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Media Create Sales: Week 48, 2013 (Nov 25 - Dec 01)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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Solid MH type games like God Eater would sell on DS as well... Why would get a shoehorned licensed 3DS title when you also have the real MH on the system? Publishers gotta try harder if the want to target the MH playing 3DS market.
1st Course
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Poor Tearaway.
Oh dang, I just noticed Tearaway didn't chart.
What a shame.
Nice to see Bravely be in the top 10.
Also nice to see LR still hold up a bit.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
It's true, it's not like other hunting games weren't popular on the psp. Presumably a lot of the fans of the genre are already on the 3DS.
encephalon
Member
Did Gravity Rush suddenly cease to exist? Furthermore, they're developing a sequel to a Japanese PS1 cult classic (that was remade for PSP).
SEGA isn't interested. Japanese developers in general seem less interested in pushing a plethora of full handheld games like they were willing to at the beginning of the PSP era. Whatever funding doesn't go to 3DS isn't going to go to Vita. It's going to smart phones. Remember, MH4 is funding Capcom's new smart phone division.
1st Course
Member
80%+ drop incoming?
StreetsAhead
Member
All of this is heart breaking.
First Puppeteer and now Tearaway.
MasterSheen
Member
I thought Gungho were being quite lofty when they said they expected 1m from P&DZ... Now it's looking like it will actually get there.
Are you basing this on position? There were 8 releases that pushed it out of the top 10 plus the looming holidays will cause some games to rise.
Gravity Rush was a launch game, and its sequel, still far on the horizon. The closest one we can get is SS Delta and Freedom Wars, both monster hunting game. If they release something different in between those two games, I would hardly complain and worry.
3D platformer doomed to fail in Japan D:
Yeah I think they were touting it as the MoHu for kids or something.
I even think they went so far and made some mini animu or manga series on it
That probably should have waited to release it next year or something after everyone was done with monhun 4
StreetsAhead
Member
Sony's shitty marketing for it and Puppeteer didn't help a tiny bit.
Marketing for Puppeteer was not shit. It was being promoted a lot in stores, some places even had free rental demo discs which is quite rare.
I guess this could be a problem as well.
Toriko, One Piece, Attack on Titan, and Gaist Crusher all targeting the same market, all releasing after Monster Hunter 4, and all releasing within 2 months.
I think they wanted to ride on the MoHu 4 success. But yeah, I agree with you that they should have of waited til next year.
Maybe not for Puppeteer, but for Tearaway it was bit crappy and weird from what I've seen they put up on their YouTube channel
StreetsAhead
Member
So, they did just above the absolute bear minimum to let people know the game existed?
Can somebody please translate the gist of this regarding Bravely Default? http://smartphone.acquire.co.jp/rtd/special/collabo/bdfts/
Thanks! Also the Bravely Second website is http://www.jp.square-enix.com/second/
Thanks! Also the Bravely Second website is http://www.jp.square-enix.com/second/
Poor Treasure, is any game they developed that doesn't bomb?
It's just a promotional collaboration between Road to Dragons and Bravely Default. There are no details on it yet, but they want people to follow the twitter account for Road to Dragons to get the latest news on it.
I'm not sure what this has to do with Media Create or Japanese sales though. Wouldn't it have made more sense to ask in a Bravely Default thread? Lol.
AstroBoy GBA?
I'm playing through For the Sequel and fear spoilers!
1st Course
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It's below AC4 on both Comg and Tsutaya. I expect it to do less than 20k this week.
Bravely Default FTS - Fearing the Spoilers.
I can't even play the game until Feb! >_<
Over My Dead Body 2 (Ore no Shikabane wo Koete Yuke 2) is slated to be released in Summer 2014. That's not a monster hunting game.
Well if something heavily promoted like Gaist bombs then there's no chance going against Monster Hunter, unless IP is established at the past gen.
It is like selling new IP is extremely hard (it is possible but still hard), but IMO it may be common at the worldwide market.
I don't know from the looks of it doesn't have much in common with the typical MH type games beginning from the monster designs. Game might be solid but if you would have told me that it's a 4 Player licensed Power Rangers title I would believe you. Generic kids IP marketed the same way.... But these kids are playing Pokemon and Puzzle Dragon... And the older ones can play MH4 with all of their friends.
What I'm saying that Geist Crusher was a need idea, but at the end it isn't a compelling enough game to attract the masses. SE also had to learn it with their 3DS/Arcade game Bomba RPG. They are underestimating their target base and the other available options they have access to.
Was more than they did for 3D Dot heroes or Tokyo Jungle, Gravity Rush etc... It's not why it didn't sell. People weren't interested.
Also lots of advertising space IN STORES is not the bare minimum.
The hunting action game situation might be easier to understand if you take Monster Hunter out of the equation. It might not be the people who buy Monster Hunter that buy the alternatives.
In fact, God Eater doesn't appear to have been impacted by the Monster Hunter move at all. As far as I know, they're more story-heavy anime games, which seem like the type of thing that have traditionally been successful on PlayStation systems.
That said, I don't think we've seen a serious attempt on the 3DS yet. As people have been noting, Nintendo has really launched most of their reliable franchises on the system already (except Kirby), so this might be the best time for them to try to develop and promote new core-oriented IPs. Puzzle and Dragons - which is new for their systems - being an example.
In fact, God Eater doesn't appear to have been impacted by the Monster Hunter move at all. As far as I know, they're more story-heavy anime games, which seem like the type of thing that have traditionally been successful on PlayStation systems.
That said, I don't think we've seen a serious attempt on the 3DS yet. As people have been noting, Nintendo has really launched most of their reliable franchises on the system already (except Kirby), so this might be the best time for them to try to develop and promote new core-oriented IPs. Puzzle and Dragons - which is new for their systems - being an example.
Yeah, Gaist Crusher bombed (badly), but it seems One Piece is doing quite well and Attack on Titans had a good debut as well(it's also still 7th on Amazon, with just an 8% discount), while Toriko sold badly due to a franchise falling in popularity. I'm pretty interested to see next 3DS efforts in the genre.
Quite well? The first two weeks have been a disappointment. Fortunately Christmas will help the game to sell the first shipment without going to the bomba bins. But if this game had been released in summer instead, probably would be already there.
Glass Rebel
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It's literally impossible for Treasure to make a game that sells well.
;_;
;_;
Such a bold statement. Maybe it won't be a million seller FW but a 500.000 opening is very possible.
And it won't be the first time that people laugh at you instead of being laughed ;P
michaelius
Banned
I don't see any reason why hunting fanbase would be diffrent than shooter fanbase in west.
You have big group who buys CoD every year then you have smaller group which buys every BF - there's some overlap between those groups but not every BF buyer will get CoD.
And most of succesfull "clones" have something that makes them diffrent from MH.
God Eater - good story and anime like characters
Phantasy Star - don't know this one well enough but IP is older than MH itself
Soul Sacrifice - faster gameplay, unique setting
Toukiden/ Ragnarok Odyssey - similar to MH but on diffrent platform
There's still a show going on I think so that's probably it.
I don't know anything about the game itself.
I have different opinion who will look silly next week.
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Great artist though!
December 12 I think.