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Media Create Sales: Week 38, 2011 (Sep 19 - Sep 25)
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sixteen-bit
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It'll probably be more in lifetime sales.king zell said:
Nuclear Muffin
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king zell said:
More for sure.
2 million minimum when all is said and done.
That they they were, which is why they've already given up on it and want Nintendo to do the same. Investors are only happy if each product you sell does better than the last one. Even if the 3DS does very well, if it falls short of the DS, investors will declare it a failure and will continue trying to push Nintendo onto iOS.mclem said:
AceBandage
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viciouskillersquirrel
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Growth in the mobile games sector will slow down and a few of the companies that have made a name for themselves in this space (like Zynga) will collapse or see their share price plummet from unrealistic highs. Then the investors will be pounding on Iwatas door demanding that he drop everything the company is doing and get into the next gaming-related bubble.BurntPork said:
They were probably thinking much the same thing as these guys.Cruzader said:
BishopLamont
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Oh boy. You share your account with a brother or something right? Its the only explanation.BurntPork said:
MrCookiepants
Member
It's crazy that there's a place where ICO + Shadow re-release doubles Gears of War 3's first week.
AdventureRacing
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I think there may be a lot of titles under performing or bombing on the 3DS this holiday season. There are simply too many big games coming out in such a short period of time.
I think the 3DS will sell insane amounts of SW and HW but there will definitely be some games left in the dust.
I think the 3DS will sell insane amounts of SW and HW but there will definitely be some games left in the dust.
lunchwithyuzo
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I think Rhythm Tengoku might have. MH2 to MH3 might be close too, but I'm not sure?noobie said:
Alrus said:
Most of those titles that are big are large million sellers. People are kidding themselves thinking they wont either have legs or do their normal numbers.
Genre spread, and the holiday season will see to the large titles selling what they should. And stores are not going to choose to not buy stock in massive franchises, cmon now... If this were the middle of the summer, then yeah to many big releases could cripple each other. But this is the biggest spending months of the year we are talking about. There will be enough room.
lunchwithyuzo said:
Famitsu:
Monster Hunter 2 2006 YTD: 570,651
Monster Hunter 3 first week: 583,000
king zell said:
I would guess about 2 million. If not 2 million with the initial release, then a budget version would bring it there. It will probably take a few months, though.
OrangeGrayBlue
Member
Really weird to see such a significant boost for 3DS the last couple weeks. I'm curious to see how the holidays turn out.
Also...
Dear Burntpork,
For the love of God just stop trying to make predictions please.
Sincerely OrangeGrayBlue.
Also...
Dear Burntpork,
For the love of God just stop trying to make predictions please.
Sincerely OrangeGrayBlue.
mentalfloss
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aaaaaand that officially kills all 3DS doom and gloom.
The crow has been well served.
The crow has been well served.
mentalfloss
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Penguin said:
Oh it's definitely over for Vita now.
Sony is already dead.
AceBandage
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXU8w336oGsmentalfloss said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoWtHqmITOM&NR=1AceBandage said:
Penguin said:
To an extent. A system doing poorly isn't a guarantee that its competitors will do well, but that doesn't go the other way. If a system does well then, generally, it affects its competitors.
The main issue at the moment is that the 3DS has a slew of potentially big-selling titles going well into next year, while the Vita... doesn't. That could obviously change, but with the information at hand it's not unreasonable to predict that the Vita will struggle past its initial launch period.
Vita actually has a really nice launch lineup from where I am sitting. I think the launch period is well covered and Sony will most likely sell all they manufacture for the first couple of months.
It's the 6-12 month period after the Vita launches that will be most telling, however. Are there new games coming at a respectable pace? Are new game announcements still happening? Are consumers still happy with the product and it's performance? If the answers to all of these questions is "yes" then the Vita will be fine. Oh it probably won't do 3DS numbers but it could still be successful and perhaps even pull some folks in who wouldn't normally buy a dedicated gaming handheld device.
If the answer to one or several of those questions is "no" then Sony could be in for an extremely bad time. 2012 is going to be very important for Sony and the Vita. Critical, really.
It's the 6-12 month period after the Vita launches that will be most telling, however. Are there new games coming at a respectable pace? Are new game announcements still happening? Are consumers still happy with the product and it's performance? If the answers to all of these questions is "yes" then the Vita will be fine. Oh it probably won't do 3DS numbers but it could still be successful and perhaps even pull some folks in who wouldn't normally buy a dedicated gaming handheld device.
If the answer to one or several of those questions is "no" then Sony could be in for an extremely bad time. 2012 is going to be very important for Sony and the Vita. Critical, really.
east of eastside
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viciouskillersquirrel said:
Global smartphone sales (not even mentioning tablets) of 1 billion are forecast for 2015 (by then smartphones will be enormous orders of magnitude of power beyond Vita and 3DS, heck beyond PS3 and 360), but according to you the mobile games sector is a "bubble"?
Nice dream.
SatelliteOfLove
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mclem said:
The ones that bought Nintendo stock AFTER the Wii/DS rise to heaven? Oh yeah, I can see that. Scariest thing in the business world is stockholders who've got in their head that a stock purchase is guarenteed returns.
viciouskillersquirrel
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Yes it is a bubble. Just like how the tech bubble of the 90s was a bubble despite the fact that Internet business and services did, in fact, take over the world and many of the businesses that suffered the worst of the crash never actually suffered drops in year-on-year growth.. What happens in a bubble is that businesses (and other commodities) in a growth sector become overvalued and a lot of money gets thrown into it in the hope of making a fat profit. When something happens to make it clear the market at the time cannot support all the new entrants, investors panic and there's a crash as they bail out.east of eastside said:
Remember, I'm talking about stock prices here, not revenues or profits.
AceBandage
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artwalknoon said:
Combination of announcements, upcoming titles, lower price and backlog.
lunchwithyuzo
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More than P2 but less than P3.king zell said:
_Alkaline_
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BurntPork said:
You clearly do not play Call of Duty.