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Media Create Sales: Week 16, 2012 (Apr 16 - Apr 22)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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Awakening might end up being the second best selling FE game ever... at the worst, it would be #3 which is quite an accomplishment.
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
Nice.
i think it'll have a hard time overcoming holy war, but if it does another 100k like the gba and ds games did, it has a shot at beating out the sealed sword at least.
It had a 30k shipment what were people expecting?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Debut week matching either DS installment's lifetimes is pretty good news for the franchise!
Very interesting point, will NSMB2 eat SML3D's pie, or can they co-exist?
Let this be a lesson boys.
New entries > remakes.
especially if it's bad ones like SD
GhostTrick
Banned
Because of the sells, I think Fire Emblem AWAKENING is a perfect name for this game 
It's getting harder and harder to see how they can turn it around. Crucially, PS3, PSP and 3DS had a lot of early pledged third party support going for them, so there was always light at the end of the tunnel. Vita has an utterly barren line-up, and the longer hardware fails to pick up, the less likely it's going to secure any future support. It's a vicious cycle. No sales, no games. No games, no sales, and so it keeps dropping lower, and lower...
Sony had better hope Soul Sacrifice the bee's knees.
electroplankton
Banned
They probably already recovered what they spent to make it by a fairly big margin.
frankie_baby
Member
Remember certain people saying vita stabilised over 10k? Dont speak to soon
JustAnotherOtaku
Member
Closer to 30k? Just saying that the game is pretty damn great and 19k, regardless of shipment numbers, is disappointing.
RockTurtle
Member
the hardware sales are certainly a thriller
fire emblem sales are always a good thing!
fire emblem sales are always a good thing!
This is a real testament to how well Nintendo handles their franchises.
SM3DL is bundled, Mario Kart 7 is not. If Nintendo keeps the bundle around after NSMB2 launches the game will keep selling.
Shellshock929
Member
Come on, Fire Emblem! I'm rootin' for ya!
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
That is a VAST gulf between #1 vs. everything else. Did FE sell more than the entire top 20 combined?
EDIT: Yes it did, 2-20 = 166,214
EDIT: Yes it did, 2-20 = 166,214
Better opening than KH3D
Nintendo sold 30k on their online store, which might not be included in this data.
Nintendo sold 30k on their online store, which might not be included in this data.
MrCunningham
Member
Holy crap at 3DS top ten domination! The only non 3DS game in there is 2nd Super Robot Wars Z.
Also 5 PSP games, and no Vita games.... Vita really needs some software that will please the Japanese market...
Also 5 PSP games, and no Vita games.... Vita really needs some software that will please the Japanese market...
Nope. April 29th and the third, fourth and fifth of May.
Eight 3DS games, one DS game.
slaughterking
Member
I'm currently using my Vita to post here. It's still doing alright!
That's what I've been thinking too. Why are they potentially cutting off 3D Land's tail? It goes against their evergreen philosophy.
They should keep NSMB2 for the revision and go for a repeat of the NSMB/DS Lite scenario.
Cygnus X-1
Member
The exactly the point of my reasoning.
From Garaph. Note that these are LTD numbers.
Garaph said:
Wii and GC FE completely creamed. The Sealed Sword on GBA had an opening of 126k. I remember that the two SNES games sold 700k and 500k LTD respectively, but I cannot find data on the site now for some reason.
frankie_baby
Member
That's my
frankie_baby
Member
There's a # by fire emblem in the chart so it is counting multiple versions
Were nintendo this aggressive with the DS v PSP?
It just seems to me that since nintendo knew vita was coming they have put a real strategy in place to make sure it couldnt eat into there marketshare. They targeted those PSP gamers and through releases and announcements are making sure the 3DS maintains momentum and will not let the vita even get off the ground.
Cygnus X-1
Member
I was looking for these numbers. Source?
transience
Member
84,000 vs. 8,200
240,000 vs. nothing physical selling more than 4,000 (not a fair comparison, but still, FE probably outsold its entire library in a week)
yeesh. need P4P or something.
240,000 vs. nothing physical selling more than 4,000 (not a fair comparison, but still, FE probably outsold its entire library in a week)
yeesh. need P4P or something.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Presumably:
"D a t a b a s e
Media Create Sales: Japanese Sales database <-download it here"
Cygnus X-1
Member
Fire Emblem has Golden Week on its side to improve quite its LTD.
Stupid question, but shouldn't these numbers be on Garaph as well?
I have a feeling this will do little if anything.
You know Super Mario 64 DS is still selling despite NSMB. Galaxy 2 didn't kill NSMB Wii. If anything new users will buy them both.
frankie_baby
Member
And the fact its first week was stunted by sellouts
Also did the "free" dlc launch day one or is that coming later?
transience
Member
Anything is better than nothing! At least a Vita game would chart in the top 10.
There will be a redesign at e3.