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Media Create Sales: Week 44, 2019 (Oct 28 - Nov 03)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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Truly the final game.
Nintendo did good to cancel gaming after this.
Yeah. December games are games that the publisher physically cannot get out earlier (eg. Smash last year)- anyone would prefer to be in November.
I don't remember it being this empty. Could be wrong though.
Ugh, I vastly overestimated Mario & Sonic...
Aside from that, really good week, I'm very impressed by RFA.
Aside from that, really good week, I'm very impressed by RFA.
It's gonna be the best selling JRPG not named Pokemon in years, isn't it. EDIT: Worldwide I mean.
Or Dragon Quest
Or Yokai Watch (not anymore but it's not old either)
I mean worldwide. I think it's gonna be ahead of DQ when all is said and done.
Definitely not in Japan though.
And me planning exactly that. To be fair, it is a Christmas-themed game though (Cthulhu Saves Christmas).
Well, your game I think is quite cheap and fits perfectly with the time of year so it is an exception. Many people can buy it on impulse.
It's a exception.
Last year's pre-Pokémon bump:
This year the Pokémon game is bigger, so the bump should be better. However, as Chris mentioned, absolute sales next week will most likely drop due to the launch of the Pokémon Lite this week. I wonder if 90k would be possible next week.
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|System | This Week | Last Week | Last Year | YTD | Last YTD | LTD |
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| NSW | 53.385 | 40.344 | 84.593 | 2.029.719 | 2.189.791 | 5.436.877 |Also there were some cost-saving bundles during Pokemon week last year so the bump might have been mitigated because of that.
Well, decent debut.
Let's see its legs.
Decent opening for Luigi's Mansion 3 when including digital. I hope it outsells 2 in Japan.
Also, what happened with Mario and Sonic? Any speculative reasons as to why it isn't selling well initially? Even with legs that debut seems pretty low. It looked like an attractive game from an outsider's perspective.
Also, what happened with Mario and Sonic? Any speculative reasons as to why it isn't selling well initially? Even with legs that debut seems pretty low. It looked like an attractive game from an outsider's perspective.
Sega, you blew it again. This was the one MarioXSonic game that looked good and then... not so much.
It's totally best case scenario- they've managed to carve out a new segment of the market without damaging the old one.
We'll have to see what happens over the holidays, but I'd guess they couldn't be happier with how it's gone so far.
They were very clever with launching the updated before the Lite as well and how subtle they were with the announcement as to not have it affect original OG sales. Then the free replacement to the new if you bought old within a certain time. They have their finger on the pulse of Japan so damn well at this point, it's crazy.
Really nice to see a new IP taking over.
Always refreshing especially when they come from Nintendo.
Always refreshing especially when they come from Nintendo.
Yeah, the olympic being in Tokyo next year will definitely have a postive effect. Mario & Sonic London 2012 did reappear in the charts for 5-6 weeks during the olympic (although in the lower part of the chart), and if that happened with the olympic being based in London, i expect the same to happen even better when taking place in Tokyo instead. The only negative thing i can see is the duration between the game and the olympic (about 8.5 months). By that time, the market might have a lot of used copies and quite a reduced price for new copies. I wonder why they release the game now, and not wait until next year, like they did with Mario & Sonic Rio (3DS version being released in February 2016, and the WiiU version being released in June 2016, much closer to the actual olympic). I guess they wanted to have the game ready for this holiday season, but still, i think maybe it could be better to release it closer to the olympics.
I think all 1st party games have vouchers. Or.. maybe not the cheaper ones (not a good idea using the voucher on those games anyway).
I did see some speculation for a millilon seller if i dont remember wrong. But theres still some time (i doubt a million will happen based on the 1st week sales however), we'll see after that the olympic has ended next year.
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where do you think it'll be by the end of the year? is 600K doable?
But why would Switch OG sales dip when the main selling point (console versatility and ability to adapt to anyone lifestyle) is absent on Switch Lite?
Switch Lite is a masked price cut for those whose a feature-less Switch at a cheaper price is good enough to jump into the Switch ecosystem (and probably wouldn't have splashed cash to buy a Switch).
The people who planned to get a Switch OG in the near future, won't be swayed away by the Switch Lite because the Switch OG unique selling point is part of the proposition.
Switch Lite aims for price conscious customers or Switch OG owners who want a personal Switch (in the beginning around 43% of the Switch Lite buyers were also Switch OG owners).
This is of course a win win scenario for Nintendo:
Switch OG (revision) has surely better margins than Switch Lite and both run the same exact software (almost).
See my reply above.
The Lite exists for two categories:
- people who couldn't buy a Switch with its current price point and for which a featureless Switch is "good enough".
- people who already own a Switch but would like to increase the number of Switch consoles in the household (for example buying a cheaper Switch for the wife just in time for Animal Crossing or for the kids just in time for the mainline Pokemon).
We might see 10-15k sales on a weekly basis under holidays.
DQIX was release on DS during June 2009 and charted until Week 49 and then in Week 50 and 51 sold 17.749 and 23.690 respectively.
Yep. Nintendo keeps targeting audiences very clearly, like last year.
Veteran gamers ➡️ Luigi's Mansion (last year: Smash)
Kids ➡️ Pokémon Sword/Shield (Pokémon Let's Go)
Families/casual ➡️ RingFit (Mario Party)
Of course, Smash had a broader appeal last year while this year's big gun is definitely Pokémon but that sums more or less the main target audience of each product.
This one is especially crazy because we didn't even know it existed 2 months ago. It really came out of the blue.
I don't really have much of an actual basis on this but I don't think Ring Fit really fits into that category so much. It seems like it's actually appealing to the core market (no pun intended) more than typical casual/party games do. It is a full fledged RPG after all.
Again I don't have any data to support this but that's just the impression I get from playing it and talking about it here.
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Now that's what I call a relevant historical comparison! If DQ charts really for so long, I wonder what its LTD sales will be.
Edit: answered above
The game looked great. It seemed to do everything right in the trailers. But the actual game just didn't hold up