Castor Krieg
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If anyone is curious: 46,52 times more.
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Media Create Sales: Week 45, 2012 (Nov 05 - Nov 11)
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If anyone is curious: 46,52 times more.
frankie_baby
Member
Seriously just look up last years December weeks
Graphics Horse
Member
New colours always give a boost. Theoretically they could release a new colour each week, slowly boosting up the numbers all the way up through the 5 digit barrier.
AdventureRacing
Member
Well we have already saw AC release in the UK and it sold a grand total of 10K copies! Will have to wait and see how it goes in other markets but i get the feeling both COD and AC are just going to get buried by the home console versions getting released (and the complete lack of interest in the vita).
AdventureRacing
Member
Wow so the first Xillia actually had a bigger drop. Still a 90% drop can't be too common.
Castor Krieg
Banned
You mean the same Christmas with iPad Mini and Wii U? Not to mention great value packs for PS3 and X360?
yes, they will.
I don't know how big, but there will be a bump.
You ar probably right. Let's wait and see!
But wasn't Gaf sure that 2011 December 3DS numbers were "special", with 2012 December less strong?
Hokuto Mosou 2 too, right? The first one did very well.
Preposterous
UncleSporky
Member
frankie_baby
Member
3ds could do half the numbers this December than last and it would still beat ps3 Ltd
Hey look its pacman
John Dunbar
correct about everything
those animal crossing figures don't include the download cards, correct? are those cheaper than just buying the game? i should hope so, though you never know with nintendo.
Its essentially a PS2 situation, where the clearcut winner takes all.
Magicpaint
Member
Dat Animal Crossing sales/3DS effect. In line with what Iwata said earlier in the week.
Looks like Xillia 2 won't have better legs than even Xillia :\ so it'll probably end up significantly lower, but still good, I guess.
At least next week should be better for Vita.
Looks like Xillia 2 won't have better legs than even Xillia :\ so it'll probably end up significantly lower, but still good, I guess.
At least next week should be better for Vita.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Did the DS make like 250K in one week back in 2006? What game provoked that?
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Yeah, I worded that poorly. I should have said "a boost of any real significance,"
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Sony should just abandon Vita in Japan altogether and put that money towards NA and Europe where 3DS isn't selling nearly as well so they could have a chance to at least be competitive. I saw a lot of commercials for Vita during this past Monday's WWE Raw, so they're at least trying.
gamergirly
Member
Good job animal crossing. Now we just need to duplicate the success over here hehe
Maaaaan :\
What we have:
MC: 602
Famitsu: 721
Iwata: 800 (600 shipped + 200 downloaded)
We can assume that Nintendo shipped 600K physical copies to the store: sold out. Nintendo shipped also hundreds thousands DD Card to retailers, and was able to sell more or less 120K of those cards to consumers. MC doesn't track them, while Famitsu does. Almost 80k people downloaded the game directly from the eshop without the DD cards.
More or less.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Ironic that the west is seen as the savour of the Vita when the opposite was true of the psp.
StoppedInTracks
Member
3DS apparently sold 46 times the Vita this week.
In other words:
3DS sold 95% of Vita's yearly HW sales in 1 week.
Fucking crazy. Vita is the line worker while 3DS is the CEO.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Well the point is the 3DS isn't selling nearly as well in those territories, meaning there could be some market share to gain.
Same thing I was going to ask. Two consoles in their primes, crazy.
slaughterking
Member
I wonder if that is something 3rd party publishers are actually okay with. In light of strong competition from other mobile devices it seems smart to build one really strong ecosystem on just one dedicated portable game machine instead of supporting two.
Holiday bump for PS3 would be minimum comparing to 3DS.
Last year 3DS outsold PS3 by over 1 million units in Dec alone. (and about 300K in Nov) For 3DS to gain 500K over PS3 in the next 7 weeks is a given.
most handheld sw is produced in japan... do you really think japanese software houses will make games for a portable that doesn't even exist anymore in their country?
if sony will abandon japan will be because the killed the vita
RukusProvider
Banned
More line the line worker who got laid off, is collecting unemployment and on their final extension before going homeless. Just waiting for a Christmas miracle,
Yeah, it isn't super common.
Doubt it will sell through its initial shipment of 466k.
AdventureRacing
Member
The thing with the 3DS is that it's probably going to have a stronger line-up next year. Possibly a mainline pokemon, MH and DQ spin-off just to start. I don't think this train is stopping any time soon.
The vita isn't doing any better in the US or Europe really. Also with the attitude western 3rd parties have towards handhelds that would make things very difficult for the vita to get any support.
The vita isn't doing any better in the US or Europe really. Also with the attitude western 3rd parties have towards handhelds that would make things very difficult for the vita to get any support.
3DS isn't selling as well as in Japan, compared to the market leader (360 in the US, PS3 in EU) but it's very near to them (especially after the launch of the XLL version: it was second in the last NPD numbers not so far away from the Xbox, and the best selling console in Europe in August-September), but in terms of direct competition with Vita honestly it's not that Vita's situation is healthier for Sony's portable device.
Btw, I agree that Vita could gain some small market share over the 3DS in the West. But we are slighlty OT, so I'll drop the discussion
MrCunningham
Member
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=495363
Sony's PR teams are living in La La land at this point. It's fine that the higher ups want to stay optimistic about the success of the Vita, but optimism means nothing when they aren't making any aggressive attempts to appeal more to the Japanese consumers.
The 8 year old PSP has sold three times more units than the Vita this week. Nobody in Japan cares about blingy high tech hardware if there's nothing in the software library that makes it worth owning.
Nintendo went into panic mode before the release of Vita and all their attempts to circumvent Vita sales have paid of in dividends.
fabricated backlash
Member
The 3DS was the japanese hardware market this week basically. This is utterly ridiculous and also worrying.
Graphics Horse
Member
Tetris DS? I'm sure there were others, was just one I found.
DS+DSlite > 267k
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112920
Diddy Kong
Banned
DAT 3DS!!!
.... dat vita..
.... dat vita..
AdventureRacing
Member
That's assuming that the 3DS is the reason for the vita selling badly. If anything smartphones and tablets are what is killing the vita. The lack of marketing, quality software and the high price aren't helping either.
I don't see the problem. The rest of the hardware is either the Vita or near the end of its life. It's basically the PS2 all over again.
grimshawish
Banned
With Wii U out soon it'll look healthier.
Basically:
2011: Kart, Land and MH3G
2012: New Mario, AC, DQM, PokeRanger
2013: MH4, DQ7 + Tomodatchi (already announced but without a date, right?) and possibly Pokemon main?
the androgyne
Member
It's a shame we'll never know if 3DS would have reached these heights without the price drop. These kinds of numbers for AC suggest it would've. And it also cements that Monster Hunter was really just icing on the cake, all these Nintendo games were gonna carry the system regardless.
AdventureRacing
Member
Personally i consider pokemon and MH to be far bigger system sellers than all those games. It's just insane to think they could both release the same year for one platform (if pokemon comes out next year which there is a decent chance it won't).
I think we will see many more big games announced for next year though.
TreasureHunterG
Banned
I know what, 1 year ago, everyone was laughing and poking at 3DS being a failure. Impressive how things can change.