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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan Sales Week 41 Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - October 8-14, 2018

Huh. I just noticed after verifying some Resetera posts that the Smash Switch bundle is releasing 2 weeks later in Japan than it is in the west. How odd. It's releasing the same time as the Pokemon bundle, so instead of two big weeks for Media Create there will be one humongous week for the bundles.



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COD is surprisingly big. Compare how much more it sold than Assassins Creed. I had expected for a western game AssCreed would've resonated better with the japanese customers, seems I'm wrong with this assumption.

Pro-pricecut leads to Pro selling better than base model and overall nice sales bump for PS4.



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Megiddo said:
Huh. I just noticed after verifying some Resetera posts that the Smash Switch bundle is releasing 2 weeks later in Japan than it is in the west. How odd. It's releasing the same time as the Pokemon bundle, so instead of two big weeks for Media Create there will be one humongous week for the bundles.

That was known for time now, on 16. November in Japan we will have Pokemon Lets Go game launch, Pokemon Lets Go bundles and Smash Bros bundle.

Easily 200k+ week, maybe even 300k+..



Mar1217 said:
COMG ratio is kinda bad with PS4 titles I mean COD was at 500 + points ....

Anywoo, Kirby's back :) Switch hardware didn't decrease by much too :3

What? The ratios are used for preorder numbers, not weekly sales. 1:500 for FW to weekly sales is expectation.



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CoD is bigger in Japan than I thought.

Minecraft and Splatoon 2 are back up to 5 and 6 respectively. All of those other games came and went.



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Mar1217 said:
COMG ratio is kinda bad with PS4 titles I mean COD was at 500 + points ....

Anywoo, Kirby's back :) Switch hardware didn't decrease by much too :3

The ratio may be bad but the actual sales are anything but. Record breaking sales for cod in Japan baby! 

 

And its digital sales will be decent unlike most past cods. Some even had no digital. So all in all a fantastic week for the series in Japan. Legs should be good too and it will easily cross 500k. Who knows how much higher though. 



Kerotan said:
Mar1217 said:
COMG ratio is kinda bad with PS4 titles I mean COD was at 500 + points ....

Anywoo, Kirby's back :) Switch hardware didn't decrease by much too :3

The ratio may be bad but the actual sales are anything but. Record breaking sales for cod in Japan baby! 

 

And its digital sales will be decent unlike most past cods. Some even had no digital. So all in all a fantastic week for the series in Japan. Legs should be good too and it will easily cross 500k. Who knows how much higher though. 

650k ( BO2 ) would be a good target.



The Xbox One seems like the physical manifestation of a rounding error. I doubt they can get that precise.



 

Sorry for the delay.

Nice boost in HW for the PS4. Both console above their baselines (PS4 @17642 and NS @39500). Duty pushed more hw than SMP did for the NS. Next week numbers may get below user baseline.




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Acevil said:

While it will be telling later on if it was worth it, I will say it isn't a bad increase. Honestly anything that keeps PS4 up above 20,000 is a great thing at this stage. If in two-three weeks it drops below 20,000, ya it will be underwhelming. 

Underwhelming it is then. If the PS4 has to stay above 20k for four consecutive weeks, that's setting things up for the conclusion of underwhelming sales.

Not really sure that is accurate just yet.  The PS4 still 300k+ Gap lead over the PS3 in Japan.  I have my doubts that it can continue to outpace it though for much longer.  Underwhelming?  Well it depends on what metrics you use but to me it just looks nominal.