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Media Create Sales: Week 42, 2018 (Oct 15 - Oct 21)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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I really hope SoulCalibur VI ends up doing well in the rest of the world, but man, Namco really went about planning this game's release so poorly.
Putting it in a packed month, and only a week before one of the most hyped games of this generation, was such a bad idea. Not to mention the negative press it got for its lack of content in the costume department as well as having a season pass.
It's still a great game through and through so I hope it's able to find success somehow.
Putting it in a packed month, and only a week before one of the most hyped games of this generation, was such a bad idea. Not to mention the negative press it got for its lack of content in the costume department as well as having a season pass.
It's still a great game through and through so I hope it's able to find success somehow.
Not in the foreseeable future unless there's a massive shake up to the formula that massively widen its appeal, it's already a pretty big success by every standard already as it is.
Zzzzz week.
I see. I just thought that maybe this installment being focused so much on multiplayer and battle royale modes could maybe give it longer legs than usual. Thanks!
SC6 will bomb worldwide
The series never recovered from the SC2 highs (and the decision to make SC3 PS2 exclusive still baffles me to this day, just like the decision to not have a Wii version of 4 and 5 running on the SC2 engine)
It will do ok for a late and under marketed port.
Yet people will downplay its performance because it didn't put the charts on fire for some reason.
Not saying that 10k is good number but it sure is better than whatever work x work did just recently lol.
This is the 6th version of Dark Souls. I was never expecting it to set the world on fire
yea pretty much, although its only did 70k in its debut week on ps4. But its kinda obvious namco bandai delayed DS for switch purely for marketing reasons. The game ran fine in april at pax( yea even in blighttown) and Virtuous began a new project in may 2018. That plus the audio being semi-horribly compressed leads me to believe that it was put on the shelve for 5 months without any QA what so ever. I mean the lack of audio quality, A and B reversed should have been immediately noticed by QA testers
I guess they hoped the game to have a second wind with the delay and it obviously backfired. Hopefully bamco learns from this.
Yeah, that's what I was saying, but I probably wasn't clear enough.
Yeah, but I wanted the first Souls on a Nintendo platform/portable to do well.
It will probably do ok for what it is and the conditions in which it released
You don't need to market Dark Souls come on.
This remastered underperformed everywhere and on all platforms.
I think the best way to describe the Switch's year so far is fine. It hasn't bombed out, but it definitely doesn't feel like it has lived up to the expectations set from 2017. Pokemon and Smash are big, and it has had a few nice surprises, but nothing to really excite or cause it to dominate the market. It still can explode moving forward, it is just a bit more delayed than I first imagined it would be. I'm looking forward to see more of what 2019 holds for us.
It could... I think this would be the most likely one to do it so far if it keeps these legs into a good holiday season.
This wouldn't be as depressing if this wasn't happening to most japanese franchises not made by Nintendo. :/
I was expecting much worse from it.
SC6 needed that Switch version with Link :(
Yeah you're right, but communication was kinda dreadful for this release...
I am interested on how well the amiibo will do actually. That can be extra revenue for the dev i think.
The issue is when you dont expect much and the numbers still below the numbers.
No one is expecting SC6 to sell +100k first week in 2018. But that much below 50k is troublesome.
I remeber the early 3DS fighting game ports ala Dead or Alive selling that much.
Fingers crossed a bunch of smaller markets fall in love with SC6. Similar to the Phillipines with Tekken.
Troublesome? A fighting game selling over 50k in its first week in Japan would be a huge success by current standards.
define "underperforms". it's gonna propel systems as expected, but the ceiling is questionable
Now i'm worried about RE2 and DMC V next year.
DmC did >100k in the opening week in 2013 and DMC 4 did 250k iirc, i don't know what to expect from DMC V, under 100k is going to be so disappointing.
RE2 on the other hand is a remake of a beloved classic, it's in 3rd person view and "supposedly" should do better than RE7, but i'm not sure.
DmC did >100k in the opening week in 2013 and DMC 4 did 250k iirc, i don't know what to expect from DMC V, under 100k is going to be so disappointing.
RE2 on the other hand is a remake of a beloved classic, it's in 3rd person view and "supposedly" should do better than RE7, but i'm not sure.
I feel bad as I love the series but have so much to play atm that I'm waiting for the inevitable quick price drop :/
On the contrary, than the final release still has some problems makes it pretty obvious that the game wasn't ready.
People always talk about the PAX demo like if that means anyone played the full game there and with full functional online features too.
The publisher is the first one not interested to announce a game then having it delayed, but shit happens.
If you think SoulCalibur has bombed now wait another 6 months for Bamco to announce and release the Switch version.
That would make sense if extra development work was done following the delay but as BloodshotX said the developer moved on to a different project altogether.
That would make sense if extra development work was done following the delay but as BloodshotX said the developer moved on to a different project altogether.
SMO, so Switch will be slightly down for Q3 next week, but will go up again with Pokémon, as there was a lack of major release in November last year. (And december too, XC2 is nowhere near as big as Samsh)
Virtuos is a 1000+ people studio, of course they are working on multiple projects at the same time and only a small fraction is working on Nintendo Switch port, there's no source saying: "The NSW port team moved from DSR in May to work on another project".
This. Fighting games are just not big anymore, like the racing sim games. At the same time, this is also what ARMS ended up selling is such an impressive feat.
As for COD, expectation is getting out of hand with current success. Yes, it had a great first week and a great hold for second week. But it's not gonna sell another 650K in Japan.
The info came from ShockingAlberto/Imran Khan IIRC and that was actually exactly what he said. He said the team working on Dark Souls finished their work in April/May.
Come on now...
I expect in week 1 at least 2 millions units and 200k Switch sold.
Link and some Three Houses characters could give it some life, at least
Bah i find this to be very weird tbh, even if it's true.
If the game was ready why wait 6 more months?
Mario Party is having good legs "for a party game"
also, Dont remember what was the catalyst last year, but next (this) week is when Switch sales started to boom up in Japan. so I hope this year they dont start to lag out
also, Dont remember what was the catalyst last year, but next (this) week is when Switch sales started to boom up in Japan. so I hope this year they dont start to lag out
I have bets with a friend and a doomposting/ hot takes bingo when we get the game release
Considering Bandai Namco is still staggering Switch releases into 2019 it might be an intentional strategy.
It's not about selling a lot. But 24K is pathetic. And it's not just fighting games, feels like almost nothing sells well in this market anymore.
This last decade with the PS / Nintendo split in multiplatforms just ruined the sales for most franchises and we got to this point where a few western games sell much more than most japanese releases. It's very disappointing.
Its just Virtuous games being virtuous games, they cant seem to get their act together with their ports sadly.
Lets face it, the game was done in april but has some issues that are probably the same issues rearing its head in the final release. There is no good reason for the game to be delayed 2 weeks before is goes to the cartridge "presser". Online is probably not even a factor here. There is no way that QA testers didnt have access to test the online features months before the delay. And NSO is just the online we already had but now behind a paywall, just like what happened with the online with the playstation years ago.
What namco bandai should have done is take the work what Virtuous games did and continue it elsewhere, in house, by qlock. Its kinda obvious that Virtuous went onto other projects in may and barely looked at darksouls after that.
As i said no way QA testers didnt notice the A/B, sound situation months before release, and if they didnt they are pretty shitty QA testers(or shitty virtuous games for not listening ofc)
Wouldnt we get the same situation as darksouls if we get SC a year after the fact?
Also i dont know why Namco didnt just take the work Virtuous games did and take it back and let an internal team (or QLOC) work out the kinks. Because Virtuous games just isnt up to the task, or they did jack sh*t in the last 5 months.