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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan sales (Week 10): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - March 05-11, 2018

zorg1000 on 14 March 2018
Megiddo said:
zorg1000 said:

You really think PS4 being up ~55% YOY eems realistic?

I do actually.  Monster Hunter is just that big in Japan. It's causing shortages 4+ years into the console's life when there hadn't been PS4 shortages in Japan for a long, long time. I expect a good pull for Spider-Man as well, assuming that it's actually a good game unlike many of the previous Spider-Man games. 

But yeah, I expect 2018 to be much better for the PS4 than 2017 was. Time will tell of course though.

Its illogical to expect that, its up 230k YOY during the MH launch period but its going to be up by 1 million for the year?

 

Shortages still exist but its not to a huge extent like you make it out to be, the majority of the MH boost has happened and the baseline in Q2-Q4 will not be affected in any noticeable amount.

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Megiddo on 14 March 2018

I think it's illogical to expect an overall average of 32k PS4s sold weekly for the rest of the year but that's what makes following this data so much fun.

And yes, I fully expect there will be a lot of people who will receive a PS4 to play Monster Hunter World during the holiday period. It's not a game that will only have a sales impact during its launch and taper off into nothingness after a month.



zorg1000 on 14 March 2018
Megiddo said:

I think it's illogical to expect an overall average of 32k PS4s sold weekly for the rest of the year but that's what makes following this data so much fun.

And yes, I fully expect there will be a lot of people who will receive a PS4 to play Monster Hunter World during the holiday period. It's not a game that will only have a sales impact during its launch and taper off into nothingness after a month.

From week 11-week 52, PS4 averaged 32k/week last year which includes the summer Dragon Quest boost.

I know Monster Hunter isnt going to taper off into nothingness but its not going to cause any more big YOY gains either. Basically the boost it gives to PS4 for the rest of the year will just prevent it from dropping.

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PAOerfulone on 14 March 2018

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Japanese Sales Tracker (Single SKUs): UPDATE!!

1. (NES) The Legend of Zelda - 1,690,000
2. (NES) Zelda II: The Adventure of Link - 1,610,000
3. (N64) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 1,450,000
4. (SNES) The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - 1,115,000
5. (DS) The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - 950,000
6. (NS) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild* - 908,067 (+11,611)
7. (GC) The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - 890,000

*Without Digital



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animegaming on 14 March 2018

Damn, looks like North Star has bombed ):

The Ryu Ga Gotoku team has truly been facing a decline sales wise

Kiwami 2 opened up a bit better and Yakuza 6 had a roughly 100K more copies.

I hope the western releases fair much better sales wise.



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Keybladewielder on 14 March 2018

Interesting that the PS4 Pro sold almost the same as the Slim, maybe people are buying the Pro because they can't find the Slim in stores.
Zelda selling on par with Mario is incredible.



duduspace1 on 15 March 2018
Keybladewielder said:
Interesting that the PS4 Pro sold almost the same as the Slim, maybe people are buying the Pro because they can't find the Slim in stores.
Zelda selling on par with Mario is incredible.

I did think at the time that the PS4 shortages could be a marketing strategy to increase Pro Sales by making the Slims less available. No matter what boost MHW gave, after over 4 years of sales, Sony should have a decent estimate of what demand would be and it looked odd that there were PS4 shortages. These sales figures lends some credence to that line of thought.



reviniente on 15 March 2018
JRPGfan said:
28,4k PS4's = abit low.
45,1k Switches = nice.

182 xbox's...... = meh.

No need to be dismissive, Kupo. The way I see it, on a bad week mind you, the X accounts for 42% of all Xbox Ones sold. Not bad for the most powerful (and expensive) console in the world.



reviniente on 15 March 2018
animegaming said:

Damn, looks like North Star has bombed ):

The Ryu Ga Gotoku team has truly been facing a decline sales wise

Kiwami 2 opened up a bit better and Yakuza 6 had a roughly 100K more copies.

I hope the western releases fair much better sales wise.

I wonder if the conversations Sega had with M$ when they paid a visit to their offices, did include porting some of their franchises like Hokuto and Yakuza to the Xbox.



animegaming on 15 March 2018
reviniente said:
animegaming said:

Damn, looks like North Star has bombed ):

The Ryu Ga Gotoku team has truly been facing a decline sales wise

Kiwami 2 opened up a bit better and Yakuza 6 had a roughly 100K more copies.

I hope the western releases fair much better sales wise.

I wonder if the conversations Sega had with M$ when they paid a visit to their offices, did include porting some of their franchises like Hokuto and Yakuza to the Xbox.

Well VC4 and that Shining RPG are coming to Xbox One.

So I wouldn't be shock if those games came up in the conversations to bring to Xbox One.