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Media Create Sales: Week 36, 2018 (Sep 03 - Sep 09)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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Super Mario Odyssey sold 2 million in 3 days. Ulimate will smash that.
I think it's the best opening for a Spider-man game ever. By quite a margin. Not enough praise tbh.
I was playing conservative compared to how much Pokémon SuMo launched at and that was iirc the biggest nintendo launch in the recent years.
didn't the last one ship 3M worldwide in its first month? and it was October
was the biggest Nintendo launch ever.
I think Ultimate will beat that. +10 million shipped at launch, + an extra 2/3 million shipped before 2018 end.
Honestly I don't understand the surprise for Spiderman opening. It did very well but the comparison with previous entries is not apt.
Spiderman PS4 was marketed as a Sony AAA game; Spiderman popularity nowadays thanks to MCU is at a very high level; the game is high quality; Western Sony games did pretty well on PS4 (see Uncharted 4 with a similar opening).
Spiderman PS4 was marketed as a Sony AAA game; Spiderman popularity nowadays thanks to MCU is at a very high level; the game is high quality; Western Sony games did pretty well on PS4 (see Uncharted 4 with a similar opening).
The last Spiderman and God of War also didn't light the charts on fire. Circumstances are obviously very different for all 3 games this time around.
Thought HeroAca OJ could hang on longer. Hope it did well enough to justify a more serious take on the series for a future multiplat rpg for the series.
Atlus published XIV, not NISA and Heroines being on Switch was because of NISA, the game was originally meant to be PS4 exclusive.
https://www.perfectly-nintendo.com/nis-america-takuro-yamashita/
No, it shipped 3.22m by September 31, 2014. Which was a week BEFORE it's western launch, and 3DS only.
I think it's more likely you're the one who's going to get their expectations wrecked by SSBU.
Read your own link, SNK wanted it on Switch and they worked with the same porting studio they did on KOFXIV Steam.
Smash Bros will likely do at least 3 Million in the US and Japan alone. Opening weekend.
US opening May be 3 Million+
Hell since it's the holidays it could be close to 4 Million sold in a month. It may beat Halo 3's exclusive opening record for a NPD.
Smash Ultimate will almost certainly crack 2 million in Japan within 2018, maybe even 2.5 million.
Cracking 10 million WW within the first month isn't impossible!
Cracking 10 million WW within the first month isn't impossible!
You are aware that NISA's president had to release an apology about Heroines being a Switch exclusive for the west being their idea and not SNK, right?
https://www.dualshockers.com/nis-america-president-apology-sony-snk/
You don't understand the surprise when YSO expectations were half of that amount?
It's not actually exclusive and there's nothing in there about the Switch port happening at all due to NISA. So where are you getting that?
You're gonna have to clarify because the only real mistake people have made about PS4's japanese sales was predicting Monster Hunter World and Dragon Quest XI performing lower than it actually did, though the sales did slow down to a point where the increased launch numbers were evened out.
Otherwise the sales trend has been spot on. Last year it was flat, and this year had less big game spikes. So unless everyone is gonna suddenly buy a PS4 ahead of something like Kingdom Hearts, the market growth will remain too slow for any increase.
Great sales for Spidey!
But the game seems to pander only to the existence audience, no relevant hardware sales spike for PS4.
Switch greats as ever, even without big new releases.
But the game seems to pander only to the existence audience, no relevant hardware sales spike for PS4.
Switch greats as ever, even without big new releases.
No, because YSO predictions are often off when there aren't direct historical comparisons. Given preorders, popularity of the franchise and the fact that it was a top Sony release I can't see the surprise of being >100k. GoW was also a big release but we knew recent entries that were treated the same by Sony did not so great.
My point is more that plenty of people expected a lot less from the game, YSO included, so it isn't hard to understand the surprise.
Did anyone predict a better result here?
Well I'll probably just retract my remark then because I'm not going to go back and search for receipts. I've been following japan sales age since the DS boom so I'm honestly just calling it as I've experienced it but I think the PS4 has performed well above neoresetera expectations. Those were the specific big games I was talking about. They blew early expectations out of the water. The other being FF15 (which didn't blow expectations away at all).
Not looking for a big argument or derail.
The anger toward NISA is causing everyone to lost their mind.
I have the feeling Smash is going to hit out of the park. This time it is on switch and the hype seems to be crazier than before.
Well on the other hand, no one would have been surprised to see Spider-Man opening at 30K in Japan, especially after God of War's 50K. The comments would have been "well yeah, Spider-Man was never big in Japan anyway, moving on to Breath of the Wild legs".
Even if you includes japanese games, only two SIE games launched higher on PS4 : Bloodborne (150K) and GT Sport (140K) so that's not a level of performance you see every month for that publisher. Then from the western studios you have Uncharted 4 (125K), Horizon (110K) and that's it. From my perspective I would say Spider-Man launch numbers are the most pleasant surprise of all PS4 SIE games. I wonder how many units they shipped, will be looking at Famitsu for that.
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Early hints were that YSO underestimated Spider-Man but it turned out to be by a lot.
The game didn't face supply problems although it had a 100k+ opening which means retailers (and Sony) were prepared and expecting this size of opening despite being more cautious with PS4 software lately.
That's a really good debut for Spider-man! It smashed God of War and sold almost the same as Horizon and U4. It's nice to see western titles in the last years gaining some traction in Japan.
Spiderman was absolutely treated by Sony as a top-AAA release on par with Uncharted and Horizon. I was thinking it would have performed much similarly to the latter rather than God of War (which low appeal in Japan is a known factor). The Last of Us did 130k FW in Japan on PS3, for example. Spiderman is more popular than ever and the game was highly advertised in Japan too. YSO can be reliable but something is quite off.
I'm not underselling the result. I was just expecting a 100k+ debut.
Sony does a really good job in choosing and promoting exclusive software. Their western focused exclusives do even in japan decent numbers.
It is also interesting that Switch hardware sales are up but software sales are down a lot.
It is also interesting that Switch hardware sales are up but software sales are down a lot.
interested in FighterZ and Torna.
and VC4. Should be interesting.
I remember back in like Feb or March people saying FighterZ would do as well as the PS4 version (around 80k iirc?).
I disagreed.
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The bundle did it and we still talk for low numbers, percentage means nothing.
I believe there were some people asking me about the extent of Madoka's current success (maybe sinonobu or Heartskips?), and we just got the chart in for August:
Bruh what. Smash is guaranteed to at least hit 15 million, probably 20 million.
Oh, I saw it. It's doing pretty well recently and there's an anime announced now. Will probably hang there high for a good time.I believe there were some people asking me about the extent of Madoka's current success (maybe sinonobu or Heartskips?), and we just got the chart in for August:
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Week 36 2012
3DS HW - 64.159(-14%)
3DS SW - 130.806(-46%)
New Super Mario Bros. 2 - 39.708(-29%)
Lost Heroes - 32.504(new)
Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! - 13.060(-17%)
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers - 12.589(-82%)
Senran Kagura Burst: Guren no Shoujotachi - 9.513(-86%)
Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na Orb - 8.800(-22%)
Brain Age: Concentration Training - 7.973(-25%)
Kobitodzukan: Kobito Kansatsu Set - 6.659(-32%)
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Week 36 2017
Switch HW - 45.439(-9%)
Switch SW - 100.559(-6%)
Splatoon 2 - 44.981(-14%)
Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2 for Nintendo Switch - 24.045(new)
Monster Hunter Double Cross - 12.811(-53%)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 10.526(-16%)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 4.485(-9%)
Arms - 3.711(-28%)
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Week 35 2018
Switch HW - 42.151(-9%)
Switch SW - 109.541(-15%)
Week 35 2018
Switch HW - 43.513(+3%)
Switch SW - 82.993(-24%)
Minecraft - 14.752(-23%)
Splatoon 2 - 14.398(-15%)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 11.877(-10%)
Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! - 7.004(-28%)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 6.515(-12%)
Mario Tennis Aces - 6.195(-20%)
SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy - 5.493(new)
Kirby Star Allies - 4.459(-14%)
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker - 4.362(-24%)
Super Mario Odyssey - 3.972(re)
My Hero: One's Justice - 3.966(-48%)Nothing really remarkable about Switch software or hardware sales this week. Software actually performed rather sluggishly and fell below 100K.
All eyes on the direct to finalize what we can expect this year.
Black Clover ps4, also demo same time
I'm drawing a blank, what game is that?
It's almost like people will respond positively to a well made, well marketed, high budget, great looking and playing game better than the rushed low budget bullshit that Spidey games have mostly been for the longest time!
It's very good to see and hopefully encourages more effort being put into these licensed games. Because evidently they could make BANK if done properly.
US/UM was really lazy.
You're going to end up disappointed when Let's Go takes over.
Namco must be kicking themselves for making these games PS4 exclusive
Didn't realize before that Switch has surpassed the 5m milestone.
Not much longer until it outsells the Vita LTD.
Not much longer until it outsells the Vita LTD.
Awesome debut for one of the best JP developed games of all time.
Also, congrats to Nintendo reaching five million with the Switch.
