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Media Create Sales: Week 37, 2019 (Sep 09 - Sep 15)
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A little bummed to see Astral Chain out of the top ten already. Really hoping that one will have some good legs on it.
Marvelous actively hurting WoM for this game blockong everything on YouTube, a place thstd probably helped FE and AC
These view counts tell you some idea of advertising budgets for DXM in japan.
Yeah I was wondering if it might get a bump, but with even more games coming out like Link's Awakening it will be tough competition vs those + the other evergreen titles.
Media Create stopped providing numbers. They only provide a Top 10 ranking now. Hardware is also Famitsu.
Thread is still named after Media Create for consistency and archiving purposes.
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Bandai Namco's story on Switch. High sales from mainly low efforts.
Hey hey...this is CO-OP fishing! It's weird that it's taken so long for a game like this to be created...it sells itself! 😁
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So Winning Eleven declined even more in Japan whereas this year's version is gaining ground in the UK (+18%).
Fifa doubled its sales in Japan by adding a Switch SKU. The ball is in your side Konami.
Fifa doubled its sales in Japan by adding a Switch SKU. The ball is in your side Konami.
It's not that bad. The game deserves better though. It's not gonna set the world on fire in any chart but hopefully this is the kind of game that'll be discovered with time. I'm impressed by it so far.
It is even worse this year but the pricing reflects that (it is cheaper in Japan). Will see whether price or quality will be the biggest factor here.
Any thoughts on how evergreens will be impacted by the release? Some more than others, or generally in line with typical Switch hardware bumps?
I think it's basically all of what was the internal MMV/AQL devs combined.
Honey Parade and Hakama always have external developers.
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Hardware bumps take some time to affect software but since this will be a big bump, without the huge software release that will take all air, evergreens should have sizable increases immediately.
I know we saw some pictures of retailers warnings of Switch Lite shortages - is that still true with a 150k -200k shipment? Would be a huge launch if so.
Uh, ok. I thought those two were internal teams too, just separate (like how it works in most companies).
Interesting.
Well, many arcade ports sold greatly both on Nintendo platforms and elsewhere. Bandai Namco has many. Back then, Sega sold 1m Love&Berry units on DS.
Hakama was created one year after First Studio, and seemingly not from its staff. It is also not external, but rather part of Marvelous. Additionally, they don't appear to be the developers of the upcoming Story of Seasons, so unless the development of it is outsourced to a not-yet-disclosed company, Marvelous still has developers outside those two groups.
To be fair, FIFA on Switch has always been cheaper than PS4 (Yen 6,264, against Yen 8,424). However, the difference for this year's entry is indeed bigger (Yen 8,345 on PS4; Yen 5,400 on NSW).
Anyways, I feel this year's Switch version will witness a YOY decrease for the debut (I wouldn't discount a -50% drop either). It should still enjoy good legs, maybe even more than usual thanks to the very low price.
I seem to recall someone saying the last few SoS games have been developed by TOSE but I can't verify that for obvious TOSE reasons.
Yeah, that'd be a bit hard to figure out.
Anyway, digging deeper into it, I found that Honey Parade are also a subsidiary of Marvelous, like Hakama. G-Mode are as well, but I forgot about them because they mostly operate independently (including self-publishing), and they don't really develop many things (the upcoming Burgertime Party is the first notable thing they've developed in a while). Their main business seems to be licensing (they own most of the Data East rights).
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Thank you, that's what I thought reading about those studios months ago.
Thats okay for Daemon x Machina. Hopefully with good WoM, Switch legs and the Lite boost 100k can be reached in good time. Half of what I was hoping for though.
51k people are willing to spend $100 more for a bigger, more versatile console. If the pent up demand for a cheaper, smaller Switch really is as much as other portables then next week could be flirting with 300k.
Monster Hunter hitting 300k+ at retail so fast... I'm sure if we had PSN numbers as well we'd be looking at around 500k-600k.
Minecraft just accelerating to a million retail. Consider how long it was exclusive to eShop the number of people playing that game must be huge.
Looking at these charts is still fun and informative but increasingly they only tell part of the story. Nintendo actively funneling people to their digital store with vouchers, the flash sales on PS4... If publishers want to get people hyped with success of their game they'll just have to drop the numbers themselves.
51k people are willing to spend $100 more for a bigger, more versatile console. If the pent up demand for a cheaper, smaller Switch really is as much as other portables then next week could be flirting with 300k.
Monster Hunter hitting 300k+ at retail so fast... I'm sure if we had PSN numbers as well we'd be looking at around 500k-600k.
Minecraft just accelerating to a million retail. Consider how long it was exclusive to eShop the number of people playing that game must be huge.
Looking at these charts is still fun and informative but increasingly they only tell part of the story. Nintendo actively funneling people to their digital store with vouchers, the flash sales on PS4... If publishers want to get people hyped with success of their game they'll just have to drop the numbers themselves.
Oh, I'm not sure if perhaps I've caused confusion. I was saying that Hakama and Honey Parade work with external developers(ie Inti-Creates for Dragon Marked for Death, TOSE for SoS, Tamsoft for Senran Kagura & that Jet Girls game), not that they are external developers.
I could be wrong though, it would be interesting to see who did the dev work on Rune Factory 4 Special(is that the name?)
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Lite comes with a 10k price cut and despite the removed features it's not a cheap redesign like 2DS. With 3 colors launching simultaunesly and aiming for first time at multiple consoles per house it's not an extraordinary number when the new models had a week close to 100k just some time ago.
There's no such thing, so no, it won't ;P
Lite definitely will, though
Ah. Honey Parade is a production company, so they contract companies to develop for them (although I think they made a game or two themselves? Don't really follow them). It's hard to prove whether TOSE really was involved in SoS games, but they're definitely produced by Marvelous themselves. Hakama helped with DMfD's production, but in contrast to HP, this was for Inti Creates, not the other way around.
Rune Factory 4 Special is entirely Hakama.
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Do you mean Switch Lite SKU >100k? I think it will happen.
I wonder if the OG SKU will get some sort of bump too, maybe some families buying both?
I'd say jumping the gun when we don't even know how the Lite does it's first week
Yeah I guess. I just feel like the demand since the new Switch launched has been around 50-70k with few new releases, and I expect the Switch Lite to be about 50% or more of total Switch sales. With the upcoming stretch of releases I think it could be a real possibility.
But yeah maybe we should see how the Lite actually does in its first few weeks.
To be fair who expected a launch quite that big for the OG Switch 2.0. I was expecting around 50k for the first week. I didnt anticipate demand to be this huge for the 2.0. I previously expected the baseline would settle around 40k before the launch of Switch Lite. Nintendo could have a 200k+ week but it depends on supply.
I'm curious if there is any particular software that you see benefitting more from the Switch Lite audience than other evergreens? I could see Fire Emblem getting a larger initial boost as it has spent the past 20 years as a predominantly handheld franchise. However, optimistically I'm hoping Fire Emblem can hang on the charts until the year's end. I could also see Mario Maker 2 getting a big increase in sales that last with long term legs. I could see boost for Pokemon LGP/LGE until Sw/Sh releases. Outside of that, I'm unsure. I expect Smash, Kart, Odyssey, Party and BotW to keep their current software sales attach rate in proportion to sales of the platform per week. I'm unsure about Splatoon 2, it could perform well but I dont think the Lite revision really suits the style of game. Arms, 1, 2 Switch and Xenoblade I dont see getting anything significant.
Daemon x Machina is a complete bomb. No matter our expectations, 28k in Japan means worldwide numbers are far below 100k. Sales in North America and Europe look almost zero. Even with some legs, it's not likely to make a competitive profit, Considering the development time spent on the project.
Ports to other platforms will not save this game.
Ports to other platforms will not save this game.
I think there is a possibility. I would say base that it won't dip below 75k without major stock issues.