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Media Create Sales: Week 48, 2018 (Nov 26 - Dec 02)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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What do you mean, they make no sense? It's literally the amount of people who went in and bought the game. If a game in the same series on the same system has 500 points whereas the first one had 1000, you can expect a massive drop. It's useful for trends within the same franchises and systems. You're not supposed to look at the points and try to figure out how many people across Japan does one person in one store represent.
99% certain we've seen million FW sellers from Nintendo on Wii, DS, and 3DS that aren't Pokemon.
They are preorder numbers. How do they make no sense? It's probably the most direct type of data you could get.
It's just one chain covering a small area however. It's not a fool proof prediction tool. It is subject to lots of bias that make it flawed for any direct trends.
Actually the closest ones were New Super Mario Bros Wii, New Super Mario Bros DS and Super Smash Bros for 3DS
Nope. I'm on my phone but Brawl and both New Super Mario Bros game opened up close to a million, but I can't think of any games that beat a million FW.
I know they're mainly very leggy so fw is not indicative but what about Mario Kart DS/Wii/7? Animal Crossing New Leaf maybe?
If you count
3DS and wiiU 1st week together it was about 1.2M 1st week
Unfortunately it seems deserved based on the online complaints. Then again it's Amazon Japan so it could be anything.
Lmao, using amazon Japan reviews as a metric for anything. They are garbage.
Mostly things like the game balance in single player modes being too difficult/frustrating (for children especially) and the online being wonky.
After skimming through Game Data Library, I couldn't find any for those platforms. The closest ones were New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Super Smash Bros. 3DS, which both nearly managed it.
For some reason I'm really shocked that no non-Pokémon nintendo game has broken 1m first week?? meaning smash is about to break a rather significant record as highest selling Nintendo game Fw??!
The games that are famous enough have a bigger audience overseas, like Zelda and the game that are popular in Japan dont have the pedigree to make 1M week 1. Other case could be like splatoon, too early on the console life time to make 1M mark without spme mumbo jumbl black magic attachment Rate
Just checked GameDataLibrary and the only titles on Nintendo platforms to have exceeded 1M FW are Pokemon BW, DQ9, Pokemon XY, Pokemon SuMo, Monster Hunter 4, Pokemon BW2, Monster Hunter 4U, Pokemon DP, Pokemon ORAS, Pokemon GS, Pokemon HGSS, Yokai Watch 2, Pokemon USUM, DQ11, and Monster Hunter XX.
The only one of those to be published by Nintendo is Pokemon Gold/Silver.
Interesting that Smash could be the first console release over 1million FW
The biggest Nintendo games get there with huge legs. Still it does show potentially how impressive the ultimate debut is going to be.
Yeah it definitely makes sense when you think about it, bc Nintendo games have a far more stretched out sales curve & don't have majority of their sales FW. But regardless it says incredible things for smash. We know it will have those Nintendo first party switch legs, so combined with the literal best non-Pokémon Nintendo opening of all time.... this game is going places. And by places I mean the >25 million hall of fame
IM BACK! Since I missed last week, I'll say it now. All 3 trackers are now over 200k. Nomura tensai! Woo!
Now for this week.
Not sure what's up with the multi quote, so this is all I got this week. Superior Tracker continues to be superior.
Now for this week.
Superior Tracker said:
Not sure what's up with the multi quote, so this is all I got this week. Superior Tracker continues to be superior.
Mario Party bundles are sold out on online stores but they are available at retail stores.
Comg and Tsutaya sales show that the bundle might be flat or bigger this week.
COMG is a small chain of stores located in Niigata prefecture—like, a dozen of stores or something. They publish daily preorders and weekly sales in their stores but these data can't be taken to make inference on the entire population of stores because of course the sample is not representative. Even across years within COMG stores it's difficult to draw any conclusion because stores closed and you never know how they changed the way they sell video games.
Nintendo games tend to sell well over time and their audience is not composed of day one purchasers as other big franchises.
Animal Crossing New Leaf which was one of the biggest Nintendo launches back then did below 700k while selling close to 6m at the end.
To be fair, New Leaf did have major stock issues during its first week, so maybe it could have done 1M first week
Week 48 2018 Software: 217.264
Week 49 to Week 1 are going to be insane.
M-C Switch Software Sales Week 48 2017 to Week 1 2018:
Week 48: 247.530
Week 49: 239.146(-4%)
Week 50: 307.692(+29%)
Week 51: 590.428(+92%)
Week 52: 416.362(-29%)
Week 1: 441.447(+6%)
TOTAL: 2.242.605
TOP 5:
1) Super Mario Odyssey - 716.089
2) Splatoon 2 - 509.179
3) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 377.749
4) Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 168.200
5) The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild - 145.796
M-C 3DS Software Sales Week 48 2012 to Week 1 2013:
Week 48: 356.864
Week 49: 396.911(+11%)
Week 50: 672.803(+70%)
Week 51: 903.449(+34%)
Week 52: 604.151(-33%)
Week 1: 666.614(+10%)
TOTAL: 3.600.792
TOP 5:
1) Animal Crossing New Leaf - 996.331
2) Paper Mario: Sticker Star - 470.394(new)
3) New Super Mario Bros. 2 - 413.871
4) Inazuma Eleven Go 2: Chrono Stone - 365.536(new)
5) Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Magnagate and the Infinite Dungeon - 287.409
Week 49 to Week 1 are going to be insane.
M-C Switch Software Sales Week 48 2017 to Week 1 2018:
Week 48: 247.530
Week 49: 239.146(-4%)
Week 50: 307.692(+29%)
Week 51: 590.428(+92%)
Week 52: 416.362(-29%)
Week 1: 441.447(+6%)
TOTAL: 2.242.605
TOP 5:
1) Super Mario Odyssey - 716.089
2) Splatoon 2 - 509.179
3) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 377.749
4) Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 168.200
5) The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild - 145.796
M-C 3DS Software Sales Week 48 2012 to Week 1 2013:
Week 48: 356.864
Week 49: 396.911(+11%)
Week 50: 672.803(+70%)
Week 51: 903.449(+34%)
Week 52: 604.151(-33%)
Week 1: 666.614(+10%)
TOTAL: 3.600.792
TOP 5:
1) Animal Crossing New Leaf - 996.331
2) Paper Mario: Sticker Star - 470.394(new)
3) New Super Mario Bros. 2 - 413.871
4) Inazuma Eleven Go 2: Chrono Stone - 365.536(new)
5) Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Magnagate and the Infinite Dungeon - 287.409
Huh, wasn 't expecting Daedalus: The Awakening of Golden Jazz to get this kind of advertisement (or any advertisement, for that matter...).
It has pretty high production value, although I only played a short segment of the demo.
I did notice smash ultimate is oddly difficult, but at least you can adjust difficulty in most modes.
Not sure if that'll hurt sales, but even I've been struggling
Not sure if that'll hurt sales, but even I've been struggling
Famitsu initial/preliminary report is in apparently - 1.303 million. Compare to Pokemon Let's go had 552k.
Wanted to make a thread, but insufficient privileges :(
Wanted to make a thread, but insufficient privileges :(
If true, I think I predicted 1.3 million somewhere back in my post history... maybe that is wishful thinking, though.
1.303 million is a rather specific number to be a prediction.
There's no point in making a thread about preliminary prediction when official number is coming tomorrow or the day after from the same source.
It really doesn't hurt either way imo. Also I just want all the trolls to get this shit out of thier system now so the actual thread will have substantially less thread shitting.
Very interesting but I don't get the Pokemon numbers. The game opened at 100k+ more on Famitsu than the 552k figure in the article. Maybe they don't count bundles or maybe it is underestimated I don't know.
It helps to spread inaccurate information. When the final number will come and be higher/lower than that, it'll just confuse people.
IIRC, Famitsu and MC do surveys on some stores, and estimate the number sold with that data. So, preliminary means they don't have the complete data, and with the data they have, they estimate it will end in 1.3 million. Could be more or less, but around that number.
I was about to say, have Amazon JP reviews ever actually done anything to word-of-mouth? USUM got review bombed but even that sold well to my recollection.