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[Sammy Samusu]

Vita is set to have a good holiday season, I'm more curious about 2014, Sony is running out of cards because they were really aggressive this year.

They better have some big third-party games coming (FFX, GE2 like) and a healthy release schedule, otherwise momentum will go down again.

Wii U will likely never recover, it's a console in Japan with no third-party support. Nintendo should try and settle for 10k/week.

 

[Eternia]

Those are some very surprising Vita numbers! Definitely far surpassed my expectations. GTAV doing pretty well too.

 

[Shinriji]

Vita is set to have a good holiday season, I'm more curious about 2014, Sony is running out of cards because they were really aggressive this year. It's time to collect fruits.

They better have some big third-party games coming (FFX, GE2 like) and a healthy release schedule, otherwise momentum is going to go down again.

Wii U will likely never recover, it's a console in Japan with no third-party support. Nintendo should try and settle for 10k/week.

First party support next year will be way better than this one: Freedom Wars, Gravity Rush 2, Soul Sacrifice Delta, Over my dead body 2, No Heroes Allowed G is better than...Soul Sacrifice, lol. A new Gran Turismo and Minna no Golf will do wonders as well.

I believe that the usual suspects will stay supporting the vita: Bandai Namco, Tecmo Koei, Marvelous, Sega, Kadokawa Games, Idea Factory, Arc System Works and Falcom.

Square, GungHo, Capcom and Konami won't give a shit, unfortunately.

 

[cafemomo]

Square won't give a shit, unfortunately.

That might change

 

[Metallix87]

Both Vita TV and God Eater 2 come out on november 14th, its gonna be Vita's biggest week this year. I predict above 100K.

Nintendo is clearly aware of this, since they're launching this 3DS MH4 bundle the week before:

 

[Shinriji]

That might change

I don't believe it. Maybe more IOS and F2P ports, but not original, high quality games.

 

[cafemomo]

I don't believe it. Maybe more IOS and F2P ports, but not original, high quality games.

They stated if FFX does well enough they would like to give XII a shot for the Vita

 

[Parablank]

|PSV|60.166|

Go Vita go!

|WIU|3.276 |

I really like the Wii U actually as a platform and this hurts for me Hopefully with Super Mario 3D World and Wii Party U it'll get a nice boost soon.

 

[Dysun]

holy shit lmao

 

[Mr. Fix]

- Nice pokemon numbers
- holy shit @ that wii-u dbz gif
- surely this means the Vita games will be coming by the dozen.

 

[L Thammy]

They stated if FFX does well enough they would like to give XII a shot for the Vita

If they port XII to the PS3 they'll port it to the Vita. Though as I'm sure you know, a lot of us don't think HD remasters are a big deal anyhow.

 

[cafemomo]

If they port XII to the PS3 they'll port it to the Vita. Though as I'm sure you know, a lot of us don't think HD remasters are a big deal anyhow.

Ports or not, it's still support & games.

Kinda also wish Capcom would support the 3DS more other than MoHu. I'm pretty sure they can brew up another RE or SF title for the thing.

 

[Serenity]

So expectations for 500k in sales for GTA5 wasn't crazy after all

 

[LiveFromKyoto]

First party support next year will be way better than this one: Freedom Wars, Gravity Rush 2, Soul Sacrifice Delta, Over my dead body 2, No Heroes Allowed G is better than...Soul Sacrifice, lol. A new Gran Turismo and Minna no Golf will do wonders as well.

I believe that the usual suspects will stay supporting the vita: Bandai Namco, Tecmo Koei, Marvelous, Sega, Kadokawa Games, Idea Factory, Arc System Works and Falcom.

Square, GungHo, Capcom and Konami won't give a shit, unfortunately.

If I were any Japanese publisher, I'd be praying the Vita took off. Far better to support that ecosystem than brave the life-and-death megabudgets of next gen or the "will anybody pay attention?" dice roll that is the cellphone market.

 

[Aquamarine]

*sorry for OT Euro sales talk. I might be wrong*

Hmm. The link you posted answered my question. I didn't underestimate at all. I overestimated.


Clicking that links you to

According to a breakdown of financial numbers from GameIndustry.biz, the Wii U moved 90,000 SKUs in Japan, 60,000 SKUs in the U.S., and a paltry 10,000 SKUs in both Europe and Australia.

And according to those numbers released from Nintendo

Nintendo's Wii U console sold only 160,000 units worldwide during the past three months, with the company blaming a lack of first-party releases for the poor performance. Software sales for the system were just 1.3 million units.

During the period Nintendo sold 90,000 Wii U consoles in Japan, 60,000 in the US and only 10,000 in Europe and Australia.

Lets say 3-month sales doubled next quarter in Europe due to Pikmin. 20K/3 months = 6.7K/month. Divided by 4 weeks gives you 1.7K. 4.5 weeks nets you less than 1.5K average over the 3 months.

Or even lets triple it for shits and giggles. It'll be between 2.2K and 2.5K.

So theoretically if the Wii U did a bit over triple its sales, it could've reached about 20K for the week of Zelda where its sales exploded by 685%.

That link is inaccurate.

90,000 Wii U quarterly sales refers to sales in Japan, NCL's principal territory.

60,000 Wii U quarterly sales refers to sales in "The Americas," or North America (+ Canada) and South America combined.

10,000 Wii U quarterly sales refers to sales in "Other," or every other unmentioned country including Australia, the continent of Europe, South Korea, etc.

Technically "sales" mean "consolidated unit sales," or the total hardware units of all SKUs (rounded to the nearest ten-thousand) sold from NCL's inventory to retailers OR from the inventory of overseas Nintendo subsidiaries to retailers.


Consolidated unit sales (shipments) and sales to consumers are related but not exact. Recently the Wii U has been over-stuffed in retail channels, so we get a phenomenon where sales to consumers are greater than consolidated unit sales (shipments).

 

[L Thammy]

Ports or not, it's still support & games.

Kinda also wish Capcom would support the 3DS more other than MoHu. I'm pretty sure they can brew up another RE or SF title for the thing.

They already gave it EX Troopers, Revelations, and Phoenix Wright 5. Some nice stuff that aren't ports. Even that little sound-based haunted mansion game. They might have since reduced their support because not everything did so well, but they've hardly been apathetic to the platform. Beyond that, Gaist Crusher must be an important IP to them if they'd doing the whole cross-media.

What I'm curious about in terms of Capcom's handheld support is where Sengoku Basara's going to go. It was on the PSP last time.

 

[Gamerloid]

Ports or not, it's still support & games.

Kinda also wish Capcom would support the 3DS more other than MoHu. I'm pretty sure they can brew up another RE or SF title for the thing.

Or Megaman... I was really looking forward to Megaman Legends 3. Resident Evil Revelation gave me hope for the series again, and I'd love to see another RE on 3DS if it follows in the footsteps of Revelations and not 6.

 

[wrowa]

If I were any Japanese publisher, I'd be praying the Vita took off. Far better to support that ecosystem than brave the life-and-death megabudgets of next gen or the "will anybody pay attention?" dice roll that is the cellphone market.

How exactly is the same not true for the 3DS? We've got a system with absolutely great sales all around, and yet Japanese 3rd parties still prefer to put their games on cell phones -- a successful Vita wouldn't change anything about that.

Square, GungHo, Capcom and Konami won't give a shit, unfortunately.

GungHo has been pretty successful on Vita. I don't see them stopping their support...

 

[Yanikun]

Kinda also wish Capcom would support the 3DS more other than MoHu. I'm pretty sure they can brew up another RE or SF title for the thing.

They're pushing Gaist Crusher pretty hard.

 

[The_lascar]

Blue=First week
Red=Other weeks
Green=Rerelease

 

[pieatorium]

I think your vita hardware chart label is wrong, should be 2012 and 2013 instead of 2011 and 2012

 

[The_lascar]

Nice catch, thanks.

 

[Yanikun]

I thought the 3DS was doing worse than the GBA in Japan as well. Guess not.

 

[Road]

So expectations for 500k in sales for GTA5 wasn't crazy after all

550k (PS3 only), but we have to see if GTAV will behave like the super frontloaded PS3 games or not.

PS3 games that sold between 300k and 370k first week and are above 500k:

{2009-03-05} [PS3] Resident Evil 5 - 321,670 / 520,564
{2011-12-01} [PS3] Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme VS. - 345,053 / 514,723
{2009-02-26} [PS3] Yakuza 3 - 356,867 / 509,306
{2012-12-06} [PS3] Yakuza 5: Yume, Kanaeshi Mono - 363,717 / 574,299

PS3 games that sold between 300k and 370k first week and are below 500k:

{2012-05-24} [PS3] Dragon's Dogma - 302,590 / 470,141
{2011-06-09} [PS3] Yakuza: Dead Souls - 307,592 / 417,504
{2012-11-01} [PS3] Tales of Xillia 2 - 331,533 / 427,109
{2013-02-21} [PS3] Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - 335,791 / 447,662

Looking at the previous game:

{2008-10-30} [PS3] Grand Theft Auto IV - 122,058 / 211,240

FW / LTD = 0.58.

Applying to GTAV: 304,752 / 0.58 = 525k

Obviously, this does not mean anything for how GTAV will perform. As I first said, we have to wait to see.

All Famitsu. Media Create numbers are higher, but at the same time they only have one game that sold between 300k and 370k and ended above 500k -- Yakuza 5. On the other hand, they have a FW / LTD = 0.51 for GTAIV, which applied to GTAV gives us 706k!

Spoiler

not happening, though

 

[vicissitudes]

Vita games release date in 2013

10/17 - Fifa 14
10/24 - Pawapuro Baseball 2013, Samurai Warriors 2 + Extreme Legends HD, Samurai Warriors 2 Empires HD
10/31 - Gundam Breaker, Neptunia Rebirth
11/7 - Akiba's Trip 2, Extetra
11/14 - God Eater 2
11/21 - Shin Atelier Rorona
11/28 - Dynasty Warriors 8 Extreme Legends, Criminal Girls Invitation
12/5 - Tearaway, Batman Blackgate
12/19 - Shin Gundam Musou, Madoka Magika Battle Pentagram
12/26 - Final Fantasy X HD, Final Fantasy X-2 HD

Not too shabby.

Notable PS3 games release dates in 2013

10/17 - Beyond: Two Souls, FIFA 14
10/24 - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2013
10/31 - Battlefield 4
11/14 - Call of Duty: Ghosts, World Soccer Winning Eleven 2014
11/20 - Monster Hunter Frontier G
11/21 - Lightning Returns: FFXIII
11/28 - Assassin's Creed IV, Dynasty Warriors 8 Extreme Legends
12/5 - Gran Turismo 6, Batman: Arkham Origins
12/12 - Ratchet and Clank: Into the Nexus, The Last Guardian
12/19 - Shin Gundam Musou
12/26 - FFX / FFX-2 HD

Pretty good releases for the PS3 as well.

 

[pieatorium]

Lightning Returns is november? for some reason i thought it was delayed to 2014. That game is like hype kryptonite

 

[Deprive]

Vita games release date in 2013

10/17 - Fifa 14
10/24 - Pawapuro Baseball 2013, Samurai Warriors 2 + Extreme Legends HD, Samurai Warriors 2 Empires HD
10/31 - Gundam Breaker, Neptunia Rebirth
11/7 - Akiba's Trip 2, Extetra
11/14 - God Eater 2
11/21 - Shin Atelier Rorona
11/28 - Dynasty Warriors 8 Extreme Legends, Criminal Girls Invitation
12/5 - Tearaway, Batman Blackgate
12/19 - Shin Gundam Musou, Madoka Magika Battle Pentagram
12/26 - Final Fantasy X HD, Final Fantasy X-2 HD

Not too shabby.

oh OH. Wonder if anyone will bring this over.


Also damn Wii U :\
Wonder what the numbers are going to look like tomorrow.

 

[Road]

Compile Heart top 5 first week:

{2013-10-10} [PS3] Fairy Fencer F - 37,948 / NEW
{2012-08-30} [PS3] Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory - 35,670 / 47,196
{2011-08-18} [PS3] Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 - 33,763 / 47,235
{2008-09-25} [PS3] Cross Edge - 27,652 / 44,246
{2013-06-27} [PS3] Date A Live: Rinne Utopia - 25,286 / 27,572


HD Remasters:

{2011-08-25} [PS3] Monster Hunter Freedom 3 HD Ver. (Capcom) - 282,960 / 441,375

{2013-03-14} [PS3] Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX (Square Enix) - 131,940 / 213,346

{2012-12-08} [WIU] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Capcom) - 110,149 / 215,258

{2011-09-22} [PS3] ICO / Shadow of the Colossus Limited Box (SCE) - 90,222 / 108,954
{2011-09-22} [PS3] Shadow of the Colossus (SCE) - 16,656 / 45,174
{2011-09-22} [PS3] ICO (SCE) - 7,681 / 24,031

{2011-09-08} [PS3] Resident Evil: Revival Selection (Capcom) - 76,638 / 161,086
{2011-09-08} [360] Resident Evil: Revival Selection (Capcom) - 5,946 / 10,838
{2012-03-15} [PS3] Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition / Resident Evil: Revival Selection Twin Pack (Capcom) - - / 27,407

{2011-11-23} [PS3] Metal Gear Solid HD Edition (Konami) - 58,864 / 145,138
{2012-06-28} [PSV] Metal Gear Solid HD Edition (Konami) - 23,586 / 50,333
{2011-11-23} [360] Metal Gear Solid HD Edition (Konami) - 2,380 / 8,166

{2013-10-10} [PS3] Tales of Symphonia Chronicles (Bandai Namco) - 80,891 / NEW

{2012-11-01} [PS3] Okami HD (Capcom) - 52,711 / 89,423

{2012-11-01} [PS3] Yakuza 1 & 2 HD Edition (SEGA) - 42,397 / 76,146
{2013-08-08} [WIU] Yakuza 1 & 2 HD for Wii U (SEGA) - ...

{2011-11-10} [PS3] Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD Edition (Konami) - 38,378 / 100,497
{2011-11-10} [360] Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD Edition (Konami) - 2,458 / 4,828

{2012-03-22} [PS3] Devil May Cry HD Collection (Capcom) - 38,937 / 90,737
{2012-03-22} [360] Devil May Cry HD Collection (Capcom) - 2,486 / 5,670

{2012-10-25} [PS3] Zone of the Enders HD Collection (Konami) - 39,511 / 56,545
{2012-10-25} [360] Zone of the Enders HD Collection (Konami) - - / 4,794

{2013-09-26} [WIU] The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD (Nintendo) - 31,154 / 41,102

{2012-06-28} [PS3] Resident Evil Chronicles HD Selection (Capcom) - 28,042 / 61,515

{2012-08-30} [PS3] Sengoku Basara HD Collection (Capcom) - 27,551 / 51,946

{2011-12-01} [PS3] Tekken Hybrid (Tekken Tag Tournament HD / Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Prologue / Tekken: Blood Vengeance 3D [movie]) (Bandai Namco) - 13,496 / 34,612

{2012-06-21} [PS3] K-On! Houkago Live!! HD Ver. (SEGA) - 13,086 / 23,637

{2010-03-18} [PS3] God of War Collection (Capcom) - 11,610 / 43,497

{2012-12-13} [PS3] The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - Kai HD Edition (Nihon Falcom) - 11,113 / 16,517

{2013-04-25} [PS3] The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC - Kai HD Edition (Nihon Falcom) - 7,810 / 7,810

{2013-06-27} [PS3] The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd - Kai HD Edition (Nihon Falcom) - 7,196 / 7,196

{2012-03-29} [PS3] Silent Hill HD Collection (Konami) - 6,931 / 22,292

{2012-09-06} [PS3] Ratchet & Clank Collection (SCE) - 6,784 / 19,412

{2011-10-06} [PS3] God of War: Origins Collection (SCE) - 5,132 / 17,743

{2012-07-26} [PS3] Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce 2 HD Version (Koei Tecmo) - - / 7,940

{2011-01-27} [PS3] Sly Cooper Collection (SCE) - - / 4,893

{2012-02-23} [360] Under Defeat HD (G.rev) - 2,126 / 3,547
{2012-02-23} [PS3] Under Defeat HD (G.rev) - - / 2,793


(Famitsu)

 

[shinra-bansho]

Hmm, when was the PSV-2000 announced for Japan?

Likewise the Wii U bundles?

 

[Prelude.]

Hmm, when was the PSV-2000 announced for Japan

At the pre-TGS thing with the best translators. Can't remember the date but it was at the start of september.

 

[Tripon]

Dave Gibson says that Pokemon had a 83.9% sell through rate.

 

[Oemenia]

Sometimes we must set a barrier for these "pretty good" Vita software sales. MH4 will sell more than entire Vita software this year.

May be it will, but the same Vita third-party games would most likely sell less on the 3DS.

How much of a big hit are we talking here? Even if there is a 60/40 split towards Vita the ceiling we're looking at is what? 300-400k being generous?

Who knows, the first game was a bit hit and could just be the MH replacement Sony need.

 

[LayLa]

Gibbo with some Enterbrain numbers

Enterbrain -MH4 sold another 111k last week to take packaged total to 2.82m and still 96.7% sold so little inventory,another 10%+ in digital

Enterbrain - GTA V sells 304k on PS3 but 23k on Xbox360. Pokemon X/Y 2.096m was 83.9% sell through

 

[pieatorium]

Hmm, when was the PSV-2000 announced for Japan?

Likewise the Wii U bundles?

vita 2000 sept 9

WiiU bundles sept 24

 

[Road]

Famitsu Fiscal Year 2013 First Half
(2013-04-01~2013-09-29)

Software: 95.09 billion yen (-16.8%)
Hardware: 53.23 billion yen (-12.8%)
Total: 148.33 billion yen (-15.4%)

Hardware sales
http://www.famitsu.com/images/000/041/655/525c25a497c6b.html

3DS: 1,805,931
Vita: 373,899
PS3: 325,705
Wii U: 210,516
PSP: 158,038
Wii: 33,939
360: 7,434
PS2: 2,039

May be it will, but the same Vita third-party games would most likely sell less on the 3DS.
Who knows, the first game was a bit hit and could just be the MH replacement Sony need.

God Eater is a MH replacement like Tales of is a Dragon Quest replacement.

Kantai Collection or Kancolle will be another big game for Vita in 2014.

It's a browser game with 800k registered players with the servers currently under load and registration to play locked down to a lottery system due to how insane the demand for the game is.

Having an offline version on the Vita will be potentially akin to P&DZ of the 3DS, if the signs and popularity of Kancolle is anything to talk about since it's getting a manga and anime soon.

P&D: 19 million users
Kanwhatever: 800k users

Following the user ratio, if P&DZ sells 1 million on 3DS, this Vita game would sell 40k. /videogamebusinesslogic

 

[Scum]

Where's my Bayonetta: Climax Edition, Iwata?!

 

[BishopLamont]

Looks like MH is eating into Pokemon sales, lets see if they make up and play nice in the next few weeks.

 

[kewlmyc]

Yay Danganronpa. I wish the best for this series. It's selling much better than the Zero Escape series did, which is both great and sad at the same time.

Pokemon's gonna pokemon, too.

 

[walking fiend]

haha, brilliant! lol

Crazy pokemon numbers considering that installed base is nearly 1/3 of the DS installed base when the previous PM came out.

 

[Prelude.]

Kanwhatever: 800k users

It's mind-bogglingly popular. It's basically the japanese minecraft.

 

[shinra-bansho]

Thanks, so Week 36 and Week 39 for Vita and Wii U respectively?

Hmm, then the problem I see with the past few weeks declines being solely due to these announcements and anticipation of new SKUs, and that this will lead to a much improved Vita baseline, is that both systems were in decline prior to these announcements and don't really seem that much of a deviation from their prior trending.

 

[airmangataosenai]

I thought the 3DS was doing worse than the GBA in Japan as well. Guess not.

No it's definitely tracking ahead there. GBA did really well there but it was in North America where it really shined. I think up until the DS came out, it might've been tracking as the best-selling game system of all time here.... or at least very close to it. I know in the earliest days PS2 was beating it but I seems to recall that it flipped at some point.

 

[metalslimer]

Thanks, so Week 36 and Week 39 for Vita and Wii U respectively?

Hmm, then the problem I see with the past few weeks declines being solely due to these announcements and anticipation of new SKUs, and that this will lead to a much improved Vita baseline, is that both systems were in decline prior to these announcements and don't really seem that much of a deviation from their prior trending.

Exactly, they may have accelerated the decline, but they were both doing terribly beforehand with no mention of the new models.

 

[metalslimer]

Define "huge".

I'm thinking more along the lines of selling at least 10K than 5K.

Vita dropping below 10k before mid January would be a disaster considering the lineup, so by huge I mean staying over 20k a week

Sorry dp

 

[Cosmo Clock 21]

Looks like MH is eating into Pokemon sales, lets see if they make up and play nice in the next few weeks.

They're both long tail games, so anybody wanted both but only bought one will pick up the other down the road. Probably.

 

[Christopher]

And people realistically think that this Mario title is going to do anything substacial?

 

[Road]

Famitsu 2013 year-to-date:

[3DS] Monster Hunter 4 (Capcom) {2013-09-14} - 2,817,937 / 2,817,937
[3DS] Pokémon X / Y (Pokémon Co.) {2013-10-12} - 2,096,050 / 2,096,050
[3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Nintendo) {2012-11-08} - 1,552,298 / 3,839,275
[3DS] Tomodachi Collection: Shin Seikatsu (Nintendo) {2013-04-18} - 1,444,801 / 1,444,801
[3DS] Dragon Quest VII: Eden no Senshitachi (Square Enix) {2013-02-07} - 1,212,951 / 1,212,951
[3DS] Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Nintendo) {2013-03-20} - 920,409 / 920,409

2013 might have 5 or 6 or 7 million sellers...


Trivia:

Lowest sales ratio no. 30 / no. 1 games in the Famitsu top 30:

0.092% 2013-10-07 3DS Pokémon X / Y 2,096,050 3DS Taiko Drum Master: Chibi Dragon to Fushigina Orb 1,930
0.109% 2010-09-13 NDS Pokémon Black / White 2,637,285 PSP Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2010 2,884
0.115% 2013-09-09 3DS Monster Hunter 4 1,875,115 WIU New Super Luigi U 2,151
0.117% 2009-07-06 NDS Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies 2,343,440 NDS Momotarou Dentetsu: 20th Anniversary 2,735
0.124% 2012-06-18 NDS Pokémon Black 2 / White 2 1,618,621 3DS Nintendogs + Cats: Shiba / Toy Poodle / French Bulldog & New Friends 2,005
0.161% 2004-11-22 PS2 Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King 2,236,881 PS2 Simple 2000 Series Ultimate Vol. 21: Street Boyz 3,608
0.203% 2009-09-07 NDS Pokémon HeartGold / SoulSilver 1,408,980 NDS Okaeri! Chibi-Robo! Happy Rich Oosouji! 2,855
0.205% 2001-07-16 PS2 Final Fantasy X 1,749,737 N64 Pokémon Stadium 2 3,588
0.230% 1995-12-04 SFC Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi 1,274,857 SFC Super Billionaire Game 2,927


And highest ratio no. 1 / sum of top 30 games:

91.70% 2013-09-09 3DS Monster Hunter 4 1,875,115
88.58% 2009-07-06 NDS Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies 2,343,440
87.63% 2010-09-13 NDS Pokémon Black / White 2,637,285
86.38% 2012-06-18 NDS Pokémon Black 2 / White 2 1,618,621
83.88% 1997-01-27 PS1 Final Fantasy VII 2,034,879
83.36% 1999-02-08 PS1 Final Fantasy VIII 2,504,044
82.79% 2000-07-03 PS1 Final Fantasy IX 1,954,421
81.43% 2004-11-22 PS2 Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King 2,236,881
80.51% 2009-09-07 NDS Pokémon HeartGold / SoulSilver 1,408,980
78.48% 2013-02-04 3DS Dragon Quest VII: Eden no Senshitachi 836,654

 

[cafemomo]

[3DS] Dragon Quest VII: Eden no Senshitachi (Square Enix) {2013-02-07} - 1,212,951 / 1,212,951

Bring it to the west Nintendo & sell 5000 more

 

[Bruno MB]

Gibbo with some Enterbrain numbers

Interesting sales data.

[3DS] Monster Hunter 4 # <ACT> (Capcom) {2013.09.14} (¥5.990) - 111.230 / 2.817.937 <96,7%> (96.000 units in stock)
[3DS] Pokemon X / Y # <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2013.10.12} (¥4.800) - 2.096.050 / NEW <83,9%> (402.000 units in stock)

Last week Monster Hunter 4 got a new shipment of around 200.000 units, the game is no longer supply constraint since half of those copies weren't sold.

About 2.500.000 units of Pokémon X / Y were shipped for its launch weekend, everybody who wanted the game could buy it. I didn't expect Nintendo to be able to produce so many copies, this is another Pokémon Black and White case.

For reference: (first main Pokémon title on NDS)

[NDS] Pokémon Diamond / Pearl (Pokémon co.) {2006.09.28} - 1.586.360 / NEW <95,4%> (76.000 units in stock)

 

[Leon S. Kennedy]

I know Sony isn't goin to cut the price for at least 8 months, but could a price cut on the Vita 2000, encourage greater sales? Maybe if they position it near the same price of the 3DS XL?

They are pretty close in price now. On amazon.co.jp the vita is 18,900 yen and the 3ds xl is 18,000 yen.