It is to be assumed so. That's the best answer possible given Nintendo's way of announcing dates.
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Media Create Sales: Week 12, 2013 (Mar 18 - Mar 24)
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Another ridiculous post that can´t handle a point of view that goes farther than "dat Oled".
ElectricKaibutsu
Member
I'm dying to play Trine
. As far as I know they still haven't gotten a Japanese publisher.Yes. Right now the next retail release is RE:Revelations on May 23. Pokemon Rumble is April 24th but is download only.
The only other release dated is Injustice in June I believe.
As you can see, Nintendo seems disinterested in its home console right now and is content to let it die a slow death.
Screamapillar
Member
If we're just counting on re-buyers who have played through the Wii version, I'd say prepare to be underwhelmed. It's an MMO, the people who really wanted to play already have...and I don't see a re-release of an MMO in Japan doing well if you have to buy a new console to play it. I'd say debut week sales will be below 100k.
michaelius
Banned
It's too late for any changes in DQX probably. We will see what next SE annoucements look like.
Presumably Wii Party U, Wii Fit U, or the Wonderful 101 could make an appearance soon.
It shows that the Wii U isn't selling well, something you might otherwise be hard pressed to figure out!
If my previous work on AC:NL numbers holds true in that a staggering 30% of all copies sold were digital, the game should be nearing 4 million copies as of right now. Absolutely astounding.
test_account
XP-39C²
There were also counter argumenets that those titles were too niche and wouldnt move much hardware. Also that those titles had a bigger chance to sell to the excisting Vita owners rather than boosting hardware sales, or being multiplatform (like One Piece).
Aquamarine
Member
Come on now. Consoles sell different amounts depending on what time of the year it is.
Comparing the GameCube since September vs. the Wii U from November would be LEGITIMATELY useless because consumer demand fluctuates widely from September to November.
Makes much more sense to align them.
They're going to announce DQXI for the 3DS. And it will sell like hotcakes. So...
Screamapillar
Member
Wii U could be GameCube all over again... oh boy. I don't think Iwata would be happy with that level of performance, though. Not the same CEO who saw their home console business go from 22 million GCN's to 99 million Wii's.
StreetsAhead
Member
Let's hope. It makes sense! The G&W page is still missing info on 4 of the 16 games. And Dillion 2 needs a releas.e
I'm dying to play Trine
Nothing has, yet. But apparently Gunman Clive is coming to the 3DS eshop, so anything's possible.
Rumble has retail download cards, though.
But yeah, 5 dated releases in Japan that aren't VC games. Pretty poor.
Father_Brain
Banned
Hmm, then my guess would still be that it bumped Vita HW by ~15-20K, which I hadn't expected. But impossible to say for sure.
test_account
XP-39C²
He did specify it in one of the earlier threads. I'm pretty sure he said sub 15k by the end of March (which will be next week) and sub 10k in mid April (3 weeks from now).
airmangataosenai
Member
PS Vita overall doing way better than expected in hardware sales, but Soul Sacrifice not being the evergreen title that it needed to be has serious implications on the upcoming barren release schedule.
yeah, I've been following the game industry closely for over 10 years now and I've never seen anything like Nintendo's current handling of Wii U in all regions. Of course they didn't plan it like this, but I wonder what exactly went wrong. Pikmin 3 has been in the works for how many years? And it doesn't even have a release date? even if they were planning on having Pikmin 3 and Rayman in Jan/Feb, that doesn't explain away the lack of future releases, lack of advertising, bizarre decisions (ZombiU bundle in NA months after ZombiU's release?) Things must be going Haywire at NoJ.
Majmun
Member
And Pikmin 3.
I still can't believe it hasn't been released yet. I remember wanting to get a Wii U at launch because I expected the game to be released alongside the console.
Screamapillar
Member
Isn't it vacation week in Japan, though? If so, I'd say next week.
My thoughts exactly. The bad news outweighs the good for Sony, at least in my estimation.
Toki Tori 2 guys have been in talks in bringing their game to Japan, but nothing official.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Wii U is abysmal right now. Iwata will likely be resigning next year. :-/
They're all only a Nintendo Direct away from making Golden Week but anyone's guess really. The Scribblenauts fiasco in Europe, the lack of (Wii U) dates for anything first party in the West and only Game & Wario and Pokemon Scramble in Japan implies that there are just too few employees employed. How much spit and polish can Wii Fit and Wii Party U honestly need?
Father_Brain
Banned
My original prediction was that it would be below 15K by this week and below 10K by mid-April.
The former obviously didn't happen and the latter likely won't, so I'd revise that a bit: below 10K by the end of April.
No vacation for Iwata until he salvages the Nintendo situation!
first surprise is that LM2 outsold OP2 PS3. I don't think anyone expected that a couple weeks ago.
second surprise is that VITA increased and over 40K. Impressive.
third surprise is that OP2 VITA is selling over 20% of OP2 PS3. Was expecting 15%.
More like 200K if we are talking about MC/Famitsu number.
second surprise is that VITA increased and over 40K. Impressive.
third surprise is that OP2 VITA is selling over 20% of OP2 PS3. Was expecting 15%.
More like 200K if we are talking about MC/Famitsu number.
Bruno MB
Member
Code:
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| | [B]AC: Wild World[/B] | [B]AC: New Leaf[/B] | [B]Difference[/B] |
| | [NDS] (2005/11/23)| [3DS] (2012/11/08)| |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
|Week| Weekly | LTD | Weekly | LTD |AC:NL - AC:WW |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
| 1 | 335.425| 335.425| 721.786| 721.786| 386.361|
| 2 | 142.869| 478.294| 315.317|1.037.103| 558.809|
| 3 | 116.965| 595.259| 237.823|1.274.926| 679.667|
| 4 | 192.571| 787.830| 118.898|1.393.824| 605.994|
| 5 | 381.927|1.169.757| 115.556|1.509.380| 339.623|
| 6 | 169.795|1.339.552| 213.329|1.722.709| 383.157|
| 7 | 152.339|1.491.891| 400.320|2.123.029| 631.138|
| 8 | 64.242|1.556.133| 163.948|2.286.977| 730.844|
| 9 | 89.892|1.646.025| 135.971|2.422.948| 776.923|
| 10 | 93.443|1.739.468| 86.926|2.509.874| 770.406|
| 11 | 69.401|1.808.869| 97.808|2.607.682| 798.813|
| 12 | 55.169|1.864.038| 83.226|2.690.908| 826.870|
| 13 | 53.594|1.917.632| 76.039|2.766.947| 849.315|
| 14 | 57.383|1.975.015| 90.652|2.857.599| 882.584|
| 15 | 88.709|2.063.724| 76.747|2.934.346| 870.622|
| 16 | 93.508|2.157.232| 77.709|3.012.055| 854.823|
| 17 | 88.292|2.245.524| 76.075|3.088.130| 842.606|
| 18 | 101.839|2.347.363| 69.124|3.157.254| 809.891|
| 19 | 95.034|2.442.397| 60.736|3.217.990| 775.593|
| 20 | 68.889|2.511.286| 60.789|3.278.779| 767.493|
| 21 | 49.596|2.560.882| | | |
| 22 | 40.608|2.601.490| | | |
| 23 | -| -| | | |
| 24 | -|2.713.688| | | |
| 25 | 30.887|2.744.575| | | |
| 26 | 31.802|2.776.377| | | |
| 27 | 36.245|2.812.622| | | |
| 28 | 30.319|2.842.941| | | |
| 29 | 29.343|2.872.284| | | |
| 30 | 29.525|2.901.809| | | |
| 31 | 24.808|2.926.617| | | |
| 32 | 23.200|2.949.817| | | |
| 33 | 20.480|2.970.297| | | |
| 34 | 17.968|2.988.265| | | |
| 35 | 25.361|3.013.626| | | |
| 36 | 21.083|3.034.709| | | |
| 37 | 21.501|3.056.210| | | |
| 38 | -| -| | | |
| 39 | -|3.115.414| | | |
| 40 | 21.492|3.136.906| | | |
| 41 | 22.565|3.159.471| | | |
| 42 | 18.772|3.178.243| | | |
| 43 | 20.634|3.198.877| | | |
| 44 | 20.447|3.219.324| | | |
| 45 | 19.713|3.239.037| | | |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
|Year| YTD | LTD | YTD | LTD | Difference |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
| 1 |1.169.757|1.169.757|2.286.977|2.286.997| 1.117.240|
| 2 |2.485.264|3.665.021| 991.782|3.278.779| -386.242|
| 3 | 858.501|4.513.522| -| -| -|
| 4 | 338.531|4.852.053| -| -| -|
| 5 | 258.996|5.111.049| -| -| -|
| 6 | 46.432|5.157.481| -| -| -|
| 7 | 37.181|5.194.662| -| -| -|
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
| LTD| -|5.194.662| -|3.278.779| -1.915.883|
-------------------------------------------------------------Its baffling. Even little things- 2 somewhat notable releases this week and so far not even a mini Nintendo Direct to hype it. Game & Wario coming now instead of closer to Golden Week.
StreetsAhead
Member
hahaha good lord let him at least start the new fiscal year to see if he mets the goals he set, will you?
Well, he'll never go on vacation again unless he resigns.
But less than 12% of the Baseball game. PSP really is Vita's biggest obstacle.
StreetsAhead
Member
5095 employees WW in September 2012, up from 4394 in April 2009.
Who's working on Wii Party U? Nd Cube? But Nintendo has expanded quite a bit since 2009 (over 500 more employees, IIRC), and I think the restructuring at Nintendo is trying to make things more efficient (we won't see the fruits of the labor for a while though).
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
With that art direction? I doubt it. That's like being disappointed about Berserk not doing one piece numbers.
Sammy Samusu
Member
This is actually really surprising, I would expect Sony fans to be more interested in DOA than Nintendo fans.
Where's Soul Calibur 3DS?
IMO PSV will hit its baseline in May.
michaelius
Banned
Probably it has to do with the fact that DoA: Dimensions was a sort of exclusive while DoA5+ is a porting?
That's more than I thought but either still not enough and or incompetent management.
zomgbbqftw
Banned
To manufactured triumph.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
At this rate unless the Wii U suddenly starts selling 100k weekly while not slowing the 3DS momentum I doubt they'll be back to 1 billion in operating income by the end of the next fiscal year.
StreetsAhead
Member
You don't think some of them were pushed into next year to help keep game releases more steady/increase next year's profits? After all, as others have said, how much polish can Wii Fit need?
michaelius
Banned
03./00. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2013 <SPT> (Konami) {2013.03.20} (¥7.980) - 101.389 / NEW
04./00. [PSP] Pro Baseball Spirits 2013 <SPT> (Konami) {2013.03.20} (¥3.980) - 80.618 / NEW
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Sales split among 3 platforms are a bit diffrent thing than split for 2 platforms.