Segata Sanshiro
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PantherLotus said:
You're giving them a lot longer than I am. I'm giving them ten months to sort this out, and I feel that's already generous.
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You're giving them a lot longer than I am. I'm giving them ten months to sort this out, and I feel that's already generous.
PantherLotus
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I am taking credit for the term Gundabump, too.
I think you underestimated it in the first place, as a Gundam and a Musou title it should have done better. But for whatever reason you didn't even believe it'd push 40k units. I think it's pretty silly that people are already starting to treat the PS3 as the next GCN.PantherLotus said:
Segata Sanshiro
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jj984jj said:
You're right, it's not doing nearly as well as the Gamecube was.
/Anihawk
vanguardian1
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It's easy to consider when the PS3 is still selling behind the gamecube's sales pace during the same week periods. I think it was posted 3-4 weeks ago....
PantherLotus : Next time a gundam game hits ps3 and boosts sales slightly, just jump into the thread and say "IT'S A GUNDABUMP!" :lol
Magicpaint said:Wow, HoM completely tanked.
I guess after SD4, the Japanese have just had enough with anything Mana. Doesn't bode well for the future of the series.
Yeah, it's looking pretty much like a dead franchise. Mr. Ishii can find his food in the bargain bins, soon -- oh well! That's what you get when you refuse to make the game that your entire fanbase wants you to make.
Or, a more pertinent example, like Children of Mana and SD4. Series is dead.
The bigger picture is the DS software market is reaching saturation - the supply of DS's isn't good enough to support all of the games coming out. Look for people to start holding off on buying games except for a few banner titles a year, batoning down the hatches until DQ9.
deathkiller
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QFTethelred said:
Er what? Did you miss Super Robot Wars W this week, and the continuous and ungodly sales of NSMB Zombie Edition, More Brain Age, DQM:J, Prof Layton, and the seemingly good performances of YIDS from the same post as the HoM news?ashiato said:
It's not that "the supply of the DS isn't good enoug" for anything, it's just that the current Manas are shitty as hell and it ends up showing.
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Wii 57,972
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Pureauthor
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I don't understand Initial D.
The manga, the anime (I assume there's an anime), the movie, nothing.
The manga, the anime (I assume there's an anime), the movie, nothing.
Mr. Pointy
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Sucks about HoM. It looked like a decent game, unlike CoM or SD4. I guess it was just the wrong genre.
I think YIDS will crack a million. I don't think Artoon screwed it up so much that it would drive people away from it like Tales of the Tempest.
I think YIDS will crack a million. I don't think Artoon screwed it up so much that it would drive people away from it like Tales of the Tempest.
Pureauthor
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I don't like racing games.
Sorry if I didn't make it clear but I wasn't infering a direct link between Manas crap sales and the DS game market as a whole. Because of CoM and DS4 people are just sick of the series.
I wasn't saying that big titles like your examples won't sell, in fact the opposite. The AAA-titles will still be the biggest selling software titles in Japan, as people finally get DS's they'll snap up the great back catalogue titles like New Mario. However, check out any games shop in Japan - no DS hardware but literally more than 150 or more DS titles. The vast majority of these are 2nd or 3rd tier titles (e.g. HoM even if it had not had the negativity surrounding it) - and it's those kind of games that are reaching saturation point.
Pureauthor
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ashiato said:
Layton and Super Robot Wars W laugh in your face.
Do you hear me? IN YOUR FACE.
*twitch*
Heeheehee
splattergnome
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A question: what will the typical reaction be for Sony's major non-game Afrika in Japan? I mean, because it is a realistic type game, and I am not sure if "Africa romanticism" is as common or even known over there as it is in Europe and America. I can't really see it as a stellar success. And that's even considering the fact that a casual nongamer won't buy a $400 PS3 for a single game. GAF, prove me wrong.
Mr. Pointy
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The cars are nice, but the guy can't draw people for shit.Haunted_One said:
Segata Sanshiro
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splattergnome said:A question: what will the typical reaction be for Sony's major non-game Afrika in Japan? I mean, because it is a realistic type game, and I am not sure if "Africa romanticism" is as common or even known over there as it is in Europe and America. I can't really see it as a stellar success. And that's even considering the fact that a casual nongamer won't buy a $400 PS3 for a single game. GAF, prove me wrong.
Since we still know very little about the game, it's impossible to tell. From the few things we do know, it doesn't seem like it's geared towards success in the Japanese market, but we're guessing an elephant from touching its tail here.
Segata Sanshiro
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Sirolf said::lol @all the Sony doomsayers......Handelds are OWNED by Nintendo but the rest are still in question.
I will never understand the Nintendo fanboys
To suggest that the current market trajectory in Japan is pointing to Nintendo leading over Sony is hardly 'Sony doomsaying' at this point. It's still very, very early, but traditionally the system wars are settled within about 8 months of all systems being on the market, and Sony's first three have been...underwhelming, to say the least.
Stumpokapow
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Sirolf said::lol @all the Sony doomsayers......Handelds are OWNED by Nintendo but the rest are still in question.
I will never understand the Nintendo fanboys
Well, PS3 software sales in Japan are anemic (rebutting this by saying "GUNDAM DID WELL WEEK 1" is not a rebuttal at all) and from a hardware point of view Nintendo now has a 1m unit lead.
I don't think anyone is saying "Nintendo has already won", I think it's that they're saying "Nintendo is utterly dominating right now" which is pretty much true from a a next-gen perspective in Japan.
slaughterking
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But Anthony Wong, who makes Initial D automatically awesome.Defuser said:
AdmiralViscen
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Sirolf said::lol @all the Sony doomsayers......Handelds are OWNED by Nintendo but the rest are still in question.
I will never understand the Nintendo fanboys
So give me your prediction of the rest of 2007 in Japan.
jwj442 said:
That thought crossed my mind as well. Don´t get me wrong, the trailer was phantastic and absolutely adorable. My first thought was: Hey, the missus might like this!
But the I realised, that I thought the very same thing about VP - and this sadly didn´t do too well saleswise.
Eteric Rice
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I doubt HOME or LBP is going to turn the PS3 around.
What WOULD is some good games, good PR, and a price drop. With every week, Nintendo's lead grows, so they need to get on it.
What WOULD is some good games, good PR, and a price drop. With every week, Nintendo's lead grows, so they need to get on it.
Eteric Rice
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lancubap said:
True, but I doubt Nintendo is going to stand still while they're developing home. I expect both Microsoft and Nintendo will have their own answers to it in the future.
BenjaminBirdie
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Hammer24 said:
That's because it was marketed to five year olds. LBP is graphically designed almost exactly like Threadless for a reason, to appeal to tons and tons of other people.
The problem is that it's dropping well past that 8 month hotspot, and by the time it does, there may be no way for Sony to crawl out of the hole that a year of Wii sales and a month of Halo sales has dug it. Teases of HOME and LBP, both truly spectacular advances, are not going to sell hardware between now and November. And even when HOME drops, it's going to almost inevitably catch at least some flak, because it will be in its earliest days, and the stuff that most people are drooling about, like HOME Expos replacing E3 and shit, are a long ways off. And by the time all that stuff is really cleanly and awesomely implemented, who knows how far ahead its competitors may have gotten?
Because, realistically, I don't know much software coming to the console between now and E3, and how many AAA announcements made there will be ready for deployment by the holidays?
Who knows, really. But at this point it's not even the software that's an issue. It's the cost of entry. The 20gig is Keyser Soze, and $600 is a lot to ask.
Segata Sanshiro
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Sirolf said:
So do I, but that's not what we're doing here. I went over this last week, but the bulk of us in these threads just enjoy analysing sales data and making predictions as a hobby. You think all of us wouldn't be in here saying "Nintendo's pretty ****ed unless they pull a rabbit out of their hat in the next five months" if the situation was reversed?
First Children
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A big drop for Monster Hunter 2nd, is it sold out or something?
Segata Sanshiro
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First Children said:
Might be, maybe one of our guys from the Nihon can comment on it. It's also pretty likely that like most sequels, its sales were very front-loaded. Significant drops from first week to second week are hardly unusual though.