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Media Create Sales: Week 27, 2018 (Jul 02 - Jul 08)
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Nobody will care for the selection of songs being on PS4/PSV before if it's a good one.
Hmm? That seems weird.
A Guitar Hero game that reused a lot of good songs would have been destroyed in 2010.
I think it doesn't matter because the PS4/PSV entries weren't very popular.
It's kind of like how Wii U ports haven't really sold like ports for the most part, because the Switch userbase is much more vast and receptive to these kinds of games.
Yeah, the only 30 or so popular ones that exist amongst the series' hundreds upon hundreds of previously released songs.
This will be the first Taiko game I won't buy in a very long time, so you're wrong out of the gate. I care, and I bet a lot of others do as well.
Taiko is becoming increasingly shameless with their constant platform switching and songs recycling.
Yeah it looks good enough on the video.
I've seen multiple complains about motion control though, maybe it's like the case of Arms where people are holding the controllers wrong? Not sure.
But you can certainly see the long loading time from the video.
It's a taiko game so I don't know if these are enough to be the deal breaker for the casual audience, I guess we'll see.
Edit: Apparently Kirby has a character skill that makes it easier to handle the timing of hitting the drum, so that could've helped.
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"Nobody" was an exaggeration. If direct Wii U to Switch ports don't have big affect at sales reused assets from low selling entries on Sony systems will have even less.
That's not the problem this game has to face.
7-9 AM ET, so you can probably get some sleep if it's already late where you are :D
8 hours.
With mass sell outs of the game I'm assuming somewhere in the 95-100k range. YSO said 80ish with less than 90 and I figure the number they give isn't reflecting 100% sell through expectation.
Low preorders for this game was weird to me though. It has shown well the entirety of its marketing campaign.
I hope, I'd more than chuffed if it's first week shits all over my low prediction.
we won't know cause of all the other stuff.
splatoon 2 bundle.
preorders opening for pokemon and smash
maybe missing something
PSV and PS4 games sold around 100k each. Very limited audience. Casual gamers will not care.
True. The first DS Taiko was also pretty bad but sold like 700k units. The first Wii game was also pretty disappointing.
The game sold 100k on PS4. Switch audience is much more heterogeneous and this will likely be a new game for them.
WEDNESDAY night is seriously my favorite night of the week on here. 6 hours to go until the new numbers. im expecting OP to do really well, around 100k will be awesumm.
Wii U > Switch FW
(higher LTD)
Mario Kart 8
Pokkén Tournament
(lower LTD)
Bayonetta 2
Hyrule Warriors
Switch > Wii U FW
Donkey Kong Country
Captain Toad?
(higher LTD)
Mario Kart 8
Pokkén Tournament
(lower LTD)
Bayonetta 2
Hyrule Warriors
Switch > Wii U FW
Donkey Kong Country
Captain Toad?
It's funny, for all the campaigning of people like Jim Sterling that pre-order culture is anti-consumer and there's no advantage to doing so, if more people had pre-ordered Octopath then we might not be seeing these shortages/more people would have been able to get the game they wanted.
1) Nothing wrong with preordering a game you want.
2) If it's not a AAA game, preorder to avoid missing out. There's plenty of niche games that probably wouldn't get a second shipment from retailers.
Aside from Octopath Traveler, this has happened before with retailers even in the west not having a lot of copies of a particular game at launch like Bayonetta 2 (Wii U) that people on the old forum accused Nintendo of undershipping/artificial scarcity when 1) You should've preordered, 2) it's the sequel to a game that sold the majority of its 1 million copies in bargain bins.
I don't really think this is entirely true. More preorders would mean a higher initial shipment, sure, but games sell out because of word of mouth. That's not something that preorders would fix, because people who buy the game because their friends got it and rave about it on the week of release itself are not going to have been people who preordered the game anyway.
The problem isn't preorders, the problem is unique to games on cart/cards, because of the delay in manufacturing more units. There is a lack of agility in restocking quickly, something that disc games don't suffer from at all.
^this
Probably not a big one. It's still just Octopath, not a big IP.
Two of my friends bought a Switch for this game, without any input by me about the Switch nor the game. If my Dutch friends are crazy enough to do that, I think there might be some surprises for the upcoming Japanese data. Apparently it is a big IP for some. Value is in the eye of the beholder.
Any
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Cow milk? What does cow milk have to do with games sales???
lol joking, but I don't want a leak just yet
God Wars 2 properly announced. PS4/V and Switch.
Still no platform, but probably PS4 and Switch.
https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999903/20180718032/
Still no platform, but probably PS4 and Switch.
https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999903/20180718032/
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56k for toad would be overkill, almost double the wii u debut (and more than that with digital included)
PS4/PSV/Switch part is for God Wars 1.
God Wars 2 platform is not announced.
Given supply constraints, Octopath did very well.
Toad did amazing all things considered. It might reach 200-300k.
That's what you get for trying to post while doing 12 different thigns at the same time. Apologies, fixed the original post!
Captain toad Wii U, first week:
M-C:
07./00. [WIU] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker <ADV> (Nintendo) {2014.11.13} (¥3.996) - 28.025 / NEW
FAM:
07./00. [WIU] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker <ADV> (Nintendo) {2014.11.13} (¥3.996) - 29.985 / NEW <40-60%>
DGK:
08./00. [WIU] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo) {2014.11.13} - 26.995 / NEW
M-C:
07./00. [WIU] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker <ADV> (Nintendo) {2014.11.13} (¥3.996) - 28.025 / NEW
FAM:
07./00. [WIU] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker <ADV> (Nintendo) {2014.11.13} (¥3.996) - 29.985 / NEW <40-60%>
DGK:
08./00. [WIU] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo) {2014.11.13} - 26.995 / NEW
Famitsu number:
Code:
WIU Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker 29.985 168.008 Nintendo 13/11/2014