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[BKK]

車輪の国、向日葵の少女 – Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo – Country of Wheel, Girl of Sunflower

 

[Nuclear Muffin]

Yes but as you say there has also only ever been one direct sequel to compare to. And though I don't know about japan, both X-2 and XIII left quite a bit of stigma for a lot of people. Isn't it possible that X-2 lowered people's interest in direct sequels for FF and that people do not want to return to the workl of FFXIII?

Also Dissidia seems like such a weird game to compare it to; maybe there are preorder numbers to back this up and the general hype and marketing effort is similiar. Again I admit I haven't followed the games very closely, but for any other game I'd call people crazy if they base the prediction for an RPG on a fighting game spinnoff

While what you say may indeed hold true, the gap is simply too large for these factors to make the two games cross streams (FF13 is the lowest selling mainline FF game at 1.9 million, Dissidia is the highest selling spinoff at around 950k or so, unless you count Chocobo's Dungeon which sold 1.14 million on PS1. I fully expect FF13-2 to be the worst selling mainline FF of all time, but it won't dip below 1.5 million)

 

[Yeshua]

While what you say may indeed hold true, the gap is simply too large for these factors to make the two games cross streams (FF13 is the lowest selling mainline FF game at 1.9 million, Dissidia is the highest selling spinoff at around 950k or so, unless you count Chocobo's Dungeon which sold 1.14 million on PS1. I fully expect FF13-2 to be the worst selling mainline FF of all time, but it won't dip below 1.5 million)

Final Fantasy Tactics 1,27 million on PS1 is the best selling spin-off so far and I don't think XIII-2 will be able to sell 1,5 million.

 

[Chris1964]

 

[king zell]

12-8

 

[mclem]

Distracted by the FART.

Simple things please simple minds...

 

[Mpl90]

Wow, so early!

 

[cw_sasuke]

Two days early, its not that early.

@king zell
3DS Ice White looks so sexy :-/

 

[Chris1964]

Two days early, its not that early.

Wasn't Galaxy 1 ISO available for download at internet 1 week before the official release?

 

[Mpl90]

{2012.02.23}

[PSP] Tales of Heroes: Brave Twins (Bandai Namco Games)

...Ok, this is getting ridiculous :lol

{2012.04.26}

[PS3] The Idolm@ster: Gravure for You! Vol.7 (Bandai Namco Games)

{2012.05.24}

[PS3] The Idolm@ster: Gravure for You! Vol.8 (Bandai Namco Games)

{2012.06.28}

[PS3] The Idolm@ster: Gravure for You! Vol.9 (Bandai Namco Games)

 

[LOCK]

^lol

Yeah, Japan is saying "bitch we aint dead yet."

I'm excited to see 3DS numbers.

 

[watershed]

Jealous, and interesting digital booklet.

 

[mdtauk]

Lol! Mario's face looks a bit embarrassed at that code.

 

[Takao]

It's cute Nintendo designed the cover art with the "eco-friendly" packaging in mind!

 

[FINALFANTASYDOG]

[3DS] ** 3DS Hardware (Nintendo) - 131,241
[3DS] * Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime 3 (Square Enix) - 26,423
[3DS] Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo) - 312,321
[PSP] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2012 (Konami) - 41,232
[PS3] * Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts) - 86,321
[PS3] * Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (SCE) - 92,312

 

[Kurosaki Ichigo]

Predictions
[3DS] 3DS Hardware (Nintendo) - 162k
[3DS] Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime 3 (Square Enix) - 32k
[3DS] Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo) - 332k
[PSP] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2012 (Konami) - 47k
[PS3] Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts) - 97k
[PS3] Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (SCE) - 97k

 

[Road]

Prediction League

[3DS] 3DS Hardware (Nintendo) - 111,111
[3DS] Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime 3 (Square Enix) - 44,444
[3DS] Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo) - 299,999
[PSP] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2012 (Konami) - 55,555
[PS3] Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts) - 88,888
[PS3] Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (SCE) - 77,777

 

[Mpl90]

And here we go.
Everything one hour earlier than recent past from now

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201111/02004965.html

 

[cvxfreak]

Says that Kirby Wii surpassed the start of Epic Yarn.

 

[airmangataosenai]

1.) Final Fantasy Type-Zero
2.) Kirby Wii
3.) Idolmaster 2
4.) Just Dance
5.) Go Vacation
6.) Roukyuubu (Don't Ask....)
7.) Disgaea 4 Expansion
8.) Ragnarok PSP
9.) Stratus PSP
10.) Macross PS3

 

[lunchwithyuzo]

Go Vacation evergreen?

 

[frankie_baby]

Says that Kirby Wii surpassed the start of Epic Yarn.

What did epic yarn launch at?

 

[Mpl90]

@frankie_baby

02. / 00. [WII] Kirby's Epic Yarn (Nintendo) - 92.280 / NEW

 

[airmangataosenai]

Man, I gotta know how FF did. Weren't most predictions around 500k?

 

[frankie_baby]

@frankie_baby

02. / 00. [WII] Kirby's Epic Yarn (Nintendo) - 92.280 / NEW

Maybe 100k for kirby Wii then

 

[7Th]

Are they counting the regular and bundle editions of Idolm@ster together?

 

[jman2050]

Are they counting the regular and bundle editions of Idolm@ster together?

IIRC they count all editions of a game as one.

 

[king zell]

Just Dance starting to show legs.

 

[7Th]

IIRC they count all editions of a game as one.

So then we will never know how much the bundle actually sold? /a/'s sales wars threads are ruined!

 

[The_lascar]

And here we go.
Everything one hour earlier than recent past from now

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201111/02004965.html

Winter time.

 

[Mpl90]

Winter time.

OOOOOOH YEAH
Awesome seeing Go Vacation still so high... is it only my feeling, or it seems that this year third parties on Wii are doing a bit better than last year? XD

 

[BKK]

And here we go.
Everything one hour earlier than recent past from now

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201111/02004965.html

Only if you're blue

 

[lunchwithyuzo]

OOOOOOH YEAH
Awesome seeing Go Vacation still so high... is it only my feeling, or it seems that this year third parties on Wii are doing a bit better than last year? XD

Go Vacation, Family Fishing, DQ Collection and Inazuma Strikers all have done (and some still are doing) pretty decent. With Taiko Ketteiban, Itadaki Street and Inazuma Xtreme still to come things are looking good too.

 

[frankie_baby]

Go Vacation, Family Fishing, DQ Collection and Inazuma Strikers all have done (and some still are doing) pretty decent. With Taiko Ketteiban, Itadaki Street and Inazuma Xtreme still to come things are looking good too.

Funny that, if games get released they sell

 

[schuelma]

Go Vacation, Family Fishing, DQ Collection and Inazuma Strikers all have done (and some still are doing) pretty decent. With Taiko Ketteiban, Itadaki Street and Inazuma Xtreme still to come things are looking good too.

I feel like I am in bizarro world. Those are some nice little casual friendly releases, but a third party juggernaught it is not.

 

[Spiegel]

FFType0 - 472k
Kirby - 137k
Idolmaster 2 - 65k

3DS 65,041
PSP 30,605
PS3 25,217
Wii 11,784
DSi LL 2,009
Xbox 360 1,704
PS2 1,228
DSi 1,061
DS Lite 55

http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20111102064/

 

[Kyoufu]

Not even 500k for Type 0...

Wonder what digital sales were like...?

 

[Mpl90]

Kirby debut is not bad, even if it's lower than other main entries


[GBA] Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (Nintendo) - 189.843 / 832.901 / 22,79% 25/10/02
[GBA] Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (Nintendo) - 176.225 / 704.295 / 25,02% 15/04/04
[N64] Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (Nintendo) - 245.508 / 882.230 / 27,83% 24/03/00
[NDS] Kirby Super Star Ultra (Nintendo) - 260.867 / 1.201.963 / 21,70% 06/11/08
[NDS] Kirby Squeak Squad (Nintendo) - 151.147 / 1.116.424 / 13,54% 02/11/06

However, it will have VERY nice legs.

Idolm@sters 2 did...

[360] The Idolmaster: Live for You! (Bandai Namco) - 47.562 / 75.272 / 63,19% 28/02/08
[360] The Idolmaster (Bandai Namco) - 25.003 / 48.695 / 51,35% 25/01/07
[360] The Idolmaster [Platinum Collection] (Bandai Namco) - 5.557 / 47.344 / 11,74% 01/11/07
[360] The Idolmaster 2 (Bandai Namco) - 40.422 / 40.422 / 100,00% 24/02/11

... Good.

 

[Barack Lesnar]

3DS is starting to do really good. How much did the DS sell in the holiday weeks for November and December of last year? Just curious, don't want anyone to go out of their way to find out.