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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan sales: Famitsu & Media create - week 12 ( march 18-24)

BaldrSkies on 29 March 2013
tbone51 said:
BaldrSkies said:
According to Dengeki (they have started doing weekly rankings too)
http://news.dengeki.com/soft/ranking/ranking.html

One Piece 2 on PS3 has a mediocre 65% sellthrough rate, Vita version is higher at 75% sellthrough. The first game was a much higher 92%.

So yes, the first game hurt consumer confidence in the sequel.



as a huge one piece fan, i say it was too early bringing out a 2nd game imo. The manga clearly hasn't been out so long time skip(starting its 4th arc about a month ago). They should have waited but thats just me


I'm not sure how the western impression of the first game is, but it was extremely poorly received by the people in Japan. Just because a game sells a lot doesn't mean it's good or well received.

The second game seems to be a good improvement, but the damage is already done... Maybe some people will at least see it's a better game and it will have some steady sales rather than being overly front loaded.



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Bc605 on 30 March 2013

The first OP was poorly received for sure, the QTEs and whatnot. That definitely had a HUGE impact on OP2's sales. However, I believe the Japanese are probably a little burnt out from Musou games. Koei released DW7:Empires, Hokuto Musou 2, Dynasty Warriors 8, and OP2, all within 2 months of each other. OP2 would've done much better if Koei spaced out their games a little more.

I wouldn't use Amazon JP review scoers to judge a game though, especially if it was an exclusive. The users "reviews" there are just horrible, probably the worst on the web.