FreedomFighter
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They will. Always happens with a big release - legacy titles get a bump as well. I expect Luigi's Mansion, Animal Crossing, Friend Collection and other titles to get a very generous bump this week.
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Media Create Sales: Week 36, 2013 (Sep 02 - Sep 08)
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neo2046
Member
Luigi's route to the million must continue!!
Glass Rebel
Member
The FF X|X-2 HD date I got from Kagari's thread and posted some pages ago seems to be fake smh.
I keep forgetting that Zelda is 2014 in Japan and about Yoshi period.
It looks to me like they'll have a bunch of decent to great sellers but nothing of the magnitude of MonHun or Pokémon unless Dragon Quest XI comes out next year. This might be a bit of a problem.
I think it was a mistake of Nintendo to release Tomodachi Collection this soon after Animal Crossing and that a 2014 would have been better. Both for TC sales and 3DS momentum. Looking at the DS top-sellers, after this year the 3DS will have entries in most of their >1m sellers except for:
Rhythm Tengoku
Kirby
WarioWare
Yoshi
Pokémon and Monster Hunter will see at least another two entries on 3DS, but they have to either launch another blockbuster franchise or try to get as many of the better selling franchises as possible. The 3DS is the king of Japan right now and for the foreseeable future but it will be hard to pry some franchises from publishers:
Resident Evil, Kingdom Hearts and Sengoku Musou got spin-offs with (largely) the same gameplay as the mainline entries but probably won't get any others any time soon. Capcom doesn't know what they want to do with RE, KH
DD was apparently the last entry before KH3 and Musou seems to have moved to PlayStation for the time being.
There is exactly one Final Fantasy game on 3DS which is a spin-off that will receive a sequel soon. One can argue that Bravely Default is kinda like FF but it doesn't have the brand strength (yet?). No remakes, no Tactics, Crystal Chronicles.
Metal Gear Solid and Tales of saw remakes on 3DS, both of which apparently didn't sell enough for new entries.
Yakuza, Phantasy Star, God Eater, Sengoku Basara and Persona are firmly in the Sony camp for obvious reasons.
Not saying all of them need to be on 3DS but if I were Iwata I'd try to get as many as possible.
I keep forgetting that Zelda is 2014 in Japan and about Yoshi period.
It looks to me like they'll have a bunch of decent to great sellers but nothing of the magnitude of MonHun or Pokémon unless Dragon Quest XI comes out next year. This might be a bit of a problem.
I think it was a mistake of Nintendo to release Tomodachi Collection this soon after Animal Crossing and that a 2014 would have been better. Both for TC sales and 3DS momentum. Looking at the DS top-sellers, after this year the 3DS will have entries in most of their >1m sellers except for:
Rhythm Tengoku
Kirby
WarioWare
Yoshi
Pokémon and Monster Hunter will see at least another two entries on 3DS, but they have to either launch another blockbuster franchise or try to get as many of the better selling franchises as possible. The 3DS is the king of Japan right now and for the foreseeable future but it will be hard to pry some franchises from publishers:
Resident Evil, Kingdom Hearts and Sengoku Musou got spin-offs with (largely) the same gameplay as the mainline entries but probably won't get any others any time soon. Capcom doesn't know what they want to do with RE, KH
DD was apparently the last entry before KH3 and Musou seems to have moved to PlayStation for the time being.There is exactly one Final Fantasy game on 3DS which is a spin-off that will receive a sequel soon. One can argue that Bravely Default is kinda like FF but it doesn't have the brand strength (yet?). No remakes, no Tactics, Crystal Chronicles.
Metal Gear Solid and Tales of saw remakes on 3DS, both of which apparently didn't sell enough for new entries.
Yakuza, Phantasy Star, God Eater, Sengoku Basara and Persona are firmly in the Sony camp for obvious reasons.
Not saying all of them need to be on 3DS but if I were Iwata I'd try to get as many as possible.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
The FF X|X-2 HD date I got from Kagari's thread and posted some pages ago seems to be fake smh.
I keep forgetting that Zelda is 2014 in Japan and about Yoshi period.
It looks to me like they'll have a bunch of decent to great sellers but nothing of the magnitude of MonHun or Pokémon unless Dragon Quest XI comes out next year. This might be a bit of a problem.
I think it was a mistake of Nintendo to release Tomodachi Collection this soon after Animal Crossing and that a 2014 would have been better. Both for TC sales and 3DS momentum. Looking at the DS top-sellers, after this year the 3DS will have entries in most of their >1m sellers except for:
Rhythm Tengoku
Kirby
WarioWare
Yoshi
Pokémon and Monster Hunter will see at least another two entries on 3DS, but they have to either launch another blockbuster franchise or try to get as many of the better selling franchises as possible. The 3DS is the king of Japan right now and for the foreseeable future but it will be hard to pry some franchises from publishers:
Resident Evil, Kingdom Hearts and Sengoku Musou got spin-offs with (largely) the same gameplay as the mainline entries but probably won't get any others any time soon. Capcom doesn't know what they want to do with RE, KH
There is exactly one Final Fantasy game on 3DS which is a spin-off that will receive a sequel soon. One can argue that Bravely Default is kinda like FF but it doesn't have the brand strength (yet?). No remakes, no Tactics, Crystal Chronicles.
Metal Gear Solid and Tales of saw remakes on 3DS, both of which apparently didn't sell enough for new entries.
Yakuza, Phantasy Star, God Eater, Sengoku Basara and Persona are firmly in the Sony camp for obvious reasons.
Not saying all of them need to be on 3DS but if I were Iwata I'd try to get as many as possible.
TBF I think there is a bit of overreliance on bona-fide system sellers on the 3DS, the reason the DS was popular in Japan wasn't just because of the already established system sellers, but the smaller newer games that still managed to sell a million and it had a heck of a lot of those. A more healthy environment would be trying to establish as many of those as possible, rather than always having to rely on the usual system sellers to carry you through.
Nintendo really needs to encourage as many of those as possible now that's it's in the position to do so.
Glass Rebel
Member
This is true and I agree in general but let's not forget that the DS didn't have smart devices to compete for these small games. All these small iOS games like that Picross RPG, Capcom's Sentai rhythm game etc. would have been on DS a few years ago. Nintendo's best bet to get these games is the eShop. I don't know what kind of mentality prevails in Japan when it comes to downloadable titles but it'd be interesting to see download card sales vs. eShop purchases.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Yeah which is why I said Nintendo should encourage these games, because unlike before they now have other equally successful options in which to develop on. So Nintendo needs to actually go out of it's way to get these titles. They may not need them right now but it'll certainly help in future and especially in any hardware successor.
Wow, that is pretty good.
Glass Rebel
Member
Yeah, but I mean, it's a bit of a distribution, visibility and infrastructure problem. It shouldn't be easy to goad someone into developing for the eShop as opposed to iOS. The eShop isn't really that well set up when it comes to purchasing games either. I think a redesign and "eShop boxes" where you can buy download cards for smaller titles wouldn't be such a bad idea if they want to reclaim this market.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
I actually think it's rather strange that all these phone games don't get announced for 3DS eShop too, whenever it's technically possible - which it sure is in case of for example Rayman Jungle Run or the Final Fantasy Picross. Especially considering Nintendo always was a good partner for Picross games, I really don't understand why they don't release this game on eShop.
test_account
XP-39C²
I was thinking the same thing, but i'm not sure that it means much. It will take some weeks, perhaps months, before we get an indication on long term sales pattern for MH4.
Cha
Member
Looking forward to seeing this weeks Hardware numbers. We all know what's gonna be in at number one, but I'm more interested in seeing how other hardware was affected (more specifically the Vita+U)
As for the shipment vs sales question, I think it's pretty good. The game will be selling for a whiiiile (most probably, right?).
As for the shipment vs sales question, I think it's pretty good. The game will be selling for a whiiiile (most probably, right?).
Looking forward to seeing this weeks Hardware numbers. We all know what's gonna be in at number one, but I'm more interested in seeing how other hardware was affected (more specifically the Vita+U)
As for the shipment vs sales question, I think it's good sales either way. The game will be selling for a whiiiile (most probably, right?).
It will be pretty "fun" to see the chart as a Nintendo cycle: 3DS on top, in heaven...and Wii U on bottom, in hell
I think retailers didn't expect a second shipment until the 18th or 19th, so 2 million was likely the initial shipment. It's likely that there have been shortages after day 2.
It's possible this was just the first shipment, it sold out fastly and soon there will be a second shipment. The game on Amazon will be available again on September 20th. I'm wondering what impact the typoon can have, unfortunately.
Media Create: http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20130918064/
MH4: 1,715,060
3DS LL 236,700
3DS 40,092
Famitsu: http://www.famitsu.com/biz/ranking/
MH4: 1,715,060
3DS LL 236,700
3DS 40,092
Famitsu: http://www.famitsu.com/biz/ranking/
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Honestly I'm thinking the sales in that statement might actually mean sale and they probably shipped more than that by now.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
lol
6,000 for the Vita is not particularly surprising, everything is dead but the 3DS.
Ouch.
lol
I doubt it's sales.
That graph is sad.
lol
Glass Rebel
Member
lol
Lol once.
As I thought
Fucking Pac-Man.
Lol twice.
Wow XL has taken over.
creamsugar
Member
Holy crap!
As I thought
Fucking Pac-Man.
tha distinction between 3DS and XL is annoying as hell. It ruins the PacMan graph
As I thought
Fucking Pac-Man.
3DS LL alone is enough for a pac-man, lol