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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan sales (Week 18): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - April 30 - May 6, 2018 (Golden Week)

I think alot of people are making too big of a deal about sell-through.



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If Labo gets 300k by mid June, then im Impressed. Everyone have different expectations on how much Labo will sell. And the different definitions of "flopped" and "good". So dont bish about someone saying 200k is flopped or good.

Because imo 200k is GREAT! 😉



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kirby007 said:
thismeintiel said:

3 weeks, which included Golden Week.

@ Megiddo

Definitely agree. It's not a flop. But, considering it's taken 3 weeks to sell ~50% of its first shipment, it's definitely not doing as well as Nintendo expected. Especially after the big ad push for it. 

Thank you for your insight on what nintendo expects

You're welcome.  Someone needs to provide it.



This thread needs to be tagged for future reference. As always, people of a certain preference are quick to count Nintendo games out. I've seen it happening with most Switch games so far: Zelda BotW, Arms, Splatoon 2, Odyssey, Kirby, etc.

I guess we'll see a year from now where Labo stands. I'm willing to bet it will already have crossed the million mark in Japan alone.



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None of those titles had 40-60% sell-through in Japan after 3 weeks. None of those titles were in the situation that Labo is currently in. Are you referring to one million for Variety and Robot combined. Or are you including potentially other kits with that number?



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Megiddo said:
So, on the Switch, what Nintendo 1st party title has failed to clear 1 million? You don't think DKTF will fail to clear it do you? the DS/GBA had a ton of retail games to compete for consumer wallets. The Switch, thus far, does not.

Actually in first whole month Labo will probably be close to 1m shipped units, I can easily see it at end of year to be at around 2m+ shipped units. Remember, Nintendo always gave us shipped numbers for their SW.



According to Famitsu, both the switch and ps4 increased by 50% due to Golden Week.

I think the baseline is the last week's figure.



thismeintiel said:
Hiku said:

Labo sold around 200k in Japan in two weeks?
I wouldn't say that's bad. Not everything they release has to be on the same scale as something else sales wise. More variety is always good. I usually rather have 10 different games that sell 200k each than one game that sells 2M. (As long as they're profitable enough.)
Considering the rather simplistic software involved with Labo, and the nature of the cardboard and who it's mainly geared towards, I had no particular sales expectations. But 200k in two weeks, I know many games that would love to have numbers like that.

3 weeks, which included Golden Week.

@ Megiddo

Definitely agree. It's not a flop. But, considering it's taken 3 weeks to sell ~50% of its first shipment, it's definitely not doing as well as Nintendo expected. Especially after the big ad push for it. 

Haven't followed the lead up to Labo's release that much, what did they do beyond the YouTube videos?



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takoyaki7 said:

According to Famitsu, both the switch and ps4 increased by 50% due to Golden Week.

I think the baseline is the last week's figure.

According to media create ps4 sold the same both weeks. Its still supply constrained. 

 

GoW legs are unprecedented for the series. 



Megiddo said:
None of those titles had 40-60% sell-through in Japan after 3 weeks. None of those titles were in the situation that Labo is currently in. Are you referring to one million for Variety and Robot combined. Or are you including potentially other kits with that number?

It seems your perception of "middling" sales is entirely based on the size of the first shipment. Am I right to think that if the initial shipment had been of 100k with a second 100k shipment arriving for week 2 & 3, that you would consider the current sales as very good?



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