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Media Create Sales 3/12 - 3/18
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DeaconKnowledge
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Pureauthor said:
What an ironic statement.
Pureauthor
Member
DeaconKnowledge said:
Are you saying I act like an elitist prick?
I - I'm hurt, Deacon.
DeaconKnowledge
Member
Lapsed got banned for the same reason anyone gets banned at GAF: for pissing off the wrong people.
DeaconKnowledge
Member
Pureauthor said:Are you saying I act like an elitist prick?
I - I'm hurt, Deacon.
No, not you Pure. You're actually pretty down to earth.
AdmiralViscen
Banned
Kafel said:
Seriously.
Why is soundwave05 banned?
Magicpaint
Member
enishi said:
Ah so even the Wii got an increase in shipments too? Nice!
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Can we go back to talking about Japanese sales again?
Holy cow at Prof Layton...this has got to be a success beyond Level 5's wildest dreams for their publishing debut.
Holy cow at Prof Layton...this has got to be a success beyond Level 5's wildest dreams for their publishing debut.
Pureauthor
Member
Segata Sanshiro said:
Contrary to popular belief, the DS does not print 'Trade shit in a box for cash' tickets.
It does, however, print 'Trade a quality effort for increased returns' tickets.
DeaconKnowledge
Member
cw_sasuke said:
PS3 has no major Japanese releases outside of Musou.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Sony's got to be happy that the PSP has found a new, higher level. Software sales are still not great, but the Monster Hunter bump seems to have caused a new plateau of sales for PSP hardware.
I'm so surprised.Segata Sanshiro said:
MC threads look so tame without trolls and lapsed. Meanwhile people can go wild in boring Hasting excuses threads. =/
Sho_Nuff82
Member
After the madness of MS' de-megaton, it's kind of comforting to come into media create and see everything back to normal.
Frankfurter
Member
Burnst said:
Shipping to Europe takes longer than shipping to Japan. So it's actually possible that the lower Wii sales in Japan ~two weeks ago where because of the PS3 launch in Europe.
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
Pretty much, I was going to comment this too. Luckily for Sony, 3rd parties STILL care about PSP unlike Sony, and 2 quite important titles are going to be released next week (Pawapuro 2, Gundam SEED Vs Zaft). Sony really dropped the ball here...can anyone tell me what has Sony released for its PSP in this year?...because there is nothing until Minna no Golf Ba that has a very late June date with 0 advertising, 0 effort and so.Segata Sanshiro said:
Next, very good showing for DS 3rd party titles! Very good legs for Mojipittan and Layton, nice starts for DBZ and Shin-Chan. Namco-Bandai has to be rolling over money with all their anime-manga franchises and non-games doing very good on the system.
Can't understand Rogue Galaxy DC selling 10k at all, sorry. 350k-selling-game gets budget re-release with major bonuses and it sells 10k? I'm not asking for a Ryu ga Gotoku effect...
While interesting that it has increased, it is still "a lot" below the norm we saw a while back (like 180k iirc).
Nice, strange it is upped from last week wich means it has broken the trend by increasing shipments for 2 weeks straight. Especially considering the euro ps3 launch.
Very nice sales for Yoshi, MHP2 and Layton again.
I wonder how much of an impact Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games will have. Seeing it is a crossover of 2 of the most populair videogame characters (Sonic might not sell well anymore in Japan but I think he's still a very populair gameicon) and a very populair sport event, will be released during this holiday and on BOTH DS and Wii! Holy shit.
And I bet that new Square Enix collaboration with Disney is on a Nintendo platform too, wich could be very big too.
How well did comparable cases do? I only know of Star Ocean 3 which sold 478,000 while its DC did 164,000 (thanks to tri-Ace's own sales page).Kurosaki Ichigo said:
Pureauthor
Member
It's a 350K game that was almost universally slammed in Japan, so... yeah.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
Maybe in the scheme of things Rogue Galaxy was just a really front-loaded, hyped game that the gamers didn't care for once they got it in their hands? That's my best explanation. I haven't played RG at all though, so don't jump down my throat if it's totally awesome.
andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
Which would be in contrast to the hoarding theory for Golden Week.Frankfurter said:
JoshuaJSlone
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180+K weeks were mostly with big releases and holidays. Looking at DS sales weekly since the launch of the Lite, though, it does seem like the last few weeks have been the longest consecutive number of weeks below 150K... also the longest consecutive number of weeks below 250K.Neomoto said:
Pureauthor
Member
Masklinn said:
No tongues.
If Twilight Princess were to peak at ~500-600k sales how would that compare to previous Zelda game sales in Japan? The only one I vaguely remember off the top of my head was Wind Waker at ~900k.
Regardless it'd be a solid performance to reach that many. Certainly not the signs of a "dying" game series as people were so worried about after the lacking sales of Minish Cap... Of course I'd like to see this excellent game sell more than that though.
Regardless it'd be a solid performance to reach that many. Certainly not the signs of a "dying" game series as people were so worried about after the lacking sales of Minish Cap... Of course I'd like to see this excellent game sell more than that though.
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
enishi said:
Wow, combined with the 20k PS3 sales and the 120k for the DS you got a very strange combination.
The PSP is kicking butt and beating all non nintendo next gen gaming. If that wasn't enough it seems that the PS3 will be hitting new lows pretty soon.
At least they got Europe.
Masklinn said:
Well, you can check his posting history to find something more compromising. I'm hereby expressing absolute confidence that if look at every nook and crany you will find unambiguosly compromising evidence of his misdeeds, even if I could not. I would also like to state for the record that the forum administration is wonderfully benevolent and never errand and I completely agree with permabanning flaimbaits like Lapsed and keeping wise and level-headed sages like Drinky and drohne.
Phife Dawg
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Sony are in a tight spot concerning first and second party support, which has (had) to be divided between three plattforms. PSP might not get the Sony love everyone is wishing for but on the other hand developing for PSP takes away resources for PS3 games. And you had games like GoW2, which have taken resources away from the other two plattforms as well.Kurosaki Ichigo said:
Eteric Rice
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Pureauthor said:
I think you're partially right. With the "kiddy" image they had, they knew they couldn't regain the hardcore and casual gamers. So what they did, it seems, is they're still making games for the hardcore/ core (Zelda, SSBB, Metroid, etc) while ALSO going for non-gamers, and lapsed gamers.
Instead of focusing all on the core and hardcore, they're branching out into other areas. They're going for everything.
Datschge said:
Oh wow, interesting find... was always curious to see how tri-Ace games did, since I consider myself a big fan of the company. Really shocked at how high SO2's sales were in America - didn't know so many RPGs without the FF or KH name pulled that many sales. And even more shocked at how well SO3 did!
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
I don't know very comparable cases (since DC and budget are rare) but most Sony budget releases do really well (Minna no Golf, Ape Escape...) and other RPGs getting budget re-releases or director cut versions (FFX, FFX-2 international versions) usually do better. It has to be the word mouth although it didn't seem to affect the original release that much.Datschge said:
Sure that 3 platforms are too many to give a heavy support for them all but lets focus on SCEJ. What was their last serious PS2 effort? Minna no Tennis back in September, and there is nothing more coming from them for PS2. The less we talk about PSP the best for SCEJ, they haven't done anything for it since... since... I can't even come up with a recent SCEJ effort on the platform. Lets put Jeanne D'Arc because they published it but thats weak. And well, not even going to add a comment about SCEJ doings in PS3...lets say it in 1 word: Genji :/Phife Dawg said:
ghostlyjoe
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Lapsed -- I respected his posts because he was careful to support his statements and made logical extrapolations, but all the complaints made against him are true. He was a hit-and-run poster and he said the same things over and over and over again. Annoying if you disagree with him, sure. But permabanned?
The mass banning are pretty ridiculous these days. So many folks banned, many of them forgettable posters, but what's the deal? We have flamebaiting mods, prolific but untouchable trolls, hundreds of posts a day that consist solely of ":lol " or "spaaanuuud" or whatever catch phrase is in vogue at the moment, constant bickering and whining between and among fanboy factions ... Under these conditions, banning anyone at all from GAF is akin to kicking a retarded kid off the short bus.
The mass banning are pretty ridiculous these days. So many folks banned, many of them forgettable posters, but what's the deal? We have flamebaiting mods, prolific but untouchable trolls, hundreds of posts a day that consist solely of ":lol " or "spaaanuuud" or whatever catch phrase is in vogue at the moment, constant bickering and whining between and among fanboy factions ... Under these conditions, banning anyone at all from GAF is akin to kicking a retarded kid off the short bus.