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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan Sales: Media Create; Famitsu & Dengeki (Feb 10-16)

Well Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze is only 4 days out not one week, thus I assume if DKCTF was released on February 10th then it would have been over 50K. Remember how everyone was going doom and gloom about Super Mario 3D World and it only had like a day or two for its launch week...



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Ohdear. DKC did almost nothing for WiiU hardware sales. Nintendo must be really worried right now.



Kresnik said:
DerNebel said:
Interesting DK numbers, especially because of that whole discussion that was going on about the PS4 not going to do big numbers because COMG preorders, where it was said that 1 point on average translates 0.5k sales, well DK had 24 points, so those are the ratios:

Media Create: 1:1488
Famitsu: 1:1804

Looks like the whole situation isn't as easy as 1 point equals 500 sales, after all.

But anyway, bad week overall, aside from the Vita I guess, if that number became its baseline then that would actually be acceptable. Next week is where it finally gets interesting again.


We got to the bottom of that.  Zero was actually talking about the weekly numbers.  DK got 81 points = ~ 40k FW, so he was kinda right...

... except we don't get the weekly numbers for any PS4 games until Sunday, so I'm not quite sure why he was saying that =/

Excuse my ignorance, but what weekly numbers? I don't follow the COMG thread that closely, I thought those daily updated charts that thread gets are overall pre-orders at those stores.



WiiU is officialy dead now!



I wish something would save Wii U, i will get one eventually but at this rate it feels like it might be discontinued before i get chance.



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bubblegamer said:
WiiU is officialy dead now!

There's still mario kart 8. If it fails, then yes, it will be officially over for the wiiu.

But on the bright side. The overall chart still show complete Nintendomination:)



hated_individual said:
Well Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze is only 4 days out not one week, thus I assume if DKCTF was released on February 10th then it would have been over 50K. Remember how everyone was going doom and gloom about Super Mario 3D World and it only had like a day or two for its launch week...


Every single time this argument.



I see people started panicking from the get go... hahaha

People expecting 100K from DKCTF had crazy expectations, there are 1.5 million Wii U's in Japan...

I expect LTD sales to be 1-2 million physical...



The fact that the Wii U got 11% of the total HW sales selling only 8k units is one of the most worrying parts imo...



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DerNebel said:

Excuse my ignorance, but what weekly numbers? I don't follow the COMG thread that closely, I thought those daily updated charts that thread gets are overall pre-orders at those stores.


Every day there's a new daily chart of pre-orders.  Every Sunday there's a new weekly chart of sales for the past week.

Normally in the daily chart 1 point = 1k FW sales (give or take) whereas in the weekly chart it's 1 point - 0.5k FW sales (give or take).

Zero said he was basing his PS4 predictions off the weekly sales, but I think there was some kind of misunderstanding because we don't have any weekly sales for PS4 yet; only pre-orders.