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Media Create Sales: Week 42, 2014 (Oct 13 - Oct 19)
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Sammy Samusu
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Nintendo needs a big family game to push New 3DS sales, and that game will be Pokémon ORAS, releasing a month from now.
Monster Hunter is doing a great job at selling the New 3DS XL.
Monster Hunter is doing a great job at selling the New 3DS XL.
Simply Sarah
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I assume sell-through for both MH and the n3DS-LL (Maybe the n3DS too, but that's less clear) is close to 100%, so sales are limited by supply limitations. That and MH is still just MH4 with some extras, so it may or may not have the same legs of the original.
Holy shit people these days, you do realize 3DS is like the second fastest console ever in Japan right?.
It's the first time Monster Hunter gets an expansion of the base game on the same system since the franchise got big.
A drop had to be expected.
Typhoon hit the south and center of Japan on Monday. In Tokyo it arrived at night. On Tuesday morning it was already gone.
Only Agito is set for a retail release.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Oh I never saw that icon before, lol. Thanks for the correction.Nope...
...and nope.
The icon on the right indicates a sell-through between 20% and 40%; the icon for 0-20% is:
Also, 8.25 is not Famitsu's review score, but the aggregate users' score from Famitsu's readers.
But that's Famitsu's own score, it says "cross review", and they gave it 8889 (/4 = 8.25).
Eh, G versions sell really well. Dumb excuses aside, MH4 G not outselling the previous installment is a little surprising. But overall the numbers are pretty close.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
Thanks for the info. So, yes, these numbers seem somewhat stunningly low to me as far as hardware.
If this week last year figure is poor, what would be a good number for sales to be in a week? What would that compare to historically?
Simply Sarah
Member
Of course, if you really want to be depressed, you note that the old 3DS models had sales equal to about 80% of the total sales of every non-3DS system.
It's not "safe"... it's already reached 2m (since last Wednesday) if you add digital sales.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Last year's number was poor? Wtf. I can understand why you would say this about this week, considering a new model just launched, but even then: it was supply constrained as far as I know and three of the four models placed above everything else on the charts... It's not like PS2 had nothing but 100k+ weeks in octobers.
Sequels is what will probably give life to PS4 next year, so be thankful for them!.
1st Course
Member
New low for Vita TV I think?
But Yakuza 0 is a prequel!
Well Agito could and will probably do better, is just F2P like on mobile or more something like PaD on 3DS ?
I caved and ordered a new 3ds LL. I was mad at Nintendo for releasing a revision so soon. But when I checked the order date of my past LL purchase on Nippon yasan it said 2012(damn time flies).
Every other platform but 3ds is basically dead in Japan, such a shame Sony dropped the ball with vita.
Every other platform but 3ds is basically dead in Japan, such a shame Sony dropped the ball with vita.
It's quite poor, especially given Media.Vision usually does better as well.
Rise of Mana should be soon, but like all of Square's remaining announced titles, is f2p. It just has one of those IAP item collector's editions in stores.
Edit: I may be confusion the retail edition of Agito with this.
Sammy Samusu
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It's not surprising at all, nobody ever expected 4G to outsell the original. Times are different, 4G is a sequel and they are usually frontloaded.
It should have no trouble getting close to 3 million though, which is a nice result. This time, they are also releasing the game in the west.
It's not selling bad by any means. Its destroying everything else. I did kind of expect the series to rise when going Nintendo and if I'm not wrong, nothing has yet matched MHP3. I thought this would reach 5 million if MH4 didnt.
Why? MH G versions have done really well in the past, particularly MHP2G which is when the series truly exploded.
Agito will be released in January at retail, I think there's no news about a retail release for Rise of Mana.
P.S. Later, I'll post my brief analysis on Google Play sales for Chaos Rings III, i.e. trying to get an idea of how many actual downloads for specific placements / sales trends + an advice about AppAnnie's tracking.
It's still F2P. Cart/PSN release is set for the same day.
Magicpaint
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Lol @ calling last year's 3DS figures poor...
G versions sell well but the only times they did better iirc were when the franchise was still growing (2nd to 2ndG) and when it was switching to the more popular platform for the series (tri Wii to tri G 3DS). This is the first time we are getting to see just how well G games compare outside of context. And predictably it's a drop. It is for Pokemon and other MH-like games, and it will likely be the same for YW2.5.
Just makes me sad were never gonna get that age of originality that defined Japan again. :/
Well 4G is basically an expansion to 4. And including downloads it's way past 2 million and is aiming to be a 3 million seller (and will probably be) before another MH games comes.
And also, it won't basically sell LTD-like numbers in a span of like 2-3 weeks.
Remember that retail download codes are accounted in digital sales, though.
Btw, can anyone post current All-Time 3DS eShop Japanese Chart? Since we know Gunman Clive is over 100,000 units sold in Japan, we should get a better idea on how things are going.
JadedWriter
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I'm going to laugh my ass off if the Xbox One ever sells only 4 units in Japan.
Its BARELY a drop and probably less significant when counting digital. I think it's possible that 4 or more likely, 4G just didn't garner the same excitement by fans and so the series has stalled a bit. It can still grow, maybe with MH5.
Infernal Monkey
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lol at Square Enix's gross expectations for Chaos Rings.
Fight of the year.
Fight of the year.
Pennywise83
Banned
Well, YW is an IP that was born just one year and a half ago.
Smiles and Cries
Member
This is what Bayonetta looks like in Japan.
short legs
it would sell looking like this in Japan sadly
test_account
XP-39C²
I see, then people should be familiar with that concept. Hopefully for them they know that its not a brand new game at least hehe.
I know that you mean in regards to the new model, but i think its very safe to assume that the majority of sales, or at least a big part of it, every week for every system are new owners. Interesting to see those games increase this week though, if it is a weekly chart and the games have been long gone from the other previous weeks charts.
How do we know this? Excluding download cards, because those are counted in the Famitsu numbers.
In Mobile you shall trust.
It's at http://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/eshop/index.html (and on my blog lol)
But Yakuza 0 is a prequel!
Isn't that cross-gen though? Ishin did well on PS4, but a large portion of the total Ishin sales went to PS3. With the PS4's install base only taking baby steps since then, and Yakuza sales kind of on the decline, I don't see 0 doing much different.
Poor man's Pokemon doe!