More people care about region free consoles than the pikmin franchise?
I don't know. This is cryptic
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Media Create Sales: Week 28, 2013 (Jul 08 - Jul 14)
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More people care about region free consoles than the pikmin franchise?
I don't know. This is cryptic
SolarPowered
Member
This just made me realize that The last of us will probably sell more than Pikmin 3 in Japan of all places.
Freaky
GreenMakoEyes
Member
fair enough.. I was just consindering the people who are willing to pay the current console price on the market.
Calamari41
41 > 38
The problem isn't that Pikmin is a game that shouldn't have been made. The problem is that Pikmin is a B-tier game that should have come out earlier this year in between Mario Kart and some other big release. Pikmin is a great "filler" title, but there's no way that it can carry a console that hasn't seen a game released this year. And no, Game & Wario doesn't count.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Only the biggest Pokémon site in existence, guy probably makes $200k+ a year, and pisses off Nintendo by playing ROMs of unreleased games and spoiling everything for everyone.
lol
This is the problem though, the Wii U is comparing poorly to even the Gamecube. How is anything supposed to sell if there are no consoles out there?
Graphics Horse
Member
Under 3.5m shipped at March, but the 9 million is for this financial year alone, I think. First Q report is at the end of this month.
Interceptor
Banned
Good numbers for Wii U and Pikmin. Of course people will state them as bad. It would have happened with every number.
Highly unlikely:
101,299
127,760
143,203
152,392
167,921
177,833
188,462
209,638
263,059
312,644
365,969
382,608
395,378
407,878
418,052
424,431
430,433
445,187
480,996
502,996
The original Pikmin's sales.
Flightmare
Member
Bravo!
Wii U makes it what it is. But if it makes you feel better being a Nintendo games it's not subject to the same sort of front-loadedness. You may want to hope that other games continue to push the platform.
plank
Member
Nintendo is doomed so no...,
Not sure where you got 150-170k from, this is the last number I could find:
13./12. [WIU] Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Online # <RPG> (Square Enix) {2013.03.30} (¥6.980) - 4.969 / 48.171 (-50%)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=541683
DaSorcerer7
Member
Thanks. so 2 days. Next week should be interesting.
You should probably cross out The Wonderful 101 now because despite the fact that I think it looks amazing, Platinum games aren't exactly known for selling well, especially considering that the Wii U is selling as bad as it is right now, I'll honestly be surprised if it even hits 40k.
While I think that would have helped, I still feel it's incredibly hard for one company to provide anywhere near the game volume that the entire third party publishing community can.
Like the XB1 and PS4 aren't coming out with especially impressive first party line-ups, but at least they have tons of third parties lined up on day one and beyond.
I can't help but feel banking on the tablet screen was not a good idea when almost everyone has a touch device already.
With the DS it was still a new concept, and the DS also already had the new concept of using two screens. With the Wii, motion control was pretty much unexplored in games.
Today however, hundreds of millions of game capable touch devices are sold into the market every year, and it would be hard to find people who would want a Nintendo home console who have never owned a DS and/or 3DS and thus haven't experienced multi-screen gaming. It's kind of hard to play up as a unique selling point even if the implementation is somewhat different.
But was the Gamecube as Nintendoomed?
Good point. As a February or March release to continue launch momentum, it was a good title.
To spur on a system that has been without software or advertising for months....clearly not.
metalslimer
Member
Yes, im sure nintendo execs just popped a bottle over the delusionsl gaffers thinking this wasn't an amazing week
GTFO
I don't want to live in a world where mainstream-orientated million-sellers are the only games that I can play; everybody knew that Pikmin 3 wouldn't be the big system seller that brings Wii U back on the map, but it still sold a solid amount of copies and will continue doing so for some weeks
If 3DWorld doesn't manage to push hardware sales, then the Wii U is probably done in Japan
DragonSworne
Banned
By the end of the quarter, isn't Nintendo going to end up below 4 million given the tracking numbers we have for each region?
lol.. ok then.,. I know nothing about Pokémon -- kudos to him then.. but again, if it wasnt for Nintendo, he wouldn´t be able to have a site like that. Pokémon and Nintendo seem to be match made in heaven.;o)
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Also for being caught out reporting from a pirated copy of a game.
I think you may be reading that wrong there, pal.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
While I appreciate your effort and think all consoles should be region free, players who don't buy a console they really want just because it's region locked must have had a hard time from NES/Master System up to the GCN/PS2/Xbox era.
But I think they were going to release it around that time (that "launch window" thing, you know).
Obviously they have underestimated the dev time.
Zero chance of that happening.
MikeE21286
Member
Wow @ Pikmin 3 and Wii U numbers.
That is very not good.
Price drop needed asap.
That is very not good.
Price drop needed asap.
shinra-bansho
Member
I'll actually be quite surprised if they can top last quarter's shipment of 390K.
April-June has been even slower, there's still likely a lot of launch units sitting on shelves and in retailer warehouses, retailer confidence is likely very very low.
Pikmin sales are in line with previous entries on GC as far as first week sales go. I don't see how that can be considered "mediocre" as far as the franchise is concerned in Japan
I think he refers to this: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=407864 Let's get back on topic though.
Using Famitsu numbers:
Pikmin 1 first week: 101,299 (GC install base 242,429)
Pikmin 2 first week: 161,930 (GC install base 3,297,975)
Pikmin 3 first week: 102,188 (Wii U install base 982,801)
Not sure what to make out of this. Did they wait too long to release the sequel?
IncandescentPrecept
Banned
Those games won't help though. They can only sell to the hardcore now.
Gianni Merryman
Member
Neither I, Pikmin is a very iconic Nintendo IP and I can't see Nintendo ditching it altogether, but serious question, without Miyamoto who else could be able to make a theoretical Pikmin 4?
Thing is that Pokémon and that site keep each other in existence. Pokémon wouldn't be as big as it is now without sites leaking out stuff.
I think the double negative is tripping you up.
michaelius
Banned
Code:
06./02. [PSV] Toukiden # <ACT> (Koei Tecmo) {2013.06.27} (¥6.090) - 20.853 / 186.963 (-52%)
07./03. [PSP] Toukiden <ACT> (Koei Tecmo) {2013.06.27} (¥5.040) - 19.262 / 118.404 (-42%)300k total - really amazing and in few more weeks it will probably claim top selling Vita game spot.
Snowden's Secret
Banned
I think in a vacuum, 22K is a perfectly acceptable number this week.
The problem is that Wii U has so few major game releases (or even any game releases whatsoever) that this 22K is not going to be followed up by another 22K in two weeks and another one a few weeks later. We'll only see it about once a month through January, and then what? A return to sub-10K until next holiday?
The problem is that Wii U has so few major game releases (or even any game releases whatsoever) that this 22K is not going to be followed up by another 22K in two weeks and another one a few weeks later. We'll only see it about once a month through January, and then what? A return to sub-10K until next holiday?
Mmmhmm, very nice.
you forgot Wonderful 101
metalslimer
Member
True, although the pessimist in me is not expecting the same legs. I'll watch it over the next few weeks though.
Wait gc sales were that bad in 2004?
Calamari41
41 > 38
GTFO? Look at the sales chart. I love Pikmin, but it is the definition of B-tier. This is a thread about sales, not about what kind of games we like to play.
Edit: it looks like you misunderstood what I was saying because of the admittedly sloppy double negative. I am saying that Pikmin should have been made in response to someone earlier saying that it shouldn't have been made. I am taking the blame away from Pikmin, and instead laying the blame on the fact that there aren't "million seller" blockbusters out for the system as well.
Pikmin is a game you buy when you have a Wii U, not a game you go out and stand in line to buy a Wii U for.
There's no denying the difficulty, but NoE and NoA chipping in will be a damn sight better than just NCL doing it all own their own at the moment. Besides, I say this only because by Nov. and after Ubi releases their games for the console, that'd be it for third party support.
You can't be serious. On the basis of Pikmin 3? The game will be out in every other region within the next couple weeks. I'm not against the whole region free campaign, but aside from Vinnk I think most other people can keep it in their pants for another week or two in regards to Pikmin.
For me it reads: "Pikmin 3 should have been a launch title"
Sylverstone14
Member
Hmm, so only two days were tracked?
Guess next week's charts will be different then.
Guess next week's charts will be different then.
Yes, I didn't mean that in the sense of Pikmin as the Wii U's savior, but rather that it was a bigger title that wasn't one of Nintendo's main franchises and didn't have that much of a bump.
While TW101 is probably going to have nigh zero impact, the question of if Bayonetta 2 or X could do much for hardware was a question on the floor. I personally don't expect much out of them given their relative status, but Pikmin failing to move units kind of lowers my estimation more.
That said, I guess they do have less overlap with the NSMB U audience than Pikmin in theory.
Graphics Horse
Member
Bit early to say, I'm expecting big things announced next week. #wiiuambassador
IncandescentPrecept
Banned
What's the top selling Vita game so far?