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

trestres on 19 February 2014
Zero999 said:
retroking1981 said:
Those DK sales are depressing.

How can a sequel to a game that sold over a million in Japan fail to give any sort of HW boost?

It was one of only 16 games to shift 1m+ last gen on home consoles.

altough the numbers are certainly low, just like 3d world, the hardware boost wasn't on week 1.

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maverick40 on 19 February 2014

Wow the Wii U is completely dead. A AAA Donkey Kong game selling that bad with no significant increase in hardware sales is terrible news for Nintendo. They are in serious trouble. Mario Kart is the last hope for this console.

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Kresnik on 19 February 2014
Zero999 said:

I was using daily pre orders to get an idea of weekly sales points it would get this sunday. since normally the sunday numbers are at most twice the pre orders, that's what I used as a basis. it is very rare for a game to get more than triple the pre orders, like dk did for example.


Yeah, that's absolutely correct.  But then you started going on about "0.5 weekly sales" and that's when I started to lose it.

If weekly sales = 2x daily sales; daily sales = 0.5x weekly sales.

Then why not just draw your comparisons from the pre-order numbers being 1:1 with FW sales?   Seems a lot easier.



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Zero999 on 19 February 2014
Locknuts said:
I was totally expecting those DK sales. It will do a bit better in the west but not amazing.

don't know about europe but it will do A LOT better than that in america.



badgenome on 19 February 2014
SnowPrince said:

You said it, it's a sequel to a 1m+ series, people who are interested with the IP have already purchased the hardware at this point.

DKCR was on the Wii.



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Mummelmann on 19 February 2014

DK did virtually nothing for hardware in Japan? Even I wasn't expecting that. It'll be a long three months + until Mario Kart releases. It should have some impact in the West though, the question is simply how much.

Zero999: you still think DK is going to prevent the PS4 from flying past the Wii U in global sales within a few weeks? I would consider seriously revising that statement very soon.



t3mporary_126 on 19 February 2014

Is it bad that I hope DKC doesn't do as well elsewhere so Nintendo is more likely to bundle every single major game with the system? I really want a Smash Bros Wii U bundle with a cool design on it...



celador on 19 February 2014

Home console sales in Japan make me sad. Hard to believe PS4 is gonna be be a massive success over there like some are claiming.



sundin13 on 19 February 2014

well f***

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Zero999 on 19 February 2014
trestres said:
Zero999 said:
retroking1981 said:
Those DK sales are depressing.

How can a sequel to a game that sold over a million in Japan fail to give any sort of HW boost?

It was one of only 16 games to shift 1m+ last gen on home consoles.

altough the numbers are certainly low, just like 3d world, the hardware boost wasn't on week 1.

Yeah, let's ignore the Holidays

yeah, let's keep thinking those holiday numbers wouldn't be lower if  3d world wasn't there.