vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
There's not much to say as the press release mentions users (much like Destiny - character profile), and not subscribers.
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Media Create Sales: Week 26, 2015 (Jun 22 - Jun 28)
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There's not much to say as the press release mentions users (much like Destiny - character profile), and not subscribers.
I find it amusing that they say home console games when we know XBO and Wii U won't be getting games, especially not ones announced at TGS.
I just wondered whether Mechanic Arms' upcoming 3DS game is a resurrection of the Butasan franchise.
I just wondered whether Mechanic Arms' upcoming 3DS game is a resurrection of the Butasan franchise.
Hamster published Arcade Archives Butasan in March on PS4. The copyright line mentions the aforementioned publisher alongside Clarice Games.
Thank you!
Kresnik258
Member
No idea I'm afraid, was hoping someone in here might know!
Just thought today that the recent Animal Crossing recent sale could be interesting to analyse. Since it's digital only, and it's actually been promoted on TV, we can see how many people are aware of such promotion and are ready to pick one of the biggest sellers this gen up on a digital console storefront / Amazon.co.jp / at retail through download codes. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait a while before we get Famitsu digital numbers (the ones which, probably, aren't as accurate as they should either).
Pennywise83
Banned
Advertisement of eShop promotion generally increased consumers' awareness of the game: retail sales also increased a lot the last week.
So, uhm, do we know for a fact how much the original Gen I Pokemon games did in Japan (Red/Blue/Green).
I've seen numbers that ranked from 7.78m to 10.23m (both figures put it as the all time best selling game in Japan), but that's a big difference and want to know which one agreed to be the correct one.
I've seen the later figure as Red/Green/Blue and as Red/Geen/Blue/Yellow, btw but want to make sure.
I've seen numbers that ranked from 7.78m to 10.23m (both figures put it as the all time best selling game in Japan), but that's a big difference and want to know which one agreed to be the correct one.
I've seen the later figure as Red/Green/Blue and as Red/Geen/Blue/Yellow, btw but want to make sure.
Blue wasn't release on retail until October 1999, just a little more than a month before Gold/Silver prior to that it was released to subscribers of CoroCoro.
Pokemon was insanely huge back then, but for Blue to have sold ~3m given the circumstances is rather hard to believe.
flaviusconstantius
Member
Can you give a source? DQIX sold 130K its first month in the US, which is about 80K less than Type-0 HD.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29893/Nintendo_Titles_Again_Reign_Over_NPD_Top_20_In_July.php
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
I need to see this movie + Psycho-Pass
It sounds like God Eater 3 will be announced soon:
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/07/07/god-eater-developer-would-like-to-surprise-fans-for-the-series-5th-anniversary/
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/07/07/god-eater-developer-would-like-to-surprise-fans-for-the-series-5th-anniversary/
So 2016 PSV/PS4 title probably. Bit surprised they haven't announced a localisation of Rage Burst yet.
Actually now that I think about it Toukiden is the Hunting Action series with most consistent and speedy localisations. That's kinda funny.
Kresnik258
Member
I don't know what he's referring too, but I certainly would be surprised if God Eater 3 were announced so soon.
Didn't Toukiden flounder in the west with its most recent release? May be why we aren't seeing Rage Burst.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
I thought TK said it did as expected?
I don't know. That's why I am asking.
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
Are they making sure to put Elsa or Anna on the cover btw lol? I wonder if this game ends up being bigger than the 1st in Japan whether Nintendo would take a shot at localizing this game despite the poor Western performance of the 1st one.
dakkumauji
Member
I believe there was some comments from K-T's EU Community Manager back when we weren't sure if some game (maybe Ar Nosurge Plus) was going to get a physical release or not that hinted that the retail sales of all or most of their games they released recently were not so good.
Dunno what does this exactly mean especially with K-T not slowing down on localizing and releasing stuff.
Alex_Mexico
Member
Oh man, I thought the mere promise of FF7R would result in higher sales of the PS4 in Japan. So far it's struggling to outsell the WiiU!
Gematsu reported that the original game was at 950,000 units shipped WW...is that true? Did Namco state that in a recent PR? If that's the case, it would mean that...somehow (probably major overshipment), the game shipped around 400,000 units in the West. Can anyone confirm Namco actually stated the game is at 950,000 shipped WW?
Why? God Eater Resurrection is a pretty standard enhanced port from what I've seen and they probably want to release as many game as possible whilst Vita is still viable.
I don't think the PS4 version charted very well but it's not stopping them from localising their stuff.
Mmkay, and you're right that they aren't slowing down in general. I only had the PS4 version per NPD non-charting as a data point outside of the PS4 version's non-existent performance in Japan.
Why would a non-existent game spur on sales? Of a damaged, devalued brand no less.
I seem to remember it charted very low in the UK Top 40 as well but not much else. I wouldn't really have expected a Top 10 NPD debut anyway, MonHun barely managed that.
Not so much charting, just utter non-mention.
5 million copies sold is pretty impressive. Goes to show that the best way to revitalize the Final Fantasy brand is to just release good Final Fantasy games.
And less Lightning.
Not sure how they count subs but that might not necessarily mean 5 million copies sold.
It says in the article:
5 million people have paid for a subscription for at least a month. And you can't play the game without actually buying it in the first place so I assume this means 5m copies sold.
Can you not have multiple subscribers with one copy(especially on consoles)? Does it count me twice if I subscribe, cancel and then subscribe again at a later point?
I would assume that it does mean it has sold that much but it's not definite.
You can't buy the game used, the disc is only for installing the game but what you really buy is a code that you use once and gets you to play for a month.
It doesn't count you twice if you lapse your sub, it's the same account.
No, each sale is 1 account only
I mean you can of course use another account on the same install but that means that account bought the game too.
Can you not use multiple accounts on the one installation either then?
No? It's still the same account.
Oh, that's interesting. Seems kinda restrictive to be honest.
Aren't most MMOs account per disc? You can make multiple chars to an account, but I don't think there's any MMOs that can have multiple accounts to a single sale.
It doesn't count trial accounts.
Dunno to be honest, only ever tried a WOW trial. I do own a copy of FFXI that I never actually played though...
Game services are all about licenses and keys. The actual discs don't mean anything other than having something to boot up or install. You get one game license per package.
1st Course
Member
I wonder if the figure include China though, they use a different model there I believe.
I honestly assumed the opposite. That in the case of MMOs they wouldn't care about the reselling of physical media because the majority of revenue was generated from the subscription fee.
I don't think you understand how it works. They don't care about the physical media. The physical media itself is not important. The actual value is in the license key. The license key allows you to create an account, and then you can start paying a subscription fee. It identifies you as a user. If you want another account, you have to buy another license. You can either do this by buying a digital version of a game, or another physical copy. It doesn't matter either way. The key point is that there's a buy-in for each individual account.
This traditional business model is different from a free client subscription model, where it's free to download a client and create an account, but you need to pay a subscription fee. Another business model is pure free-to-play where both the client and the subscription is free, while microtransactions fund the service.
Right, I assumed it worked more like the free client subscription model but then now that I think about it that doesn't make much sense with Digital.
Can't that also be caused by retailer don't want to order to much of the stock anymore as they noticed how bad FF13 brand have become?
Yup. Yokai is trully aiming to beat that Pokemon spin-off number. Anyone know how does Pokemon Conquest does? I feel Busters is going to even reach that Pokemon Mystery Dungeon number.
Ace Attorney seems to do as well as I predicted then.^_^ that loli watson is simple MOE. And doing as good as Investigations 1 ease my heart as at first, I am a bit scared on the game as the hype for the game is a lesser than the last one which could translate to the game doing worst than last one.
Everything else was Nintendo though lol. Splatoon, Rhythm Heaven, Animal Crossing promotion and of course Fire Emblem is killing it.^_^
I believe people are not so stupid to fall into the same hole again and again there. Remember Versus and The Last Guardian last generation? It may happen to FF7R there.
Dragon Quest Builders (think Minecraft) announced for PS4/PS3/Vita: http://www.dragonquest.jp/builders/
