Principate
Saint Titanfall
well 65k which isn't much in comparison to everything else bar the Wii u (haha). Even less on Famitsu
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Media Create Sales: Week 15, 2015 (Apr 06 - Apr 12)
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well 65k which isn't much in comparison to everything else bar the Wii u (haha). Even less on Famitsu
QuantumZebra
Member
You keep hangin' in there, Vita.
test_account
XP-39C²
People werent kidding when they said that this was a slow week.
Minecraft still going strong.
Minecraft still going strong.
It did, but it was the PS3 version. The PS4 version was released last week.
Sangetsu-II
Member
25k was my optimistic number but I never thought it would drop less than 20k, should've learned that it was the beginning of JapanSchool.
By what amounts to statistical noise. It's almost the same as the difference between this week's MC and Famitsu numbers. Small victories, I guess.
Orniletter
Banned
around 55.000 is not a lot.
What would you call Vita's over 100.000 less sales yoy ?
Yep. It's pretty much a hold.
Beginning of Japan School isn't an excuse for the months after April it will dip below 15k many times.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
Well, if BB is ~200k in Japan assuming digital versions that means it's sold ~800k in the west. Not bad, not bad at all.
Gaming in Japan is finally over. Maybe next decade!
It's over, period. The Japanese lost their last ace, and that's the end of their gaming hopes and dreams.
It's not hyperbole, it's not fanboy drivel. It is LITERALLY it for them. Japenese devlopers have nothing left, nothing they can reveal tomorrow would fix the hole now created. There is no reason left for any one, hardcore or casual, to substantively invest in a gaming device. Except if they want to play shitty iOS games. Which will also come to Android at some point.
The age of Japan is done.
Am I doing it right? xD
Pennywise83
Banned
Yes, not by much though. But that's expecting: 3DS is entering its fifth year in the market, selling 5m per year during the first three years, and having an already huge installed base. If the drop will be around 20-30% YOY then it'd be great, and the platform will have enough steam to be the third best-selling platform ever in Japan.
International sales of Bloodborne are great and the DS2 remaster likely hasn't done half bad either. I think From is too busy celebrating to even realize mediocre sales numbers in Japan.
Sangetsu-II
Member
Really? :/
If buy the west, you mean everywhere that isn't Japan, then yes.
"a lot" is questionable, imho.
plus, it somehow inverted the trend during the last two weeks, and that's what the original post underlined.
the tough times will come also for the 3DS in terms of YoY, but later in the year (when we'll hit the N3ds launch period). plus, it must also be considered the context in which the YoY trends are put (as for every single statistic, that out of context is meaningless): 3DS is approaching the 19 millions pieces in Japan, it's also a question of saturation; it already saw the release of almost all the significant IP for that market, so from now on basically there will be sequels more than new brand, it already has a very large install base able to guarantee sales for many softwares despite its weekly sales slowing donw etc...
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Are you new to this? For the past few years whenever someone mentions a new positive baseline for a system in trouble it will disappoint their expectations without fail. You can even set your clock by it.
I knew from the start the PS4 wouldn't keep a 20k baseline as do most regulars here.
Sangetsu-II
Member
Wasn't the 1 million mark from until April 5th?
If so only the first 175k of Bloodborne Japan sales were counted. The other 25k is just a bonus.
Orniletter
Banned
I remember when people used to hope for a pessimistic 10.000 baseline for the WiiU.
Heh.
Sangetsu-II
Member
Not fresh out of the box, but not a senior yet xD
1st Course
Member
A game with 20k sales topping the charts, when last time this happened?
Not yet, but soon. I did well not picking up the game yet.
Shikamaru Ninja
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It looks like at least Mario Kart 8 will hit a million. Perhaps SSBU can still eventually hit it if the DLC momentum manages to keep it hovering in the top 30.
Does anyone have any first-party Wii U software ltds?
Does anyone have any first-party Wii U software ltds?
airmangataosenai
Member
It actually snowed this week. The weather here is fucking bipolar lol
I'm not sure I really see a 3DS issue at this point.
1.) They already semi-announced the successor is unveiling next year, and said they wanted to be in contact with developers for two years before its launch, so presumably they're taking some feedback on the design.
2.) The New Nintendo 3DS seems to be holding the line well enough. If we compare with the Vita - a system that launched at a similar time and has a fairly wide variety of content - the Vita is down 25.1% year over year while the 3DS is only down 8.7% by Media Create. Coming into this year I said I'd normally expect a 20-30% drop for the 3DS assuming no new system had been released, which is similar to how the Vita is doing, so I'd argue they got about 1/2 to 1/3 of the decline they would have otherwise.
3.) Beyond this, Nintendo already announced plans to go mobile, and do so in a big way. Even if the 4DS is a complete catastrophe in Japan (which is pretty unlikely) they at least have a foot on a lifeboat.
Will the latter half of the year compare worse? Probably. Will 2016 be rough? Very likely, but at that point I think it's moot.
Now, if we shifted our view to the West things look decidedly less good, but that's a separate issue.
1.) They already semi-announced the successor is unveiling next year, and said they wanted to be in contact with developers for two years before its launch, so presumably they're taking some feedback on the design.
2.) The New Nintendo 3DS seems to be holding the line well enough. If we compare with the Vita - a system that launched at a similar time and has a fairly wide variety of content - the Vita is down 25.1% year over year while the 3DS is only down 8.7% by Media Create. Coming into this year I said I'd normally expect a 20-30% drop for the 3DS assuming no new system had been released, which is similar to how the Vita is doing, so I'd argue they got about 1/2 to 1/3 of the decline they would have otherwise.
3.) Beyond this, Nintendo already announced plans to go mobile, and do so in a big way. Even if the 4DS is a complete catastrophe in Japan (which is pretty unlikely) they at least have a foot on a lifeboat.
Will the latter half of the year compare worse? Probably. Will 2016 be rough? Very likely, but at that point I think it's moot.
Now, if we shifted our view to the West things look decidedly less good, but that's a separate issue.
maquiladora
Member
Ehhhh those numbers....
Eolz
Member
This
Well, tbh, it was the same for the NPD threads. Nobody truly expected the WiiU to be such a disaster (not that fast if you prefer).
I think it was posted some weeks ago by hiska-kun or moor-angol, when we were talking about how #FE could sell more than XCX and be amongst the best selling WiiU titles in Japan, since the bar was set pretty low.
Maybe someone has it with him or know which post that was.
Pennywise83
Banned
1) Technically, they haven't announced a successor yet. They announced a new platform which might be, or might not be, 3DS' successor.
3) Since Nintendo have yet to announce how it will go mobile, this remains to be seen. As we saw with many other companies, going on mobile doesn't automatically equate into being successful.
This is the first troubled week after the famous "PS4 revival" which just like PS4 launch and Wii U launch didn't take more than 2 weeks for hopes and dreams to crush, and sets the pattern for the empty months until MGSV. So... not really.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Eek at PS4, maybe it's time for a price cut.
The sold out games are still sold out, or are we past that now? Bloodborne and Senran Kagura are falling pretty fast.
Nintendo needs to release more N3DS exclusives, why haven't they announced the next one? Retro Studios better work.
Oh and poor DQ Thretagsjh, we thought it would be a good idea, but as soon as I watched the trailer I knew it was nothing special. Dragon Quest may be bigger than Final Fantasy in Japan, but not for its characters/music.
The sold out games are still sold out, or are we past that now? Bloodborne and Senran Kagura are falling pretty fast.
Nintendo needs to release more N3DS exclusives, why haven't they announced the next one? Retro Studios better work.
Oh and poor DQ Thretagsjh, we thought it would be a good idea, but as soon as I watched the trailer I knew it was nothing special. Dragon Quest may be bigger than Final Fantasy in Japan, but not for its characters/music.
Well I guess it could be a console successor or a combined platform, but I'd be pretty surprised if it wasn't supposed to replace the handheld given their paucity of first party output on the system.
Yeah, but opening the door is the first step.
Of the traditional publishers currently Namco Bandai, Square Enix, Sega, Konami, and Marvelous all have respectable success (many after a lot of years of failing) while Capcom and Koei Tecmo are still largely unsuccessful.
Ultimately though what I feel is important is "We're there and outputting multiple games." since that's how you get started down the road to success and most importantly it gives you more options for revenue in case something goes wrong.
Similarly they've stepped up their merchandizing arm quite a bit and - while I'm incredibly skeptical of the product line - QoL is also an attempt to diversify from all their revenue being tied to two proprietary game devices.
Like imagine if they hadn't started to diversify and were still just sitting on the 3DS and Wii U. Pretty much everything would be riding on the NX at that point. It's not a fun position to be in for a company even if there isn't a huge expectation of failure, which is why basically every company tries to diversify over time.
Pennywise83
Banned
Sure. One thing is, though, having hits in the mobile market; another thing is having enough hits (or enough profitability) such that the business in the mobile market could offset the losses from a "catastrophic 4DS", that is the main source of revenues of the company.
Among the unsuccessful companies, I'd put Level-5. Also, it remains to be seen how long-term are the hits of the mentioned companies.
Business diversification might be good, but it's not a solution per se. Nintendo had everything riding on the blue ocean strategy after the GC, so it'd not be something new for them. Let's wait and see how their approach towards mobile gaming will be.
Your autocorrect is the sole highlight this week.
test_account
XP-39C²
Have there been any reports of sell outs for last week? If not, i dont see why people will comment on it now. Thats all that people were commenting on earlier, at least from what i saw.
Media Create numbers, comparison
02./01. [PS3] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Jigoku-Hen <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.04.10} (¥8.715) - 31.724 / 174.156 (-78%)
06./02. [PSV] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Jigoku-Hen <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.04.10} (¥7.689) - 17.755 / 145.991 (-86%)
02./01. [PSV] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Tengoku-Hen <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2015.04.02} (¥7.690) - 15.394 / 136.613 (-87%)
03./02. [PS3] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Tengoku-Hen <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2015.04.02} (¥8.716) - 14.582 / 123.783 (-87%)
02./01. [PS3] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Jigoku-Hen <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.04.10} (¥8.715) - 31.724 / 174.156 (-78%)
06./02. [PSV] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Jigoku-Hen <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.04.10} (¥7.689) - 17.755 / 145.991 (-86%)
02./01. [PSV] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Tengoku-Hen <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2015.04.02} (¥7.690) - 15.394 / 136.613 (-87%)
03./02. [PS3] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Tengoku-Hen <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2015.04.02} (¥8.716) - 14.582 / 123.783 (-87%)
Pennywise83
Banned
Problem is, reports of sold-out don't automatically mean that the demand is greater than the supply at that specific point in time. Bloodborne and Senran Kagure were sold-out in some stores, probably because what shipped and what demanded matched.
test_account
XP-39C²
True, i was just commenting on the "are we past that?" part. It wasnt strange that people commented on it when even Media Create did. If demand were met or not is possible, but that is just a guess one way or the other.
It's a damn shame that it took Iwata this long to do all this diversifying. But at least he's seems to moving along with whatever he has planned. The one great thing about the move to mobile is that Nintendo found someone who does it on a global scale. I was really worried that they'd attempt to go it alone. D:
I'd love to know if and how much Microsoft is paying stores in Tokyo to keep giving display space to Xbone. It makes no sense unless there are deals in place.
Cyber Sleuth won't be the best selling one. Digging up MC data (since Famitsu seems to be off by a considerable amount) shows that Re
igitize on PSP did 172k. Famitsu had the first Digimon Story on DS and the first Digimon World on PSone over 200k, but I'm not digging up those MC numbers (if any exist for the latter).Assuming Adventure Tri isn't getting delayed, the game could continue to have some legs.
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
Bloodborne at 9k already? Come the fuck on Japan. Get it back up to at least 20k.