lunchwithyuzo
Banned
In terms of pure units, Vita is selling worse than a $250 3DS, with a mediocre lineup, with no online store was. I don't know if that's a disaster or not, all I know is Vita did worse.
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NPD March 2012 Sales Results [Up3: ME3 Total, Binary Domain]
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Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
I'm hoping they are going to use the upcoming Nintendo Direct to announce some summer dates for titles like Animal Crossing and ONI Training (not likely). Also, 3DS has Kingdom Hearts 3D and Theatrerhythm for the summer, which counts for something.....
Infamous Chris
Banned
momentum and Skype
TheUnknownForce
Member
Fixed there. We know Luigi's Mansion 2, Animal Crossing, New Super Mario Bros 3DS and Paper Mario are coming. I'd say those are good contenders for them. The problem is third parties are kinda flailing on the platform, outside of a few Japanese ones.
Personally I expected Vita to be at 100k or even worse this month. So, in terms of my horrible expectations, this is a triumph lol.
a Master Ninja
Member
Thanks, I missed that somehow.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
You skipped my birthday month.
And Nintendo is still sitting on Animal Crossing and Paper Mario to help fill up some of that. I'm sure they will be announcing some major software at E3.
I think you'll see attempts at that at E3. Nintendo has been talking about making those kind of casual games recently, and I'll be interested if anything has come to fruition.
The 3DS launched in March 2011.
the big thing is that nintendo lacks a big huge out-of-nowhere franchise like brain age that completely sells everyone on the platform that everyone else wants to rip off.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
You do know that the 3DS launch this time last year, right?
Feburary -> March or are you forgetting it launched last March?
Well it won't be out-of-nowhere if you know about it ahead of time. Iwata did say they are working on new disruptive titles, that and Demon Training, whatever that is.
kingdom hearts might do well, but theateurythmics is gonna wind up with 40% of elite beat agents's ltd sales.
generally, march sales are higher than february's due to the extra week. the 3ds dropped month to month with the extra week, which means sales are slowing down.
EDIT: i take that back. i didn't realize everything was down. my mind is still stuck in the days of 2003 and 2004. or maybe they never existed in the first place.
Um, your forgetting a rarely understood selling holiday called Easter.
i meant like how no one really expected gta or call of duty or brain age to become 15+ million sellers and then they did and everyone wanted to copy them. yeah, we knew they were in development, but we didn't know of their impact.
a year later and the 3ds doesn't have such a title.
sixteen-bit
Member
ORC did way better than I expected.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
I just don't see Nintendo striking gold with such a title this time. The casual market has pretty much been dried up with iOS/Android mobile phone gaming, Facebook, etc. and I believe Nintendo knows that. Hence their focus on core games and big push for localizations/Kid Icarus.
Sure, casual games can still sell on the 3DS. But I think Nintendogs & Cats kind of proved that a bunch of that market has moved on.
TheUnknownForce
Member
Anecdotal, yes, but from PAX East Theaterhythm was very popular. So did Heroes of Ruin, but not as much of a line. I think it will do better than EBA. For Square-Enix's sake, it better!
shinra-bansho
Member
March -> April tends to see HW down across the board. At the very least because of shorter tracking period; but on a per weekly basis as well I believe.
Is Easter really a "selling holiday?"
People will buy platforms for the games you just need a bandwagon for them to hop on. Just because people play Angry Birds on iPhones doesn't mean some equal craze isn't going to drive them elsewhere, Nintendo has just not created such a title.
Nintendogs + Cats was probably held back because the original audience wasn't the early adopting type and to make a causal friendly ecosystem you need a low point of entry, which $250 wasn't low enough for them. Once initial hype dies, people don't come back for second looks. If they were to release Nintenponies this November they'd probably do 3x Nintendogs + Cats easy.
SlipperySlope
Banned
Ponies? Oh no... what have you started...
It's crazier still when you consider that's about a week's worth of sales since it launched on like the 22nd or something.
At least it makes sense now why there were 30+ people lined up at my Gamestop for it at midnight.
Pureauthor
Member
Because Sony.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Where are those NG3 numbers!?!?
I must laugh at it
I must laugh at it
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
It's bittersweet because that could be the end of the franchise.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I agree, and it's something I've said in the NG3 thread. I felt that this could be the game that sends the franchise back into the cellar for 5+ years.
But really...I don't want any more NG games by Hayashi either.
More so than any other week during the Spring, I would imagine.
DoA is probably going with it too. Team Ninja's gonna be out of work.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
At this point, don't even care. Bring it back when somebody really gives a damn about the series and Hayashit is fired.
JonathanPower
Member
CAPCOM is doing great !!!
JonathanPower
Member
That game is really fun to play online even with all the gameplay problems.
tecmo will force nintendo to work with them.
Hayashit already killed Metroid too. No Metroid games announced since the Other M bomb?
Coincidence? I think not.
DR2K
Banned
Nah, DOA5 is shaping up nicely.
Gotta figure out how to spin it first
sixteen-bit
Member
I wonder if we'll ever know how bomba Ninja Gaiden 3 was.
DR2K
Banned
Major bomba. sub 100k.
RukusProvider
Banned
Need NG3 numbers. Well deserved bomb. Stop making games please.
