Going for 350 to 150 buck would be financially brutal however I don't think Nintendo can avoid dropping the price to 250 $/ in the West and between 20-25k yen in Japan + doing bundles (worldwide).
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Media Create Sales: Week 28, 2013 (Jul 08 - Jul 14)
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Going for 350 to 150 buck would be financially brutal however I don't think Nintendo can avoid dropping the price to 250 $/ in the West and between 20-25k yen in Japan + doing bundles (worldwide).
$200 for the premium SKU would be low enough for many people to jump in. Half the price of the other Next Gen systems would be appealing to families. But I can't see it happening. Nintendo has too much pride. That pride is gonna kill them.
Please stand under
shade
Miyamoto should use this as a perfect excuse to move onto something else. Leave the Board and move back to mucking in.
Cheesemeister
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Certainly not enough to justify having the restriction in place to begin with.
SolarPowered
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Gianni Merryman
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I'm not making this up, Miyamoto said something hinting at a trilogy back in the day, try googling "Miyamoto Pikmin trilogy", sorry I can'r copy and paste right now.
They didn't have that pride for the 3DS and they shouldn't have it for the Wii U, I think it would be more shameful for them to let the system die than cutting the price.
That's slightly underwhelming, I expected a somewhat larger cumulative sales bump, especially from such a low starting point.
Don't forget that the Vita uses an OLED display, which has problems in direct sunlight. Sony should invest in cloud technology to improve sales.I fucking love you, man. The Vita was on track for a 40k week before the sun came out
DragonSworne
Banned
I don't think we will be seeing the Pikmin franchise anytime soon again.
Considering Miyamoto will be retiring soon, I can't imagine anyone wanting to revive this franchise.
It will be poetic justice to see Miyamoto's last franchise join the ranks of Fzero and Star Fox.
Considering Miyamoto will be retiring soon, I can't imagine anyone wanting to revive this franchise.
It will be poetic justice to see Miyamoto's last franchise join the ranks of Fzero and Star Fox.
IrishNinja
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*sigh* i love pikmin, but it was a great looking launch title, not anything remotely a system seller...imagine if back in '08, instead of MGS4, sony got the exclusive to say Way of the Samurai 3. id've been pleased! and so would like a dozen other people
bro this thing's lacking Wind Waker remake, nevermind earthbound VC (gonna do big numbers...big)
bro this thing's lacking Wind Waker remake, nevermind earthbound VC (gonna do big numbers...big)
pieatorium
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I think this is something that might be a trend going forward, there's already a good chunk of platformer and mario fans who have the system so the software sales for Dk and 3dworld might be great but there is a chance that it doesn't translate into compareable hardware sales
Yeah, for all its failures, third parties stood by the PS3 in nigh-universal solidarity.
I think that helped tremendously in the long run, since regardless of how unattractive the system was, you at least knew you would be getting a strong, frequent line-up of games for the entire generation.
That's too much of a generalization. It's a combination of at least four things: 1) people who are interested in the game already own the console, 2) people who are interested, but think that Wii U is too expensive, 3) people who are interested but don't want to buy a console for just a single game or two, 4) a combination of 3) and 4).
Of course, there is also a fifth group that just doesn't care about Pikmin.
In the end, hardware sales are still bad, What is the next big game for the Wii U? There's small stuff like W101 coming up, but until Mario 3D World or maybe DK there seems to be... pretty much nothing?
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
What's so funny there? I always write it Pokémon, too, because that's the name...Wait, this is a joke post right ?
I appreciate your dedication man.
They shouldn't have bothered with the White Premium. Just keep the Black @ £199.99. and you're right. That pride will be the death of the console side of them.
Sammy Samusu
Member
We will see. *evil*
4 mil. Remind me again what did Iwata say for this financial year? 9 mil was it lol!!!!
Theory:
Next week is the beginning of summer vacation for Japanese schools so they have a lot of tests this week. Parents knowing how addictive a new WiiU and Pikmin would be, purposely avoided buying it to ensure that their children could go to college.
Next week, with summer in full swing I expect WiiU at 50k (unless it's hot).
Next week is the beginning of summer vacation for Japanese schools so they have a lot of tests this week. Parents knowing how addictive a new WiiU and Pikmin would be, purposely avoided buying it to ensure that their children could go to college.
Next week, with summer in full swing I expect WiiU at 50k (unless it's hot).
metalslimer
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I hope pikmin does better in the west. Fucking wiiu better not kill this series. Now I dred to see 101's sales. Poor platinum.
150k minimum.
150k minimum.
I think Pikmin 3 sales are in line with what the game has sold in the past.
I mean, Pikmin 2 sold close to 200k when it was released on 2004 but by then
the GC had a way bigger installed userbase on the market.
What is worrying is that the Wii U got only a small bump. Hope it stays like this for some weeks.
I mean, Pikmin 2 sold close to 200k when it was released on 2004 but by then
the GC had a way bigger installed userbase on the market.
What is worrying is that the Wii U got only a small bump. Hope it stays like this for some weeks.
The idea of people waiting in line for a Wii U made me chuckle.
I don't get it. Are you saying region free would have boosted sales, or... what exactly?
shinra-bansho
Member
Googled it. So he runs a Pokemon website.
Not an astroturfer then, just a fan trying far too hard to spin.
Wait, this is a joke post right ?
I appreciate your dedication man.
The dedication to press one more key.
Would have boosted it by one. [aims two thumbs at self] This guy!
I've always said that NoE and NoA should have had their own dev teams established by now. They could have chipped in at these times with IPs of their own.
ambientmystic
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Holy crap lol.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Has to come at the same time as an official price-drop.
Honestly Kamiya must be watching this shit like a car-crash in slow motion. "You're going to release my game to WHAT momentum?!"
plank
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How much is it at right now world wide?
Man-is-Obsolete
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To say Nintendo is playing the software side safe is perhaps the understatement of the year. They are pushing all of these games that come with huge sales on the Wii and that base that bought those games to my estimation has moved on to other things. People at Nintendo and even here are under the impression that games like Wii U Sports and Wii U Fit will catapult the system and I see those games having a Brain Age 3DS style flop. Not only is their lineup safe they are not creating convincing reasons for needing the Gamepad, which compounds the problem of desirability the Wii U already has.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Yes, it was before, too. Pikmin 3 saving the Wii U was always out of question, even the optimistic 40k predictions wouldn't have saved the Wii U.
I'm guessing he's not entirely serious.
Again, I feel that this is the real problem. The Wii U bump is in line with Pikmin 1. That would be fine, but things other than Pikmin 3 were released. Nintendo Land hasn't returning to the charts, so it seems like that new bundle bombed completely.
shinra-bansho
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New shipment information comes out in about a fortnight. It will be the first shipment information for this fiscal year.
As at 31st March it was 3.45M off the top of my head. Sell-through considerably lower though.
Sammy Samusu
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16./20. [PSP] Dangan-Ronpa (PSP the Best) # <ADV> (Spike) {2011.11.23} (¥2.940) - 6.106 / 91.204 (+67%)
The fuck is this?
The fuck is this?
SolarPowered
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Your guess is as good as any.
A game that needs to come to the west already.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
I didn't want to call you out, Miyamoto might well have said that. I still don't believe it's true.
pieatorium
Member
sell through was 2.46 at that time iirc
michaelius
Banned
Have the anime started already ?
edit: Dangan Ronpa
edit: Dangan Ronpa
The power of the fan translation!
Actually, the anime just started airing two or three weeks ago.
Magic Mushroom
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In other news: solid hold for The Last of Us.
who are you then..? your profile links to this Pokemon ehh sorry Pokémon site.. http://www.serebii.net/
shakin_haitian
Banned
It's Pikmin. What did yall expect?
DaSorcerer7
Member
When did the white premium go on sale?
metalslimer
Member
The thing is if40k had bought the system it would have show a good amount of people not in the core base that was interested in more than nsmbu. Now it just seems like anything outside of one of their top ip is just appealing to the base
I would be shiocked if nintendo shipped more than 500k in the last quarter
Cheesemeister
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On a worldwide basis, I'd expect a similar bump, yes.
Everything relevant to the Wii U was on Saturday.