Hero of Legend
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Kirby ain't got no legs, he's a cookie!
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Media Create Sales: Week 4, 2015 (Jan 19 - Jan 25)
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Kirby ain't got no legs, he's a cookie!
Hero of Legend
Member
He doesn't even have toes!
So what you're saying is that Kirby will roll a great distance?
Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see how the cookie crumbles.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
It will be interesting to see how more PS3/4 titles perform. I'm also guessing there will be a MGSV PS4 bundle.
Cookie Kirby strikes me as a very small project, very much akin to Toad. Give it to some younger devs to work on and sharpen their fangs, make it a budget release, and, more than likely, recoup all investment rather quickly with even low sales.
I always thought it would be the 2016 Wii U game.
The ultimate issue for Sony to tackle is making the PS4 a system where someone can look at the upcoming line-up and go "I will definitely want this to play X, Y, and Z, so I will buy it now to play W, even though I can on another platform as well."
Like in the West everyone immediately understood that new consoles would have lots of exclusive games (as compared to PS3/360) pretty quickly, so buying them to play a bunch of cross-gen games was a fine idea. Everyone had the confidence that there was guaranteed astronomical value in purchasing these systems in the long run.
I'm not sure that's the case for the average potential Japanese console customer yet.
Yeah I think basically everyone expected this to pretty much be the end of the road when Smash/MK8 didn't revive the system.
Most of Nintendo's remaining IPs aren't huge in Japan. I guess there might be an Animal Crossing game, but I'm not sure how much more that will actually move.
Bayonetta the character has long legs, Bayonetta the game has short legs.
Captain Toad the character has short legs, Captain Toad the game has long legs.
It's inversely proportional.
But Kirby has no legs at all.
So inverse proportionality leads to a singularity in the equation.
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
Well hopefully Kirby will have sales rolling over time =P.
fredrancour
Member
Kirby just has feet attached directly to his precious little spherical torso. Zero legs on his person. 1/legs = 1/0.
Kirby rainbow curse confirmed to have infinite sales
Hero of Legend
Member
Toad's got no legs either!
Say .. what if The Legend of Zelda was a new "Ocarina of time" type phenom ... do you think there'd be a chance of a Wii U revival with that?
I kinda see it as Nintendo's last chance for the WiiU, but maybe then I'm too optimistic
Hellraider
Member
Say .. what if The Legend of Zelda was a new "Ocarina of time" type phenom ... do you think there'd be a chance of a Wii U revival with that?
I kinda see it as Nintendo's last chance for the WiiU, but maybe then I'm too optimistic
Is this coming before or after the secret PS4 game that will change everything?
Say .. what if The Legend of Zelda was a new "Ocarina of time" type phenom ... do you think there'd be a chance of a Wii U revival with that?
I kinda see it as Nintendo's last chance for the WiiU, but maybe then I'm too optimistic
OoT didn't revive the N64. no chance the Wii U Zelda does it for Wii U.
theprodigy
Member
Say .. what if The Legend of Zelda was a new "Ocarina of time" type phenom ... do you think there'd be a chance of a Wii U revival with that?
I kinda see it as Nintendo's last chance for the WiiU, but maybe then I'm too optimistic
Zelda can't even break 500k on the 3DS any more (what the hell Japan), so...no
yeah, about that...
Devilgunman
Member
Sony is using the same strategy for PSP->Vita transition and it went well. They do it with many cross-gen titles and some PS4 exclusives, then the number of exclusives will increase over time. People will eventually move on from PS3.
That's highly debatable. Vita is only doing well in comparison to disastrous consoles.
ArchedThunder
Banned
I wouldn't exactly say that transition went well.
small44
Member
I don't think it has nothing to do with Sony it's 3rd party choice to release they games where ever they want
KratosEnergyDrink
Member
Media create has very strange numbers for some systems since many month.
Famitsu sales (with said to be more accurate) are very different from MC numbers (for example usually Wii U higher and PS4 lower sales than MC).
Devilgunman
Member
I didn't talk about the hardware sale. I meant the transition from PSP -> Vita went well as evidenced by some of PSP/Vita games, Toukiden for example, sold better on the Vita.
theprodigy
Member
ahahahaha
Especially funny since I remember the entire summer of 2014 Media Create was higher on Wii U...
edit: you know what this is even better
Media Create-10.653
Famitsu-9.010
Wat?
KratosEnergyDrink
Member
Hard to compare console Zeldas to handheld ones. Different market... and Zelda U seems to be the biggest Zelda since a long time. Could reach a broad new audience or loose old audience, who knows?
Devilgunman
Member
Well Skyward Sword didn't do so hot as well back in 2011. And that was on the massive installed bases of the Wii.
Hellraider
Member
There is no point talking about the chances a game has to become a phenomenon and doing miracles. I could say this for every single game that gets released every weak. It would get us nowhere.
Even then we're possibly about to see God Eater 2 Rage Burst only do half of the original release due to the loss of PSP users. It's making the best of a bad situation IMO.
Your answer was so nonsensical, I had to wonder.
As per deeming "useless" the theory of the impact on sales of a brand new release in the Zelda franchise on Wii U (a game announced and teased since before the release of said console) in a sales thread ...
/smh
But thanks for deciding for me what has a point and what does not, I had nooo idea.
For someone that has put ten hours into the game thus far then I can confidently say it is not very good at all. The story is non-existent, the game is just constant battles, the battle gimmick isn't as exciting as other games' gimmicks, the characters are lacklustre, the game is unfair and generally it's not particularly exciting to play.
theprodigy
Member
mrmickfran
Member
lol
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Not a terrible debut for Zestiria. I think it did fine.
Spazgadget
Member
I agree. They are clearly not breaking any records but the "baseline" of weekly PS4 sales seems to be rising from ~10K to closer to ~14K. I'm assuming a lot of this has to do with the upcoming slate of PS4 hardware (I expect Bloodborne, in particular, to do really well on and for the PS4). Additionally, I think people WILL eventually tire of the PS3 as software slows down on that platform and move to the PS4.
The PS4 not being a runaway smash there is very different from it being a failure. Just seems like a slow-burn of a start for it, in my opinion. I think they'll continue to grow in 2015. X1, however... yikes.
Famitsu Top 10 Digital Sales December 2014
01. [3DS] Yokai Watch 2: Shinuchi (Level-5) - 52.408 (2.9%)
02. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (Mojang) - 35.705 (100%)
03. [WIU] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Nintendo) - 34.258 (8.0%)
04. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire (Pokemon Company) - 31.322 (3.8%)
05. [3DS] Final Fantasy Explorers (Square Enix) - 17.327 (9.6%)
06. [PSV] Phantasy Star Nova (Sega) - 16.807 (10.6%)
07. [PSV] Gundam Breaker 2 (Bandai Namco Games) - 11.167 (17.0%)
08. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar) - 10.241 (10%)
09. [PS4] Dragon Age: Inquisition (Electronic Arts) - 10.111 (20.3%)
10. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo) - 7.763 (4.5%)
Legend:
Sales Rank - Platform - Game Title - Publisher - Estimated Digital Sales - Percentage of total sales (physical+digital) in the tracking period sold digitally
01. [3DS] Yokai Watch 2: Shinuchi (Level-5) - 52.408 (2.9%)
02. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (Mojang) - 35.705 (100%)
03. [WIU] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Nintendo) - 34.258 (8.0%)
04. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire (Pokemon Company) - 31.322 (3.8%)
05. [3DS] Final Fantasy Explorers (Square Enix) - 17.327 (9.6%)
06. [PSV] Phantasy Star Nova (Sega) - 16.807 (10.6%)
07. [PSV] Gundam Breaker 2 (Bandai Namco Games) - 11.167 (17.0%)
08. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar) - 10.241 (10%)
09. [PS4] Dragon Age: Inquisition (Electronic Arts) - 10.111 (20.3%)
10. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo) - 7.763 (4.5%)
Legend:
Sales Rank - Platform - Game Title - Publisher - Estimated Digital Sales - Percentage of total sales (physical+digital) in the tracking period sold digitally
No one here can say which tracker is more accurate, it's only personal preference.
I'm not sure if the average Japanese consumer thinks that way, they normally only buy stuff that is useful to them right now, rather than any future potential
theprodigy
Member
not only that, in this case it's pretty blatant that it's really "whichever one has my console higher at the time is right"
no Nirolak, the truth is that Super Mario 3D World was the biggest system seller for the Wii U in Japan
Well, we didn't see much of a bump with Smash or Mario Kart 8, so unless everyone who wanted those games also felt 3D World was an very high need title that justified the entire system on its own, they would seem to have picked up the system earlier.
The PS4 also had an unusually high launch for what was actually releasing.
Consoles at this point are niche products, so I don't think we're talking about your average customer that plays games at all sense, but average customer who would actually consider buying a console.
Led_Zeppelin
Member
Minecraft seems big enough to warrant a retail release. I wonder if Sony had that in mind before MS bought Mojang. Now I think it would be impossible for Vita to get a retail release of Minecraft in Japan.