am i the only person that if i buy a CE i strip the contents out of the box and then the box goes in a big box on top of my wardrobe where it's out of the way?
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Limited Run Games |OT| Sweet XOXO for Digital to Physical Media
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I do too. (Remove game, leave all else)
But that space where I keep all these huge boxes is pretty much full now.
New numbers:
Saturday Morning RPG sold 9,300 copies on Switch, LRG expected only 6,000.
CSH sold 5k per platform (PS4 and Vita) which was less than LRG expected. "Didn't make a super strong case for preorders on PlayStation".
I'm mostly a Nintendo gamer and super happy about the pre order situation with Switch games but i think it's sad that a pre order of 5,000 copies don't show that people also want pre orders of PlayStation games.
I still think pre orders are fair to everyone. Everyone can get of copy of the game they want and LRG can sell more copies of games. I just wished LRG would just do pre orders for every game.
https://twitter.com/LimitedRunJosh/status/1005693025937444864
Saturday Morning RPG sold 9,300 copies on Switch, LRG expected only 6,000.
CSH sold 5k per platform (PS4 and Vita) which was less than LRG expected. "Didn't make a super strong case for preorders on PlayStation".
I'm mostly a Nintendo gamer and super happy about the pre order situation with Switch games but i think it's sad that a pre order of 5,000 copies don't show that people also want pre orders of PlayStation games.
I still think pre orders are fair to everyone. Everyone can get of copy of the game they want and LRG can sell more copies of games. I just wished LRG would just do pre orders for every game.
https://twitter.com/LimitedRunJosh/status/1005693025937444864
The reason why open preorders don't mean much here is because the print number they were going to go with originally was around the same number as the preorder one. Not being able to beat out a set number doesn't make a strong case for preorders, especially when they can guarantee that set number and open preorders may end up being lower than their guarantee.
Problem is with these numbers is we never know for sure if they include the CEs or not :x
Doesn't it defeat the point of buying CEs in the first place ? ^^
Altough you also have to take into account the fact there is less complaining, which is valuable in a way :)
Doesn't it defeat the point of buying CEs in the first place ? ^^
Altough you also have to take into account the fact there is less complaining, which is valuable in a way :)
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I'm sure they are include the CE. LRG always wrote on Twitter that the numbers are inclusive the CE if someone asked.
Lol wrong topic?
However, now that MS owns Ninja Theory... no LRG Seuna?
highly doubtful but maybe we might see a limited print run published by microsoft like we did with minecraft but then again sony allowing that we have more chance of seeing hell freeze over
You might see a Xbox only
Print run to hype the studio in the future
Oki ! That would make a 2000 standard units on the PS4 and 3000 on Vita. Not great, but that's life.
Hellblade sounds compromised indeed... hopefully Microsoft opens himself to limited prints some day. I'm not an Xbox player but I'm considering getting one for cheap to play the exclusives.
So it seems that having open preorders just made people ignore the release. 5k each would mean that Vita did about 3k and PS4 did about 2k for SEs. I can see why they wouldn't want to have open preorders for anything but Switch games if that's all a sought after release is capable of.
That's pretty funny. Like if you really want it, get it! I'm guessing these were people who only wanted to: scalp, buynit JUST because rare, or were planning on getting it later because "easy to find cause open pre-order".
None of Gaijinworks stuff were easy to find after their few week long orders ended.
I'm under the impression they could've sold more if it was one of their regular drops.
People will still be looking for the physical release after this anyway. lol. Same thing happened with Shovel Knight Vita and I see people ask for a reprint that will likely not happen.
People will still be looking for the physical release after this anyway. lol. Same thing happened with Shovel Knight Vita and I see people ask for a reprint that will likely not happen.
Your number guesses are inaccurate.
PS4 CE + PS4 regular is about 5k
Vita CE + Vita regular is about 5k
More regular editions were purchased than CE. This is true for both PS4 & Vita.
Chances are we would have sold more if we hadn't done open preorders, but I don't regret the decision.
What would be inaccurate about it, unless the number of CEs for PS4 wasn't 3k? By SE I meant standard edition, which going off the numbers given would put Vita at roughly 3k (2k CE) and PS4 at 2k (3k CE).
The Shovel Knight booth at PAX Prime last year actually had them. I remember hearing about the small print run (Kickstarter only at the time, I think?) and nabbed one while I could (only had the WiiU version at the time, cause Amiibo).
It was on fangamer I believe. And they had extras that eventuallu dried up last year
I totally agree on that. People only want a investment in games, are selfish. They should invest in the stock market if they want money. LRG is a shop where i can have my boxed games for my collection. So i don't care if 5k or 13k other people (or 100k) have the same game.
More units sold means more boxed retail games for me and no "download only" future.
I only ordered CSH because it was a pre order and i could combined it with pre orders of other Switch games.
What surprises me is that apparently some people preordered 100 SMRPG to profit but didn't do the same with CSH when it was as likely to be profitable.
Noooo, don't be like that T_T
(Glad you're mostly happy with the sales though ! =) )
For us who are interested in the runs' size (I'm tending a list on a French website) the biggest downside of preorders is the opacity of the final numbers. To this day we have no figures for Flinthook and Mercenary Kings on the Switch, and when we have some they aren't very precise (Thimbleweed Park, hell : even Skullgirls ! LRG never tells if they had to print additionnal units to round the figure to the nearest thousand).
How could it be that CSH sold around 5k for each console (which would mean 2k standard editions for the PS4 and 3k for the Vita) and at the same time more SE than CE would have been sold on both consoles ? That should make the PS4 at least 6k since there were 3000 Collector Editions. Unless there's a PAX extra that has been printed, or they are going to "round up" the figures ?
I need to get on one of these AMA some day because we need to fill the blanks. It's no top secret or is it ? ^^'
Noooo, don't be like that T_T
(Glad you're mostly happy with the sales though ! =) )
For us who are interested in the runs' size (I'm tending a list on a French website) the biggest downside of preorders is the opacity of the final numbers. To this day we have no figures for Flinthook and Mercenary Kings on the Switch, and when we have some they aren't very precise (Thimbleweed Park, hell : even Skullgirls ! LRG never tells if they had to print additionnal units to round the figure to the nearest thousand).
How could it be that CSH sold around 5k for each console (which would mean 2k standard editions for the PS4 and 3k for the Vita) and at the same time more SE than CE would have been sold on both consoles ? That should make the PS4 at least 6k since there were 3000 Collector Editions. Unless there's a PAX extra that has been printed, or they are going to "round up" the figures ?
I need to get on one of these AMA some day because we need to fill the blanks. It's no top secret or is it ? ^^'
Any likelihood we'd see a physical release of Tunic? Perhaps Yono and the Celestial Elephants has a better shot.
LRG or Josh from LRG always answer on twitter about sales of Switch games. Flinthook and Mercenary Kings 10k each and Thimbleweed Park 14k both are inclusive the CE:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/997678397152284672
Yes, they have to do that:
https://twitter.com/LimitedRunJosh/status/1005693025937444864
They sold 9,300 copies of Saturday Morning RPG but have to order 10,000 from Nintendo. The other 700 will be for replacements and the rest of them will maybe sold on conventions and in the january sale.
Disagree. The switch market is a lot stronger than PS4/ vita based on price of the switch game already sold on eBay
CSH sold about 5k on PS4 physical & about 5k on Vita physical. The regular editions sold more than the CEs. Any speculation beyond that is just that - speculation.
Is 10k the minimum order on Switch? That seems high given it was 6k on 3DS and Wii U?
No, it's not. I don't think LRG would have startet selling Switch games if they always had to order 10,000 copies.
Super Rare Games ordered 3k of their third Switch game recently. So i think (but i don't know) the minimum should be 1k or maybe 2k. At least it is 3k because of the third game from Super Rare Games.
The tweet the post links to actually explains it. They need to round it up to the nearest thousand.
Hope Hellblade isn't dead for a physical release given the news on the Xbox conference that the dev is now a first party Microsoft studio. I'm pretty sure MS allowed for a physical print from a third party of Ori and Halo Wars 2 on PC at least.
Well, until Summon Night 6. Unless you specifically need a shipping box with blue tissue paper.
I think the biggest contributing factor on game scalpability is, is the game great? From everything I hear and know, CSH is. If I was a scalper I would've ordered a dozen copies.
Totally missed that tweet, thanks Heisenbrg ! OP too apparently, since the quantities are not specified on the front page of the topic either. Now an update is possible :D
Thimbleweed Park Switch : 3000 CE, 11000 SE
Flinthook and Mercenary Kings Switch : 3000 CE, 7000 SE
Saturday Morning RPG Switch : 2500 CE, 7500 SE
The last remaining preorder figures I'm unsure about :
Ys Origin Vita : they said they had to reorder games because the preorder sales (6575 total including CE) were slightly higher than expected, but we don't know how many they reordered.
http://www.mightyrabbitstudios.com/limitedrunforums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2850
Pixeljunk Monsters PC : afaik the numbers haven't been stated.
Pixeljunk Monsters PS4-Switch : we know there's a total of 7000 units, but the breakdown is unclear (https://twitter.com/LimitedRunJosh/status/1002917871750696960). Especially if they had to round up the Switch count to the nearest thousand.
Cosmic Star Heroine PS4 : with all due respect, Werezompire is maintaining a weird mathematical inconsistency regarding the breackdown between CEs and SEs :3
Less profitable, probably, but there's still easy money to be made. I guess they don't have unlimited funds, so they choose the one with the best ROI.
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It basically suggests that the Collector's Edition number was reduced in favor of standard editions. Or not, hell, I have no idea. :D Would be nice to know for sure one day, though.
On an unrelated matter, I too am really really hoping "Hellblade" will make it to disc somehow. Ilm pretty much done with digital purchases, especially higher priced ones. So I'll wait, just as I have with "Yakuza 5"....
That game could clearly deserve it <3
Tunic was the highlight of yesterday's conference for me, as weird as it sounds.
Was it to be profitable? Pretty sure LRG were pushing hard that SMRPG needed to do well on Switch for there to be a sequel. I received like 3 e-mails about it lol. Didn't see CSH get the same push.
Decent. Surprised Vita did so close to PS4.
Excited for the LRG conference! Fata Morgana finally gonna be revealed (I know it's gonna be for Switch/PS4 too, but still grabbing that Vita version)
Doesn't sound weird at all....it was my highlight too! :)
Really made me sit up in my chair and instantly pray to the gods of physical game releases.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/li...ess-conference-06-11-18-3-pm-est.46573/unread
Conference thread here for more live reactions and such.
Conference thread here for more live reactions and such.
