Hopefully strong US performance and legs indeed happen.
The Queen deserves it lol.
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Media Create Sales: Week 7, 2018 (Feb 12 - Feb 18)
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Hopefully strong US performance and legs indeed happen.
The Queen deserves it lol.
The Nintendo DS had an unparalleled success in Japan. Not matching its sales is expected for any gaming device, especially when the Switch is two times more expensive.
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I doubt anyone expects it to, the DS didn't have to compete against mobile phones.
Well it didn't in the UK but its a non factor. Bayo 3 is already coming out.
Nah. Nintendo needs to make sure Switch is a viable platform for software to sell on and it makes them money. Seems like they are on the right track.
I've been kind of saying for awhile now that games like Bayonetta 2 and Wonderful 101 wouldn't of sold that good even if they were on more successful consoles.
several people mentioned already is highly likely it did when you factor in Digital
I wonder if this will be another Xenoblade type surprise, everyone downplaying it and BOOM 1M seller list in Q4 Investors Release
Ps2 HW Sales time are long gone in Japan so Sony sure knows that, Switch will not reach Ps2 or DS levels either unless price is slashed dramatically.
She surely does.
Yessir. In development as we speak. I'll dig up the Kamiya tweets - he's really happy about it.
Yeah, this is what I was trying to say back in January.
Bayonetta is not a particularly attractive series, the Switch audience is not the target demographic of the game, Bayonetta 1+2 itself is a collection of old games, and the Wii U wasn't actually stopping popular games from selling to the degree that Bayonetta tanked on Wii U.
Returning to my other argument from that thread, while I expect it to do better than Bayonetta, I still remain unconvinced that Donkey Kong is going to be a major hit. I honest feel the reception to the first Donkey Kong reboot was that it was too hard for most people, which was the primary cause of its Wii U entry sales issues, and that a port is unlikely to pick up a large audience that never engaged with the games before in order to be able to get around that.
Bayonetta is not a particularly attractive series, the Switch audience is not the target demographic of the game, Bayonetta 1+2 itself is a collection of old games, and the Wii U wasn't actually stopping popular games from selling to the degree that Bayonetta tanked on Wii U.
Returning to my other argument from that thread, while I expect it to do better than Bayonetta, I still remain unconvinced that Donkey Kong is going to be a major hit. I honest feel the reception to the first Donkey Kong reboot was that it was too hard for most people, which was the primary cause of its Wii U entry sales issues, and that a port is unlikely to pick up a large audience that never engaged with the games before in order to be able to get around that.
A good ammount of the Non-Stop Climax Edition sales might be foreigners importing the game. It's the only way WW to get both games physical. It was a gold opportunity for Nintendo to use a 32 GB cart. If they don't use it themselves, how can we ask third parties to do so?.
At the same time Bayo 2 port was announced. Not sure how you missed it
We will see with Donkey Kong adding easy mode if it can succeed, but it may be that the people who bought Returns didn't enjoy because it was too hard and won't buy future games.
It's the Yakuza version of Hokuto no Ken, and I wasn't talking about moving significantly but just pulling it ahead of the 40-45k baseline of the Switch.
Seems like a lot of these ports are just to fill out Switch's software portfolio. I doubt Nintendo is sweating Bayo's 1+2 sales or regrets greenlighting the ports.
my bad i meant 3DS which sold similiar to Ps2, DS is like 33M right?
I hadn't realized the shortages had stopped in Japan, is the Switch in stock for the most part then? And these sales are not that limited by supply anymore and reveal a bit more about the demand instead? Hopefully it improves.
We should really wait for more data before burrying Bayonetta. In the US I can see it being way up from the Wii U version.
Wow these Bayonetta sales, but not that surprising i think. Fortunately the sales in the west will do better. Congrats to the Zelda team, they absolutely deserved it with this masterpiece.
Solid numbers for Mario & Rabbids, thats a nice surprise for sure.
Solid numbers for Mario & Rabbids, thats a nice surprise for sure.
Sure, and I think that makes sense. The January thread debate was more so about whether or not Bayonetta would sell 150K+ in Japan though, which is the part I was following up on.
I don't think you're wrong there. I didn't buy Tropical Freeze because I didn't particularly enjoy playing DKCR due to the difficulty.
On a similar related note I bought Bayo 1+2 this week because I'm off work and started with the first one and between the QTEs, gameplay changes and some bullshit enemies/sections I probably wouldn't buy the sequel if I hadn't got them together. I've heard Bayo 2 is a lot more accessible in that regard.
Okay. Yeah, that could be possible. If we assume the PS4 hw weekly drops will be similar to the past couple of weeks that should put the PS4 at around 24k units the week before the release. Would still need a 10k+ bump to surpass the Switch though
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Although looking at last year it looks like the baseline was a bit higher - maybe 26k. I think we could see a higher baseline now. Maybe 28k?
Nintendo themselves has been quoted as pursuing "Wii-levels of success" with the Switch, so it's not wrong to assume so.
PS4 is currently 22k higher than last year, and depending on exactly how fast the drop in sales will decelerate, it seems plausible that the weekly sales won't remain non-negligibly up YoY in a couple of weeks' time.
I must have been in a cave. I knew the ports were announced but didn't see much discussion on the new game lol.
There's a big difference between Wii and DS in Japan.
The first game moved 200K on PS3 and 110K on 360 in Japan, so wherever those people ended up.
If they exited console gaming, then obviously nowhere.
If they're still on dedicated devices, then we should look where stylish action games are still selling.
Japan :
Wii : 12.75m
DS : 32.99m
WW:
Wii : 101.63m
DS : 154.02m
Not at the same level.
DS sales were in a completely different ballpark than Wii sales, especially in Japan.
And I thought that Dragon Ball FighterZ would do much better than that.
Maybe the WoM of the fans of the old Budokai and Xenoverse series wasn't particulary great because is too different from them.
Another good week for MHW, and I'm surprised that the Secret of Mana actually sold that amount.
The Switch, even without any new games for more than two months, managed to sell ~40k. That's something really interesting to see, and even more interesting to see the legs of the software.
Maybe the WoM of the fans of the old Budokai and Xenoverse series wasn't particulary great because is too different from them.
Another good week for MHW, and I'm surprised that the Secret of Mana actually sold that amount.
The Switch, even without any new games for more than two months, managed to sell ~40k. That's something really interesting to see, and even more interesting to see the legs of the software.
We´ll need February Digital Estimates first in order to assume that, so far with 1st 3 days of digital is at 2.5M with this last MC numbers.
This is the first stylish action game since Bayonetta 1+2 four years ago so it's hard to determine where that may be.
I'm no expert but it might not be too outrageous for me to suggest they ended up on the PlayStation 4.
But I think Bayonetta 3 will do better than this port, they say if you build it they'll come.
What kind of magic made it possible for you to make this post within 1 minute of the thread going up?
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After four weeks:
01. / 01. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (Capcom) {2010.12.01} - 404.175 / 3.565.976 (-30%)
01./01. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World # <ACT> (Capcom) {2018.01.26} (¥8.980) - 85.322 / 1.836.291 (-47%)
Even with huge digital share it's not even close.
Right, I think we're unlikely to get a read on if the audience still exists and where it may exist until we can compare Devil May Cry 5 and Bayonetta 3.
Bayonetta 1 was only a bit behind Devil May Cry 4 (310K vs 360K if I'm looking this up correctly), so they're pretty comparable series.
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