AranhaHunter
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FINALFANTASYDOG said:
Are there still PSP shortages in Japan though?
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Media Create Sales: Week 15, 2011 (Apr 11 - Apr 17)
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Are there still PSP shortages in Japan though?
FINALFANTASYDOG
Member
AranhaHunter said:
Look at the top seller for this week and number of units, then look at psp sales1
Quick answer: yes indeed!
Delio said:
Let's not be silly!
Next week's releases {2011.04.28}
[3DS] Deca Sports 3D (Hudson)
[NDS] Hakuouki: Yuugi Roku DS (Idea Factory)
[NDS] Kirei Zukin Seikatsu 2 (Columbia Music Entertainment)
[PSP] Final Promise Story (Image Epoch)
[PSP] Patapon 3 (SCE)
[PSP] Starry Sky: In Winter Portable (Asgard)
[PSP] Asaki, Yumemishi (Quinrose)
[PSP] Split/Second (Disney Interactive)
[PS3] El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (Ignition)
[360] El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (Ignition)
[360] Espgaluda II: Black Label [Platinum Collection] (Cave)
[3DS] Deca Sports 3D (Hudson)
[NDS] Hakuouki: Yuugi Roku DS (Idea Factory)
[NDS] Kirei Zukin Seikatsu 2 (Columbia Music Entertainment)
[PSP] Final Promise Story (Image Epoch)
[PSP] Patapon 3 (SCE)
[PSP] Starry Sky: In Winter Portable (Asgard)
[PSP] Asaki, Yumemishi (Quinrose)
[PSP] Split/Second (Disney Interactive)
[PS3] El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (Ignition)
[360] El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (Ignition)
[360] Espgaluda II: Black Label [Platinum Collection] (Cave)
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
Pretty good SRWZ2-1 start, but man are they greedy. Not only iirc its the most expensive normal edition PSP game ever (7329Y) its also a 2-part game, thus another 7329Y down the line. The PS2 SRWZ was 8379Y but that was on a system where the average game went for 7k, PSP average game years ago was 5k although its more usual to see 6k now.
Crazy good for PBSpirits too (highest ever), last year the PS3 also started on top but LTD the PSP caught and surpassed, I wonder if it'll be the same this year.
Persona numbers are disappointing though, be it bad word of mouth (from the first or about this second), or just bad plan to have a port of 2 after 3 set higher standards. With the Persona 4 anime around shortly...its only a matter of time before Persona 4 releases on another platform, I do wonder if it'll be too late for a PSP port in the vein of 3, do a cross 3DS/PSP, a more direct from PS2 to 3DS or if they will want something meatier as a full remake on PS3 or maybe NGP.
Crazy good for PBSpirits too (highest ever), last year the PS3 also started on top but LTD the PSP caught and surpassed, I wonder if it'll be the same this year.
Persona numbers are disappointing though, be it bad word of mouth (from the first or about this second), or just bad plan to have a port of 2 after 3 set higher standards. With the Persona 4 anime around shortly...its only a matter of time before Persona 4 releases on another platform, I do wonder if it'll be too late for a PSP port in the vein of 3, do a cross 3DS/PSP, a more direct from PS2 to 3DS or if they will want something meatier as a full remake on PS3 or maybe NGP.
Pureauthor
Member
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
They pulled some stuff in SRWZ2 that they've never done before - I think one of things Terada hyped up was that the Gundams had full-sized cutins for the first time ever because it cost more to license or something like that. Maybe that's why it costs more?
@Chris
You know we are in mid April now. Why "do" they still have shortages? It´s not like it´s doing some crazy numbers in Japan and US is a nonfactor for months. It´s selling under 60k for weeks now.
Common sense would suggest artificial shortages if supply really is the problem.
You know we are in mid April now. Why "do" they still have shortages? It´s not like it´s doing some crazy numbers in Japan and US is a nonfactor for months. It´s selling under 60k for weeks now.
Akkad said:
Common sense would suggest artificial shortages if supply really is the problem.
test_account
XP-39C²
Any reasons for doing artificial shortage on the PSP now? Now that the 3DS is out it would make more sense to have a good amount of supply going, hoping that people will buy a PSP instead, at least in my opinion.Laguna said:
Laguna said:
Why would Sony artificially cut supply for a system this far in, when every sale will more than likely lead to multiple software sales? The only reason to even artificially cut supply at a system launch is because there isn't much software out to support the system anyway, so it's not like the extra hype the shortage creates is being canceled out by massively decreased software sales. A shortage right now would just piss off people who want to buy one.
Mrbob said:
Nearly a year in advance? these shortages started in January. The DS sold 460k this March alone in US, you know after 3DSes release. So why can´t they supply there most important PSP market with at least 250k-300k a month since PSP isn´t selling well in the US anymore?
test_account
XP-39C²
No idea to be honest. Not sure how the production line works for gaming systems. But i can't see any good reason to do artificial shortage at this time, especially when the 3DS has been released.Laguna said:
Pureauthor said:
Nah. The game probably cost about the same as Z1 or a little less (2d maps). They said they went with PSP because of lower cost to make, though that was compared to say PS3.
That being said, I think Ichigo is off on a few points. First of all, it might be high for a PSP game at 7000yen, but the costs are likely on par with Z1 which was 7000yen and they probably knew there'd be somewhat of a drop in numbers between the platform move.
Second, while it's a two parter, there's no indication that the production costs of Z2-2 will be any lower than the costs of Z1 and Z2-1. Z2-1 is huge, high budget game, on par with Z1. If Z2-2 is the same size with as many new series/units to draw sprites and music to license, it'll still be really expensive to finance, so from a sales perspective it's worth treating them as separate games I think. At least until we know more about Z2-2.
Overall I think the sales are solid. It's a little below Z1 and unlike Z1 might not make it to 500k (could fade out around 450k), but even if the costs of Z2-2 are only slightly lower and they sell another 400k ltd of that it should be a nice seller and keep the series in production at high production values. Just the fact that it did 2x+ the sales of the non-voiced/lower budget handhelds means that even on handhelds there is a market for high production quality SRW.
I do wonder though if Z2-2 takes another 2-3 years to make, if PSP will still be a viable platform to release it on in 2013/2014. Then again SRW Z Special Disc came out in 2009 on PS2, so even if it was that late it'd probably do fine.
@test-account
Don´t know either. Maybe to demonstrate how popular the PSP is?
The problem is Sony is having problems to supply there only still lifely PSP market for months and PSP2 is looking to be far away (probably end of 2011) while (repeat) NDS sold 460k last month in US AFTER 3DSes release.
Don´t know either. Maybe to demonstrate how popular the PSP is?
thaOwner said:
The problem is Sony is having problems to supply there only still lifely PSP market for months and PSP2 is looking to be far away (probably end of 2011) while (repeat) NDS sold 460k last month in US AFTER 3DSes release.
Any reasons for doing artificial shortage on any console anytime ? If you think that the shortages can give the system a small boost because "rare means wanted", it can work anytime.test_account said:
I still think it would be far less efficient than some believe, and that most shortages are not planned by manufacturers. Not formore than one or two weeks, at least.
test_account
XP-39C²
I agree that this senario seems plausible, but i'm not sure if Sony (or any other company for that matter) would keep this up for so long. If they cant meet demand for such long, it then means lost potential sales. I can however see that it could be done for a few weeks or so.Laguna said:
I think that artificial shortage might work best around launch of a system to create more buzz around the system and get more people to talk about it. However, it can indeed work at any time as long as the system is popular as you say, that is true.Koren said:
I agree, i dont think that any company would keep up artificial shortage for months in a row. Maybe for a few weeks or so, but i dont think that it would last for several of months in a row.
AranhaHunter
Banned
duckroll said:
Resident Evil?
Father_Brain
Banned
duckroll said:
I could see it having some appeal to the local-multiplayer-obsessed MH audience, though that's probably limited by only supporting 2P. I honestly have no clue how it'll sell.
sixteen-bit
Member
I hope El Shaddai does well next week.
There's either a lot of Nintendo apologists wondering what the heck is happening to the 3DS, or people really don't know the PSP's situation in Japan. Looking at this week's Famitsu should tell you that the platform is the healthiest one on the market thanks to the wings Monster Hunter gave. It is the one the Japanese industry is pushing the most, and has had a fantastic lineup of software this year compared to every other platform. Retailers have been mentioning low stock, or selling out of stock ever since the launch of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd in December. I don't think it's Sony being a douche and intentionally limiting stock, but just them greatly underestimating their platform based on the sales trends in Europe, and the US.
It probably won't. Ignition's publishing it in Japan, no?
_dementia said:
It probably won't. Ignition's publishing it in Japan, no?
Notorious_Roy
Member
Let's hope Enix won't rush Dragon Quest X now that Wii is near death.
pharmboy044
Member
Wow, I really hope not.Takao said:
Sammy Samusu
Member
"I promise to do all I can to deliver the new [3DS] Mario game this year." - Miyamoto
Hummm!
Hummm!
I'm just saying a healthy release schedule will benefit the platform.velvet_nitemare said:
velvet_nitemare
Member
Sammy Samusu said:
Yea but "big sales"? No, not really.
And not soon either, some more weeks of average sales coming up.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
No one has mentioned it yet, but Layton & the Curious Village finally broke 1,000,000. Doesn't look like Pandora's Box will make it, though.
Many but the first Joker had an big restock at its 5th week.Cosmonaut X said:
Media Create Sales: Week 04, 2007 (Jan 22 - Jan 28)
01. / 00. [PS2] Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Capcom) {2007.01.25} - 227.261 / NEW
02. / 42. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (Square Enix) {2006.12.28} - 103.706 / 1.026.700 (+1383%)
03. / 00. [NDS] Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Taisen DS (Sega) {2007.01.25} - 77.229 / NEW
04. / 00. [NDS] Picross DS (Nintendo) {2007.01.25} - 71.794 / NEW
05. / 00. [NDS] Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (Nintendo) {2007.01.25} - 59.379 / NEW
06. / 04. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) {2006.12.02} - 58.886 / 910.422 (+3%)
07. / 02. [NDS] Wario: Master of Disguise (Nintendo) {2007.01.18} - 47.350 / 138.599 (-48%)
08. / 05. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) {2006.12.02} - 43.612 / 808.425 (-5%)
09. / 00. [PS2] Pachitte Chonmage Tatsujin 10: Pachinko Fuyu no Sonata (Hackberry) {2007.01.25} - 41.411 / NEW
10. / 10. [NDS] More Brain Training (Nintendo) {2005.12.29} - 34.028 / 3.902.307 (+15%)
Stumpokapow said:
Actually we did mention it. About two weeks back Hino tweeted about the game finally shipping over a million copies. So if you're referring to the 1.02 million figure in the Top500 Media Create chart for 2010, that's a clear sign that they have overtracked the game! Pretty funny imo.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
LOCK said:
For 1 1/2 years?