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Media Create Sales: Week 13, 2016 (Mar 28 - Apr 03)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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There's also the delayed PS3 version. If it was released simultaneously I think the total could match SO4's debut on 360.
Saoshyant
Member
Remember Pokemon Conquest? Same thing pretty much. A crossover with Nobunaga.
encephalon
Member
It's hard to imagine the next Star Ocean pulling similar numbers after what happened to 5. But the production values are nowhere near high enough for these numbers to be considered disappointing for Square, given the (seemingly) cheap, rush job that it is. The game is about the size of Majora's Mask with no CG and very limited cutscenes.
A strategy game made by Koei. Basically the Yokai Watch version of Pokemon Conquest.
Acquiescence
Member
I expected a lot better than that for Star Ocean. DrillHair didn't have the consumer pull I thought she would.
I blame pink haired girl's face.
I blame pink haired girl's face.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Star Ocean 5 is really bad. I hoped for more 
mrmickfran
Member
I think that's the first time that it's been knocked out of the top 10 since its release.
Probably, but it would still be a big drop from F and F 2nd.
Uh... I knew that >_>
I don't remember it ever being out of the top ten since its launch. Maybe I'm just remembering it wrong.
King Gilga
Member
Wow, star ocean is dead isn't it? Poor triace.
I guess we can officially confirm Star Ocean is not a major series in case anyone thought that. Yokai is still doing quite nice for itself. Gonna be sad when the spin-offs stop being juggernauts like what happened to Pokemon. Speaking of Pokemon, Pokken seems to be holding alright. Minecraft is ever unchanging as always.
It's 11th this week. Up from 15th.
It happened a few times in previous months this year, too:
Don't know if it happened at all last year, though.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
As long as it's enough for a sequel. :/
Hopefully worldwide will help. I preordered the SO LE when I heard it was more like the earlier games.
Bloodborne was a feeebie with every PS4 system
DriftingSpirit
Member
I'm not sure why people are being silly about it.
Sammy Samusu
Member
[3DS] Tomodachi Life [Nintendo Selects] <ETC> (Nintendo) {2016.03.17} (¥2.700) - 4.971 / 13.223 (-3%)
So Miitomo is just a tool to sell Tomodachi Life? I see you Nintendo.
So Miitomo is just a tool to sell Tomodachi Life? I see you Nintendo.
Now it won't, because the PS3 will suffer the delay and word of mouth.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Any bets on what will be the decline for the upcoming Tales of Berseria? Zestiria opened with 300k+ and it had a very bad reception after release. I doubt if Berseria can come close to 300k, so I think it will open to 200k-250k, which is terrible for an RPG series that was considered second next to FF.
They expected atleast 400-500k in Japan alone
DriftingSpirit
Member
Between the PS3 version, western and Asia release and whatever digital can contribute, SO should keep its head above water.
mrmickfran
Member
My memory has failed me.
150k.
Not at launch. What he said was about launch.
Did SOV helped to sell a few thousands copies of MGSV lol ?
Less terribad sales than we feared for SOV, but still pretty bad.
jetsetnickradio
Member
Which did worse than their PSP predecessors...
I wonder how long Sega can continue making the games with these drops...
hopefully forever
Bloodborne was supposed to face supply problems at first day(s), when digital is strong, far from the normal situation.
You'll find many PS4 games with bigger opening and lower digital sales (ratio and absolute).
Jarod McChicken
Member
Star Ocean 4 was born in an era where a Xbox 360 game could do 160K at launch.
Star Ocean 5 is not as lucky, but still manage to do a somehow decent numbers. To compare with another console RPG, Xenoblade Chronicles X launch was around 85K one year before (that said I doubt Star Ocean 5 will enjoy the surprising 200K XenoX did in the US).
I guess there was no digital sales for Star Ocean 4 either ? This would reduce the gap a little. I don't expect much more of 40K or 50K for the PS3 version but, the game should reach 200K in the end.
Star Ocean 5 is not as lucky, but still manage to do a somehow decent numbers. To compare with another console RPG, Xenoblade Chronicles X launch was around 85K one year before (that said I doubt Star Ocean 5 will enjoy the surprising 200K XenoX did in the US).
I guess there was no digital sales for Star Ocean 4 either ? This would reduce the gap a little. I don't expect much more of 40K or 50K for the PS3 version but, the game should reach 200K in the end.
No, 85k is bigger than 113k... D: (?)
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
SO5 needs to hit that 1 million mark.
mrmickfran
Member
I just saw the first week sales for the PSP games. Holy hell what a drop.
But that's expected coming from PSP to Vita.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Miku is dead.
Dark Souls is dead.
Star Ocean is dead.
Everything is slowly dying in Japan.
Dark Souls is dead.
Star Ocean is dead.
Everything is slowly dying in Japan.
Mario Kart VS Mario Maker (next week... The end)
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| | Mario Kart 8 | Super Mario Maker | Difference |
| | [WIU] (2014/05/29)| [WIU] (2015/09/10)| |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
|Week| Weekly | LTD | Weekly | LTD | SMM - MK8 |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
| 1 | 325.892| 325.892| 138.242| 138.242| -187.650|
| 2 | 73.051| 398.943| 54.544| 192.785| -206.158|
| 3 | 42.261| 441.205| 52.396| 245.182| -196.023|
| 4 | 28.112| 469.316| 30.150| 275.332| -193.984|
| 5 | 23.520| 492.837| 24.533| 299.865| -192.972|
| 6 | 19.386| 512.223| 21.357| 321.222| -191.001|
| 7 | 15.143| 527.366| 15.817| 337.039| -190.327|
| 8 | 14.992| 542.358| 13.764| 350.803| -191.555|
| 9 | 18.129| 560.487| 15.364| 366.167| -194.320|
| 10 | 18.067| 578.554| 12.442| 378.609| -199.945|
| 11 | 20.860| 599.414| 13.184| 391.793| -207.621|
| 12 | 28.221| 627.635| 18.639| 410.432| -217.203|
| 13 | 12.075| 639.710| 32.155| 442.588| -197.122|
| 14 | 11.148| 650.858| 48.600| 491.188| -159.670|
| 15 | 8.221| 659.079| 84.789| 575.977| -83.102|
| 16 | 6.839| 665.918| 98.155| 674.132| 8.214|
| 17 | 6.396| 672.313| 52.753| 726.885| 54.572|
| 18 | 5.936| 678.250| 25.854| 752.739| 74.489|
| 19 | 4.517| 682.767| 14.342| 767.081| 84.314|
| 20 | 3.996| 686.763| 9.264| 776.345| 89.582|
| 21 | 3.625| 690.387| 7.865| 784.211| 93.824|
| 22 | 2.821| 693.208| 6.134| 790.345| 97.137|
| 23 | 3.170| 696.378| 5.186| 795.531| 99.153|
| 24 | 3.210| 699.588| 6.477| 802.007| 102.419|
| 25 | 13.544| 713.132| 3.912| 805.919| 92.787|
| 26 | 8.752| 721.884| 6.862| 812.781| 90.897|
| 27 | 12.742| 734.626| 3.234| 816.015| 81.389|
| 28 | 19.244| 753.870| 6.297| 822.312| 68.442|
| 29 | 24.938| 778.808| 7.047| 829.358| 50.550|
| 30 | 34.331| 813.139| 4.873| 834.231| 21.092|
| 31 | 38.637| 851.776| | | |
| 32 | 28.403| 880.180| | | |
| 33 | 8.884| 889.064| | | |
| 34 | 6.915| 895.979| | | |
| 35 | 5.386| 901.365| | | |
| 36 | 5.103| 906.468| | | |
| 37 | 4.799| 911.267| | | |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
|Total -|1.187.570| -| 834.231| -353.339|
-------------------------------------------------------------Except Nintendo
Are there still Wii U shortages ?
If anything those numbers just show how terrible the SO5 sales are.
mejin
Member
No it wasn't. There was a campaign where those who purchased a PS4 could receive a Bloodborne download code, but it was only for a short period of time (campaign started in mid July and download code expired end of September) and limited to certain retailer chains.
https://www.jp.playstation.com/blog/detail/1195/20150716_bloodborne.html
DarkLordMalik
Member
The silver lining here is that it did better than the original on SNES. That's gonna count for something
It won't unless you believe in miracles.
Bruno MB
Member
Second week sales comparison:
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 second week drop doesn't suggest it will have better legs than previous 3DS releases, it will finish its commercial run selling around 700.000 units. A big drop for the series, it is specially sad that it won't even be able to match the second remake for 3DS that also saw a drop from the first one.
Dark Souls III second week drop is in line with the rest of the titles, it should reach 300.000 units including digital sales, a great result.
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[NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker <RPG> (Square Enix) {2006.12.28} (¥5.040) - 266.827 / 860.820 (-55%)
[NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 <RPG> (Square Enix) {2010.04.28} (¥5.490) - 252.862 / 876.505 (-59%)
[3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry no Wonderland 3D <RPG> (Square Enix) {2012.05.31} (¥5.490) - 83.329 / 596.512 (-84%)
[3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Iru to Ruka no Fushigi na Fushigi na Kagi <RPG> (Square Enix) {2014.02.06} (¥5.490) - 118.427 / 562.083 (-73%)
[B][3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 <RPG> (Square Enix) {2016.03.24} (¥5.250) - 98.634 / 467.299 (-73%)[/B]Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 second week drop doesn't suggest it will have better legs than previous 3DS releases, it will finish its commercial run selling around 700.000 units. A big drop for the series, it is specially sad that it won't even be able to match the second remake for 3DS that also saw a drop from the first one.
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[PS3] Demon's Souls <RPG> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2009.02.05} (¥6.980) - 22.439 / 62.128 (-43%)
[PS3] Dark Souls <RPG> (From Software) {2011.09.22} (¥7.800) - 34.718 / 314.286 (-88%)
[PS3] Dark Souls II <RPG> (From Software) {2014.03.13} (¥7.800) - 37.285 / 292.482 (-85%)
[PS4] Bloodborne <RPG> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.03.26} (¥7.452) - 22.610 / 175.177 (-85%)
[B][PS4] Dark Souls III <RPG> (From Software) {2016.03.24} (¥7.430) - 33.406 / 243.547 (-84%)[/B]Dark Souls III second week drop is in line with the rest of the titles, it should reach 300.000 units including digital sales, a great result.
mrmickfran
Member
All because of some Goddamn panties.
Must admit i expect way lower for PS4, still, since is the Star Ocean week i will wait next week for see how the drop will be
Why do you expect a big PS4 drop?
DarkLordMalik
Member
Some people were expecting it to be another million seller on 3DS. I doubt if DQXI on 3DS will match the sales of DQIX.
Good luck.
Only two SO games shipped more than 1 million units and it was a long time ago, market has changed since.
http://www.tri-ace.co.jp/en/company/sales.html
encephalon
Member
The reviews have nothing to do with that.