If so, they didn't promote it well. I live here and I don't know of one.
Nice number. :)04./07. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe <RCE> (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} (¥5.980) - 42.000 / 2.000.000
Silly me. For 1 second I thought it's coincidence.
Someone got a bad christmas present.28./25. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS <FTG> (Nintendo) {2014.09.13} (¥5.200)
wth
Some parents like to make jokes
You use US/UM post first week sales as base for good performance when raw numbers remain low. That's not how it works. US/UM sold 400k in 2018. If LG follows the same trajectory nothing will change in the big picture.LOL. This is not the information you'd want to be making that claim. It sold only 500 unit less than UM/US last year. Maybe Media Create will be more favorable to your position.
No one has been arguing overall numbers. Chris has been saying that LG's legs will be poor. These numbers don't support that claim. Despite its weak launch, it's legs have held up quite well against UM/US... which no one considers poor.
Pokemon has been competing against other big Nintendo titles in the past as well. That shouldn't hurt it.Gen 8 will undoubtedly do better, but unit sales will remain lower I reckon. The thing with Switch Pokemon is that firstly the price (and revenue) is 3/2 of handheld Pokemon, but also, I think, that it has more competition. Pokemon games are arguably the yearly main event for the handheld console, but on Switch for every new Switch owner it's competing with Zelda, Kart, Splatoon and Smash. To see it already shoot past Zelda and gunning for Kart numbers I think is pretty pretty impressive.
AAA games with 97 scores?Pokemon has been competing against other big Nintendo titles in the past as well. That shouldn't hurt it.
To see it already shoot past Zelda and gunning for Kart numbers I think is pretty pretty impressive.
A new Pokemon generation is a big deal.
I haven't heard of one afaik
A Pokémon selling more than a Zelda game in a few weeks is pretty impressive...? Talking about lowered expectations, lol
Come on man, it's the best selling Zelda game of all time. You know what he meant. No, LGPE isn't doing as hot as previous entries, but please don't misrepresent someone else's post for the sake of an internet quip.
If, say, the new animal crossing game sold less than the BEST selling, say, Tales of game, that would still be a flop. Different games have different expectations. LG's sales are definitely underwhelming in Japan, there's no walking around it. A series that's expected to sell 3 million copies selling 1.5 million is a flop. A series expected to sell 500k copies selling 1 million is a huge success (not necessarily pokemon and zelda, just illustrating my point).Come on man, it's the best selling Zelda game of all time. You know what he meant. No, LGPE isn't doing as hot as previous entries, but please don't misrepresent someone else's post for the sake of an internet quip.
Let's Go sales in japan are not so hot, but why do people keep comparing sales of a gen 1 remake to what I think was a new gen game? (don't kill me if I am wrong about x/y).If, say, the new animal crossing game sold less than the BEST selling, say, Tales of game, that would still be a flop. Different games have different expectations. LG's sales are definitely underwhelming in Japan, there's no walking around it. A series that's expected to sell 3 million copies selling 1.5 million is a flop. A series expected to sell 500k copies selling 1 million is a huge success (not necessarily pokemon and zelda, just illustrating my point).
BTW, aren't USUM's dual pack sales (about 500k units) missing from the numbers being quoted here? That would make Let's go's sales even more underwhelming comparitively.
Smash 3DS was at 2483k as of the end of 2017, up about 70k from the end of 2016. Probably a bit over 2.5m by now. It was down only 9% in 2017, but 3DS software cratered pretty hard in 2018, so it probably sold significantly less than 70k this year.What's the best selling Smash game in Japan prior to Ultimate?
It sold twice as much in revenue than USUM FW. In fact, LTD in revenue Zelda BotW is higher than the total USUM sales together in Japan. And so Let's Go is considerably higher in revenue than USUM.The best-selling Zelda game didn't sell much more than UltraSun/UltraMoon FW.
Let's Go was simply not that appealing in Japan.
It sold twice as much in revenue than USUM FW. In fact, LTD in revenue Zelda BotW is higher than the total USUM sales together in Japan. And so Let's Go is considerably higher in revenue than USUM.
I mean a game that costs 1.5 x more will sell a bit less, no shit. But revenue is much more important to companies than our simplistic focus on unit sales. For a remake I would say Let's Go is doing fine, given that it's making considerably more money than the last game, for a remake that was probably whipped together rather quickly (though not as quickly as USUM itself I guess). The question will indeed be with gen 8; HD development costs a lot more, so the increase in game price is necessary* on top of having no decline in unit sales, preferably an increase.In terms of revenues, this is true. Not sure whether Nintendo is happy in one of its main franchises to shrink in terms of units, though.
The good thing with gen 8 is that most Pokemon games will be based on that framework from here on out until maybe switch 2, everything else comes down to how much asset reuse GF will be able to sneak in which will lower the costs going forward, it was a incredibly good idea to future-proof every single Pokemon in HD a few years back, saved so much workload.I mean a game that costs 1.5 x more will sell a bit less, no shit. But revenue is much more important to companies than our simplistic focus on unit sales. For a remake I would say Let's Go is doing fine, given that it's making considerably more money than the last game, for a remake that was probably whipped together rather quickly (though not as quickly as USUM itself I guess). The question will indeed be with gen 8; HD development costs a lot more, so the increase in game price is necessary* on top of having no decline in unit sales, preferably an increase.
*let's be honest, Pokemon will keep making bank in any case, even if it sheds users
It sold twice as much in revenue than USUM FW. In fact, LTD in revenue Zelda BotW is higher than the total USUM sales together in Japan. And so Let's Go is considerably higher in revenue than USUM.
Media Create 12/25/17 – 12/31/17 said:[3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon (Nintendo, 11/17/17) – 61,698 (1,407,660)
12/24/18 - 12/30/18 said:[NSW] Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! / Let's Go, Eevee! (Nintendo, 11/16/18) - 65.000 (1.331.000)
Does that include the bundle pack?It's not just selling more in revenue, it's also tracking really close in sales. Here's a comparison of both seven (7) weeks after release:
There's roughly a 77k difference (if we round it out). But both games have been selling similar amounts on a week-per-week basis.
It's entirely possible the game craters off. But it's performance is very similar to USUM. That will mean different things for different people, however.
I wouldn't even be surprised if it's selling to roughly the same amount of people (or more), but just fewer people are inclined to buy both versions of the game at 6,500Y. Especially if they bought the Pokeball bundle at 10,700Y... is the Pokeball bundle even included here?It's not just selling more in revenue, it's also tracking really close in sales. Here's a comparison of both seven (7) weeks after release:
There's roughly a 77k difference (if we round it out). But both games have been selling similar amounts on a week-per-week basis.
It's entirely possible the game craters off. But it's performance is very similar to USUM. That will mean different things for different people, however.
In terms of revenues, this is true. Not sure whether Nintendo is happy in one of its main franchises to shrink in terms of units, though.
haha don't worry about it. Anyway, your point still stands that they are selling at comparable rates launch aligned :)Dangflabit snippetisnap! I have failed you, media create thread 😱
It does not. Time to redo.
Maybe you just never liked Kanto to begin with?Kanto is boring, it's been played to death.
Green GB
Red GB
Blue GB
Pikachu GB
Gold GB
Silver GB
Crystal GBC
Fire Red GBA
Leaf Green GBA
Heart Gold DS
Soul Silver DS
Green 3DS
Red 3DS
Blue 3DS
Pikachu 3DS
Gold 3DS
Silver 3DS
Crystal 3DS
LG Pikachu Switch
LG Eevee Switch
It's been in about as many games as years since it's release.
The international sales say otherwise when it comes to your claims. I take it you're not to happy with them, are you? X/Y and Sun/Moon and Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee have made the series improve its overall sales compared to B/W before it. Clearly Game Freak must've done something right.Bit off-topic but Kanto has had such an overbearing presence in Pokémon the past decade, people are rightly tired of it. It doesn't help either that the first console 3D Pokémon game was an ambitionless copy of the first game with the same tired, tile-based old map and arbitrary restrictions. Yes, they probably cooked it up in a year and a half so we shouldn't have expected more and whatever they create is going to sell anyway. I don't care, they still ask 60 dollars for it.
Let's go was, from the moment it was announced, a divisive and polarizing game. It simplified the franchise mechanic, but maybe the switch at this point of its life isn't a good fit for "casualized" entries. Notice how Zelda sold gangbusters with the opposite approach.
The overall trend show some decline in the Pokemon franchise in Japan and the results of the next, more traditional (I really don't want to say "hardcore", more "non-casualized" maybe) entry will be really interesting to watch.
It could reverse the trend imo but it needs more to be a more visually polished product than reinvent its gameplay mechanics imo. Maybe some efforts on the story.
Let's go was ultimately necessary to give GF that extra year of development to truly impress with the 1st mainline HD Pokemon even tho let's go technically took that banner.
Do you think Super Mario Party can finish its lifetime above Pokémon Let's Go? I think it will have better legs, because there won't be a new Mario Party (I'm still hoping a DLC) in 2019, contrary to Pokémon.
That's not no shit: plenty of games on Switch have sold better than their comparable 3ds entries despite that.I mean a game that costs 1.5 x more will sell a bit less, no shit.
I thought I read somewhere SMP was getting 2 new boards - or was it a dream? (or some fake rumor...).