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Media Create Sales: Week 45, 2012 (Nov 05 - Nov 11)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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Brilliant !
djplaeskool
Member
I never insinuated it wasn't doing well, but even Nintendo has stressed that sales outside of Japan have been slower than they'd like them to be.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Nah, Nintendo can just steal more games.
and i thought it couldn't get any better XD
I found a pic fitting this week
Nice, Animal Crossing is now a big handheld franchise.
Can't wait for an EU/NA release date.
slaughterking
Member
They should make you CEO.
test_account
XP-39C²
The previous handheld Animal Crossing game sold over 5 million copies in Japan alone. It was a big franchise before the 3DS version
Firstly, they need to fire their current CEO, potatoe.
you guys do not get sarcasm i see =P
what i meant with my post is that even if nintendo would outsell everything world wide including smartphones people would still call it doomed.
AranhaHunter
Banned
This is getting a little OT and it's comparing apples to oranges, but he's being sarcastic. Samsung shipped 52.1 million smartphones and Apple shipped 26 million iphones last quarter alone, more than the 3DS will ship this year. Even Sony shipped more phones than the 3DS shipped devices last quarter with 8.8 million xperia phones shipped.
The previous handheld Animal Crossing game sold over 5 million copies in Japan alone. It was a big franchise before the 3DS version
Yeah, I forgot that.
Still very nice.
It's not doing well, it's dominating Japanese market.
About the rest, it was the best selling console last Holidays in Europe, it was the best selling console in August and September in Europe, and it is not so behind Xbox360 in the US monthly based (similar but slightly over PS3), more or less.
So...
Well, financially, Nintendo is doing poorly, so the negativity isn't totally unfounded. They'll be fine in the long term though.
As a whole, they will be significant, no question about that.
Wii was no logical upsell for a DS owner. There were separate products in most regards.
Wii U and 3DS now share lots of things & owning both machines makes the experience complete.
- Monster hits like Monster Hunter or Smash Bros will offer cross play.
- Wii U eShop spendings will generate 3DS eShop discounts.
- Nintendo Direct videos on 3DS entice people to buy a Wii U.
- Miiverse will add a communication/competitive layer between friends/family members. Japanese people will monitor their Wii U records/messages anytime of day from their 3DS.
- People playing a Nintendo handheld all day are more likely to plug a Nintendo console on their TV (moreso if it's HD, if the GamePad is a TV remote and if they can use it to play while someone else watches TV - but that's another story).
Bruno MB
Member
It'll easily sell more.
We probably know how much Little Battler eXperience W will end up selling since it won't receive a new shipment. Level 5 shipped around 173.000 units. The last figure we have for Little Battlers eXperience: Explosive Boost is 142.997, that amount is from 2 and a half moths ago.
Opening:
[PSP] Little Battlers eXperience W <RPG> (Level 5) {2012.10.18} (¥4.980) - 84.041 / NEW
[3DS] Little Battlers eXperience: Explosive Boost <RPG> (Level 5) {2012.07.05} (¥4.400) - 55.614 / NEW
Same time frame:
[PSP] Little Battlers eXperience W <RPG> (Level 5) {2012.10.18} (¥4.980) - 5.695 / 118.767 (-42%)
[3DS] Little Battlers eXperience: Explosive Boost <RPG> (Level 5) {2012.07.05} (¥4.400) - 10.082 / 96.196 (-9%)
LTD:
[3DS] Little Battlers eXperience: Explosive Boost <RPG> (Level 5) {2012.07.05} (¥4.400) - 3.342 / 142.997 (+1%)
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Huh, wasn't it confirmed before that all of the iOS apps aren't as profitable compared to Pokemon or some DS game?
DragonSworne
Banned
Why does Vita NEED that?
Let it die and have Sony move on to more promising ventures outside handheld gaming.
Fixed.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Good luck with that.
grimshawish
Banned
We might as well discuss computers in comparison to consoles.
Exterminieren
Banned
There are few things on this Earth as profitable as Pokemon as a franchise.
I'm not sure if it's still the case, but it certainly was a few months back, yeah.
AranhaHunter
Banned
I said it was OT and comparing apples to oranges. I was simply correcting someone's false statement. Was that too hard to understand?
It is for paid apps, but today people are championing free2play/games with IAP more. Nintendo flat-out refused making money through gacha or microtransactions where payers get an advantage, which is the two biggest money-makers for F2P models right now.
Jaded Alyx
Member
I don't think it was the entire franchise, just one game. And for whatever reason, I thought the game mentioned was NSMB. I could be wrong.
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
Vita needs some games and a price drop. Please recover. Because you are the best handheld I've ever owned.
grimshawish
Banned
No. My point wasn't aimed at you but anyone bringing up the different products in very different markets.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
The previous handheld Animal Crossing game sold over 5 million copies in Japan alone. It was a big franchise before the 3DS version
That was the last time they made big changes to the series. It has been the same game remade over and over. This is the first one in a long time that has a lot of new original content.
Bruno MB
Member
I've noticed that it has never left the Media Create Top 50, in fact last week was 35th.
So in the last 2 months it has constantly been selling about 1.500 - 2.500 units per week.
Its current total sales should be around 160.000.
You said that like there were a dozen different Animal Crossing games between Wild World and New Leaf.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
I think you're really overestimating the impact these features will have:
How many people are really going to utilize cross-play and consider it even a semi-important reason to pick up a U? come on
This will have a significant impact? come on :-/
I'm not sure what these are exactly, trailers? they can get trailers/videos online from anywhere
This sounds like an ideal PR fantasy
If they're playing a handheld all day, they probably don't want to play consoles when they get home unless they're super addicted to gaming.
test_account
XP-39C²
Yep, good sales indeed
It is not confirmed that Smash Bros will have cross play, only that they will interact with eachother one way or the other. For it to be true cross play, the 3DS version would have to be the exact same game as the WiiU game. Or, they could go the route of offering partial equal stuff too (like Sony did in Wipeout 2048 for Vita, where it has selected tracks from the PS3 version that allows cross play).
But do you love it?
... Come on! You never know with the crossplay. Vita crossplay probably never gets used because no one owns the system anyway.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
It may be questionable if it's for the better of Sony, if they drop Vita'a price and attempt a relaunch instead of dropping the Vita, but it definitely is better for the Vita and at the current point, if Vita wants to live on, it needs it.
You do realize there was only one AC game between the ds and 3ds entries right? So not counting the Japanese re-releases there's the original AC which was presumably fresh, then the ds entry which you say made big changes to the series, then the wii entry which was largely a rehash, and now the 3ds entry which again makes big changes/adds a lot of new original content to the series.
twentytwo22
Member
Well, as of the end of 2011 there were 16,000,000-17,000,000 active Android devices (phones/3-4G Tablets) in Japan and 6,300,000-7,400,000 active iPhones/iPads (these numbers only include devices on a 3G and/or 4G plan, active) (http://www.venturenow.jp/column/miyoshi/20120215017537.html), and considering that last month Android Tablets outsold iPads for the first time in Japan (http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20121108-00000008-asahi-ind), I would say that Android is doing pretty well in Japan these days.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Yeah there's no crossplay in Smash (and thank goodness for that) - just two different games.
Like I said, it could be a different game - I just remember it being compared and still say a DS game being more profitable.
Like I said, it could be a different game - I just remember it being compared and still say a DS game being more profitable.
Way too soon to tell, we dont know when a potential 3DS version would be released and how far L5 has damaged the IP with its platform jumping. Remember Kingdom Hearts 3D....
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Yeah Vita is the only other example I can think of atm so that might not be a good indicator but still, i have yet to see any cross-play feature be a significant factor in sales. It's probably something a very small % of people would use, let alone consider it as a key purchasing point for a console.
I said "combined", but still:
Fans
Where people see shared value, they see an incentive.
Main difference is these messages are pushed/sure to hit while the audience is captive.
We'll see, that's the main point of Miiverse and I don't see why it wouldn't happen just like that.
Wii U is by design a pretty fantastic local multiplayer machine. If gamers have friends or a family, they'll get an incentive to play together.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
Demolished...
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Destroyed, Demoralized, and Defunct
Baconsammy
Banned
I keep getting close to pushing Buy on a Vita at Amazon, but I just can't do it at 250. There's no way with these lousy sales numbers that it can stay at this price much longer.
Time to formally put Reggie and Kimishima on notice. Yes the market conditions are different here in NA, but there's still no excuse for how far behind 3DS is lagging here compared to Japan. The fact that I'm seeing no holiday/black Friday 3DS hardware bundles like we normally do is telling.
Either deliver the results, or find someone else who will.
Either deliver the results, or find someone else who will.