Doesn't change my post even if you're only talking about 1st party IPs. There isn't a competition inside Nintendo about which game sell the more.
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Media Create Sales: Week 48, 2017 (Nov 27 - Dec 03)
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Doesn't change my post even if you're only talking about 1st party IPs. There isn't a competition inside Nintendo about which game sell the more.
I'm talking about Japan.
We'll see. I'll sit here hoping for something more tasteful in the future. I can deal with Rex's outfit, but I still can't seem to get used to Homura's weird body or Hikari's awkwardly placed boob window. I don't expect a game from Japan free from sexualized designs, so it's a matter of degree.
And yet its up on famitsu. I'd say the different MC/famitsu numbers are more due to readjusting from last week. Next week we should see an increase.
There is something like digital sales these days, that had been not relevant on Wii/WiiU. With digital X2 is over 100k easily.
It does change your post even if you look at it from the perspective that in your hurry to try to insult me you didn't even read my post properly.
It's not about competition, it's about potential for the 1st party games on Switch. But now I understood your point that Xenoblade is destined to be a rather mediocre selling series and we should be happy about it.
It's hard to say exactly how long the other systems stopped being supply constrained, but in my nearly 14 years in Japan, this is the longest I have ever seen this go on for a piece of hardware.
The DS lite had shortages for this long, true, but they would come and go. Like there would be plenty for a few weeks and then gone for a month. That stuff lasted (if I can remember correctly) for most of it's first year and continued sporadically well into the second The Wii had the same issues. But with both of thee systems, if you went around to enough places, you could usually find one at retail price. The Switch is different.
But that's not a good thing. Yes, it keeps people interested in getting the hard to find system but it is also leaving a lot of money on the table. I think the Switch could easily sell as many units as the 3DS and maybe even the Wii if they were actually available. It makes for great discussion to say "Wow the Switch is super popular, it has been sold out for 9 months!" but in reality every time we report about a store being sold out that means some customers were not able to buy one.
I mean, it is what it is. The series has had 3 bites of the apple before this and expecting a literal sequel to suddenly explode in popularity was very unrealistic.
Shouldn't the PS3 vs PS4 aligned battle be more meaningful than ever? I remember a few months ago them being quite close and I'm too lazy to check without a graph :P
I looked it up on SteamDB and the Steam version of Nobunaga's Ambition: Taishi is only available in Japan. That means the 17,940 ± 4,024 number are all Japanese sales.
All versions cost the same: ¥9504 incl VAT at retail and ¥8554 incl VAT and 10% discount at digital stores across all platforms.
Total sales will look something like this then:
Nobunaga's Ambition: Taishi
Edit: The game does have a PC retail release, but I don't know the details about that. Sales might be a bit higher in reality.
All versions cost the same: ¥9504 incl VAT at retail and ¥8554 incl VAT and 10% discount at digital stores across all platforms.
Total sales will look something like this then:
Nobunaga's Ambition: Taishi
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Media Create + SteamSpy
PS4 - 27.230
PCD - 17.940 (± 4,024)
NSW - 5.636
Total: 50.806
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Famitsu + SteamSpy
PS4 - 35.027
PCD - 17.940 (± 4,024)
NSW - 5.786
Total: 58.753Edit: The game does have a PC retail release, but I don't know the details about that. Sales might be a bit higher in reality.
Damn there goes my hope that xenoblade 2 would have better legs due to being supply constrained :(
I don't care if you're happy or not about the situation, the reality is that comparing Xenoblade to other more casual IPs like 1-2 Switch is pointless since they're not targeting the same market at all nor have the same sales ambitions. Even with the best intentions in the world, Xenoblade 2 wasn't going to sell 250k+, unless it dramatically changed to the point where it wouldn't cather the same people. Could it have sold more than it did with some changes ? Sure, but not dramatically more.
The digital sales for Xenoblade X have been pretty decent - 23k for the 1st month (over 20% of the retail sales).
So 200k-ish LTD for XC2? It's okay I guess.
Baten Kaitos 3 would've done 500k first week though.
Baten Kaitos 3 would've done 500k first week though.
It even managed to do worse than the Adventure game from Koei-Tecmo, that's quite the feat. As I feared, both Spike-Chunsoft and retailers were too obsessed with the sales of the original to see the inevitable collapse.
I think I wasn't clear, I was talking about LTD in case of the 1st party software.
Yeah looks like it's dead because retail sold 97K in the first week in Japan! Lol
Seems good to me, some people really want to this game to fail eh.
I mean, if Nintendo wanted far bigger sales from Xenoblade, I'm sure they would have told Monolithsoft to get rid of the convoluted combat and either go with standard command battle, or just turn it into a fully fledged action RPG.
Simplicity is what is needed to get the game in more hands I think.
Edit: Now I think about it, I wouldn't mind a Xeno game with gameplay like Secret of Mana.
Simplicity is what is needed to get the game in more hands I think.
Edit: Now I think about it, I wouldn't mind a Xeno game with gameplay like Secret of Mana.
no need for sarcasm, this is a joke related to something we were discussing in the last thread :P
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Xenoblade is not major, lol.
Nintendo knows it has a limited audience.
Eh, hype train has been converted into a hype mini-van. Good leg room. I think Switch hype got the better of us, but the game is still a success by whatever expectations we should have had based on the previous games.
Also, Pokemon is legging away, good to see considering it seemed to open a little lower than I had expected.
Bingo, I know this would get me to buy it. Clearly Nintendo doesn't mind giving Monolith Soft free reign over that though, so I'd imagine they're fine with these sales.
It's major compared to most of their other Switch releases over the past few months. You'd expect a week with even a moderately important game launch to have more supply than the week before.
It does.
Btw, I think we need to increase the range, because GTS is about the sell its 200kth unit...
And we all know racing games are niche! :P
This. Xenoblade isn't a major franchise lol. How much money do people think Nintendo spends on Xenoblade?
Yeah. All they would have to do is dial the combat back. Instead they went in the opposite direction and added more to it.
I think that if it will reach 1 million LTD ww it will be a lock to have further similar projects, imho.
I see you're point. I'm immune to that but I also liked X chara design million times much more. Well, Tanaka... with Elma...
So I'm just enjoying this one differently.
It's certainly prettu intriguing to imagine what they're doing on this action RPG game. I'm clearly don't want Jrpg to become "A-RPG" only, but I'm clearly excited to see Monolith work on Medieval + Action type.
The Switch is surrounded by a sea of salt, so this game is likely to be an easy prey.
I would be down for this. Remaster the first game too.
The combat being dialed back would kind of defeat the purpose in an MMO inspired system. I don't know how or why you would ever need to dial back from the first game. If you just want to beat it's not particularly complicated.
They may just need to go straight action or straight turn based.
Yep, it is still low.
Switch can easily sell 200K+ per week, if stocks are available.
Great debut for XC2, Digital can put the game around 120K easily. I still think that Nintendo is not capable to supply the demand this Christmas for the Switch in Japan (The demand in NA is out of their hands and is going to affect Japan supply). BTW... People saying that XC2 bombed... Lololol. In what dimension??? Really...
These threads are hilarious when people overhypes themselves without much evidence and then when their overhyped expectations aren't met act like the game is a failure. 97k is fine, not outstanding but at least it's growth for the series which is always good. Wonder if people will keep insisting that waifus saved FE after this though.
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