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Media Create Sales: Week 10, 2013 (Mar 04 - Mar 10)
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zeopower6
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http://www.famitsu.com/news/201303/13030184.html
Yeah, that estimate looks like it's a good sign, but it's still an estimate. The top 5 are all estimated to have sold between 76-100% of their shipped copies. Hope we get some concrete numbers soon.
My apologies.
Still, it's available at pretty much every everywhere with no real sellouts. If it has good legs I think it can reach 250k+.
Glorified G
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test_account
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I didnt say it was a problem, i also said that i think it is fine to discuss it =) I was just wondering why the comparison was made and what the intention behind the comparison was. If the only intention was to compare the two titles because they were new IPs, then that is the answer to my question. I'm not up in arms or bothered by it, i was asking because i was honestly wondering about it
About Soul Sacrifice attracting 3rd party publisher to the Vita, who knows. I guess it depends on what type of games they are looking to release. The Vita hardware sales was boosted quite a bit during the last two weeks at least. But maybe they (3rd party publishers) are waiting a bit longer to see how the Vita will sell, that is possible indeed.
No problem
Yeah, it shall be interesting to see. First day sellthrough was reported at 70%. I also noticed that Amazon.co.jp went out of stock a few times (not that this necessarily means too much for the overall situation in Japan though).EDIT: Oops, apparently the 70% sellthrough was for one edition only.
You never know in this thread.
I didnt say it was a problem, i also said that i think it is fine to discuss it =) I was just wondering why the comparison was made and what the intention behind the comparison was. If the only intention was to compare the two titles because they were new IPs, then that is the answer to my question. I'm not up in arms or bothered by it, i was asking because i was honestly wondering about it
About Soul Sacrifice attracting 3rd party publisher to the Vita, who knows. I guess it depends on what type of games they are looking to release. The Vita hardware sales was boosted quite a bit during the last two weeks at least. But maybe they (3rd party publishers) are waiting a bit longer to see how the Vita will sell, that is possible indeed.
I don´t think they are impressive that´s all. This doesn´t mean they are bad per se of course.
Fixed
My apologies.
Still, it's available at pretty much every everywhere with no real sellouts. If it has good legs I think it can reach 250k+.
Source?
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
I think psp has been outselling the vita for not just last few months. I am lazy to go dig the history, but i think it's been selling better than the vita since mid last year, probably earlier.
thank you man.
I got your back next time
No problem.
My apologies.
Still, it's available at pretty much every everywhere with no real sellouts. If it has good legs I think it can reach 250k+.
I don't remember reading about whether or not it was sold out everywhere. I may have missed it since I wasn't following this thread much., but could you point me to where someone said that?
Seems that Vita's success this week is making peeps prissy.
Wells, if you check on Amazon you can see that every retailer is selling it online with no shortages. So I'd say that's a pretty good indication.
oh shit lol that was sarcasm.
if you ever read this Wynebeck, I know how you feel now
Don't worry, ohlawd, I suspected sarcasm.
naw I feel you.
even I, equipped with a maxed out sarcasm detector ring, have trouble with some posts in these threads.
but it's all in good fun, at least for me it is.
oh shit lol that was sarcasm.
if you ever read this Wynebeck, I know how you feel now
Not easy being cheesy huh?
Also Laguna, I'm honored that you singled me out as one of these "Sonyfans". At least someone cares about me.
PSP almost doubled its sales this week. It outsold Vita for the majority of last year.
I tried to say that the PSP was cannibalizing Vita's sales last year, but people were pretty dismissive. It seems pretty clear to me. For a lot of people, there still aren't enough reasons to move on.
But you are half right, there was that one poster who was comparing DS+3DS to PSP+Vita YoY and Nintendo's combo was steadily gaining YoY, while Sony's was pretty drastically below the previous year of just having the PSP on the market.
Sony should have been a little more intentional in giving more incentives for PSP owners to move on, as well as attract people who may have only been previously interested in the PSP.
zeopower6
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It was mainly anecdotal in retail stores from the Soul Sacrifice impressions thread. Lots of people buying it, but some stores still have quite a bit of stock left.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=49950114&postcount=336
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=49973778&postcount=342
One guy said it was sold out nearly everywhere he is.
Interesting. Why would it be dismissed? It seems pretty clear that is what is going on at this point. I mean just compare the sales of PSPs/Vitas and their scheduled new releases and you'd see a lot of developers seem to be pretty keen on sticking with the PSP for quite a bit longer.
I don't think so. They just restocked.
Relevant
Unless Nintendo wants another Ambassador Program on their hands, they need to push public awareness like fucking crazy. I still feel like NOBODY knows what this thing is or what it's about...
Though this is Japan we're talking about, I can't say I'm sure of what the perception may be like there.
sechsterangriff
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A lot of good reviews there. Even if it doesn't have long legs, at least people seem to be enjoying it. I hope I have finished P4G by the time this comes out in the EU...
Eugh! I'll take release dates for anything as of now. Can't wait for Wonderful 101 to come with a Bayonetta 2 demo.
Wells, if you check on Amazon you can see that every retailer is selling it online with no shortages. So I'd say that's a pretty good indication.
Don't worry, ohlawd, I suspected sarcasm.
Amazon isn't really a good way of measuring whether or not there are sellouts in retail. It would be if there was a complete sellout, but I don't think anyone would think that.
Alright, so it sold out in some places while not sold out in other. Will have to wait for sell-through rates I guess.
Humph, we'll just wait until next week, agreed?
Anyways, I'm more curious as to how well Luigi's Mansion 2 will do in a couple of weeks. The original sold 350k, but I think the sequel will see a notable bump (better platform, better game, more hype, etc.). I'm guessing 500k+.
Obviously I don't live in Japan, but I certainly do not get the impression Nintendo is doing much at all in Japan, at least if you look at their current release list and the lack of any announcements since the January Nintendo Direct.
test_account
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That is fair enough. Personally i think it is impressive due to being a new IP, the smaller Vita install base (eventhough this doesnt always mean too much) and that the game got a darker theme, which limits the broader appeal a bit. But thinking it is impressive is subjective though, so i cant argue too much for or against other people's opinion on it
It was actually sold out on Amazon.co.jp a few times after the release. It said that a new shipment was coming March 10th, but then it got back in stock earlier, then it went back to saying March 10th again. And right now, the double pack is not in stock in Amazon.co.jp. I dont know how it was in stores in general though.
test_account
XP-39C²
Arent they expanding?
Well there's Monster Hunter in like a week or whatever. That'll be a thing.
Nintendo's earnings call is going to be April 24th, so I would expect some notable news from them right around there...
I know what I'm getting myself into, but I must know, what the hell are you talking about?
Spieler Eins
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Monster Hunter was launch in Japan, it's only coming in a week now in the west.
I assume you mean Dragon Quest?
You have 2 significant releases coming out within 2 days of each other at the end of March, and then zero retail releases scheduled until RE:Revelations at the end of May.
It is just bizarre.
Well shit. Uhhh.... Game and Wario?
What do you think the chances of Pikmin hitting April or May being? I don't think it's far-fetched to think that since they have had a media interview spree here in the west.
Well maybe they go the direction of cutting cost by releasing fewer titles. Maybe its not their aim to sell the wiiu to many people but rather to have a small base where they can release one or two titles a year and a few cheap titles in between. That may explain their barren release date since 2010.
Maybe they'll put Wii Fit U in there somewhere? It sucks for Japan more because they also have very few digital downloads scheduled in the future, while we have 33 announced already.
Pachterballs
Banned
so VITA sustained its sales momentum.
I thought it was possible, but if I'm reading the interview about the Pikmin mini-movie thing right, I don't expect it before summer.
Wii U is really on a shitty situation right now.
Yeah I keep expecting Wii Fit U to be announced for the end of April/first week of May for Golden Week but I would say it is almost too late for that.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
I dont think nintendo is going to follow sony's strategy for the vita.
Pachterballs
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zeopower6
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so VITA sustained its sales momentum.
Here's hoping for next week to be nice too!
They certainly haven't done anything to prove otherwise. Though I am pretty sure most expect the WiiU to do okay once the usual Mario Kart/3D Mario/Zelda/Smash games come out.
Well vita is doing much much better than wiiu lately so
I doubt Wii Fit U is going to do much at all to sales. I also think Tomadachi Collection is going to eat everything up during that time period.
Didnt wii fit and plus combined sell 5 million? What is a realistic estimation. 5k?
An estimated sell-through of at least 76% implies at best a 140k shipment according to Famitsu.
We'll probably get more accurate sell-through from Media Create or Dengeki, but they might not include the double pack.
Edit: beaten several times. I forgot to reload and missed like 50 new posts.
Bruno MB
Member
It'll be closer to 5k than to 500k.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
In the form of price cut.
Indeed wiiu needs a 100$ price cut asap preferably a 150$ one
zeopower6
Member
Even without the price cut, the Vita was outselling the WiiU.