Dengeki numbers for this week is still not available.
Yeah the majority of the software unit sales is MHW. Since no million sellers were released by Nintendo in the first half it's not at all surprising that the PS4 has the software market-share ratio it does.
Regardless of how much a game makes up a percentage of sales on a platform, it's still a raw numbers deal.
Yeah I think the game was lacking in key areas but the Wii U really held that one back.
So I refer to overall sales.
I still think Xenoblade X has a better selling point in the current market than Xenoblade 2. it was just unfortunate to come first and on the Wii U.
all it needed was to follow through on the "explore the world with friends" thing that was hinted at in the early showings of the game and a proper social space and it could have easily been the Switch's big service RPG. I do think Monolith Soft realizes this and is aiming for that in their next game.
- open world
- custom character
- co-op online play
How would you define getting every single major third party game outside of yokai watch?
Switch software is already above PS4 software according to Dengeki
Inazuma is just a shell at this point, it lost its value as a big IP years ago
Those are just the official retail price numbers. Sales data doesn't take into account discounted prices (for instance, New Gundam Breakers still showing the launch price despite being less than 80% off for the past two weeks).
No, it wouldn't. First of all, I agree that sales are sales, but excluding a single game can't be compared to the exclusion of a prolific publisher with several games. While I wouldn't exclude games I also think he made an interesting point, MHW selling similar to all other first half of 2018 PS4 games combined is very telling. It's no secret that a lot of games didn't perform that great this year, be it Dissidia or the hyped DBFighterz among others. So looking at software sales besides MHW isn't a bad idea to get some perspective.
It also got most games, it's not really surprising that it isn't irrelevant, especially with MHW. Due to this year beeing very frontloaded and no game in the second half of the year coming anywhere close to MHW, the portion will become less and less in the coming months, with Switch having a more clear dominant portion.
That's really all that needs to be said. Sales are sales. The comparison was that total software sales show PS4 is still quite relevant in the market. You don't subtract the biggest game of the year and go "but everything else did poorly!!". PS4's place in the market is hit driven and for AAA productions.
Yeah why backup a factual statement you make with facts. Fam.
Luigi's Mansion Duology on Switch to lead up to Next Level's Luigi's Haunted Town
They're probably far in development of a new one, but it does make sense to warm up the audience with a Switch remake. That game will do good numbers.
They are likely preparing LM3 for the Switch - don't see them going multiplattform with LM. They already knew when it was announced that it would perform better on Switch ....they still deliver these games only on 3DS so that people don't get rid of their 3DS consoles.
I mean there's a logical difference in revenue between frontloaded games that are later discounted and keep selling and frontloaded games that retain their price and keep selling.
They'll never get a sale out of me for that game on 3DS, but it would be a day 1 on Switch. I imagine this decision was made long before it was known the Switch would take over like this. Either that or they simply dont care and just see it as a way of continuing to provide support to the 3DS.
