Xenoblade has a season pass, despite the sheer discrepancy in numbers I'd more compare it with Dragon Quest XI, which similarly has no DLC, was only its base game, and had sales crater a few months out.
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Media Create Sales: Week 28, 2018 (Jul 09 - Jul 15)
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I can calculate the sum of top 20 using Media Create top 20 numbers but it's not OVERALL.
It's same for Famitsu top 30 or Dengeki top 50.
But Dengeki reports real overall numbers below the top 50 lists, so we can know that.
Huh, where was that said?
I remember seeing Takahashi saying they weren't working on just Switch titles but I took that to mean mobile to be honest.
3DS will be probably more like 1 million down yoy. Last year it still had great boost from DQXI and somewhat decent holiday sales. Depending on does Sony actually do a price drop PS4 could also be 100-200k down yoy. Like last year it has crappy release schedule for the second half of the year and if they go trough that with similar price as last year there is going to be a drop.
Nah this is expected. The price is the limiting factor and will always be the limiting factor until there's a price cut. The switch sells consistently well at a high price your not going to dramatic increases in hardware because the major driving force of switches weekly sales are back catalog rather than individual software releases. It's why it has so many ever greens. High price means the impulse is driven more by a cumulative effect rather than singular.
When you launch with killer apps that are also evergreens your system will probably always sell pretty well but I imagine barring massive titles you won't see a notable increase week over week.
Why would someone buy a Switch to play Mario Tennis when Mario Kart and Mario Odyssey came out? For example
It was never explicitly stated. Only that they wouldn't necessarily only work on Switch titles. That's all
Xenoblade 2 never got hit stock problem though. And, it had season pass with super meaty dlc portion. Again. I am not saying that OT had no chance of having good legs lol. I am just saying, the stakes is not helping them.
And I hope they keep it up, and ignore those who complain about it. It doesn't take much manpower to move a game over to the switch.
I need Xenoblade X, Pikmin 3, TMS#FE, and Super Mario 3D World on the Switch. Then I will have very little reason to keep the Wii U around.
Yep, wait and see is the right approach I guess.
A little bit silly to philosophise over numbers that are still over 4 month out.
How is it meaningless? Why restrict yourself to the top 10? The numbers konoka stated are correct, as per the source given.
Because I can add, and the numbers in the top 10 alone exceed the numbers he provided.
Sure, I even agree to some degree. But we are talking about SquareEnix a very big publisher. Taking a small bet like ordering at least the same amount as Bravely Default sold first week, someting like 140k-180k, wouldn't have put them at a big financial risk by any means, at worst they wouldn't have needed to put any new order. Especially knowing how long it takes to receive your new order and considering the very positive reception of the demos, it's not like they couldn't have made a better choice.
Just the first two games exceed the numbers they gave "overall".
Not sure where they got the numbers, maybe last week's? I'd have to check
Konoka explicity was referring to last week:
According to ZhugeEX, the game carts only start to eat into margins compared to PS4/XB1 Bluray discs at above 8GB:
Not getting enough carts ready is not due to their cost, it due to a complete lack of faith in OT doing over 100k FW.
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2017 - Xenoblade Chronicles 2
2018 - Torna The Golden Country
2019 - Xenoblade Chronicles X
2020 - Xenoblade Chronicles 3
2021 - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 DLC
2022 - Xenoblade Chronicles X2
2023 - Xenoblade Chronicles Remake
TOTAL GLOBAL SATURATION
And then people will complain about nintendo milking the game with yearly release
100k+ FW games don't raise hardware in a significant way unless they have bundles or cater to a completely different and faithful (to the genre/franchise) audience.
Ok nice to know that, yet I have a feeling other factors could be involved, like cart manufacturing limits and with the way Switch software is selling I have a feeling the production lines are already running at full capacity so ordering more could have lead to a higher cost initially. I remember there being stock problems for a lot of Switch titles.
I really am trying hard not the be an asshole (though you are making it hard) but if you are gonna accuse people of not being able to add maybe you should read what they actually wrote.
He said last week. He very plainly said last week.
You too.
This is propelled by Let's Go preorders, but nonetheless UltraSun/UltraMoon are having better legs than Sun/Moon.
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So basically he looked at the numbers this week and said, "buh buh but last week!". Never mind that it was also a complete slaughter last week.
That was more on retailers not planning and not stocking up on switch titles during the holiday season starting with Xenoblade than it was switch manufacturing lagging behind on product.
Also, higher cost on a bigger initial shipment based on full capacity production lines? It doesn't work like that. Square is only publishing it in Japan, the bulk of everything else was on Nintendo worldwide. Nintendo wouldn't have a problem lending a hand on anything manufacturing-wise.
I would rather argue that it makes it more difficult to make new orders in short notice and therefore not a good idea to play it too safe.
A price cut would result in more hardware sold, but more profit? Not a chance. If I'm Nintendo, I'm not cutting the price till 19. If I need a boost, temporary deal or bundle for holidays.
Yeah it's weird to see people jumping right to price cut. Nintendo hasn't even gotten to the bundled stage yet.
You have to question what kind of low ass expectation SE had for Octopath. Like, Bravely Default did 140k first week on the 3DS; Octopath is launching on a trending platform entering its prime time, gathered much more excitement before launch compared to Bravely Default (which nobody talked about before launch besides its weird title that doesn't make any sense) and you only ordered 110 ~ 120k for its first shipment?
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X is just so much more hype than mainline series. Just look at those fucking gifs.
I loved 2, but I need X2 at some point.
Ordering emergency shipments from a full production line costs more so please enlighten me if it works differently here.
That could be the case, but we really don't know. I think they did a pretty significant shipment. Probably 1 million. They might have want to have a half million copies lying around but we don't know how that affects the price if the production lines are already running at full capacity.
No. He looked at your post and provided you a factual post that shows even though Nintendo wass dominating the top of the charts with the Switch last week, total software sales for the week were only marginally better than the PS4. This emphasizes that the PS4 is still showing life and under the chart growth on software.
Basically he knows what he is talking about and you obviously don't.
It very clearly was not. The numbers say otherwise. This ignores the fact that you're accusing people of not being able to add while apparently not reading.
Because I'd be more inclined to believe production wasn't in such a state that Square Enix wouldn't be able to get more cartridges ready if they're working directly with Nintendo everywhere else. They all had an idea of what it could sell eventually, but undershot how fast it could get there.
There is no sense of emergency when you're allocating your first wave shipment.
Yeah. The trailers to X were much better then the ones for XC2.
Even tho I prefer XC2 to X, I'm hoping they can improve upon the structure of X. Some great potential there.
I hope, with Octopath's performances, it kills the cynicism and dumb excuses from some third-parties still skeptical to support Switch, release multiplats with parity and even try more exclusive efforts.
I guess since even the Splatoon bundle out next week isn't really a discount we're probably not going to see a price drop this year. I think that's a mistake but, alright.
A bundle at the very least at $299.99/yen equivalent needs to happen soon, I think.
I think fall 2019 is way too late for a price drop, so if there's no price drop this holiday in preparation for Pokémon and Smash, when would they do it?
What do those numbers say? They say Sony sold a bunch of discounted titles from the lower depths of the sales charts. Again, meaningless without revenue numbers attached to them. And even then, they still sold fewer by thousands. It's hilarious that you're defending his obvious attempt to deflect what's actually going on in Japan.
What?
3DS was a pretty hot platform back then (it was almost at 8m units!) + Bravely Default had some hype given its constant presence during Nintendo Directs (it was also featured in the big September Nintendo conference where MH4 was unveiled) + Bravely Default also got some well-received demo.
Xenoblade X was too in-between Destiny and an actually good JRPG to be that compelling.
It feels like a game that should actually be shared world co-op.
And X has way too many static cutscenes with extremely dull dialog.
It feels like a game that should actually be shared world co-op.
And X has way too many static cutscenes with extremely dull dialog.
This should be a lot of fun to follow in the coming weeks. I don't think the switch will manage the 57K average required but I could see it averaging close to 50K leaving it not too far behind.
Considering just how much better the end of year line up is 2018 should then finish much stronger.
