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Media Create Sales: Week 29, 2013 (Jul 15 - Jul 21)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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My bad. Fixed.
Pretty decent hold for Pikmin 3 considering Wii U's situation in Japan.
And Wii U finally hit that 1 million milestone.
But overall not a good week for everything that is not a 3DS. And even 3DS doing only ok with a new bundle and new game. I wonder if Sticker Star disappointment has something to do with M&L
T sales.
Aaaand, EDF holding strong as well!
And Wii U finally hit that 1 million milestone.
But overall not a good week for everything that is not a 3DS. And even 3DS doing only ok with a new bundle and new game. I wonder if Sticker Star disappointment has something to do with M&L
T sales.Aaaand, EDF holding strong as well!
I don't think there's much of a chance of replicating the success. But I still don't understand how it even sold that much to begin with. Such an enigma.
gigantor21
Member
Yeah, same here. Those numbers were frontloaded as all hell.
Okay, thanks. (They've seriously never put any Lego games out there before? Damn...)
StreetsAhead
Member
Did they take the console off the shelves the rest of the 5 days in week 28?
Yakuza HD
Lego City Undercover
(This is literally all the releases between now and TW101).
Poor Mario & Luigi
Why should the series end all of a sudden? The debut isn't great, but it's a leggy series and it has appeal overseas, why it should end abruptly.
Screamapillar
Member
M&L is a difficult comparison to BiS because this one released as day-one digital. Surely that accounts for 10-20% of sales, more or less.
BiS had some monstrous legs both in Japan and NA in 2009, so we'll see if that pattern holds.
Pikmin 3 second-week sales are nearly identical to Pikmin 1 and 2, so I'm no longer worried about that game. The audience from nine years ago seems to still be there, regardless of the harshness of the Wii U climate right now.
BiS had some monstrous legs both in Japan and NA in 2009, so we'll see if that pattern holds.
Pikmin 3 second-week sales are nearly identical to Pikmin 1 and 2, so I'm no longer worried about that game. The audience from nine years ago seems to still be there, regardless of the harshness of the Wii U climate right now.
zomgbbqftw
Banned
-43%
Over 2 million in NA.
XL had a bundle with Mario and Luigi
Canis lupus
Member
Sales are pretty front loaded, I remember people making the same excuse with the Vita launch, only on sale for a day or 2 doesn't really matter, next week's sales are usually always a huge drop.
Aquamarine
Member
258,100 copies in September 2009 (NPD).
Nice, thank you very much.
Glass Rebel
Member
I thought I was lowballing it with my 120k prediction for M&L4 which I was just about to post. Second worst W1 sales of the series but it should have good legs. I honestly never expected it to come close to M&L3 and I suspect that Mario/Luigi "fatigue", the close release to Sticker Star and the lack of playable Bowser played a considerable part in that. Disappointing nevertheless since I'm in the middle of the game and it's shaping up to become my favourite entry in the series.
Nice numbers for Pikmin 3 and Yokai Watch though. Is the latter receiving any good word of mouth?
Nice numbers for Pikmin 3 and Yokai Watch though. Is the latter receiving any good word of mouth?
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Is Mario fatigue beginning to show? Would be great if AlphaDream got to create a new property now sales are flagging.
Vita vs WiiU grudge match begins, with victors depending on your choice of tracking data.
I dunno if this is good or not for Youkai. If it kept legs for a few more weeks, sure it'd reach a respectable 100-120k, but I would have thought something like this should be achieving a lot more success on a piece of hardware with approaching 12 million units out and about.
Vita vs WiiU grudge match begins, with victors depending on your choice of tracking data.
I dunno if this is good or not for Youkai. If it kept legs for a few more weeks, sure it'd reach a respectable 100-120k, but I would have thought something like this should be achieving a lot more success on a piece of hardware with approaching 12 million units out and about.
chickdigger802
Banned
that's it, we need another Square nintendo mario collab that isn't basketball (even though the ds game was pretty decent and one of the better looking games on the system somehow).
It might also be time for a 3rd (4th) mario rpg pillar.
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Moral Panic
Member
Ok. Next week then? Would be good to get some nice graphs to go with it too. Always good to get important information out to the rest of GAF.
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Deleted member 125677
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Considering how terrible the Wii U is doing I'd say Pikmin 3 is doing all right so far compared to the previous entries
Aquamarine
Member
This guy knows what's up. ;-)
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Yea, this is just another example of how front loaded sales are. However, wasn't there a new Wii U bundle that was released at the beginning of the week this thread is talking about? That's what I am more surprised about.
DXB-KNIGHT
Member
That's sad, such a great game too. I've been playing it now for 3 days.Mario & Luigi starting less than half as well as the third game.
As for Toukiden the ratio actually justifies the PSP/V multiplatform release.
If devs could increase the sales by 30%+ by up porting (or down porting, either way)
one version to another then of course they'd do it, especially if cross-platform play is supported.
StreetsAhead
Member
The promotional anime isn't starting until like December, iirc, so I expect this game will have legs.
pieatorium
Member
just adding a white version of the premium,n ot a bundle and not even really a new colour since basic is white
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Maybe for some Youkai Watch W bullshit re-release so Level 5 can start devaluing another property from the off!
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Ah! Is that all it was? Then yea that is lame. I thought a promotional price or game packaged in was part of it. lol
Week 3 will make up for it. If Nintendo's first shipment was 200k, it will be a while before they sell through it.
djplaeskool
Member
A couple months ago, if you would have told me that Toukiden would sell 200k on Vita and well over 300k overall, I would have called you crazy...
Unfortunately, being the biggest release this summer on a new console starved for content, "in line with the series" is not the ideal result. It's not bad, but I'm betting most expected and everyone hoped it would be better.
Unfortunately, being the biggest release this summer on a new console starved for content, "in line with the series" is not the ideal result. It's not bad, but I'm betting most expected and everyone hoped it would be better.
Hero of Legend
Member
They did, so more like revive it; Tomato Adventure which is M&L before M&L for the GBA.
Would ADORE a 3DS sequel with Dream Team's engine. :O
Yeah they are what they are.
Not great, not bad.
Nintendo didn't help matters by basically going dark on the market for 6 months
Well, it seems to be Youkai Watch is going to be a nice success.
Better numbers for Pikmin 3 than I expected, pretty good. Hope it somehow keeps selling for a while.
Yup Toukiden also is a pretty nice success.
Better numbers for Pikmin 3 than I expected, pretty good. Hope it somehow keeps selling for a while.
Yup Toukiden also is a pretty nice success.
pieatorium
Member
by the rest you mean the first game and not the second.