YianGaruga
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Are Asia sales usually tracked/posted somewhere?
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Media Create Sales: Week 12, 2016 (Mar 21 - Mar 27)
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Are Asia sales usually tracked/posted somewhere?
It's doing quite well, better than PS3, I don't think they're unhappy about that.
DriftingSpirit
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But we both expected ~35K for PS4. We got it right!
OfficerRaichu15
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Looks like Pokken had a better 2nd week than I thought 😅
Alessandro
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[PS4] Dark Souls III <RPG> (From Software) {2016.03.24} (¥7.430) - 218.764 / NEW <80-100%>
[PS3] Dark Souls II <RPG> (From Software) {2014.03.13} (¥7.800) - 256.701 / NEW <90.19%>
[360] Dark Souls II <RPG> (From Software) {2014.03.13} (¥7.800) - 5.945 / NEW <73.42%>
Dark Souls 4 sold 43.882 physical units less than Souls 2 in the same time frame (3 days tracking).
EDIT:
I was mixing Famitsu with Mediacreate numbers. I corrected them with all Famitsu.
EDIT2:
February digital share for PS4 titles was 18.97%: factoring this would add 41.499 digital units placing DSouls 4 to 260.263 units overall.
[PS3] Dark Souls II <RPG> (From Software) {2014.03.13} (¥7.800) - 256.701 / NEW <90.19%>
[360] Dark Souls II <RPG> (From Software) {2014.03.13} (¥7.800) - 5.945 / NEW <73.42%>
Dark Souls 4 sold 43.882 physical units less than Souls 2 in the same time frame (3 days tracking).
EDIT:
I was mixing Famitsu with Mediacreate numbers. I corrected them with all Famitsu.
EDIT2:
February digital share for PS4 titles was 18.97%: factoring this would add 41.499 digital units placing DSouls 4 to 260.263 units overall.
YianGaruga
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That's what I thought haha.
Would love to hear how many copies P-A sold but I doubt they'll say.
Boogalogist
Member
Gotta be some heat wave thing.
DriftingSpirit
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DS3's digital portion should even things out though.
The Mad Draklor
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Just heard about that yesterday. Hopefully, KT reveals the shipment numbers for DOAX3 down the line.
Next week? Probabily not, but is gonna be very hard not drop under 20K in April
That's right, forgot about that. Still, the first week of April is always depressing, so i don't expect a good hold.
True, but after some news about how well PS4 was selling i started to believe in a bit more like hiska said. :-/
Eolz
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I'm sure we'll know that in one of their next financial results.
Are we still talking about WiiU ? xD
Obviously its not a big deal but not having the console available right now doesnt help any new release.
When Dark Souls II was released, PS3's LTD was 9,875,141, whereas PS4's LTD is currently 2,653,679. Considering the huge difference in install base, I think DSIII did OK.
RamzaIsCool
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PS4 hardware sales are weirdly consistant! The last 6 months it keeps selling between 25k and 35k, with no major spikes up or down (outside the yearly holiday bump). The reaction to new game releases was bigger last year, but so were the drops when nothing got released. This might indicate a more healthy q2 and q3 for the PS4 compared to last year, no?
Magic Mushroom
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What do we expect for Star Ocean?
test_account
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Well, its hard to say. DS3 does have 1931 votes on the PS Store, which seems to be good at least.
Sure, more promotion and starting earlier would make more people aware of the game before it come out, and that is good of course, indeed. I just wanted to comment on this specific promotion, that i dont think it would change much if it was done right before the release or right after (unless bad WoM)
The lack of advertising in general would be an issue on its own. Its possible that Hiska-kun was thinking more about the amount of advertising in general.Since the devs consort to foreigners expect Xbox One numbers.
I believe the predictions are around 100k.
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Any chance to get some number from digital sales of Dark Souls 3? Should be a pretty high (for XBox) number thanks to all of you impatient guys getting it from the japanese store in order to play it.
Yeah PS4 selling steadily in Japan isn't something many people here expected (and I wouldn't be surprised if Sony weren't expecting much either).
There is the Golden Week. Something not really helpful for Sony, but yeah. Not really April, but May gonna be the worst month of the industry, and not surprisingly, each year since 201x is happenning this situation.
Following this trending of "bad results" and Yo-Kai shining alone, even 90k or 95k are quite possible.
Poimandres
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I'm on holiday in Japan at the moment (been here for a week and a half), and really haven't seen much of anything for Dark Souls 3 around in terms of advertising. Mind you, that's just an uneducated observation so what do I know?
Eh, I'm not saying that it's the only factor affecting sales. 2.6 million PS4s is still a low install base and surely it has some impact, no?
For so low sellers install base has small impact. When games like FF come out then we'll start talking and even there install base has more to do with legs than opening week.
damn i am going to be so wrong on star ocean with my prediction of 250k to 300k for the month lol. hope it is 90% digital and has huge legs!
Very thanks to Oscar Lemaire for this.
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gundamkyoukai
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That seems rather low .
Did it not sell more than back in day on 360 in the first week .
I think 80k is abit of an extreme gutting, but I do think the 100-120k of YSO was pretty much on point. But there was just no way it was going to blast past its own top selling records by that much to sell 250k, not after SOIV.
Yes,
Bruno MB
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What about DS2's digital portion?
0 digital sales.
Dark Souls II didn't get a digital release until some months later.
Edit: 309.854 physical number was the LTD sales as of March 30 (3 weeks of tracking).
Well if you compare to DS3, DQMJ3's promotion is million times bigger (and like others stated DQMJ3 hasn't received real push either). However I think pouring marketing money on DS3 wouldn't change unit sales by much.
Hitokiri03
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Considering how far did they go in putting an underage looking girl and generous butt cracks, I was expecting DOAX 3 to sell more.
The PS4 version sold almost the same as DOAX 2 on 360.
The PS4 version sold almost the same as DOAX 2 on 360.
Splatoon 2nd week: 01./01. [WIU] Splatoon <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.05.28} (¥6.156) - 68.913 / 213.731 (-52%)
Pokken 2nd week: 05./01. [WIU] Pokken Tournament # <FTG> (Pokemon Co.) {2016.03.18} (¥7.200) - 28.331 / 98.007 (-59%)
Pokken to sell 500K confirmed.
Joker 3 seems a little low, but it can leg out to something good. Everything else seems just fine.
Pokken 2nd week: 05./01. [WIU] Pokken Tournament # <FTG> (Pokemon Co.) {2016.03.18} (¥7.200) - 28.331 / 98.007 (-59%)
Pokken to sell 500K confirmed.
Joker 3 seems a little low, but it can leg out to something good. Everything else seems just fine.
I do agree with you on that but the difference between DSII and DSIII isn't that huge...
Well, its hard to say. DS3 does have 1931 votes on the PS Store, which seems to be good at least.
Sure, more promotion and starting earlier would make more people aware of the game before it come out, and that is good of course, indeed. I just wanted to comment on this specific promotion, that i dont think it would change much if it was done right before the release or right after (unless bad WoM)
How so? Less awareness at launch means, retailers do not need a new shipment as quickly if the initial run is big enough, 60%-80% as shown by Famitsu doesn´t indicate any shortages. And unless you have a new phenomena in your hand, hype and interest will cool down rather quickly, with more and more used copies in circulation as a further negative factor. Keep in mind that this specific promotion you refer to didn´t even start yet. More than weekly sales, the problem lies that it might affect retail orders.
Poimandres
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Yeah, I think the series has basically found its audience and is unlikely to increase much from where it is regardless of marketing etc. Makes me wonder what the budget is on these games? Seem to be pretty smartly managed.
Just giving an observation for people who think numbers are disappointing. I'm not sure if they are or aren't. Most of the adverts I've seen are for the 3DS selections line!
DriftingSpirit
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And what was that?What about DS2's digital portion?
Digital has only been increasing in significance over the years so I think DS3's digital should close the gap either way.
Edit - It seems digital is a nonfactor for DS2 according to Bruno.
I find them disappointing relative to my expectations. I have no doubt Square and From made money from these games though.
New releases increasing on their second week. This is a long shot, but I think these may have legs guys.
Well, I was refering first week, haha. Sorry for the misunderstanding, though.
That's true, but is pokken necessarily something that drives new adopters moreso than appealing to the current install base? This isn't rhetorical by the way, I have no idea.