I know there are shortages, but I wonder if this year is going to be the peak for Switch. AC is a beast.
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Media Create Sales: Week 12, 2020 (Mar 16 - Mar 22)
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you mean you don't have to give up japan or the west when targeting a demographic?
I think one reason for the high hardware numbers is that people are aware Switch could be soon in short supply. OG Switch is already in short supply for weeks.
So people don't hold back.
So people don't hold back.
Have you asked me a few weeks ago I would tell you FF7R (PS4) would have sold a bit better than FFXV in the end (in Japan).
But now I'm not so sure anymore.
But the Lite sold more and the Lite has been available for a while now.
FF15 was always gonna be the ceiling, methinks. so it was never likely to me
FFXV shipped a million first week.
Retailers probably really regretted that.
Ok wow I wasnt expecting that much HW sales at ALL. For AC numbers I knew it would be massive, franchise growth and actual situation made a perfect storm.
There will be other shipments of the AC Switch so I expect other pretty big weeks. Productions picked up in China too so hopefully the bundle can carry the Switch until bigger classic switch shipments are up.
There will be other shipments of the AC Switch so I expect other pretty big weeks. Productions picked up in China too so hopefully the bundle can carry the Switch until bigger classic switch shipments are up.
Guys, it's pretty simple...
"looks" = it seem it did it, but is not official
"exceeded " = it did more than that
"looks to have exceeded 2.5 million units in its first three days" = With a bit of math everyone who understand the market can guess it probabily did more than that
"looks" = it seem it did it, but is not official
"exceeded " = it did more than that
"looks to have exceeded 2.5 million units in its first three days" = With a bit of math everyone who understand the market can guess it probabily did more than that
I'm not even sure it will break 700k
But then again I have no faith in the FF brand nowadays and remakes rarely sell that well to begin with (Final Fantasy 3 beeing the exception and not the norm for Japan)
Wouldn't be that surprising. PS4 is nowhere near the DS in popularity and FF3 camr out during its really popular years and FF7:R is coming out when the PS4 is dead.
Just feels like another case of a game coming out too late in a system's life. Also the FF brand is just not worth as much now a days.
Not really. Before the remake FF3 was only available on the Famicom. There were no other versions to play. As such it was a highly requested game from fans and sales reflected that
You can play FF7 on anything nowadays. It's going to be harder to find a device that can't play FF7 than one on which you can.
He's an analyst. He doesn't tweet estimates based on exactly nothing. I my self have a gut feeling the digital is high but we can't know for sure. That's why that tweet is weird.
The wording makes it clear he doesn'T know the digital part and is just guestimating. As pointed out, he used a 25% digital share which would be prety low for a Nintendo title available through the voucher program
I dont see quite how this relates to my post - but yeah AC been around for a while.
Being a analyst doesnt mean you have access to internal data before Nintendo makes them public.
you mean you don't have to give up japan or the west when targeting a demographic?
Yeah, I know, such a controversial concept. This totally won't happen again at some point either...
Ryng put it better than I did:
This is being blown out of proportion. Zhuge is saying that, assuming a digital ratio of AT LEAST 25%, it shipped AT LEAST 2.5M.
If AC sales in the first few weeks are indeed as strong as it is suggested, there is a chance that By March 31st ACNH will be the Switch game with the highest sell-in in Japan (once Nintendo will report the full FY results in early May).
My assumption is that (some) people who were fans of the franchise but had since grow out of FF (and his antics aimed at today teens) would be draw to a remake of a game which had a huge cultural impact back in late '90s.
That's why I expected FF7R ep. 1 (PS4) to perform better than FFXV in Japan.
I know that it will be released in the twilight days of PS4 (and PS4 was never really strong in Japan to begin with) and that splitting the remake into multiple games doesn't exactly inspire confidence but my guess was that lapsed gamers would propel sales in conjunction with the current fans of the series.
The question is how much over 4M.
ACNH will need at least 4.5M to have a chance to beat Smash and Pokemon Sw/Sh by March 31st.
Yes it'll be easily over 4mil due to the time xtra week and digital will be high. It could even be as close to 4.5mil imo
Also I've been a lurker here for years and wanted to say thank you for your contribution:)
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It doesn't really matter, if it doesn't happen in March it will happen in June.
I know that some games are more popular in certain regions than others, but this made me think, what is actually an either-or approach when it comes to game design? Is it about any specific game mechanics? And is there anything specific (insert example game here) could do differently design wise to get away from that approach and therefor be more successful worlwide?
I'm guessing he means that Animal Crossing isnt specifically a portable franchise in a response when you said "big portable franchises".
On that subject, i think it was a fair point to speculate how the increased prices would affect the sales, but it can be kinda funny looking back on that subject even so (i guess thats what you mean?) :) I guess that the price increase didnt really affect things that much because it was still within a reasonable price range, and people were/are used to paying $60 for games (it might have different if the price went from $60 to $80 instead of $40 to $60). And that people see the value in the games even at a $40 and $60 pricetag of course =)
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Great to hear, maybe if we are lucky we can have a 100k hw week next week (I'm hopeful for 150k but who knows)
And also hello old friend if you happen to remember me!
Shout outs also to Ryng and My mortal rival Kerotan ;P
Maybe kids looming for another shooter after being introduced to the genre through Fortnite?
Or it could just be tied to Switch's ridiculous YoY growth.