Vita has a wonderful selection of DD titles. I mean, right now (I have a Japanese Vita) I can buy any one of about 400 PS1 games, and hundreds and hundreds of PSP games. Yeah you can do that on a PSP too, but the games look about 10x better on the Vita. Not to mention every PSV title released thus far too. I buy lots of retail games on the 3DS, but Nintendo doesn't give me much choice as they don't let me download nearly any of them. On my Vita, I have dozens of games, but only one I've bought at retail. I imagine many others are like me. It's a lot like my ipad really. Just a wonderful portable HD gaming console with hundreds of excellent games to choose from.
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Media Create Sales: Week 35, 2012 (Aug 27 - Sep 02)
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Vita has a wonderful selection of DD titles. I mean, right now (I have a Japanese Vita) I can buy any one of about 400 PS1 games, and hundreds and hundreds of PSP games. Yeah you can do that on a PSP too, but the games look about 10x better on the Vita. Not to mention every PSV title released thus far too. I buy lots of retail games on the 3DS, but Nintendo doesn't give me much choice as they don't let me download nearly any of them. On my Vita, I have dozens of games, but only one I've bought at retail. I imagine many others are like me. It's a lot like my ipad really. Just a wonderful portable HD gaming console with hundreds of excellent games to choose from.
Seriously, who would have seen SK at this level coming? Especially on a Nintendo console.
Exterminieren
Banned
Marvelous is carving out a great little niche for itself on 3DS.
The PC game was already a big success, so I imagine that might actually make the port less appealing as well since the fanbase didn't seem offended by the original platform.
I have to admit, we can expect that on the PSP, seeing this on 3DS is incredible.
test_account
XP-39C²
Many 3rd parties did great on DS, why is it a surprise that it has success on a Nintendo handheld?
Neither did Marvelous judging by the press releases after the first game!
I would assume he means because it is thematically a game about staring at young girls with gigantic boobs as their clothes gets shredded.
Yeah it's a surprise hit. Especially considering similar game like Ikki Tousen (sp?) sold really badly previously. Marvelous must really be happy with its decision to support the 3DS early on.
Moor-Angol
Banned
not only, a 150k selling game always moves some hardware up
Lord_Byron28
Member
All around pretty good numbers for everyone. Surprised at DQX's legs. However, NSMB2's sales are abysmal.
Is the game cross compitable Vita ? ie if you buy the Vita person , your characters , stats and everything gets carried forward and continue playing it on Vita ?
If yes then many might prefer playing it on a handheld then ?
There's absolutly no proof for this. No need for the new Vita owners to immediatly buy the whole catalog when the main reason for picking it up was a certain game. They want to play that game first anyway so why should they buy other games? That doesn't mean they won't eventually though.
electroplankton
Banned
This confirms the great result of a 15 year old porting; 3DS is such a beast.
gashikunFLCL
Member
This. Some posters have said that people bought Persona 4, finished the game and returned it, it might happen with miku too but we have to wait to see.
michaelius
Banned
It dropped to 40k after XL SKU was annouced...
And Rune Factory.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
I think it's a pretty apt comparison, being all the 32bit Megaten ports to handhelds. Also worth pointing out that Devil Summoner PSP megabombed since it never even ranked, so Soul Hackers 3DS looks really great compared to it's predecessor.
Technically Celceta is a Ys IV remake.
It didn't drop nearly as suddenly as you're saying. It took nearly 4 week after the announcement before it dropped to 40k.
test_account
XP-39C²
Did any One Piece Bluray anime get released in that week? Otherwise i dont think this is much of a factor. Used games happen a lot of times, especially with big sellers that can be finished/beaten relatively fast.
Yeah, that could be.
grimshawish
Banned
No. It was around 45k then Dragon Quest bumped it to 100k then 60k for a few weeks. Then 3DS XL brought it down to 45k (over time though, no crash as Alrus says)
The 3DS has not been posting 65k consistently week in week out. It rises and falls, it rose to 60k originally, it wasn't the baseline.
Chris1964, last week sales for Run for Money were (Media Create):
22./08. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.05} (¥5.040) - 4.306 / 94.250
So, you can add the % this week knowing that.
+264%
Adding Run for the Money, around 35 titles did at least 100k on 3DS
EDIT: Here we go (Famitsu)
1 [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo) - 451.932 / 1.795.180 / 25,17% 01/12/11
2 [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo) - 344.698 / 1.679.872 / 20,52% 03/11/11
3 [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G (Capcom) - 471.055 / 1.541.209 / 30,56% 10/12/11
4 [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo) - 430.185 / 1.068.878 / 40,25% 28/07/12
5 [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland 3D (Square Enix) - 488.508 / 874.925 / 55,83% 31/05/12
6 [3DS] The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (Nintendo) - 182.998 / 559.660 / 32,70% 16/06/11
7 [3DS] Nintendogs+cats (Nintendo) - 68.973 / 541.187 / 12,74% 26/02/11
8 [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go (Level 5) - 141.458 / 434.758 / 32,54% 15/12/11
9 [3DS] Fire Emblem: Awakening (Nintendo) - 262.399 / 421.705 / 62,22% 19/04/12
10 [3DS] Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracles (Level 5) - 117.589 / 369.192 / 31,85% 26/02/11
11 [3DS] Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (Square Enix) - 230.189 / 327.492 / 70,29% 29/03/12
12 [3DS] Pokemon Rumble Blast (Nintendo) - 91.613 / 317.924 / 28,82% 11/08/11
13 [3DS] Kid Icarus: Uprising (Nintendo) - 144.468 / 304.043 / 47,52% 22/03/12
14 [3DS] Mario Tennis Open (Nintendo) - 124.377 / 291.710 / 42,64% 24/05/12
15 [3DS] One Piece: Unlimited Cruise SP (Bandai Namco) - 76.578 / 278.657 / 27,48% 26/05/11
16 [3DS] Resident Evil: Revelations (Capcom) - 160.575 / 266.252 / 60,31% 26/01/12
17 [3DS] Harvest Moon: The Land of Origin (Marvelous AQL) - 79.809 / 196.435 / 40,63% 23/02/12
18 [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na Orba (Bandai Namco) - 63.388 / 194.260 / 32,63% 12/07/12
19 [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Nintendo) - 46.357 / 188.104 / 24,64% 01/03/12
20 [3DS] Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy (Square Enix) - 68.901 / 152.651 / 45,14% 16/02/12
21 [3DS] Samurai Warriors: Chronicles (Koei Tecmo) - 43.044 / 150.080 / 28,68% 26/02/11
22 [3DS] Tohoku Daigaku Karei Igaku Kenkyuusho – Kawashima Ryuuta Kyouju Kanshuu – Mono Sogoku Nou o Kitaeru 5-Funkan no Oni Training (Nintendo) - 46.528 / 142.593 / 32,63% 28/07/12
23 [3DS] SD Gundam G Generation 3D (Bandai Namco) - 83.456 / 139.491 / 59,83% 22/12/11
24 [3DS] Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition (Capcom) - 38.557 / 137.883 / 27,96% 26/02/11
25 [3DS] Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai and the Future Stars (Sega) - 88.737 / 135.849 / 65,32% 08/03/12
26 [3DS] New Love Plus (Konami) - 110.394 / 134.934 / 81,81% 14/02/12
27 [3DS] Rune Factory 4: A Fantasy Harvest Moon (Marvelous Entertainment) - 85.955 / 134.750 / 63,79% 19/07/12
28 [3DS] Little Battlers eXperience: Baku Boost (Level 5) - 55.614 / 129.311 / 43,01% 05/07/12
29 [3DS] Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D (Capcom) - 61.306 / 128.133 / 47,85% 02/06/11
30 [3DS] Etrian Odissey IV (Atlus) - 97.142 / 121.401 / 80,02% 05/07/12
31 [3DS] Tales of the Abyss (Bandai Namco) - 68.218 / 114.439 / 59,61% 30/06/11
32 [3DS] Ridge Racer 3D (Bandai Namco) - 34.663 / 110.415 / 31,39% 26/02/11
33 [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! (Bandai Namco) - 30.054 / 108.643 / 27,66% 05/07/12
34 [3DS] Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime 3 (Square Enix) - 45.529 / 108.286 / 42,05% 02/11/11
35 [3DS] Winning Eleven 3DSoccer (Konami) - 26.222 / 107.274 / 24,44% 26/02/11
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
How the hell is miku so popular? People would really buy a console for one game?
Especially with quite a few good games coming out in less than a month? LBP, Ys, DJ MAX, Earth Defense Force? Come on!
Yeah, the would. It's just one of those games. I've already sold mine, but shh.
JustAnotherOtaku
Member
Never doubt the spending power of the Otaku!
These are games no one cares in Japan. EDF? Who will buy the Vita version?
How does LBP actually do Japan? I would say it should be pretty big, but you never know.
Thanks. Those are some bizzare numbers for LBP. The first one did over 100k and then the PSP one and LBP2 barely did 51k combined.
The bundle looks neat. I can see Otakus being all over that.
twentytwo22
Member
Maybe some of the 100k+ people who bought EDFP2?
LBP and DJ Max are extremely niche in Japan, they're not going to bump hardware at all. Ys is a new entry so it might sell a bit better but it will likely top out at around 60-70k at best. EDF is not a vita exclusive.
BishopLamont
Banned
XL is more popular than original 3DS, sure it might not be pulling in a ton of new potential customers, but its still pulling in more than the the original 3DS, otherwise its numbers wouldn't be twice bigger every week.
Its similar to the DSLite in that its helping the 3DS line sell more, ofcourse to a lesser degree than the DSLite since its not a complete replacement.
Just wait for 3DSL with OLED screen (If thats possible?)
EDF fans? Palewing fans?
They aren't that bizarre. People played it on PS3 and didn't like it!
Hell the sequels follow a somewhat similar track in the west.
But most of those comes out on the same day, so the combined sales might give Vita a nice boost.
grimshawish
Banned
Vita has been selling about 10k a week though. This just makes those who would buy in the future to buy now, whilst others DO buy for one game and then some people it just 'adds' to the value of the Vita (they might be interested in other games on it and this is the 'tipping point').
Those sales are great for the Vita, but their not that shocking all things considered.
BishopLamont
Banned
For one week? lol
Next week the Vita will drop harder than post-P4G when the hardware bundles run out.
FalsettoVibe
Member
Games really do sell systems. Now combine that with a price drop see the sales explosion. Do it Sony.