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.
There is no Winning Eleven again on Switch? That's incredible lmao
Media Create Sales: Week 22, 2018 (May 28 - Jun 03)
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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.
More than a year after Super Bomberman R, Konami has finally revealed their second Nintendo Switch game:
They sure love their Rs, heh?
They sure love their Rs, heh?
The Track & Field games were awesome back in the days! This could be fun.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
That's not what I expected but trying to appeal to the Splatoon audience could work very well in Japan.
This could be a nice surprise, the artstyle is "proved", let's say.
I made sure not to make an assumption about that in particular.:P
I expected a co-op RPG to be honest though.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They showed Fire Emblem despite it being Spring 2019 so I'm wondering if Yoshi is later than Fire Emblem.
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.
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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.
Xenoblade 2 DLC is getting a physical release so that's something.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What you mean by that?, we know Capcom is ignoring Switch, but what can Nintendo do to Capcom?
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I know—it’s empty of Nintendo titles. People tend to forget a game like Splatoon is selling like a new game anyway.
We'll see how certain titles are dated in the coming weeks.
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.
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After Mega Man treatment in Smash it's clear they're ignoring them too.
Capcom is no stranger in adapting games to whichever hardware. E.g., SFIV on 3DS and RE4 on PS2.
Fire Emblem pushed to 2019? Sega must be doing backflips right now.
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.
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.