DAMN! Might have a chance to crack 300k.
3DS is gaga for DBZ, follow it up BN, and not just with UM3.
Dragon Ball Heroes ≠ Dragon Ball Z
That said, I am a bit surprised there's been no genuine Dragon Ball game on 3DS yet.
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Media Create Sales: Week 32, 2014 (Aug 04 - Aug 10)
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Dragon Ball Heroes ≠ Dragon Ball Z
That said, I am a bit surprised there's been no genuine Dragon Ball game on 3DS yet.
Hero of Legend
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Not only that, but Dimps officially developed UM2, their logo is in the intro, but not in the first one.
Kind of a Dimps DB renaissance going on along with Xenoverse huh?
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
I haven't played the games, but why is that? Doesn't it star Goku and the rest of the folks?
Dimps has never really vanished from Dragon Ball. They've always been involved with the Carddas games.
My stance on Xenoverse is a bit mixed thus far. None of the known staff have worked on the previous Dimps DBZ games. They're the crew behind the questionable Saint Seiya games. The team that used to make the Budokai games seems to have gone on to do the Capcom fighters.
Dragon Ball Heroes is primarily a card-based arcade game. You play as your own character avatar and go through historic Dragon Ball fights alongside the game's own original nonsense. It seems to be a very popular game in Japan, to the point where there's actually manga series specifically about it. I kind of get the sense that there's an audience that might only be interested in Dragon Ball Heroes.
MisterGrey3000
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I'm thinking I should have put "confident" in humongous bold quotes because I'm on the same page as you. I really don't think these guys would care about the PS4 if they didn't own big properties with western appeal like Metal Gear or Kingdom Hearts.
I'm really not expecting too much from Sony's TGS showing in all honesty; maybe they'll be a new thing here or there, but I think that we'll most likely see a lot of their in-house software and the same few big Japanese titles that we already know about.
Hero of Legend
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No kidding? Never knew that.
Wonder if the 3DS games are by the Sonic and Tamagotchi folks as a consistent handheld team.
Well, I have kind of a combined note/question.
1.) What should I do about notable self-published games and Road to TGS? Include them, and in the final breakdown, put them as self published?
2.) It seems Square Enix (and to a lesser extent, Capcom) are losing some notable staff, including from Kingdom Hearts, FF14, FF15, Dissidia (quite a few), and the Breath of Fire character designer. See the bolded below.
1.) What should I do about notable self-published games and Road to TGS? Include them, and in the final breakdown, put them as self published?
2.) It seems Square Enix (and to a lesser extent, Capcom) are losing some notable staff, including from Kingdom Hearts, FF14, FF15, Dissidia (quite a few), and the Breath of Fire character designer. See the bolded below.
Eolz
Member
So, if Nintendo was indeed doing (or funding) a remaster for next year on WiiU, and assuming it's from the GC/PS2/Xbox gen, is there any that would please (I'm talking sales, not just "oh it's neat" opinions) the japanese market?
I fail to see anything from Nintendo from back then that would do something tbh.
I fail to see anything from Nintendo from back then that would do something tbh.
I also want the game to be successful since it may inspire Nintendo to go creative with their spin offs. So far, almost every Nintendo spin off is a Mario/Pokemon related one, but they could really grow their other franchises with more games in different styles.
Franchises like Fire Emblem, Zelda and others can use more exposition than they currently do.
Seriously.
I was expecting the demo to do what Freedom Wars did and get tonnes of people on the Japanese forums hyped and producing some discussion, but I'm just not seeing it. Pre-orders on Amazon also dropped like a rock, whereas Freedom Wars shot up to the top when the demo became available.
Haven't got the chance to play it yet myself, but I wonder if it's not a very good demo. Time to go in depth and read all the Japanese comments.
Sammy Samusu
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C'mon son.
And I remember people dragging Toukiden for filth when the demo came out.
Hmm.. lots of the comment seem to be all over the place in regards to complaints; with many things being complained about not actually being in the demo since it's meant to be battle only.
Hopefully it's a great game and does well, and from the sound of things gets a better demo showing the RPG aspects of the game.
Hopefully it's a great game and does well, and from the sound of things gets a better demo showing the RPG aspects of the game.
Phantasy Star Nova's demo takes longer to download than play. That would be a major mark against it, haha. With Feedom Wars, the demo came out weeks before launch. There's still a lot of time for PSN, and I expect Tri-Ace to make adjustments due to the feedback they have received.
KillerMan91
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Worldwide it's still way ahead every console except Wii like Psycho Mantis pointed out with that chart. In US yes this summer has been only decent sales wise but considering how ridiculously barren this summer has been release wise it's really not that surprising. I think that holidays are just taking bigger and bigger part of the yearly sales (just look at those insane october and november release lineups). For reference PS2 sales during fall and holiday season 2001:
August: 322,782
September: 343,719
October: 332,117
November: 919,131
December: 1,971,318
PS4 should sell more than PS2 at least during september-november period. December is not impossible either if PS4 behaves like leading console (PS3 was third place system for all of its life and its peak december was 1.36 million). We shall see.
http://www.capcom.co.jp/smartphone/
Capcom announcing that they are discontinuing the service of several IOS games on the same day.
Capcom announcing that they are discontinuing the service of several IOS games on the same day.
theprodigy
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are you sure? US+Japan for the PS4 is ~4422k, or 44.22%, while PS3's total in US+Japan is somewhere around ~36m, or 42.86% assuming it's at 84 million WW
if anything it's just correcting itself to PS3 ratios
with this being said, it's doing significantly better than PS3 right now in the west, although lol at its Japan sales
Sammy Samusu
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http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00KW2OREQ/
http://www.yodobashi.com/ec/product/stock/100000001002327992/index.html
Who else but a legend!
Friday but they haven't updated the blog yet, probably enjoying the holiday.
Blade Fantasia (Breath of Fire creator's newest game)
Monster Hunter: Massive Hunting (Infinity Blade clone)
Monster Hunter shopping market social game thingy
Train game
Sound Ranger (looks like a rhythm game)
Ninja Arms (some kind of mobage style "card" game)
1st Course
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frankie_baby
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Fucking hell, it's gonna be big
Comgnet's retail chain: preorders stats / comparisons, as of August 17th, 2014
[3DS] Monster Hunter 4G - 916pt
[3DS] Puzzle & Dragons Z - 319pt
[3DS] Yokai Watch 2 - 566pt
[3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS - 509pt
[PS3] Persona 4 Arena - 121pt
[PS3] Persona 4 Arena Ultimax - 66pt + 35pt = 101pt
[PSV] Toukiden - 72pt
[PSP] Toukiden - 53pt
[PSV] Toukiden: Kiwami - 50pt
[PSV] HyperDimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2: Sister Generation - 30pt
[PSV] Chō Megami Shinkō Noire: Gekishin Black Heart - 39pt + 24pt = 63pt
[PSV] HyperDimension Action Neptunia U - 44pt + 21pt = 65pt
[PS3] Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin III Pride of Justice - 39pt
[PS3] Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin F Coffin of the End - 29pt
[WiiU] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U - 22pt
[3DS] Monster Hunter 4G - 916pt
[3DS] Puzzle & Dragons Z - 319pt
[3DS] Yokai Watch 2 - 566pt
[3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS - 509pt
[PS3] Persona 4 Arena - 121pt
[PS3] Persona 4 Arena Ultimax - 66pt + 35pt = 101pt
[PSV] Toukiden - 72pt
[PSP] Toukiden - 53pt
[PSV] Toukiden: Kiwami - 50pt
[PSV] HyperDimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2: Sister Generation - 30pt
[PSV] Chō Megami Shinkō Noire: Gekishin Black Heart - 39pt + 24pt = 63pt
[PSV] HyperDimension Action Neptunia U - 44pt + 21pt = 65pt
[PS3] Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin III Pride of Justice - 39pt
[PS3] Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin F Coffin of the End - 29pt
[WiiU] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U - 22pt
It´s about amazon Japan.
I think it will. The Xbox one doesn't have a lot of the advantages the 360 had. There's no doubt in my mind it'll fail to hit 500,000 LTD in Japan. However console launches have become much more front loaded in recent years so I'm inclined to give it at least a chance to beat the 360 FW.
Yeah, I thought about that too. Generation was too long, so maybe initial sales will be stronger.
theprodigy
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speaking of which, how in the world was the original Xbox launch so much bigger than the 360's in Japan?
oh so #1000 was over 2k lol
GamesMaya said pre-orders for One were stronger than 360...
Damn, that Xbox One aisle is probably bigger than all Vita aisles combined in the US.
Each tracker has a remarkably different number:
Media Create: 43,970
Dengeki: 54,349
Famitsu; 62,135
It wasn't for the lack of stock either (~30% sell-through). Probably a testament of how much of a failure the Xbox was in Japan, because it managed to sell over 120k at launch, while its successor dropped to half of it. On the other hand, the Xbox 360 was a lot more popular than the Xbox, so I won't be surprised if (given enough stock) the Xbox One launch sales actually increase over the previous console. I won't be surprised if it sells less either. =P
Each tracker has a remarkably different number:
Media Create: 43,970
Dengeki: 54,349
Famitsu; 62,135
It wasn't for the lack of stock either (~30% sell-through). Probably a testament of how much of a failure the Xbox was in Japan, because it managed to sell over 120k at launch, while its successor dropped to half of it. On the other hand, the Xbox 360 was a lot more popular than the Xbox, so I won't be surprised if (given enough stock) the Xbox One launch sales actually increase over the previous console. I won't be surprised if it sells less either. =P
The only reason I doubt Xbox One doesn't open lower than 360 is due to 43K being a really small number. Xbox One is launching into a depressed hardware market after its cheaper/same price and more powerful competition. It's also the third Xbox platform. That's plenty of strikes against it.
This generation doesn't end one year after launch. We'll see how PS4 can follow last gen systems 2-3 years from now. If you still want to do such a short-term comparison take into account the supply problems Wii and PS2 (that you list).
KillerMan91
Member
Well yes obviously you can't predict too far to the future from first year of sales but I just don't see how from current numbers anything is indicating that PS4 is going to sell less than 100 million either. There is difference between PS2 numbers (155 million) and under 100 million. Also considering extremely abnormal life that Wii had it's not that worrying to fall behind its pace either (for a moment). PS4 is going to have major games and support for far longer than Wii had.
Psycho_Mantis
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It begins
theprodigy
Member
It's sad because it's true
I can see Xbox One having a way better debut than Xbox 360 (even something like 100,000 units, nearer to Xbox OG's debut), but then collapsing to ungodly awful levels shortly after. Just like PS4 had a way better debut than PS3, but then it started collapsing pretty soon after the launch.
Gianni Merryman
Member
Things have changed since, so I wouldn't be too surprised if Xbone sold better that that
of course it would drop in a couple of weeks though
PS3 was very supply constrained.
Yeah, no. I agree about the 43k part, because less would be a total disaster, but 100K... I really don't see how that'd be possible with the total shift toward handhelds and mobile.
Things is, XB1 is not only more expensive that the Wii U / PS4, it also doesn't bring anything new compared to those 2 consoles... so I don't see how it'd do so much better than a console Microsoft was really pushing at the time (looks like they aren't even trying this time around). It's not like the X1 had FFXV, RE7, Tales f or Persona 5 at launch.
Then again, I know I sucks a prediction, so who knows?
Graphics Horse
Member
Wow. I don't think I ever saw a Wii U display that big, I'm not in Japan, mind.
Come to think of it I don't think I've seen a Xbone display that big either, but I haven't been in Game much.
I haven't seen a video game display that large period in a retail store that isn't Gamestop. And the only reason I seen it at Gamestop because I live in an area that has one of the largest Gamestop's in the county. They're usually small as heck.
If you visit a Target/Walmart/Best Buy, they're usually half filled with various merch in a haphazard way, at least in my experience. Maybe I just visit when they're about to restock.
frankie_baby
Member
I could see 75k+ first week for the bone but it'll be lucky to hit 300k when all is said and done
theprodigy
Member
3 months? try 3 weeks (if it doesn't just plummet below it immediately the week after launch)