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[The Mana Legend]

The Ear of Luigi!

Not expecting Vita to hold out any longer. The One Piece game and holiday helped it, so it's nice that it has sustained, but I have no faith at all in it for the next few months.

 

[Nekki]

OPM2 sold around my ballpark predictions.

LM2 had a great opening, but not AS good as I wanted!!

 

[shinra-bansho]

Is Vita doing a sixth of OPM2 considered good?

Is that why Vita hasn't plummeted into the 20Ks yet?

Power of Luffy.

 

[gembel]

Vita 41k on Media Create

One Piece Vita 60k

http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20130327082/

 

[schuelma]

Dat Vita hold. Impressive.

 

[Opus Angelorum]

Was it Golden week in Japan?

 

[Mpl90]

Vita was supposed to do sub 20k numbers by now! What is this sorcery.

Probably the same that made Wii U rise: Holidays.

 

[DaBoss]

Yea, the Vita hold is really impressive.

Think the 500k shipment for Luigi was obviously wrong

We'll see when we get sell-through percentages then.

 

[frankie_baby]

Think the 500k shipment for Luigi was obviously wrong

 

[daxgame]

looks like many of those OP Vita buyers were probably new customers then. Good.

Nice Luigi too.

 

[NotLiquid]

Vita 41k on Media Create

One Piece Vita 60k

http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20130327082/

Another massive Media Create/Famitsu discrepancy it seems. Luigi's only 280k here.

 

[shinra-bansho]

Probably the same that made Wii U rise: Holidays.

And the Straw Hat pirates I imagine.

 

[Magicpaint]

Vita actually went up. Impressive. Luigi's Mansion 2 is higher than I initially expected but probably lower after the shipment figure was released.

 

[Usobuko]

Ohhh Wii U back to 10k.

One Piece bomba?

They re-used a lot of assets for it.

 

[GRW810]

Good start for LM2, our will easily reach 1m.in Japan, hopefully more. Two million between NA and EU in the long run too. Just cannot see this not reaching 3m at least.

 

[Foshy]

Is Vita doing a sixth of OPM2 considered good?

Depends on how big the shipment was, I think it's decent though. 20k for the baseball game seems a bit disappointing however.

 

[test_account]

Vita was supposed to do sub 20k numbers by now! What is this sorcery.

Yeah, i think also someone said there were no chance that Vita would increase in sales this week The Vita is definitelly holding better than what most people were expecting.

 

[StreetsAhead]

Was it Golden week in Japan?

not for another month.

Nice hold for Vita, I'm impressed. Will be interesting to see how it holds in the coming weeks, as usual.

Luigi did good, but not a system seller. Mario fanbase is probably all already on the system at this point though

 

[Celestial]

Probably the same that made Wii U rise: Holidays.

You call that a rise?This is just static noise.....

 

[DaBoss]

Vita 41k on Media Create

One Piece Vita 60k

http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20130327082/

The ~20K difference between MC and Famitsu for LM2 indicates download cards doesn't it?

 

[StreetsAhead]

Another massive Media Create/Famitsu discrepancy it seems. Luigi's only 280k here.

Famitsu counts download cards, remember.

 

[Bruno MB]

Think the 500k shipment for Luigi was obviously wrong

Yes, at best they shipped 396.000 units.

 

[Pie and Beans]

The Vita rises, brothers!

 

[Aostia]

Vita is revived, despite someone will still deny it. Operation successfull thanks to price drop + good and constant game releases.
Very good Luigi debut (the first one did 380k LTD), very lower debut compared to the first one for One Piece as happened for Hokuto no Mosou 2.
Wii U rises, wow...

 

[duckroll]

Think the 500k shipment for Luigi was obviously wrong

Yeah actually now that I look at it, that's likely too. Famitsu has LM2 sellthrough classified as "very fast", which is 76-100% sell-through. With 300k sold, at most the shipment was 400k.

 

[KillerMan91]

Yeah, i think also someone said there were no chance that Vita would increase in sales this week The Vita is definitelly holding better than what most people were expecting.

Yeah. Sure I know that it would need to sustain these kinda sales for months to be an healthy platform again but the extreme cynicism regarding Vita has started to annoy me somewhat.

 

[Afrit]

It's a good sign that multiplatform releases on Vita could help even if sold decently.

FFX & FFX-2 if priced right will push some Vitas.

 

[Kenka]

Luigi and Vita

 

[test_account]

Yeah. Sure I know that it would need to sustain these kinda sales for months to be an healthy platform again but the extreme cynicism regarding Vita has started to annoy me somewhat.

Yep, it shall be interesting to see how the Vita will contunie to sell. But at least these sales numbers shows that there are interest in the platform, and it can definitelly be a viable platform in Japan if the games keeps coming

 

[Mpl90]

Vita is revived, despite someone will still deny it. Operation successfull thanks to price drop + good and constant game releases.
Very good Luigi debut (the first one did 380k LTD), very lower debut compared to the first one for One Piece as happened for Hokuto no Mosou 2.
Wii U rises, wow...

Eh, about Vita, we need to see now how much it is revived in the following weeks with the upcoming lineup.

 

[Man-is-Obsolete]

I can't wait to hear the negative vita spin. lol

I am really glad things are picking up for the Vita. It still has a ways to go but this past month Sony has proven they are trying to turn it around and they still have aces up their sleeve (Gravity Rush 2, Bend, PS4 integration, and I am sure more). Good stuff.

 

[Usobuko]

The one piece manga is at half way point and the creator says it will go on for another 10 years. There's only been very slight decline from the first week manga sales but eventually each volume will still crawl their way to 3m. That is, when you look at the big picture and as far as last year ( 2012 ) ranking goes, 3 times as much as the 2nd place.

Series by series
*1, 23,464,866 One Piece
*2, *8,070,446 Kuroko no Basket
*3, *6,495,240 Naruto
*4, *5,413,899 Uchuu Kyoudai
*5, *4,128,665 Fairy Tail
*6, *4,039,715 Kimi ni Todoke
*7, *3,603,710 Gin no Saji
*8, *3,439,839 Hunter x Hunter
*9, *3,437,182 Magi
10, *3,211,191 Bakuman

Volume by volume
*1, 3,336,992 One Piece vol.65
*2, 3,320,744 One Piece vol.66
*3, 3,044,901 One Piece vol.67
*4, 2,390,625 One Piece vol.68
*5, 1,281,309 Naruto vol.61
*6, 1,266,244 Naruto vol.60
*7, 1,242,035 Kimi ni Todoke vol.15
*8, 1,212,883 Kimi ni Todoke vol.16
*9, 1,192,100 Naruto vol.59
10, 1,090,309 Hunter x Hunter vol.30

What I'm saying is in short, One Piece musou is a terrible game, people were excited for a HD One Piece game and came disappointed. The brand is still going strong.

 

[saichi]

Good start for LM2, our will easily reach 1m.in Japan, hopefully more. Two million between NA and EU in the long run too. Just cannot see this not reaching 3m at least.

not too fast

 

[JavyOO7]

I hope LM2 reaches AC: NL sales but not too optimistic right now. =p