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Media Create Sales: Week 47, 2019 (Nov 18 - Nov 24)
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Here is Falcon support, west first, Jpn later
Those are really good digital sales for P5R.
Lol the snark.
The numbers are the numbers. Anyone who disputes what the data is telling us is simply in denial. It does make me wonder why the digital was so high though. For this type of game, I don't see a huge benefit to owning it digitally. Especially when it's so new.
Lol the snark.
The numbers are the numbers. Anyone who disputes what the data is telling us is simply in denial. It does make me wonder why the digital was so high though. For this type of game, I don't see a huge benefit to owning it digitally. Especially when it's so new.
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Maybe Sony hesitates to have again a whole month of deals but there's no way something won't come out, PS4 sales have hit bottom.
Last year the campaign lasted from 6 December to 6 January, it started this Thursday.
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So I heard y'all liked 'em Falcom discussions, and... yeah.
Not sure what NIS is expecting when they're not even porting 1 and 2 beforehand, but heh... At least we know what we can expect for JP sales (= nothing).
Not sure what NIS is expecting when they're not even porting 1 and 2 beforehand, but heh... At least we know what we can expect for JP sales (= nothing).
I see you are expanding your repertoire outside of weekly Switch HW sales.
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That's why it won't release on Switch until PS4 version is out.
Ah, my bad, misread your post.
Tbh, it's probably for the best, with how the initial Ys VIII released turned out. Switch version was actually pretty alright in comparison.
Great from NISA, though I wondered why it wasn't day and date at the time. Also Cold Steel 3 is like 6th in line in terms of Falcom RPG I'd love on switch after Trails in the Sky 1, 2 and 3 and Cold Steel 1 and 2. Starting with 3 is basically telling a potential new audience that it's not worth bothering. Its probably going to appeal to people who already own the PS4 version and want to go portable, or people who only played the Vita versions.
Still, it''s nice. If Ys 9 isn't day and date though, I'd take that as a stagnation.
Still, it''s nice. If Ys 9 isn't day and date though, I'd take that as a stagnation.
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Maybe the digital limited edition had some effect. In any case 30%+ digital is unusually high for a JRPG that didn't have supply problems.
LOL, just port begged as a joke for this hours ago. Glad it's coming, of course, they're great games (or, 1 and 2 were, at least). Will be a definite buy for me. Thanks NISA!
Pretty sure that's XSEED. But problem is, XSEED and ports that aren't for PC don't mix well at all (only one on Switch so far is Corpse Party, iirc). They'll go to great lengths to port console-only games to PC, but the opposite, not so much. Probably a mix of business focus and lack of resources (they are a super small company).
Yeah. High digital often correlates with stock issues. But this had an appropriate first shipment so it strikes me as odd.
Lord Vatek the path has cleared for Estelle in Smash!
Where's 1 and 2 though, Cold Steel is a direct sequel that needs the context...
There's no asian release yet so there's no spinning it as anything else that japanese sales, it's high without a doubt, maybe a bit inflated if Famitsu undertracked it a bit (I assume Sega/Atlus uses Media Create) and they're rounding up numbers so it could be closer to 30% than 40% digital sales.
Of course the opposite could be true as well (Famitsu overtracking and the rounding up number being lower than real sales) so we can't infer much more than what we just got.
We got Atelier recently showing us digital sales got higher across the board, this is now another example.
Oh my God people are totally going to go into CS3 as their first one aren't they? Hilarious.
It's also true that Atelier Ryza was another title that suffered from shortages shortly after its launch, which increases the potential for sales via digital channels.
They are thinking "Well Mass Effect 3 on WiiU worked great."
They're probably thinking that the Vita is dead and people that wanted a handheld experience probably went somewhere. So they're assuming that their handheld audience moved to Switch.
It doesn't seem like too much of a reach to assume that that people may have played the first two games on Vita and are willing to play the third on the Switch.
Yep but it probably had strong digital sales from the start too, stock issue pushed it to close to 50% split but it would have been strong (as in >30%) anyway
One can also argue that once a customer bought digital once for a retail game he might be more likely to do it again, so shortage at retail for some games are good news for digital both in the short term (every retail sales lost is a potential digital sales gained) and mid-long term (customers might be more inclined to do it again later after having a good experience beforehand)
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Why oh why can't the ps4 get these deals 😭 😭
I'm sure xbox will sell a few thousand but will be dead again once the deal is over.
I don't think there is any conspiracy theory about this. They just wanted a big title to port with all the licenses they had and that was the one.
So I haven't checked on one of these threads in awhile...kinda hilarious looking at the XB1 vs. PSV numbers.
Damn that royal digital split is huge. Really unusual, but at least I feel more validated in my prediction a while back.
Well that was predictable.
There is no reason to assume this isn't true. It's just odd for a JRPG with no stock issues to be moving ~35% of its total sales as digital. We don't have many examples of that happening. Atelier had heavy stock problems at launch so that one makes sense.
We'll have to see if the trend continues. I wish we got digital sales. (Real ones, not estimates)
What examples do we have of official PR and/or sales numbers that demonstrate that a specific title had poor digital sales?
The reason we don't have many examples of it happening is because we don't have many examples of official PR/numbers for a specific title in Japan I'd say, no?
Like, did Capcom provide Japan only numbers for RE2 remake or DMC5? I think they've only given global numbers. Or did Square Enix provide Japan only numbers for Kingdom Hearts 3? Only thing I've seen has been global.
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We do occassionally get shipment numbers don't we? I'd have to take a lot of time to go dig them up though since I just look at the links others post.
Also, just want to clarify I never used the word poor. Digital on PS4 looks to be 20% on average based the info in that revenue and units thread. That's significant.
Sure, not disputing that. But what else do we go off of? I'm not one of those people thinking that Japanese companies ignoring Japan is an issue so this isn't a gotcha type thing. There just isn't that much actual info out there for us to conclude how normal this is. I've been going off the digital ratios from that report a while back.
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Yup... Yup and all they had to do is pay Sony 30% and a bandwidth fee. If sold for the same price as physical thats a lot more money they are making.
wait, is Switch sales going to be flat or up by a few % when we ge tomorrow's numbers?
PS4 Digital Title Ranking
So uh, a lot of people paid 5k yen to download a really old SEGA mecha fighter. Kinda interesting. I'm a bit surprised by how relatively low Sakura Wars is so close to release. I'm guessing its audience is relatively quite old and prefer the physical copies.
1. SD Gundam G Generation Premium G Sound Edition (¥13,200)
2. Cyber Warrior Virtual-On Masterpiece 1995-2001 (¥4,950)
3. SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays (¥9,020)
4. 13 Sentinels (¥9,878)
5. SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays Season Pass (¥3,520)
6. 13 Sentinels Premium Edition (¥13,178)
7. Soul Calibur VI Season Pass 2 (¥3,740)
8. Death Stranding (¥7,590)
9. Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order (¥8,657)
10. Monster Hunter World: Iceborne (¥4,888)
11. New Sakura Wars (¥9,680)
12. Civilization VI (¥6,930)
13. Death Stranding Digital Deluxe Edition (¥9,790)
14. Deemo -Reborn- (¥4,378)
15. Persona 5 The Royal (¥9,680)
16. Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon Infinite Combate (¥7,700)
17. Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order Deluxe Edition (¥9,676)
18. New Sakura Wars Digital Deluxe (¥16,280)
19. Minecraft (¥2,640)
20. Border Break 30 Day Premium Service (¥1,400)
So uh, a lot of people paid 5k yen to download a really old SEGA mecha fighter. Kinda interesting. I'm a bit surprised by how relatively low Sakura Wars is so close to release. I'm guessing its audience is relatively quite old and prefer the physical copies.
1. SD Gundam G Generation Premium G Sound Edition (¥13,200)
2. Cyber Warrior Virtual-On Masterpiece 1995-2001 (¥4,950)
3. SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays (¥9,020)
4. 13 Sentinels (¥9,878)
5. SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays Season Pass (¥3,520)
6. 13 Sentinels Premium Edition (¥13,178)
7. Soul Calibur VI Season Pass 2 (¥3,740)
8. Death Stranding (¥7,590)
9. Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order (¥8,657)
10. Monster Hunter World: Iceborne (¥4,888)
11. New Sakura Wars (¥9,680)
12. Civilization VI (¥6,930)
13. Death Stranding Digital Deluxe Edition (¥9,790)
14. Deemo -Reborn- (¥4,378)
15. Persona 5 The Royal (¥9,680)
16. Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon Infinite Combate (¥7,700)
17. Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order Deluxe Edition (¥9,676)
18. New Sakura Wars Digital Deluxe (¥16,280)
19. Minecraft (¥2,640)
20. Border Break 30 Day Premium Service (¥1,400)
PREDICTION LEAGUE DECEMBER 2019
Predict how much these titles will sell in the month (from Nov 25 to Dec 29):
[NSW] Nintendo Switch Hardware (35 days) - 1.300.000
[NSW] Pokémon Sword / Shield [second month] (35 days) - 900.000
[NSW] Ring Fit Adventure [third month] (35 days) - 450.000
[PS4 + NSW] SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays (32 days) - 190.000
[PS4 + NSW] Yo-kai Watch 4++ (25 days) - 65.000
[PS4] Project Sakura Wars (18 days) - 150.000
Predict how much these titles will sell in the month (from Nov 25 to Dec 29):
[NSW] Nintendo Switch Hardware (35 days) - 1.300.000
[NSW] Pokémon Sword / Shield [second month] (35 days) - 900.000
[NSW] Ring Fit Adventure [third month] (35 days) - 450.000
[PS4 + NSW] SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays (32 days) - 190.000
[PS4 + NSW] Yo-kai Watch 4++ (25 days) - 65.000
[PS4] Project Sakura Wars (18 days) - 150.000
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