BishopLamont
Banned
really hope sony doesn't release a vita successor nowyou have to get used cause i'll keep that for at least 2 years (and pray that vita won't last as long as PSP did)
better yet they should just go third party!
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Media Create Sales: Week 42, 2015 (Oct 12 - Oct 18)
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better yet they should just go third party!
Graphics are straight from GE2, and that game already felt like GE1.8, it recycled all the maps, and even most of the characters (you can use old costumes so they only remade a few characters models for GER). And most of the "new" content for GER like auxiliary systems and type of weapons are straight from GE2RB as well. GER is just GEB with GE2(RB) enhancements, which is imo quite a pointless release because it still has less monsters, maps and weapons than a game featuring the same mechanics, released earlier this year. With the tie-in anime, it seems they remade or ported the game for story purposes more than anything, and I can't say the players really care about that...
It will be more interesting to see whether the offshot games/anime BDs can sell well. We'll see how much the fanbase cares about story stuff.
We're actually, finally, reaching some data from the western market on Japanese releases for the PS4 hitting. This coming month will open us into Tales and DQH. And we've already got some previous points from Toukiden and D5.
So looking at NPD, Tales of Xillia was just over 100K on PS3 with basically a full month.
So far for Zestiria, all we have is 72,220 ± 7,110 for 7 days on Steam, though given that's on track to sell like Xillia's first full NPD month, things are looking good for the series so far (in you know, Bandai Namco expectations relativistic terms).
Oh no doubt that Zestiria will gain a boon from PC gaming (heck, I bought it for there as well). I don't know, for certain, how reproducible such a result is in general terms going forward (as I always err on saying that the first title of a series long since kept from PC gaming tend to see a "spike of curiosity") but it is not quite what I was looking at.
I was more interested in the console side of things.
Of course, rumblings in the later end of the NPD thread were not painting a good picture for DQH.
Edge_Maverick
Member
Some Square-Enix mobile news:
FF Brave Exvius achieves over 1 million downloads: http://www.jp.square-enix.com/company/ja/news/2015/html/9ecbaff3856d8f1926ba249dfe8cf1fa.html
New game announced!
Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...announces-pop-up-story-smartphone-game/.94626
Official site: http://popupstory.jp/
This seems to be developed in-house. School Girl Strikers' team perhaps?
FF Brave Exvius achieves over 1 million downloads: http://www.jp.square-enix.com/company/ja/news/2015/html/9ecbaff3856d8f1926ba249dfe8cf1fa.html
New game announced!
Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...announces-pop-up-story-smartphone-game/.94626
Official site: http://popupstory.jp/
This seems to be developed in-house. School Girl Strikers' team perhaps?
The Last One
Member
I don't know how a little marketed spin off of a weak brand in the West was going to have a good picture anyway.
I didn't see this in the thread, source?
Edge_Maverick
Member
I hope so. Especially Star Ocean 5.
Exvius is sitting at #5 on top grossing right now as well, followed by Super Light at #6, Quest of the Stars at #13, and Million Arthur at #17. It's pretty rare for them to have this many games in the top 20 at the same time versus being there during their events.
When I said I expected them to announce new games soon a couple of days ago given they were almost through their slate, I wasn't thinking quite that soon! Thanks for the heads up.
I didn't say that it would, I said we're getting more data points.
Edge_Maverick
Member
Yup, I'm quite impressed. Every game they released this month is doing great. Grandmasters is already down a bit but events will certainly help (and since they considered Mobius a "massive" success...)
You're welcome. IIRC they recently trademarked something related to School Girl Strikers too.
Moor-Angol
Banned
next time think carefully before using words like "sane" to other people cause i didn't like so much
i made an hironic post about sales and your reply was more focused on who made the post instead of what he wrote, and those kind of replied really pisses me off
Pennywise83
Banned
Great results for SQEX on mobile indeed. The company was one of the forerunners in this market, after all - they already had a pseudo-game with Chocobos attached to the email service of FOMA phones in early 2001. They developed plenty of relevant mobile games before iPhone even came out - Front Mission 2089, Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII and Kingdom Hearts: Coded. It's nice to see that they are now able to have success with their old and renowned IPs (and less with new IPs) showing how traditional publishers should focus on them instead of trying to pump out new IP after the other one. It'll also be interesting to see when SQEX will finally overcrowd the market (as they did on DS, PS2, PS1 with many of their IPs) - I can't see two FF and two DQ game in the top-grossing chart for a lot of time.
Tsutaya's report
- Zelda TriForce Heroes is the best selling game of the week, but it had a slow start. It's expected to improve its sales by the end of the year.
- Second position is for PriPara Idol Gran Prix No.1. It was very popular and it sold almost the double of units than the last entry released on March.
- Zelda TriForce Heroes is the best selling game of the week, but it had a slow start. It's expected to improve its sales by the end of the year.
- Second position is for PriPara Idol Gran Prix No.1. It was very popular and it sold almost the double of units than the last entry released on March.
Pennywise83
Banned
So aorund 35-40k? Nice.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Is it?
For Tsutaya xD
Pennywise83
Banned
Well, Nintendo doesn't have much during holidays so they might want to advertise the game a bit more.
Hero of Legend
Member
Any comments on 7th Dragon 3's second week?
So Splatune has sold 43K in its first week (25K first day) and kept his #2 for the entire week. It's what Google Translate is trying to translate I think: http://www.musicman-net.com/artist/51194.html
1st Course
Member
Looks like Nintendo mobile news will be on Thursday
https://mobile.twitter.com/gibbogame/status/658895633953099776
https://mobile.twitter.com/gibbogame/status/658895633953099776
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
Gamefreak purchased Koa Games, a mobile game developer
https://kanpou.npb.go.jp/20151027/20151027g00244/20151027g002440059f.html
https://kanpou.npb.go.jp/20151027/20151027g00244/20151027g002440059f.html
Sammy Samusu
Member
I think you mean earning results?
1st Course
Member
Earning is tomorrow (Wednesday). Apparently there will be a strategy briefing on Thursday to discuss the company's future plans.
Well, unless you're Pachter, it's quite known that, aside from Q1 results, Nintendo always have an investor meeting following the financial results. Sometimes, they're "Corporate", thus (theorically) more important. It's possible that Thursday's meeting will, indeed, be, a "Corporate" meeting, considering how we should get details about the mobile game and the Club Nintendo's successor, and how Iwata himself hinted at that a few months ago.
Also, it seems, in that tweet, David Gibson was just correcting Serkan Toto about how Nintendo usually doesn't share the exact time for the strategy briefing, while David Gibson posted the time for the meeting. So, I wouldn't take this as a 100% confirmation of the mobile game being discussed on Thursday; it should be, but that's not a confirmation.
1st Course
Member
^
Well since they ruled any NX news being revealed till next year they don't exactly have other stuff to talk about.
Well since they ruled any NX news being revealed till next year they don't exactly have other stuff to talk about.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
Nintendo partners with Sony to create a smartphone but at the last minute backs out and goes with Samsung insteadout of curiosity do sony phones sell well in japan? i mean we could technically have a situation where this nintendo mobile game could come out on a sony xperia z phone right? it would be crazy if sony advertises a nintendo game to promote its phones
I'm trying to imagine what other future plans they'd even discuss.
They already ruled out the NX, and IIRC Zelda isn't supposed to be discussed until next year either, so that leaves us with a bunch of filler games that aren't going to impact their earnings, their new network service, outside businesses like IP licensing/merchandizing, and the smartphone game that's supposed to released within the next two months.
I guess QoL still exists, but I'm not sure that's a serious business avenue more so than something they threw at the wall to appear like they had ideas coming up when it was way too early to announce their next platform and they hadn't decided on mobile yet.
They already ruled out the NX, and IIRC Zelda isn't supposed to be discussed until next year either, so that leaves us with a bunch of filler games that aren't going to impact their earnings, their new network service, outside businesses like IP licensing/merchandizing, and the smartphone game that's supposed to released within the next two months.
I guess QoL still exists, but I'm not sure that's a serious business avenue more so than something they threw at the wall to appear like they had ideas coming up when it was way too early to announce their next platform and they hadn't decided on mobile yet.
Chû Totoro
Member
Too soon man.
They could finally talk about the membership system. I imagine it'll tie into the mobile game too in some way.
out of curiosity do sony phones sell well in japan? i mean we could technically have a situation where this nintendo mobile game could come out on a sony xperia z phone right? it would be crazy if sony advertises a nintendo game to promote its phones
As crazy as playing a Nintendo system on a Sony branded TV. The important thing is on what storefront they release them.
At least on Rakuten, they had it in third position, but daily-wise has decreased a lot. So, it is expected less than 15k.
The blog is talking about the Zelda game.
First he says that Majora's Mask and A Link Between worlds debuted >200k
Then the Multiplayer Zelda games:
GBA Zelda ALttP remake+Zelda Four Swords sold 90k first week.
And Zelda Four Swords+ for GC sold 50k.
What about Triforce Heroes then?
First he says that Majora's Mask and A Link Between worlds debuted >200k
Then the Multiplayer Zelda games:
GBA Zelda ALttP remake+Zelda Four Swords sold 90k first week.
And Zelda Four Swords+ for GC sold 50k.
What about Triforce Heroes then?
On the middle if these
Of course, between 60k and 70k must be that number, something that impresses me, btw.
well, thos historical data somehow put the Tri Force "flop" in perspective
I didn't remember that the multiplayer zelda games performed so poorly also in the past.
I wonder what were they thinking withi Tri Force project as a whole.
dakkumauji
Member
I feel like it's going to be something even less wow than Picross like Steel Diver
Some Chibi Robo stuff coming, I can see it.
twothunder
Member
Splatune is the title of the Original Soundtrack Album for Splatoon, which was released last week (on October 21st) in Japan. We quickly learned that it was off to a great start, with over 24 000 units sold during the first day: in fact, it was even the second best-selling album in Japan on its release day, according to Oricon.
But it turns out that Splatune was also the second best-selling album in Japan throughout the week (October 19th to October 25th)! According to Oricon, the album sold over 43 000 units during its first week on the market, which is quite the achievement for a video game soundtrack. And it looks like this is only the beginning
http://www.perfectly-nintendo.com/brief-splatune-43-000-units-sold-during-the-first-week/
I love the music in Splatoon so I'm glad to see it do well.
It actually had a better first week sales than most Japanese games in MC...
Dude, ya better plug in that charger asap
Seriously, he mentions "app"... wonder if we'll ever see that mysterious "Mii app" Nintendo mentioned at the beginning of the year? The one they kept delaying because they "kept getting new ideas" and wanted to "do it right".
Takarajima stores, a chain located in Gifu Prefecture, has restocked the increasingly popular Glacier White PS4. And in preparation for the big titles to be released in November and December, the recommend to purchase some units during these days.
This is a good bet since Konno's team is supposedly behind the first mobile game. Nintendogs seems ideally suited to follow a mobile model design wise too (f2p with cosmetic microtransactions) and as you say it's a perfect demographic fit for mobile (casual, kid friendly).