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Media Create Sales: Oct 26-Nov 1, 2009
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Yoboman said:
Next week it has a new Dragon Ball but that is basically it until FF13 12/17. Will be interesting to see hardware sales for that period. It's obviously not going to sink to 10K or anything, but I'm curious to see whether it will stay at >30K or fall off a bit.
TheRagnCajun
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schuelma said:
?? December is huge for the whole industry. If PS3 is going to sink, it'll happen in November.
Yoboman said:
The first one had a first week of 37K/LTD 82K, which is good for a western developed titled but nothing too noteworthy overall. Of course if it follows the pattern of Uncharted 2 it could do pretty well.
Truespeed
Member
cvxfreak said:
Amazing what a price cut will do, isn't it. It will become the top selling console for 2009 and PS3 software is dominating the sales charts. FFXIII and GT5 should bump up the install base to about 5-6 million in 2010. I'm going to miss those GC comparisons, though.
Pureauthor
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Yoboman said:
Uh, in Japan the DS was already printing money well before the Lite. US is another story, though, although frankly I attribute it to Nintendo of America not having quite finished strangling the GBA to death yet.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Nintendogs came out almost a full year before the DSL, and was indeed the beginning of the DS's reign of terror. It was closer to the DS Phat's launch than it was to the DSL's launch, though.Yoboman said:
The "rocky start" for the DS amounted to about two or three months.
TheRagnCajun
Member
schuelma said:
No deffinately not. I was honestly expecting a bit of a drop in November though. I dont' know whether that'll happen or not, but once we're in Dec, Holiday is in full swing and sales should be up across the board I would think.
Segata Sanshiro
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If notching four spots of the top 30 isn't domination, I don't know what is.markatisu said:
ilbambino said:
Domestic release aka "localized-but-maybe-censored-by-SE" version will be out in December.
10 bucks cheaper Asian/US version were released this week in various import shops, even people made lines for it.
A lot of fans gonna buy imported copy 30 days earlier. It may hurt the sales of official release.
But it "only" 30 days (unlike COD4 and Gears2), I believe most of potential buyers can wait official localized version.
JoshuaJSlone
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It's been a pretty dominant 4th recently.Segata Sanshiro said:
Famitsu Software Pie
September 28 - October 4
DS: 45.4
Wii: 22.6
PSP: 20.1
PS3: 8.2
PS2: 2.2
X360: 1.5
Other: 0.1
October 5-11
DS: 54.5
Wii: 20.1
PSP: 14.7
PS3: 7.4
PS2: 1.9
X360: 1.3
Other: 0.1
October 12-18
DS: 44.7
Wii: 20.6
PSP: 14.6
PS3: 12.7
PS2: 4.2
X360: 3.0
Other: 0.1
October 19-25
DS: 44.6
Wii: 18.2
PSP: 16.9
PS3: 11.4
X360: 6.3
PS2: 2.5
Other: 0.1
Nintendo/Pokémon DS games through October 2007: 78schuelma said:
Nintendo/Pokémon Wii games through October 2009: 41
Bigger difference than I would've guessed, too.
Truespeed said:
for Japan and to have a "healthy" userbase , PS3 still need steady stream of titles for Q1/2 of 2010 not just the one per quarter huge AAA titles like GT5 , and I don't see much of them announced in last few weeks , after EoE , Last Rebellion and Ar tonelico III there is nothing so far.
thestopsign
Member
Totobeni said:
They have End of Eternity, Ryu Ga Gotuka 4?, Star Ocean 4 International and Gran Turismo 5 coming out in the first quarter. Versus the Wii's Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles, Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, and MadWorld. One of the line-ups is much better than the other.
Testicular Sound Express
Member
more cinematic doesn't make the textures less blurry or fix the framerate. You know, that parts that affect actual gameplayPepsimanVsJoe said:
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Oh, I don't know, I see the framerate dips as a kind of reward.Testicular Sound Express said:
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Is there any noticeable comparison between the amount of buzz/hype/promotion in Japan when Dragon Quest Swords launched vs. The Crystal Bearers?
I know FF is severely over saturated and DQ is the larger franchise anyway, but you figured with the increased install base, SQ would want to push it to at least come CLOSE to DQS LTD
Considering DQS must have had a comparative shoe string budget...
I know FF is severely over saturated and DQ is the larger franchise anyway, but you figured with the increased install base, SQ would want to push it to at least come CLOSE to DQS LTD
Considering DQS must have had a comparative shoe string budget...
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
No chance in hell Sin and Punishment 2 is going to at least sell out of its first shipment, right? 
distantmantra
Member
Yoboman said:
Yep. December 3rd. It has the dreaded Z rating, though.
schuelma said:
To be fair, neither does anyone in Japan, and that's one of many reasons why no one cares and why most new Wii games are released to sub 50k sales.
And honestly, come on now. We've been dancing this dance long enough to know what Nintendo's lineup is next year. They'll release one major game early in the year -- say, April or Marchish -- and then one big core game at the end of the year along with the Big New
Iwata can keep saying "next year will be different," but until that's backed by concrete announcements and action, I'm not sure why anyone would keep believing him. It's like willingly embracing your inner Charlie Brown to Iwata's Lucy playact. Maybe this time the football will stay in place, right?
ethelred said:
By your own logic, we don't know that Nintendo will do exactly the same as this year. Until our belief is back up by concrete announcements and action, I'm not sure why we should believe that Nintendo isn't determined to try and make things work in Japan.
I understand your pessimism in regards to Nintendo's prior history, but what you're essentially denying is Nintendo's desire to make money as well as Iwata's competency as a leader, and doing both of which I find laughable.
ethelred said:
I'm skeptical as well. My only point was that in the very limited discussion of beginning of the year 2010 we don't know anything about Nintendo's lineup.
I pretty much agree with you- based on the latest investor Q&A the strategy seems to be the same- make a huge hit that has a long tail to rekindle interest. The only possible difference I see in 2010 is I assume they will at least release one of those big titles earlier than the end of June.
ethelred said:
Even if we have never seen a chameleon change its colours, we would be wrong in believing that they never will.
My posts aren't meant to come off as some kind of unbridled love of Nintendo and its senior management. I don't seek to deny Nintendo's previous mistakes, and neither that they have made stupid decisions - be it out of arrogance, misunderstanding or a simple misreading of the market - but you're being disingenuous if you advocate a cautious outlook with pessimism.
What you're saying is paramount to "Guys! Don't jump to conclusions! We all know it will turn out like this!" Do you not see the self-contradictory nature of such a statement?
The last time we heard about Last Remnant things weren't looking for the PS3 version.onken said:
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/06/24/last_remnant_ps3/
And what is ArcTon?
gerg said:
It's not pessimism, it's called a realistic weighting of probabilities. Everything can be looked at in such a fashion to figure out what the probability of certain outcomes is. It's only an idiot that insists that simply because something hasn't happened we can't draw any conclusions or engage in any sort of critical examination.
gerg said:
Then don't.
Chris1964 said:
He's referring to Ar Tonelico 3 (by using an insipid form of abbreviation that really only works in Japanese, not English) and Last Rebellion (rather than Last Remnant, though the PS3 version of Last Remnant will sell about comparably to this dud).