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Principate
Saint Titanfall
50% isn't a bad sell through at all, for 2 days worth of sales, how often do you think games are shipped to stores?
Sangetsu-II
Member
So is PS4 baseline in Japan 30K now instead of 20k due to PS4 slim?
It's not bad when you're aiming to kids (not day one buyers), and Monday was a national holiday, so second week should be good.
Heh it's okay-ish for a game targeted at kids releasing close to the holidays.
Hellraider
Member
It's... still dropping?
Hard to say, though it should remain high until (and probably after) Christmas due to a nicely packed release schedule.
Sangetsu-II
Member
rockman zx
Member
And Xrd Revelator was not much better, looks like Japan is losing interest in this franchises, at least in the home market, in the arcades they are getting money for sure. I do think CP got such a good sales because they had the anime on air by the time the game was out.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Yeah and the 2DS alone has someone managed to equal the Vita's weekly sales (which seems pretty absurd to me unless the Vita is not long for this world), I imagine the 3DS and PS4 will eventually cross streams, probably next week
Gaf prediction one month ago 4 weeks of sale,
Average ~250k
I removed the highest and the lowest predictions
(120k - 340k)
Kresnik258
Member
Splatoon is back btw. Expecting someone to show up in here again now 
Yokai Watch Busters was a spinoff targeted at kids that changed genres and yet it did much, much better than MHS (693k). There are probably other more logical reasons for these numbers.
It's not. It's pretty old at this point and developers are openly talking about ditching Vita for their next releases.
It's been quite a while since it had healthy hardware sales and/or a big software release.
Busters was part of a franchise that already successfully targeted kids? It's not really apples to apples.
Yokai Watch is already an IP targeting kids...
DriftingSpirit
Member
Whoops, miscalculated. I just glanced over LTD and must have saw a number differently.
But yeah, you're right.
AcademicSaucer
Member
Isn't that way too low for Monster Hunter Stories?
Isn't there an anime coming? Maybe there will be another Yokai Watch 1 effect.
Sammy Samusu
Member
YWB is an expasion to a YW2 multiplayer mode that was very well received. Level-5 was smart to transform that into a full packaged game.
Two totally different situations.
MHS is starting from zero. It carries the MH name but it's not targetting the young adult fanbase.
Thank you, but wasn't that before YSO's prediction?
Anime started last week and didn't do too well unfortunately.
I am gonna say, the 3DS in terms of hardware, had a FANTASTIC run. I don't think it can be described as anything else but a resounding success.
Selling 21 million in a mobile dominated era, with dated hardware at the time of release is astounding. Goes on to show the power of software and strong IPs
if we count 5 players in this generation (3DS, Vita, WiiU, PS4 and X1) none, will come even close to reaching that number, in fact I don't think anyone will cross 10 million.
this has to be promising for whatever thing nintendo will replace the 3DS with.
Selling 21 million in a mobile dominated era, with dated hardware at the time of release is astounding. Goes on to show the power of software and strong IPs
if we count 5 players in this generation (3DS, Vita, WiiU, PS4 and X1) none, will come even close to reaching that number, in fact I don't think anyone will cross 10 million.
this has to be promising for whatever thing nintendo will replace the 3DS with.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Yikes that's a shame for Capcom, clearly a lot of effort went into MHS.
GAF > YSO confirmed
Let's not get ahead of ourselves lol.
Kinda remind me of Pennywise saying Dai Gyakuten Saiban was a new IP.
Not that it means any difference but Media Create Monster Hunter Drama Stories last 2 weeks after YSO predictions were talking for bomba bins almost immediately.
And the dream for FIFA will soon be over.
Jon Carter
Member
Happy about Stories. That's a pretty encouraging first week. Now the game needs to have legs to be considered a real success, but it should sell that first shipment at full price.
Sammy Samusu
Member
frankie_baby
Member
Noticeably outperforming the pre order based expectations and only in 2 days could hopefully point towards it being at least decently leggy, havent been following really whats the word of mouth like so far?
DriftingSpirit
Member
Assuming legs are decent/good, how far do you all think MHS can go? What would be the ceiling?
Given the low predictions that were easily beaten by what seems to be good word of mouth, I'm optimistic on Stories's legs. Not necessarily a million seller, but 500K will probably be easy. I know we dump on Capcom a lot, and they deserve it most of the time, but even they can get things right once in awhile. Usually in regards to Monster Hunter.
Monster Hunter Stories had a...decent, good at most first week. It's true that it obtained to beat several pessimistic expectations here on GAF and elsewhere, and the demo has probably helped to get more attention right before the release, but the number itself isn't anything extraordinary. Now, the real test will be the legs: considering the audience it's targeting, there are chances the game sales are spread across a longer period of time, especially if the word of mouth (which seemingly already helped the last weeks' preorders) is good enough.
Chrono Phantasma-to-Central Fiction shows a major drop, yeah.
Good steady sales for Kirby, Dragon Ball: Fusions, Yokai Watch, the New Price Edition of GTAV...even Puzzle & Dragons X, after all (yes, it's a major drop compared to the SMB Edition, let alone its actual prequel, but it's performing far better than I expected after seeing the debut).
Minecraft Wii U is still doing pretty well as well, and the fact that the Vita version had similar sales this week, despite its gigantic LTD (retail only) is a great demonstration of how well the game did on Vita.
Splatoon back in Top 20, yeah!
Chrono Phantasma-to-Central Fiction shows a major drop, yeah.
Good steady sales for Kirby, Dragon Ball: Fusions, Yokai Watch, the New Price Edition of GTAV...even Puzzle & Dragons X, after all (yes, it's a major drop compared to the SMB Edition, let alone its actual prequel, but it's performing far better than I expected after seeing the debut).
Minecraft Wii U is still doing pretty well as well, and the fact that the Vita version had similar sales this week, despite its gigantic LTD (retail only) is a great demonstration of how well the game did on Vita.
Splatoon back in Top 20, yeah!
Nintendo 3DS - Road to 22 millions
LTD sales = 21 272 042
Units left until target = 727 958
Weeks left = 12 weeks
Average sales requires = 60 663 units / week
By the way, the Nintendo 2DS has a noticeable impact on sales. Sales would have been down YoY in the past few weeks without it, so it's doing its job (and since margins are pretty big, that's quite a lot of extra money).
LTD sales = 21 272 042
Units left until target = 727 958
Weeks left = 12 weeks
Average sales requires = 60 663 units / week
By the way, the Nintendo 2DS has a noticeable impact on sales. Sales would have been down YoY in the past few weeks without it, so it's doing its job (and since margins are pretty big, that's quite a lot of extra money).
MHS did pretty fine. Just because it has "Monster Hunter" in its name does not mean the spin-off will automatically sell the same as the mainline ones. Just look at Pokemon for example. Plus the target audience is not the same as the main ones anyway, so the test is to how much the younger folks will bite into the spin-off game intended for them.
And the king
is back!
And the king
Splatoon
Japan LTD rank
PS3 Grand Theft Auto V 304,752 851,259
360 Grand Theft Auto IV 38,281 76,884
Media Create CY 2015
[PS4] Grand Theft Auto V # <ACT> (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2014.12.11} (¥7.400) - 87.437 / 205.651
[XB1] Grand Theft Auto V <ACT> (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2014.12.11} (¥7.400) - 2.066 / 4.660
This week
[PS4] Grand Theft Auto V [New Price Edition] <ACT> (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2015.10.08} (¥4.990) - 4.089 / 173.240
Since then you can probably add at least 50k to the PS3 budget version (not sure when was the last time Japan LTD rank was updated).
So it's around ~1.4M.
rockman zx
Member
Not counting portables and Extend versions, yes, is the lowest of the main entries.
Famitsu data is out:
http://www.famitsu.com/biz/ranking/
Looks like 60-80% sell-through? They have MHS at 154 390.
http://www.famitsu.com/biz/ranking/
Looks like 60-80% sell-through? They have MHS at 154 390.
Sammy Samusu
Member
In Mobile land(via Gematsu):
Bamco has released God Eater Online's opening movie which is animated by Ufotable.
and
Hoshi No Dragon Quest has hit 12 million downloads.
Bamco has released God Eater Online's opening movie which is animated by Ufotable.
and
Hoshi No Dragon Quest has hit 12 million downloads.
So both BlazBlue and Guilty Gear are franchises at fairly low points in terms of sales. Seeing that fighting games are ASW's B&B, I wonder what they're going to do next (aside from visual novels and Mori working on what might or might not be a visual novel).
Maybe they'll start to do more collaborations with more powerful brands again, like another Persona Arena game or whatever.
Maybe they'll start to do more collaborations with more powerful brands again, like another Persona Arena game or whatever.
Famitsu Digital Estimates for August (1-28)
Battlefield 4 (PS4) - 43,921
Pocket Monsters Red / Green / Blue / Yellow (3DS) - 24,213
Tales of Berseria (PS4) - 20,821
Battlefield Hardline (PS4) - 20,176
Salt and Sanctuary (PS4) - 19,310
Rainbow Six Siege (PS4) - 11,363
Etrian Odyssey V (3DS) - 10,413
Ratchet & Clank (PS4) - 7,879
Dragon Ball Fusions (3DS) - 6,652
No Man's Sky (PS4) - 6,236
Battlefield 4 (PS4) - 43,921
Pocket Monsters Red / Green / Blue / Yellow (3DS) - 24,213
Tales of Berseria (PS4) - 20,821
Battlefield Hardline (PS4) - 20,176
Salt and Sanctuary (PS4) - 19,310
Rainbow Six Siege (PS4) - 11,363
Etrian Odyssey V (3DS) - 10,413
Ratchet & Clank (PS4) - 7,879
Dragon Ball Fusions (3DS) - 6,652
No Man's Sky (PS4) - 6,236