It's pretty certain Baindai is going to release the next God Eater on the Vita, they would be stupid not to do so. It's the best selling game on the system. Fanbase is established, no need to alienate them by putting an entry on another platform when sales couldn't get much higher anyway.
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Media Create Sales: Week 52, 2013 (Dec 23 - Dec 29)
- Thread starter hiska-kun
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Its standard practise now with core games in Japan to release an updated version later.
Given how drastically the Vita userbase has increased and the popularity of the game, the second release will sell very well and cost them very little.
AranhaHunter
Banned
Lol you're right and no one noticed it then because Jamix wouldn't have taken the bet if he did. Doh!
I will accept my loss with grace; touché. I'm a little surprised at the result, but such is the way things go. I could argue that the deal is null because the 2DS was released (even though it wasn't in Japan) but I'm not that petty.
Go ahead, PM me the avatar I have to use, I'm ready.
Edit: Ha I didn't notice your wording in the original bet, you goofed, but we both knew what you meant so it wouldn't be fair for me to cancel as a result.
Hah, it's all good. The wording is off and the 2DS released, so you don't have to change your avatar.
I'm really curious about how Senran Kagura 2 will sell, will be interesting. I'm not sure the strategy of releasing spin-offs on another platform is a sound one, we'll see.
Oh there's no question God Eater 2 Burst (or whatever it will be called) is coming at some point yeah. Although if it follows the same pattern as the original, the enhanced version will probably sell quite a bit less than the original.
Oh there's no question God Eater 2 Burst (or whatever it will be called) is coming at some point yeah. Although if it follows the same pattern as the original, the enhanced version will probably sell quite a bit less than the original.
Burst sold as well as the OG release, which is due to the fact that the series gained popularity and the fact that those who bought it were highly satisfied.
Soul Sacrifice will probably end up selling as much if not more. All the Vita needs now is a big SE game, they could start by porting Type-0, it would be the perfect time to bring it to the West too.
Type-0 for Vita at west. That will sell a lot.
Burst sold almost 200k less than the original. And I wouldn't be so sure about SS Delta, the first one wasn't exactly a runaway success despite all the hype.
Could be referring to Senran Kagura Butst.
Sammy Samusu
Member
I have my doubts, it's already available for pre-order and it's not charting on Comgnet (less than 12 points), it also failed to peak high on Amazon and it's currently at #60.
Soul Sacrifice was hyped to heaven before release, I'm not seeing much buzz for Delta.
Burst sold 150k less than the original and the re-release of Burst sold more than 100k.
That's true, every start of January it's the same story for some games.
If there is really demand for a game when restock comes sales will rise.
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
I wonder though what would have been 9th and 10th without the bundles? Mario 3D World sold 410k. Was there anything that sold more than 410k, but less than 518k?
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle - 470k
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - 470k
These 2 would take #9 and #10
I assume because they wouldnt of reached those numbers if they werent included in bundles.
Because they won't be there in Media Create top 10.
It's already been said. Those games where heavily bundled with the WiiU for this holiday season, so the numbers are kinda distorted.
If you follow the thread you'll see there is a huge discrepancy in those games sales depending if the bundled sales are tracked or not.
shinra-bansho
Member
A nice bump from FFX for Vita, and Wii U's fall was softer than it could have been.
Week 1 2014 will be interesting.
Meanwhile, I'm assuming S-E are greenlighting more remakes as I type.
Week 1 2014 will be interesting.
Meanwhile, I'm assuming S-E are greenlighting more remakes as I type.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Might at as well state Famitsu or Media Create 10 Top 10. They have different data and count sku differently seems kind of pointless to randomly lump them together, when you have things like download cards and bundles being included in one but not the other.
Media Create includes bundled games at software. The only difference is download cards and sales of these are almost zero for games that aren't in short supply.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
But not download cards. Or at least one of them doesn't. But if they are they count. in a Top 10 chart of the most popular software that kind of matters
I imagine the iOS port kind of killed off any shot at a DQVIII enhanced port.
Zoe
Member
But they had already remastered the OST for the western release.
Guess I am a bit too optimistic, I didnt know SS had such a marketing push but it did have good legs so maybe it sunk in eventually. It still did well though if its LTD is double that of the FW with less than a year on the market.
Well it beats sitting on it and making nothing. Vita games sell pretty well digitally and Im sure there are quite a few RPG fans in the West who bought the system after the library on the PSP.
bigmit3737
Member
I too don't believe SSD will sell as well as the original because the impression I'm getting is that it's like an expansion pack, but not a meaty one like Diablo 2 LoD,.
ArchedThunder
Banned
I doubt they would release an HD version of VIII, they might do a 3DS version because of how well VII did even though the did a mobile version, but even if they did it would probably never leave Japan. On the bright side VIII might get put on PlaystationNow.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Holy shit! Who is this guy? A GAFer?
metalslimer
Member
Hopefully it can at least stay above 10k for a few weeks. I'm actually more interested in how the 3DS starts off the year and what it's baseline will be this year. There were some stretches of sub 50k a week sales last year which hopefully it doesn't fall into. I wonder if Nintendo will consider launching the 2ds in Japan before the end of Q1 to give them a shipment boost and hopefully get closer to whatever target they drop the 3DS to.
metalslimer
Member
Nah, New Years money will give them a reprieve from the fall, well at least the big fall.
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
No this week should still have solid numbers.
leatherhat
Member
I don't remember SS vanilla doing very well on comgnet either
Edit- I just checked. Finished at 40pts and had a 92k opening
Aquamarine
Member
They should be released normal time (today at 8 AM EST / 7 hours from now), but I'm not sure if they will release them earlier.
Okay, then I'm not staying up for that. haha. I'll see them when I wake up around 6:30 PST.
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
Well it seems to me Nintendo has a much stronger lead-in to this year than it did last year in Japan. Zelda released on the 26th, and we have Kirby next week already. I think that should help with momentum at least initially.
Apparently Senran Kagura Estival Versus is a multiplatform game, but they can't announce the platforms yet.
Source: http://gematsu.com/2014/01/senran-kagura-estival-versus-playstation-multi-formatGematsu said:
I do think the number of game announcements is starting to improve as we're in the new year, but I would like to see more large (or at least like... mid-tier) announcements for pretty much any platform.
Yet another multiplat game...
I don't think they were dissapointed with SV sales though. So maybe they're trying to expand the series, or the game is focusing on competitive online mode. Funny thing is SV is marked as a PSV/PS3 game in the trophies, was that really a mistake?
aren't you satisfied by Onimusha Soul? ;p
We know that by "any platform" you really mean mobiles.
We can't go entirely down the schadenfreude route if we want some interesting games to play!
That said I'd be fine with mobile games of notable quality. I have all sorts of board games I love on the platform. It's just that the batting rate for original content isn't stellar.
Yeah, and then there's also the trend of taking the expected quality of mobile titles and putting it on dedicated devices instead of the other way around...
