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Media Create Sales: Week 19, 2018 (May 07 - May 13)
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That's ok and certainly consistent with the really good numbers the platform made in Japan thanks mostly to MH but that's nowhere near what DS got. Square output on DS alone was much more impressive imo (edit: and many are lacking). The FF games that you are mentioning were perhaps outsourced but they were very meaningful releases and full 3D remakes of mainline entries not spin offs. If that would have been the other way around I can only imagine the criticisms from Nintendo fans while I don't remember there were that much at the time, not at all actually.
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Or maybe that these games can't run on DS. Also, these games sold well on PSP, so how is it incompetence? The point is, the platform with the biggest install base doesn't necessarily has the biggest fanbase for every franchise. I'd say there are more FF fans among PSP owners than DS owners. And in WII's case, it has the smallest fanbase of most franchises.
SE also put some high quality games on DS though, like FFTA2, the FFCC games, TWEWY, Dragon Quest Joker series. Many of them surprisingly don't have very good sales. FFT remake on PSP completely stomped FFTA2 on DS.
Similarly Namco put three original Tales games on DS, ToH in particular is of very high quality, yet they are consitently outsold by remakes on PSP.
Given its pace on Comgnet et other stores like GEO, I would say that a 100k+ opening is not out of the question and would completely blow my initial expectations too.
The series was known for having small opening and incredible legs but now it could open really well.
I'll dare to say that PSP was made to be a sucessor to the GBA, even in the scope of projects over it. I think that I'm being naive and disingenuous about the whole question, but I think that if sony had a handheld on that time, games like Final Fantasy Tatics Advance and Boktai would never come to a Nintendo console in the first place.
Where was this discovered? Mike Mika (of Digital Eclipse) went on record last year saying Capcom had prioritized development of the Switch port of SF30thAC from day one of their involvement with the project. He also mentioned he expects the Switch port will probably be the best selling version.
The only way what you say could be true is if Capcom had an entirely different SF anniversary project from a different developer that got scrapped in favor of DE's collection.
Prior Minecraft openings:
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PSV Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition 36.593 1.426.849 SCE 19/03/2015
PS4 Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition 5.680 644.208 SCE 03/12/2015
WIU Minecraft: Wii U Edition 22.676 552.569 Microsoft 17/12/2015
Crisis Core was announced in 2004, and Birth by Sleep was in development from 2005. Square already bet big on the Psp before MHP was a thing.
About Capcom, they better have something Switch related at E3 and no a year and a half old 3DS port doesn't count.
It doesn't even have to be some type of AAA big budget game either. Give us Ace Attorney or Viewtiful Joe. Those are games that would sell well on Switch
It doesn't even have to be some type of AAA big budget game either. Give us Ace Attorney or Viewtiful Joe. Those are games that would sell well on Switch
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Square might have bet on PSP from the beginning but this wasn't the standard for most companies.
AA is a given, but Viewtiful Joe? That's the kind of games that bombs everywhere.
Which is ever weirder, to bet on a handheld from a company with zero experience on that market.
Not that weird. SE had an excellent relationship with Sony at the time and it made sense for them to partner on their entry into the handheld market.
VJ1 GC outsold Okami PS2 in the west. Yet Okami's been ported like crazy but Joe seemed to die with Clover.
I think something like a Viewtiful HD Collection could do pretty well. And Capcom's running out of games to remaster anyway so they might as well.
iOS to Switch ports:
Ghost Trick
Monster Hunter Stories
Ace Attorney Trilogy
All announced at
Not at the time. Back in 2004 basically the entire industry (publishers, retailers, analysts, press) thought PSP was going to steamroll DS. The narrative was that Sony would do in the portable sphere exactly what they did in the home console market to Nintendo.
lol you all are crazy if you think Viewtiful Joe has any chance of coming back. He's too different from the type of content Capcom wants to push today.
But was enough to cover the possible losses over the project if it wasn't successful?
I could only understand that if the games were funded by Sony itself, but that wasn't even the case.
That's why narratives are dumb. I remember the pic of a guy with two PSP's and a DS in the center with something like "hey please gimme attention". To imply that a console, game or even a product is fated to success because it basically exists is a business myopia.
Well, unless if you're a scoundrel company like Apple.
It wasn't the first time they did that, Square bet big on the wonderswan as opposed to the gba, that's why the wonderswan got multiple SE games early into its life and square supports for the nds was later than most third parties on the gba
HD Remasters are like 75% of Capcom's output. And they're running out of other notable Gen 6 stuff to port, at this point it's just Onimusha, VJ and maybe Killer 7.
Square bet on Wonderswan because they were estranged from Nintendo at the time. Enix meanwhile went in heavy on GBC and early GBA support.
Square's early DS support was good but it was also a bit more retro and kid focused (DQ spinoffs, FF remakes). Basically a direct continuation of what they were already doing on GBA.
It has potential to be a million seller, so I would say yes.
it's a bigger release than almost everything this year so far so yeah ?
That moment when a significant release in Japan for a Nintendo Handheld/Hybrid is a Microsoft game that probably sold more copies in japan than all microsoft consoles did combined.
Can Minecraft Switch Week 1 beat the LTD of Xbox1 that week ?
Can Minecraft Switch Week 1 beat the LTD of Xbox1 that week ?
It probably will.
Keep in mind the Wii U version released in late 2015 sold over 300k at retail...
Say you have a bunch of console devs who don't know anything about HD development. Would you rather work on PSP and make PS2-ish game or work on PS3?
PSP's "console experience on the go" concept had a lot of positive buzz back then. Even western devs were excited.
Very accurate. Capcom bet on Switch not being a success. The company does not have large amounts of development resources to devote to the System. 2 people were tasked with porting MT Framework to Switch. Honestly I expect them to try and do more streaming stuff to Switch in Japan. NA/EU may just get cut out for the most part besides token things
Considering we are getting Mario Tennis Aces & Taiko on top of Minecraft it's a strange logic some people apply to big releases.
At this point all I want from Capcom is Resident Evil 4,5,6 and Dead Rising 1,2, OTR on Switch since they are not supporting it with big budget games as it seems right now.
Is Minecraft Switch really gonna be big in it's first week when it has been on sales on Eshop for a few months? Can it outsell the Vita version?
Minecraft on Wii U sold 50K during the period between July 11 to September 4 2016. An average of 7K per week on the Wii U during 2016 summer vacation in Japan.
During December 2016 Minecraft on the Wii U sold 68K in a 4 Week period an average of 17K per week.
Now during those two period Wii U was barely selling at all - it sold around 20K during the four weeks of December. While during the period July 11 to September 4 it sold around 34K. The situation for the Switch will be drastically different and Minecraft remains hugely relevant for the demographic buying Switches during those holidays. There is a reason why Minecraft has remained in top position for the majority of the past year on the Japanese eShop & why the majority of top viewed videos on Nintendo JP's YouTube channel are Minecraft Lets Play series.
Like I said in the previous forum to me Minecraft remains a game that with a user-base of >20M in Japan has a chance to sell >5M - personally I think it will surpass 1M physical this year.
During December 2016 Minecraft on the Wii U sold 68K in a 4 Week period an average of 17K per week.
Now during those two period Wii U was barely selling at all - it sold around 20K during the four weeks of December. While during the period July 11 to September 4 it sold around 34K. The situation for the Switch will be drastically different and Minecraft remains hugely relevant for the demographic buying Switches during those holidays. There is a reason why Minecraft has remained in top position for the majority of the past year on the Japanese eShop & why the majority of top viewed videos on Nintendo JP's YouTube channel are Minecraft Lets Play series.
Like I said in the previous forum to me Minecraft remains a game that with a user-base of >20M in Japan has a chance to sell >5M - personally I think it will surpass 1M physical this year.
People forget what appeal had a portable PlayStation for third-parties in a time when PlayStation 2 was dominating.
Everybody was on board for PSP when it was announced.
Not many (and mostly from Japan) were on board for PSV.
Squaresoft didn't have the license to develop for Nintendo consoles for 6 years so if they wanted to sell their games on dedicated handhelds they had to develop for non-Nintendo handhelds and Wonderswan happened to be the only one to be moderately successful in Japan (also Chocobo no Fushigi Dungeon which was licensed to Bandai for the Wonderswan launch sold well).
With such context Squaresoft support for Wonderswan is understandable.
I think I'll agree with this one. While we had publishers like Square who betted early on (as duckroll mentioned, Crisis Core: FFVII was announced back in 2004 and then released in 2007), it was Monster Hunter Portable, 2nd more specifically, to start making the system attractive to Japanese third party developers again, after the (logic at the time, I'd say) initial enthusiasm for the prospect of a portable PlayStation, coming off the PS2. As I may have stated multiple times, Wii's third party support was affected by a variety of factors (both internal to the system itself and market-related), with one of them being how it was NOT the market leader, due to systems having stronger sales and better software environments for more core-related offerings: the PSP was one of the two strongest systems in the market, with the DS ahead, and Monster Hunter as a whole was by far the main responsible for the system's "reinassance".
Zero but it has nothing to do with the Wii at all?
The game existed before the Wii in the first place.
Ironic then that we finally have a proper "console experience on the go" and all these developers are shuffling their feet looking around awkwardly.
Console experience on the go is more a marketing catchphrase than anything else.
GBA was a SNES++ on the GO PSP a lesser PS2 on the go DS was thought as a N64 on the go at first, 3DS a WII on the go PSV a lesser PS3 on the go and all had titles at launch or near launch to make the audience think that.
The reality is that titles always needed reworking and compromises to be able to fit on a handheld, nothing really changed ont that front except Nintendo made a bigger effort than usual to be more compliant with popular engines and middlewares.
New Dock-less Switch announced by NCL's twitter.
Goes for 24,980 yen
That's one way to get sales up
Seems to be nintendo's Online store only and for families that already have a switch.
Probably won't do a ton.
Goes for 24,980 yen
That's one way to get sales up
Seems to be nintendo's Online store only and for families that already have a switch.
Probably won't do a ton.
I figured this would happen before any kind of "Switch Mini".