frankie_baby
Member
X360 line for comparison at the same place (reverse angle looking from the head of the queue) - i love how everyone is hiding their face! lol.
Is that the entire Japanese 360 user base?
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Media Create Sales: Week 48, 2012 (Nov 26 - Dec 02)
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Is that the entire Japanese 360 user base?
X360 line for comparison at the same place (reverse angle looking from the head of the queue) - i love how everyone is hiding their face! lol.
Absolutely legendary. !
X360 line for comparison at the same place (reverse angle looking from the head of the queue) - i love how everyone is hiding their face! lol.
haha I remember this, it was for a game though, Tales of Vesperia
metalslimer
Member
The shame...lol
Allan Holdsworth
Member
New points cards (Mario = 1000, Luigi = 2000, Peach = 3000, Bowser = 5000)
Never forget:
To this day I still see "Tales of β" whenever they're talking about it (sales) in 2ch. Those guys never forget/move-on.
OK, now this makes it seem worse than I thought it would be. Bamco wants 350k lifetime sales? I could only see that if they had gotten 250k+ first week. I'm hoping the drop in 2nd week won't be too big but I'm not expecting anything.
Doesn't seem like the next Animal Crossing: New Leaf shipment will be until after Christmas. Wow.
http://www.inside-games.jp/article/2012/12/08/62068.html
http://www.inside-games.jp/article/2012/12/08/62068.html
metalslimer
Member
It's all a secret conspiracy to sabotage the 3DS to push Wii U....
As long a its there before New Years I guess lol
michaelius
Banned
There was a time when X360 was outselling PS3 in Japan in weekly sales
Then microsoft stopped bribing timed exclusives and everythng went down the drain.
Smiles and Cries
Member
New points cards (Mario = 1000, Luigi = 2000, Peach = 3000, Bowser = 5000)
why why do they get the cute stuff?
I'll never get tired of that expression on the employee's face.
"I've disgraced my family..."
Smiles and Cries
Member
no shipment numbers yet? any predictions for next week?
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
underlined the pertinent part. The machine isn't fully sold out - not by a long shot - it would appear. I can get one right now in my home town if i want to.
Again - we are back to "did Nintendo pour a glut of machines onto the market" or "did they cover preorders + %"
and again - it seems preorders were pulled on thursday last week - certainly in Aki/shib/shinj we went from LOADS to ALL GONE! I wonder if that was a stock order deadline or something?
(i.e. the last day to commit to stock)
Also - Japantimes has Nintendo spokesman again claiming the machine is sold out in America.... :/
grimshawish
Banned
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
The Drought
Nintendoomed
What 3rd Parties are going WiiU exclusive
Xenoblade 2
you know... the usual pattern
Is there plenty of supply for every of the 3 models?
Frankfurter
Member
Any news, anecdotal evidence or whatever on how the launch went?
frankie_baby
Member
amazon said yesterday new stock on the 21st december
grimshawish
Banned
Comparison to the States:
This was on the 21st. So the third day on the market.
RyougaSaotome
Member
For the record, every version of the system was sold out in Nagasaki prefecture (I can guarantee at least 80% of the stores had none left yesterday). The caveat being that the retailers I spoke to only got enough units to cover preorders. None of them were actually selling systems to people who walked in that day.
Well, we know about the terrible software sales in the US so this is not exactly reassuring. NSMB, which did relatively fine (243k) had more than double the posts than Japan has now.
grimshawish
Banned
So indicating MH/Zombi U kind of similar sales then?
If you didn't count the bundle
grimshawish
Banned
Ah ok, thanks.
So unbundled Nintendo Land outsold everything except NSMBU? Uh.
Edit: Nvm, is Nintendo Land even bundled in JP? If not then it's not surprising at all.
Seems in line with the number of posters in the Miiverse community. Got to say, I was kinda surprised seeing so many posters in the Japanese Zombi U community.
It's Nintendo published. But surprisingly good indeed. Will wait for the numbers. Very very good move for Ubi (don't forget JD4) in any case!
Lines seems pretty thin. But it was somewhat expected. I think the lines are now the past. Distribution shemas and pre-orders are now better prepared, and early adopters just went into the store when they can. The real deal start right after that, we will see what is the momentum for the system in the following months.
Refreshment.01
Member
Beautiful, always leaves an impression on me how well organized Japan is.West Shinjuku's Yodobashi Camera had 30 people in line.
West Shinjuku's Bic Camera had around 40 people in line.
East Shinjuku's Yamada Denki LABI1 had around 15 people in line.
Bikkuro in East Shinjuku had around 20 people in line.
http://www.inside-games.jp/article/2012/12/08/62061.html
More pics:
http://www.inside-games.jp/article/2012/12/08/62062.html
StreetsAhead
Member
No it's not.
Aeon in my town was sold out by midday of 26 Premium and 12 Basic, plus (after asking) about 17 pre-orders.
Was number 3 in line and only got there half an hour early, lol.
Zombi U is dubbed in Japanese too (didn't realise) and so is COD, I think, which might help sales.
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
Again - to put that "30 people at yodobashi" queue into a little context ...
here's the Vita queue at the same location (we had to queue over from the main enterance)
The queue looped all the way round too. 300+ or so, perhaps Johntv can remember as i think he was counting.
This said - Yodobashi abandoned preorders at the last moment when they first became available and they didn't start until some time later. Still, i'd have thought they'd have had more than 30 people, but - hey - sounds like everyone went to Ikebukero for their unit this time (reports of 3-400)
and i hear ZombiU has no English at all right? Which will help here - but for honkeys abroad, please be aware
here's the Vita queue at the same location (we had to queue over from the main enterance)
The queue looped all the way round too. 300+ or so, perhaps Johntv can remember as i think he was counting.
This said - Yodobashi abandoned preorders at the last moment when they first became available and they didn't start until some time later. Still, i'd have thought they'd have had more than 30 people, but - hey - sounds like everyone went to Ikebukero for their unit this time (reports of 3-400)
and i hear ZombiU has no English at all right? Which will help here - but for honkeys abroad, please be aware
twentytwo22
Member
Went to 5 stores around here today (Osaka city).
Everyone sold out of MH bundles
2 were sold out of both systems
2 only had basic sets
1 had both basic and premium sets
Probably doesn't matter, but Sofmap is already offering Wii U Basic for free with an internet contract. Never seen that happen on a systems launch, but it's anecdotal.
Everyone sold out of MH bundles
2 were sold out of both systems
2 only had basic sets
1 had both basic and premium sets
Probably doesn't matter, but Sofmap is already offering Wii U Basic for free with an internet contract. Never seen that happen on a systems launch, but it's anecdotal.
Gianni Merryman
Member
This seems good to me, especially seeing how NSMBU is not much higher.
Btw let's wait and see when we have actual sales; speaking of which, looking at precedent launches, should we be expecting some numbers tomorrow?
Refreshment.01
Member
So the premium is the "official" system. Nintendo has some really clever marketing cats. >
StreetsAhead
Member
and i hear ZombiU has no English at all right? Which will help here - but for honkeys abroad, please be aware
Nope, checked the options, no subtitles or audio for English. The only English is in-game signs and the Ubisoft logo at the start. Dub is pretty decent too.