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Media Create Sales: Week 21, 2014 (May 19 - May 25)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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Agreed. The market is just to skewed towards mobile for some of these games to put up really high hardware numbers. I expect the same paltry numbers when KH3 and FFXV drop for PS4.
lol You really need to temp those expectations champ.
Diddy Kong
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Oh boy I can't wait for next weeks numbers
Psycho_Mantis
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Misconception by the poster I quoted from.
Oh wow
Its also not just exclusive to consoles but also handhelds. Overall, the output of games on dedicated devices is declining.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
I wouldn't say Hyrule warriors audience is on the PlayStation platform, while a warriors game it's distinct enough with the style of the Zelda franchise in that I doubt it's going to ditched simply because it's a musou.
You just need to look at any thread about the game here, plenty of posters that haven't never really been interested in musou before. I imagine if it bombs it'll be because Zelda isn't that popular in Japan rather than it being a musou style game.
Bayonetta however sales relys on that fact that it's fanbase bothered to buy a wii u. It'd help a lot of Nintendo bundled it.
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Principate
Saint Titanfall
What does that mean PS3 literally has 1 million seller (maybe two if it it managed to creep up there) and that's after what 8 years on the market. The PS3 didn't get big games that sold well. PS3 was a mid tier and niche machine, much like the Vita.
I would guess they'd save a lot if there is announcements to be had for TGS if they are Japanese targeted games. Also for PS4 its about to get a whole lot worse before it gets better, this summer is going to be ugly and brutal on week to week hardware. How low can it go guessing game about to start
It'd be a surprise if the Wii U outsold the Vita next week, never mind the 3DS.
I would say it has more to do with the actual game rather than platform itself.
Pretty much bad hardwaee sales all around. I hope for Vita to go back to 20k after the post Golden Week slump. Not sure if it'll happen before Freedom Wars release, athough there's a number of games that are coming on the 29th.
WiiU is rising due to Nintento's MK8 marketting push. I'm very interested to see how long can Mario Cart effect keep the sales up. But first we need to see how big of an effect it'll have on hw sales to begin with.
As for PS4, well... see you next year.
I don't think it'll be that surprising. Neither 3DS' or Vita's sales are that high. It should really outsell them both next week.
For values of 'beast' equivalent to a particularly vicious hamster. Still, it's enough.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
That platform still has a l 15million install base so yes it did have lot something to do with the platform. Everything is more to do with the game if not at launch but I don't really see Youkai watch reaching those numbers if it was on the psv for example.
Trevelyan9999
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I believe it did that much for Pikmin 3 last year, Mario Kart 8 is.......the game at the moment and I'm seeing a 40k spike.
345triangle
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both are popular, but japan is apple's strongest major market in the world these days.
SwiftDeath
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I'll be optimistic and guess Wii U does 25k or greater next week
I'm wondering if that's a viable strategy for Nintendo in the long-term; since the 3DS became a de facto upgrade path from *both* the PSP and DS, leaving the Vita by the wayside, in part due to the Monster Hunter exclusivity deal, making some smart publishing deals could perhaps have a similar effect - on a smaller scale - making the Wii U the de facto upgrade path from the PS3.
My gut says that FF15 is too big a name for PS4 (and presumably won't have a Wii U version!) for that to work, but I think putting in the work to secure Japanese developers who *do* want to stick with consoles and are perhaps a bit too small-scale for PS4 development could be a reasonable move.
I'll say 50k. It's outlandish enough that I can claim it's a joke if it doesn't work out, but be awesomely smug about it if it does
Metallix87
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Huh? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
StreetsAhead
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It'll be less than 40K/300K, almost certainly.
I'd like to think so..but the lack of a MK8 bundle in Japan ,no price cut since launch and only a minor hardware boost this week makes me think otherwise. I'm hoping it will have a long tail at least.
The Horror the horror
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Nintendo, the dragon of Kyoto, knows what Japan needs. Unfortunately, the Wii U and, to a lesser extent, the 3DS were the early indicators to Japan's market shift. Nintendo's next hardware platforms will be a direct and loud answer to the Japanese market situation.
small44
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Ps3 had 2 games over 1 millons but it also have 22 games sold over 500k and less then 1 million.
Vita had 0 game over 1 millions and only one game over 500k.
All what Vita get this year are sequel that sold less then the previous games
Nightengale
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What's the second? Are you adding up all the different versions and reprints of RE5?
Didn't expect a Wii U bump this week.
maabus1999
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I think we now know why Sony is paying the booth fees at TGS for indies; there is probably only a couple left making legacy games...
test_account
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Generally speaking, it wasnt expected that Infamous Second Son would do much for the PS4 hardware sales in Japan, so i dont think that would have changed much. We're probably looking at a few thousand PS4 units in difference at max with or without the release of Infamous Second Son.
What was the PS3 missing from the big titles? Dragon Quest i know about.
For an 8 Year Cycle nothing to be proud of, but descent.
It should, but that's not to say it will. Mario Kart will only count for 4 days next week.
I'm going to be bold, optimistic and highly unrealistic, and say that that for Week 23 (i.e. not next week, the week after) the Wii U will go to 70k. It isn't going to happen, and I don't expect it to, but I would be pleasantly surprised if it did.
Dragon Quest and Taiko are all I can think of?
still 100K ahead of last year... still a champion.
certainly the number speaks for itself.
but 3DS is doomed at 25K.
so are you saying it worked for VITA or not? That's the quote he replied to.
That "one" million seller makes a big difference though since selling a million in Japan is a pretty big deal.
PS3 already had a few games selling over 500K after the same time on the market and yet VITA had none. PS3 has a lot of titles selling over 500K on it although with only 1 (or 2) million sellers. VITA is looking to have a lot of titles selling 300-500K on it with only 1 or 2 500K seller.
And I'm not sure what you mean by PS3 didn't get big games that sold well. Other than Nintendo games and DQ, what big games did PS3 not get?
If you really have to draw the comparison, PSV would be a shitty version of PS3 which itself is a shitty version of PSP (only one series selling over one million on the platform).
EDIT: beaten badly
small44
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Since all psv games are not that big it's normal to Vita to have those kind of sale
Yessörine;113751262 said:
Metallix87
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Well, then Sony should have put bigger games on the platform.
test_account
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Yeah, i guess Monster Hunter too. Afterall, it did manage to get pass one million units even if it saw bigger pricedrops. I'm not sure if Taiko is concidered a big title if other 400-500k+ games arent.sörine;113751604 said:
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 and 2.5
Mauricio_Magus
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I'm glad the Mario Kart 8 hype is helping the Wii U, I hope it sells well for a while.
Freeman
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I made one a month or two ago
Well, you'll have many opportunities to use going by how thing look now.
shadowsdarknes
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lol @ people still acting like Wii U is some sleeping giant just ready to come out and start swinging.