Not surprising at all lol. Considering how huge Switch is in JP right now.^_^
Why are u hating on this mastapiece?^_^
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Media Create Sales: Week 52, 2017 (Dec 25 - Dec 31)
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Not surprising at all lol. Considering how huge Switch is in JP right now.^_^
Why are u hating on this mastapiece?^_^
In France, Xenoblade 2 is still out of stock on amazon, it's been the case for 3 weeks. Restock is planned for January, 18th. So weird.
A few times recently famitsu has updated an hour from now. But yeah probably unlikely
Because MC's schedule is every Friday via their website. It's 4Gamer that's late, actually.
Ho didn't see that lol
Well... Good but bad I guess...
Lol. Xeno 2 being out off stocked is a big minus as it means more time for second hand copy to show up there.T_T
Yep, I don't think many People would Turn to digital for this kind of game, especially in this market :(
Wait....i thought the digital number for Xeno 2 is quite good?
digital for Xeno X was good and Xeno 2 had top 2 spots on eshop upon release so I would expect good numbers when famitsu does its digital estimates end of month.
I remember reading here that Xeno 2 position on Eshop is often on top position week in week out.^_^
If the "Well I'd say" seems to bother you that much then rest assured it was a direct translation of "So desu ne", I still have the direct transcript of that interview since I was the one asking the question if you need it (if I had to retranslate it today I would have done it differently, but well that was five years ago) and as you can guess it didn't go through 2 layers of translation before being in english
It's not a number he thrown in a jest either, it's the producer of the game sharing his expectations of the game sales, it's also in line with other expectations they shared on the Tales series before and after (at some point Bamco expectations were treated as a joke because they never reached them, I think they stopped sharing them after Symphonia UP)
Since we're talking about sales let's share some numbers for context
Japan
Symphonia UP >120k
Abyss 3DS > 150k
Rest of the world
Symphonia UP >150k
Abyss 3DS >220k
At a glance yes, Symphonia would have most likely sold more on 3DS worldwide (in Japan I wouldn't say that's a given though), but there's more to it than just sales, Abyss 3DS was done in house and took more effort than they expected (many assets had to be redone from scratch), as it was discussed before PS2 -> 3DS ports were not a smooth process at all, besides TotA and Metal Gear Solid I fail to see another one in fact, the game had to be delayed due to unexpected development difficulties (and unfortunate circumstances, Fukushima).
Whereas Symphonia UP was outsourced to Tri-Crescendo, and followed their global strategy of concentrating the fanbase on one ecosystem, the one where every single Tales game sold wellever since the series started and the one where they could better monetize with additional streams of revenue (expensive collector, DLC costumes etc.), in light of that I don't think either choice was wrong, one was easier and less risk averse and they went for it.
You seem to be pretty dead set on your opinion which is fair, why not, but would you mind sharing any proof on that?
It was not higher budget, both games were developped for 2 1/2 - 3 years (see their latest respective release, Abyss December 2005, Destiny Remake November 2006, Destiny DC being a low effort expanded rerelease with minimal effort), both had around the same amount of people working on it, we have the credits for the two games(thanks datschge for that) to check that, being early (???) has absolutely zero thing to do with higher effort unless I'm missing something, and Vesperia wasn't polished since a notable amount of content had to be cut from the game and it was rather apparent when it released, unless you define polish by "bug free" and in that case let's agree to disagree (eg. polish meaning full of content AND bug free)
Being global is true, thanks to Microsoft push they most likely had higher expectations and a bigger marketing campain outside Japan but it didn't impact the scope of the game or anything else.
If anything from a game design point of view Vesperia was just an iteration from what was built with Symphonia and Abyss while Graces was the first 3D title of a team that only did 2D games beforehand, it also didn't use cel shading to hide any technical weakness (unlike Vesperia, which is a great looking game but full of low poly assets), was also the first Tales episode to have everything displayed with realistic proportions (besides the characters faces that is) which took more effort, the battle system had to be built from scratch as well (unlike Vesperia whose battle system name directly refers being an evolution of the one from Abyss), there was no world map and every place had to be connected with different kinds of field area etc.
Overall I just don't see what your point is, every single mothership title done in-house was treated in a similar way, it's only recently that we began to see a new pattern of releasing more quickly made entries by reusing a lot of assets and gameplay mechanics with Xillia 2 (madein a year) and Berseria (made in a bit more than one and half a year and blurred development staff with a lot more of outsourcing works (mainly starting from Zestiria, which coincides with the merge of Tales Studio within Bandai Namco)
PS : Since quality seems to bother you that much do know that I also prefered Vesperia to Graces but that's 100% unrelated to the discussion we're having.
Why are u hating on this mastapiece?^_^
Konami Amusement at seeing their (ex) fans despair.
ftfy.
Anyway, really hope Famitsu data comes at 12AM JST, and not whenever the hell they always come during regular weeks.
Pfft, Bombergirl has nothin' on Bomberman: Act Zero!Not surprising at all lol. Considering how huge Switch is in JP right now.^_^
Why are u hating on this mastapiece?^_^
It's always funny how ERA (and previously, GAF) seem to think that what's the consensus here (e.g. disdain against sexy outfits, tits, etc) applies to the majority at large. Wake-up call: it doesn't. You guys rage at it all you want; it will always be a minor concern to everyone else, especially in Japan and the rest of Asia.
Tsutaya gives some more info for software.
For weeks 52 and 1 Switch took more than half of the market.
Nintendo camp saw more than 50% increase comparing to 2016 while at Sony PS4 could not cover the loses coming from PS3 and Vita.
For next week Dissidia will take the first place followed by Switch evergreen titles.
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According to Famitsu this was the best year for Nintendo as a publisher since 2012.
The big surprise for me in 2017 is Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon sold more than DQXI 3DS... DQ XI really underperformed on 3DS :(
Maybe that's what the Famitsu honcho meant originally when he predicted sales for DQXI ;)
It means that one of the community managers at NoA is having a lot of fun at the expense of rabbids fans with the patience of a 5yo that was just denied an ice cream :P
Anyway, too bad Famitsu didn't share any numbers today, but oh well, good for NA peeps I guess.
Just for saying that the next update(they've said there will be more) is the full bombergirl cast with their own mini mode story
I've been asking the same question all day lolWHAT IS GOING ON
WHAT IS GOING ON
Have you not seen the big thread on the main page?
WHAT IS GOING ON
Your a swear in 54 minutes
More seriously : when are we getting week 1 numbers?
Well then, i guess i have to change my avatar..... :p
Hopefully Famitsu and Media Create will get it together soon. I want some numbas.
Yup. New slot opened today.
Apparently there is a blank space but I'm not even sure what is real any more.
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