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Media Create Sales: Week 25, 2019 (Jun 17 - Jun 23)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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It is true that it doesn't matter how much you earn if you spend a lot but they really earnt a lot of money during YW craze and the franchise still have some revenues to rack up. Between Inazuma Eleven peak and Yo-kai Watch one there were many flops and years apart. Sure, they must start to announce/reveal something new sooner or later.
It's a big blow for L5 but it sucks for Nintendo too. Yokai Watch and Monster Hunter were huge 3rd party pillars of the 3DS. One is gone and the other don't sell much anymore. 2 years in and the Switch is still looking for its first big 3rd party hit (besides Minecraft obviously but that's on a league of its own). And there's nothing much on the horizon.
Biggest third-party release for the Switch and the Switch sales are the second worst week of the year..
You can already feel they are cutting budget on stuff like the Inazuma Eleven Orion anime, especially after Ares.
As a fan who watch it every week, it's really irritating.
I was so excited for both the anime and the game and now I'm hoping that the game even releases one day.
DQ is definitely there.
Bear in mind that YW wasn't even existing during 3DS first couple of years in the market.
The platform is popular and software is selling. Surprises might come sooner or later. Adoption has been slower than 3DS so games like YW might come a bit later.
Psycho, I think you're forgetting about the deal starting this week: Switch will be sold with a 3,000 Yen coupon included, and retailers started promoting the deal since two weeks ago. Of course hardware sales can't be too high, people will wait for this week to pick up the hardware (and SMM2).
10./08. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe <New Super Mario Bros. U \ New Super Luigi U> <ACT> (Nintendo) {2019.01.11} (Â¥5.980) - 4.044 / 638.709 (-7%)
Interesting that it's the game that was the least impacted by the drop this week, despite SMM2 launching on Friday. Curious to see if it's going to get a bump / drop.
Interesting that it's the game that was the least impacted by the drop this week, despite SMM2 launching on Friday. Curious to see if it's going to get a bump / drop.
Nintendo isnt invested in the IP like that, they knew that it would fall off and YW4 wasn't treated like a mayor release from Nintendo.
Hino fucked up and is on his own for now. Ninokuni 2 and YW4 with those lackluster commercial responses.
Time to focus again in what made them special during the DS Era - sometimes less is more.
Time for them to give up on the niche Switch market and make shiny graphic game for the West since this is what selling there /s
They fucked it up big time, i mean they were releasing 3 versions or something in the same year if i remember correctly.
It was. Here are previous first week sales
Yo-kai Watch 2 Ganso / Honke (July 10 2014): 1,316,707
Yo-kai Watch 2 Shinuchi (December 13 2014): 1,244,171
Yo-kai Watch 3 Sushi / Tempura (July 16 2016): 632,135
Yo-kai Watch 3 Sukiyaki (Decmber 15 2016): 337,979
In fact, the franchise wasn't even milked that much. Only 2 spin-offs on 3DS and 3 entries in the span of 4 years. With franchises aimed at kids you must be quick to capitalize the ephemeral success.
Can't say it bothers me to see third parties fumbling around and getting the sales that reflect that. If you abandon or don't cater to your audience and go looking for greener pastures only to return to the one you left - well don't expect a big welcome.
The Switch audience has basically been cultivated now on a Nintendo / Indie model and the traditional third parties are getting left behind. I'm more than happy to see sales going to smaller indies and Nintendos own output
The Switch audience has basically been cultivated now on a Nintendo / Indie model and the traditional third parties are getting left behind. I'm more than happy to see sales going to smaller indies and Nintendos own output
Damn, I mean of course the install bases aren't comparable but for a mainline entry I thought it would be higher than 250K opening at least.
Do we know what the initial shipment size was, as in was this expected by Level-5?
I don't understand this comment. When did Level-5 abandon or not cater to their audience? When did they go looking for greener pastures?
Yo-kai Watch 4 was never anything other than a Switch title.
Game | First Week (LTD)
Yo-kai Watch | 52.901 (1.332.971)
Yo-kai Watch 2 | 1.281.096 (3.257.917)
Yo-kai Watch 2+ | 1.211.918 (2.699.208)
Yo-kai Watch Busters | 688.386 (2.237.342)
Yo-kai Watch Sangokushi | 263.637 (578.675)
Yo-kai Watch 3 | 581.191 (1.522.304)
Yo-kai Watch 3+ | 333.240 (768.604)
Yo-kai Watch Busters 2 | 216.302 (526.699)
Yo-kai Watch 4 | 150.721 (150.721)
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Yo-kai Watch | 52.901 (1.332.971)
Yo-kai Watch 2 | 1.281.096 (3.257.917)
Yo-kai Watch 2+ | 1.211.918 (2.699.208)
Yo-kai Watch Busters | 688.386 (2.237.342)
Yo-kai Watch Sangokushi | 263.637 (578.675)
Yo-kai Watch 3 | 581.191 (1.522.304)
Yo-kai Watch 3+ | 333.240 (768.604)
Yo-kai Watch Busters 2 | 216.302 (526.699)
Yo-kai Watch 4 | 150.721 (150.721)
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Level 5 sure milked this franchise dry in a single generation. 8 games in a single generation.Game | First Week (LTD)
Yo-kai Watch | 52.901 (1.332.971)
Yo-kai Watch 2 | 1.281.096 (3.257.917)
Yo-kai Watch 2+ | 1.211.918 (2.699.208)
Yo-kai Watch Busters | 688.386 (2.237.342)
Yo-kai Watch Sangokushi | 263.637 (578.675)
Yo-kai Watch 3 | 581.191 (1.522.304)
Yo-kai Watch 3+ | 333.240 (768.604)
Yo-kai Watch Busters 2 | 216.302 (526.699)
Yo-kai Watch 4 | 150.721 (150.721)
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Reasons why YW4 underperformed:
- Switch promotion coming up
- Targets children who don't own a Switch yet (too expensive, and Switch sells to male young adults at this point)
- Tired franchise
Its sales will grown with the system. It's an evergreen. But there's a limit to how high it can go.
- Switch promotion coming up
- Targets children who don't own a Switch yet (too expensive, and Switch sells to male young adults at this point)
- Tired franchise
Its sales will grown with the system. It's an evergreen. But there's a limit to how high it can go.
You should at least wait until next month to decide if it's an evergreen or not lol
They milked it, then shifted a lot of resources to mobile then came back too late. And it wasn't a comment specifically about level 5 / yokai anyway
Damn. 150k is such a disappointing result for YW4. 1m LTD seems out of the question now. It should have some legs by nature of the series so we could see 500k LTD, but that's a far cry from the peak of the franchise.
Never thought DQXIS could actually outsell YW4 but I think it's possible now.
Next week should be a lot better with the 3k yen Switch promotion and SMM2 release.
Never thought DQXIS could actually outsell YW4 but I think it's possible now.
Next week should be a lot better with the 3k yen Switch promotion and SMM2 release.
Game | First Week (LTD)
Yo-kai Watch | 52.901 (1.332.971)
Yo-kai Watch 2 | 1.281.096 (3.257.917)
Yo-kai Watch 2+ | 1.211.918 (2.699.208)
Yo-kai Watch Busters | 688.386 (2.237.342)
Yo-kai Watch Sangokushi | 263.637 (578.675)
Yo-kai Watch 3 | 581.191 (1.522.304)
Yo-kai Watch 3+ | 333.240 (768.604)
Yo-kai Watch Busters 2 | 216.302 (526.699)
Yo-kai Watch 4 | 150.721 (150.721)
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Textbook example of how NOT to manage an IP
Never understood the milking argument when there is basically now a new mainline Pokemon about every year. Despite the criticism towards the gameplay of Pokemon the battle system has a great design and Gamefreak has reiterated well on it while the same can't be said about YW. The battle system wasn't great which is why people couldn't get attached to the formula. That being said scraping the previous battle system and going action while rebooting the monster count in YW wasn't a good move which is why nailing on the first entry is crucial.
The other thing is that Pokemon is more of a social phenomenon and puts a big focus on catching, trading, battling while YW is more of an isolated experience. The new battle system doesn't even looks like it works well for multiplayer.
The other thing is that Pokemon is more of a social phenomenon and puts a big focus on catching, trading, battling while YW is more of an isolated experience. The new battle system doesn't even looks like it works well for multiplayer.
The difference with that is that a new generation of Pokémon, a new iteration, is still every 3 to 4 years, not every year. Between that you get enhanced versions and remakes but they never do as well as new new
They went whole hog into mobile development with 3 Yo-Kai mobile spin-offs released in 2018 alone. Since the Switch's launch, there's been 3 3DS releases, 7 mobile releases, and a PS4/PC release with Ni No Kuni 2 before Yo-Kai Watch 4. The only Switch output they've had before YW4 was an enhanced port of Snack World. They definitely could have at least ported more titles in 2018 to better cultivate their audience on the Switch.
That club only has one member though. It's #2 of all time and not moving up or down a rung no matter what (unless/until the Switch gets to 24m).
It would just be console war bait pitting it console vs console instead of console vs the community.Can we get an edit for this but instead of the 3DS it's a PS4 and the crying woman in a Switch? We can use it everything a PS4 title sneaks into the top 10.
The thing is that during the 3DS they introduced new mega evolutions in ORAS that weren't available in XY and even new Pokemon with USUM not present in SM. 3DS is the handheld generation where your Pokemon game became the most outdated and missing on Pokemon in the fastest time frame.
I'd argue that the Galar Dex only in SwSh is to give people an incentive for people to buy and keep up with future games especially now that Megas aren't a thing.