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Media Create Sales: Week 15, 2014 (Apr 07 - Apr 13)

saichi

Member
Just Dance already flopped
Sonic Racing will flop (who cares about it 2 weeks before MK8 ???) (multi w/PS3)
NES Remix will flop
OPUWR is a 2 year porting multi w/PS3 and PSV
Kamen Raider is multi with PS3, guess which version people will pick up ?

OPUWR was released last Nov in Japan. Are you mixing it up with unlimited cruise?
 
So are people expecting sub 10k PS4 numbers tomorrow?

And will 3DS bounce back up ahead of Vita?

Oh and I suppose Wii U might get even lower

Are there any noticeable releases for Week 16?

Chris posted some releases for Week 17 I think?
 
So are people expecting sub 10k PS4 numbers tomorrow?

And will 3DS bounce back up ahead of Vita?

Oh and I suppose Wii U might get even lower

Are there any noticeable releases for Week 16?

Chris posted some releases for Week 17 I think?

I've never been good at predicting anything in these Sales Age threads, but I think a hold for the PS4 above the 10k "psychological barrier" would be satisfactory at this point in time.

It's definitely gonna worse before it gets better for the PS4 in Japan. The Wii U's LTD will be be the dominant figure for quite a while until the transition is complete.
 
I've never been good at predicting anything in these Sales Age threads, but I think a hold for the PS4 above the 10k "psychological barrier" would be satisfactory at this point in time.

It's definitely gonna worse before it gets better for the PS4 in Japan. The Wii U's LTD will be be the dominant figure for quite a while until the transition is complete.

Yes PS4 will break that 10k barrier sooner than later. I'll be optimistic and say 11k for this week based on nothing
 
The 10k barrier doesn't really mean much, although there will probably be a long discussion on how to "save the PS4" when it inevitably does cross that barrier. The only thing the PS4 has done is just further confirm that you are not going to have a successful platform in Japan based on hype and just being new.
 

Lexxism

Member
So are people expecting sub 10k PS4 numbers tomorrow?

And will 3DS bounce back up ahead of Vita?

Oh and I suppose Wii U might get even lower

Are there any noticeable releases for Week 16?

Chris posted some releases for Week 17 I think?

Nah. It's more like if Vita will have an unanimous win this time? Or will these trackers keeps on trolling Vita? Stay tuned :p
 
Nah. It's more like if Vita will have an unanimous win this time? Or will these trackers keeps on trolling Vita? Stay tuned :p

I suppose that's true although I thought we used Media Create as the gospel truth?

Although a couple of the last weeks seemed to have significant differences between trackers for some of the hardware which seems odd
 

ZSaberLink

Media Create Maven
Just Dance already flopped
Sonic Racing will flop (who cares about it 2 weeks before MK8 ???) (multi w/PS3)
NES Remix will flop
OPUWR is a port multi w/PS3 and PSV
Kamen Raider is multi with PS3, guess which version people will pick up ?

Like I said, nothing is big, but it's better than nothing -_-'. Just Dance flopping is still to be seen. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up having some half decent legs,. yes, the FW sucked, but when did that matter for the likes of Taiko and stuff? I'm saying it could eventually hit like 75-100K. "Could" is the key word here. Taiko (thanks to the holidays) went from like 16K FW to at least 130K LTD so far. Also I think that older titles like Mario 3D World (and maybe DKC) could get a slight boost when Mario Kart 8 releases.

Just Dance Wii 93,183 653,888
Just Dance Wii 2 61,382 239,582

The series already was in decline in Japan imo...
 

Rolf NB

Member
I've never been good at predicting anything in these Sales Age threads, but I think a hold for the PS4 above the 10k "psychological barrier" would be satisfactory at this point in time.

It's definitely gonna worse before it gets better for the PS4 in Japan. The Wii U's LTD will be be the dominant figure for quite a while until the transition is complete.
It's end of April. Everything will drop. Even if everything drops by the exact same amount, people will still point out one system or another as doomed.
 

ZSaberLink

Media Create Maven
uhm, probably (maybe the one already released on PSP some years ago?)

so that's even worst :D

Unlimited World Red released last November on 3DS only. Unlimited World Cruise or w/e is one of its predecessors. What's wrong with an HD rerelease coming out 7 months after the original game with extra content on platforms it didn't original ship on? I guess an analogy would something like RE: Revelations.
 
Shinobi is reporting 30,235 eShop sales for Pokemon Battle Trozei, with approximately 10,600 retailer cards (based on direct downloads being 74% of sales), making thesales for March close to 41K.

3DS「ポケモンバトルトローゼ」の3月度の販売本数は、DL版で30,235本だったそうです。構成比は74%となっていますので、店頭販売されているDLカードの販売数はざっと10,600枚ぐらいでしょうか。合わせても4万強。パッケージだけで30万本売った前作に比べると寂しいですね。

https://twitter.com/sinobintage/status/458820046655983616
 
Superior tracker easily predates the Vita, you clearly don't follow these threads as much ;)

Well yes but I also tend to skip past any post of little substance too so meh

Superior tracker is Famitsu then? Or is the joke the superior tracker is whichever better helps the poster in questions narrative at that particular time hence flip-flopping depending on results?
 

hongcha

Member
パッケージだけで30万本売った前作に比べると寂しいですね。

Translation:

"This is pretty sad when you compare the previous game, which sold 300,000 retail games alone."

The previous game is Pokémon Trozei! [aka Pokémon Link!] for the DS.
 
Translation:

"This is pretty sad when you compare the previous game, which sold 300,000 retail games alone."

The previous game is Pokémon Trozei! [aka Pokémon Link!] for the DS.

Though he is comparing lifetime sales of a retail title to 3 weeks sales of a digital title, to be fair.

Even then, it did sell less compared to the original by about 2/3 (~120K vs ~40K).
 

prag16

Banned
it probably keeps things at the 15k-20k range at least. it's also the last big game for many months in japan, until some time after mario kart.
Think so? Hasn't it been available on PS3/PC already for the better part of a year? How many PS4s can it realistically have been expected to move? I'll be surprised if PS4 tops 15k this week and I'm not sure 10k is out of the question. But who knows.. that's what makes this entertaining.
 
XBO will launch on Sep.4

Cave, G.Rev, Moss and Triangle Service are listed as developers

Suddendly I become interested in it... :D
 

Aostia

El Capitan Todd
3 Months till YW2, Golden Week between the releases.

mmmh...it reached 720k this week, and is selling an average of 30k per week, so...it could be a right amount of new copies shipped, unless the sequel announcement will hurt the sales of the actual game.
but looking at previous L5 "first episode" (like Layton for example) it could continue to sell small amount of copies even after the release of the sequel
 
mmmh...it reached 720k this week, and is selling an average of 30k per week, so...it could be a right amount of new copies shipped, unless the sequel announcement will hurt the sales of the actual game.
but looking at previous L5 "first episode" (like Layton for example) it could continue to sell small amount of copies even after the release of the sequel
It's probably gonna need another shipment at the rate it's selling.
 

hiska-kun

Member
mmmh...it reached 720k this week, and is selling an average of 30k per week, so...it could be a right amount of new copies shipped, unless the sequel announcement will hurt the sales of the actual game.
but looking at previous L5 "first episode" (like Layton for example) it could continue to sell small amount of copies even after the release of the sequel

Be ready. They will sell everything and above a million. Youkai Watch is huge now in shops. It's even the MAIN game of the adverts lol

Retailers also pointed people were reserving YW2 and buying a 3DS at the same.

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Wait, Japan does Month/Day/Year too?
Cool

EDIT:
But they read right to left though....
Standard Japanese/Chinese date notation is yy/mm/dd. I.e. from largest to smallest unit of time.

Standard everywhere else is typically dd/mm/yy, i.e. from smallest to largest.

I'm pretty sure only the US uses the weird, illogical, incomprehensible large, small, large mm/dd/yy. :p
 

L~A

Member
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Map of countries using the mm/dd/yyyy format :


:p

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Yup, the Youkai Watch hype is real. I just made some quick calculations, and Youkai Watch needs to sell at least 23k/week for it to sell through that huge shipment it got recently before YW2 is released. I think it's pretty doable, though we'll see if sales start to drop because of YW2 pre-order... though it looks like it's not the case, according to those retailers.
 

AniHawk

Member
Standard Japanese/Chinese date notation is yy/mm/dd. I.e. from largest to smallest unit of time.

Standard everywhere else is typically dd/mm/yy, i.e. from smallest to largest.

I'm pretty sure only the US uses the weird, illogical, incomprehensible large, small, large mm/dd/yy. :p
why would you ever say 2014 april 22 or 22 april 2014. don't blame the us for having the date order make sense with how people talk. in fact, we should be greeted as liberators.
 

Jamix012

Member
why would you ever say 2014 april 22 or 22 april 2014. don't blame the us for having the date order make sense with how people talk. in fact, we should be greeted as liberators.

The 22nd of April is how most non-yank's say it, so it makes perfect logical sense. Don't cite language as a reason, when its clear the language was adjusted to fit your silly little date scheme.
 
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