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Media Create Sales: Week 50, 2011 (Dec 12 - Dec 18)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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Musou starting lower is surprising, yes, but let's wait more than 2 days to know were it ends.
RR (aka pieceofshit aka paid demo) not charting is not surprising. It's encouraging.
A week's numbers vs two days. Not really a fair comparison. although sadly people will compare.
The next Final Fantasy will probably be produced by Eidos Montreal lol, essentially turning Square Enix into Konami the 2nd.
Those first day numbers will include all pre-orders. So you're not looking at 2 days of sales, but at least 6 months of hype and anticipation.
Wait, what ? Next week is the last week of the year.
edit : you were refering to the next MC week, not calender week. Sorry.
Mother fucker what a bomba!
Risk Breaker
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900.000 consoles sold on a week, huh? Nice.
Tri-Ace?
All we know that when in Japan a new hardware appear, the sales of the first week are higher than the next weeks.
But, here 3DS was epic, winning to Vita launch, and the news are this.
4 million 3DS now is highly likely to be happen, even next week.
Hope that more developers will jump to 3DS, because with this sales, will be stupid no make game for this.
But, here 3DS was epic, winning to Vita launch, and the news are this.
4 million 3DS now is highly likely to be happen, even next week.
Hope that more developers will jump to 3DS, because with this sales, will be stupid no make game for this.
DXB-KNIGHT
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Interesting Gameplay investment SURE!
gundamkyoukai
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Yep it could not even hold half of the people who buy FFXIII first week.
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
I think FFXIII-2's numbers have a lot more to do with home gaming shrinking in Japan than everything else said here. I think the major changes happening in the habits of japanese players will be a real problem for all the devs there, Square Enix included. And Final Fantasy is part of it. Being a saga loved everywhere at the same level, they're loosing fans in Japan by insisting on developing it on home consoles when everything else changed in the landscape; at the same time, in the west home gaming is stronger for this genre and type of games. What will happen to FF? Will it become a multiplatform title with a focus on portables for local market and home consoles in the west? (PS3/VITA for example) Or will they drop the interest in Japan and try to make the saga stronger in the west?
The changes we will see after Versus's released will be BIG. I'm not expecting FFXV at this point to be on home consoles anymore, or not just on home consoles. Japan wants FF on portables like they wanted Monster Hunter and then Dragon Quest. Everything's changed, Square Enix will have to adapt.
The changes we will see after Versus's released will be BIG. I'm not expecting FFXV at this point to be on home consoles anymore, or not just on home consoles. Japan wants FF on portables like they wanted Monster Hunter and then Dragon Quest. Everything's changed, Square Enix will have to adapt.
Zoe
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Maybe the 360 version sold more than 1500 copies...
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Femmeworth
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when he says next week- he means next weeks sales numbers which cover the current week. Dec 19-25
Souldriver
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This shouldn't be noted, since most releases, whether it's hardware or software, only have 2 or 3 days of sales instead of a week. So the playing field is leveled that way. Pointing it out almost always ends in a pitiful debate about how "sales could've been better if it had a whole week". The Vita's launch will be compared to 3DS's weekly numbers, just like the 3DS' launch was compared to the other hardware numbers from that week. Deal with it.
I think he means the end of this week, which we'll get numbers for next week.
Im not terribly sure this means much of anything at all. 3DS still has a massive userbase advantage in the millions over the Vita, and RR Vita is shit that absolutely deserves to brick. I dont think this says anything at all.
I think FF13-2 will outsell Xilia also over the next few months overall, its just weird seeing it debut so terribly. They have really done a number on this brand with their 2 most recent releases man. They need a fucking change for the next major entry. A huge one.
No, theres 2 weeks left, MC stops tracking a week on Sunday night it seems. So theres 2 more.
Holy shit... a third of what FF13 started at. Incredible.
Japan already made up their mind and is backing it for Nintendo the challenge is the developers in the west but they won't budge so they just need to pump out Pokemons and Mario's untill they find something like Brain Training to bank on.
lunchwithyuzo
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Taito!
frankie_baby
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Wow I knew ff would be bad but even that has shocked me, expected slightly more from the 3ds games but they're all still doing well except maybe inazuma
Gianni Merryman
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How long before predictations league rankings?
This was my first attempt ever and I'm curious about my outcome, from what I gather I fared pretty well all beinng considered.
This was my first attempt ever and I'm curious about my outcome, from what I gather I fared pretty well all beinng considered.
I'm a bit surprised to see Lord of Apocalypse on there. I wasn't interested in it before, but now I am. Is it coming to North America?
FFXIII-2 ... ouch. The drop off will probably be pretty steep too. No way it'll reach a million.
Those four 3DS games are sitting pretty high. Wonder how the rest of them did.
FFXIII-2 ... ouch. The drop off will probably be pretty steep too. No way it'll reach a million.
Those four 3DS games are sitting pretty high. Wonder how the rest of them did.
Good numbers for Hot Shot Golf and Uncharted GA!
And needless to say, XIII-2 really bombed. The 360 version didn't even chart lol, guess it's goodbye for Toriyama (and Wada i hope).
Wada will never leave, in the far future Square Enix Japan will be Wada sitting alone in his office with Nomura drawing on the walls with crayons while Eidos produces all the games in Montreal.
Wada said to shareholders: "Our profit estimations were wrong, we're making like 95% less profit" and the shareholders were like: "Derp, ok then."
He continued: "Our latest MMO was big failure, but in the future we'll continue to focus on MMO games" and the shareholders were like: "Good job lad!"
Souldriver
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Btw, how good is FFXIII-2? I know nothing about it, except for the weird Chocobo song, lol. Should I feel sad about the low numbers?
Risk Breaker
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That's like comparing the TP on Wii launch numbers to Skyward Sword launch numbers.
Oh wait, people does it anyway
Happy to see XIII-2 bomb, let's see if Square gets the message and stops producing shit.
Of course.
Second week's numbers should be fun.
02./01. [WII] Monster Hunter 3 (Capcom) - 137,093 / 657,000 (-74%)
02./01. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G # <ACT> (Capcom) {2011.12.10} (¥5.800) - 208.427 / 730.386 (-60%)
They're SO fun, indeed!
Exterminieren
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A word has to go to Super Mario 3D Land here. Nintendo's ploy of syncing up the 2D and the 3D Marios appears to be working very nicely; there's a lot of potential there for 2D-style legs.
Already looks very likely to blow all other 3D Marios away.
Already looks very likely to blow all other 3D Marios away.
Pai Pai Master
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I'm still trying to figure out who the hell asked for FFXIII-2. It is the prime example of an unnecessary sequel.
How? Both of those are launch titles.
lunchwithyuzo
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Musou's doubly surprising given 3DS got the less popular series too.
RR Vita shares some of the same technical issues the 3DS version did (30fps, slowdown with Nitrous) and while it's content lite, it was also half the price and had online.
It got a perfect score from Famitsu! :lol
Lagspike_exe
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Holy mother of God, FF XIII-2. That's insane.
gundamkyoukai
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Will have to see the second week before i say it will out sell Xilia.
Still we are comparing sales of a FF semi main game to a Tales game when it comes to sales says it all .
Which just shows most people did not seem to care about FFXIII-2
I agree with the Toriyama part. I can't see the Final Fantasy franchise ever refreshing itself or becoming as popular as it once was with that guy sitting in the captain's seat.
Translation: SE gave a lot of money to Famitsu.
That's like comparing the TP on Wii launch numbers to Skyward Sword launch numbers.
Oh wait, people does it anyway
Happy to see XIII-2 bomb, let's see if Square gets the message and stops producing shit.
...I don't understand. They're both launch titles for the console on which they've been released, and the comparison is even more illuminating when you consider that normally the Shin Sangoku Musou games do a lot better than Sengoku Musou ones.
...But, however, too much to wait for the rest of top 50, which should have a lot of other Vita's releases.