U version
Impeccable
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With the way things are going lately, I wouldn't be surprised if someone takes that fact and makes a whole new thread about it.
Coppertracks
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More than likely. And I hate to play the download card but until we know how it's doing download wise it's a bit difficult to properly gauge its sales. Hopefully Nintendo will release some numbers soon (Hah).
King Beyond the wall
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We have no idea how the digital sales are, until nintendo release numbers we can't judge the game's performance with any degree of accuracy
If anything, the free play hours will be an incentive or stick&carrot for people to get a subscription.
Your suprised? We're talking about Dragon Quest here.
Doesn't matter if online or single-player.
Dragon Quest rocks in japan!
thank you lol
metalslimer
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No. It's tracking worse than the PS3 which is the standard I think for a system somewhat recovering.
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3DS was doing much better than this. PS3 I think is the closest for a "revived" system.
Yeah that was ironic ;_;
These are very good sales. As for the SE, I can already hear the sweet, sweet, ka-ching sound they desperately need thee days.
Nosferatubeast
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What happened to the 3DS last year? Only 4K units were sold then.
Smiles and Cries
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3DS to hit 7 million in Japan next week?
BassForever
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Naaaaaah, it's better to not count digital sales for now, considering we don't have them. Let's talk just about retail sales.
StreetsAhead
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Week before the price drop.
King Beyond the wall
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I suppose the 3ds would be closest, but when that was at it's worst it was around 2x or 3x what the vita has been performing at for the last few months
Week before price drop.
Aad
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[PS2] Final Fantasy X (Square) {2001-07-19} - 1,749,737
[PS2] Final Fantasy XI (Square) {2002-05-16} - 63,958
[PS2] Final Fantasy XII (Square Enix) {2006-03-16} - 1,840,397
[PS2] Dragon Quest VIII (Square Enix) {2004-11-27} - 2,236,881
[NDS] Dragon Quest IX: Defenders of the Starry Sky (Square Enix) {2009-07-11} - 2,343,440
[WII] Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online (Square Enix) {2012.08.02} - 420.311
There is a Top20 of the best selling DD titles on eShop and NSMB2 has yet to make that chart. This means it sold less than @Simple DL Series Vol.2 THE Misshitsu kara no dasshutsu gakkou no kyuukoush-hen, which is #20. On 19 is the Love Plus Tools, which might give more of a hint how much NSMB2 didn't sell. I'm guessing the Love Plus TOOLS didn't outsell the retail game it belongs to.
So NSMB2 DD definitely < New Love Plus 3DS. How much lower is anyone's guess.
The next weeks will show when NSMB2 makes the Top20.
Wii LTD in Japan isn't impressive by any stretch of imagination.
AdventureRacing
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Even though it's doing good i can't help but feel disappointed by 3DS SW sales the last few weeks. NSMB2 doesn't really seem to setting the charts on fire like i expected but the big HW boost really doesn't seem to be helping the games already released. I was expecting more games to move up the charts.
Also vita is in an amazingly bad position, already back below 10K and dropping pretty fast consdering how few units are being moved. How long until it gets another big piece of software to move some hardware? It really is in trouble.
Also vita is in an amazingly bad position, already back below 10K and dropping pretty fast consdering how few units are being moved. How long until it gets another big piece of software to move some hardware? It really is in trouble.
electroplankton
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Two notes:
-3DS still selling 42k, which is quite incredible given the release of XL
-NSMB2 may have sold below many's expectations but it's not that Nintendo is not earning a ton of money from that.
-3DS still selling 42k, which is quite incredible given the release of XL
-NSMB2 may have sold below many's expectations but it's not that Nintendo is not earning a ton of money from that.
King Beyond the wall
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I'm just saying that before people pass judgement and say that NSMB2 has performed worse than the others we should wait for the digital sales which no doubt represent a good chunk of overall numbers
StreetsAhead
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Do you know for sure they include retail titles with download-only software?
By this time in its life it had already got the price cut, too. And Sony shows no signs of taking drastic action anytime soon.
The longer the situation goes on the more it seems likely that while some parts of Sony wanted the Vita, others didn't. Wouldn't surprise me if the Western branches were putting all their efforts into the mobile space instead.
In 22 days, Hatsune Miku.
Hopefully releases will pick up from TGS on.
Sony deserves a lot of blame in this. But come on. Not a single Vita game in the Top 30? That's pathetic. If I were a publisher I wouldn't support the device either.
That's not what he said. Nooope.
electroplankton
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walking fiend
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haha, my DQ predictions were 100% off 
I don't think 400k is good, unless it's going to have good leg
I don't think 400k is good, unless it's going to have good leg
metalslimer
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You know I feel like NSMB2 wasn't even made really for the Japanese market. 3DS sales are fine here. It seems made to combat 3DS sales in the west, so I'm not sure I would judge its success until I see those numbers (although I feel the game is not going to be the big thing Nintendo expects).
Maybe in the west this could be said, but I'm not sure we have any data to back up download sales being a big chunks.
If those 400k kept subscribed for a long period it would be more profitable than any other game in the series even 9.
RurouniZel
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Not surprised that a bump happened.
I'm surprised at the size of it. I was pretty sure most people buying DQX would already have one. >_>
Important to note.
alfredofroylan
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Well the sales of DQ X are way better than the sales of Final fantasy XI, as a interesting note Final Fantasy XIV shipped 190,000 copies in Japan.
haha, my DQ predictions were 100% off
I don't think 400k is good, unless it's going to have good leg
As already stated, 400k is already more than the life to date FFXI sales in Japan. If they can keep half the people on subscription than the aforementioned title, it will be already a huge cash cow.
Edit: beaten like a dead horse.