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Media Create Sales: Week 46, 2013 (Nov 11 - Nov 17)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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FFX HD?
God Eater 2 Burst heading to PS4?!
True..people just seem to be looking at the combined Vita and Vita tv figures..
...and that's a rather smoke and mirrors number( assuming it's primarily selling to current Vita handheld owners ...it probably hasn't expanded the userbase much at all).
46k for the Vita by itself is pretty low considering GE2 is the biggest release Vita has this holiday...and it still didn't overtake the 3DS (although I'm sure it's still higher than the Wii U + Mario 3D world will manage).
bigmit3737
Member
Sony really needs to make some Jrpgs for the Vita. I think that Genre is lacking on both handhelds.
Maaaaaaaaaybe FF X/X-2 HD (if we combined them). If they end up doing like Person 4 Golden, which they might do given the amount of work that went into it, that it's a popular game for the first time on a portable, has extra stuff thrown in (the 30 minute voice drama thing). If not that then SS Delta or J-Stars Victory vs.
zomgbbqftw
Banned
It would have to do significantly better than previous HD remixes though. What did KH1.5 do?
Freedom Wars -> Soul Sacrifice Delta maybe?
Vita TV opening is a bit low but it's nice to see Vita "family" at the top. As expected GE performkng extremely well too.
WE still dropping but at least next year is world cup year. It's starting to get worrying and I don't think it's just generation fatigue.
Band brothers is disappointing to be honest, a bit lower than I expected.
Good numbers for 3ds hardware also, and wii u dropping just a bit like I expected last week.
WE still dropping but at least next year is world cup year. It's starting to get worrying and I don't think it's just generation fatigue.
Band brothers is disappointing to be honest, a bit lower than I expected.
Good numbers for 3ds hardware also, and wii u dropping just a bit like I expected last week.
KH did 200k LTD I think. For FF X HD though, I would think along the lines of Persona 4 Golden rather than KH.
I'm agree with Vita, but if you say both, which I take it with 3DS included, I have to disagree. 3DS JRPG library is stellar with SMT IV, FEA, and Etrian Odyssey.
AD-hoc>Online in Japan, so no.
Off the top of my head, the biggest upcoming Vita titles are:
-FFX HD
-Freedom Wars
-Soul Sacrifice Delta
-Project Diva F 2
-Phantasy Star Nova
Of those, I feel the only "guaranteed" one is Phantasy Star Nova, especially since a lot of them are multiplatform.
*wipes tear* damn you Vita! Damn you...
k, that was pretty damn funny.
tamaster92
Member
Dat vita bump
zomgbbqftw
Banned
Yeah, Freedom Wars is a good candidate. It will need aggressive marketing though, otherwise it will fall into the same purgatory space as SS.
Freedom War is too similar to GE2, can it do really well? When will it released actually?
Magicpaint
Member
At least its aesthetics shouldn't work against it. I thought that really solidified SS as niche status, and I don't think Delta will do much better, if at all.
SS did really well for an SCEJ new IP. It's around 200k LTD now excluding the double pack. Sony finally made a good push with regards advertising SS.
For Freedom Wars they have a chance to repeat the success. The developers are proven to be good in this genre, the art style is better for the mass audience than SS. It has been in the famitsu top wanted without having any gameplay trailer yet so that's kind of a success already. We'll see if Sony delivers this weekend.
Woah, congrats Vita! Wonder how much of those are Vita Tv? God Eater sold really really well, sure it's no Monster Hunter but it's sales are extremely good in their own right. Also with nothing new releasing on Wii U, I honestly expected a much bigger drop, like below 10k, so I'm rather surprised by that. Really interested to see if 3D World will have any sort of impact next week.
I don't think Sony is disappointed with SS though. The thing is, the Vita userbase is limited, and launching new IPs is hard. With SS Delta, we'll get to see whether they managed to grow the fanbase through good word of mouth.
I don't think that will be a problem at all.
VitaTV numbers are interesting considering PS4 has yet to launch and GE2 doesn't get any added functionality with VitaTV... in fact, it's less functional since it's GE2's main selling point (AD HOC remote multi-player) is near useless since the unit is married to a stay-at-home TV.
silver.tongue
Member
Sarcasm/Parody? It's hard to tell these days.
zomgbbqftw
Banned
That is surely an advantage.
Good points. SS was too "mature" I guess.
Yes, SSD sales will be interesting, if it launches >200k then I think Sony will have established it as a respectable franchise and SS2 will receive a good amount of hype.
StreetsAhead
Member
With the up & downs of series that started on DS on 3DS, I'm interested to see just how well (or poorly) Fossil Fighters will do, esp. with its tweaked art-style and manga in Corocoro from next month.
That might be true. It is just me that fear too much about Sony over-saturating the market with similar genre. If each game have very distinct flavor like SS and Toukiden, it is much better since people can know that they are different from the get go.
But still, is it better to developed that kind of game from the start rather than trying to turned a totally different game into one
(Patapon 3 I'm looking at you)
pieatorium
Member
How's Band Brothers P compared to previous Daigasso titles?
The game and situation are very different, but for what it's worth, Jump Superstars' first week was over 200K on a portable. Two of the Gundam Vs. Gundam games had first weeks above 200K on PSP as well, I've heard that the gameplay's like that.
An obscure Nintendo IP? Poorly.
pieatorium
Member
FreedomFighter
Member
What a great meltdown. Yesterday was Spieler Eins, today we have freezamite. What will tomorrow bring?
EDIT:
*Phew*
The Horror the horror
Banned
Where do you see that happening this week?
For Vita standards this week has some nice numbers, but that doesn't mean that such completely insane hyperbole makes any lick of sense.
Honestly? It sold about 42.000. Not that much.
Solid sales for the "normal" Vita with the release of God Eater 2. But not as much as expected.
3DS has good sales, as always.
Wii U on third place is exceptional, perhaps the gamers in Japan are preparing for Mario World.
Jump Superstars is a DS exclusive. The Gundam Vs games on the PSP which sold well were also exclusives with no console Vs titles released around that time. The first Gundam Vs game on the PSP which was based on a PS2 version sold a little over 100k LTD compared to 400k+ LTD for the PS2 one.
That's my point really. If there were no console versions of these games, I think there would be a substantial boost, but given a choice between Vita or PS3, the Vita sales will be a minority.
Lol This must be a joke post. Nobody is saying Vita is now going to crush the 3DS, but this downplaying of a great week is getting ridiculous now.
It's shows them separately in the OP. Vita TV sold 42K whole Vita sold 46K. Personally I thought God Eater 2 would've pushed more handheld units. I'm not sure how to feel about it but regardless it's a good week.
anybody said that Vita sales actually disappointing because of the hardware split mustn't remembered that GE2 heavily marketed with VitaTV.