None and they are annoying.
You should get a mod to veto the ban on famitsu digital estimates since they derail and polute the thread enough as is.
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Media Create Sales: Week 5, 2019 (Jan 28 - Feb 03)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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You should get a mod to veto the ban on famitsu digital estimates since they derail and polute the thread enough as is.
Ace Combat is definitely not an AAA game but it had big production values for Bamco and also was under development for many years.
MH4 shipped 4.1m in Japan. There's surely some audience loss in Japan.
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Latest known sales (Famitsu physical + digital estimates):
[NSW] Dragon Quest Builders 2 - 267.695
[PS4] Dragon Quest Builders 2 - 265.956
Still many copies on shelves for both however.
[NSW] Dragon Quest Builders 2 - 267.695
[PS4] Dragon Quest Builders 2 - 265.956
Still many copies on shelves for both however.
It was easy to miss since it came out a few days before Christmas, but it has been announced for a 2019 US release. No date yet.
Totally spitballing but it seems to be tracking close to what DQB1 did on the Switch, but not as good as what that sold on PS4.
The Famitsu digital numbera are useless at this point but I do think they will eventually get better at them as the market is moving more and more into digital. So keeping those numbera around is good for discussion of correctness. I hope they will eventually get their act together on that one.
You are comparing shipments from Nintendo to sell-through data. The switch could very well be overshipped in Q3. So sell-through could exceed shipmenta in Q4.
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Pokemon is up thanks to the restocked bundles. If the Pokemon bundles are available the hole year then Let's Go will not collapse in summer like some people here suggested.
They won't be. TPC and Nintendo will want to expend those resources to prepping the new gen.
See. He gets it. ;)
First off, triple A is solely defined by how much money is spent on a project. What your opinion on the assets is and how high quality they are is irrelevant.
Second, you don't know what their budgets were and if anything was overbudgeted...and, I don't know what that has to do with the topic. They don't have some psychic in finance that can foretell how well a game will sell.
And finally, Ace Combat has modern photo-realistic graphics featuring highly detailed aircrafts that require licensing dollars on top of that. What games are Bamco developing that would cost more than this, besides fighting games? We know the Warriors games are dirty cheap cookie cutter games and even some of those have struggled to make a profit with the same or more sales than AC7 has right now.
One thing that is a bit nebulous and can cause confusion is the Nintendo Smash hardware bundles that came with game cards.
If Famitsu polls "Did you buy your game digitally", odds are since it's a physical hardware bundle that a person would say no. However for Nintendo these bundles I believe are treated as a digital purchase of the game as they go through the eShop.
If Famitsu polls "Did you buy your game digitally", odds are since it's a physical hardware bundle that a person would say no. However for Nintendo these bundles I believe are treated as a digital purchase of the game as they go through the eShop.
Famitsu shows only 0-20% stock for Switch. PS4 however has 20-40% yet, seems it has much more of a problem here.
Shipment was looking like this: 273k for the Switch version and around 266k for the PS4 version.
So about 39k on shelves for the Switch version and 54k for the PS4 version.
Nintendo isn't going to count their digital sales twice on in an official financial report. That kind of lie just asking for trouble.
It's not my opinion. It's the information we have. You're free to disregard that if you wish or you can share other information.
So this was the end game of all this famitsu defense then.
I mean, none of us know the actual budget, that's why we are guessing. Using assets and animation to estimate budget is as good a method as anything else.
Every company has analyzer to estimate the sales potential of the product and adjust budget accordingly. We've yet to see any sign of AC7 failing projection.
Photo-realistic graphic is no longer exclusive to AAA games when some indies also have good graphic, and we know nothing about license fee either. The Warrior games (assuming you mean One Piece Warrior) are developed by KT, and I can't find the source that shows they struggle to make a profit.
Bamco as a company has a tendency to make game quick and cheap. That's their business model. They publish more games than all other publishers in the world. Such business model simply does not support games with huge budget.
I can't say exactly how AC7 is performing, but to say it bombs because "it's an AAA game without AAA sales" is simply ridiculous.
Will. I think it's fair to say that Smash Ultimate has exceeded expectations.
Seems like every Major Nintendo title is doing that. Some More in the West then Japan tho.
Really interested to see how Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing do. Think they have a okay shot of topping their previous mainelinw release. Not sure about Luigi's Mansion 3 tho.
Seems like every Major Nintendo title is doing that. Some More in the West then Japan tho.
Really interested to see how Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing do. Think they have a okay shot of topping their previous mainelinw release. Not sure about Luigi's Mansion 3 tho.
Yeah, the PS4 version won't sell its initial shipment without some price cuts. A shame.
I doubt it will even with price cuts. I feel like they'll just lump all unsold copies into the used section.
I don't thinks so.
They could sell it at a higher price (while being cheaper than MSRP) in the new section. People would pay an extra over the used copies to get a unused copy.
We got new sales information from them, but they like to combine Japanese sales with the rest of Asia.
No accurate information does not make inaccurate information more accurate.
The point was, that sales are way below what any game of its technical calibur, which is that it will be unlikely to do 300K in Japan. How many games has Bandai Namco developed that have been commercially successful (by receiving praise in Bamco's investor reports or by analysts) with lower sales so quickly? And the graphics in the game are very good and rivals what other single player games are doing technically, with VR! I think the definition of AAA is wider than you think...is there any question that this is one of Bamco's lead releases this year, and especially this quarter?
Also my bad on KT, I mixed up devs...but my general point was, what games do they develop, besides fighting games, that have a bigger budget than this?
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Lol.
This Feb looks so quiet release wise. I wonder how hardware will hold.
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This is the Media Create Sales thread. Thus the usage of Famitsu Sales data (Especially that with digital estimations) is not needed in this thread unless otherwise stated by the community.
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Inquiring how hardware will hold in a quiet Feb means I'm not relaxed?
KHIII isn't going to hit 1M unless they port it to the Switch.
Oh snap, so no Dengeki or Famitsu data or Rakuten/GEO/Tsutaya pre-order rankings.
Media Create info only. I guess that other stuff can go in separate threads?
SE re-released most KH games like 4 times.
It'll get there
These would fall under "unless otherwise stated". Which refers to the current community discussion.
If the entire community is discussing the usage of other Japanese Sales Rankings that's one thing.
If it's a poster repeatedly posting data not part of the discussion, that would fall into the Mod Post.
The unless otherwise stated part would cover other data sources.