Wii U this holidays is not gonna sell like in 2013, but will easy beat 2014 numbers, which were pretty tragic.
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Media Create Sales: Week 40, 2015 (Sep 28 - Oct 04)
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Wii U this holidays is not gonna sell like in 2013, but will easy beat 2014 numbers, which were pretty tragic.
KillerMan91
Member
Will be interesting to see if the launch of Online mode will keep the decline in sales moderate this coming week.
That is a good point that I somehow forgot (even in totals it's keeping up with MGSIV though). And yep we should get estimates for digital sales soon.
I agree with that. Totals for 2015 should beat 2014.
flatearthpandas
Member
You sure? Everything I saw back in the day indicated they were and wikipedia still says they are.
Regardless, even the indication was enough to kill my interest.
It was at around 110k last time we got numbers.
;-)
Partly but yeah Ps4 sales agent going to get much better. I love that they are still trying though. My Rpg collection is going to be growing quite a bit starting this month
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Wouldnt have worked for what they were trying to do with some mechanics. I mean there is still even popup on the PS4. Would have looked like shit on the Vita honestly.
Considering said member along side of myself and others are the few that actually have the game. Im pretty certain they are "sure".
Pennywise83
Banned
Nope, Silver Week for Pokémon's second week (Week 39); its drop was quite bad. And of course I'm looking at the context; I've just said that, all things considered, it's still a pretty bad result overall - I'm quite confident it will sell well during holidays but right now the game is bombing and dropping harder than expected.
I'm sure, why, I'm playing it right now while browsing Gaf xD
gundamkyoukai
Member
Arslan sales are fucking awful , PS4 numbers are okay .
Yoru doing pretty good might get to 100k which is good .
Yoru doing pretty good might get to 100k which is good .
Smiles and Cries
Member
they don't have something big hitting Wii U for the holidays at all this year I would expect pretty low sales indeed
Zelda U would have helped
Mario Maker is not selling like a monster so far
Animal Crossing Amiibos? maybe
PS4 doesn't need no releases to sell, we've learned that
Nothing wrong with Yoru no Nai Kuni.
I believe WE2013 was the first one that requires an online pass. Not sure if that would affected the sales though.
US is home turf for the ps4
You have to look who he is replying to
I'm sorry, was I incorrect in saying that the explosion in ps4 sales have only pretty much made up for the lost sales over the past couple weeks? If so, please feel free to correct me
There's a Splaton/MK8 bundle coming to Europe later this month, don't expect it to hit Japan, but it'd be interesting to see what it could do.
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/201...tml?utm_medium=Nintendo+UK&utm_source=twitter
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/201...tml?utm_medium=Nintendo+UK&utm_source=twitter
Holy fuck, that's atrocious. 0_O
I think in general sports and racing are genres which have seen a huge decline in Japan in recent years because consoles have fallen out of favor and dedicated software taking those genres "seriously" no longer have the impact that used to have in the region. Gran Turismo met the same fate. Things like Mario Kart manage to survive because they're pretty much party games, and have a strong family brand behind them. But I think stuff like Mario Tennis or even Wii Sports also saw a huge drop in mainstream interest over the years.
Mario Maker is actually selling very well compared to other flagship titles on the Wii U.
Zelda has never been huge in Japan as far as I'm aware and obviously the Wii U lineup for the Holidays is pretty bad. That's why I think they need to have the MK8/Splatoon bundle for the Holidays in Japan as well.
A game performing close to the previous, is not "bombing". Disappointing? Underperforming? Slow? Maybe. It doing like less than half of what the previous one did would be a "bomb".
But geeze, the word "bomb" is thrown around here a bit too much. Everything is a "bomba". Kinda wonder how sales threads would look if mods changed: bomb, bomba and bombing; like how they changed PSA in titles.
Pennywise83
Banned
A game performing close to the previous, is not "bombing". Disappointing? Underperforming? Slow? Maybe. It doing like less than half of what the previous one did would be a "bomb".
But geeze, the word "bomb" is thrown around here a bit too much. Everything is a "bomba". Kinda wonder how sales threads would look if mods changed: bomb, bomba and bombing; like how they changed PSA in titles.
Numers are disappointing, drops are bomba-level
RyougaSaotome
Member
Yeah nope.
There are zero randomly generated dungeons in the game, unless there's an end game one ala Sen no Kiseki II.
As a Japanese individual I'm really hesitant to say this.. but how national team is doing among the worldwide association football does have an effect to sales
Moor-Angol
Banned
but Tsutaya said WE2016 is #1....
lyrick
Member
Not sure what to think of the PS4 number, it feels a bit low.
How does it compare to other legacy platforms after their first price drop?
Is it also normal for the other platforms to see a drop (combined ~15K)? Or is this more indicative of new PS4 purchasers pulling from a group that would have bought other hardware, instead of pulling from a new group that were enticed by the lower price?
How does it compare to other legacy platforms after their first price drop?
Is it also normal for the other platforms to see a drop (combined ~15K)? Or is this more indicative of new PS4 purchasers pulling from a group that would have bought other hardware, instead of pulling from a new group that were enticed by the lower price?
Hikami
Member
I'm a fan of the show and musou in general, I was planning on getting it but then I played the demo.. It didn't really leave a good impression.
shadowsdarknes
Member
Good Guy Sony
So it dropped from a holiday week to a normal week, like most things do, and you claim it's bombing?
It usually starts at March and ends at November.
Moor-Angol
Banned
I think PSP numbers should have been included, they were around 100k iirc, some PS2 userbase moved to PSP
and I still think not doing Vita version was a bad move
Thanks.
It turns out I just missed it. Here's how the last year of Pro Evo Mobile has performed:
It's not as strong as baseball, but it's plausible lots of people are satisfied with it.
Edit:
100 million downloads:
http://www.konami-digital-entertainment.co.jp/en/news/release/2015/0730/Konami said:
Katana_Strikes
Member
Xbox one; the only console that gets a price drop and sells worse than before. Maybe the Japanese are too smart and see through MS bullshit "temporary" slash.
They are not included for the same reason why I stopped including PS2 versions, because in Japan they stopped releasing them on the same day. The PS3 version would come out first, and then a month later the other ports start coming out. So it's not a good comparison.
Pennywise83
Banned
No, it dropped like a rock during its second week, which was the Silver Week: -71%.
For next week i expect some like 18,000 to 23,000 from PS4, around 50/60 % drop. Should be >15k for the rert of year.
Poor XB1. :-/
Poor XB1. :-/
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
people suck, it doesnt have enough moe to be a hit. fuck, this will probably be the first and last outside Japan.
i hope it does well here in the west. that said the PS4 did good people waiting for that price drop
Katana_Strikes
Member
Decent for PS4. Shame there was no big release to go with the cut to help it further but for a price cut alone that's not too bad. Should help it sell over Xmas nicely however.
Good debut for Tokyo, disappointing debut for PES, bomba Wii-U-late-Mosou-port-level for Arslan :\
Good hold for Mario Maker, Splatoon, Yokai Watch, Animal Crossing and Minecraft Vita.
Very solid reaction for PS4 to the price cut, let's see how it will manage to handle the incoming weeks!
Good hold for Mario Maker, Splatoon, Yokai Watch, Animal Crossing and Minecraft Vita.
Very solid reaction for PS4 to the price cut, let's see how it will manage to handle the incoming weeks!
By now you should know that their charts reflect only sales of their own retail chains and nothing else, your post makes even less sense since WE on PS3 charted only first in their seperate SKU charts. In any other retail chains that made their charts available Tokyo Xanadu charted 1st. the most known around here ComG had it1st with just the best selling SKU. please inform yourself next time.
flatearthpandas
Member
Good to know. Interest reignited.
Why would you be surprised by that? Metal Gear always sold great in Japan, and The Phantom Pain should easily sell better than MGS4 if you include digital (maybe even if you don't).
Pennywise83
Banned
It's hard to think that those who are spending money on the mobile game all belong to the same pool of gamers who were purchasing WE on consoles. The former is a card game while the latter is a sport simulation game - it's more likely that WE userbase dissipated in favour of other genres entirely or simply exited the video game market.
GameWhisperer
Banned
Sony treats every region like home turf, maybe that's why they sell well in all regions.
It's certainly possible. For example, in the West we saw a notable downturn in JRPG sales, but given the vast rising age of console gamers, it suggests they just like other genres more now.
That said, I wouldn't be super shocked though if some of them were teenagers who got older and just wanted "Soccer experience" on their phone though on the way to work. There seem to be a lot of games that are "video game brand people liked as teens" + "simplistic gameplay" that succeed.
That said the vast, vast majority of them would have to not be PES players. PES topped out around 5-7 million copies a year whereas this is 100 million downloads. Even assuming a changing audience over time, well over 80% of them would presumably be new.
Was trying to work out what happened to PS4 but then saw it was the price cut; its not that big a boost is it? Mostly looks like the pent up demand from last few weeks as I would have hoped PES would boost it anyway.
What numbers did the initial PS3 and 3DS price drop get?
PS3 software above PS4 shows theres room for opportunity for PS4 but with potential NX next year they need to move quickly to get people to make the switch over or I could see Japan being mobile and Nintendo.
What numbers did the initial PS3 and 3DS price drop get?
PS3 software above PS4 shows theres room for opportunity for PS4 but with potential NX next year they need to move quickly to get people to make the switch over or I could see Japan being mobile and Nintendo.
Uncharted 3 sold >100k first week, so Uncharted 4 should sell well. About the collection, don't expect big numbers, maybe 40-60k first week or so.