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Nice hold for the GOAT. It should have great sales, and with Switch Lite coming everyone will scramble to play this.
P.S. パワーオーブ！！！
You better be ready. You're in for a looooooong ride
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Media Create Sales: Week 27, 2019 (Jul 01 - Jul 07)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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You better be ready. You're in for a looooooong ride
Wont stop people who have a Switch already, I'm sure the first couple of weeks will be unaffected. In fact, I think we might see a big jump in September as a big bonus to it's sales.
I wouldnt worry.
To me it depends on how expensive PS5 will be and how aggressive Sony will be with PS4 price during its late gen phase. I mean launch aligned I believe PS3 was already 25k yen by 2012 so PS4 is currently more expensive (especially with Pro putting average selling price well above 30k).
That eshop bonus promotion is really helping with Switch sales. I wonder how many new buyer put the coupon towards an online membership to take advantage of the voucher promotion.
Surprisingly great week for switch this week. Must be more of a boost from vouchers than from SMM2. Speaking of which, -58% is good but slightly more than I expected.
With Switch Lite, Yoko Taro now finally got his "PSV2"...
The most surreal thing was a Japanese focused company like Falcom actually making the excuse that the Switch is a niche market.
The most surreal thing was a Japanese focused company like Falcom actually making the excuse that the Switch is a niche market.
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Sony can't be very aggressive with PS4 price cut for the simple reason PS5 will start from even worse position.
The GOAT demands commitment, we Maker gang already sold our souls, now it has given us the gift of Lite, which added 10 years to our life. 10 years of more sales updates!
They can definitely be more aggressive with the 500 GB model. Keep in mind that in North America that model has been discontinued for quite awhile. At the very least a 5k yen permanent cut for both slim models to put their price closer to what they are in the US as currently Sony is fleecing its customers in Japan by comparison.
If supply holds up, I don't think the Switch will dip below 100k a single week in 2019 after the Lite launch. This product is specifically made for Japan with the side bonus of attracting parents for holiday gifts in other markets.
I think he meant that there is a risk of putting the PS4 at a significantly lower price than the PS5 since it could slow down adoption of next gen.
I think the reason Sony wont drop price on PS4 too much is that if they do, eventually PS5 will have to compete with a much much cheaper PS4 for that ever shrinking home console market in japan.
Why buy a 40k PS5 if there is a 20k PS4 aviable, and most early games will be on both anyway(if the backcompat holds up) ?
That could hurt PS5 adoption in japan a lot, which is really not what is needed.
Why buy a 40k PS5 if there is a 20k PS4 aviable, and most early games will be on both anyway(if the backcompat holds up) ?
That could hurt PS5 adoption in japan a lot, which is really not what is needed.
The original switch version of AOT2 outlegged the PS4 iirc so it was only natural
40k would equate to about 400 American Dollars right ?
If PS5 is more expensive than that, even the current pricepoint of PS4 sounds more attractive at least early on, till more PS5 exclusive games release.
Yes.
Given the specs, general consensus is more around a 500$ console at launch.
Neither Sony, nor Microsoft want to have a less powerful machine this gen.
From what we've seen of Fire Emblem Three Houses, I really doubt it.
It's up in the air at this point and a hard guess. It will be very interesting indeed. I'm curious to see how much untapped potential the Switch has in Japan.
That's a really good point. They won't want to kneecap the PS5 debut in Japan. Will require some interesting strategies for sure, wonder what the end result will be.
EDIT: Also it's really amusing to see a Vita game in the top 5 of Amazon Japan's video game rankings.
Wow, that would put PS5 launch price into PS3 territory, which i cant see going down well with sales momentum after the first wave that will pay any price regardless.
This is the 3rd best week of the year for Switch by the way, after W1 and W2.
I wonder if it's the worst week of the year for PS4 on the other hand, I don't have a datasheet for it tho.
I wonder if it's the worst week of the year for PS4 on the other hand, I don't have a datasheet for it tho.
What ?
From what i have seen its been a pretty good reception, with even the most ardent haters of modern FE being optimistic since it seems to be inspired by FE4.
PS3 had two SKUs at launch, one priced at 499$ and one at 599$.
The 499$ SKU lacked several components like an HDMI output.
So yeah, a price point between the PS4 and the PS3.
I'm kinda expecting them (particularly MS) to go loss leader on consoles
On Era maybe, on the rest of internet, I've seen constant bashing of the game. Many says it looks ass and unappealing and that it's even more "animey" than Awakening.
I wouldn't go that far myself, but it doesn't look that appealing imo. It has a nice launch window and it's still Fire Emblem, but I don't know...
In terms of Japan FE hype, obviously not the best measuring stick, but on Pixiv pretty much all recent artwork using ファイアーエムブレム tag is FEH and/or Fates. Should I be using a different tag for 3 Houses artwork?
What sort of good signs are we seeing out of Japan for 3 Houses' hype?
What sort of good signs are we seeing out of Japan for 3 Houses' hype?
Yes, it did (source: Famitsu's weekly Top 30s / 2018 Top 100 - retail only)
[NSW] Attack on Titan 2 # <ACT> (Koei Tecmo) {2018.03.15} (¥7.800) - 28.099 / 80.471
[PS4] Attack on Titan 2 # <ACT> (Koei Tecmo) {2018.03.15} (¥7.800) - 28.807 / 63.136
[PSV] Attack on Titan 2 # <ACT> (Koei Tecmo) {2018.03.15} (¥6.800) - 12.323 / 23.556
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On Era and where the fandom is. People bashing the game aren't probably interested in it in the first place. I get that visuals are not great, but Fire Emblem games never had great visuals.
However, it seems to be the most ambitious Fire Emblem game in terms of scope and narration. Gameplay, Music and the worldbuilding are on point and explain the hype.
It will be one of the top seller games this holiday season.
Fire Emblem on GBA had nice graphics, for the time.
We'll see then. What do you expect for first week in Japan ?
I am expecting it to become the best selling Fire Emblem game Worldwide. So 3m+ WW.
Japan is complicated because of how enticing the voucher offer is here (you save more than in the West, and the game is already #2 on the eshop). So I am going to make my bet on its two first months. We'll get official numbers by Nintendo on October 31st.
So something like 500k for FE:TH first two months according to Nintendo.
Yeah, i would do the same. I just think that even if the weekly sales go down to maybe... 15k-20k in the upcoming weeks, i expect the sales to basically explode once the Switch Lite is released, since many would then have hold off buying a Switch until that point in time :) If the Switch sales keeps around 50k-60k until the Switch Lite is released, i expect a smaller "explosion" of sales. That 10k yen pricedrop however will still likely boost the sales quite noticeably regardless though.
With the specs and other tech they are shooting for, I don't see either Xbox Scarlet or PS5 launching for less than $500. I think there will be higher-end models that will be $600+ to make up for whatever loss they take at a $500 entry level. If that turns out to be true, the first few years of PS5 are going to be grim in Japan.
Reasonably sized SSDs are still really expensive.
I mean, it likely would've happened already if not for a certain ball-hogging hardware maker.
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Monday is national holiday in Japan (Sea Day), this will be a 3 days weekend.
I'm kind of stunned at the amount of people that don't understand the point of the switch lite.
I think a big part is just people acting like they dont understand so they can be concerned and angry.
Its basically 80% of what this forum is nowadays.
Ah, end of July then. My mistake.
A lot of it is just the usual concern trolling. Some of it is probably people who wanted to hear about the enhanced Switch and are pissed that this was announced first.