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Media Create Sales: Week 21, 2018 (May 21 - May 27)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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By the way has Fortnite gained any popularity in Japan? PUBG sold really well for PC game (Steamspy had it over 300k in Japan before they closed down) so you would think there is Battle Royale audience out there.
I haven't played Splatoon or it's sequel but Nintendo has done good with their new IP it seems.
They do better but marginally for the most part, like Fifa, Far Cry, God of War, Battlefield, Uncharted, Quantic Dream titles this week, Red Dead later most likely, Call of Duty has yet to hit its PS3 peak but probably share that market with Battlefield now, Assassin's Creed is massively down as well like everywhere I guess.
On the other hand successful launch are things like Watch Dogs, Rainbow Six, Battlefront Horizon and Destiny which are in the ~300k range (Watch Dogs/Destiny thanks to cross gen) and those who had a sequel went down pretty hard.
Yeah, I see JHS kids playing it on smartphones quite a bit. It's not at Minecraft level but yeah, it's pretty big.
Wasn't it also cheaper than PS4 at that point already? The price hold of PS4 in Japan has been - quite odd actually, I'd have expected them to drop lower by now.
Will be interesting to see RDR2 performance in Japan. Although GTA5 was definitely past the time where it had any noticeable impact on hw-sales.
Do we get any tracking in Japan for non-retail releases? Mid-tier is alive and well in DD in the rest of the world - but it's hard to say how it does in places like Japan.
They are going to be hyped if my kids reaction was anything to go by. Most kids neither know nor car what a Gen 1 is (Can I eat it?). But the game looks super cute and might pull more girls in. Most girls I teach don't care for the ultra powerful dinosaur looking Pokemon that a lot of the boys have on their pencil cases but they like Pikachu. A few of the boys might be disappointed that Sun/Moon Pokemon aren't in it but those boys are so into Pokemon they will buy it for sure anyway. If Switch eventually hits a low price-point for a portable only system, It might also bring in the old ladies in my neighborhood who walk around the park like zombies because it has 4 pokestops.
The problem is also that all those games are targeted towards an audience that is already well represented on PS4. World brought some new audience but kids and families are still nowhere to be seen.
Thanks for your answer, will be interesting to see how it develops. I think it's a great observation that the cute art style of the game could do something to pull more kids into the game.
I legit LOL'd at the ladies in your neighbourhood!
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Don't forget Knives Out, the BR mobile game. It's doing pretty well. tho I think aesthetics may hold Fortnite back... I don't know if it's Japan-friendly enough.
For PS4 having a few new releases this week, HW didn't really bump up much. Persona Dancing didn't do that great. BotW is close to 1 mil physical and Splatoon 2 will never die. DKC: TF is hanging on.
Just 25 songs? Yikes.
Doesn't Voez has like +100 songs? PD sounds like a rip off for the price lol
Detroit is the best opening for a QD game in Japan yet.
05./03. [NSW] Splatoon 2 # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} (¥5.980) - 13.473 / 2.336.522 (+7%)
11./07. [NSW] Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit <EDU> (Nintendo) {2018.04.20} (¥6.980) - 7.584 / 174.120 (-7%)
13./08. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild # <ADV> (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} (¥6.980) - 6.099 / 997.967 (+7%)
15./09. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2017.10.27} (¥5.980) - 4.302 / 1.730.169 (-7%)
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11./07. [NSW] Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit <EDU> (Nintendo) {2018.04.20} (¥6.980) - 7.584 / 174.120 (-7%)
13./08. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild # <ADV> (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} (¥6.980) - 6.099 / 997.967 (+7%)
15./09. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2017.10.27} (¥5.980) - 4.302 / 1.730.169 (-7%)
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Yea the games seem like a massive rip off. Atlus should have combined the titles and sold them for regular price. DLC is apparently pricey too as a quick glance at the OT here on Era warns people about buying it.
Rhythm games live and die out of their song list. Also, Project Diva exists.
You mean like P4D which had the same amount of songs at launch? It's a fan service game. People buy it to see the old gang dancing. The actual rhythm game is mediocre anyway.
Yes, and that's why this game is underperforming. Around the same number of songs, minus the story mode, no wonder why it did have a lackluster FW. People expect more out of sequels.
I know Atlus loves to milk their fanbase, but at least they could just release a Persona Project Dancing or whatever and cram all the songs in one game.
Nobody said Atlus are not milking. Sure they are, but the number of songs comparison still doesn't make sense.
Also, Project Diva X only has 30 songs, including 2 recycled.
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Didnt say it would reach switch numbers by any mean, just that its not priced probably.
Regarding the sales of Persona Dancing, I think it's only fair to consider sales of the Triple/Twin Pack as 2 units (like we did with the Pokémon double pack). I mean, technically there are 3 (?) games in the pack and the price is more than double than the regular. That should put the games at around 113k. Still not great, though. I think they might make up the lost sales, if the DLC takes off. Not sure how the chances for that are, though.
And thats why PDX is not a good game :p
But Future Tone has a shit ton of them, and F has 40 I think.
This week should tell you that all these new games coming to PS4, would perform much better on the Switch in Japan. I hope japanese third parties are realizing that.
PS4 sales barely moved despite all these new releases.
PS4 sales barely moved despite all these new releases.
PS3 had multiple middle ground game keep pushing PS3. While PS4 right now had blow out most of all its big gun but with no middle ground game pushing the platform like in the past. The rest older franchise had been showing decline on PS4 too. So, it's future is not as bright if you ask me here.
Yes, the widely-hated Project Diva X only has 30 songs.
F 2nd had 40, and Future/Colorful Tone had 200+.
P3D and P5D are a joke in terms of value.
Yes, but they crammed them all in one release with their original Arcade BG videos. Plus the costumes and whatnot.
Look, I'm not trying to be obnoxious. I understand that the Persona spinoffs are fansercive-y games. But, at least for me and, looking at the sales numbers for the Japanese public too, their value proposition is kind of poor. Especially when they released 2 games and one re-release at the same time.
How do you define middle ground? Games like DMC, God Eater, From's new IP, REmake2 are not middle ground? And we still have FFVIIR (which we will find out in two weeks).
And we all know how slow Japan is. PS4 can totally get a new Persona and a new Dragon Quest.
Actually AC hasn't really seen decline in Japan. Especially if you count digital discount sales for Unity and Black Flag (with those they are second and third best selling AC games in Japan). Origins also did pretty much in line with original launch editions of II, Revelations and III. II went to double its sales with bargain editions though.
Cool. I guess in Japan though with people being more comfortable on playing exclusively on mobile it will not boost PS4 hardware that much (like in west).
During spring 2011 PS3 had the same price point as PS4 currently (30k yen). It got 5k yen price cut during fall 2011 though to 25k yen. That was pretty much final price of PS3.
You can sell to the same audience though as every year new age group hits gaming age. Reason why FIFA and COD are the biggest system sellers for PS4 every year despite logically thinking that everyone buying those games would own the system. PS3 coasted years in Japan on the same franchises hitting the same demographics.
-Doubt it. Take 2 will most likely ride the remainder of the 8th gen consoles out with RDR2
-Briefly. It will do better in the West
-Musou is dead. Koei Tecmo refuses to acknowledge this
-New Tales game will do decently in Japan. The Switch version might do better in the long run
-nuff said
-I would not hold my breath on this
-Bamco, baby, what are you doing???
1. In Japan, fertility rate is really low so demographic groups below 40-50 are shrinking. Year after year, the number of people entering the young adult phase is smaller and smaller.
2. FIFA and COD are mainstream IP in Western market; they sell A LOT to kids and to casual people (especially FIFA). You can't compare games like FIFA and COD to Yakuza and Musou.
3. Said yearly franchises are also sustained by people that have yet to buy a PS4 and were playing the same games on PS3.
Also, PS3 relied on the same franchises hitting the same demographics and indeed wasn't able to go much above 10m.
Lots of people. The biggest game released so far was Monster Hunter World
13./08. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild # <ADV> (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} (¥6.980) - 6.099 / 997.967 (+7%)
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Only a LEGEND.
I'm really not sure what your point is. Both of these systems sales thus far have been extremely predictable aside from bizarre PS4 shortages and maaaayybe lack of HW boost for Switch from Labo.
Check out last year's threads where Switch was named as monster.
Its outselling PS4 almost 2:1 in its slowest time of the year and is going to have an absolutely huge (you could even say monstrous?) 2nd half of the year, in all likelihood outselling PS4 LTD by the end of the year.
I think it's surprising how early PS4 dropped back to its standard and lower to be fair.
No one before the year but everyone after Q1.
I would be surprised if Switch is not ahead by 2 million by December.