Still. Old ports have been marketed and sold as new entries on Switch, I don't see the hypothetical NSMBUDX not being the same, especially since it has a bigger sales potential than the others.
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Still. Old ports have been marketed and sold as new entries on Switch, I don't see the hypothetical NSMBUDX not being the same, especially since it has a bigger sales potential than the others.
So I know this isn't partaking to Japan, but what do you guys think Mario Tennis Aces sold in the US now we got it shipped 1.4 Million in a week? I'm thinking 400k in my opinion.
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1,4m is the initial shipment and if Japan is indication it will last a few weeks until it's sold.
If Mario Maker arrives, I really hope it's a sequel that adds a bunch of things to the editor but more importantly rethinks the online aspect. And maybe a bunch of Nintendo designed courses like on 3DS.
A dream would be Super Mario Maker World, create your own succession of levels with an world map editor akin to Super Mario Run.
A dream would be Super Mario Maker World, create your own succession of levels with an world map editor akin to Super Mario Run.
Well since this covers two weeks it should be pretty large no?
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If Nintendo needs it for hitting targets it will in March. Otherwise it's heading for Golden Week / Easter.
You know what would sell insane numbers?
A new 2d mario with new artsyle that includes mario maker.
The mario maker part would include the new artstyle and mechanics and also have a better online component. Gives me an old school SMB duck hunt combo feeling.
add another chapter in Mario rpgs being screwed over
Nintendo should release a primer on how to kill two successful spinoff series
you won't believe #10
Seeing I'm quite shocked how poor it looked at E3 (visually, otherwise it looks awesome), I'm hoping it's as late as possible.
I don't feel like it would push the HW needle that much. But can sell a lot.
I'm thinking the latter tho
edit: I think either LM3 or something like pikmin could be a surprise Q1 game. Or 2D mario port of course
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With how big ARMS, Mario Tennis, and Kirby debuted in 2 weeks. Fire Emblem going for close to 2 Million initial shipment?
I would hope Nintendo wouldn't rush out Fire Emblem (because it looks really rough right now to the point of where they had to shove the camera up to point at the sky to hide the framerate) and I doubt rushing it out would help them hit targets.
The ground textures looked horrible as did all the NPCs.
It's a japanese game with a mid-tier budget. There's a lot of "horrible" textures in games like VC4 as well. Overall FE looked awesome, and no one will care about those "horrible textures" after the release. Biggest game in the franchise is coming.
It's a Japanese game whose mobile spinoff just made $500M.
VC4 is destined to do terribly everywhere and just has PS3 tier graphics, Fire Emblem Switch should sell 5m units, it shouldn't look as bad graphically as it does.
it was pretty ugly.
and drab. Character models looked good at least as well as the castle. But the battle environment needs serious work.
which was disappointing since IntSys is one of the Nintendo devs that had an HD game released last gen.
And that game was Color Splash which was one of the best looking Wii U games. I assume they're maybe different teams(?) but still. Disappointing.
uh should?
5m is maybe possible, but that's the highest of its hopes. And if it really broke out for some reason.
no way in the world is that a "should"
It'll be the best selling FE, but people shouldn't forget the previous high is 1.84 million.
And this is still a anime SRPG at the end of the day.
yeah, makes little sense.
I do wonder if Captain Toad Switch/3DS started as a Switch project or a 3DS project.
it looked like a studio's first HD game. which is weird because 1) it isn't IS's first HD game and 2) I expect more from a studio that helps make the dev kits for the damn system
for Toad I'd say Switch personally
or maybe both decided at the same time
NPD June period covers June 3 to July 7
So it's 3 weeks of tracking, launch week was a Thursday and digital should be pretty good due to Gold Coins bonus. Nintendo doesn't share digital with NPD, but its safe to say that even with good digital sales Mario Tennis Aces is unlikely to sell 400K digitally, so we are talking physical shipment of over 1M until the June 30th WW. The initial shipment in Japan was at most 200K, that would probably lead to a shipment for NA of around 400K, so it pretty much depends on the sell-through. In Japan the first shipment sold out by the second week but we don't know if MTA had such strong sales in the US.
Last year Splatoon 2 launched in July and sold 332K physical. If Mario Tennis Aces does 400K physical even with three weeks of sales it would be a the best opening for a Switch game this year in the US and the 4th biggest opening on the platform since launch.
The other thing I'm seeing is extremely strong sales for DKTF we know that in Japan it didn't have more than 200K shipment for this quarter so that means that 1.2M were sold in other territories/digital. I don't think DKTF will sell more than 300K in Japan this year but it should still pass 2M based on strong sales else where.
Both games are games that Nintendo will drop the price on later in the year on the eShop. I'd expect we see 33% off for both on several occasions in different territories. I'd expect discounts to start driving strong digital growth YoY especially once the Paid Online rolls-out and there is additional discounts for those that subscribe. Which owner wouldn't buy Nintendo's first party titles for Christmas if they can get 50% off. Personally that's the type of thing that makes me think that Nintendo will greatly surpass their software target for the year and one of the reasons people would be subbed to their $20 per year paid online.
It will because they will need something to hit the 20 millions target
Your numbers are outdated. FE Awakening sold 1.9 million as of march 2017 https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/170201_2e.pdf Now it surely passed 2 million.
Biggest japanese srpg of all time is FF Tactics (PS1, 2,4 million, released 20 years ago). FE Switch will destroy that number.
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3DS port needed much more work from Switch. A Sushi Striker scenario is the obvious but even we assume a dual release was the original plan, 3DS work certainly didn't pay.
luigi's mansion 3. book it.
along with 600k octopath
oh, got it from Celine's thread.
maybe he/she can update it if there's some new info
Lmao, what? Fire Emblem 5 million? If it reaches 3 million it's going to be lucky.
I think 1.5m is more doable than 2m
NST did the 3DS port while EPD Tokyo handled Switch inhouse. I'd assume Switch was the lead port based on the new levels.
Would've been neat if they'd have let NST design their own levels based off 3D Land instead.
Looking at Octopath, the amazon Japan stock didn't last very long: currently a 1-2 day backorder. In terms of ranking, it looks to have been doing rather strongly: it's #1 on the ranking, above the soon-to-be-released EOX and above Smash. I'm definitely curious to see the numbers tomorrow and the week after.
That sounds like a really big growth. While Awakening got to 2M and Heroes is doing well, didn't Fates sell less too? Three Houses seems more "tame" (for lack of a better word) than those three so far, wouldn't a 2.5/3M max be more reasonable? That'd still be really impressive in its own right.
depends on how good it is imo.
if it's good, 3m and at max 4m seems okay.
I think aligned Fates did better and just fell off because the 3DS active userbase died really fast.
Three Houses should do 3M if it has good reception and follows the Switch growth pattern.
It looked surprisingly poor for a new Switch game. Muted colors, CG is now low frame rate when awakening got it right the first time, ugly environments.
Maybe they'll show massive improvements by spring next year but it's not too promising since it was due this year
that CG when it looked like some war flashback being like 10 fps looked like a stylistic choice.
The CG with the girl singing looked normal.
I doubt the game's graphics will improve much by next year. Unless it's a May/June game, then it could improve a little imo.
Fates sold faster also due to Awakening having a lot of stock issues in the US.
I know it's a stylistic choice, but it's a garbage one. If it's just for a flash back then I guess it would be fine, have to wait and see.
Hope it's good since I really liked awakening but haven't been drawn to it since
Personally I'm really happy with how it looks, but then again I loved Echoes and some people think Fates was fantastic.
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So this thread means very little in the bigger picture if we're looking at almost 2:1 global sales PS4/Switch Q1. Shame as a lot of people seem to handle this as a fulltime job really around here. :p
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Where did you get this from? It's not like we had a lot of 3DS-to-Switch ports like we had WiiU-to-Switch ports.