Just to add a little more perspective to these numbers, below are the first week sales of Top 15 PS4 games on COMG
So COMG multiplier can be from 700 to 1400
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Media Create Sales: Week 1, 2018 (Jan 01 - Jan 07)
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Just to add a little more perspective to these numbers, below are the first week sales of Top 15 PS4 games on COMG
So COMG multiplier can be from 700 to 1400
oh man if only xenoblade 2 could reach 300k that would be a dream come true.
I knew this game would have incredible legs going into the holidays. The physical release has definitely paid off and should continue to sell over time. 100k+ lifetime seems like a possibility.
We probably wouldn't be able to see this until we get MC white book for 2018.
This reminds me those DS times, when games were having FW below 10% of LTD.
I think it is a very good sign for Switch because all games had great legs during holidays.
As you know, many stores are sold out (Switch and many switch games) this week. Today, restocks for Switch and some switch games, not enough, not big quantities, shortages continue for many stores:
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No it wouldn't, it would be at the 13th place. Also what this has to do with anything anyway?
How will MH:W stand be digitally in Japan? I feel like the incentive to buy that digitally is higher than with something like Dragon Quest XI.
Nintendo going to be shipping boxes with just "IOU" scribbled on a piece of torn paper inside soon.
How low shipments are we looking at? It'd be pretty disappointing if Nintendo weren't able to ship 50K a week considering how much they're planning to make going forward.
Whilst it's not good having shortages of HW and SW it does show that the demand is still huge.
Just to add a little more perspective to these numbers, below are the first week sales of Top 15 PS4 games on COMG
So COMG multiplier can be from 700 to 1400
Pretty good signs for MHW. Obviously you can't read too much into comg numbers too much but 1 million plus looks a certainty. Starting to feel a bit better but my high prediction but it's hard to know really.
ARMS is the best selling fighting game of the generation, which is quite amusing per se, given that it is a new franchise. It bounced back during holidays after having almost disappeared from charts. It might reach 450-500k over time which is a big result for a game of this genre.
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Arms never left the charts.
Media Create had it at 20-30th place every week.
That's why I wrote "almost disappeared". It left the Top 30 on Famitsu for a few weeks. Unlike Zelda, which kept selling in high positions, ARMS dropped more on a weekly basis so seeing selling so well during holidays is a surprise.
I was just counting retail copies sold. No reason to get defensive, I was just putting it into perspective because some people were still doubting its success.
Edit: Sorry, I mixed up my MC and famitsu numbers, it is 13th on famitsu.
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Famitsu likely substantially undertracked ARMS during those weeks it was putting out weekly sales almost a third of what Media create a dengeki were saying for some of those weeks.
We will see in a couple of weeks famitsu digital sales estimates
With those, the game could already be at 200k
300k seems the high ceiling but not that far fetched
On another note, ARMS legs are incredible
Dengeki even put it at almost 409k without digital
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You weren't quoting anyone so I don't know to what particular concern you're answering, but I don't see the relation between poor software number and the conclusion that people will still buy software after buying Monster Hunter World ? If anything, it seems more likely to me that you're giving evidence of the opposite.
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Things will improve next weeks.
It was expected if Nintendo shipped everything available for December and still wasn't enough January supply would be tight.
It was said earlier that people bought PS4 this week for MHW and nothing else. Basically buying the hardware now and no games, letting the hardware sit there, waiting for MHW to release. I guess that is what he is referring to.
I expect a LTD between 200K and 500K for Mario + Rabbids in Japan.
The game is good (and strategy games can perform well in Japan) and Ubisoft Milan did a good job to shape it as a Nintendo-like effort.
Basically I think it will sell as a good Mario spinoff (on a good selling Nintendo console) despite being an Ubisoft game.
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Dark Souls remastered First week sales for Switch, PS4, and XB1 if you want.
Keep in mind that the 6m existing PS4 owners also bought software week 1.
It'll be interesting to see. In the UK, I believe M+R opened at around 25k, and throughout the year it ended up selling around 100k after just over 4 months of sales (Source). If Rabbids opened at a respectable 50k+, then I think 200k is easily achieved, and it might go up to 400k depending on exactly how well its legs hold (with Japan being a bigger and faster-growing market than UK for Switch).
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It came out August 29th, that's 4 months or so, I wouldn't say it had "a whole year of sales" :-)
Huh? Where did i got defensive? I just didn't understand your post.
This is assuming that all new adopters have purchased a game and existing userbase almost bought nothing.
According to Dengeki, PS4 sold 110,929 units, while software sold 177,527 units. This means that if all new adopters have purchased a (retail) game, existing users purchased a grand total of 66,598 games. In Week 1. The so-called "Sony week". Of course, it might well be that a good portion of new adopters haven't purchased anything because it is really depressing to think that an almost 6 million installed base have purchased below 70,000 units of software in Week 1 after the "peak year".
Of course, we don't have data to state with certainty one thing over the other. Wherever we look the data, though, a depressing picture emerges.
Thats true. Theres also used game sales and digital. But like you say, we dont have the data to say if lots of people bought the hardware without any software, so its indeed just guessing from either side.
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When was the last time "Sony week" really boosted sales by the way? Since the term has originated from somewhere.
As I had warned with GEO pre-orders, mario party: the top 100 is a little surprise, in 2 weeks, over 100k:
Media-create:
05./05. [3DS] Mario Party: The Top 100 <ETC> (Nintendo) {2017.12.28} (¥4.980) - 51.818 / 103.999 (-1%)
Famitsu:
05./05. [3DS] Mario Party: The Top 100 <ETC> (Nintendo) {2017.12.28} (¥4.980) - 64.885 / 111.073 <80-100%> (+40%)
Dengeki:
04./04. [3DS] Mario Party: The Top 100 (Nintendo) {2017.12.28} - 57,967 / 108,423
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05./05. [3DS] Mario Party: The Top 100 <ETC> (Nintendo) {2017.12.28} (¥4.980) - 51.818 / 103.999 (-1%)
Famitsu:
05./05. [3DS] Mario Party: The Top 100 <ETC> (Nintendo) {2017.12.28} (¥4.980) - 64.885 / 111.073 <80-100%> (+40%)
Dengeki:
04./04. [3DS] Mario Party: The Top 100 (Nintendo) {2017.12.28} - 57,967 / 108,423
And yet as of this morning I still read (someone replied on Mr. Serkan Toto's tweet report of Switch hw+games soldout) people arguing about artificial scarcity.
Guess I'll never understand those conspiracy theories...
Mario Party seems to be pretty critic-proof. People don't care that the games have been shit for like over a decade now.
Hell yeah, Japan: Switch ~ 3,5m in 10 months, splatoon 2 over 1,9m (physical), SMO ~ 1,5m, MK8D ~ 1,2m
USA: Record for Switch in 10 months with 4,8 m, same in France (over 900.000)
Nintendo "organizes" a very weird shortage lol
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Used market exists for other platforms too. PS gamers can be more digital-savvy but still software sales are quite depressing even considering hardware sales. Anyway, given such low software numbers, there is really nothing positive to spin about.
As for "Sony week", historically Sony hardware has seen bigger growth WOW in Week 1. Point is, this year Sony software is really weak. This shows the Sony inability to create long-term interest in software and, more importantly, an older audience that buys at launch and doesn't allow for long-lasting effects.
Oh sorry, I thought you may have taken offense at the comparison. I chose to do the comparison because the PS4 has a large library. I should have really compare it to both Switch and PS4 software combined, where it is probably around 20th.
Thats true, but it was only talk about those who bought a PS4 this week (last week) and if they bought games as well. I also dont think anyone was trying to spin it any way.
How does this week compare to previous years? Did anything change this year?
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My God what a completely atrocious number. Looking at that number in context, yes- MH World and not actual software on the shelves was clearly the driver for hardware sales. Ugh.
i mean the only thing im really surprised anout is that nintendo kept the rabbids name in the title. this has a potential to go up to 500k plus due to the mario name alone.
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