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Media Create Sales: Week 19, 2012 (May 07 - May 13)
- Thread starter donny2112
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May tends to be the slowest month of the year for Japanese game sales.
And Vita for that matter.
Soul Sacrifice and its all-age artstyle will save it!
I wouldn't be surprised if it sold more in Japan than the whole of Europe (57 in Germany, and only made minor places in PS3 only Nordic charts).
frankie_baby
Member
is it possible this weeks overall terrible numbers are just a post golden week lul and things may go up at least a little next week?
grimshawish
Banned
3DS halfed. So yeah its not a great bunch of sales. Still Vita FELL in Golden Week. Its a different trend to everyone else.
No. Nor did 3DS sales include them. Which is a bit irritating frankly for stats but am sure we can just add 30,000 and stick a footnote on explaining for the software sales.
Resident Evil can hurry up and drop the fuck out of that chart btw.
Go Kid! Woot! Also not 'bad' for FE - will it join the 3DS Monster Mash??
turnbuckle
Member
Well, at least it's a good PSP player
slaughterking
Member
Don't overestimate the Vita!
MeBecomingI
Member
Those hardware sales for everything are disgusting...
MasterShotgun
brazen editing lynx
I don't want to declare Vita dead until after E3, but its definitely on life support right now.
Holy shit. What the hell happened? Is this normal?
Lowest week since the price drop.
frankie_baby
Member
theres gotta be one before dq10 surely
Well for the 3DS, the end of may is going to be big with Mario Tennis and DQM at least.
frankie_baby
Member
thats gonna be pretty monsterous
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Everyone off the cliff!
Spieler Eins
Member
Meanwhile at Sony...
What the hell are they waiting for? Even at E3, I don't think we'll see too many Japan-centric announcements.
What the hell are they waiting for? Even at E3, I don't think we'll see too many Japan-centric announcements.
AFAIK this is one of the slowest weeks of the year.
Vita on life support because life doesn't have Vita support?
A Vita price drop would have to be significant to have any impact, and they don't want to be losing money on every sale in their current position.
It also has to be accompanied by big releases, and there just aren't any. I wouldn't expect it till Soul Sacrifice time if that hits before Christmas. Sony are in grin and bear it mode, for the better or worse.
ThatObviousUser
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On the upside, Vita should be higher next week. It can't possibly sell less than this... can it?
Part of me thinks Sony killed short-term Vita sales when they announced the white color. Now people might just wait until that comes out.
Part of me thinks Sony killed short-term Vita sales when they announced the white color. Now people might just wait until that comes out.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I went to Garaph and put in the following query:
The worst week on the list was 2011-05-09 (one year ago):
Total sum 114,095 units
This week: 127,888 units
The next worst week on the list had 150,448.
Which makes this week, as best as I can tell, the second-worst week since the DS/PSP launched ("this generation").
Which means "Show me the worst performing top 10s since December 2004".
The worst week on the list was 2011-05-09 (one year ago):
Code:
1 DS Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 - Professional 17,995
2 3DS Steel Diver 16,900
3 PS3 Suzumiya Haruhi no Tsuisou 16,786
4 PSP Suzumiya Haruhi no Tsuisou 15,471
5 PSP Patapon 3 11,967
6 PSP Pro Baseball Spirits 2011 9,355
7 PSP Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume (Charity Edition) 8,749
8 PSP Saigo no Yakusoku no Monogatari (Final Promise Story) 6,414
9 PS3 Pro Baseball Spirits 2011 5,595
10 PSP DokuSui: Doki Doki Suikoden 4,863This week: 127,888 units
The next worst week on the list had 150,448.
Which makes this week, as best as I can tell, the second-worst week since the DS/PSP launched ("this generation").
Lord_Byron28
Member
Cygnus X-1
Member
After Golden Week? Yes, it is. Though the numbers are really low this time.
InsaneZero
Member
Those 3DS numbers seem to be normal for post-Golden Week.
Everything else is terrible.
Everything else is terrible.
If they were going with a price cut then it wouldn't make sense to do it unless they had big releases coincide with it, like Nintendo did.
3DS has Mario Tennis on the 24th and DQM:Terry's Wonderland on the 31st. DQM is a likely million seller and Mario Tennis could do around 500k (maybe less, depends but Mario Sports game usually do pretty well in Japan, even Sports Mix)
Vita has nothing in May I think, June is going to be better with Persona and Gundam (and maybe MGS collection but I seriously doubt it's going to do anything significant). I have no idea what kind of number Gundam will pull but Persona 4 should at least do well over 100k.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
The games market isn't going to improve unless the overall economy improves, and I don't see that happening any time soon.
KillerMan91
Member
Prefectly normal sales for week after Golden week.
Last year:
PSP 34.826
3DS 18.324
PS3 13.789
NDS 10.858
Wii 6.336
360 2.763
PS2 1.319
Last year:
PSP 34.826
3DS 18.324
PS3 13.789
NDS 10.858
Wii 6.336
360 2.763
PS2 1.319
Cygnus X-1
Member
The drop of 3DS is just temporary, considering its release schedule. That's the difference with the other systems.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
4th worst selling overall hardware week since 2004...
Only worse weeks:
2006-02-06
2011-05-16
2011-08-01
and this week missed it by <10%
Only worse weeks:
2006-02-06
2011-05-16
2011-08-01
and this week missed it by <10%
It's a generally slow time of the year coupled with a shift of sales due to Golden Week (people who would have bought games this week bought them last week instead). Yeah, it's normal.
3DS's drop is pretty significant, though. It's going to be interesting to see on which level it will stabilize during May.
Impeccable
Member
I'm not sure how anyone expect Sony to "do something" when it comes to the Vita.
You know they haven't left it to die, you know they are working on stuff and have some sort of plan for it. It's not like they can see these numbers and suddenly release FFVII remake as a reactive measure.
(Bad trends all around, gaming, don't die.)
You know they haven't left it to die, you know they are working on stuff and have some sort of plan for it. It's not like they can see these numbers and suddenly release FFVII remake as a reactive measure.
(Bad trends all around, gaming, don't die.)
This week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLwvc5Qywzk
grimshawish
Banned
Right...okay...so Sony don't actually have any confidence in the Vita:
- Sony drop price
- Sony sell a few more Units - "OH NOES, they make more of a loss!"
- Sony still can't change the Vita to be a success - "OH NOES we've made it worse!"
- Software doesn't move to Vita - "Oh buggering hell..."
- Some hardware sales, but little competition among software developers cuts Sony's margins - "OH NOES..."
Basically this 'magic' price drop will not necessary save the system from a financial perspective. Its a bad product.
Sony don't know what to do. So there...doing nothing - simple as that.
Lesson kids? Plan. Plan. Plan. Nintendo made mistakes in their planning. But Sony made the mistake of not making a plan.
The product itself is very solid.
frankie_baby
Member
maybe because a price drop alone wont make much difference long term
OK, that is just sad and I am not even intrested in the game.