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Media Create Sales: Week 05, 2011 (Jan 31 - Feb 6)
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{2009.05.25 - 2010.01.03} 0106. [NDS] Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Capcom) {2009.05.28} - 171.940 / 289.984dvolovets said:Edit - Wait, it's a drop from the previous game?
{2011.01.31 - 2011.02.06} 0213. [NDS] Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth 2 (Capcom) {2011.02.03} - 132.266 / 132.266
Kurosaki Ichigo
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Congratulations to Orgen on the ranking by units and ULTROS! in the ranking by points/percentages.
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Hmmm... Atlus is shipping 130k/40k for PS3/360 Catherine right?
I wonder if they'll get another shipment. I'm under the impression that this game is quite hyped (top ranking in the most anticipated games in the Famitsu mag).
I wonder if they'll get another shipment. I'm under the impression that this game is quite hyped (top ranking in the most anticipated games in the Famitsu mag).
TLS for all purposes is still one of the top3 sellers for the company along with Blue Dragon & Lost Odyssey. All 3 of their DS games bombed HARD.
If they sell 160k at the end of the day, that's not too bad for an rpg dev these days. Just means they don't have the finances to do PS3/X360 games though. But they could probably still churn out a Wii game ever 1-2 years if they felt like it and make profit.
If they're going to stick to Wii though, they should definitely stay away from the realistic LO design style and go with a more cell-shaded/cartoon style that looks good on Wii.
If they sell 160k at the end of the day, that's not too bad for an rpg dev these days. Just means they don't have the finances to do PS3/X360 games though. But they could probably still churn out a Wii game ever 1-2 years if they felt like it and make profit.
If they're going to stick to Wii though, they should definitely stay away from the realistic LO design style and go with a more cell-shaded/cartoon style that looks good on Wii.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Tiktaalik said:
Yes it is.
Not really. Just watch the anime and join the dark side...
Coincidentally I just noticed this in my RSS reader (a bit off topic):
Japan Debates Depictions of Young Girls in Comics
Maybe we won't be seeing a My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute Portable 2.
Japan Debates Depictions of Young Girls in Comics
Maybe we won't be seeing a My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute Portable 2.
Rush2thestart
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How is that dropoff even possible? That's massive.
Rush2thestart
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I was just expecting more after reports of shortages.
Rush2thestart
Member
Guilty. V_V
Nevertheless, I hope this doesnt affect its chances at US release. I still want to play this.
Nevertheless, I hope this doesnt affect its chances at US release. I still want to play this.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
How did the first Miles Edgeworth do?
Cosmonaut X
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Chris - what's the deal with the posters? It seems that one is advertising the 3DS for 32,000 yen and the other for 27,000 yen, but I'm not sure what the point is.
The 3DS is supposed to be 25,000 yen, isn't it? So are these retailers offering it for a huge premium? And if so, is it down to shortages/demand, or is there something else going on?
The 3DS is supposed to be 25,000 yen, isn't it? So are these retailers offering it for a huge premium? And if so, is it down to shortages/demand, or is there something else going on?
combinekidd
Member
Cosmonaut X said:
It's the buyback price (of an unused 3DS) that some stores in Japan are offering.
Cosmonaut X
Member
combinekidd said:
Really? Jesus - 7,000 yen over the "proper" price? How on Earth do they intend to profit from that unless they're going to start selling it for 35,000 or so?
Cygnus X-1
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Right now the probabilities to see the last story in Europe are smaller. Shit.
To be fair, the game seems mad low budget like most Nintendo published games (Nintendo outsource budgets = something like 1/4th an AAA PS2 game budget imo), so it'd probably break even at 80k and anything over a 100k is pure profit. I doubt Nintendo really cares other than being in no rush to fund another venture.
Xenoblade is the more iffy one on if it made any money, since the Xeno team was working on it for 3 years before release. Then again it sure did better than other Monolith Soft Nintendo produced games by a longshot, so Nintendo was probably happy their sales are improving.
Xenoblade is the more iffy one on if it made any money, since the Xeno team was working on it for 3 years before release. Then again it sure did better than other Monolith Soft Nintendo produced games by a longshot, so Nintendo was probably happy their sales are improving.
viciouskillersquirrel
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AAI2 doing less than the previous one isn't surprising, to be honest. AAI2 just wasn't up to the quality set by the first three mainline AA games.
Also, did TLS get a restock? If so, how big?
Also, did TLS get a restock? If so, how big?
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Wait, what budgets does Mistwalker have? Since when were they a development studio?
Maybe I missed that, but isn't Mistwalker still a design consultancy firm?
Their budget is entirely dependent on what publisher contracts them.
They have arrangements to work with preferred developers, but they can technically work with any dev as a consultant or any dev a publisher contracts, and the budget would come from the studio or the publisher, depending on who hires them. It's actually not a bad model for them as they have much less risk and overhead, just their reputation and pass success, as well as Gooch's ability to sell his services for another project.
That said, if it doesn't work that way, it should
Maybe I missed that, but isn't Mistwalker still a design consultancy firm?
Their budget is entirely dependent on what publisher contracts them.
They have arrangements to work with preferred developers, but they can technically work with any dev as a consultant or any dev a publisher contracts, and the budget would come from the studio or the publisher, depending on who hires them. It's actually not a bad model for them as they have much less risk and overhead, just their reputation and pass success, as well as Gooch's ability to sell his services for another project.
That said, if it doesn't work that way, it should
Mockingbird
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Bebpo said:
TLS seems low budget? I thought the opposite. Especially considering the extraordinary advert campaign it got here. a press conference complete with commercials for said conference and in-store displays three months before release for starters. Then there's the very awesome pre-order bonuses too.
Bebpo said:
What were the sales for Soma Bringer? I thought that game reached 180,000+, though I'm probably mistaken.
FINALFANTASYDOG
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This Really make no difference in the big boy leagues of sale but it's a fun example: Scribblenautsis sold out an amazon.co.jp and due to the amount of time it takes to restock ds games, the next shipment from amazon isn't for another month.
scribblenauts!
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First to second week comparisons.
Last Story: 115K- > 19k (-84.5%)
Xenoblade:83k -> 21k（-75.0%）
Valkyria Chronicles 2: 9.4k -> 2.4k（-74.5%）
Valkyria Chronicles 3: 10.4k -> 1.8k（-82.5%）
scribblenauts!
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First to second week comparisons.
Last Story: 115K- > 19k (-84.5%)
Xenoblade:83k -> 21k（-75.0%）
Valkyria Chronicles 2: 9.4k -> 2.4k（-74.5%）
Valkyria Chronicles 3: 10.4k -> 1.8k（-82.5%）
Mockingbird said:
Advertising budget was definitely far far higher than money put into selling Xenoblade or S&P2 of most non-first party Nintendo game, sure.
As to the game budget...we'll just have to disagree. I've been playing about 20 jrpgs a year on all systems over the last decade and to me from a graphical, content, q&a and overall polish perspective it feels like a low budget game, like say a PS2 launch rpg with real effort put into it similar to Shadow Hearts 1 with more budget. Otoh Xenoblade, despite it's flat fruit, had the feel of a medium to high budget production with the amount of assets, locations, cutscenes, and overall polish. I'd wager the XB budget was about the same as a Xenosaga entry.
Well, this pretty much gives Namco Bandai and other jrpg developers a signal that the Wii is pretty much done for(although I suspected that they've made the decision way before the TLS's performance was revealed).
Guess now they'll focus mainly on PS3, PSP, 3DS and the NGP at this point.
Guess now they'll focus mainly on PS3, PSP, 3DS and the NGP at this point.