Diddy Kong
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dat Wii-U bump
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Media Create Sales: Week 18, 2013 (Apr 29 - May 05)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Look at Luigi go. His time has come!
That's because of the software releases. GW was the only thing that stopped the Vita from dropping.
More people already own a Vita, no significant software on the horizon either.
See above really, no reason for people to rush out and buy a Vita if they haven't already since we've pretty much gotten all the significant releases already. I expect a hard drop next week.
electroplankton
Banned
To be fair, according to Famitsu, these are the previous four weeks:
19,879 　
14,755
14,666
17,070
and just after the price-cut + games period.
Those figures are quite low; higher than before? That's only it couldn't go worse.
mugoldeneagle03
Member
Always forget that TGS is Sept & not Aug for some reason, and I'm mostly just interested in PS4 cross compatibility. Throw in a Sony "price drop" (4G model/new bundle) might be enough for a little boost?
Or I'm probably just a little too optimistic.
Vita has not had any major software released in its entire life.
fabricated backlash
Member
I'd suspect 5k being the baseline to expect for the rest of the summer for WiiU. Unless they can pull something out of the hat at E3.
3DS isn't quite as impressive this year it seems. It's still doing nice numbers. Now software on the other hand is mighty impressive on the 3DS. AC sales are just crazy, and it's good to see MH3U to still hang around.
Now that is just plain BS. It had tons of great and well produced games already, but none seemed to resonate with the audience really. I'd consider Uncharted and LBP to be major releases, but both didn't manage to set the world on fire. It's definetly not the games, but the platform and Sonys complete lack of vision for it.
BronsonLee
Member
Vita got jack for GW, yowzer.
3DS continues to pee all over everything sales wise. What a monster
3DS continues to pee all over everything sales wise. What a monster
Japanese holiday http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_(Japan)
They really need to, I mean Vita pretty much responds everytime there's any sort of a 30k+ game released so it's not exacty hard for Sony to figure out what to do with the Vita to get it to start selling.
As someone else pointed out, at least it didn't drop during Golden Week like last year.
Small victories Sony.
dragonfart28
Banned
That's like almost 2 weeks for the price of 1 for Wii U.
And as the only system with no games in the top 20.. bizarre.
And as the only system with no games in the top 20.. bizarre.
Relatively, lol.
for VITA in Japan? good luck.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
I'm sure Sony is celebrating.
metalslimer
Member
For the Japanese market he is right. Nothing released on Vita can be called major.
On what other platform would you even attempt to call those major?
Notsureifserious.
Thanks for proving my point.
DragonSworne
Banned
I can't believe Nintendo couldn't release anything for Wii U for Golden Week. -_-
Terrible management. You never want to miss Golden Week
Terrible management. You never want to miss Golden Week
Chris1964, these are MC numbers for last week (week 17, 2013) for games out of the top 20. You can calculate the % for this week knowing this.
21./08. [PS3] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 # <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.03.20} (¥8.190) - 5.376 / 384.021
23./13. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!) <ACT> (Capcom) {2012.11.15} (¥3.800) - 5.116 / 295.120
24./17. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 <RCE> (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} (¥4.800) - 5.007 / 2034.652
28./09. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.05} (¥5.040) - 4.540 / 269.113
29./14. [PSP] Pro Baseball Spirits 2013 <SPT> (Konami) {2013.03.20} (¥3.980) - 4.368 / 133.791
30./12. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2013 <SPT> (Konami) {2013.03.20} (¥7.980) - 4.229 / 159.525
21./08. [PS3] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 # <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.03.20} (¥8.190) - 5.376 / 384.021
23./13. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!) <ACT> (Capcom) {2012.11.15} (¥3.800) - 5.116 / 295.120
24./17. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 <RCE> (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} (¥4.800) - 5.007 / 2034.652
28./09. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.05} (¥5.040) - 4.540 / 269.113
29./14. [PSP] Pro Baseball Spirits 2013 <SPT> (Konami) {2013.03.20} (¥3.980) - 4.368 / 133.791
30./12. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2013 <SPT> (Konami) {2013.03.20} (¥7.980) - 4.229 / 159.525
Principate
Saint Titanfall
If you talking about 500k-million sellers then he's right.
Christmas/holidays.
It would be relative to the platform. For Vita, those would be considered major releases and helped move units.
Please understand.
The journalists and analysts which claim such things never seem to take into account just how well nintendo software sells on nintendo hardware.
metalslimer
Member
It's not relative to the platform. Otherwise we could say Game and Wario was a major release because Wii U is selling awfully.
Magicpaint
Member
These are not major titles. They only are relative to everything else on Vita. Though I guess you can make a case for SS in that Sony was banking on it to be major.
All of these games are too niche to be called major. Sony probably wanted Soul Sacrifice to be one though.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
No new releases whaaaaaaat?
electroplankton
Banned
lol at those games called major releases.
The top seller there is a 250k game, the lowest barely crossed the 120k mark.
test_account
XP-39C²
They did have that Pokémon game last week at least.
Exterminieren
Banned
I reckon it might take a holiday season or two, but it'll definitely get there.
Hell, even that might be too pessimistic. Ignoring Christmas bumps, it's still holding its own against 3D Marios. It's holding ahead of Galaxy 2, for example.
They did. Pokémon Scramble U had decent retail presence despite being a digital download game and as such, it jumped to #3 in the all-time eShop sales chart (behind Dragon Quest X & Kirby (30Yen VC version)) and last week was #1 on the eShop.
Games and franchises are not relative to a platform.
A game/franchise is a major game/franchise or it isn't. It's that simple.
Father_Brain
Banned
So, Sony's annual results will be released at 2AM EDT tonight. I'm not expecting any big news one way or another regarding the future of Vita quite yet, but the sections concerning it will be pretty interesting nonetheless:
-Will, per jvm's sources, Sony actually release separate PSP and Vita numbers?
-Will they be realistic with their investors and admit that they might, might ship three million or so worldwide this FY, or will they make another deludedly optimistic projection?
Stay tuned!
-Will, per jvm's sources, Sony actually release separate PSP and Vita numbers?
-Will they be realistic with their investors and admit that they might, might ship three million or so worldwide this FY, or will they make another deludedly optimistic projection?
Stay tuned!
BronsonLee
Member
I would argue P4 being a major release, but only because it was on the PS2, and came at the very damn end of that console's lifespan
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Who knows what on earth games those Golden Week WiiU buyers bought, because its not like theres a huge range to split 13k between, and yet nothing on the charts.
God Eater 2 will push some Vitas when it's released later this year, seeing as the original crossed 1m across both versions. It's also coming out on PSP so it will be interesting to see how the sales are split.
Toukiden is coming out at the end of June, so we probably wont see any bumps until then.
Toukiden is coming out at the end of June, so we probably wont see any bumps until then.