slaughterking
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Meanwhile, Capcom officially expects a little over one million shipped worldwide.
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Media Create Sales: Week 10, 2012 (Mar 05 - Mar 11)
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Meanwhile, Capcom officially expects a little over one million shipped worldwide.
MasterSheen
Member
I wonder if Vita is gonna stall from sub10k again this week lol.
BishopLamont
Banned
Vita might dangle around the 10k mark for awhile, but it'll definitely drop even further if nothing really changes.
perfectchaos007
Member
How many weeks did 3DS remain under 10K? Obviously the week of the price drop announcement, but any others?
BishopLamont
Banned
Thats about it. It only dropped below 20k once or something in every other times IIRC.
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
Indeed, the 3DS' doldrums were nothing compared to the Vita's. Not to mention they had the earthquake to contend with.
Yeah, it was selling around 25-30k a week and at the worst around 15-20k sometimes
michaelius
Banned
You mean the earthquake that was fully cleaned and impossible to notice in Tokyo and south from it apart from save electrical power warnings when i was in Japan 6 weeks
You mean the earthquake that was fully cleaned and impossible to notice in Tokyo and south from it apart from save electrical power warnings when i was in Japan 6 weeks
Well wasn't the earthquake at large a pretty significant disaster? Even if a lot of people were relatively unharmed, it probably had a pretty huge psychological impact on consumers.
It still affected game sales considerably iirc. It was more of a psychological thing than anything, you just don't go happily jumping into a game store after a disaster like that.You mean the earthquake that was fully cleaned and impossible to notice in Tokyo and south from it apart from save electrical power warnings when i was in Japan 6 weeks
BishopLamont
Banned
It was enough to take attention away from the 3DS, Nintendo needed it to go viral, although I doubt even if the earthquake didn't happen the 3DS wouldn't have gone viral. We will never know, but I think the 3DS did really well despite not having much goin for it, everybody knows not to put faith in third parties at launch time for Nintendo consoles. It was all down to the promise of Nintendo's franchises that kept it afloat.You mean the earthquake that was fully cleaned and impossible to notice in Tokyo and south from it apart from save electrical power warnings when i was in Japan 6 weeks
While some people love to say that 3DS was in the same situation like Vita last year (Vita damage control?), it really never sold that badly, it sold at worst in the 20k-35k range before Nintendo officially announced the price drop with maybe a few exceptions I don´t recall right now.
Just checked and 3DS dropped twice below 20K in may last year indeed .
bigtroyjon
Member
10K threshold is the new 20K threshold
electroplankton
Banned
You mean the earthquake that was fully cleaned and impossible to notice in Tokyo and south from it apart from save electrical power warnings when i was in Japan 6 weeks
Imo, the earthquake itself didn't affect 3DS sales. It was the delay of many 3DS games that were supposed to be released in the first weeks, such as One Piece, Dead or Alive, Pilotwings, Gundam 3D, Tales of the Abyss. We know it's important for a new hardware to have constant releases in the first period, in particular if you don't have Christmas holiday.
oldie-newbie
Member
No charts this week ?
oldie-newbie
Member
Thank you Man...
lowhighkang_LHK
Member
It seems a lot of you have underestimating Ninja Gaiden 3. I know the game is ass, and that the DMC HD collection comes with better content (at a cheaper price) but some of you guys have a bunch of PS2 HD games selling more than a new NG release? I know NG historically hasn't really been much of anything in Japan, and that DMC games do decent to solid in Japan, but still.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
I don't know, man. Considering all Ninja Gaidens have topped out at 41K first week (Famitsu), there are people predicting it to match or exceed franchise highs, too.
It would not really be surprising at all for a HD Collection to outsell Ninja Gaiden 3. Not surprising at all. Not saying that it will definitely happen, but it's basically a toss up at this point. Neither release has much mass market appeal at all, so it doesn't really matter if one is a new game and the other is a PS2 HD collection. In the end, both are expected to sell poorly, and it would not be particularly surprising if one outsells the other.