No reports so far about BW, and especially 3DS sales due to its release?
@Pupi18: Numbers are a Japanese exclusive, now XD
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Media Create Sales: Week 24, 2012 (Jun 11 - Jun 17)
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No reports so far about BW, and especially 3DS sales due to its release?
@Pupi18: Numbers are a Japanese exclusive, now XD
Interesting. WTF happened and what did I missed? I'm seriously out of the loop these days.
I'll be making a new thread later (news is still breaking and I want a consolidated OP) but Rocket Company went off today on Nico Nico and unveiled a bunch of stuff for Medarot 7, from the augmented reality mode, commercial, and trailer.
I wonder if 200k is possible...
I wonder if 200k is possible...
Exterminieren
Banned
So, if we take the ratio between pre-orders and first week sales from BW and apply it to BW2, we could be hypothetically be looking at a 1.77-1.91 million first week.
I'm not certain if it'll go that high, but it would be one hell of a result. Outselling first weeks of everything in the franchise that aren't the original Black and White.
Hard to be more wrong than this.
Get the Brain Age + Sudoku download on 3DS in the U.S. for Club Nintendo coins. It's the cheapest way to get a taste for the game (it includes some of the basic tests for Brain Age along with the Sudoku). It may not be your cup of tea, but it may, at least, alleviate some of this misconception. :lol"Useful" depends on if you enjoy math and testing your Brain.
Watch the Japanese Nintendo Direct segment on this game to see an example of how it's working this time.
It is an eShop release, as all 3DS titles from that point from Nintendo will be on the eShop, too.
Japanese PSN Ratings Report:
Persona 4: The Golden - 1,417
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Battle Destiny - 568
Hello Kitty & Me! Block Crash V - 71
Gravity Daze - 5,293
Remember these are just the people who purchased the games via PSN, and decided to rate them. It gives a bare minimum for how the game has sold on the Japanese PlayStation Store.
Persona 4: The Golden - 1,417
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Battle Destiny - 568
Hello Kitty & Me! Block Crash V - 71
Gravity Daze - 5,293
Remember these are just the people who purchased the games via PSN, and decided to rate them. It gives a bare minimum for how the game has sold on the Japanese PlayStation Store.
Gravity Daze is really an outlier here. Persona 4 and Gundam sort of match their first week sales ratio, but Gravity Daze seems much more download-version heavy with these numbers.
Edit:
I think the launch week download-version numbers for Gravity Daze were around Persona's 4 number, right?
BishopLamont
Banned
PSV YTD 291.069
WII YTD 236.149
Before this week the PSV YTD was only beating the Wii's YTD by 55k, what the 3DS does at the bare minimum each week.
lol.
If only DQX was released this week, its GBA vs PS3 all over again. (In America)
WII YTD 236.149
Before this week the PSV YTD was only beating the Wii's YTD by 55k, what the 3DS does at the bare minimum each week.
lol.
If only DQX was released this week, its GBA vs PS3 all over again. (In America)
Bruno MB
Member
Probably tomorrow.
Famitsu posted the first week sales of Pokémon Black and White on Tuesday.
electroplankton
Banned
That's because it set a new record opening... I think we have to wait until Wednesday.
I have more. I calculated download numbers for like 94 games on VC and looked at more than a hundred more that sadly didn't have any data.
Not surpisingly, the most downloaded one was SMB with ~245560.
There were only 1,4 million copies to begin with, that circulated on the used market until only retro shops like Super Tomato had FC games. When I hunted for the FC FFs on the net in the late 90ies there were very few sellers and when I found one, the copies were quite expensive. I had no trouble finding FFV though for a good price, which circulated 2,5 million copies and on a console that was still in shops.
In 2002 in Kyoto I had no problem finding all the SFC FFs for 1000 yen, with boxes. I one time even saw the FFI+II cart for FC, but not the original releases for any FC FF.
Of course in Osaka or Tokyo there were shops which surely had it, but it wasn't readily available everywhere. As opposed to FFV onwards (2,5 million used copies plus PS and GBA ports) but also to FFIV, which only had the same 1,4 million copies as III but on a console still in most stores, and the same two ports as the other SFC ones.
People liking FFIII so much also contradicts polls and surveys, were usually FFVII, X and IV are the most popular. III definitely isn't more liked than IV.
There's really no other explanation for the bigger DS III vs. IV numbers other than saturation. IV had higher production values, with voice acting. The VC release doing so big after the DS one also would contradict people having disliked the remake and therefore avoiding the follow up.
Actually it's Professor Kawashima (Kawashima-kyouju), as opposed to Doctor (hakase). No idea why Nintendo made him a Doctor in the West.
Probably to give him more credibility for regular people who would trust a "Dr." (i.e. Medical Doctor) over a Professor for helping their Brain improve. As long as he has a Ph.D., it's still an appropriate title, though. :lol
oh, really. I had just been assuming it was Kawashima-sensei, so either translation could have been correct.
His name, with the kyouju, is part of the game title. It's even on the box posted. And sensei is used for so many people, even manga-ka. The first association still is teacher, so professor would be closer than Dr. anyway. And since Kawashima is the only one talking in the games, no one addresses him as sensei either. In the Nintendo Direct broadcasts Iwata refers to him as Kawashima-kyouju too.
I don't blame you, but Nintendo for establishing this usage. These kind of translation decisions are puzzling, although donny likely nails it with the PR consideration.
I think the relative amount of ratings/downloads is influenced by how much geek/otaku appeal a title has. That's why some of the best selling games such as HSG are relatively low in ratings compared to retail sales, and games such as e.g. Ciel no Surge are high.
Candidates for the July predictions (not every single release, let me know if I forgot something interesting):
05/jul [3DS] Etrian Odyssey IV
05/jul [3DS] Little Battlers eXperience Explosive Boost
05/jul [3DS] Run For Money: Tousouchuu
05/jul [PS3] Anarchy Reigns
05/jul [PSP] Toriko: Gourmet Survival! 2
12/jul [3DS] Taiko Drum Master: Chibi Dragon
12/jul [3DS] Time Travelers
12/jul [PSP] Time Travelers
12/jul [PSV] Time Travelers
19/jul [3DS] Rune Factory 4
19/jul [PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012
19/jul [PS3] Ni no Kuni: WotWW All-in-One
19/jul [PSP] Digimon World: Re:digitize
19/jul [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012
19/jul [PSP] Monster Hunter: Felyne Puzzle
19/jul [PSP] New Class of Heroes
19/jul [PSP] Record of Agarest War: Mariage
19/jul [PSP] Warrios Orochi 3: Special
19/jul [PSV] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012
19/jul [WII] Kirby's 20th Anniversary Collection
26/jul [3DS] Cave Story 3D
26/jul [PS3] Aquapazza
26/jul [PS3] Choujikuu Yousai Macross Hybrid Pack
26/jul [PS3] Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce 2 HD
26/jul [PS3] Persona 4: Arena
26/jul [PSP] Nayuta no Kiseki
26/jul [PSP] Super Danganronpa 2
26/jul [WII] Just Dance Wii 2
28/jul [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2
28/jul [3DS] Demon Training
Let's reduce them to, I don't know, 10 or something.
05/jul [3DS] Etrian Odyssey IV
05/jul [3DS] Little Battlers eXperience Explosive Boost
05/jul [3DS] Run For Money: Tousouchuu
05/jul [PS3] Anarchy Reigns
05/jul [PSP] Toriko: Gourmet Survival! 2
12/jul [3DS] Taiko Drum Master: Chibi Dragon
12/jul [3DS] Time Travelers
12/jul [PSP] Time Travelers
12/jul [PSV] Time Travelers
19/jul [3DS] Rune Factory 4
19/jul [PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012
19/jul [PS3] Ni no Kuni: WotWW All-in-One
19/jul [PSP] Digimon World: Re:digitize
19/jul [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012
19/jul [PSP] Monster Hunter: Felyne Puzzle
19/jul [PSP] New Class of Heroes
19/jul [PSP] Record of Agarest War: Mariage
19/jul [PSP] Warrios Orochi 3: Special
19/jul [PSV] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012
19/jul [WII] Kirby's 20th Anniversary Collection
26/jul [3DS] Cave Story 3D
26/jul [PS3] Aquapazza
26/jul [PS3] Choujikuu Yousai Macross Hybrid Pack
26/jul [PS3] Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce 2 HD
26/jul [PS3] Persona 4: Arena
26/jul [PSP] Nayuta no Kiseki
26/jul [PSP] Super Danganronpa 2
26/jul [WII] Just Dance Wii 2
28/jul [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2
28/jul [3DS] Demon Training
Let's reduce them to, I don't know, 10 or something.
MasterSheen
Member
Demon Training comes out on the 28th.
Added it. Thanks.
(Don't know why I still go by Dengeki's schedule... But it's so nice having everything in one page...)
Only 2 Vita games? One of them multiplat? Back to 7k a week it goes then...
Resistance also comes out in July in Japan, lol.
Sammy Samusu
Member
This one is going to be interesting.
... So like I said, 2 titles.
I expect total bomba. This is the third release of the first game in 1 year. The fuck is Level-5 think they're doing.
djplaeskool
Member
Any buzz about Time Travelers at all?
Seems decent enough. Wasn't expecting yet another bomba.
Sammy Samusu
Member
High.
Same thing they've been doing since DQ VIII/Rogue Galaxy. Releasing the BOMBA!
mugurumakensei
Member
When's the last time a level 5 game didn't bomb? 3, 4 years ago...
I'm sure they've made mad money off of Layton, Inazuma Eleven, and LBX. They're just going for three 3DS strike outs with Cinderella RPG, Guild 01, and LBX Explosive Boost. Maybe we can count Guild 01 as a ball if Time Travelers craters.
Actually, both Vita games I listed are multi.
The Vita exclusives are Resistance (as Takao said), Dokuro, a Moe game and an education test training.
He's actually an MD, so it would be incorrect to not call him Dr. Kawashima (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuta_Kawashima)
Layton for 3DS wasn't a bomb in any way.
You can't use Gravity Daze like this because it has a demo.
Demo ratings count for the whole game as well.
Not on the Japanese store. The demos are in a separate section.
Ah, did not know that bit. Interesting.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Since 2010 Inazuma 3/Ogre, Ninokuni DS, Layton 5, LBX/Boost, Inazuma Strikers/2012X and Inazuma Go were all probably decent earners, though I'd suspect all of them did less than Level 5 was shooting for.
The only complete bombas were Ninokuni PS3, Girls RPG and Guild 01.
Lord_Byron28
Member
Like a year and a half ago. I didn't think they started flopping till around summer 2011 and even then inazuma eleven did fairly well on the wii, I believe.
mugurumakensei
Member
Ni no kuni was out before summer '11 right?
Lord_Byron28
Member
It released holiday 2010. My impression is that it underperformed but it still sold well for a new ip. They still did very well with prof. Layton 3ds and inazuma eleven for the wii during 2011. Regardless level 5 was doing well for longer than you remember.
mugurumakensei
Member
The ps3 version was a definite bomb.
You can't rate the game if you buy it retail?
No. You can only rate the game on PlayStation Store if you bought it from the PlayStation Store.
That is kinda backwards....
Yeah I don't get that at all. Why would you limit it that way?