It's basically hard mode DLC for Z which plays more like the mobile game, so I guess doing the grind again is not really appealing for people who are already high-level in either game. That doesn't explain the weak first week, though.
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Media Create Sales: Week 20, 2015 (May 11 - May 17)
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It's basically hard mode DLC for Z which plays more like the mobile game, so I guess doing the grind again is not really appealing for people who are already high-level in either game. That doesn't explain the weak first week, though.
Mine are that people who liked the first game just went and played the mobile title, and this game didn't offer nearly enough new to be enticing to come back to.
maquiladora
Member
Depressing...
Splatoon seems to be tracking for a good launch over there but that doesn't launch until the 28th.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Codename STEAM bombed horribly.
Pretty crazy to think that Minecraft PSV was this close to being at the top of list this week.
Pretty crazy to think that Minecraft PSV was this close to being at the top of list this week.
Acquiescence
Member
Hey, look on the bright side...
Erm.
Erm.
Main Franchises still selling - the test will come with the next new system launch. Truth is the games industry is doing quite well - its this specific part thats beginning to really struggle now.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
I wanna say that this is the result of digital storefronts being viable this generation
but we all know it's mobile.
fuck, console gaming looks wrecked in japan.
but we all know it's mobile.
fuck, console gaming looks wrecked in japan.
Interfectum
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Konami gets the last laugh afterall.
So earlier in the year (and even a bit before when we were first going into it) I said that without the N3DS, I'd normally expect at least a 20-30% drop year over year, using that as my bar for how much it was propping up the system.
For quite a while it kept it almost at parity with the previous year, which I felt was pretty impressive.
At this point though every week is easily in the 20-30% decline range and several are nearing 40%, so I think we're past most of its effect at this point.
The Vita is facing similar declines, with a 25% decline for the year overall (the 3DS is only at around 12% so far but should continue to fall at this rate).
The PS3 is effectively done. The Xbox One never got started. The Wii U is static, but pretty moribund. The PS4, despite being up about 2x year on year for this week, is still abysmal.
I don't think there's actually anything positive here at this point.
For quite a while it kept it almost at parity with the previous year, which I felt was pretty impressive.
At this point though every week is easily in the 20-30% decline range and several are nearing 40%, so I think we're past most of its effect at this point.
The Vita is facing similar declines, with a 25% decline for the year overall (the 3DS is only at around 12% so far but should continue to fall at this rate).
The PS3 is effectively done. The Xbox One never got started. The Wii U is static, but pretty moribund. The PS4, despite being up about 2x year on year for this week, is still abysmal.
I don't think there's actually anything positive here at this point.
The games industry is Japan is arguably thriving more than ever before. There are several titles generating tens of millions in revenue every single day. Has this ever happened before? Even non-gaming companies are trying to get in on the action.
Oh wait did you mean on these weird hardware devices you need to spend upwards of 20k yen on just for the privilege of being able to buy a game? When everyone has a mobile anyway? Yeah they're obviously dead, it's not the 80s anymore.
1st Course
Member
What's the reason behind dying light bump? It is back in top 20.
AnkiRendan
Member
Good lord...
It's a port of a remaster of two fourteen year old games everybody has already played, released on an unpopular console. Not that surprising in my opinion. And judging by the demo STEAM is just a plain bad game with an artstyle that doesn't appeal to a lot of people and especially not Japanese gamers.
LegendofLex
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Kind of amazing that a FF game (even a remake of a remake) debuted with lower sales than Xenoblade 3D (also a remake). There isn't even an install base gulf between the n3DS and PS4 in Japan.
Smiles and Cries
Member
Would have done better if it was a P* game
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
It's the third release of an HD remaster on a platform that has had a tepid reception in Japan so far. That it won out the week is staggering, really, because it just goes to show how weak the rest of the retail business is doing in Japan.
I look at this in two ways: (1) Japan is transitioning to a fully mobile market place and are ignoring consoles, or (2) japanese gamers are fed up with the bullshit publishers are trying to repeatedly shove down our throats with anticonsumer business models (releasing a remake of a remake that just came out last year).
If it turns out being option 2, then I am glad Japanese gamers refuse to be played like fiddles.
If it turns out being option 2, then I am glad Japanese gamers refuse to be played like fiddles.
1st Course
Member
Was this posted?
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-05-20-xbox-one-gets-a-price-cut-in-china-and-japan
xbox one is getting a price drop in China and Japan
In what possible way could FFX HD on PS4 be considered anti consumer?
Hellraider
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There is nothing amazing to it because the comparison makes no sense.
It must be nice to be that optimistic.
Spieler Eins
Member
So does anyone have the upcoming release schedule? All I can think of is the next Ace Attorney coming out in a few weeks iirc.
Moor-Angol
Banned
500k at least by hands down
anyway, 1,835 units for Codename STEAM (Famitsu numbers) is the lowest opening ever for a Nintendo title ?
Maybe Odama on GC did worst ?
square knew damn well they couldve released this version along side the ps3 version that came out last spring when the PS4 was already out. If you think square did not try to get people to buy both versions, you are crazy.
Square-Enix knew what they were doing. Release it on ps3 and get people to buy it there, then wait a year and release it on ps4 and get people to rebuy it again. Hell, they don't even let you download just ffx for half the price, they force you to buy the whole package. This is an anticonsumer move.
I am all for every company making mobile games from here on out, just as long as the quality of traditional console games carry over. I am not against paying $15+ for a good mobile game.
Is that bad?
It had stock problems
QuiteWhittle
Member
The Japanese version of FFX HD released in December 2013.
Its pure hyperbole tbh, the problem is that the artstyle is no appealing and they didn't manage to pull it off... the gameplay itself is fine, except the wait times between turns but that was patched =/
then what prevented them from waiting and making it s PS4 launch title? All I am saying is, square knew what they were doing. They held off to try to sell the same game twice.
What are you basing this on? The game came out in December 2013 in Japan. PS4 hadn't even released there yet and had been out for a month elsewhere in the world.
Why would they intentionally delay a PS3 game they had already finished until its successor console released (effectively killing off the PS3 market, as we've seen), therefore sabotaging the sales of both versions? It would be insane.
Final Fantasy did worse than what I was thinking (but maybe digital sales are better than expected). Steam confirmed its bomba status (actually, bomba beyond belief). And the next good period of releases (mainly for 3DS, though) starts next week week. Argh.
P.S. 3DS needs a price cut / a similar initiative like last year (free vouchers to get a game from a monthly catalogue) as soon as possible, though. Fire Emblem should help for a while, at least
P.S. 3DS needs a price cut / a similar initiative like last year (free vouchers to get a game from a monthly catalogue) as soon as possible, though. Fire Emblem should help for a while, at least
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
this is the part where i point out that no one is obligating you to buy this game again. your current version is still fully functional, a complete experience, a treasure in unto itself
ON the bright side, FF still has the brand name that even a re-release of HD master can debut at number 1!
ON the down side, it didn't need to sell more than 16K to be number 1. And Codename STEAM can't even sell 2K.... Maybe IS should make Advance Wars 3. That should sell more than 16K, right?
ON the down side, it didn't need to sell more than 16K to be number 1. And Codename STEAM can't even sell 2K.... Maybe IS should make Advance Wars 3. That should sell more than 16K, right?