What are the expectations for the Switch overtaking the 3ds in Japan? Can't be earlier than 2022 right? Or are their big* releases in Japan next year I don't know about.
*big enough to move HW
*big enough to move HW
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No way PS4 was going to do high number without any price cut.
Its peak Week 51 and 52 happened last year when the price cut announced otherwise it was heading to similar number last year
Monster Hunter is coming this March so it should overtake the 3DS by its launch week.
That's what I said, it is dying. I was not expecting much better.
Chris hyping up the next two weekly results.
Do you expect some info next week despite no charts from Famitsu ?
Probably because it will contain a lead into christmas and some days after it
Amazing Momotaro sales, Konami is the only third party company that has taken advantage of Nintendo low key Holiday release period.
A big missing chance for the rest of companies because anything remotely interesting and ambitious would have had the spotlight. Then you have to read complain about Nintendo being too much of a fierce competitor and when they give them free space they don't take advantage, it is their loss. Konami enjoying 1,5 million sales, more than Final Fantasy Remake VII.
A big missing chance for the rest of companies because anything remotely interesting and ambitious would have had the spotlight. Then you have to read complain about Nintendo being too much of a fierce competitor and when they give them free space they don't take advantage, it is their loss. Konami enjoying 1,5 million sales, more than Final Fantasy Remake VII.
switch passed GBA's lifetime sales (16.960M), and will pass SNES's lifetime sales next week (17.170M)
next up, PS1 (18.855M)
next up, PS1 (18.855M)
Like I said in last week's thread, shop foot traffic just seems way down in general this year (in Tokyo) due to COVID. It's also worth noting that major stores close an hour or two earlier than they did pre-COVID, cutting down shopping time. I imagine many are ordering online alternatively, and people choosing to stay in will buy plenty of games (explaining why software can continue to do well).
On the other hand, tomorrow (Christmas) should be most people's final work day of the year, which means a longer holiday week and the potential for foot traffic to pick up and lift hardware sales above the crucial 300K mark.
I think it's going to be a nail biter for the 6 million mark if we only count one remaining week. If we count two, it will get there.
On the other hand, tomorrow (Christmas) should be most people's final work day of the year, which means a longer holiday week and the potential for foot traffic to pick up and lift hardware sales above the crucial 300K mark.
I think it's going to be a nail biter for the 6 million mark if we only count one remaining week. If we count two, it will get there.
A special to Koei Tecmo that publishes Hyrule Warriors in Japan and to Marvelous who struck gold with Sakuna too
The same happened during the first months after 3DS launch.
Still, this year's release schedule were affected by COVID. I'd not be surprised if some games like Bravely Default or Story of Seasons were December releases
Bandai Namco is the least excusable company.
the way kojima talks, i always imagined metal gear from ps2 era were 2 million units minimum in japan.
Mid budget games on the rise again!
Konami should do a mid budget MGS
Good to see you around still! It feels like I haven't seen you post in a Media Create thread in years.
I had to stop posting for a few years because I had a job that made it too sensitive to post. That's ended and now that I'm a mod, I'm trying to find threads to participate it more often.
Remember to discuss sales in good faith, people ;)
Have you already forgotten the secret sauce of Harada for this Christmas, Family Trainer?
Cyberpunk should still chart for one more week somewhere low on the list. It's possible Week 52 or Week 1 achieves it.
Nice note to end the year on before the long wait for W52-W53.
Switch still has a shot at 6 million thanks to the extra week.
Konami needs to rebuild the sports audiences on Switch. Baseball and Soccer could both do well.
Two Japanese-themed games doing well is foreshadowing for Rise.
Switch still has a shot at 6 million thanks to the extra week.
Konami needs to rebuild the sports audiences on Switch. Baseball and Soccer could both do well.
Two Japanese-themed games doing well is foreshadowing for Rise.
There is a Switch exclusive Monster Hunter releasing in three months. Sales will explode in Japan.
I'm pretty sure it will pass it before the launch of Rise, but if it doesn't, Rise will guarantee it does soon after. Right now it's only 350k behind, and 3DS only sold 600k in the next 7 weeks, if Switch can do 1 million in the next 7 weeks (and it should) it will be ahead and stay ahead.
upper 20s seems pessimistic to me. I expect Switch to beat DS and the main reason is that they will keep supporting Switch with lots of big titles for the next 5 years at least. They have no other platform to think about so it becomes easier to manage development and even platform momentum.
By the end of next year it should be around 23 Million units, is Switch just going to stop selling in 2022 and 2023?
Switch vs 3DS
Code:------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Nintendo 3DS | Nintendo Switch | Difference | | | (2011/02/26) | (2017/03/03) | | |----|----------|-----------|----------|-----------|--------------| |Week| Weekly | LTD | Weekly | LTD | NSW - 3DS | |----|----------|-----------|----------|-----------|--------------| | 197| 86.346| 17.153.957| 204.622| 16.569.199| -584.758| | 198| 92.892| 17.246.849| 229.698| 16.798.897| -447.952| | 199| 163.444| 17.410.293| 263.304| 17.062.201| -348.092| | 200| 218.412| 17.628.705| | | | | 201| 218.351| 17.847.056| | | | | 202| 200.100| 18.047.156| | | | | 203| 70.100| 18.117.256| | | | | 204| 50.438| 18.167.694| | | | | 205| 36.163| 18.203.857| | | | | 206| 33.011| 18.236.868| | | | |----|----------|-----------|----------|-----------|--------------|
Switch will end up much closer to the DS than anyone predicted back in 2017 or 2018.
Right now, 3DS is up by around 7.5M. by the end of this year, it should be down by 7M. Assuming Nintendo won't suddenly kill the Switch by a next gen hardware, then within 2 years that 7M lead by the 3DS can be erased easily. Probably within a year and a half at worst.
Monster Hunter Rise is expected to move hardware big time. If within that 2 year timespan the BoTW sequel will be released, then that's another HW mover as well.
I think that would be contingent on Nintendo being able to produce several more new IPs that become multimillion sellers. That's unlikely - but not impossible, to their credit.
Are you joking? I live in Japan and I've been proactively trying to get one since launch with no luck.
If you are trying to get an X, it will probably be hard, S is pretty rare too, but I saw it briefly in stock at BicCamera.com the other day.
Now that the year is essentially done, do we have final data on how many retail games were released this year? Is there any resource available online to find historic data on this?
Looking at this The switch had a way different sales curve that previous systems
Prediction:
NSW will miss the NDS by 10000 units at the end of its life, mark my words
Will salesera implode? tune in next time! ;-)
NSW will miss the NDS by 10000 units at the end of its life, mark my words
Will salesera implode? tune in next time! ;-)
A giant pile of cash in Konami's bank account
We will know at some point next year when the annual MC sales are published.
There should be no retail releases next week, so you are free to count.
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Set it to only released software, excluding download only software.