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Media Create Sales: Week 51, 2012 (Dec 17 - Dec 23)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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one platform has been a bit more starved of new releases than the other, however
electroplankton
Banned
Nice for Fantasy Life (one then must see how much they shipped).
Inazuma Eleven: usual business.
Seeing such an high first day sellthrough for a Level 5 game is...strange :lol
and it's not getting much better results, in fact.
or am I reading it wrong?
usual ST% for Inazuma
curious about FL distribution, otherwise the first day could be misinterpreted.
electroplankton
Banned
Hero of Legend
Member
What's up with Brownie Brown? I read that London Life was original a mobile or ROID game, and BB might've helped with the ROID NiNoKuni spin-off that looked like Mother.
BB is a 1st-party Nintendo developer, so this confuses me.
BB is a 1st-party Nintendo developer, so this confuses me.
duckroll, plz post if you are okay xD
Sammy Samusu
Member
40./46. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl <FTG> (Nintendo) {2008.01.31} (¥6.800)
lol
lol
electroplankton
Banned
They also developed two Mana games for Square Enix, and Blue Dragon Plus. Maybe they are rented to third parties to develop games on Nintendo platforms?
To duckroll's defense, maybe it shipped like 60K copies.
Hero of Legend
Member
I know that, but the whole mobile thing is what is confusing, I know about the two Pokemon iOS apps, but to let BB help out making any kind of non-Nintendo platform game is strange.
electroplankton
Banned
Is that true, or just a rumor? Because I remember they developed Livly Garden for DS, which was the console version of a popular browser game.
From what I know, yes they are. As one of the Monolith Soft teams.
Hero of Legend
Member
Might be a mere rumor, as I didn't notice any thing regarding mobile development on their website, no mention of the NiNoKuni ROID game at all.
Joseph Flemming
Member
Lol, I know... I love how they make veiled digs at the system. Going back to playing Tales of Abyss now..
grimshawish
Banned
Level 5 would do well to buy lots and lots of Animal Crossing to sell on later at even.
Very well indeed
That's highly unlikely considering it's behind NSMB2 in the all time charts. NSMB2 barely misses the top 10 at 11 and AC is already number one, beating PKMARS and Denpa Ningen RPG. Kawashima isn't even in the top 20.
thestopsign
Member
Not sure if this info is up elsewhere, but could you post the list?
Around 15 millions of difference...but third parties are doing better! I'm wondering who's the software house lacking so much in sales
Amazing. Nintendo should be more than happy. They have far more benefit with this kind of model than the DS one, even though DS did receive a good amount of third party support. But keeping them happier means a better relationship and ecosystem overall.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Yeah, really bollocksed that one up. 3DS is in fact higher; the big overall difference is relatively low first party sales. Which still match everyone else.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
I think the point was that if the Wii U port of CODBLOPS can't even outsell Declassified you done fucked up somewhere. Although the 360 version didn't chart either, so who knows what's going on.
Ha! Are people really bothering to argue over CoD PSV Vs WiiU? I bet import retail PC CoD outsold both combined.
Also funny how after years of knocking down every poster that pointed out that many (non-Nintendo) games also have digital sales (which allegedly next to nobody in Japan buys), we now have a mass of people pointing out WiiU digital sales as if no ever platform has had them before. Well, I guess fans of all platforms can now live in the digital world of make believe figures in harmony!
Also funny how after years of knocking down every poster that pointed out that many (non-Nintendo) games also have digital sales (which allegedly next to nobody in Japan buys), we now have a mass of people pointing out WiiU digital sales as if no ever platform has had them before. Well, I guess fans of all platforms can now live in the digital world of make believe figures in harmony!
In fact I simply think that they both sucked in terms of sales
about the DD version I agree, except for Animal Crossing maybe (combining direct DD and download cards)
COD Wii U is also available on another direct competitor platform as the PS3 that registered a good result for that game weeks ago, but I repeat: they both performed horribly and that's all, I think
Don't get me wrong, download cards are fine for comment (seeing as we apparently have at least one tracker that tracks them), my issue is with non-tracked DD.
test_account
XP-39C²
Sure, software is also a part of it. But i think some really special software is needed at this point to boost the hardware sales a lot. Price was another reason. We'll see what happends when the PS3 costs 20k yen instead of 25k yen.
What was this estimate based on? Was it just guessing or are any official sales info available?
I dont think anyone made a dig at the system. It is true that remaking DQ8 for the 3DS would mean that it would look aproximately the same or worse than the PS2 version regarding graphics. Remakes are often made to have updated visuals. I dont think the earlier discussion was about a port, but about a remake. Tales of the Abyss 3DS is basically a PS2 port, not a remake.Lol, I know... I love how they make veiled digs at the system. Going back to playing Tales of Abyss now..
test_account
XP-39C²
I didnt say that it was the best looking 3DS game, only that it is a port (meaning that they didnt really do much extra work on the visuals, as they would do if it was a remake. And i've heard that TOTA looks worse on the 3DS).
Does any 3DS games blow DQ8 out of the water now?
thehypocrite
Member
electroplankton
Banned
Estimation based on the discrepancy between the official numbers provided by Iwata and the figures from Famitsu.
Who?
test_account
XP-39C²
Those games look good indeed. From what i've seen of DQ7 remake however, it doesnt blow DQ8 graphics out of the water. I'm sceptical that they would be able to make a DQ8 remake on 3DS that would look a lot better, but it would be interesting the see anyway =)
Ah ok.
It doesn't seem like you have played DQ8 or even seen MGS3D.
RE:R and SML3D do look great but they don't blow top PS2 games out of the water. Unless all you are measuring is the capability of using shaders.
electroplankton
Banned
The comparison doesn't make sense to begin with, because they both have small environments, when Dragon Quest VIII is basically open-world. Dragon Quest VII may be a more adequate game to compare with, but I'm sure Square Enix didn't push the console with it, being a remake.
What about 3DS hardware?
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
Where is this? Not expecting a response from a hit and run, but.
And also a very bad frame rate. DQ8 could be done, but it was certainly made for the PS2's strengths. The 3DS shares few of them.
Little Green Yoda
Member
There were a few posters trying to guesstimate software sales in the last NPD thread based on Miiverse posts. Which is horribly unscientific since you can post in a community without owning the game and because not everybody who owns the game posts on Miiverse.
electroplankton
Banned
The question is: did you play Dragon Quest VIII? If so, you can understand that those games are hardly comparable.
No idea if it's up somewhere, I check it my 3DS when I need the info. Currently the これまでに売れたソフト (Software sales up to now) set to 3DS download soft gives the following list:
1. Tobidase Doubutsu no Mori
2. Pokemon AR Searcher
3. Denpa Ningen no RPG
4. 3D Classics Hoshi no Kirby Yume no izumi no monogatari
5. Ikimono-zukuri Creatoy
6. Pokemon Zengoku Zukan Pro
7. Hiku osu
8. Denpa Ningen no RPG 2
9. @SIMPLE DL Series Vol. 1 THE Misshitsu kara no dasshutsu
10. Touch Battle Sensha 3D
11. NSMB2
12. 3D Classics Xevious
13. The Rolling Western
14. Hyu~suton
15. Hirari Sakura Samurai
16. @SIMPLE DL Series Vol. 2 THE Misshitsu kara no dasshutsu gakkou no kyuukousha-hen
17. Love Plus Tools
18. @SIMPLE DL Series Vol. 3 THE Misshitsu kara no dasshutsu Celeb no goukatei-hen
19. ARC STYLE: Sakka-!!3D
20. Okiraku Tennis 3D
electroplankton
Banned
Animal Crossing eShop sales must be very high if they already overcame Pokémon Radar sales.
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
Found it. Well, I suppose throwing numbers together to see if there's correlation is silly, but it's not like they were considered serious. But you know those Nintendo fans, they are such hypocrites.
Try to follow the conversation, would you?
electroplankton
Banned
I thought this was a thread for Japanese sales...
And the name of the poster who brought this up was ...
The 70K came from Iwata saying first week sales were 800K for AC, and people taking the difference between Famitsu/MC to determine download card sales. However, saying that because ~9% of 1st week sales were eShop DLs that we should use that in the current tally would be wrong, but we also don't see anyone doing that. The 70K for first week is fine, though, as long as you know where it's from.
We also know that there were ~25-30K of digital sales for Gravity Daze, at one point.
The problem comes in when trying to apply these data points to the larger market. I think we've done a good job keeping that from happening in the MC threads, though.