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Media Create Sales: Week 34, 2013 (Aug 19 - Aug 25)
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Takamura-San
Member
This is all part of Nintendo's plan to buy Plat for cheap.
metalslimer
Member
While vita will get more niche games it won't be from an underperformer like that. Toukiden is a much better example.
Madworld did slightly lower, 4,651 first week. And that was a Nintendo exclusive too. Hmm.
Bayonetta 2 to sell 8k.
I'm glad it was released in the form it was, to be honest. But yeah, it'd would have sold a hell of alot more with a Nintendo All-Star cast. I like new IPs.
RumblingRosco
Member
Thanks for the correction, missed the zero.
Nothing1016
Member
Lol. And this is why Nintendo uses established characters and franchises. W101 was gonna sell horribly no matter what, unless they stuck with the Nintendo characters idea. In which case Nintendo would get scrutinized for not creating new characters or worlds.
Nintendo's IP's are double edged swords for some people. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
Nintendo's IP's are double edged swords for some people. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
Yeah but we knew that was happening.
michaelius
Banned
Yeah i wonder what retailers were thinking when doing those orders.
Snowden's Secret
Banned
I...
There are no words...
I honestly thought this would debut at somewhere around 50K, thinking that at least 1 in 4 Pikmin players would pick this up. What... in the world.
There are no words...
I honestly thought this would debut at somewhere around 50K, thinking that at least 1 in 4 Pikmin players would pick this up. What... in the world.
Kazuma Kiryu
Member
Sounds about right for w101. Nintendo really screwed this one up...
Exterminieren
Banned
That's about a third of Wii U's meaningful software, and ignores the multiple third party ports that flopped like there's no tomorrow.
Takamura-San
Member
Why?
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
This is a vengeful heat wave of sadness that Wonderful 101 has come across 
The WiiU is in a loooooooooot of trouble right now. There's definitely nothing in the rest of this year which will turn anything around either. Another holiday season wasted. In the first year of the WiiU's lifespan in Japan, it will have a grand total of 5 titles which sold over 100k, if Zelda WW HD breaks 100k. If it doesn't, then it'll have 4. It's really shocking how Nintendo has completely dropped the ball.
W101 is the 14th WiiU game in Japan to have actual tracked sales data. In 8 months, just 14 games which made any chart at all. The rest never even charted, mostly because they're all late ports of games which were already on the PS3, and most of them were western titles too.
W101 is the 14th WiiU game in Japan to have actual tracked sales data. In 8 months, just 14 games which made any chart at all. The rest never even charted, mostly because they're all late ports of games which were already on the PS3, and most of them were western titles too.
Magicpaint
Member
Hardly for this reason. It didn't do well on Vita either considering the initial shipment. There have been much better examples of Vita success this year: Muramasa, Toukiden, Dragon's Crown etc.
They couldn't even get MK8 ready for the holiday. Really in a bad spot. If you create a system that is designed to be unappealing to third parties, then you better have appealing first party software on the ready. The system is just a horrible disaster.
StreetsAhead
Member
We knew this for W101 too. Doesn't change anything.
Dragon Quest X also underperformed.
Was that also released on 3DS though? (really, I don't know)
metalslimer
Member
There is a ton of 3rd party software that is lingering on shelves even with low shipments. Wiiu has failed at selling everything released but a few games.
Poor Kamiya, he is gonna get bombarded by idiots on twitter
JetSetRadio
Banned
How can a company survive with bomba after bomba?
GreenMakoEyes
Member
WiiU dropped by 5K with a release of high budget exclusive.. what was Nintendo even thinking? Wish them better luck with Bayo 2.
Can't really argue with this. No one is buying Wii U games and they don't really even care, either.
Seems pretty obvious. No one wants games and don't want to the system, either.
Seems pretty obvious. No one wants games and don't want to the system, either.
they should have released a demo....
toastyToast
Member
Wonderful Noone-01
So I suppose this speaks to the power of a marketing budget VS. releasing niche streaming videos to a tiny audience of people already drinking your kool-aid to advertise your games? Hopefully Nintendo learns from this. I don't feel at all bad for Platinum since they get paid, regardless.
Aren't the Robot Taisen sales pretty low for the serie ?
Wonderful 101 well.. I'm not exactly sure why people assumed it would be a sucess anyway.. It has everything of the charming little title with original gameplay that will stay cult, despite nobody having never played it.
Wonderful 101 well.. I'm not exactly sure why people assumed it would be a sucess anyway.. It has everything of the charming little title with original gameplay that will stay cult, despite nobody having never played it.
Takamura-San
Member
Was Zelda ever a big seller in Japan?
SolidSnakex
Member
Like I said in another thread, Nintendo should've put all their resources into trying to get Mario Kart 8 out this year. That'll have more pull that 3D World. Smash Bros would've been about as good, but that still seems far off.
Platinum probably already got payed for making the game.
If Bayonetta 2 doesn't work out for them they'll probably never work in any meaningful capacity again.
Which completely sucks cause The Wonderful 101 is one of the freshest and original new games out there with so much love and care put into it.
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Deleted member 125677
Unconfirmed Member
dat #14 curse
Still better than WiiU
I think in Japan it is a write off, because Japan will not care about using it with a PS4
gigantor21
Member
I heard that Suda51's studio is buoyed by money-printing anime adaptations or something. Is that true? And is there something similar for Platinum, or are their games just that dirt cheap to make?
That1BlackGuy
Member
I feel kind of sorry for Platinum Games, it cannot be good for team morale to keep having their games sell like shit.
Pretty terrible sales all around. The number 1 game is only over 30k. Vita and Wii U had HUGE drops this week. And poor W101, really didn't expect to bomb this badly. Nintendo really has themselves to blame for not even marketing it but you can't say that they didn't see it coming with the amount of copies they shipped. Still I think it sold even worse than they expected. Poor Kamiya.
Absolutely. I love the cast and setting of the game. The current form of the game is how it should be.
If anything this game is cautionary tale. Releasing new IP and new gaming experiences is not the route to success in today's market (even better marketing would only have been a marginal improvement).
Canis lupus
Member
AranhaHunter
Banned
I wouldn't go that far, but I would say that there are games that can sell just as good, if not better, on Vita as opposed to 3DS. I would also say that the argument of "user base makes a difference" is not true in all cases.
Sorry to bother, do you know what was the sales for the previous series as a comparison?
