Probably in part due to the fact the New 3DS is the easier way to read the Amiibo for the game.
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Media Create Sales: Week 31, 2015 (Jul 27 - Aug 02)
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Probably in part due to the fact the New 3DS is the easier way to read the Amiibo for the game.
sturgboski
Member
And the Trilion drop too. I thought the feedback was positive for both?
Hopefully it doesn't negatively affect localization possibilities as I want both...
BronzeWolf
Banned
Half a million kids are squids now, kids now
Dude, it's selling WiiU levels. Wii U is a failed console. In no way is PS4 OK
Dude, it's selling WiiU levels. Wii U is a failed console. In no way is PS4 OK
I don't think so either, I was just widening the scope a little.
The second most successful modern shooter behind Splatoon is one of the COD games, I forget which one (Black Ops 2, maybe) and Splatoon has it pretty handily beat by now.
It's not f2p, it's a full-price game with a heavy Amiibo component (ie its going to make even more money from Amiibo cards). It's also helping to drive sales of the New 3DS because the new models has a built-in NFC/amiibo reader whereas the old ones require a separate peripheral.
I don't really follow it at all but they're over 4 million subs, aren't they?
KillerMan91
Member
You mean since original Gameboy? Even GBA had about the same pace as PS2 in japan but it just died earlier as Nintendo released DS.
Firestorm ZERO
Member
Well, Trillion has stock problems which CH apologized for. Might not have re-stocked yet.
Smash Wii U VS Splatoon (I'm coming for you)
Mario Kart 8 VS Splatoon (excluding first week, better legs and tentacles and the biggest week of summer hasn't come yet)
Rhythm Battle (hold this week)
Minecraft Vita (not far 300k on retail)
Code:
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| | Super Smash Wii U | Splatoon | Difference |
| | [WIU] (2014/12/06)| [WIU] (2015/05/28)| |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
|Week| Weekly | LTD | Weekly | LTD | Splt SSBWU |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
| 1 | 227.527| 227.527| 144.818| 144.818| -82.709|
| 2 | 79.005| 306.533| 68.913| 213.731| -92.802|
| 3 | 78.927| 385.460| 53.198| 266.929| -118.531|
| 4 | 85.776| 471.236| 43.653| 310.582| -160.654|
| 5 | 58.008| 529.244| 37.458| 348.040| -181.204|
| 6 | 18.884| 548.128| 34.135| 382.175| -165.953|
| 7 | 12.858| 560.986| 26.136| 408.312| -152.674|
| 8 | 8.728| 569.714| 22.557| 430.869| -138.845|
| 9 | 6.398| 576.112| 24.289| 455.158| -120.954|
| 10 | 5.683| 581.796| 28.256| 483.413| -98.383|
| 11 | 6.118| 587.913| | | |
| 12 | 4.881| 592.794| | | |
| 13 | 4.936| 597.730| | | |
| 14 | 4.829| 602.560| | | |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
|Total -| 653.783| -| 483.413| -170.370|
-------------------------------------------------------------Mario Kart 8 VS Splatoon (excluding first week, better legs and tentacles and the biggest week of summer hasn't come yet)
Code:
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| | Mario Kart 8 | Splatoon | Difference |
| | [WIU] (2014/05/29)| [WIU] (2015/05/28)| |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
|Week| Weekly | LTD | Weekly | LTD | SPLTN MK8 |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
| 2 | 73.051| 73.051| 68.913| 68.913| -4.138|
| 3 | 42.261| 115.312| 53.198| 122.111| 6.799|
| 4 | 28.112| 143.424| 43.653| 165.764| 22.340|
| 5 | 23.520| 166.944| 37.458| 203.222| 36.278|
| 6 | 19.386| 186.330| 34.135| 237.357| 51.027|
| 7 | 15.143| 201.473| 26.136| 263.493| 62.020|
| 8 | 14.992| 216.465| 22.557| 286.050| 69.585|
| 9 | 18.129| 234.594| 24.289| 310.339| 75.745|
| 10 | 18.067| 252.661| 28.256| 338.595| 85.934|
| 11 | 20.860| 273.521| | | |
| 12 | 28.221| 301.742| | | |
| 13 | 12.075| 313.817| | | |
| 14 | 11.148| 324.965| | | |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|Rhythm Battle (hold this week)
Code:
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| | Rhythm Fever | Rhythm the Best+ | Difference |
| | [WII] (2011/07/21)| [3DS] (2015/06/11)| |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
|Week| Weekly | LTD | Weekly | LTD | RHtB+ RHF |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
| 1 | 118.173| 118.173| 157.591| 157.591| 39.418|
| 2 | 81.938| 200.112| 66.416| 224.008| 23.896|
| 3 | 62.597| 262.709| 42.718| 266.726| 4.017|
| 4 | 63.590| 326.300| 34.467| 301.193| -25.107|
| 5 | 48.190| 374.489| 24.650| 325.844| -48.645|
| 6 | 25.063| 399.552| 17.650| 343.493| -56.059|
| 7 | 22.762| 422.314| 16.110| 359.603| -62.711|
| 8 | 15.600| 437.913| 14.382| 373.985| -63.928|
| 9 | 14.647| 452.560| | | |
| 10 | 17.354| 469.914| | | |
| 11 | 11.468| 481.382| | | |
| 12 | 10.731| 492.112| | | |
| 13 | 13.202| 505.315| | | |
| 14 | 12.377| 517.691| | | |
| 15 | 9.251| 526.943| | | |
| 16 | 8.581| 535.523| | | |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
|Total -| 722.910| -| 373.985| -348.925|
-------------------------------------------------------------Minecraft Vita (not far 300k on retail)
Code:
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| | Minecraft PSVita | |
| | [PSV] (2015/03/19)| |
|----|---------|---------|--------------|
|Week| Weekly | LTD | Variation |
|----|---------|---------|--------------|
| 1 | 36.151| 36.151| //|
| 2 | 21.069| 57.220| -42%|
| 3 | 15.880| 73.100| -25%|
| 4 | 11.842| 84.942| -25%|
| 5 | 12.175| 97.117| +3%|
| 6 | 12.667| 109.784| +4%|
| 7 | 16.166| 125.951| +28%|
| 8 | 18.025| 143.976| +12%|
| 9 | 11.303| 155.278| -37%|
| 10 | 11.898| 167.176| +5%|
| 11 | 12.449| 179.625| +5%|
| 12 | 10.708| 190.332| -14%|
| 13 | 9.657| 199.989| -10%|
| 14 | 9.703| 209.693| +0%|
| 15 | 10.896| 220.589| +12%|
| 16 | 11.941| 232.530| +10%|
| 17 | 10.898| 243.428| -9%|
| 18 | 9.878| 253.306| -9%|
| 19 | 10.180| 263.487| +3%|
| 20 | 8.553| 272.040| -16%|
|----|---------|---------|--------------|
|Total -| 272.040| |
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Yes. Doing last year's WiiU levels is very impressive. Especially considering that PS4 has much more games at this point.
/s
Didn't follow console numbers at that point but I should have figured.
ninjablade
Banned
japan really loves splatoon.
A Download code of Bloodborne is included for free now when you purchase PS4 in Japan.
It isn't tracked.
Kresnik258
Member
That's terrible for Ray Gigant. Wonder what caused it to do so badly?
Corpse Party not as bad as I expected, but not really great either. Pretty average for Date-A-Live too.
Taiko didn't drop much from last week. I wonder if we'll finally see it having some Taiko legs on Vita? Hope so.
Fantastic for Animal Crossing spinoff though. And 3DS hardware.
Corpse Party not as bad as I expected, but not really great either. Pretty average for Date-A-Live too.
Taiko didn't drop much from last week. I wonder if we'll finally see it having some Taiko legs on Vita? Hope so.
Fantastic for Animal Crossing spinoff though. And 3DS hardware.
Not sure about PC, but in total the PS3 and PS4 releases for FFXIV should be lower than 400K.
DQX for Wii,WiiU and 3DS (adding the several expansions) should be at 1,18M in Japan.
Dragon1893
Member
TW3 did better than Batman didn't it?
ninjablade
Banned
lets face it, consoles are dead in japan. ps4 selling that much is pretty impressive with no games in the top 10
I see 2!
Software sales weren't as strong though ;-)
New leaf numbers in comparison.
I can't believe Happy Home Designer sold that well, the thirst for AC is real.
I can't believe Happy Home Designer sold that well, the thirst for AC is real.
I think it's time to start including the first weeks. Splatoon should only be about 100k behind at this point and will continue to reduce the distance.
Also doing decently well in Germany (Top5 since launch except 1 week iirc) and Spain, but obv. not comparable to France.
Pretty much. Surprised PS4 isn't doing worse there at the moment. No main stream interest and no (significant) game library for the Japanese audience. Still feels weird as fuck saying that about a PlayStation console.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
It's unSplattable!
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
It helps that major franchises are coming to it (FF, DQ, MGS, etc). People who were cautious earlier about buying it now know that there are games that would interest them coming for the machine.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Pretty low numbers for Ray Gigant, even though it did sell out on several online retailers. Then again Bandai Namco was not exactly doing a lot of advertising physically outside of Japanese gaming sites. Though Exp Inc did hold demo events in Osaka and Tokyo.
Wonder what the digital sales were like.
Wonder what the digital sales were like.
KillerMan91
Member
Well even in Japan home consoles tended to have higher attach rates than handhelds (at least in the past). Isnt the PS1 still the overall software king in Japan (even over all mighty DS)?
It's a new Bamco IP from a developer who has had previous success on Vita.
ninjablade
Banned
they are extremely difficult to please, other then final fantasy and dragon quest on consoles, what's gonna move consoles in japan, splatoon is a huge suprise for me, you just never know which console game will be a success in japan, i mean holy shit those batman and withcer 3 sales are pretty horrible for such big games on a new nextgen console.
I believe the Bloodborne bundle is being advertised a lot if I'm not mistaken.
I'd agree. That seems to be the main issue from an outside perspective.
How big were Dark Souls 1 and 2 in Japan?
you are going to ruffle some feathers in this thread with that comment
The point is that while GBA was selling very well hardware-wise the software sales volume was noticeably lower than PS2.
This wasn't the case for DS and 3DS which were the number one platform in software sale volume in Japan and overall the leading system.
Just think than before 2006 an handheld getting the next mainline Dragon Quest game was almost unthinkable.
They had to pick the right game to enter with.
This ideal was not on the backburner for years or something. The creative process takes time.
You're right in that.
It still seems to be a strong core segment.
However, given the DLC, this will likely make a lot more money than Awakening.
So it's not really that horrible.
Though I wager they intended to grow the franchise, so it fails in that regard.
