Media Create Sales: Week 22, 2018 (May 28 - Jun 03)

[Gotdatmoney]

That's definitely a good point.

Remake 2 and KH3 will be good sellers. Apart from that though I have no faith in the rest of the line up. We'll have to wait and see.

FIFA 2018 is at 130k+ as it is

I'm expecting FIFA 19 to be significantly higher. Especially with Konami beeing stupid again and not having a Switch SKU for Winning Eleven 2019

There is no Winning Eleven again on Switch? That's incredible lmao

 

[KtSlime]

I know it was undershipped here in Europe but was that the case in Japan?

From what I remember they expected 250k sales and it was regarded as an underwhelming result.

I have no idea about Europe, never been there. Abyss sold about 60% its first week, which means it probably got around 110k printed, and then sold all of them and got another print to reach 153k, before getting the Welcome Price printing many years later. I was visiting the US during that summer, and when I got back in fall I had a hard time finding a copy.

 

[Lite_Agent]

More than a year after Super Bomberman R, Konami has finally revealed their second Nintendo Switch game:


They sure love their Rs, heh?

 

[Fularu]

Well it'S a remake of a very old Famicom Game

What I don't get is why it isn't called "Track'n Field" here since more people know that name

 

[fiendcode]

Goddamn it Konami.

Speaking of impending Switch announcements, how much do we think RR8 would sell in Japan? It’s been so long since the last one, and even longer since we got a real RR outside launch window?

 

[KtSlime]

It's known as Hyper Sports in Japan and has been for over 30 years, makes sense to keep the name...

 

[test_account]

The Track & Field games were awesome back in the days! This could be fun.

Because they are all on PS4.

Overall, it will probably bring in a good amount of players. Maybe not those games each in isolation, but the PS4 might sell maybe 2-3 million more consoles in Japan.

For PS4 in Japan, early 2019 looks to be weaker than this years, with software and hardware sales most likely going to reflect quite clearly this fact, with declines in both.

We also know that there is that weird focus on 1Q on PS, this year even with a quite disappointing rest of the year as a consequence, while Nintendo is about to release some million sellers and no there's no reason to exclude them in discussions. Even then there's Youkai Watch this vor next year. So what exactly is your point?

Isnt the reason for a focus on Q1 because of bigger games being released in that period? Can you elaborate why you think its weird? Its focus on PS performance all year around as well. In recent times, people focus and talk about the PS4 performance almost every week in these threads.

150k+

FIFA 2018 is at 130k+ as it is

I'm expecting FIFA 19 to be significantly higher. Especially with Konami beeing stupid again and not having a Switch SKU for Winning Eleven 2019

Fair predictions. I know that some of the predictions for Dragon Ball FighterZ for Switch is noticeably over 100k, but FIFA at 150k+ is likely more than the DBFZ predictions in that case.

 

[Fisico]

Tales is bigger in western markets than in Japan.

Berseria sold 75% of its units outside of Japan

Where did you get that number? It's incorrect, we recently got the news that Berseria sold 1M worldwide and we know it's around 400k in Japan (PS3+PS4), some part of the steam number might come from Japan as well (a very small percentage very likely, but not 0)

Before Zestiria and besides Symphonia all main episodes sold more in Japan than in western markets, and by a landslide for most.
The series enjoyed growth in western markets but in Japan they failed at different degree (platform choice, game quality) which led to its downward trend in sales

 

[Fularu]

Where did you get that number? It's incorrect, we recently got the news that Berseria sold 1M worldwide and we know it's around 400k in Japan (PS3+PS4), some part of the steam number might come from Japan as well (a very small percentage very likely, but not 0)

Before Zestiria and besides Symphonia all main episodes sold more in Japan than in western markets, and by a landslide for most.
The series enjoyed growth in western markets but in Japan they failed at different degree (platform choice, game quality) which led to its downward trend in sales

I actually legit forgot the game came out on PS3 in Japan and went with the 250k PS4 release

As for the Steam version in Japan, I doubt it had much of an impact there, the PC market remains rather tiny compared to even the home console one.

 

[Lite_Agent]

GungHo's game is called Ninjala:


Fake edit: I see someone made a thread already.

 

[Oregano]

GungHo's game is called Ninjala:


Fake edit: I see someone made a thread already.

That's not what I expected but trying to appeal to the Splatoon audience could work very well in Japan.

 

[hiska-kun]

That's not what I expected but trying to appeal to the Splatoon audience could work very well in Japan.

See? the Direct hasn’t started and you’re already wrong lol

 

[Oregano]

See? the Direct hasn’t started and you’re already wrong lol

*Ahem*

It will be interesting to see what Gung Ho's Switch game is, that's the only unknown quantity right now.

Other than that it's looking like a year late port of DBFZ is probably the biggest Switch third party announcement for Japan.

 

[hiska-kun]

*Ahem*

Oh, didn’t check the first part.
My bad :p

 

[Joseki]

GungHo's game is called Ninjala:


Fake edit: I see someone made a thread already.

This could be a nice surprise, the artstyle is "proved", let's say.

 

[Oregano]

Oh, didn’t check the first part.
My bad :p

I made sure not to make an assumption about that in particular.:P

I expected a co-op RPG to be honest though.

 

[Aters]

Oregano return is the biggest surprise of this E3, what a shit show.
I will spend zero dollar on my PS4 and Switch for the rest of the year.

Time to look into the future, please fast forward to 2025 so I can play FFVIIR, Cyberpunk and TESVI.

 

[Mory Dunz]

I forgot who, but that guy was right about yoshi.
And Gamexplain guys were right
i was wrong

 

[lost7]

Wonder how long it will take for people to start whining about Switch third party support...

 

[Oregano]

Daemon x Machina was a nice surprise but not sure what potential it has.

The Xenoblade 2 Prequel looks amazing though. I'm tempted to buy the standalone version despite already having the expansion pass.

 

[hiska-kun]

First Party isn’t strong either.
Where is the NSMB compilation? Or Animal Crossing? And Fire Emblem is next year. Yoshi MIA.

How do they plan to reach the 20 million this fiscal year? Price drop?

 

[schuelma]

First Party isn’t strong either.
Where is the NSMB compilation? Or Animal Crossing? And Fire Emblem is next year.

How do they plan to reach the 20 million this fiscal year? Price drop?

Right now Nintendo has no first party title from 7/13 until Mario Party in October. I assume there is one or two more things coming.

 

[Chris1964]

At least the mystery with preorders and E3 was solved. Nothing is dated for August and September so they won't open at all.

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

I guess NSMBU Deluxe will get announced later today.

But it's pretty super thin.

Good-feel is terrible at making video games, this is back to back Yoshi games which have had dumpster fire tier dev cycles.

 

[Raijinto]

At least the mystery with preorders and E3 was solved. Nothing is dated for August and September so they won't open at all.

The answer was right there all along!

 

[Zedark]

It's a strange thing for sure. They went into the direct with a lineup that was arguably stronger than what they came out with. Not a good showing at all, especially Smash's release date is an unexpected setback for 2018's sales. Lineup is still pretty good imo, though.

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

It's a strange thing for sure. They went into the direct with a lineup that was arguably stronger than what they came out with. Not a good showing at all, especially Smash's release date is an unexpected setback for 2018's sales. Lineup is still pretty good imo, though.

I wonder if Yoshi really is 2H 2019... Good-feel... not that good at making video games.

 

[Zedark]

I wonder if Yoshi really is 2H 2019... Good-feel... not that good at making video games.

Where's H2 2019 coming from?

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

Where's H2 2019 coming from?

They showed Fire Emblem despite it being Spring 2019 so I'm wondering if Yoshi is later than Fire Emblem.

 

[KtSlime]

It's a bit disappointing that FE will come out in Spring, but 風花雪月 is a great name.

Smash Special looks great too, awesome everyone is in it. Sakurai made probably the most elaborate/complex fighter, maybe even game, ever done before.

 

[Aters]

It's a strange thing for sure. They went into the direct with a lineup that was arguably stronger than what they came out with. Not a good showing at all, especially Smash's release date is an unexpected setback for 2018's sales. Lineup is still pretty good imo, though.

And it's June, yet we still got a lot of "Fall 2018" games. Seriously when is Dark Souls coming out?

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

And it's June, yet we still got a lot of "Fall 2018" games. Seriously when is Dark Souls coming out?

Probably when it's done, it was probably only delayed because of technical issues they found at the last moment. It will be released when they fix them.

 

[Chris1964]

Right now Nintendo has no first party title from 7/13 until Mario Party in October. I assume there is one or two more things coming.

There won't be another general direct before September. If something is revealed this quarter it will be at treehouse and won't be anything more than Mario Bros U Deluxe / Metroid Prime Trilogy HD.

 

[Gotdatmoney]

Right now Nintendo has no first party title from 7/13 until Mario Party in October. I assume there is one or two more things coming.

Xenoblade 2 DLC is getting a physical release so that's something.

 

[Piston]

There won't be another general direct before September. If something is revealed this quarter it will be at treehouse and won't be anything more than Mario Bros U Deluxe / Metroid Prime Trilogy HD.

This sounds about correct.

Super Mario Party is a nice edition for the Switch this year since it looks pretty high quality. It basically just subs in for Fire Emblem for what we expected in 2018. We might see another Labo or Wii U port for September at some point.

 

[sfortunato]

How can Nintendo sell many Switch with only a 13m franchise targeted towards hardcore and a 16-17m franchise targeted towards a wider audience...?

Nintendo has a very strong lineup. Empty summer means nothing considering they can still sell their evergreen titles and they have a big game coming out in June.

 

[KtSlime]

How can Nintendo sell many Switch with only a 13m franchise targeted towards hardcore and a 16-17m franchise targeted towards a wider audience...?

Nintendo has a very strong lineup. Empty summer means nothing considering they can still sell their evergreen titles and they have a big game coming out in June.

Summer is not empty, it's just full of 3rd party and little 1st party.

 

[Chris1964]

Smash for December surely changes things a lot. By the way Nintendo has put Capcom at ice for good.

 

[sfortunato]

I don’t see many reasons why Capcom should skip Switch with RE2. I guess the company really changed its business strategy by focusing solely on PS4/XB1 and PC.

 

[会津Aizuの復讐]

Smash for September surely changes things a lot. By the way Nintendo has put Capcom at ice for good.

What you mean by that?, we know Capcom is ignoring Switch, but what can Nintendo do to Capcom?

 

[sfortunato]

Summer is not empty, it's just full of 3rd party and little 1st party.

I know—it’s empty of Nintendo titles. People tend to forget a game like Splatoon is selling like a new game anyway.

 

[Martin]

Smash is coming out in December

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

Summer is not empty, it's just full of 3rd party and little 1st party.

July is very nice.

August and September look like disaster zones.

 

[Sandfox]

July is very nice.

August and September look like disaster zones.

We'll see how certain titles are dated in the coming weeks.

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

I don’t see many reasons why Capcom should skip Switch with RE2. I guess the company really changed its business strategy by focusing solely on PS4/XB1 and PC.

I mean, RE2's graphics are amazing so they would have to make new character models and textures for the Switch version and they barely have any resources as is.

 

[Chris1964]

What you mean by that?, we know Capcom is ignoring Switch, but what can Nintendo do to Capcom?

After Mega Man treatment in Smash it's clear they're ignoring them too.

 

[sfortunato]

I mean, RE2's graphics are amazing so they would have to make new character models and textures for the Switch version and they barely have any resources as is.

Capcom is no stranger in adapting games to whichever hardware. E.g., SFIV on 3DS and RE4 on PS2.

 

[fiendcode]

Fire Emblem pushed to 2019? Sega must be doing backflips right now.

It's known as Hyper Sports in Japan and has been for over 30 years, makes sense to keep the name...

It’s technically known as Hyper Sports in the west too (MSX releases in Europe). Konami also used Track & Field in Japan before though, there’s a ton of games in the series.

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

Capcom is no stranger in adapting games to whichever hardware. E.g., SFIV on 3DS and RE4 on PS2.

They would have to make an entire game for Switch graphically. They would have to make new textures, new character models, and those are really expensive to do on Switch and really cheap to do on 3DS.

 

[Aters]

New Fire Emblem character designer seems to be 倉花 千夏. She previously worked for Nitro+CHiRAL which is brand dedicated to gay visual novel. So after getting all the otaku money, Nintendo is now after the fujoshi money. Brilliant.