I see for EPD, I was more thinking about Nintendo as a whole including "2nd party" stuff and various branches, what games series does that "continuously updated codebase" (which is a more accurate term than engine btw :p) covered the past decade exactly?
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Media Create Sales: Week 28, 2018 (Jul 09 - Jul 15)
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I see for EPD, I was more thinking about Nintendo as a whole including "2nd party" stuff and various branches, what games series does that "continuously updated codebase" (which is a more accurate term than engine btw :p) covered the past decade exactly?
TSUTAYA Ranking Sales, 2018 ( Jul 16 - Jul 22)
GEO Ranking Sales, 2018 (Jul 16 - Jul 22)
01/ N [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun!
02/01 [NSW] OCTOPATH TRAVELER
03/03 [NSW] Mario Tennis Ace
04/04 [NSW] Minecraft
05/02 [NSW] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
06/08 [NSW] Splatoon 2
07/10 [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
08/07 [PS4] The Crew 2
09/13 [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
10/12 [PS4] Kingdom Hearts - HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix
NSW: 8
PS4: 2
【ゲオ メディア商品部メディア商品2課 バイヤー 武藤 崇史氏のコメント】
今週のランキングはSwitch「太鼓の達人 Nintendo Switch ば～じょん！」が初登場1位となりました。Switch版はライトユーザー向けとなっており、長く定番商品として販売を伸ばしてほしい作品となっております。
また、1～7位までのランキングをSwitchが独占している状況となっており、新作から旧作まで幅広いジャンルがランクインしております。
Above Mario Tennis Aces in both. You can expect something around 20k imo.
EPD has a dedicated technology team that handles tools, libraries and environment. I think most games end up relatively customized but they do have the Bezel Engine on Switch, formerly Nintendoware on Wii/3DS/Wii U and it's also available to 3rd parties. Wii Sports and Wii Play were the first big games to use that.
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This week has Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! taking first place. Switch version is for casual users, and is a work that would like us to extend sales as a standard long-term product.
In addition, Switch is dominating rankings from 1st to 7th place, and a wide range of genres ranging from new to old releases are ranked in.
Yeah, don't shop there unless you are pickup some light novels. 15 years ago buying games in a hidden shop in Akiba was possible, these days with all the tourists and google enabled smartphones it's pretty hard to pull off. Small bookshops in the suburbs is the way to go. Or Yahoo.
To those in Japan who need Octopath, word on the interwebs is Yodobashi.com is getting the earliest shipment, the 26th.
https://www.yodobashi.com/product/100000001003843705/
https://www.yodobashi.com/product/100000001003843705/
Going to a hardoff tomorrow, let's see if I will have any luck. Not a collector, just want to play some old titles. I will also go to suburbs too.
Bravely Default was also OOS back then. This showed between 2nd and 3rd week especially:
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30.683
17.899
13.404
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6.145
144.909
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30.683
17.899
13.404
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I'll have to be honest, I think you're right in saying that MC threads' quality has declined in the past few months, heck I'd say starting from 2017, going back to GAF's last months. I feel that these threads have gotten way too much focused on people trying to "GOTCHA!" each other, without enough meaningful conversations. Basically, a fight between extremistic positions due to one side starting hyperbolising facts and feelings and the other reacting accordingly because they felt the NEED to do that, thus leading to the current situation where it's far from unusual to see users not being capable enough of having conversations, even if based on facts. I feel that the current situation, while not (usually) reaching the peaks from past MC threads, is worse due to how constant this behaviour is. Is it due to Nintendo now doing very well, thus bringing more fans "uproaring" about their success, even "aggressively" as a reaction to years and years where some Sony fans mocked at them? Is it due to several people, as duckroll mentioned, insisting so many times that Japan doesn't matter, the West/Asia/Mars will save whatever game starts underperforming in Japan...right in the thread about Japanese sales? Is it due to the forum expanding, however by attracting more "similarly-minded" people, thus mostly resulting in the noise getting louder and louder, with conversations being less and less of a factor? It's probably a combination of several elements, potentially not just in Media Create threads, but I feel something should be done about it.
I'll certainly try to participate more in these threads, with facts / numbers / I hope good starting points of conversations, and hopefully other people will follow. Better MC threads mean more people who can be interested in joining them, a better environment overall. I hope things get better, it just sucks to see the threads going like this nowadays.
Sorry for the excessive answer, but it's something I wanted to express for a while.
The reappearance of the Kingdom Hearts games higher in the charts points to there being good interest in KH3 I would imagine.
Its more that now that Nintendo is once again dominating Japan, some,people have this need to dismiss any success Nintendo has, which often escalates into them getting banned/warned for Console warring.
And anybody calling such people out for their Trolling/ Concern trolling are just dismissed as Nintendo Defence force, so the quality of discourse gets even lower.
Hard to have a conversation, if anybody having an opinion that is not negative about Nintendo is dismissed as Fanboys defending Nintendo.
I can't help but bring up that Splatoon 2 sold WAY more than MHW, on a system with a smaller install base, and is a much more recent IP (only 3 years old in its second entry as opposed to 14 years for MH), and I believe Switch passed MHW very quickly IIRC. I believe MHW was a sub-2m when we last had numbers.
I just find that amusing. Why did Splatoon 2 sell so much more than MHW? Curious to hear thoughts about this.
Switch is a handheld yeah, but still, I wonder if there were other reasons as well.
I just find that amusing. Why did Splatoon 2 sell so much more than MHW? Curious to hear thoughts about this.
Switch is a handheld yeah, but still, I wonder if there were other reasons as well.
Oh right, it did really well digitally. Still retail-wise I'm right.
But are you right, or WAY right? because those caps seemed important.
Well, not to be glib, but I think the evidence is there that Splatoon is the biggest new IP in Japan in a while and it really isn't much more complicated than that?
Well, it's funny. If MHW is at 3m, then either Splatoon 2 is like 500k over at retail only, or 500k under including digital (can't remember if digital was that high).
So... WAY higher... or WAY lower? You decide! :P
Oh it is. But MH4/MH4G and MHX had no issues doing multi-millions and those were pretty recent. So it's not like MH is less popular or anything.
i mean, if you include digital on splatoon 2 it's probably at least on par if not slightly above
Actually digging up my numbers Splatoon 2 seems to be around 200k digitally though it's a bit outdated on that (190k as of April). So you're probably right.
Didn't World have an insanely high digital rate, it's at 2.8 million iirc.
Also related to an earlier conversation about MHW, stocks and alarmed investors. Didn't see this posted.
Apparently they aren't that alarmed anymore.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ca...d-as-being-a-risk.54429/page-19#post-10682974
Apparently they aren't that alarmed anymore.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ca...d-as-being-a-risk.54429/page-19#post-10682974
Yeah folks above brought that up, it did extremely well digitally.
There's really no need to compare them that way. Splatoon is the biggest new thing to happen to the gaming landscape in Japan (that's not on mobile anyway) in a long long time. MHW opened in huge numbers despite the odds being stacked against it. Both are amazing success stories.
If I decided, it would be that there is anything good or interesting in turning this messed up already thread into a Splatoon VS MHW, specially when you are so transparent with the premises.
Fortunately, I don't decide anything here.
Games on Nintendo platforms have more legs and aren't so frontloaded.
World would still probably be charting if it was on Switch. I think the reason Capcom is still planning to release future MH games on Switch (according to them) is probably because they want sustained sales.
Also related to an earlier conversation about MHW, stocks and alarmed investors. Didn't see this posted.
Apparently they aren't that alarmed anymore.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ca...d-as-being-a-risk.54429/page-19#post-10682974
They probably just forgot the PC version was in development.
And...? Splatoon 2 is near 3M with digital and gonna destroy MHW in sales no matter what. Splatoon 2 will be a major seller this holiday in Japan again, when MHW is dead and irrelevant.
No please, this thread doesn't need a Splatoon vs MHW. It brings nothing but aggressive posts.
As far as I know, pretty much every game that has 3D rendering since the N64. There's also the Nintendoware/Bezel platform mentioned above, which showed up a little more than a decade ago, but I don't know how much it was used, or if it's not actually just a branch of their standard codebase.
And what?
Please, read the conversation and think before answering.
Thank you.
Because Nintendo has cultivated the brand way better than Capcom has MH. The fact that the series even blew up like it did on a dud of a console like the Wii U adds more to this fact. Also, I have no doubt we'll be getting another big content upgrade before the holidays
Splatoon is a big ass franchise now. It was already a top 10 franchise (well top 20ish) on WiiU. On a not dead system its rolling. It's not too surprising its going toe to toe with Monster Hunter.
MH has been popular (not just popular but like mega popular) for well over a decade. We can't seriously be sitting here saying Capcom hasn't expertly cultivated the MH brand. That is insanity.
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Nintendo has built a lot on Splatoon franchise last years. It has entered top 3 in Japan with Animal Crossing and Pokemon and when all of them are out on Switch we'll see the exact order.
If Animal Crossing maintains the power it had on 3DS it will be Animal Crossing > Splatoon > Pokemon but there's always the possibility Splatoon comes on top since it will cross 5m in the end.
If Animal Crossing maintains the power it had on 3DS it will be Animal Crossing > Splatoon > Pokemon but there's always the possibility Splatoon comes on top since it will cross 5m in the end.
Switching gears a little. Wii U yielded Splatoon and Mario Maker which could very well be Nintendo staples forever and ever amen. But if I were heading software development at Nintendo there would be new Nintendogs, Wii Fit and Toon Zelda games in the works to make use of hits from consoles past. When did Toon Link star in his last game? Spirit Tracks? Let the starting lineup sit it out for a bit.
Mario Maker has potential to be goat. That was my most played WiiU game. All will ve right in the world when we get a new one.
Nintendogs feels like it would hit home with mobiles. I am not sure it would be a hit on the Switch like it was on the DS.
Mario Maker was rumored for year one so it's odd that it never appeared.
Mario Maker Deluxe or NSMBU+MMDX would be big, I think so I hope the NSMBU rumor isn't completely accurate.
2D Mario team hasn't put out anything since early 2017, I think.
Online enabled co-op Mario would be a big sell for the online service and Mario Maker with proper level sharing would be pretty big too.
Nintendogs would make a ton of money...on mobile.
It's not a franchise people would drop $60 for, but for free on mobile people would buy a ton of items for their pets.
Don't think Wii Fit would do well either. Despite being a massive success on Wii, it did poorly even by Wii U standards. They have it away for like $30 if you bought a peripheral too and I'm pretty sure people didn't bite.
Mario Maker Deluxe or NSMBU+MMDX would be big, I think so I hope the NSMBU rumor isn't completely accurate.
2D Mario team hasn't put out anything since early 2017, I think.
Online enabled co-op Mario would be a big sell for the online service and Mario Maker with proper level sharing would be pretty big too.
Toon link was in triforce Heroes. Or at least his design was despite Nintendo insisting it's the same Link as LBW.
Nintendogs would make a ton of money...on mobile.
It's not a franchise people would drop $60 for, but for free on mobile people would buy a ton of items for their pets.
Don't think Wii Fit would do well either. Despite being a massive success on Wii, it did poorly even by Wii U standards. They have it away for like $30 if you bought a peripheral too and I'm pretty sure people didn't bite.
Yes the topic is about how good Magical Chase is and that we need a new one but no one wants to discuss it :(