Eolz
Member
It's not really a substantial one is it? I could see something happening a bit when there's their character creator, and when they'll do some goty edition equivalent, but outside of that...
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
It's not really a substantial one is it? I could see something happening a bit when there's their character creator, and when they'll do some goty edition equivalent, but outside of that...
There are still ~100k unsold copies of FFXV out there. Things will become even worse.
As for Switch Nintendo looks to have improved a bit shipments in Japan. They are still small more but there are more often restocks. After Golden Week things should be normal (if supply for MK8DX and holidays is big).
thestopsign
Member
It's looking like that is the case world wide. The anecdotal evidence from the Switch stock thread seems to be that many stores are getting small shipments a few times a week now.
America could have a pretty substantial first month total at this point, like 750k.
I expect stock to be more readily available before Mario Kart, but it may become temporarily constrained again over the Golden Week period in Japan. Then it should be fine until Splatoon.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
It's absolutely not, and you're being ridiculous right now. Every recent launch in Japan has been like this. It took the PS4 years to get almost anything of note on the system.
Even for the 3DS, there will still notable DS games launching during that same time frame and later. Japanese third parties take their sweet time to support new systems.
Iirc the Foxconn leak said 20k a day, which matches that just about perfectly.
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
Oh wow, totally didn't realize 100K copies were still out there.... I figured it had made a good dent on the remainder of the 1st shipment after selling that 3-4K each week this past 5-6 weeks. Eek...
Sammy Samusu
Member
dp
Sammy Samusu
Member
What console sold the most in its first year? PS2? GBA?
MK8 is an enhanced port though, not an original game. What is this new GT about?
I NEVER said that lmfao.
You should have been more or less be used to this though Chris.^^ Every console launch is like this. And i don't think we are going to see any difference even far in the future lol.^^
J
Jpop
Unconfirmed Member
Not as bad as the Vita/3DS/MH bullshit, but still pretty bad.
Eh? Now we are currently facing Switch/PS4/MH bullshit though.^_^
Another paid demo that's totally not a paid demo because they changed the name from Prologue.
Considering how long had passed since a new GT,i think even a paid demo would be welcomed by many GT fans in japan right?O_O
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
The GBA outsold the PS2's first year. 3DS did slightly better than even the GBA though in its first calendar year.
3DS 2011 - 4.282.142
GBA 2001 - 4.210.317
PS2 2000 - 3.100.795
1st Course
Member
I would say western sales has more influence on 3rd party desecions at this point. There is a reason the PS4 is the platform with best 3rd party support despite average sales in Japan.
There are still GT fans in Japan? Like FF, there was denial franchise was at steady decline until GT5 finally came out, things won't improve for sales on PS4.
While i agree that it will probably had another harsh drop like FF or RE7(This is due to Capcom own mistake though.) I feel doing 300k should not be hard to do there.
Certainly, PS4 was a bit different, since it had terrible hardware sales in Japan the first year, the complete opposite of what went down in the West, and third parties still decided to support it. But certainly not every franchise in Japan is niche enough it can keep on living on smaller userbases, or it can "ignore" the Japanese situation by thinking that Western sales can be the cure of everything (brands like MH and DQ, Ace Attorney, anime adaptations of different kinds, etc. ), so I still stand by what I said.
Moreover, right now Switch is doing well / very well in the West as well, so we're not speaking of a Japanese-exclusive trend
Just noticed Oregano was banned. Wait what. I suppose it happened as a cumulative of all the times he kept hammering too much his/her own "gimmick", didn't it?
Confirmed, Dingo has dodo'd, RIP.
http://www.tdb.co.jp/tosan/syosai/4282.html
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201703/29129938.html
http://www.tdb.co.jp/tosan/syosai/4282.html
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201703/29129938.html
Considering how many big mistakes they did this gen, it is not surprising to see the close down here. I wonder how many small developer nowadays in japan would just prefer to stay kinda indies with small number of devs rather than go medium size like Dingo here.
On the other hand, the next MC thread is going to slow lol. With Oregano gone.^^
Probably got banned from the Kamiko thread lol.
On-topic, how long till the new numbers release? around 5 hours?
Hellraider
Member
MHXX reached a million? No shit!
Switch getting to 500k is a more substantial leak at least.
Switch getting to 500k is a more substantial leak at least.
Look at the bright side, at least the next Zelda will finally be full HD at least
on PS4 and Xbox One.
I'm with you.
Bruno MB
Member
Monster Hunter Double Cross > 150.000
Nintendo Switch > 59.000 (49.913 previous week)
Not very helpful, these are the low limits, especially for MH.
can't wait for amiibos to go multiplat.
Imagine what NFC Mario can do on a powerful console. So many 1-ups
Monolith will finally be able to ditch the Switch that hinders their creative process and go full out by making Xenoblade 2 a PS4 Pro exclusive so we can finally enjoy our glorious
anime sword-waifu
better get it in quick before MH round #713 starts again.
Herb Alpert
Banned
MH fight never start again because it never truly stops.
If Splatoon thirst is real it will show after Golden Week when sales slow down, now it's a problem of supply.
edit: Nope, misremembered, until Obon 2007.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Switch was never going to dominate third party support.
It seems you still couldn't google correctly.
This notion that devs are just discovering the Switch after its release is truly worrying. Devs start developing games for consoles long before they launch, that is how much of the first and 2 year games are from. The relative lack of support for the Switch is clearly an issue.
I distinctly remember it in one of threads leading up to FFXV launch or after it. Its okay Sammy, we all make bad decisions.
Well it seems they're trying to attract a new audience by going full (young) shonen, so it might help if the buyers of previous titles remain (and they should mostly), though one can wonder if the young audience they're trying to attract will be there by the time the game is released and if it's this year that seems highly doubtful.
As Duckroll stated years ago Nintendo don't really know how to deal and sell titles like Xenoblade X so if they manage this transition it might work... maybe.
Well, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 will be released on a console people actually want (unlike XCX), and earlier in the lifecycle of its console (unlike XC), so there's that at least. However, not expecting anything substantially better than XC and XCX, at least for now. If the Switch gets more RPGs (besides DQXI), that will be a different story.
***
Nintendo finally released a demo version for Miitopia today (as in, actual playable demo with transfer to full version, not just a preview version), most likely due to the upcoming western release (not announced yet, but I assume it's a matter of weeks, if not days).
https://topics.nintendo.co.jp/c/article/d708df1a-1355-11e7-8f53-063b7ac45a6d.html
***
Nintendo finally released a demo version for Miitopia today (as in, actual playable demo with transfer to full version, not just a preview version), most likely due to the upcoming western release (not announced yet, but I assume it's a matter of weeks, if not days).
https://topics.nintendo.co.jp/c/article/d708df1a-1355-11e7-8f53-063b7ac45a6d.html
?
Since I assume he was speaking of Japanese third party launch offerings, that's correct.
Famitsu Sales: Week 8, 2014 (Feb 17 - Feb 23)
01./00. [PS4] Knack # <ACT> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.02.22} (¥4.900) - 322.083 / NEW <87,10%>
03./00. [PS4] Yakuza: Ishin! <ADV> (Sega) {2014.02.22} (¥8.190) - 73.086 / NEW <63,40%>
07./00. [PS4] Battlefield 4 <ACT> (Electronic Arts) {2014.02.22} (¥7.300) - 26.878 / NEW <74,70%>
08./00. [PS4] Killzone: Shadow Fall <ACT> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.02.22} (¥6.900) - 25.978 / NEW <65,20%>
11./00. [PS4] Dynasty Warriors 8 with Xtreme Legends <Dynasty Warriors 8 \ Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends> <ACT> (Koei Tecmo) {2014.02.22} (¥7.800) - 13.576 / NEW <63,80%>
12./00. [PS4] Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag <ACT> (Ubisoft) {2014.02.22} (¥8.400) - 12.885 / NEW <72,70%>
14./00. [PS4] Call of Duty: Ghosts - Dubbed Edition <ACT> (Square Enix) {2014.02.22} (¥7.600) - 11.775 / NEW <49,20%>
16./00. [PS4] Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition <ADV> (Square Enix) {2014.02.22} (¥4.571) - 10.576 / NEW <77,10%>
17./00. [PS4] FIFA 14 # <SPT> (Electronic Arts) {2014.02.22} (¥7.300) - 9.780 / NEW <70,40%>
23./00. [PS4] Need for Speed: Rivals <RCE> (Electronic Arts) {2014.02.22} (¥7.300) - 6.224 / NEW <62,50%>
36./00. [PS4] Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence <SLG> (Koei Tecmo) {2014.02.22} (¥8.800) - 3.903 / NEW <42,70%>
43./00. [PS4] NBA 2K14 <SPT> (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2014.02.22} (¥5.800) - 2.463 / NEW <31,80%>
00./00. [PS4] Software Sales 2014 <ALL> (All Publishers) {2014.02.22} (¥0) - 519.207 / NEW <161,20%>
___
[PS4] Yakuza: Ishin! (ε
[PS4] Battlefield 4 (ε
[PS4] Killzone: Shadow Fall (ε
[PS4] Dynasty Warriors 8 with Xtreme Legends <Dynasty Warriors 8 \ Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends> (ε
[PS4] Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (ε
[PS4] Call of Duty: Ghosts - Dubbed Edition (ε
[PS4] Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (ε
[PS4] FIFA 14 (ε
[PS4] Need for Speed: Rivals (ε
[PS4] Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence (ε
[PS4] NBA 2K14 (ε
[PS4] Escape Plan _PS Store Download Version_ |DL| <PZL> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.02.22} (¥1.500)
[PS4] Resogun _PS Store Download Version_ |DL| <STG> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.02.22} (¥1.400)
[PS4] Sound Shape _PS Store Download Version_ |DL| <ACT> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.02.22} (¥1.200)
[PS4] Doki-Doki Universe _PS Store Download Version_ |DL| <ETC> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.02.22} (¥900)
[PS4] Flow _PS Store Download Version_ |DL| <ETC> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.02.22} (¥800)
[PS4] Flowery _PS Store Download Version_ |DL| <ETC> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.02.22} (¥800)
[PS4] Strider _PS Store Download Version_ |DL| <ACT> (Capcom) {2014.02.22} (¥1.905)
[PS4] Contrast _PS Store Download Version_ |DL| <PZL> (Compulsion Games) {2014.02.22} (¥1.462)
[PS4] Don't Starve: Console Edition _PS Store Download Version_ |DL| <ADV> (Klei Entertainment) {2014.02.22} (¥1.462)
[PS4] Tottemo E Mahjong Plus _PS Store Download Version_ |DL| <TBL> (Arc System Works) {2014.02.22} (¥1.429)
[PS4] Nikoli no Puzzle 4: Sudoku _PS Store Download Version_ |DL| <PZL> (Hamster) {2014.02.22} (¥476)
[PS4] Dream C Club: Host Girls on Stage _PS Store Download Version_ |DL| <SLG> (D3Publisher) {2014.02.22} (¥0)
[PS4] Warframe _PS Store Download Version_ |DL| <ACT> (Digital Extremes) {2014.02.22} (¥0)
HARDWARE
[PS4] PlayStation 4 <H-W> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.02.22} (¥39.980)
[PS4] PlayStation 4 with PlayStation Camera <H-W> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.02.22} (¥43.980)
[PS4] Knack (1)(PlayStation 4 Limited Pack) <BUN> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.02.22} (¥39.980)
[PS4] Knack (2)(PlayStation 4 Limited Pack with PlayStation Camera) <BUN> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.02.22} (¥43.980)
Code:+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+ |System | This Week | Last Week | Last Year | YTD | Last YTD | LTD | +-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+ | PS4 # | 322.083 | | | 322.083 | | 322.083 | +-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
Remove the content from Western publishers/developers, and you get the actual Japanese launch support for PS4.
Xenoblade 2 selling like a single hotcake? I could see that.
Yay, Switch and the PS4 have the amount of japanese support, that's certainly a great victory for the next Nintendo handheld.
Actually scratch that having a cross gen Yakuza for launch was actually bigger than any 3rd party game announced for the Switch yet.
As noticed by others, Japanese developers are quite risk-averse, and tend to be slow to adopt to brand new platforms. This happened with the 3DS as well, the successor to the almighty DS, even if not as much as for the most recent platforms (including Wii U and PS4), both quantity-wise and quality-wise. It should be noticed that the 3DS was also the last platform to come on the market without a digital storefront from the beginning, and digital storefronts weren't as common as they are now generally speaking (even in Japan); this means there are several 3DS game that, years later, would've been digital-only games, thus not included in the several comparisons I made on the matter.
Some of you are going to be on a wall of shame with these kind of comments Switch for now is having more or less the same number (not discussing quality or importance) of third party games in Japan as any other system launched there. Even the 3DS carrying the legacy of the DS (the most succesful system for third party games since the PS2) didn't have so many third party games launched at the beginning.
New numbers in less than 2 hours so we can leave this tired "Switch has no third party games" and "Monster Hunter PS4" discussions behind.
What are the expectations for MHXX second week? Could it sell 1.5 million before FY end? How probably would be for Capcom to make a big shipment before 1st of April to make the shipment numbers look good for the investors?
Switch for now is having more or less the same number (not discussing quality or importance) of third party games in Japan as any other system launched there. Even the 3DS carrying the legacy of the DS (the most succesful system for third party games since the PS2) didn't have so many third party games launched at the beginning.New numbers in less than 2 hours so we can leave this tired "Switch has no third party games" and "Monster Hunter PS4" discussions behind.
What are the expectations for MHXX second week? Could it sell 1.5 million before FY end? How probably would be for Capcom to make a big shipment before 1st of April to make the shipment numbers look good for the investors?
Well if the next Monster Hunter is Switch/PS4 and I suppose PC also for the West, in theory the Monster Hunter squabbling should be gone for good. As someone who doesn't particularly care about the game, going multiplatform would be ideal if only to stop the unnecessary pettiness. The sooner Capcom announce it, the better
Monday 20th was a national holiday, and also students finished the academic year and are now in Spring vacations.
Students will start the new Academic Year on April 3rd.
Usual "leggy" games should benefit this two weeks of break. Big drops should be expected from April 3rd, and the slowest period of the year will begin.
Students will start the new Academic Year on April 3rd.
Usual "leggy" games should benefit this two weeks of break. Big drops should be expected from April 3rd, and the slowest period of the year will begin.
...Dragon Quest XI ?