encephalon
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Are the PC sales broken down by region? I and a number of friends and coworkers have bought them on Steam rather than console.
encephalon
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At what point do we see a title that does less than 20k and subsequent posts in MC threads saying "wow, great numbers for ___?"
Mr. Pointy
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A new Metroid.
Kresnik258
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Ōkami;230376010 said:
Those are some great sales across the board (as in, price reductions lol)
Ōkami;230382076 said:
Ōkami;230382076 said:
I've got this as the best selling Compile Heart game?
Moero Chronicle 2014 Compile Heart 32,957 / 61,024
I'd guess you're using Famitsu though.
Still, Neptunia Re;birth 1 had 28k worth of legs:
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth 1 2013 Compile Heart 31,811 / 59,913
So I'd fully expect Cyberdimension to become their best selling game.
Monpiece opened well and dropped quickly. Didn't even beat Moero Chronicle (see above):
Monster Monpiece 2013 Compile Heart 24,978 / 49,521
But yeah, I believe Hakuouki passed 100k on PSP. Still, that'd be an Idea Factory release rather than Compile Heart.
Switch week 5!
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
lol
Well, to me anyway it seems that their mobile strategy is both giving them back money AND brand awarness.
According to Dengeki, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3 Professional Sell-through is around 90% (125k sales FW). They say that >300k LTD might be possible.
Nioh Sell-through is over 90% (75k sales FW).
http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/469/1469405/
Nioh Sell-through is over 90% (75k sales FW).
http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/469/1469405/
I think DQMJ2 Professional was also supply constrained right? or it was DQMJ2?
Btw, does DQMJ3 Professional improve anything regarding DQMJ3? Maybe the game is better so it'll have better sales than expected.
Professional version of DQMJ2 was supply constrained yeah, nobody expected it to sell as well as it did.
Joker 2 Pro was in short supply for months.
History repeats, based on Sukiyaki similar performance it was semi-expected a small comeback for Joker 3 Pro too.
Hellraider
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The one I'm most expecting to get ported is Paper Mario. It might have bombed hard but there is probably some decent potential with it sales wise on another platform. I'm saying another platform because I can see it being ported to either 3DS and or both to Switch.
Ooops, sorry about that. Fixed. Thanks for the heads up.
No, next game is Nioh: Empires launching this Fall, followed by Nioh: Xtreme Legends in March, and Nioh: Chronicles in June 2018.
Jawbreaker
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Nah, just being facetious here.
They've really taken their time to release the game, so they definitely care about quality (and it looks like it paid off, too), so I don't think it will get the Warriors treatment. Will be interesting to see if they keep their partnership going with Sony for future games.
Kresnik258
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I don't see why as neither will break 200k FW, I'd say.
Would be hilarious. We probably won't know until the next Tales of Festival tho.
Yes.
For Dark Souls 3: http://steamspy.com/app/374320
SteamSpy has been fluctuating the game between about 1.38 million and 1.42 million, so if we just pick 1.4 million * 2.93% we'd actually get... 41,020 PC sales in Japan?
I'd love to see them announce it side-by-side with a new PS4 Tales game and try to justify its existence.
ZSaberLink
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Hm, looks like Dengeki #s aren't up on their site yet? Just late this week?
mickagau33
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Sayonara BoxBoy retail version (with amiibo and soundtrack) must have been shipped in really small quantities since it is sold out everywhere (it sold 7000 units last week). I have ordered on Nin-Nin (first time using this site, they seemed to be the only one with some stock) but my order seem stuck since 2 days (but I was charged) and I read a lot of bad things about them online :-( come on QBby, I need you!!!
I thought disgaea 5 was week 1
The mobile era of Nintendo is going to be great:
I checked, and the Nikkei actually went in the opposite direction, so it wasn't just the general market.
Being a stock trader specializing in mobile companies must be exhausting.
Umm, so apparently Nioh's digestibility rating in Japan is over 90% with shops selling out across most store chains?
Did Sony and KT fuck up on severely undershipping again!?
This is serious, this could severely hurt the impact of the game, didn't they do the same thing globally? Wasn't sony in charge of getting the game into as many hands as possible?
If sony sent this thing out to die expecting it to bomb, doesn't that make them worse than fools?
Did Sony and KT fuck up on severely undershipping again!?
This is serious, this could severely hurt the impact of the game, didn't they do the same thing globally? Wasn't sony in charge of getting the game into as many hands as possible?
If sony sent this thing out to die expecting it to bomb, doesn't that make them worse than fools?
They probably produced a certain amount based on pre-orders and last I heard, Nioh's pre-orders weren't looking too hot. Outside of Japan, Nioh also got a spike in attention due to rave reviews.
Kt is responsible for japan. You should cut back the hyperbole lol
DriftingSpirit
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I guess it is just hard to gauge interest. They didn't want to overship because it could have easily turned out that way. I think there was an unexpected bump in interest that occurred with the reviews too.
As long as they rectify it fairly quickly, legs shouldn't be a problem. We'll have to see how that goes though.
Standard edition of BoxBoy Collection retail release is far from sold out, going by Famitsu. Shipment wasn't anything special and maybe small stores ran out of stock but there are still copies left out there.
I was implying that both KT and Sony messed up. Cause even here in America they have severely undershipped.
I get doing it based on preorders, but you should atleast ship a decent amount of copies world wide.
Did the reviews REALLY take both parties by that much surprise that they didn't expect people to be interested? They made the same mistake as Demon's Souls
That was the case for Japan as well. It would not have sold out without the metacritic reviews and overseas hype including this site which the review thread was occasionally referenced. That's just from the buzz i've seen on Japanese channels.
*EDIT*
Then...retailers are the problem?
Well, it's always up to the publisher in the end. Either they manage to convince the retailers that there is a huge audience even if there is not as much preorders by customers (which if misjudged causes overshipping like with FFXV and RE7), or they market the game directly to the potential audience to drive preorders so retailers stock enough. KT as a publisher failed at both so they probably weren't that confident in their product selling more and accordingly acted both in retailer targeted presentations and customer faced marketing. Even more so if they didn't prepare for the power of word of mouth and take long to prepare extra shipments.
The mobile era of Nintendo is going to be great:
I checked, and the Nikkei actually went in the opposite direction, so it wasn't just the general market.
So Nintendo's success, in the eyes of their shareholders, is completely dependend on smartphone software.
I hope appeasing their shareholders by entering that market doesn't come back to bite Nintendo in the ass. I think, so far, Nintendo's strategy has worked out quite nicely (and I, as a person not interested in playing games on smartphones, don't feel like I'm missing out on anything, which was a concern I had when they first announced their smartphone initiative), and I hope it continues to do, but it made them a lot more susceptible to false expectations on part of their shareholders.
DriftingSpirit
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I can't really fault KT. It is definitely smart to remain conservative given how things have been going lately.
Datschge is right about the ultimate responsibility, since publishers have to work with the conditions of the market and turn them in their favor, but shipment size is still something retailers decide.
This is why things like pre-order bonuses and retailer exclusives exist, because pre-orders determine how much a retailer is willing to order most of the time, and digital isn't large enough in Japan for publishers to be fine with an undershipment forcing more people to digital purchases.
That said, in the West, publishers also assume way more of the risk through things like return fees, so retailers will accept a lot of stock more easily and then just send it back if it doesn't sell. Mind, that doesn't apply in every case.
In Japan, the retailers eat the failure, so they're going to be way more cautious.
so basically, nobody expected Nioh to take off like it did and so didn't bother.
What a swell situation. I hope the momentum now can affect some action towards expanding the franchise or showing KT that the demand is there for more
What a swell situation. I hope the momentum now can affect some action towards expanding the franchise or showing KT that the demand is there for more
In the West, legs for well received games usually happen as the price drops down, especially digitally.
In Japan, the used game market can be more problematic.
I'm not especially worried that they won't keep making more given how bad all their products are going anyway.
The mobile era of Nintendo is going to be great:
I checked, and the Nikkei actually went in the opposite direction, so it wasn't just the general market.
Content droughts are a death sentence in mobage, and Int Sys finally released new gacha that day.
Tbh. Expecting it to dropping quicker this time.
The worrying part about it is the apparent disconnect there has to be between the publishing and the development side of KT. The game is very well done which speaks of the developer's confidence. Why wasn't the publishing side reflecting that? And when they go on milking it for all its worth, will they keep ignoring the development side?