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Media Create Sales: Week 46, 2011 (Nov 14 - Nov 20)
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Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
I actually see a fair amount of commercials for it and it has the normal cardboard setup at the local stores. Perhaps people who would have bought the game already got it on the DS so why buy it again.
The Praiseworthy
Member
What......?
impossible :\
just no way!!
I swear I'm soooooo in shock here.....
OMG, the most promising JRPG for YEARS.... and this what it gets?
........... what are the Japanese gamers buying for their PS3 :\ !!!????
Unacceptable......
[PS3] Call of Duty: Black Ops (Subtitled Edition) (Square Enix) - 128.922
[360] Call of Duty: Black Ops (Subtitled Edition) (Square Enix) - 30.279
[PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Square Enix) - 92.743
Don't have first week Media Create numbers for the 360 version of MW2.
A considerable drop compared to the first-week sales of the vanilla version, but not really surprising when accounting for not only typically lower numbers between upgrades for fighting games, but Japan's overall lack of interest in "Mahvel" compared to the US as well.
02. / 00. [PS3] Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (Capcom) {2011.02.17} - 67.187 / NEW
08. / 00. [360] Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (Capcom) {2011.02.17} - 13.779 / NEW
Diprosalic
Banned
a 116k game on a hardware that sold 2k is quite funny.
Well, fu*k. T-T
Zelda might still be ahead by off the charts growth. What were it's numbers when it left?
Regardless, if there's any doubt, next week will do it.
There is no 3D Land bundle planned for Japan.
electroplankton
Banned
I think more WKC, since the second one decreased by quite a large amount. Eventually, Ni no Kuni on DS went to sell more than 550k units, and even though not at the full price, people still bought (if people didn't care about it, they simply didn't buy it, instead it had some pretty nice legs).
Diprosalic
Banned
3DS getting half of PS3 LTD in a year is not too bad isn't it?
in fact, I think the SM3DL Bundle is Europe only
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
It'll come as well I'm sure. Highly doubt that they'd release it in every region except Japan...
For now... (no way will the US be getting a Zelda bundle and no SM3DL one. It'll be announced in the next week or so I'm sure)
They're obviously all playing Tales of Xillia and MW3...
AranhaHunter
Banned
Very happy MW3 sold > 200k.
Do people think PS3 will be up YOY by week 52?
Do people think PS3 will be up YOY by week 52?
JasoNsider
Member
I don't understand. People have been saying that NNK is apparently quite lackluster, minus the visuals. As in, downright boring and poor word of mouth on the 3DS title. Why would people buy a boring title?
Am I wrong? Is this game supposed to be actually good?
Am I wrong? Is this game supposed to be actually good?
Thats not how Nintendo of Japan rolls - they also didn't have Mario Kart DS bundled, when US and Europe had them.
The 3DS is already cheap, i dont think there will be bundles for first party software.
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
There we go!
Japan will follow soon I'm sure.Oh really? Didn't they have one for Nintendogs? Or am I just misremembering (a very real possibility in my old age!)
nckillthegrimace
Member
Maybe this will teach Level 5 to make good games.
...Nah.
...Nah.
Any pics or flyers or advertising?
My friend will be pretty pissed, he wanted to buy a 3DS just for 3Dland and ended up buying both separately just yesterday
EDIT: searched it...it's the red one, not the white one like in Europe.
Famitsu data, updated to two weeks ago
[3DS] The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (Nintendo) - 182.998 / 457.513 / 40,00% 16/06/11
Considering it's impossible Zelda did 33k in these two weeks, Mario is by default the best seller on 3DS right now.
ranmafan
Member
Well I can only give my own opinion, Im thirty hours in and I think its a good game. Its fun and I haven't been bored by it. But it is a game geared to a younger audience so Im sure there are aspects in those regards that might turn off the game for some. Such as its story. Theres also the past games of Level 5 on the PS3 that many have not been happy about as some others have said. Personally I think it just really seems to me that no one seemed to care about the PS3 version here. Maybe after playing the DS game they had their fill of the title. But I think there are other factors involved too.
Paracelsus
Member
Could it be that people thought it's the same game as the DS one with just better graphics? It seems absurd.
Another thing
Kirby Wii v.s. Kirby's Epic Yarn after four weeks
08./06. [WII] Kirby's Epic Yarn (Nintendo) - 20.712 / 173.882 (-18%)
13./09. [WII] Kirby's Return to Dream Land <ACT> (Nintendo) {2011.10.27} (¥5.800) - 18.671 / 236.039 (-25%)
As obvious, Kirby Wii is doing much more than Epic Yarn, and during the Holidays it will surely see a big rise
Kirby Wii v.s. Kirby's Epic Yarn after four weeks
08./06. [WII] Kirby's Epic Yarn (Nintendo) - 20.712 / 173.882 (-18%)
13./09. [WII] Kirby's Return to Dream Land <ACT> (Nintendo) {2011.10.27} (¥5.800) - 18.671 / 236.039 (-25%)
As obvious, Kirby Wii is doing much more than Epic Yarn, and during the Holidays it will surely see a big rise
That's the 3rd week in a row at ~100K for 3DS... and it won't fall down anytime soon with what is coming.
3DS is now the monster we expected it to be.
So you've played Ni no Kuni then?
KeioSquad2
Member
Poor Ninokuni, they better hurry up and release it over seas to make some of that money back.
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
Solid. Kirby should have some killer legs.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Poor Ninokuni.
Poor Ninokuni, being beaten so badly by Modern Warfare 3 in Japan O_O.
I guess that the series simply isn't appealing to japanese gamers and that after the DS version release the interest/curiosity in it has completely faded away.
Luckily they decided to start western localization before the japanese release
As for the the rest good bump in PS3 and PS3 sales, great 3DS sales.
When do sales start to pick up for the holyday season in Japan? Last week of Nov or first week of December? I don't remember.
I guess that the series simply isn't appealing to japanese gamers and that after the DS version release the interest/curiosity in it has completely faded away.
Luckily they decided to start western localization before the japanese release
As for the the rest good bump in PS3 and PS3 sales, great 3DS sales.
When do sales start to pick up for the holyday season in Japan? Last week of Nov or first week of December? I don't remember.
Man, I can't believe that the Wii is the best-selling console this gen there at just under 12 million.. PS3 at 7 million.. hard to fathom that these numbers are so damn low. The NDS' total sold is nothing short of amazing in comparison to these and the PS2. It has essentially sold as many units as the last two home console cycle leaders combined.
Is it really that unbelievable though? Obviously Ghiblis involvement alone wasn't enough to move the masses to buy it (and wasn't most of the ghibli cutscenes in the DS game anyway?) and what else does it have going for it? Is the game actually better than either of those games? Level 5 doesn't really have a great track record for making traditional RPGs (except for when Yuji Horii us in charge). It also did slightly worse than Xenoblade, which I'm sure a lot of people will say is fair.
NeonZ
Member
I don't think the Ghibli name means much for the average anime fan that eats up the Tales series. In spite of their mainstream popularity, you wouldn't know Ghibli is succesful if you followed polls from anime magazines.
Their name seems to mean more for mainstream audiences, but those people probably don't own PS3s. Aside from that, the game itself seems to be pretty traditional, so, as a game, it won't reach the same type of audience that Ghibli reaches with their movies.
sixteen-bit
Member
Further proof that gaming needs to grow up.First Week Sales:
[360/PS3] Modern Warfare 3: 210,839
[360/PS3] Battlefield 3: 151,102
[PS3] Uncharted 3: 124,989
[PS3] Ni no Kuni: 67,032
Clearly Ni no Kuni needs more guns.
Is Ni No Kuni a bad game? Did it get poor reviews?
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First Week Sales:
[360/PS3] Modern Warfare 3: 210,839
[360/PS3] Battlefield 3: 151,102
[PS3] Uncharted 3: 124,989
[PS3] Ni no Kuni: 67,032
Clearly Ni no Kuni needs more guns.
So do Xenoblade, The Last Story, and Pandora's Tower!
but mw3 and bf3 have a higher age rating
Dedication Through Light
Member
Nice for One Piece, shocked at MW3 outdoing the rpg.
Paracelsus
Member
Other than inefficient marketing not explaining it's a whole different game, my only other guess is that duckroll is vindicated and Japan finally realized the big difference in output quality between homeconsole and portable Level 5. After all whenever you look back at WKC 1+2 sales it's only fair to wonder how in God's name did it manage to sell over 600k copies.
test_account
XP-39C²
Seems like new IP console RPGs are having a hard time in Japan :\So do Xenoblade, The Last Story, and Pandora's Tower!