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[Rymuth]

It means get hype ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=887564

I'm more scared, than hyped. D:

 

[Eolz]

PREDICTION LEAGUE MARCH 2016

Predict how much these titles will sell in the month (from Feb 29 to Mar 27):

[PS4 + PSV] Gundam Breaker 3 (25 days) - 180k
[PS4 + PSV] Summon Night 6 (18 days) - 111k
[PS4 + XB1] Tom Clancy's The Divison (18 days) - 79k
[WIU] The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD (18 days) - 64k
[WIU] Pokkén Tournament (10 days) - 132k
[PS4 + XB1] Dark Souls III (4 days) - 143k
[3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 (4 days) - 325k

I really don't know how much of an impact the wiiu shortages will have on new software...

 

[hiska-kun]

The blog is leaking again...

This time hard level for the puzzles. lol

 

[Mpl90]

The blog is leaking again...

This time hard level for the puzzles. lol

Where's Professor Layton when you need it.

Spoiler

Seriously, where did Layton 7 go? Another Level 5 mobile game that disappeared since last year

 

[Xenoboy]

PREDICTION LEAGUE MARCH 2016

Predict how much these titles will sell in the month (from Feb 29 to Mar 27):

[PS4 + PSV] Gundam Breaker 3 (25 days) - 153k
[PS4 + PSV] Summon Night 6 (18 days) - 100k
[PS4 + XB1] Tom Clancy's The Divison (18 days) - 43k
[WIU] The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD (18 days) - 89k
[WIU] Pokkén Tournament (10 days) - 120k
[PS4 + XB1] Dark Souls III (4 days) - 162k
[3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 (4 days) - 750k

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

Reminder that this is zeromcd73 hyping up a pre-announced Famitsu/Dengeki game reveal. We all know what that means!

Persona 5 Hype train!

 

[hiska-kun]

First leak:

2DS not covered, not tracked

 

[Chris1964]

First leak:

2DS not covered, not tracked

Possibly the same for Famitsu.

 

[Pennywise83]

First leak:

2DS not covered, not tracked

What about Pokémon DL cards?

 

[mao2]

This week's hints are crazy. I don't even know what's going on LOL.

 

[Aostia]

2DS selling less than VitaTV confirmed

 

[hiska-kun]

Maybe because 2DS is limited to just some stores, they can't give an accurate estimate with their sample.

 

[Ryng_tolu]

Wait, what? No 2DS!?
Oh what the hell...

 

[1st Course]

Wait 2DS is a limited release? Why were you guys predicting high numbers then?

 

[Chris1964]

Maybe because 2DS is limited to just some stores, they can't give an accurate estimate with their sample.

The problem is Media Create doesn't see it as a new SKU because it's limited at supply and at specific stores, not the size of sample. These are big chains in Japan. Famitsu had 2DS as new hw but not giving an early report maybe means they won't give numbers either.

 

[hiska-kun]

2DS not tracked
Wii U sold like PS3
Kamen Rider (all versions) ~78000
Megaman ~24000
One 60

 

[The_lascar]

Hiska-kun, do you have the PlayStation digital sales by Famitsu for october and december 2015?

 

[L~A]

Yodobashi Camera: Wii U stock's notice



Wii U Premium and Wii U Super Mario Maker Set new shipment will arrive this Saturday 5th of March. Units are limited, and just one console per person can be bought. Pre-orders opened until they run out of units.

GamesMaya also mentioned that the new Wii U shipment will arrive this Saturday.
And I think that will be the norm for the rest of big retailers.

Since there's Pokkén Tournament on March 18 with the bundle, I guess that's when things will go back to normal?

First leak:

2DS not covered, not tracked

Damn, that's a shame. 2DS won't be taken into account in global 3DS numbers, then?

 

[Chris1964]

Predictions

[PS4 + PSV] Gundam Breaker 3 (25 days) - 210.987
[PS4 + PSV] Summon Night 6 (18 days) - 123.456
[PS4 + XB1] Tom Clancy's The Division (18 days) - 98.763
[WIU] The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD (18 days) - 67.890
[WIU] Pokkén Tournament (10 days) - 123.456
[PS4 + XB1] Dark Souls III (4 days) - 210.987
[3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 (4 days) - 567.590

 

[Bruno MB]

[PS3] Kamen Rider: Battride War # <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.05.23} (¥7.480) - 128.659 / NEW

[PS3] Kamen Rider: Battride War II # <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.06.26} (¥7.689) - 62.649 / NEW
[WIU] Kamen Rider: Battride War II # <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.06.26} (¥7.689) - 6.936 / NEW

[PS4 + PS3 + PSV] Kamen Rider: Battride War Genesis <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) (¥6.100) ~ 78,000 / NEW

It basically retained the same audience (+ 8.000 over the previous title) which I guess it can be seen as a sort of success for a third entry.

[NDS] Mega Man Zero Collection <Mega Man Zero \ Mega Man Zero 2 \ Mega Man Zero 3 \ Mega Man Zero 4> <ACT> (Capcom) (¥4.190) - 21.736 / NEW

[3DS] Mega Man Legacy Collection <Mega Man \ Mega Man 2 \ Mega Man 3 \ Mega Man 4 \ Mega Man 5 \ Mega Man 6> <ACT> (Capcom) (¥3.990) ~ 24.000 / NEW

 

[Pennywise83]

2DS not tracked
Wii U sold like PS3
Kamen Rider (all versions) ~78000
Megaman ~24000
One 60

Not bad for Megaman Collection on 3DS. A new 3DS entry might fit the platform quite well in my opinion.

 

[Mpl90]

It basically retained the same audience (+ 8.000 over the previous title) which I guess it can be seen as a sort of success for a third entry.

I was honestly expecting worse than that for Kamen Rider. It didn't do bad.

 

[Fafalada]

It appeared to be a randomly generated dungeon f2p game, so I wouldn't be shocked if it was a pretty cheap title in the grand scheme of console games.

One of the biggest fallacies industry made over last 10 years was assuming that they could make "AAA" F2P titles cheaply for quick profit.
Pretty much every project of this kind ended up being a lot more costly than planned(well into realms of retail games), and consequently most of them didn't live up to their commercial expecations either. The few exceptions that did were either hilariously expensive even by AAA standards, or just got really-really lucky (or a combination of both).

Deep Down already came on the tail end of publishers waking up to this, so it's probably either been rebooted into retail title or canned alltogether.

 

[Kresnik258]

It basically retained the same audience (+ 8.000 over the previous title) which I guess it can be seen as a sort of success for a third entry.

That's pretty decent. Similar games have seen continued decline between entries, so to see an increase like this (plus I'd imagine better digital sales) is good.

I have to think it's helped by the fact the second entry went to Wii U though, which really didn't seem like a good fit.

 

[Chris1964]

Wii U < 2000

If Famitsu doesn't give numbers either we'll find 2DS shipment in Japan from Nintendo FY report in April.

 

[Pennywise83]

Being spread across 3 platforms also helped.

 

[Kysen]

I watched a stream of the Kamen rider game and it looks and runs like a PS2 game(PS4 version). How can people be throwing money away on junk like that.

 

[Tizoc]

I watched a stream of the Kamen rider game and it looks and runs like a PS2 game(PS4 version). How can people be throwing money away on junk like that.

Cuz it's frikkin kamen rider...

 

[duckroll]

I watched a stream of the Kamen rider game and it looks and runs like a PS2 game(PS4 version). How can people be throwing money away on junk like that.

Same reason how people can throw money at Pokemon, Minecraft, or Angry Birds. Graphics aren't the most important thing for many people.

 

[Pennywise83]

I watched a stream of the Kamen rider game and it looks and runs like a PS2 game(PS4 version). How can people be throwing money away on junk like that.

In this case, because of brand reputation.

 

[Chris1964]

That's pretty decent. Similar games have seen continued decline between entries, so to see an increase like this (plus I'd imagine better digital sales) is good.

I have to think it's helped by the fact the second entry went to Wii U though, which really didn't seem like a good fit.

They took a bigger break this time, more that 1,5 year, and maybe content and quality wise the new entry offered something better.

 

[Kresnik258]

Being spread across 3 platforms also helped.

They took a bigger break this time, more that 1,5 year, and maybe content and quality wise the new entry offered something better.

PS3 One Piece: Pirate Warriors 627,214

PS3 One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 269,035
PSV One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 54,509

PS3 One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 81,387
PSV One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 42,845
PS4 One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 37,812

(Famitsu numbers because I'm in work and feeling lazy)

This was what I thought was the best point of comparison. Both series were musou games based on existing properties; also went from 1 platform -> 2 platforms -> 3 platforms between entries and took ~ 1 year between the first and second entries and ~ 2 years between the second and third entries.

I bet Koei/Bamco wish OPPW maintained FW sales like Kamen Rider has (though obviously OPPW had the boost worldwide).

Makes me wonder how DQH 2 is going to do. FW sales halved from the first entry seems likely.

 

[Moor-Angol]

I think the most interesting thing about KR sales is not the total sales but how they were splitted among the 3 platforms

 

[zeromcd73]

Famitsu

Pokemon 69k

ps4 25k
vita 18k
new 3ds 18k
3ds 1.6k
wiiu 4k
ps3 1.1k
xbo 73

 

[hiska-kun]

2DS not tracked by Famitsu either

Pokemon is tracked, and it's low

 

[Pennywise83]

2DS not tracked by Famitsu either

Pokemon is tracked, and it's low

Is it low? If 2DS bundles are not counted, then we might miss a lot of copies.