MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
3DS Handheld of the forever
It's like in constant berserk mode
It's like in constant berserk mode
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Media Create Sales: Week 6, 2013 (Feb 04 - Feb 10)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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Let's just remember 3DS first 6 months MC threads
Seeing the graph it looks like it'll cross stream with PS3 by July unless i'm missing some huge title releasing before that
People who didn't have the 3DS already waited for DQ VII to come out and bought another title they were interested in. Synergy like this happens all the time with Nintendo's evergreen titles.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
1st party stuff should bump it before then. Nothing singularly huge except maybe Wii Fit U, but enough stuff in general to reverse the current slow crawl to 10k.
Saturn, PCEngine and PSP to a lesser extent.
Did this really happen?
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
Is the XL shapin up to be the de facto replacement for the 3DS?
Well, there's few new releases this week, no-one really wanted to go up against DQ (who can blame 'em?!). If there were lots of new releases I'd hope we'd see a lot more of the top ones in the five-figure bracket.
Saturn, N64, tons of failed efforts in Europe.
IrishNinja
Member
to be fair, neither the DC or Vita play DVD's, so they've got that in common
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Also the inverse: Genesis, N64, Xbox, 360. GG, DC, GC and PS3 to a degree too.
Of course - more than that. Its sales were positively poor for a while.
What baffled me was when professional analysts back then predicted it wouldn't recover even when it started picking up steam and MH3G++ was right around the corner. A weird time.
a bit early to say that. 6-7 mil in Japan alone would need historical legs like NSMB DS had.
On other hand, Fantasy Life should end selling nicely along with AC.
But Saturn was never that huge. I'm not even sure it has one million seller. Videogame was pretty dead at that time in Japan, before the PS took the crowd with big rpgs.
Gianni Merryman
Member
Since you've mentioned it, I recall there was somebody arguing that Nintendo should have ditched 3DS altogether and launch another handheld, when not suggesting they should have gone third-party.
MikeE21286
Member
AC :lol
Rise, Rise
Rise, Rise
GiantEnemyGoomba
Member
Surprised the Wii U didn't drop more than it did. Release some games Nintendo, srsly.
Saturn did way better in Japan and was ahead of the very disappointing N64. N64 crushed the Saturn in the US on the strength of its multiplayer games and was a very distant second to the PSX while Saturn was dead on arrival.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
VF2 was a million seller. VF1 was close (900k+) too iirc.
DQVII release => HW bump => popular titles bump
BTW why there are people still surprised at WiiU decline? How is it supposed to get higher without any new release? It's not like people will magically "notice" the WiiU is out now and rush into the shops to buy it
I think it is safe to assume it already had based on Nintendo quarterly report.
DQVII release => HW bump => popular titles bump
BTW why there are people still surprised at WiiU decline? How is it supposed to get higher without any new release? It's not like people will magically "notice" the WiiU is out now and rush into the shops to buy it
keep your logic out of this thread!
=P
It is.
Inazuma Eleven Go 2 seems steady enough.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Yeah, Japan was producing Saturn games a couple of years after the Dreamcast launched too.
Also blue game cases of doom. Same with Wii U!
(well, in Europe only for DC, but still)
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
I feel like Inazuma is rebounding a little too. It's at least stopped the bleeding, unlike Layton/LBX.
I do remember that lol. People were way too quick to write the 3DS off considering the titles that we knew were on the way.
gamergirly
Member
Good for 3DS as usual . But need some more Wii U love
. But need some more Wii U love
Yeah, it's way over 3 million.
Nintendo said on their fiscal year presentation 3 weeks ago it had sold 700k download copies. If you add that to the 2.5 million physical only number by Media Create, it's 3.2 million (not including the last few weeks of download sales).
Me too. It deserves to outsell that halfassed DQ6 effort.
IrishNinja
Member
my god, the writing was on the wall for poor WU since the start
Let's hope Soul Sacrifice does decently well.
Competition? They abandoned the competition ship quite a few million 3DS sales ago. All Sony can do now about Vita is damage control. Its supposed competitor sells 10 times more, there's no contest and there won't be any until next year to say the least, when 3DS will probably be at 17/18 millions.
I'm thinking that the most SS will do is a one week bump before returning to normal numbers.
I don't think it would do much in terms of competition tho, at least in the handheld space, Nintendo will always be Nintendo. I guess things like the PSP and the (at the time) upcoming Vita, meant that Nintendo have Monster Hunter on lock down? But that only benefited Nintendo.
I mean with home consoles its 2 against one, so Nintendo are forced to improve, it looks bad if they don't. But with handhelds? Nintendo can just keep to their laurels, for better or worse
(better for me)
Opus Angelorum
Member
Lot's of people pinning their hopes on this.
What if Soul Sacrifice isn't the saviour in March? What's notable after that?