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[ragincajun77]

And to think I expected Vita at 24K this week, despite the lack of software. Guess I was just overcompensating for lowballing it for most of March.

The price cut's impact might yet surpass my expectations (no improved baseline), but it's probably already fair to call it a failure from Sony's perspective, as I'd say 20K is the bare minimum baseline that might get the larger third parties to positively reevaluate their investment in the platform.

Lol! It is still the second highest selling piece of hardware for the current year. Unless 3rd party devs are only going to start putting their games out on the top platform, I think PSV is in a pretty good position if it can maintain this momentum. Btw, the 3ds also dropped 10K units from last week.

The eternally optimistic Father_Brain.

 

[Fisico]

I wonder if Nintendo is going to maintain the "Year of..." homage for next year, starring a different character to showcase. If so, any guesses for who it'll be in 2014?

Year of Zelda
DLC to play WW U as Tetra, Zelda 3DS with Zelda as the MC and unveiling of Zelda Wii U, cooperative game with Zelda playable.

Spoiler

Back to the CD-I days !

 

[BishopLamont]

I wonder if Nintendo is going to maintain the "Year of..." homage for next year, starring a different character to showcase. If so, any guesses for who it'll be in 2014?

Year of..Mother! It will have been 25 years.

 

[frankie_baby]

Year of Captain Rainbow.

Still can't believe that never came to the west, I'm convinced it would have sold far better here than in Japan

 

[Hero of Legend]

8. Kids in my classes are drawing Luigi pictures in their notebooks and in their artwork (alongside Mario usually) I have been here for almost 9 years and its the first time I've noticed this. He is almost always ignored. In my mind that is the final proof that this is the Year of Luigi.

You're a teacher? What do you teach, Teach?

 

[ragincajun77]

But Vita owners told me that the system as going to stabilize at 30k per week for the rest of the year!

I am willing to bet that you can't find evidence of this assertion. I have followed the past months media create threads and it seems to me that the general consensus amongst PSV owners was that the new baseline post-price cut would be between 15K to 20K which seems pretty damn accurate.

 

[Canis lupus]

But Vita owners told me that the system as going to stabilize at 30k per week for the rest of the year!

Who? I remember many people saying it would go down <20k the week after the pricecut, it held out for another month.

 

[Celine]

Still can't believe that never came to the west, I'm convinced it would have sold far better here than in Japan

It would have still sold badly.
Same for Giftpia.

Spoiler

But I would have bought them.

 

[donny2112]

You're a teacher? What do you teach, Teach?

Axeplay, of course. (As long as he remembers to bring his Axe...)

 

[Father_Brain]

Lol! It is still the second highest selling piece of hardware for the current year. Unless 3rd party devs are only going to start putting their games out on the top platform, I think PSV is in a pretty good position if it can maintain this momentum. Btw, the 3ds also dropped 10K units from last week.

The eternally optimistic Father_Brain.

But that's just it - there's no particular reason to think that it'll be able to maintain any momentum. The only announced software that's likely to cause even halfway decent bumps is currently undated (GE2, FFX, J-Stars), and due to being multiplatform, all of those will be lucky to sell even 150K retail.

 

[Asimov]

I am willing to bet that you can't find evidence of this assertion. I have followed the past months media create threads and it seems to me that the general consensus amongst PSV owners was that the new baseline post-price cut would be between 15K to 20K which seems pretty damn accurate.

Who? I remember many people saying it would go down <20k the week after the pricecut, it held out for another month.

It was a joke.

 

[shinra-bansho]

I'm pretty sure Vita's little reprieve has generally been higher and longer than originally expected.

the new baseline post-price cut would be between 15K to 20K which seems pretty damn accurate.

Too early to say that.

 

[Fabrik]

Well my prediction was off by a couple of weeks.

 

[BishopLamont]

Alot of people didn't take into account the price drop, since we never knew about that til it basically happened. Without the price drop, the Vita would have never held out for this long.

 

[ragincajun77]

I'm pretty sure Vita's little reprieve has generally been higher and longer than originally expected.
Too early to say that.

True. Was really stating more my opinion than giving objective facts.

 

[ffdgh]

I wonder if Nintendo is going to maintain the "Year of..." homage for next year, starring a different character to showcase. If so, any guesses for who it'll be in 2014?

...I'd gladly take the year of peach or yoshi.

 

[Vinnk]

You're a teacher? What do you teach, Teach?

English. Pretty much all a foreigner can teach in Japan. But I'd like to think the students teach me as well...

And captain Rainbow is a great game. I have 4 copies. 2 of them signed by Skip employees. I just feel bad when u see a copy abondoned in the Bomba Bin for 500yen. "Don't worry little one" I say, "you're coming home with me"

 

[Progmetal]

Not too long before Vita passes 360's LTD. lol

 

[rockman zx]

Team NINJA games sold like crap lately, even DOA5, they better come up with something or some people it's going to be fired.

Too bad that they can release game after game and Itagaki it's MIA.

 

[SmokeMaxX]

...I'd gladly take the year of peach or yoshi.

Nintendo would have all of my money if they had a year of Yoshi.

 

[Road]

(I think) These are the only Vita games that appeared in the Famitsu Top 30 in their 5th week:

19. Soul Sacrifice - 6.052 / 162.238
26. Minna no Golf 6 - 4.776 / 93.795
21. Persona 4 Golden - 4.630 / 193.412
23. Demon Gaze - 2.612 / 46.745

 

[BishopLamont]

English. Pretty much all a foreigner can teach in Japan. But I'd like to think the students teach me as well...

And captain Rainbow is a great game. I have 4 copies. 2 of them signed by Skip employees. I just feel bad when u see a copy abondoned in the Bomba Bin for 500yen. "Don't worry little one" I say, "you're coming home with me"

lol, I'm surprised you haven't adopted a kid or two.

 

[Father_Brain]

I'm pretty sure Vita's little reprieve has generally been higher and longer than originally expected.

Too early to say that.

Yep to both points.

 

[Magicpaint]

I wonder if Nintendo is going to maintain the "Year of..." homage for next year, starring a different character to showcase. If so, any guesses for who it'll be in 2014?

Year of Samus next year. Prime 4 for WiiU and Metroid Dread for 3DS.

Spoiler

I wish.

 

[BishopLamont]

Year of Samus next year. Prime 4 for WiiU and Metroid Dread for 3DS.

Spoiler

I wish.

Retro did Metroid Prime and DKCR.

A 2D Metroid Dread is the logical conclusion for their next game.

 

[Kenka]

Oooooh yes, I forgot about MC today !

 

[Hero of Legend]

Retro did Metroid Prime and DKCR.

A 2D Metroid Dread is the logical conclusion for their next game.

Batman Blackgate, that's basically it! LOL

Seriously, it's a 2.5D game by the leads from Retro. XD

 

[Screamapillar]

Super nit-picky question, but why are there decimal points instead of commas in the game sales numbers?

 

[DaBoss]

Super nit-picky question, but why are there decimal points instead of commas in the game sales numbers?

Some countries use periods instead of commas, others use commas instead of periods.

 

[Aostia]

Great Luigi's performances.

 

[schuelma]

Slightly higher Wii U number than I was expecting, given that the I assume the bump last week was purely for the DQX bundle. If Nintendo actually had some games coming out maybe it could get a bit of momentum.

 

[BladeoftheImmortal]

Why is it that it's the Nintendo games that usually have long legs? DO they push marketing a shit ton more?

 

[DaBoss]

Batman Blackgate, that's basically it! LOL

Seriously, it's a 2.5D game by the leads from Retro. XD

Are you saying the ones who worked on Metroid Prime Trilogy, or DKCR?

Why is it that it's the Nintendo games that usually have long legs? DO they push marketing a shit ton more?

Evergreen titles that just don't see price reductions often.

 

[The Horror the horror]

Why is it that it's the Nintendo games that usually have long legs? DO they push marketing a shit ton more?

Word of mouth.

 

[serplux]

3DS is getting close to the Wii. I wonder if it can pass it before Pokemon comes out?

 

[Doogdogg]

Why is it that it's the Nintendo games that usually have long legs? DO they push marketing a shit ton more?

history

 

[BriBri]

3DS is getting close to the Wii. I wonder if it can pass it before Pokemon comes out?

Yes. Probably August/September.

 

[GRW810]

Have all previous Animal Crossing games sold this well? 3m in Japan alone is monstrous.

 

[Raist]

Wait. NDS HW sales aren't tracked anymore? When did that happen?

 

[serplux]

Have all previous Animal Crossing games sold this well? 3m in Japan alone is monstrous.

I actually think it's approaching 4 million right now, if we include download sales/cards. The DS outing is at 5,200,000 but New Leaf is outpacing it by a lot.

 

[Hero of Legend]

Are you saying the ones who worked on Metroid Prime Trilogy, or DKCR?

Trilogy.

Boy did heads turn.

Apparently 3 of the leads at the time were fed up with the lack of creative freedom so they wanted to leave.

And tried to lure many other folks to come along, Nintendo didn't take kindly to that.

Remember the Infinity Ward incident? Same thing.

In fact, DKCR was given to Retro because they were freed up due to this.

 

[metalslimer]

Yeah people expecting over 100k vita for the month are going to be disappointed. Vita has 0 games for the next 2 weeks. There's only a downward trend coming here, although the lasting effects of the pricecut did last weeks longer than many expected, but you just can't do much with vita's lineup. Either Sony announces some more games soon or it will be right back to 10k making even less money.

 

[DaBoss]

Trilogy.

Boy did heads turn.

Apparently 3 of the leads at the time were fed up with the lack of creative freedom so they wanted to leave.

And tried to lure many other folks to come along, Nintendo didn't take kindly to that.

Remember the Infinity Ward incident? Same thing.

In fact, DKCR was given to Retro because they were freed up due to this.

OK, so those guys at Armature right now didn't work on DKCR.

 

[Sammy Samusu]

English. Pretty much all a foreigner can teach in Japan. But I'd like to think the students teach me as well...

And captain Rainbow is a great game. I have 4 copies. 2 of them signed by Skip employees. I just feel bad when u see a copy abondoned in the Bomba Bin for 500yen. "Don't worry little one" I say, "you're coming home with me"

Mess. :lol

I'm here for Year of Kyle Hyde.

 

[Takiyah]

Yeah people expecting over 100k vita for the month are going to be disappointed. Vita has 0 games for the next 2 weeks. There's only a downward trend coming here, although the lasting effects of the pricecut did last weeks longer than many expected, but you just can't do much with vita's lineup

True. The game lineup for the next few months though seems good - although I play smaller titles vs. larger (I'm a bit Terraria obsessive).

And just wait for the PS4+Vita combo package...it'll happen...I swear...

 

[airmangataosenai]

Muramasa kicking DQX and G&W butts still.

G&W will probably top it next week. I expect it to manage to chart until the 100k or so stock is cleared out.

Vita is a bit lower than expected but we'll see. Most of us wanted to see it stabilize around 15k or so.

But Vita owners told me that the system was going to stabilize at 30k per week for the rest of the year!

Gotta love dem moving goalposts. 2 months ago people were predicting less than 30k for the week the pricedrop was supposed to happen. Now the system apparently had to sell at that level forever.

 

[DaBoss]

True. The game lineup for the next few months though seems good - although I play smaller titles vs. larger (I'm a bit Terraria obsessive).

And just wait for the PS4+Vita combo package...it'll happen...I swear...

$699

 

[metalslimer]

True. The game lineup for the next few months though seems good - although I play smaller titles vs. larger (I'm a bit Terraria obsessive).

And just wait for the PS4+Vita combo package...it'll happen...I swear...

In Japan?

 

[Sammy Samusu]

New releases {2013.04.11}

[3DS] Card Fight!! Vanguard: Ride To Victory!! <ETC> (FuRyu) (¥5.229)

[PSP] Sangoku Hime 2: Tenka Hatou - Saki no Keishousha # <SLG> (SystemSoft Alpha) (¥6.090)
[PSP] Sangoku Hime 2: Tenka Hatou - Saki no Keishousha [Limited Edition] <SLG> (SystemSoft Alpha) (¥8.190)

Booooooring.

And Vita is going to drop even further. Predictions?

I say 13k.

 

[airmangataosenai]

Booooooring.

And Vita is going to drop even further. Predictions?

I say 13k.

This seems like a down week in general so I expect a softer than expected drop.

15k Vita, 11k WiiU.