Jonneh3003
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Monster Hunter XX for Switch ships 300,000 units in Asia
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What did you expect it to do?
MisterR
Member
Didn't it only sell about 50% or so of it's shipment for first week? That's not exactly killing it.
in what universe is 25% of an installbase not impressive?
OrbitalBeard
Member
This game has two big things going against it..
- It's a re-release of a six month old game
- It launched after the announcement of the next mainline entry
Within that context, these numbers seem fine. I'm not sure I'd call them impressive, but they're definitely not bad.
This is also a handheld game, so thats like the most important thing ever
MisterR
Member
Sure, you're absolutely right about that. The results are fine. Looking at the MC thread, it's just barely past selling half of that first Japanese shipment with a 68% drop this week. That's far from impressive, but it's fine and it may be able to meet internal expectations.
Skittzo0413
Member
It sold enough to warrant a restock at least, and again this is only two weeks in on a leggy title.
It's obviously not setting the world (Japan) on fire but it's performing fairly well considering the circumstances. I'd say if it hits Capcom's seemingly lofty expectations then it performed quite well.
This is just another version of the 3DS game, MHXX, which in itself is another version of the original 3DS game, MHX/Generations. The latter sold 3.45 million units worldwide, while the former sold 1.59 million copies.
But somehow 300k copies shipped in a month for the third version of a game released within two years and only officially in Japan is not good at all. Sure.
MisterR
Member
Be interesting to see if this one ends up being a "leggy title", that first week drop isn't great. Especially considering the Switch moved a pretty good lot of hardware for the week.
tkscz
Member
What was actually sold compared to what was shipped illustrates their expectations just fine. I don't think selling half of what they shipped is the success they had in mind.
MisterR
Member
Yep, The vast majority of sells are going to happen the first couple weeks. Gaming is very front loaded with sells. It's doing ok for a port, but I really doubt they were thinking it would be sitting at 50% sell through after a couple weeks and the 68% drop doesn't give a ton of hope that it's got great legs.
It's having good legs though, it will have no issue selling the first shipment + an additional 100k by next March.
This post is amazing. Dirty deal lol.
Capcom already made their money and the retailers are happy with the performance/expect longterm sales. I cant think of any reason why Capcom wouldnt be satisfied with those results.
When a publishers announces that game X has shipped millions of copies it rarely means that we are talking about a 95% sellthrough rate. Thats just how it works....retailers order the amount of copies they think they can sell from Capcom - Capcom got paid for those 300k units.
It's an opinion based on a rumor that is the only thing that makes sense to me personally. MHW is done in MT framework still, the same engine as every MH game on 3DS, Wii, switch and Wii U. Why the game isn't being ported to Switch but is coming to XB1, is impossibly bad business decision, which capcom is capable of sure, or likely the deal that is rumored.
Gotdatmoney
Member
68% drop first to second week is a good hold. What are you talking about? Retailers expect the title to have legs. The game wont have any issue going past 200k. It's been 2 weeks and the sell through is roughly 62%. It's actually performing fine.
I didn't realize that 2 weeks was the final limited to date. I think you're not really in any position to claim that their shipment expectations are wrong
resident evil revelaitons
TheMoon
Member
Resident Evil Rev Collection is the Final Exam (TM). You have to pass all three or there'll be no more games.
It had a good second week hold and given the the type of title and the low install base it will continue to sell.
Look at this:
Combining with the second week sales, total sell-through is around 140k:
(111.396 + 28k ~= 140k). So, Japanese sell-through is about 70 percent compared to the total shipment + digital sales number provided by Mochizuki's tweet (sold through 65% of physical shipment). Selling through the 200k for Japan is going to happen easily. We don't know how well Asia is selling through its allocation, but it doesn't seem reasonable to me to think that they are slacking off a lot compared to Japan. So, it should be possible for the game to have sold through at least 200k already, and from there it will easily sell through 300k, and go beyond that quite a bit as well.
Now to pass the RE Revelaitons 1 & 2 test.
tkscz
Member
Correct me if I'm wrong but shipped means Capcom sold 300k units to stores. The percentage is what those stores sold, which is money that wouldn't go to Capcom in the first place as they already bought the units from Capcom.
malikhaing_bayag
Member
I'm wondering why people seem to think MH will stop selling in Japan after 200k sales until March?
Also, hope Japan passes the Revelations test.
Also, hope Japan passes the Revelations test.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Charts don't lie.
Good luck giri giri next year.
Good luck giri giri next year.
Sammy Samusu
Member
The "rumor" that was wrong about basically everything else?
Blam
Member
Not impressive enough, Capcom needs more!
ONE MILLION COPIES OR ELSE
In all seriousness, I'm happy to see such great sales, hope the OT gets more active with new players!
gib camcop more/
Gotdatmoney
Member
There is a lot of text in the games. But shitty RPGs that sell like 50k units in the West with more text than MH get localized every other day. There isn't any real excuse. Especially given half of XX was already localized as Generations. Capcom is just being garbage as per usual.
TheMoon
Member
this has been frustrating me for years. trash-mediocre games often get localized but titles that people are drooling over get buried in a drawer.
Weskerlover
Member
Would love to see this game being localized but it is not going to happen I think
Hopefully Cacpom will now port more games...fingers crossed for a proper Resident Evil Collection!
Hopefully Cacpom will now port more games...fingers crossed for a proper Resident Evil Collection!
Sammy Samusu
Member
No.
They just don't want people to play it. They are too obsessed with making World a multi million seller in the west.
Gotdatmoney
Member
I have just stopped caring. If Japanese publishers can't be bothered to localize their games I can't be bothered to care. I'm not begging for shit anymore. Localize your games or I will just not buy any of your experimental projects. I'm not investing in a series for you to fuck around and not localize future iterations. Naw fam. Market has too many games to waste my time
It's a port of a rerelease. What were you expecting?
Can we please get Okami as an extra credit assignment?
These two statements of yours do not square. Retailers only expected half of what capcom expected to sell, so they ordered an additional 50%? That makes no sense. Who buys that many units just to have them sit and lose value?
I mean hell, you yourself have said Capcom's expectation could be achieved, but MONTHS from now. Show me when it has become a regular occurrence for retailers to stockpile 100k+ units just to slowly move units using future price drops. Because I don't think "that's just how it works."
Thats how it works for most mayor releases with legs - you think retailers loose their sleep on a Nintendo title if only half of the shipment has been sold after week 1 ? No, because they have confidence in the product and now it will sale for months/years without them having to cut the price.
Holiday season is starting soon and Switch sales in Japan will be massive - we hear so much about software shortages from Japan during that time of the year for big games on Nintendo systems, not surprising that retailers would rather have some more stock and be prepared this time.
pretty done
Member
I hope that's not good for them. I actually hope it's a flop!
Maybe they'll use a condom next time they decide to fuck the west.
Maybe they'll use a condom next time they decide to fuck the west.
Jawbreaker
Member
I wonder when that shipment's going to sell. What are we at now? 111k in Japan after 2 weeks?
We know they shipped 172k physical units at launch, and they sold through 111k of those. If the legs are good, they can sell through the remaining 61k in 6-8 weeks I think, if not slightly faster even.