Don't forget Final Fantasy Explorers. SE seem to have high expectations for that.
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Media Create Sales: Week 38, 2014 (Sep 15 - Sep 21)
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shinra-bansho
Member
Damn, son.
Holidays for Nintendo will be huge as always, I hope they come up with a MK8 bundle so WiiU can join the party.
So are they sold out of bundles? Also did destiny only sale 23K units last week and no black units were sold at all? Maybe it was a combination of new hyped game and new color.
As well as a Smash Bros. bundle.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Destiny bundles are pretty much gone at least at Amazon, Yodobashi and such.
And standalone white PS4 has not come out yet (IMO it won't have that much of effect, though).
It will pass the million before the end of the year. Same scenario as every year : Nintendo in crazy mode the last 45 days of the year and after that, 2 months of sleeping mode..
Bayonetta is on a Nintendo console, its Japan Ltd will surpass one day 150k
KillerMan91
Member
First Bayonetta opened about 200k between PS3/X360 which is decent start for new IP in Japan. It just completely bombed in west.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Let's hope it survives the MH, PKMN and YW war.
It got a new life since the demo + remake announcement. Nice move by SE!
While i agree with u that saying all Vita owner is lolicon is wrong, that example you give is not supporting you at all here.
God Eater,Persona 4, Tokiden,Hatsune Miku and SAO had in a way young girl character or even Loli there.
And also, Soul Sacrifice is not doing well at at all there.
If they had high expectations they would have spent some money making it >_>
I agree, it is doing quite bad and the only reason it was doing even worse in this period last year was the PSVTV+PSV2000 announcements that depressed last years sales until the launch of the revisions.
PSV will increase its year on year advantage to something like ~210k-230k units in the next few weeks, considering it sold only 3k units a week before PSV2000 this is doable, but after that it will have a quite worse performance for a while.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
It'll be interesting to see how well it does that's for sure.
uncredited male
Member
If it sells a million we would be getting Bayonetta 3 on Wii U.
Pretty much. DQVII seems to be the only SE 3DS game that wasn't made on a shoe string budget.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Are you seriously thinking that a having a young anime girl means loli.....the fuck.
Nanako is not a loli, if you think that there is something seriously wrong with you.
I'm starting to feel like it's too soon for a MK8 bundle. They should just do a big holiday advertising campaign for the game starting with the DLC release and it'll cruise past a million.
Nintendo does need a new Family Bundle for the holidays but they should throw in attractive titles that aren't doing much anymore (no need to sacrifice MK8). Maybe Mario 3D World and another casual/party title (Nintendo Land, Wii Sports Club, Wii Party U again).
happier now? or do you prefer this one:
Bayonetta2 is a flop. Wii U is a mess.
But inthe previous thread everyone was pointing at a 20k debut. this is not better, but less horrible.
if someone is saying that it is good, that one is delusional
I can't see that happening, unless the Wii U will really see a seasonal peak stronger and longer compared to last year. And I doubt that.
Well, in terms of pure competition, I don't think someone was expecting another console to be head to head with the 3DS this holiday, isn't it?
Don't forget Kingdom Hearts 3D.
Though they are obviously re-making that too, according to what Nomura said recently
Even if it doesn't, I'd say there's a decent chance of that.
Nintendo want to continue to push hardcore games. Nintendo are the only ones who seem to care about Bayonetta. Nintendo probably also had realistic expectations on how the game will sell. The question is how it'll do overall internationally, not on a floundering console in a market where home consoles are dead, and handheld platforms aren't doing that much better.
I honestly expected worse for Bayonetta 2. If you thought it was going to do over 200k and suddenly turn around the Wii U in a market that is just in love with smartphones right now, you're crazy.
Hmm, yeah probably not shoestring but I would say it's notably lower budget than Birth by Sleep. It had a much shorter development period.
ugh.
Are they aimed at adult men instead of teenagers and do they feature such characters as the main draw? I don't think people base their Tokiden purchase off of whether some random loli npc exists or not, but you are free to believe so. And that is a list of the top selling games. Soulsac is doing fine.
metalslimer
Member
It will bomb equally hard worldwide. Well...at least in proportion to the number of Wii Us sold anyway. 150k LTD in the US would be a miracle.
He did with Bayonetta 2. Sega, Microsoft and Sony said no. Nintendo stepped in and we had Bayonetta 2.
Probably, but it may end up with moderately respectable numbers which could warrant a sequel on a smaller budget.
giancarlo123x
Banned
People have really really low standards if they think that's close to decent for Bayo 2. Bayo one on 360 got double of that. Poor game.
KillerMan91
Member
As a sidenote it's kinda crazy that in the end GTAV ended up as the game with best legs on PS3 in Japan. Almost a year since launch and still charting in top 20. Can't remember any PS3 title charting more than couple of months. It has Nintendo like legs (of course still lower total sales). Maybe it has still small chance to million on PS3 alone if it gets some kind of holiday boost? With PS4 version sure million seller and first game based on western ip doing million in Japan since Crash Bandicoot 3 if I remember right.
He is for Xbox users with Scalebound. If Sony wants to spend the cash then PlayStation users will get another chance too.
metalslimer
Member
What is moderately respectable?
When did it come out Sony and MS turned Platinum down?
Sir_Crocodile
Member
What's it got to do with Kamiya?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Well, we'll lucky they seem to have exhaust all their ideas for the franchise on Bayonetta 2, cuz nobody's backing a sequel with sales like that.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
Bayonetta 3 would not be a 'push' for Nintendo in any way. It's not even a gentle breeze. I doubt Nintendo would pursue the series further unless Platinum gave them the rights.
That giving a chance statement should go reverse me thinks.
no one there is buying consoles unless handhelds
Hell if I know
I thought it had been said after the announcement, or maybe beforehand when we learned Bayonetta 2 was in development hell. Apologies if not.
Still, even if not, it stands to reason that they would have done before Nintendo jumped in.
frankie_baby
Member
Well it seems to have basically sold 15k of just one of its 3 editions in Europe already, it's not gonna set any records but I could see it doing "relatively" well in the west
mejin
Member
True enough.
sörine;131457506 said:
Yeah, Scalebound may be their big project ever.
They are the developers of Legend of Korra too, but it's a digital only game I think.
gigantor21
Member
He is, with the new Avatar game anyway.
Astral Dog
Member
Hmm, the genre isnt dead, but i dont think its "well and alive", making an action game is still a risk imo, Ninja Theory games dont really sell that well, neither Ninja Gaiden, Platinum games mostly are funded because of their quality, im not sure if i can count Dragons Dogma, but that didnt set the world on fire either, God of War Ascension also sold below expectations, if im not wrong, Darksiders also bombed.Of course, there will always be an audience for this kind of game, but very few big ips.
Unless you are talking about Japan
then they did well for that market on consoles, i wonder how well much a character action game on a handheld coul do?metalslimer
Member
On a personal level, I wouldn't mind if Nintendo continued to act crazy and fund games like Bayonetta 2, but you would think at some point they would realize that funding a few games like W101, Devil's Third, and Bayonetta is useless unless they fix the core demographic issue in the first place. But no I don't think there is a chance in hell Nintendo continues to fund this series. They're probably scratching their heads as to why these ventures aren't working out.
Yup, I messed up :/