Spieler Eins
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Seems like I'm the only one who's never heard of Tokyo Xanadu and Arslan...
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Media Create Sales: Week 40, 2015 (Sep 28 - Oct 04)
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Good debut for Xanadu, and Yaru got good wind from the PS4 price-cut it seems. It will be interesting to see how these fare over the coming weeks
. Otherwise, the boost to PS4 is what I expected on sheer recuperation of lost sales over the last two weeks... which isn't the best of first signs but its the coming weeks that will matter more than this one. Let's see where we stand in a few weeks.
Splatoon something something.
And even in price-cut week for the PS4, the PS3 still moved more software.
I stand by what I said of their reports last thread:
and on Amazon reviews
Splatoon something something.
And even in price-cut week for the PS4, the PS3 still moved more software.
I stand by what I said of their reports last thread:
For a Gust rpg, Yoru Nai Kuni (or w/e) actually did pretty damn well. Just compare it to Ar No Surge... I forgot what Ar Tonelico Qoga did but this opening is pretty close to it too iirc.
Arslan bombed super hard, I wonder what happened. Was the anime really that unpopular?
PS4 doing good numbers (relatively), it'll be interesting to see how they hold up in the coming weeks. I'm not really expecting anything crazy but I think the hold should be okay overall.
Wii U dropping hard, disappointing, but not surprising at all. Considering what's coming in the holidays, I'm not expecting particularly good numbers during the holidays. Unless #FE suddenly becomes a massive hit (lol).
Arslan bombed super hard, I wonder what happened. Was the anime really that unpopular?
PS4 doing good numbers (relatively), it'll be interesting to see how they hold up in the coming weeks. I'm not really expecting anything crazy but I think the hold should be okay overall.
Wii U dropping hard, disappointing, but not surprising at all. Considering what's coming in the holidays, I'm not expecting particularly good numbers during the holidays. Unless #FE suddenly becomes a massive hit (lol).
Moor-Angol
Banned
strange, some hours before it was you saying that WE was above Xanadu on Tsutaya... already forgot ?
please remember what you said in the past before attacking other people
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
something along the lines of Lords Of Football, but the main outdoor activity is playing pachinko
I know we're talking about free downloads here but it always makes me laugh when a smartphone game has a higher install base than the entire series combined. PES is yet to hit cumulative 100m sales on console since 1996 (at 90m atm).
That was my expectation for the collection, yes.
The Last of Us was a big hit in Japan. I think Uncharted 4 has potential to be even bigger.
DaSorcerer7
Member
Can't see what leads you to believe that considering previous sales.
GameWhisperer
Banned
Because each uncharted has gotten bigger then the last, it's a franchise growing in popularity. First one on PS4 will be big.
Yes and it pictures a bump without real lasting effect. Will be back sub 20K soon, maybe next week even.
A game performing close to the previous, is not "bombing". Disappointing? Underperforming? Slow? Maybe. It doing like less than half of what the previous one did would be a "bomb".
But geeze, the word "bomb" is thrown around here a bit too much. Everything is a "bomba". Kinda wonder how sales threads would look if mods changed: bomb, bomba and bombing; like how they changed PSA in titles.
Sales threads would bomb :]
"From the creators of The Last of Us" + Sony marketing push for the series, which may be the biggest outside Gran Turismo + A very nice special bundle
Edit: what #GameWhisperer said is also true. For example, Uncharted 1 is supposedly at ~4 million and Uncharted 3 may have already topped 10 million. The growth that the series has seen through the gen is amazing.
Haha, let's make this a visual novel though:
Why is there no info on the successor? Program has ended a week ago now, and nothing is announced. Am I the only one who thought they should have been somewhat prepared to announce something new? They have been talking about a successor since spring.
Miiverse gets a spontaneous (?) revamp - no PR, I did not even get a Newsletter (EU here). Am I honestly the only one who feels their marketing department / customer relations is dropping the ball?
Announcing something next week only, that should have been talked about this week, it just feels off to me.
bigmit3737
Member
What were the expectations for Tokyo Xandu?
Sangetsu-II
Member
The issue with this type of thinking is how much the console market has shrunk.
strange, some hours before it was you saying that WE was above Xanadu on Tsutaya... already forgot ?
please remember what you said in the past before attacking other people
Obviously you misunderstood, I was talking about Tsutayas sales and the performance of the games in their stores in particular, while discussing Tsutayas own expectations after their comments about last weeks releases. It´s common knowledge around here that Tsutaya is just a chain and therefore don´t necessarily reflect Japan / Media Create/ Famitsu results to 100%. In the same discussion I pointed out that at comg Tokyo Xanadu had a far better point allocation even with just a single SKU compared to any single Winning Eleven version, and we´ve seen in a different chart that combined all system specific SKUs Tokyo Xanadu charted 1st at Tsutaya as well. Among other retail chains.
It did very well relative to retailer expectations, but that doesn't really tell us what Falcom expected.
They're generally not a huge selling studio though.
Also, to note, we haven't had forced avatars in about 3-4 years now so you can feel free to change yours.
GameWhisperer
Banned
Has not hurt other western games...install base often does not as near an impact on sales as most seem to think. The core fanbase jumps in quickly.
Japan (and other countries as well) observe periods of morning for the deceased. It doesn't help that Iwata was the face of Directs and public facing Nintendo for a long, long time.
And something *is* (as far as the rumor mill goes) coming in the next two weeks on top of the in coming mobile news (which will also no doubt bring news of the account systems and what not that DeNA is working on in the back-end).
ArkhamFantasy
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What do you guys expect from the attack on titan game.
It sold 80~100% of its shipment, right? It should be within their expectation
The shipment is determined by retailers though. Given their historical sales however, I'd be surprised if they weren't generally satisfied.
That's retailer expectations. Retailers order the game quantity in Japan, not the other way around (unless they get their palms greased by bigger corps, of which Falcom is not one).
certainly possible, Uncharted 3 sold better than The last of us first week.
Uncharted 3: 124,989
The Last of us: 117,465
Important to mention, Uncharted released in November, The Last of us in June.
I think Uncharted 4 and The Last of us 2 will be pretty close.
madstarr12
Member
Wow at Bombing Eleven, Arslan Warriors of Bomba too. Pokebomba too....
No, Europe is actually their home turf, the vast majority of their first party games sell mostly in Europe.
They have token IPs like God of War doing best in the US and everybody's golf in Japan, but for the most part, Europe carries 70%-80% of their first party software sales.
The console itself does well in all regions, but their first party software does average numbers on NPD and mediocre numbers in Japan only to end up selling 10+ million.
You're right guess were in a time of a transition to new hardwere in this case PS4 and NX.
AcademicSaucer
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Picross 3D 2, nooooo
The previous didn't do much better, so its in-line with the series norm it would seem. (Unless I am misremembering.)
I'm not sure why they could seriously expect for a game like that. A casual puzzle game sequel for a game where most people likely did not finish the original content isn't going to get a ton of follow-up sales.
It's also the type of thing that is incredibly easily replaced by mobile experiences.
That said, it's probably very cheap to make, so I'm not sure if this is a huge problem sales wise.
That didn't stop GTAV.
what about a PES pachinko game?
DaSorcerer7
Member
Since when has Uncharted been in the same league as GTA saleswise in any region.
Pennywise83
Banned
Given this week's sales, Utawarerumono will hardly receive another shipment.
You completely missed my point. Which was that the decline in console sales didn't stop GTA from being a million seller.
Do you know the LTD of these two games in Japan? In any case, thanks for the info!
GameWhisperer
Banned
First party IP sales has no bearing on what it's home turf is......each region sony treats seperately, they don't have a home turf. They sell hardware well in all regions.
GameWhisperer
Banned
What does it not being as big as GTA have to do with GTA selling well on ps4 with a small install base compared to older GTA's? I don;t think you understand what he's saying. The point is despite the market in japan slowing western games and big IP's are selling as well as previous gens there.
Depending on how you look at it. I think software sales are important.
You see, that was not the original idea of my reply. I'm saying that keeping up with the rate which PS3 games sold might be on the cards but growing the franchise beyond that would be unlikely.
GameWhisperer
Banned
So is hardware sales...they don't have home turf. Sony is a global company and treats each branch of SCE seperately.
Mario Kart 8 VS Splatoon
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| | Mario Kart 8 | Splatoon | Difference |
| | [WIU] (2014/05/29)| [WIU] (2015/05/28)| |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
|Week| Weekly | LTD | Weekly | LTD | SPLTN - MK8 |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
| 1 | 325.892| 325.892| 144.818| 144.818| -181.074|
| 2 | 73.051| 398.943| 68.913| 213.731| -185.212|
| 3 | 42.261| 441.205| 53.198| 266.929| -174.276|
| 4 | 28.112| 469.316| 43.653| 310.582| -158.734|
| 5 | 23.520| 492.837| 37.458| 348.040| -144.797|
| 6 | 19.386| 512.223| 34.135| 382.175| -130.048|
| 7 | 15.143| 527.366| 26.136| 408.312| -119.054|
| 8 | 14.992| 542.358| 22.557| 430.869| -111.489|
| 9 | 18.129| 560.487| 24.289| 455.158| -105.329|
| 10 | 18.067| 578.554| 28.256| 483.413| -95.141|
| 11 | 20.860| 599.414| 35.620| 519.034| -80.380|
| 12 | 28.221| 627.635| 41.361| 560.394| -67.241|
| 13 | 12.075| 639.710| 23.874| 584.268| -55.442|
| 14 | 11.148| 650.858| 23.403| 607.670| -43.188|
| 15 | 8.221| 659.079| 18.826| 626.497| -32.582|
| 16 | 6.839| 665.918| 17.490| 643.987| -21.931|
| 17 | 6.396| 672.313| 16.772| 660.759| -11.554|
| 18 | 5.936| 678.250| 20.736| 681.495| 3.245|
| 19 | 4.517| 682.767| 14.958| 696.454| 13.687|
| 20 | 3.996| 686.763| | | |
| 21 | 3.625| 690.387| | | |
| 22 | 2.821| 693.208| | | |
| 23 | 3.170| 696.378| | | |
| 24 | 3.210| 699.588| | | |
| 25 | 13.544| 713.132| | | |
| 26 | 8.752| 721.884| | | |
| 27 | 12.742| 734.626| | | |
| 28 | 19.244| 753.870| | | |
| 29 | 24.938| 778.808| | | |
| 30 | 34.331| 813.139| | | |
| 31 | 38.637| 851.776| | | |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|--------------|
|Total -|1.126.412| -| 696.454| -429.958|
-------------------------------------------------------------It sold well considering it's an improved port, but nowhere near the PS3 version (a best version was released recently and it will probably sell in the longterm though)
066. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V # <ACT> (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2014.12.11} (¥7.992) - 118.214 / 118.214 (81.659 <66,37%>)
(was probably around 150k when it left the chart earlier this year)
MEDIA CREATE
After 40 weeks, 2015 is become the bigger Wii U year in Japan.
2015 = 465,838
2014 = 461,349
2013 = 422,612
splatoon alone managed to beat both Mario Kart and Smash as a system seller!