Zekra Dezivad
Member
Maybe it's because of the general excitement for voice acting and the debut of Demonbane that I thought that this was more important than usual. DS ones were cheap as hell, so I'm pretty excited about this one.
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Media Create Sales: Week 11, 2013 (Mar 11 - Mar 17)
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Maybe it's because of the general excitement for voice acting and the debut of Demonbane that I thought that this was more important than usual. DS ones were cheap as hell, so I'm pretty excited about this one.
MoogleWizard
Member
Am I reading this right, Vita only sold 180k units last year, in all of Japan? In one whole year? 
I never noticed that before. How is this thing still on store shelves?
I never noticed that before. How is this thing still on store shelves?
pieatorium
Member
psp will hit 20 mill for sure i would think. ps3 maybe 9 million but more likely next year.
No, you are reading that wrong.Am I reading this right, Vita only sold 180k units last year, in all of Japan? In one whole year?
it is YTD until the comparable week (in this case until the 11st week).
PSV sold around 600-650K last year.
StreetsAhead
Member
Am I reading this right, Vita only sold 180k units last year, in all of Japan? In one whole year?
In weeks 1-11, not the entire year. Last year here means the YTD of the hardware up until the equivalent week in the present year.
Father_Brain
Banned
I still expect Vita to fall below 10K again by mid-April, but it's dropping more slowly than I expected, in large part because I didn't expect the initial SS bump to be as large as it was.
15K/week still looks to me like an absolute best-case scenario for the new baseline, given the complete dearth of upcoming exclusive software beyond niche titles.
SS is already below MHP1's second (53K) and third (31K) weeks.
15K/week still looks to me like an absolute best-case scenario for the new baseline, given the complete dearth of upcoming exclusive software beyond niche titles.
SS is already below MHP1's second (53K) and third (31K) weeks.
MoogleWizard
Member
Ok, I'm an idiot lol. xD Sorry.
But that's still a disastrous number. WiiU and Vita, the newest systems, tanking horribly. I wonder what that means for PS4 and its likely not very friendly price.
I think that's what makes the portable SRWs interesting in a way though. They pick series which aren't really big mainstream stuff, and it feels more unique and quirky as a result. But if you look at it from a larger perspective, it's also one reason why the sales are kinda limited compared to the big console ones which always have like 6 Gundam series, 4 Macross series, and a bunch of Code Geass and whatever else is the flavor of the year.
metalslimer
Member
Am I reading this right, Vita only sold 180k units last year, in all of Japan? In one whole year?
Up to this point.
Soul Sacrifice had a pretty big collapse but Vita held up better than i thought. Perhaps they can move the baseline to 10-15k.
Wiiu is stiill a complete embarrassment and disaster. Seems they will have 0 golden week titles
maabus1999
Member
Anyone want to bet when the Wii U rises back above 20K a week? How about 50K a week?
10k next week, 20-30k the week after is my optimistic guess.
pieatorium
Member
70-75% is a pretty standard second week drop.
ringwaldhaze
Neo Member
metalslimer
Member
Some people foolishly expected amazing legs and the game looks like it will barely scratch 200k at retail at best which is a good result but Sony bet Vitas entire future on it. With all the marketing the threw at the game they had to be expecting more
Sometimes they're random, sometimes they're initials for a plot point in the game. For example, UX is apparently short for "Ultimate Cross".
pieatorium
Member
Doesn't change the fact that it's not a big collapse, I guess you could argue that it's not in line with random forum poster hopes though.
shinra-bansho
Member
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Kawahara is laughing all the way into the bank after those SAO sales. That fucker.
test_account
XP-39C²
Monster Hunter Portable sold more in the upcoming weeks as Father_Brain answered above, but it is worth mentioning that Monster Hunter Portable did not have a double pack or digital download sales, so the comparison will be a bit different due to unknown sales numbers for digital downloads for Soul Sacrifice.
lol that sounds like a cringe-worthy situation.
Graphics Horse
Member
Sony need to hurry up designing that Vita with the built in UMD slot.
Well, the thing about legs is that games can have normal drops until a point where it maintains a stable amount sold each week. So you can have amazing legs, even if something drops to a 20-30k level or even less. The true definition of amazing legs is something which can keep selling for months, or even over a year, even at a low amount each week.
http://garaph.info/softwareindividual.php//gid/411
I think the original Monster Hunter Portable is a good example of this.
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Monster Hunter Portable
Week Rank Weekly LTD
11/28/2005 3 118,317 118,317
12/5/2005 10 53,365 171,682
12/12/2005 22 30,610 202,292
12/19/2005 0 0 233,783
12/26/2005 25 0 261,778
1/2/2006 17 32,408 294,186
1/9/2006 9 23,395 317,581
1/16/2006 7 22,820 340,401
1/23/2006 14 20,981 361,382
1/30/2006 11 20,484 381,866
2/6/2006 7 27,358 409,224
2/13/2006 6 39,384 448,608
2/20/2006 9 38,059 486,667
2/27/2006 11 29,161 515,828
3/6/2006 10 18,880 534,708
3/13/2006 12 14,804 549,512
3/20/2006 16 14,576 564,088
3/27/2006 20 12,778 576,866
4/3/2006 20 9,570 586,436
4/10/2006 21 7,498 593,934
4/17/2006 24 7,030 600,964
5/1/2006 27 0 616,872
5/8/2006 24 5,310 622,182
5/15/2006 22 5,424 627,606
5/22/2006 33 5,226 632,832
5/29/2006 25 4,317 637,149
6/5/2006 21 4,627 641,776
6/12/2006 29 4,141 645,917
6/19/2006 25 4,151 650,068
6/26/2006 31 3,956 654,024
7/3/2006 27 4,153 658,177
12/25/2006 0 0 668,964I doubt Soul Sacrifice will do anywhere near that much. The highest non-MH game in that list:
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Phantasy Star Portable
Week Rank Weekly LTD
7/28/2008 1 329,455 329,455
8/11/2008 0 0 509,756
8/18/2008 4 35,486 545,242
8/25/2008 5 26,689 571,931
9/1/2008 7 13,948 585,879
9/8/2008 14 8,638 594,517
9/15/2008 20 6,389 600,906
9/22/2008 25 5,574 606,480
9/29/2008 26 4,486 610,966
10/6/2008 26 3,105 614,071
10/13/2008 22 4,766 618,837
12/22/2008 0 0 633,954As you can see, didn't beat MHP's legs even with a much higher debut than SS.
michaelius
Banned
Also how is PSO2 having such a small drop when like 1 in 4 Vita owners in Japan have account already ?
Thanks!
Father_Brain
Banned
Speaking of the double pack, its sales completely fell off a cliff this week. Was the shipment just that limited?
test_account
XP-39C²
I've been wondering the same thing. It has been out of stock on Amazon for quite some time now, so i would guess that it was a limited release, but i cant say for sure.
metalslimer
Member
Well the original MHP didnt have as big a drop week 2 but well see next week when sales crash again
Edit: although digital sales probably plays somewhat of a role.
Augemitbutter
Member
i remember people waiting for the PSP to die 3-4 years ago.
lol.
lol.
metalslimer
Member
So 2009/2010? Stop being foolish and misrepresenting history.
Sorry, have a 70% drop again.
pieatorium
Member
But sales didn't crash this week it was a very normal sales drop so how can they crash again?
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Yeah, it's getting a bit late for April. Unless we have a surprise Direct this week we can probably rule it out.
When/where did SE do that? Are you talking about that one dubiosly credited article?
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Senran Kagura knows it's fap material and runs with it. Sword Art Online is some of the worst-written shit in a medium already packed with bad writing.
The Twilight comparison is very apt, actually!
Game and Wario is out next week so maybe then?
metalslimer
Member
Probably not. Probably in 2-3 weeks
Augemitbutter
Member
oh, somebody is new to message boards.
Glop glop glop.
slaughterking
Member
SOA had me fooled into thinking it might be a good show, so I watched it. Now the only thing I can get out of all of this is hating on it.
With SK you can see from miles away how much of a POS it is. I watched the first two episodes of the anime out of curiosity, but aside from that it's been easy to avoid for me.