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Media Create Sales: Week 49, 2014 (Dec 01 - Dec 07)
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It's not really just the graphics in a technical sense. Xrd is pretty much the standard people will hold 3D fighting models to from now on. They nailed it from an artistic perspective too. Aside from Sol (which only a few take issues with) ASW did a wonderful job of remaking them faithfully. To see it bombing this bad is just surprising.
EhrgeizVII
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Sad to see GG bombed. Game looks and plays incredible.
Whatever it is, I guess it wasn't surprising for ASW. Unless this was an isolated report:
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I've seen people say it on FGW, but less than 40k? I think there are degrees of "bad" numbers people could have thought. This isn't catastrophic, but it still surprises me.
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Smash Bros. Wii U
USA: 490.000 (first few days)
Japan: 244.747 (first week)
France: 200.000 (expected until the end of the year)
UK: 31.000 (minimum first week)
Total: 966.000
Should be a million seller by now. Maybe it breaks 2.000.000 worldwide by the end of the year.
USA: 490.000 (first few days)
Japan: 244.747 (first week)
France: 200.000 (expected until the end of the year)
UK: 31.000 (minimum first week)
Total: 966.000
Should be a million seller by now. Maybe it breaks 2.000.000 worldwide by the end of the year.
Infernal Monkey
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Comes out today (Dec 11) I believe.
The 2.5-3 year mark is probably a good time to refresh the hardware. So I wouldn't be surprised if we start hearing about that next year for Wii U. Now that the software has filled in getting people a bit more excited for hardware is probably going to have the biggest impact for Nintendo.
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Famitsu sell through percentages for the PS3 version were only 60-80%. Doesn't seem high enough to warrant sales problems.
Pennywise83
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24./27. [3DS] Sumikko Gurashi: Koko ga Ochitsukundesu <ETC> (Nippon Columbia) {2014.11.20} (¥5.184) - 6.970 / 22.149 <40-60%> (+43%)
Sleeper hit! I called it
Sleeper hit! I called it
60% - 80% sellthrough per Famitsu probably means just that.
Tempesta di Fuoco
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Someone contact Namco and tell them to hire ASW to make a DBZ Budokai 4 please.
Smash 3DS alone is close to reaching Smash Brawl LTD numbers. So in Japan, yes.
Worldwide? I'm confident it can beat it now with 2 platforms supporting the franchise.
IIRC Melee was like 350K for the first week in Japan..
Tempesta di Fuoco
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I honestly want to know what the budget for both 3DS and Wii U were combined in relation to Brawl. Not that Nintendo ever releases that stuff, but it'd be cool to see.
Definitely far less for each because of the shared assets and code.
Yeah I meant worldwide. Yeah, it might be able to. I wonder how high the 3DS version will go.
Um...probably higher I guess. It's 2 games. And it's 6 years later. I feel like I know what you're implying.
You think so? It seems like it's barely been marketed here and people know little about it (with the OT having cross-play in its title to spread the word), if they even know it's coming out at all. The PS4 version will most likely do much better, though, I can see that.
Captain Toad looking good to get to 100k eventually. Keep it up little guy!
Bomba of the year has to go to Taiko no Tatsujin: Tokumori! It has now had three full weeks on the market and has dropped completely out of the top 30. That means it still hasn't sold 20% of it's initial shipment of ~100k.
Bomba of the year has to go to Taiko no Tatsujin: Tokumori! It has now had three full weeks on the market and has dropped completely out of the top 30. That means it still hasn't sold 20% of it's initial shipment of ~100k.
Wait, what's the problem with GGXrd's roster?
They're like releasing their own "Yokai Pad" with NFC support next year (I'm assuming it really would be heavily customized Android pad).
Edit: My bad it doesn't support NFC but uses QR codes instead.
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Guilty Gear and Mahvel have something in common. It has taken a very very long time to get a full on sequel and people become attached to characters after 5-10 years of waiting. If you don't have mainstream numbers thanks to marketing and brand appeal like Mahvel does you might actually take a hit on your already small numbers if people decide to wait on the sidelines.
It's a theory.
I'm curious about this as well. It will be very interesting to see if Amiibos catch on in Japan.
24./27. [3DS] Sumikko Gurashi: Koko ga Ochitsukundesu <ETC> (Nippon Columbia) {2014.11.20} (¥5.184) - 6.970 / 22.149 <40-60%> (+43%)
Sleeper hit! I called it
My students were writing letters to santa today in class and 2 different girls are asking for this. (Which is sadly the same number asking for a WiiU). One girl had an eraser with the characters on it. Everyone else wants Yokai Watch.
Going by Famitsu numbers (since they include digital download retail codes + they track digital sales)
08./09. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS <FTG> (Nintendo) {2014.09.13} (¥5.616) - 21.588 / 1.841.754 <80-100%> (As of Week 49)
+ 112,041 (Digital sales as of October)
=
1,953,795
It's not looking good for Taiko but I'm still hesitant to call it after 3 weeks and before the holiday. It's just not how this series works.
Nintendo already confirmed Smash is over 2m including digital sales, actually.
sörine;142664194 said:
Just checked to get a confirmation of sorts (Famitsu, by Japanltdrank)
[360] BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger {2009.06.25} - 22,841 / 32,874
[360] BlazBlue: Continuum Shift {2010.07.01} - 15,845 / 22,165
[360] BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend {2011.12.17} - 6,042 / 8,531
...It's correct for 2 of the 3 BlazBlue released on 360. Just for a complete picture, here's how BlazBlue performed on PS3.
[PS3] BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma {2013.10.24} - 85,285 / 116,182
[PS3] BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend {2011.12.17} - 31,979 / 68,850
[PS3] BlazBlue: Continuum Shift {2010.07.01} - 45,954 / 66,402
[PS3] BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger {2009.06.25} - 35,522 / 59,977
Because I don't want to start seeing posts again of how irrelevant YSO predictions are, I gave upper and down limits, there aren't absolute numbers.
For what it worths most predictions had Wii U at 20-30k for this week.
Pennywise83
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You're right; I remember only = and not >=.
Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule
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Seems like Media Create is not reliable anymore
Tempesta di Fuoco
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I wasn't implying anything. I was just curious.
shinra-bansho
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It's not a comparative appraisal. The PS4 being in the shitter doesn't make the Wii U sales good. Nor do the XBO's make everybody else's sales fantastic.
This is the last release of considerable significance* to the Japanese market that the system will have. Or at least the last it will have in a while.
It's also the most wonderful time of the year. So part of this upward momentum may be attributable to Nintendo's typical holiday boosts.
And yet, it's down considerably over last year.
*ymmv, I suppose. Kirby can be pretty big.
Seems like it's time you start accepting Media Create is the superior tracker.
Well, the good thing with 3DS this week is that if Dengeki is close to Media Create again, the 2-3 sales-agers with their own databases that are in denial for the real superior tracker with join the Media Create train. Famitsu has done and still does so many mistakes it's becoming funny.
It's still a really bad number despite all that.
Like if the Wii U sold 5 units, the PS4 sold 1, and all others sold 0, this wouldn't mean the Wii U did well.
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But they released on different week days?