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Media Create Sales: Week 52, 2013 (Dec 23 - Dec 29)
- Thread starter hiska-kun
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Magicpaint
Member
Nirolak your OoT 3D numbers are really dated (from Garaph?); it's around 601k now.
Will fix!
Sorry I forgot Garaph stopped updating while that was still selling. Usually it's still handy for franchise legacy, though that will soon be at its end.
What's the story behind Spirit Tracks, it has a good first week from what i can see, did it bombed afterwards?
I dont like FF 13 - but i would probably buy such a collection on PS4 lol.
encephalon
Member
I forgot what that one gaffer said FFX/X-2 would do for Vita.
That's disappointing.
TheXfactor
Member
No one else has said so i might as well do, Congratulations Animal Crossing for being the first 3DS game to cross 4 million in Japan!!! Only 18 other games in Japan have done that
Pretty sure there was one gaffer who said it will take it past the 100k a week.
DarkLordMalik
Member
It is important to note that VITA Twin Pack is more expensive than the PS3 version(or was it?)
No one else has said so i might as well do, Congratulations Animal Crossing for being the first 3DS game to cross 4 million in Japan!!! Only 18 other games in Japan have done that
Yeah, Animal Crossing has really been an extremely success story this generation, especially given it's one of the games you might expect to be impacted a fair amount by losing some of the broader DS market.
I thought it is about Vita beating 3DS?
encephalon
Member
I thought the claim was bolder than that. Like the Vita would outsell ___ or something. Oh well.
I don't know why so many people think this, but no, the Vita Twin pack is the same price as the PS3 version.
Well that would of been nothing but crazy talk.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
The fuck?
This pretty much is the final nail in the coffin that was FF13.
SE from now will focus on FFXV and possibly FFX-3 and FF12 HD. The good times are coming.
encephalon
Member
Basileus777
Member
Don't retailers eat the cost for these sort of price cuts in Japan unlike in the West where there is price protection? Or am I misunderstanding things?
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Deleted member 125677
Unconfirmed Member
Pretty great hold for 3DS compared to last year for week 52!
Loving Zelda on top, marvellous game!
Loving Zelda on top, marvellous game!
metalslimer
Member
lol forgot about this gem
I think the RRP is the same but for some reason the price instore isn't always. For instance, my GEO had the PS3 version for about 5900 and the Vita dual-pack for 6100 on launch day. Weird.
encephalon
Member
"See? Console games just don't sell. After FFXV, XVI to be announced for mobile. Has anyone seen the latest Breath of Fire? We need to see what Capcom is doing."
Considering eShop direct downloads as well, it should be around 4,5 millions now. Simply, an outstanding result.
I'm starting having an anamzing feeling about Kirby, even when compared to past entries: it could be another overperformer.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Thats just stupid considering what SE has said about focusing on a few AAA game for dedicated consoles. Not to mention what if FFXV sells really well? What if FFX HD performed above expectations?
BishopLamont
Banned
Don't really understand the Zelda shipment, sure ST bomba'd, but there's a big range between 250k - 800k or so that it shipped, really don't understand why Nintendo/retailers had to be this conservative.
Going by Media Create:
[NDS] The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo) - 291.496 / NEW <47,11%>
So they shipped ~618k copies at day one.
They needed price cuts to sold all the first shipment, but it seems the game managed to sell more than 700k at the end. That's means it had a second shipment.
I still don't understand why such trauma for this game.
Usually it's based on the performance of the last most comparable game combined with pre-orders.
encephalon
Member
While AAA console games may be a part of Square-Enix, isn't the company completely reorienting themselves around what they see as a mobile future?
It will be interesting to see how well FFXV does. I suppose we'll see what power the brand holds now when it releases, whenever that may be.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Final Fantasy X/X-2 did well on both. There is no way SE will see it as a failure in console market. What's more likely is that they will now finally understand(and regret) the time and money they wasted on XIII saga, instead of bringing us FF XV or other HD remasters in the previous generation. They might also start working on X-3.
I hope they look at the sales success of X/X-2 HD on VITA and finally decide to support it. Starting with Type-0 HD remaster on VITA and continuing with XII HD and X-3 on it.
Absolutely. Still don't fully understand how AC became such a success on the 3DS in particular.
4 million units sold in Japan. Jesus.
While I don't think we'll ever know, what I'm most curious about is what the percentage of people who bough the collection had played FFX before versus those who hadn't.
Basically I'm curious if people who didn't play the game before found this style compelling, especially all the teenagers they noted whose favorite games in the series were Dissidia and Type-0.
Ah, right...
...you can't have a Mako avatar without having watched any episode if Kill la Kill. Especially the two stars Goku Uniform / Jojo-esque one.
These things should be ban worthy. :sese:
BishopLamont
Banned
Wouldn't OOT3D make more sense then? It makes more sense than comparing it to ST, besides that most of the handheld Zeldas open at the 200k~ range so it doesn't make any sense that the shipment was only that big, especially when we're in the holiday season, this game had everything going for it to sell well.
Canis lupus
Member
Do we get last weeks numbers wednesday?
Dark_castle
Junior Member
UltraGunner
Banned
While I'm glad FFX did well, I'm also kind of scared. What if this pushes Square Enix to go ahead and make FFX-3 
Well if we use OOT3D it didn't sell a huge amount up front, but had very good legs.
In theory if you were a retailer, you might see it as a safe bet to order a bit more than OOT up front and then get replenishments if demand was high.
That said, I think they could have went higher and been safe, but I'm just speculating at why it was as low as it was.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
FFXV and KH3 what we know so far. Oh and FF14. You need to cheer up. FFX HD doing well is a good thing.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
We would roughly know how well FFXV would perform when we know the sales number for PS4. Frankly, I think Japan is now shifting away from console gaming and more towards handheld/mobile devices.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if FFXV sold less than FFXIII in Japan. It's more unpredictable in NA/EU however.
FF 13 definitive edition/complete edition coming soon to a PS4/Xbone near you