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PwerlvlAmy on 13 August 2015
noname2200 said:
PwerlvlAmy said:
splatoon still killin it in japan

Only because it's cheaper than real* games.

 

*Games for Sony platforms


lol all righty



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Farsala on 13 August 2015
Kresnik said:
Farsala said:

And they probably still expect it to sell. Cannot just simply look at sellthrough and label as bomba. The last Nobunagas ambition on 3DS sold about 9000 FVV. This is a remake of a remake released alongside a remake. Both are similar games and end up selling 8000 together.
hiska-kun said:

Sell-through is horrible, but when we're talking about 3,000 units, what's left? 8,000 copies? Percentage looks bad, units left is not that terrible.

A true bomba is Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Edition. Still there're around 80,000 copies in stores to be sold. That's what I call a true bomba. And a pain in the a** for retailers.

(According to Famitsu, unfortunately we're dealing with quite large ranges)

Nobunaga shipped copies = 11,107 - 21,157

Romance of Three Kingdoms shipped copies = 8,918 - 16,985

 

252   3DS Nobunaga's Ambition 8,024 13,252

FW sales of Nobunaga = 4,443

Copies on Nobunaga on shelves = 6,664 - 16,714

 

312   3DS Romance of the Three Kingdoms 4,648 4,648

FW sales of RoTTK = 3,567

Copies on RoTTK shelves = 5,351 - 13,418

 

I agree, in absolute numbers terms, there have been much worse bombas that have been much more overshipped.  I just don't understand how Koei Tecmo managed to convince retailers to take so many copies.  I thought the whole thing about Japanese retailers was that they can't return games to the publishe so anything that gets overshipped has to be price slashed to be moved.

To be honest, I'm not quite sure why they're doing ports like this for such low sales.  Even the Ateliers on Vita, which I thought haven't been worthwhile post-Meruru, move about 3 x more than these.


Both games cater to the same audience, so I am sure retailers vvanted enough stock for both to sell at maximum potential in case the other didn't sell at all. Their might not be anymore shipments but most of the shipment vvill sell in 2 vveeks, and 10,000 copies split betvveen 2 SKUs and 2,000 stores leaves not too much shelf space. I think the handheld ports are a vvaste of time, but it can try to bring more people to the console versions.