There will be a spike - its likely to be the biggest release this year and some people will use it as an excuse to get also a 3DS if they dont own one. There are still many out there who own a DS plattform without DSi capabilities.
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Media Create Sales: Week 14, 2012 (Apr 02 - Apr 08)
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There will be a spike - its likely to be the biggest release this year and some people will use it as an excuse to get also a 3DS if they dont own one. There are still many out there who own a DS plattform without DSi capabilities.
Forgot about the DSi capabilities, but I still don't think the spike in 3DS' sales is gonna be huge. That's like saying Vita will get a spike if MoH Portable 4 was announced for PSP and put on PSN on the launch day.
Vita is selling 8K right now, sure it would get a spike :lol
I said 3DS sales will be better this week, i dont know how big the jump will or can be.
Haha see I wouldn't think Vita would get a spike based on that. People would just have a PSP already at this stage and certainly wouldn't feel inclined to buy the new hardware if the old hardware can play the game that they want.
But, I guess, we'll see.
Rainbows and butterflies! That's how I feel right now.
gamergirly
Member
I'm just wondering if they waited too long to release the next kh game....
Persona will probably bump it to the 30k mark or higher.
The lower the baseline, the higher the relative bump. Sequel to Gundabump coming?
I think so. If it doesn't come... Well, then things will get ugly.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Even discounting BW2, 3DS is still going to slaughter Vita in hardware and software for June. June legs for Mario Tennis and DQ Monsters alone will probably outsell P4G, Gundam Seed, Monkey Ball and MGS HD combined.
Gundabump 2: Personarise.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
I've seen double price deals.
Just to toss out an earlier example, GCN's Resident Evil Remake bump.
How long did it take for the GCN to drop below 10k, by the way?
frankie_baby
Member
I think localisation is confirmed for europe at least
Hmm i forgot about that... well in that case i hope it gets loacalized in the US since mine is not a european unit XD.
The news that Chris provided are quite positive though!
Sammy Samusu
Member
http://www.inside-games.jp/article/2012/04/17/55993.html
Looks like Hino is teasing Professor Layton 6.
Looks like Hino is teasing Professor Layton 6.
In English? XD
Vyse The Legend
Member
I'd say the US's chances are good. We didn't know about Tennis until a couple of months before launch. So, I imagine they will hold the Fire Emblem news until E3 (then launch before the end of summer/early fall).
Seeing as there was a bit of Persona chat on this page, I'll give this a shot:
Has there been any chatter on the status of the announced Persona game for 3DS? I was under the impression that it was a port, but now I realise it really wasn't confirmed what it will be.
Chances of it being quietly canned/not put into production?
Has there been any chatter on the status of the announced Persona game for 3DS? I was under the impression that it was a port, but now I realise it really wasn't confirmed what it will be.
Chances of it being quietly canned/not put into production?
It was on the list Nintendo published at E3 2010 with all the games that would come for the 3DS. It probably never existed though.
Father_Brain
Banned
Those pre-launch lists of third-party support always have a few "planned" games that never actually materialize, either because of cancellation or because they were never properly in development to begin with (see: Vandal Hearts DS, Sword of Legendia for Wii, Devil May Cry PSP, probably Contra 3DS). I'm sure there'll be a few such titles on the Wii U list this E3, which folks will still be asking about in vain come 2014.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
I'm personally expecting Sadness 2: More Sadness to be announced for WiiU.
walking fiend
Member
Does any new persona game exists?
But I am pretty sure the next mainline will be on PS3; on PS2 the 3 and 4 came pretty late too and PS3 has quite an active installed based now (at least in Japan) and porting to 360 outside of Japan ---
I guess we may see a remake or something on 3DS though
Sadness actually looked really cool... very unique!
OldJadedGamer
Banned
My rule is every game is vaporware until someone from outside of the publisher or developer gets to actually play the game.
Yeah I hate slides filled with games we may never even see a screen of.
"Unique" in the sense that it was a game that never existed, yeah.
This is kind of silly to be proposing this early, but could we be looking at the early signs of a soon-to-be Nintendo monopoly over the videogame industry in Japan? We all know Nintendo has a global name associated to videogames, and it looks like Nintendo did an all-out campaign to gain just about every major third party franchise to be on the 3DS. That, added to the worldwide success of the 3DS means Japanese games can enter other markets with a chance at success, could mean strictly Nintendo dominance over most all videogames in Japan.
Thoughts?
silly, I know.
Thoughts?
silly, I know.
slaughterking
Member
Very silly indeed!
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
This is kind of silly to be proposing this early, but could we be looking at the early signs of a soon-to-be Nintendo monopoly over the videogame industry in Japan? We all know Nintendo has a global name associated to videogames, and it looks like Nintendo did an all-out campaign to gain just about every major third party franchise to be on the 3DS. That, added to the worldwide success of the 3DS means Japanese games can enter other markets with a chance at success, could mean strictly Nintendo dominance over most all videogames in Japan.
Thoughts?
silly, I know.
Pretty silly. There's no point in ruling out the Vita, as there's plenty of time and opportunities for Sony to make it a somewhat viable platform. Plus the PS3 still has a solid year or two in it, which could lead to the PS4 still maintaining market share.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
They can even give you screens and actual gameplay foot like stuff like GT for the PSP or Last Guardian for PS3. It is just totally sketchy when no one is allowed to play it and that shows just how far away the game really is.
electroplankton
Banned
Yeah, DQM will be out on May 31, therefore June should be pretty good for 3DS.
This is kind of silly to be proposing this early, but could we be looking at the early signs of a soon-to-be Nintendo monopoly over the videogame industry in Japan? We all know Nintendo has a global name associated to videogames, and it looks like Nintendo did an all-out campaign to gain just about every major third party franchise to be on the 3DS. That, added to the worldwide success of the 3DS means Japanese games can enter other markets with a chance at success, could mean strictly Nintendo dominance over most all videogames in Japan.
Thoughts?
silly, I know.
It would be pretty impossible to defeat phones at this point.
This is kind of silly to be proposing this early, but could we be looking at the early signs of a soon-to-be Nintendo monopoly over the videogame industry in Japan? We all know Nintendo has a global name associated to videogames, and it looks like Nintendo did an all-out campaign to gain just about every major third party franchise to be on the 3DS. That, added to the worldwide success of the 3DS means Japanese games can enter other markets with a chance at success, could mean strictly Nintendo dominance over most all videogames in Japan.
Thoughts?
silly, I know.
If Nintendo didn't "take over" back in 2008 when most of the top 20 MC was either Wii or DS then I don't see it happening now either. Not saying it doesn't look like momentum is in the Big N's favor because it certainly is but competition is healthy and a good and hungry, competitive, non complacent Nintendo (and Sony and every other company for that matter) is really the best Nintendo for everyone.
Random fiscal year 2011 information from Famitsu:
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201204/13013138.html
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201204/17013240.html
Hardware sales up 6.9%. Software sales down 15.1%. (Units.)
Current total 3DS third party sales share at around 50%, was almost 80% near launch (everybody knows why).
PSP not dead yet, selling over 500k units of software every month. It has 7 titles in the FY top 50.
PS3 has 12 titles -- environment more desirable as development costs go down.
vitahasnogame.jpg
A bunch of stuff about social, online and mobile games that I don't care about because there are no actual sales number but it feels like I should because Famitsu is giving them bigger and bigger coverage each day.
Worldwide "traditional" gaming (software?) business estimated at US$ 26 billion; social, online and mobile games, US$ 37 billion.
PSP and Vita monthly software sales (physical only):
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201204/13013138.html
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201204/17013240.html
Hardware sales up 6.9%. Software sales down 15.1%. (Units.)
Current total 3DS third party sales share at around 50%, was almost 80% near launch (everybody knows why).
PSP not dead yet, selling over 500k units of software every month. It has 7 titles in the FY top 50.
PS3 has 12 titles -- environment more desirable as development costs go down.
vitahasnogame.jpg
A bunch of stuff about social, online and mobile games that I don't care about because there are no actual sales number but it feels like I should because Famitsu is giving them bigger and bigger coverage each day.
Worldwide "traditional" gaming (software?) business estimated at US$ 26 billion; social, online and mobile games, US$ 37 billion.
PSP and Vita monthly software sales (physical only):
Cheesemeister
Member
AceBandage
Banned
Um... wow.
Ouch.
Holy shit, those DD sales better be high as fuck cause otherwise Vita really will be doomed soon enough.PSP and Vita monthly software sales (physical only):
That is incredible.
Is it me or is the Vita sales looking horrible? Sony has to do something urgently
DragonSworne
Banned
The vita is declining linearly, interesting...
AceBandage
Banned
Well, they're going to announce Soul Sacrifice, which could spur sales...
But that might not be out until near the end of the year, or even later.
Which means they are pretty much fucked in the mean time.
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