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Media Create Sales: Week 15, 2018 (Apr 09 - Apr 15)
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The main reason Snack World is interesting is that it could potentially be the 2nd 3rd party game to sell over 100K in 2018. Since Dark Souls was pushed back and DQB/AOT2 have only now broken through 50K - Snack World during Labo and Golden Week should overtake both.
Overall based on the retailer ranking I expect Snack World's second week to be between 10-15K and by it's third week for the game to be infront of both DQB and AOT2.
Overall based on the retailer ranking I expect Snack World's second week to be between 10-15K and by it's third week for the game to be infront of both DQB and AOT2.
I hope God of War has a good opening and some legs; it really deserves the sales. It seems like it gained some traction in Japan over the last week.
weren't there 10 divisions before? sounds like Asano's team got spun off into his own division. interesting. I guess we can expect more games like Octopath and Bravely, and on more systems.
Tokyo RPG Factory on blast
Yes. It was 12 originally but some of the mobile/browser teams merged.
Asano's team breaking away from BD6 to form BD11 is cool. I wonder if any other staff went (Nier), if perhaps BD6 is moving back to DQ only?
edit: Actually there's another unnumbered division in BD structure. It's the localization group, sometimes called Extreme Edges Team, that handles things like Japan releases of SE Europe games or co-producing Spelunker with Tozai.
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Square Enix business divisions are making alot of changes. BD1 transitioning from a mobile team to a AAA team, BD2 is now luminous studios (and likely had some staff move around to other divisions), BD6 was hiring for Nier, now the Bd11 news.
Donkey Kong will undoubtedly become the first WiiU port on Switch to open higher than its initial release. It speaks volume about how the game underperformed on WiiU, it was embarassing really :
[WIU] Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze : 43.301 / 120.086
For comparison :
[WII] Donkey Kong Country Returns : 165.859 / 979.539 , only 4 years earlier.
[WIU] Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze : 43.301 / 120.086
For comparison :
[WII] Donkey Kong Country Returns : 165.859 / 979.539 , only 4 years earlier.
They will call it "FF and Saga cloning studio" and you will like it :P
when the clones are better than the OG games, who's gonna complain?
a certain ffxv fan *ehem*
I wonder what has Istolia been doing,been over a year since the last time they showed people their project though
From what i understand, the majority of BD2 are now at luminous, and judging from the FF7 recruiting ad some of BD2 went to work on FF7 remake.
Last time we heard of him he's hiring. Whatever project he's working on must still be in a very early stage.
so what does BD2 even do now? or is there just a hole that will eventually be filled for some kind of niche?
The game could surprise. Does it not already face supply issues?
I was under the impression that talking about Snack World was in the context of Snack World once being Level-5's multimedia ace in the hole after declining Yokai Watch sales and not necessarily because it's a switch port. Have they even made those NFC keychains that work with the game as initially revealed?
Yeah, although FIFA was revealed at the January 2017 event, so they couldn't use the 'untapped market' technique that they used for Bomberman for PES.
Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu is a different story however, and prior to its reveal, I was fully expecting the 2018 game to come to Switch. BNE only announced Famitsa a couple of days before Konami could've actually released their game. Sounds like a wasted potential to me. It's not like Jikkyou has never been a regular on a Nintendo system before.
Since Jikkyou is now bi-annual, would that mean they'll be PS4/PSV bound until 2020? I think a late port version for the NSW would be a good idea. Maybe when they release the roster update for next season around this time next year or so...
Its up normally in amazon JP
GoW will likely have good numbers release, but dont strike me as a game that would have legs, at least in Japan
A low first week sell-through is not unexpected given the nature of the product and more importantly because of Golden Week approaching.
Regarding absolute sales, we should be around 100-120k FW for both sets combined according to YSO. It is a pretty good number imo.
Legs and sales pattern will however tell us more.
No one cares about Snack World.
they care about Level-5
Aces is June.
they care about Level-5
kirby was march.
Aces is June.
That's pretty disappointing. Hopefully we still see some sort of bump for switch HW going into GW. It's been a pretty barebones start to the year.
It's certainly going to be an interesting product to watch.
Tennis World Tour PS4/Switch by Big Ben for July 26 , 7.800 yen, preorders April 25, 2 players (offline/online)
Game developed by Breakpoint with the member who produced the title TOP SPIN, more 30 players, a carrier mode where you can create your own original character, a total of 18 types of tennis courts totaling hard, clay, carpet and flooring are included.
https://www.value-press.com/pressrelease/200642
Video and more details here:
https://twitter.com/TennisTheGame?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=https://s9e.github.io/iframe/twitter.min.html#988452666035654656
https://www.resetera.com/threads/tennis-world-tour-releases-22nd-of-may-ps4-xbo-switch-pc.28559/
Game developed by Breakpoint with the member who produced the title TOP SPIN, more 30 players, a carrier mode where you can create your own original character, a total of 18 types of tennis courts totaling hard, clay, carpet and flooring are included.
https://www.value-press.com/pressrelease/200642
Video and more details here:
https://twitter.com/TennisTheGame?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=https://s9e.github.io/iframe/twitter.min.html#988452666035654656
https://www.resetera.com/threads/tennis-world-tour-releases-22nd-of-may-ps4-xbo-switch-pc.28559/
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PS exclusivity is only something from the post-Wii years. And Konami did bring Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Heroes (a spin-off?) to the 3DS in December 2016, so so they haven't been completely absent since then.
Around 100k for FW is not DOA for product like Labo in any case,
but it is kind of product that will most likely have very strong legs because popularity will grow buy time on word-of-mouth, also Holiday season will most likely be quite strong for Labo.
Actually, the Extreme Edges group is part of BD6, to my knowledge.
Powapuro has a long history on Nintendo platforms. It just skipped Wii U for obvious reasons but came to every other Nintendo system (except VB) since it's SFC debut, usually regularly. It would be unisual for it to skip Switch given the platform's breakout success and Powapuro's own decline on PlayStation.
Famista centered on Nintendo historically but it did get releases elsewhere (MSX, PC, mobile) and PS had equivalent World Stadium (Arcade, PCE, PS1) and Play Stadium (PS1) series.