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[Chris1964]

One of those less than 2.5k is me. Amazon still had it in stock.

The bad new is that it's poor sales aren't due to it being supply constrained.

The good news is that it has not price collapsed yet. In fact when I bought it last week that price was 6,200yen and the price has actually gone up a tiny bit to 6,473yen so retailers are not panicking about the title just yet.

Launch titles don't follow typical price pattern of overshipped games. There is a drought of new releases at first weeks and it's inevitable day 1 games to show good legs.

There is still the possibility some of them were massively overshipped and retailers are forced to drop the price drastically (Wii U had many with below 20% sell-through) but that was not the case with Switch.

 

[Prototype Viktor]

Comparing the Vita and Switch in this situation doesn't make much sense.

See my previous post on the subject.

yea one is a tablet the other is a vita

 

[Mokujin]

yea one is a tablet the other is a vita

Meaning? Outside the form factor without the Joycons Switch is nothing like a tablet (for better or for worse).

 

[Chris1964]

Saturday is an interesting day. MHXX launches and Nintendo restocks Switch.

We'll get an idea of how far MH will fall behind Capcom's forecast and the size of Switch shipments for the rest of March.

 

[daxgame]

Personally I'm in the club of those who doesn't believe that MK8 Switch will outsell the original for WiiU, but ready to be surprised !

 

[Mpl90]

Launch titles don't follow typical price pattern of overshipped games. There is a drought of new releases at first weeks and it's inevitable day 1 games to show good legs.

There is still the possibility some of them were massively overshipped and retailers are forced to drop the price drastically (Wii U had many with below 20% sell-through) but that was not the case with Switch.

I would also like to add that this week the hardware was severly supply constrained, and that influenced game sales as well, given most of them saw 70+% drops as the hardware dropped 80% (with the exception of Puyo Puyo Tetris, that keeps on doing surprising sales, seriously), so of course Disgaea dropped in a similar fashion.

 

[smbu2000]

Just to add my little anecdote: I haven't seen any for sale in my city (Nagoya) although I've only been checking around sporadically. At various GEOs, a local video game chain and the Yamada Denki on my way to/from work and checked out the Bic Camera/Sofmap at Nagoya Station on the weekend. Nothing...all sold out.

I wanted to try it out and they didn't even have demo units out. Nintendo must be hard pressed making these in significant volume. I'd probably buy one if I saw one available.

 

[Orgen]

Not so bad hold for Switch seeing the reports from being almost sold out and great holds for PS4 and 3DS on the Hardwared side.

Did we get shipment numbers for the other Switch retail titles? (I am setsuna, Disgaea 5... etc.)

 

[hiska-kun]

Dengeki reports 90% sell-through for Wildlands, and 65% sell-through for Kingdom Hearts 1.5+2.5.
Also, they talk about Switch stock problems, and numbers would have been better if enough stock was shipped.

http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/486/1486100/

 

[L~A]

Now that Yoshi 3DS outsold Yoshi Wii U, next battle is MK8 Switch vs. MK8 Wii U.

I wonder if MK8D is going to be the next Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, aka popular game restrained by unpopular platform that ends up doing better when ported on more popular platform.

In fact in the case of Mario Maker some of the content has been cut.

Some content may have been cut, but SMM3DS also have a lot more than the Wii U version doesn't.

The interesting thing will be what happens when Mario Kart 9 releases on a system. We've really yet to see what happens when one of these titles releases twice on the same system.

Yeah, same question for the inevitable Smash 4 port.

I don't think they're just going to release DLC for MK8D as was suggested a few posts ago, but I do expected the next MK (and Smash) to be pretty DLC heavy. Well, Smash 4 already was really DLC-heavy, and it's not going to change.

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Also, Horii apparently teased some DQXI announcement: http://gamestalk.net/post-76440/

 

[Hellraider]

I forgot, what were Capcom's FY expectations for MHXX?

 

[hanspampel]

Personally I'm in the club of those who doesn't believe that MK8 Switch will outsell the original for WiiU, but ready to be surprised !

It got the goat GameCube bomb mode.
Me and my friends will buy it. But not now for this price

 

[Herb Alpert]

I forgot, what were Capcom's FY expectations for MHXX?

Wasn't it 2 millions ?

 

[mclem]

Personally I'm in the club of those who doesn't believe that MK8 Switch will outsell the original for WiiU, but ready to be surprised !

Did we ever get any PR about how the DLC sold? I'm wondering how much of an allure 16 extra tracks + Isabelle might be, particularly if it's new to a significant quantity of the people who purchased MK8 Wii U.

 

[Lexxism]

Also, they talk about Switch stock problems, and numbers would have been better if enough stock was shipped.

http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/486/1486100/

 

[noobie]

Is there any big release coming out in the next 4 weeks for the PS4 in JPN? If not then the average at the highest would be about 35K a week. And at that rate, the PS4 leads will most likely be cut down to below 200K (4.72 million PS4 vs 4.56 million PS3) by week 166.

there are few releases expected to do between 50 - 100k.. but nothing major.

 

[Mokujin]

MK8 Deluxe is going to sell amazing from my point of view, some people underestimate it because its a port without realizing that.-

* It's MK8 portable
* First game to truly vindicate tabletop mode
* Amazing value for those that skkiped Wii U
* Easy local multiplayer with more than one Switch

I can't see how MK8 is not going to be Switch first evergreen title, timing seems good also being barely 6 weeks away.

 

[ArmGunar]

MK8 Deluxe is going to sell amazing from my point of view, some people underestimate it because its a port without realizing that.-

* It's MK8 portable
* First game to truly vindicate tabletop mode
* Amazing value for those that skkiped Wii U
* Easy local multiplayer with more than one Switch

I can't see how MK8 is not going to be Switch first evergreen title, timing seems good also being barely 6 weeks away.

Even Wii U owners who bought Switch will buy again this MK8 Deluxe

 

[OfficerRaichu15]

MK8 Deluxe is going to sell amazing from my point of view, some people underestimate it because its a port without realizing that.-

* It's MK8 portable
* First game to truly vindicate tabletop mode
* Amazing value for those that skkiped Wii U
* Easy local multiplayer with more than one Switch

I can't see how MK8 is not going to be Switch first evergreen title, timing seems good also being barely 6 weeks away.

I agree full heartedly, this game is a bigger seller than Zelda imo.

 

[Chris1964]

I wanted to try it out and they didn't even have demo units out. Nintendo must be hard pressed making these in significant volume. I'd probably buy one if I saw one available.

It's not so easy ramping up production, especially for launch period. Nintendo kept increasing Wii production month after month and still couldn't meet demand. Right now they are coming from 2 massively overshipped launches in a row, 3DS and Wii U, and didn't want the same situation again. Even if they decided to do that it for Switch there isn't time to be any significant number for March, maybe a few 100k more from the original 2m forecast.

Either way, these aren't lost sales and the big majority of them will come later. There is always the scenario demand far exceeds supply and the amount of lost sales is big. There is difference between a product having high sell-through but most of demand is covered and a product that runs out of stock almost immediately after going on sale.

 

[Vinnk]

I agree full heartedly, this game is a bigger seller than Zelda imo.

In Japan surely. Perhaps the rest of the world too.

 

[ZSaberLink]

Dengeki Online Sales: Week 10, 2017 (Mar 06 - Mar 12)

01./00. [PS4] Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands (Ubisoft) {2017.03.09} - 89,931 / NEW
02./00. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts HD I.5 + II.5 ReMIX (Square Enix) {2017.03.09} - 62,514 / NEW
03./01. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} - 43,428 / 247,915
04./02. [PS4] Horizon: Zero Dawn (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2017.03.02} - 33,767 / 147,450
05./03. [NSW] 1-2-Switch (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} - 22,806 / 113,479
06./06. [PS4] NieR: Automata (Square Enix) {2017.02.23} - 20,844 / 245,272
07./04. [WIU] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} - 16,193 / 57,820
08./05. [NSW] Super Bomberman R (Konami) {2017.03.03} - 10,006 / 48,406
09./10. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 - Professional (Square Enix) {2017.02.09} - 8,780 / 177,165
10./13. [3DS] Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo) {2016.12.01} - 6,344 / 1,007,182
11./07. [NSW] Dragon Quest Heroes I & II for Nintendo Switch (Square Enix) {2017.03.03} - 6,169 / 29,028
12./15. [3DS] Pokemon Sun (Pokemon Co.) {2016.11.18} - 6,050 / 1,669,065
13./18. [3DS] Pokemon Moon (Pokemon Co.) {2016.11.18} - 5,889 / 1,530,444
14./14. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch 3: Sukiyaki (Level 5) {2016.12.15} - 5,839 / 708,182
15./00. [PSV] Wand of Fortune R2: Jikuu ni Shizumu Mokushiroku (Idea Factory) {2017.03.09} - 5,663 / NEW
16./12. [PS4] Nioh (Koei Tecmo) {2017.02.09} - 5,006 / 133,081
17./09. [PSV] Super Robot Wars V (Bandai Namco Games) {2017.02.23} - 4,783 / 100,670
18./20. [3DS] Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World (Nintendo) {2017.01.19} - 4,700 / 100,668
19./11. [NSW] Puyo Puyo Tetris S (Sega) {2017.03.03} - 4,600 / 17,528
20./08. [PS4] Super Robot Wars V (Bandai Namco Games) {2017.02.23} - 4,522 / 118,416
21./21. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2015.10.08} - 4,467 / 239,267
22./19. [3DS] Doraemon the Movie: Nobita no Nankyoku Kachikochi Daibouken (FuRyu) {2017.03.02} - 4,067 / 9,645
23./29. [PS4] Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft) {2015.12.10} - 3,594 / 177,528
24./26. [PSV] Minecraft: Playstation Vita Edition (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2015.03.19} - 3,144 / 1,063,943
25./28. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome amiibo (Nintendo) {2016.11.23} - 2,989 / 134,301
26./00. [PS4] Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 (Capcom) {2017.03.09} - 2,725 / NEW
27./16. [PS4] For Honor (Ubisoft) {2017.02.16} - 2,575 / 64,627
28./33. [PS4] Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2015.12.03} - 2,300 / 186,611
29./30. [PS4] Final Fantasy XV (Square Enix) {2016.11.29} - 2,267 / 937,493
30./31. [WIU] Minecraft: Wii U Edition (Microsoft Game Studios) {2016.06.23} - 2,156 / 287,823
31./32. [3DS] Miitopia (Nintendo) {2016.12.08} - 2,022 / 196,025
32./37. [3DS] Sumikko Gurashi: Mura o Tsukurundesu (Nippon Columbia) {2016.07.21} - 1,972 / 160,638
33./17. [PS4] Winning Post 8 2017 (Koei Tecmo) {2017.03.02} - 1,917 / 8,134
34./50. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue (Square Enix) {2017.01.12} - 1,861 / 180,251
35./00. [PS4] Let It Die (GungHo Online Entertainment) {2017.03.09} - 1,860 / NEW
36./38. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} - 1,728 / 2,613,362
37./39. [PSV] Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization (Bandai Namco Games) {2016.10.27} - 1,650 / 150,742
38./40. [PS4] Battlefield 1 (Electronic Arts) {2016.10.21} - 1,650 / 259,565
39./35. [3DS] Momotaro Dentetsu 2017: Tachiagare Nippon!! (Nintendo) {2016.12.22} - 1,583 / 306,847
40./23. [PS4] Resident Evil 7: biohazard (Capcom) {2017.01.26} - 1,556 / 315,141
41./45. [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot (Nintendo) {2016.04.28} - 1,489 / 508,148
42./22. [NSW] Disgaea 5 Complete (Nippon Ichi Software) {2017.03.03} - 1,325 / 5,968
43./51. [3DS] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Heroes (Konami) {2016.12.15} - 1,211 / 113,705
44./34. [PS4] Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection (Ubisoft) {2017.02.23} - 1,144 / 8,544
45./42. [WIU] Splatoon (Nintendo) {2015.05.28} - 1,106 / 1,509,842
46./27. [NSW] I am Setsuna (Square Enix) {2017.03.03} - 1,106 / 4,525
47./24. [PSV] Winning Post 8 2017 (Koei Tecmo) {2017.03.02} - 1,078 / 5,356
48./66. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2015.11.06} - 1,078 / 343,653
49./47. [3DS] Mario Party Star Rush (Nintendo) {2016.10.20} - 1,072 / 161,484
50./25. [PS4] The Witch and the Hundred Knights 2 (Nippon Ichi Software) {2017.02.23} - 1,044 / 18,988

SOFTWARE

--------------------------------------------------------
| Model | This Week | Week(%)  | FY 2016     | FY(%)   |
--------------------------------------------------------
| PS4   | 279,591   | 52.1%    | 9,016,141   | 29.7%   |
| Switch| 100,810   | 18.8%    | 480,269     | 1.6%    |
| 3DS   | 91,483    | 17.0%    | 14,269,524  | 47.1%   |
| Vita  | 35,450    | 6.6%     | 3,815,270   | 12.6%   |
| Wii U | 23,512    | 4.4%     | 1,565,116   | 5.2%    |
| PS3   | 5,142     | 1.0%     | 1,124,942   | 3.7%    |
| X One | 662       | 0.1%     | 40,687      | 0.1%    |
--------------------------------------------------------
| Total | 536,650   | 100.0%   | 30,311,949  | 100.0%  |
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HARDWARE

--------------------------------------------------------
| Model | This Week | Week(%)  | FY 2016     | FY(%)   |
--------------------------------------------------------
| Switch| 61,293    | 46.3%    | 397,805     | 7.8%    |
| PS4   | 35,756    | 27.0%    | 1,887,112   | 36.9%   |
| 3DS   | 20,452    | 15.5%    | 1,539,264   | 30.1%   |
| Vita  | 8,991     | 6.8%     | 669,558     | 13.1%   |
| 2DS   | 4,649     | 3.5%     | 385,505     | 7.5%    |
| Wii U | 517       | 0.4%     | 193,471     | 3.8%    |
| PS3   | 345       | 0.3%     | 38,261      | 0.7%    |
| X One | 245       | 0.2%     | 8,134       | 0.2%    |
--------------------------------------------------------
| Total | 132,248   | 100.0%   | 5,119,110   | 100.0%  |
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Dengeki Online Sales: Week 9, 2017 (Feb 27 - Mar 05)

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[antibolo]

Personally I'm in the club of those who doesn't believe that MK8 Switch will outsell the original for WiiU, but ready to be surprised !

It probably won't outsell it at launch because of install base at time of their respective releases, but it's definitely going to outsell it long term. I mean it's freaking portable MK8 versus not-portable MK8.

 

[Dargor]

man, PS4 is really holding it, huh? Its been selling ~30k for a long time now, right?

 

[Ōkami]

First week shipment for Ghost Recon and Kingdom Hearts was around 100.000 units each.

PS4 boxed software now at 18 million sold, with some 2.4 million coming from this year (600k over the 3DS)

 

[saichi]

Also, they talk about Switch stock problems, and numbers would have been better if enough stock was shipped.

http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/486/1486100/

Fake news!

Spoiler

/s

 

[thestopsign]

The Degenki tie ratio for Switch is 1.2.

I could see Mario Kart 8 doing more than Zelda's first week. 200k+ for the 2nd major release on the platform and hopefully the Switch is close to or above 600-700k at that point.

 

[Mpl90]

I don't understand how Dengeki got 100,000 as Switch software sales though. The total of the games in top 50 is around 89,000 IIRC, plus Nobunaga's Ambition makes it 90,000 at best. There must've been an error in counting, those can't be digital sales since Dengeki doesn't track them (last week, their software total was exactly the sum of the 8 launch games' sales).

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

You guys know there's an inbetween right?
Also didn't 3DS sell 3.61 million by its first month globally?

That was its first quarterly shipment amount, which accounted for a little over a month of availability in Japan and about a week in NA/EU. The following quarter only an additional 710K were shipped.

 

[L~A]

Looks like the PS3 is being discontinued this month: http://gamestalk.net/post-76460/

On a similar topic, Nintendo still hasn't discontinued the OG 3DS models for some reason (despite Famitsu and Media Create not tracking it anymore).

 

[horuhe]

Looks like the PS3 is being discontinued this month: http://gamestalk.net/post-76460/

Eventually, had to happen. It had a long run.

 

[KillerMan91]

Eventually, had to happen. It had a long run.

This reminds me how I found it weird how neither X360 or PS3 got that final price drop. Both were pretty expensive to the end.

 

[Eolz]

Looks like the PS3 is being discontinued this month: http://gamestalk.net/post-76460/

Shame they couldn't do a further pricecut or a digital only model, due to the lack of BC on PS4 :/

 

[Chris1964]

+--+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+
|  |  Famitsu |  Famitsu |  Famitsu |  Famitsu |  Famitsu |  Famitsu |
|  |    PS1   |    PS2   |   PSP #  |    PS3   |   PSV #  |   PS4 #  |
|CY|1994.12.03|2000.03.04|2004.12.12|2006.11.11|2011.12.17|2014.02.22|
|  |    to    |    to    |    to    |    to    |    to    |    to    |
|  |2007.12.30|2013.12.29|2017.12.31|2019.12.29|2020.12.27|2020.12.27|
+--+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+
| 1|   280.000| 3.748.262|   339.944|   466.716|   402.794|   925.570|
| 2| 1.370.000| 3.603.638| 2.225.799| 1.206.347|   674.365| 1.205.163|
| 3| 2.689.095| 3.732.020| 1.946.911|   991.303| 1.197.980| 1.790.883|
| 4| 4.890.700| 2.993.956| 3.022.659| 1.727.041| 1.147.936|   523.690|
| 5| 4.301.899| 2.750.776| 3.543.171| 1.558.480|   959.342|          |
| 6| 3.046.833| 2.134.863| 2.307.971| 1.467.261|   865.002|          |
| 7| 1.282.000| 1.547.866| 2.890.476| 1.327.185|   174.070|          |
| 8|   679.435|   816.419| 1.960.177|   824.167|          |          |
| 9|   248.096|   480.664|   941.992|   450.034|          |          |
|10|    61.300|   255.960|   429.393|   188.207|          |          |
|11|     4.900|    92.149|    83.985|    50.978|          |          |
|12|          |    58.380|          |     4.828|          |          |
|13|          |    26.064|          |          |          |          |
|14|          |     7.051|          |          |          |          |
+--+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+

This could be PS3's last tracked year. It lasted one year more than PS1 and PSP. Fiinal year of PS2 wasn't given to public but only to subscribers.

 

[horuhe]

This week's relases

{2017.03.16}

[PSV] [PS4] Accel World Vs. Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight <RPG> (Bandai Namco Games) (¥6.800) (¥7.600)

[PS4] Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash # <ACT> (Marvelous) (¥6.980)

[PSV] Konoyo no Hashite de Ren o Utau Shoujo: Yu-No # <ADV> (5pb.) (¥7.800)

{2017.03.18}

[3DS] Monster Hunter Double Cross <ACT> (Capcom) (¥5.800)

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Rakuten Books Sales Ranking (2017.03.16)

01./01. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild <ADV> (Nintendo)
02./00. [PSV] Accel World Vs. Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight <RPG> (Bandai Namco)
03./00. [PSV] Konoyo no Hashite de Ren o Utau Shoujo: Yu-No <ADV> (5pb.)
04./03. [PS4] NieR: Automata <RPG> (Square Enix)
05./02. [PS4] Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands <ADV> (Ubisoft)
06./00. [PS4] Konoyo no Hashite de Ren o Utau Shoujo: Yu-No <ADV> (5pb.)
07./00. [PS4] Accel World Vs. Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight <RPG> (Bandai Namco)
08./06. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts HD I.5 + II.5 ReMIX <RPG> (Square Enix)
09./07. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V [New Price Edition] <ACT> (Take-Two Interactive)
10./04. [PS4] Horizon: Zero Dawn <ADV> (Sony Interactive)

Rakuten Books Pre-Orders Ranking (2017.03.16)

01./01. [3DS] Monster Hunter XX <ACT> (Capcom)
02./05. [PS4] Blue Reflection: Maboroshi ni Mau Shoujo no Ken (Premium Box) <RPG> (Koei Tecmo)
03./04. [3DS] Pro Baseball: Famista Climax <SPT> (Bandai Namco)
04./03. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe <RCE> (Nintendo)
05./09. [PS4] Musou Stars <ACT> (Koei Tecmo)

 

[horuhe]

Tomorrow is the release date of Double Cross and one interesting thing is that Switch space (at least for this week) went down because of it. This is one of the biggest releases of the year, so stores are really pushing the game.

Reservations stands for Musou Stars, Mario Sports and Blue Reflection started to appear.

Switch situation remains difficult. Hard to find. There are re-stocks but very few units. Stores reduced the space on shelves in favour of Monster Hunter and only are showing the next releases, especially Mario Kart.

 

[BriBri]

Still no Switch eShop Charts. Not even a please understand this week.

 

[ZSaberLink]

Battle of the barely charting Switch games (but still quite a bit better than Nobunaga)... I guess they might hit 10K eventually since they're launch titles?....
42./22. [NSW] Disgaea 5 Complete (Nippon Ichi Software) {2017.03.03} - 1,325 / 5,968
46./27. [NSW] I am Setsuna (Square Enix) {2017.03.03} - 1,106 / 4,525

The legs on this title seem kind of bad all things considered. It hasn't even reached Mario Party 10's 200K and this one is on 3DS. Island Tour's reputation precedes this one? (I thought this one was supposed to be a lot better, right?)
49./47. [3DS] Mario Party Star Rush (Nintendo) {2016.10.20} - 1,072 / 161,484

Interesting that this CoD charted after all this time...
48./66. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2015.11.06} - 1,078 / 343,653

Yay, congrats on hitting 150K.
37./39. [PSV] Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization (Bandai Namco Games) {2016.10.27} - 1,650 / 150,742

 

[hiska-kun]

No sell-through update yet from the blog.

Anyway, Gamesmaya reported no power for the new releases this thursday. MHXX is the only big game of the week.

 

[Chris1964]

01./00. [PS4] Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands <ACT> (Ubisoft) {2017.03.09} (¥8.400) - 89.791 / NEW <91,52%>
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21./23. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition # <ADV> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.03.19} (¥2.400)
22./24. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome amiibo <ETC> (Nintendo) {2016.11.23} (¥2.700)
23./20. [3DS] Doraemon the Movie: Nobita no Nankyoku Kachikochi Daibouken <ADV> (FuRyu) {2017.03.02} (¥5.280)
24./00. [PS4] Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 <FTG> (Capcom) {2017.03.09} (¥2.990)
25./28. [PS4] Final Fantasy XV # <RPG> (Square Enix) {2016.11.29} (¥8.800)
26./00. [PSV] Wand of Fortune R2: Jikuu ni Shizumu Mokushiroku # <ADV> (Idea Factory) {2017.03.09} (¥6.300)
27./29. [WIU] Minecraft: Wii U Edition <ADV> (Microsoft Game Studios) {2016.06.23} (¥3.600)
28./17. [PS4] For Honor <ACT> (Ubisoft) {2017.02.16} (¥8.400)
29./30. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 <RCE> (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} (¥4.571)
30./31. [PS4] Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege <ACT> (Ubisoft) {2015.12.10} (¥8.400)
31./34. [3DS] Sumikko Gurashi: Mura o Tsukurundesu <ETC> (Nippon Columbia) {2016.07.21} (¥4.800)
32./38. [PS4] Battlefield 1 <ACT> (Electronic Arts) {2016.10.21} (¥7.800)
33./26. [NSW] Disgaea 5 Complete <SLG> (Nippon Ichi Software) {2017.03.03} (¥6.980)
34./19. [PS4] Winning Post 8 2017 <SLG> (Koei Tecmo) {2017.03.02} (¥7.800)
35./22. [NSW] I am Setsuna <RPG> (Square Enix) {2017.03.03} (¥4.800)
36./35. [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot <ACT> (Nintendo) {2016.04.28} (¥4.700)
37./00. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue <Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance HD \ Kingdom Hearts &#967;: Back Cover \ Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage> <RPG> (Square Enix) {2017.01.12} (¥6.800)
38./33. [3DS] Miitopia <SLG> (Nintendo) {2016.12.08} (¥4.700)
39./39. [PS4] Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition <ADV> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.12.03} (¥2.400)
40./41. [PSV] Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization # <RPG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2016.10.27} (¥6.100)
41./32. [3DS] Momotaro Dentetsu 2017: Tachiagare Nippon!! <TBL> (Nintendo) {2016.12.22} (¥4.980)
42./00. [PS4] Let It Die <ACT> (GungHo Online Entertainment) {2017.03.09} (¥6.900)
43./37. [PSV] Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony # <ADV> (Spike Chunsoft) {2017.01.12} (¥6.400)
44./43. [PS4] FIFA 17 # <SPT> (Electronic Arts) {2016.09.29} (¥7.800)
45./42. [WIU] Splatoon # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.05.28} (¥5.700)
46./00. [3DS] The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D [Nintendo Selects] <ADV> (Nintendo) {2016.09.15} (¥2.700)
47./27. [PS4] The Witch and the Hundred Knights 2 # <RPG> (Nippon Ichi Software) {2017.02.23} (¥7.200)
48./00. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops III # <ACT> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.11.06} (¥7.900)
49./45. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2012.07.28} (¥4.571)
50./46. [3DS] Mario Party: Star Rush <ETC> (Nintendo) {2016.10.20} (¥4.700)

Top 50

PS4 - 20
3DS - 15
NSW - 7
PSV - 5
WIU - 3

SOFTWARE

+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
|System |  This Week |  Last Week |  Last Year |     YTD    |  Last YTD  |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
|  ALL  |    538.000 |    835.000 |    526.000 |  5.711.000 |  5.723.000 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

 

[L~A]

No surprises here about MHXX being the only big game this week! Curious to see how that one will perform.

***

About Nintendo Switch shipments:

In the fiscal year starting April 2017, assemblers under contract with Nintendo are now planning to manufacture 16 million or more Switches, up from an initial plan for eight million, said people briefed on the plans. Even after accounting for inventory, that suggests Nintendo believes it can sell significantly more than 10 million units during the 12-month period, they said, beating expectations of many analysts.

About the 2m for current FY:

Nintendo Chief Executive Tatsumi Kimishima has said the company would ship two million units globally this month, but one person familiar with production said 2.5 million or more is likely.

2.5m does indeed sound more likely, and would line up with Nintendo's comments about increasing production based on demand leading to launch.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-to-double-production-of-switch-console-1489728545

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Nintendo Switch Never Give Up Road To 100 Million.

 

[L~A]

Nintendo eShop Sales: Week 10, 2017 (Mar 06 - Mar 12)

Nintendo 3DS

(=) 01. Monster Hunter XX (Capcom) [18.3.2017]
(+1) 02. The Battle Cats POP (Ponos) [31.5.2015]
(+1) 03. Bye-Bye BoxBoy! (Nintendo) [02.2.2017]
(+5) 04. 1000m Zombie Escape! (Oink Games) [01.3.2017]
(B) 05. Cube Creator 3D (Arc System Works) [15.7.2015]
(B) 06. ChronuS Arc (Kemco) [19.8.2015] (currently on sale)
(-5) 07. Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition (Nintendo, Virtual Console) [27.2.2016]
(B) 08. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (Intergrow) [19.11.2015] (currently on sale)
(-3) 09. Blaster Master Zero (Inti Creates) [03.3.2017]
(B) 10. Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome amiibo (Nintendo) [23.11.2016]

Wii U

(=) 01. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) [03.3.2017]
(=) 02. Minecraft: Wii U Edition (Microsoft) [17.12.2015]
(+4) 03. Splatoon (Nintendo) [28.5.2015]
(+2) 04. Plantera (Rainy Frog) [01.2.2017]
(-2) 05. Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade (Nintendo, Virtual Console) [02.9.2015]
(+3) 06. Bomberman ’94 (Konami, Virtual Console) [19.11.2014]
(-2) 07. Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (Nintendo, Virtual Console) [06.8.2014]
(-4) 08. Fire Emblem (Nintendo, Virtual Console) [14.5.2014]
(-1) 09. Super Mario Maker (Nintendo) [10.9.2015]
(=) 10. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo, Virtual Console) [22.12.2015]

https://topics.nintendo.co.jp/c/article/a9a12882-07b7-11e7-9aaf-063b7ac45a6d.html

 

[AdventureRacing]

No surprises here about MHXX being the only big game this week! Curious to see how that one will perform.

***

About Nintendo Switch shipments:



About the 2m for current FY:



2.5m does indeed sound more likely, and would line up with Nintendo's comments about increasing production based on demand leading to launch.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-to-double-production-of-switch-console-1489728545

2.5 million is obviously a lot better than 2 million but it still looks likely that the bigger markets for Nintendo will struggle to meet demand.

As said in the other thread that 16m is super optimistic and would be amazing if it happened. It's hard to really see that happening. If it does I think the switch will be looking at closer to wii sales than wii U long term.

 

[Taiser]

hmm ... seems like japan is really warming up to western "ShootBang" games.
MS IPs and upcoming xbox consoles may have a future in japan after all xD.

 

[hiska-kun]

First Day Sell-through {2017.03.16}

[PS4] [PSV] Accel World Vs. Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight <RPG> (Bandai Namco Games) - 60%

[PS4] Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash # <ACT> (Marvelous) - 60%

[3DS] Future Card Buddy Fight Mezase! Buddy Champion! <TBL> (FuRyu) - 30%

 

[L~A]

TV Commercial for Fire Emblem Heroes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjVOggr8mqg

Part of a promo campaign with Google Play. Android players get a 4 stars Corrin as special log-in bonus until April 18th. Is that sort of platform exclusive bonus common?

 

[duckroll]

hmm ... seems like japan is really warming up to western "ShootBang" games.
MS IPs and upcoming xbox consoles may have a future in japan after all xD.

Is this post from 2009?

 

[LiveFromKyoto]

This week's relases

[PSV] Konoyo no Hashite de Ren o Utau Shoujo: Yu-No # <ADV> (5pb.) (¥7.800)

Pedantry regarding a game nobody likely cares about in the first place, but that should be "Hashite de Koi," not "Ren." I know some import retailers have it listed as ren, but they're wrong. The onyomi can't really stand on its own, and even if it could that's not the reading in this title.

 

[Jacobson]

Predictions on MHXX sales number? MHX 1st week sales were P1.4 million, for your reference. Do note that that was only for 2 days, which is crazy.