lunchwithyuzo
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For Europe yes. For America, "Brain-Age 3D: Devilish Training in Minutes a Day".
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Japanese Sales: 2012 Jul 09 - Jul 15
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It would be cool if Nintendo included Devil World in Oni Training, just like they included "Dr. Mario" in the first Brain Training.
Sammy Samusu
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Taiko Drum NDS (2008) - 55,950 (42.31% ST) (LTD 2010: 694,324)
Taiko Drum NDS (2010) - 69,767 (46.03% ST) (LTD 2011: 437,527)
Taiko Drum 3DS (2012) - 65,462 (45.26% ST)
Taiko Drum NDS (2010) - 69,767 (46.03% ST) (LTD 2011: 437,527)
Taiko Drum 3DS (2012) - 65,462 (45.26% ST)
http://www.siliconera.com/2012/07/22/taiko-drum-master-3ds-sales-consistent-rune-factory-doing-well/Retailers indicate that both Digimon World Reigitize and Rune Factory 4, released this past week, have been selling well. Multiple retailers pointed out that Rune Factory 4 appears to be very popular with women, so thats mission accomplished for Marvelous AQL.
Since right around the time of the last DS game the home office has been specifically marketing towards women and it seems to be continuing to pay off.
I'm so happy that Marvelous is doing well on the 3DS. Can't wait for their games to come over here.
yankeeforever2
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So is that bad for Mario Tennis I always thought that was one of the more popular mario sports?
Exterminieren
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Mario Tennis will disappear from the charts, and will turn up in some sales report with hundreds of thousands more sales.
This is how Mario sports games tend to sell; the slow burn.
RurouniZel
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Yep, that's been my experience as well. I have a few female friends who LOVE Harvest Moon. :3
yankeeforever2
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Yeah just seem to me it would have a bigger opening over the course of its life it will slow burn much higher just seems low to start.
Well aren't the portable Tennis games not that good sales wise?
Hero of Legend
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Err, doesn't 4 have that?
Kingdom Hearts DDD a bomb? give me a break. that word is used too freely.
Level 5 continues to fail commercially . Its not a platform issue either. i just don't think they're making games people want. I wanna like em but rarely any if their games peak my interest. Still i appreciate the risks they're taking
Level 5 continues to fail commercially . Its not a platform issue either. i just don't think they're making games people want. I wanna like em but rarely any if their games peak my interest. Still i appreciate the risks they're taking
That's a main part of RF4.
metalslimer
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Well what do you consider a bomb then? If you want to consider something that didn't even recoup costs as a bomb than yeah KH3D will probably make some money for Square in the end. Relatively to past game performance, KH3D is absolute bomb. If the New Super Mario Bros 2 only sold 600k, would you call that a bomb? Or if the next FF only sold 300k (cue FF13-3 jokes)?
lol
One of the worst selling KHs in history is not a bomb when it's marketed as the direct link to the next numbered entry yet was easily outsold by outsourced spinoffs? Yeah, this is a bomb.
While Level 5 has experienced a sharp drop in popularity their main franchises still sell well enough, they should be fine. I'm surprised they haven't announced Layton 6 yet though, guess they want to finish PLvs.AA first.
Well relative to other entries in the series it did pretty bad. Especially if you consider this was marketed as a quasi mainline entry and not a spin-off...
Well relative to other entries in the series it did pretty bad. Especially if you consider this was marketed as a quasi mainline entry and not a spin-off...
metalslimer
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Probably give the Layton series a break since it was steadily declining. If Layton v AA isn't out this year in Japan though something is wrong with them.
Who doesn't wanna marry a unicorn.
Dragon Quest is almost out? Wow, I thought it was a winter / early 2013 title going by the small displays stores have. I think I've seen more advertising for the 3DS game.
I agree with this. They've cemented their main series while failing miserably at new IPs. I wish Nintendo acquired them, at least they could give them some businness advice
Nintendo has just as many smaller games that aren't commercial successes. They just don't publicize ridiculous expectations for these titles.
metalslimer
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Hell they have huge game flops to. Skyward Sword might've been bomba of the year last year if not for Ninokuni and 13-2.
Sales wise I'm expecting 275K-325K first week.
metalslimer
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I think that might be a little low. I'm expecting around 400k although I expect pretty terrible legs especially if the game doesn't have good word of mouth.Of course if they can keep people interested and paying that subscription fee it will be a massive success. Have they said how much content will be in the game at launch? A FF14 scenario would be disastrous.
lunchwithyuzo
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More or less, yeah.
[GBC] Mario Tennis (108,870) 357,986
[GBA] Mario Tennis Power Tour (42,857) 135,815
[3DS] Mario Tennis Open (124,377) 256,857
[PSP] Virtua Tennis: World Tour (9,051) 23.907
[PSV] Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour (lol) lol
[PSP] Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip (45,278) 101,577
What was FF11 first week?
64K I believe
lunchwithyuzo
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BishopLamont
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Which is a surprise considering Tennis is a pretty good fit for portable gaming. I guess tennis just isn't that popular in Japan.
electroplankton
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Digimon and Rune Factory are out-of-stock in Amazon, if this might mean something. Surely, they're popular games this week.
If Rune Factory will manage to sell over 60k in the first week (which seems pretty doable), it'd already be in line to overcome the third and the second portable entries, with a shot to catch the former one.
If Rune Factory will manage to sell over 60k in the first week (which seems pretty doable), it'd already be in line to overcome the third and the second portable entries, with a shot to catch the former one.
walking fiend
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I think the opposite; the game will not debut high, but will have very good legs [of course if the game is good to begin with; for example a famitsu score over 36]
Zevenberge
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Is RuneFactory 4 already out in Japan? It's good to be born there.
smbu2000
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It released this past Thursday.
Mario Tennis Open to me is going very well. It already surpassed the Wii iteration (236,715), I think it will top GBC LTD and it could aim also to the GC LTD numbers imho (377,172), so it coud become the second best Tennis title of all time in Japan (with the great exception of the first N64 title that sold almost 1 million, right?)
Zevenberge
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Can't wait to see how one of my favourite franchises have sold past weekend. (I can wait even less for a European localisation, but I guess that's dream world stuff for now.)
Wait it does say that the code expires after 150 days if not used, right? It it normal for such things?
test_account
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It is normal that codes like this have expire dates, but 150 days (if that is what it says) is the shortest amount i've heard of i think. Usually it is at least 1 year.
EDIT: Usually an expire date is written instead of days. I see that it says 150 days, but i dont know what it says before or after that.
I agree with cw_sasuke, best to wait until the holiday time is over first.
Expiration date: 150 days. Please read the terms (Back & front of the card) .
gamergirly
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Skyward Sword was over 4 million ww last time I looked. Nowhere near a bomb unless u consider this Dead Space: Skyward Sword and Nintendo EA instead lol
This thread is about Japanese sales and Skyward Sword definitely tanked hard in Japan.
Metalslimer seems to be implying just the Japanese market. SS ended up with only around 330,000 or so in Japan (not too sure from the top of my memory).
Because Famitsu scores for Square Enix titles have proven to be so truthful in the past.
test_account
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Thanks
I wonder why they only have 150 days. That is pretty short. Probably wont cause any big problems though, but i still wonder why they chose 150 days only.