And finally, Star Ocean 5 for PS3, being heavily discounted not too many days after its release.
holy moly
And finally, Star Ocean 5 for PS3, being heavily discounted not too many days after its release.
The competition would be in the fact that people have limited funds to spend, and stacking two games like that back to back (tapping similar markets) is going to give you an erosion in consumer spending. People don't have infinite money nor infinite time, so two long-ass JRPGs launching back to back is just not something I'd consider a wise strategy. Also since they are JRPGs with limited online (if any) importance, you're going to just push even harder into the second-hand market for one or the other. Buy one new, spend XY hours on the game, trade it in and get the other used Z weeks/days later and play for WU hours.
At this point, we should be asking about Splatoon vs. FFXV, lol.
I'm just waiting for Nintendo to announce Pokemon to coincide with his just to fuck with everything, now. (They won't.)
Ōkami;202758447 said:There's Toukiden 2 and a new Robot Taisen coming at the end of June and Ys VIII in July.
I'm curious about this one.Ys VIII is PSV only, the PS4 version launches in 2017.
And Toukiden 2 smells a bomba.
Is that a good bump for Golden Week?
Seems pretty solid.
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|System | This Week | Last Week | Last Year | YTD | Last YTD | LTD |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
| PS4 | 27.903 | 20.070 | 17.671 | 546.086 | 446.683 | 2.676.819 |
| 3DS # | 22.395 | 15.086 | 27.210 | 529.725 | 760.503 | 20.566.681 |
| PSV # | 17.661 | 11.233 | 18.163 | 433.214 | 386.199 | 4.815.631 |
| WIU | 10.116 | 7.195 | 22.936 | 182.843 | 172.154 | 3.126.430 |
| PS3 | 1.163 | 837 | 3.894 | 26.212 | 113.591 | 10.232.953 |
| XB1 | 90 | 82 | 403 | 2.623 | 8.422 | 66.674 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
| ALL | 79.328 | 54.503 | 90.277 | 1.720.703 | 1.887.552 | 41.485.188 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
Ōkami;202769189 said:Capcom will will release their full FY results on Monday, so we'll get an update for Monster Hunter Generations then, maybe, game isn't having legs so it might've not gotten a new shipment, or it was really small.
I'm more interesting to see weather or not sales of the game will make up for Street Fighter V.
Also Animal Crossing: New Leaf + Happy Price will outsell Pokémon X/Y next week, difference between the 2 is now less than 1000.
Ōkami;202769189 said:Capcom will release their full FY results on Monday, so we'll get an update for Monster Hunter Generations then, maybe, game isn't having legs so it might've not gotten a new shipment, or it was really small.
I'm more interesting to see weather or not sales of the game will make up for Street Fighter V.
Also Animal Crossing: New Leaf + Happy Price will outsell Pokémon X/Y next week, difference between the 2 is now less than 1000.
Usually RPGs like Persona can be done in a week. Maybe once people are done with P5 by then, they'll sell it while it's hot and buy FFXV the next week at its launch.
The only downside I see is much shorter legs for P5, which I don't see much of a big impact given that games in that genre have short legs to begin with.
And FFXV vs Splatoon ltd in Japan will be a fun discussion down the line lol.
Wait, is there a holiday in Japan around that time? How can people finish P5 in a week? They need to play like 8 hours a day.
Wait, is there a holiday in Japan around that time? How can people finish P5 in a week? They need to play like 8 hours a day.
Wait, is there a holiday in Japan around that time? How can people finish P5 in a week? They need to play like 8 hours a day.
Ōkami;202769189 said:Also Animal Crossing: New Leaf + Happy Price will outsell Pokémon X/Y next week, difference between the 2 is now less than 1000.
The next coming months are going to be a huge pressure for me as a YO-KAI WATCH fan, I'm hoping YW3 succeeds in Japan. Cause if not, I'll be hearing YW hate comments across social media. ;_;
I'm curious about this one.
Playing the demo on PS4 and the framerate was dropping out of its ass. Wonder how the PSV version will be able to handle it.
I wonder if Generations will herald the 3DS price drop in the west as MH4U ushered in the New3DS.
The series hasn't had a release since 2014, and the mobile game has been successful (iirc). It's the first solid baseball game for the PS4 in Japan and NPB & baseball generally are very popular (for example the two national high school tournaments (Koshien) each year are huge events run by the big newspaper/media groups Asahi and Mainichi Shinbun, airing on national broadcast tv & streaming).
I'm a big power pro fan so I got both PS4 and PSV versions. It's just a great, great version of power pro. The best the game has ever looked, visually, and the new story mode seems to be pretty cool.
Konami's baseball engines are top notch. Power Pro isn't as hard core as their other series (PYS, which is/may be dead), but it hits a sweet spot between a more sim like game and an arcade game. Tons of modes and ways to create players (some infested by PTW/gatcha mechanics though). My favorite is the Best Nine mode where you manage a high school team, and develop players over their 2 1/2 year eligibility period and hope they get drafted. If they get drafted you can use them in the other modes, like My Life and Pennant. It's fun because most of the kids who join the team will be ordinary players but sometimes you get an absolute monster, which is exciting because (1) you can mold them into super players for the other modes and (2) your school will have a shot at Koshien.
There's a ton of content in the game, more than any recent version I think, including last year's special event uniforms. Like here's my favorite player (Sho Nakata of the Nippon Ham Fighters) wearing the special throwback unis they had one week in 2015.
There has been several Wii U shipments during this week. However, it seems Japan should be the only country where PS4 is cheaper than Wii U.
Thanks for the info, it's a shame such gameplay concepts couldn't be used a US baseball game.
Did they start now first? The game is out in 5 days.Bic Camera has already started the promotion for Uncharted. They are accepting reservations.
Ōkami;202768051 said:
Have you ever wanted to play a PSP hunting game with a PSone frame rate? Congrats, Toukiden 2 on Vita is for you. It's ugly, it runs about as poorly as it could and it's going to sell horribly compared to the first. KT should be proud. They built up a pretty solid new IP, then killed it almost immediately. Usually that only happens to Omega Force's licensed games.
If it does flop, I do wonder what the fallout will be. I think whoever made the decision to lead development for Toukiden 2 on anything other than Vita probably shouldn't be allowed to make decisions anymore.
I didn't even know footage of the Vita version existed until this post and I searched for it.Have you ever wanted to play a PSP hunting game with a PSone frame rate? Congrats, Toukiden 2 on Vita is for you. It's ugly, it runs about as poorly as it could and it's going to sell horribly compared to the first. KT should be proud. They built up a pretty solid new IP, then killed it almost immediately. Usually that only happens to Omega Force's licensed games.
If it does flop, I do wonder what the fallout will be. I think whoever made the decision to lead development for Toukiden 2 on anything other than Vita probably shouldn't be allowed to make decisions anymore.
I imagine they see trying for the Western audience as more important than retaining the modest Japanese audience especially when Vita will probably be dead by the time Toukiden 3 could be a thing.
I didn't even know footage of the Vita version existed until this post and I searched for it.
Jesus Christ that looks awful. The framerate at the start with the combat looks like it's hitting single digits.
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What's so strange about considering XenobladeX bigger than Star Ocean V ? I'm not comparing the history of the franchise but those two games.
Everyone who follows import reviews and impressions knows that Star Ocean V, while a decent snack for summer before Final Fantasy XV, Tales of Berseria and Persona 5, is a middle class RPG way smaller in scale, dev time and budget than anticipated. I don't need to explain why XenobladeX is the total opposite of this, and is by far the biggest RPG ever created by Nintendo and one of the most ambitious of its genre in the recent years. If I wanted to troll I could have compared with Genei Ibun Roku #FE to show how fantastic tri-Ace did, y'know.
I imagine they see trying for the Western audience as more important than retaining the modest Japanese audience especially when Vita will probably be dead by the time Toukiden 3 could be a thing.
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
|System | This Week | Last Week | Last Year | YTD | Last YTD |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| ALL | 762.000 | 404.000 | 752.000 | 10.156.000 | 12.339.000 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|System | This Week | Last Week | Last Year | YTD | Last YTD | LTD |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
| PS4 | 28.578 | 20.589 | 19.782 | 475.993 | 478.370 | 2.777.073 |
| 3DS # | 25.578 | 18.261 | 25.948 | 507.860 | 752.361 | 20.693.862 |
| PSV # | 20.168 | 12.678 | 18.435 | 354.863 | 387.828 | 4.948.261 |
| WIU | 10.020 | 5.968 | 22.898 | 137.530 | 169.121 | 3.158.193 |
| PS3 | 1.560 | 1.153 | 3.956 | 27.386 | 126.988 | 10.415.466 |
| XB1 | 100 | 101 | 341 | 2.620 | 7.692 | 66.511 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
| ALL | 86.004 | 58.750 | 91.360 | 1.506.252 | 1.922.360 | 42.059.366 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
| PSV | 20.168 | 12.678 | 17.748 | 354.863 | 375.648 | 4.762.808 |
|n-3DSLL| 20.257 | 13.917 | 17.062 | 361.826 | 445.468 | 2.831.945 |
| n-3DS | 3.997 | 3.268 | 5.901 | 89.433 | 174.579 | 921.880 |
| 3DSLL | 233 | 137 | 1.465 | 9.320 | 68.450 | 6.952.585 |
| 3DS | 1.091 | 939 | 1.520 | 47.281 | 63.864 | 9.987.460 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
Didn't Toukiden for PS4 ultra bombed on the west? I don't think they're trying to appeal the west. Seems more like they needed a change on the gameplay since they want to move it to home consoles (where hunter genre isn't popular) and something went wrong.
It's people like you that want to be right about YW just to satisfy your "Pokemon will always reign" supreme taste.Animal Crossing is at 5,3m. As a Famitsu comparison there is still a battle but in reality when counting digital sales it was over many months ago.
Get ready because I'm going to be rude again against those who thought it had a chance to take the crown from Pokemon.
Do you know Xenoblade X budget? I'm pretty sure that you're aware of all the interviews (posted here several times) where Takahashi talks about the budget of Xenoblade X Chronicles.
So when someone says something like this or "digital will save X game" without further explanations and knowing that 99% of the time digital sales are only 10-15% of retail sales is a reason to be mocked IMO. And the same goes for "Asia will save it".
Now Chris has been mocking actions (fanboys, game sales...) from the very beginning (and rightfully so I should add) be it Mpl90 with the comgnet data, Kandinsky and myself with horrible predictions, Koei with musou sequels... etc. but now that he's mocking some actions related to Sony it seems that some people got upset ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Only expensive thing in Xenoblade X is voice actors, read Iwata's Ask for more details.
Only expensive thing in SO5 imo maybe Akiman's art works, no joke.