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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan Sales Week 49 Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - December 3-9, 2018

Megiddo on 12 December 2018

This is week 49. So that leaves weeks 50, 51, and 52 for the year. Unless the first week of 2019 also counts for 2018. I have no idea.



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Miyamotoo on 12 December 2018
colafitte said:
Miyamotoo said:

I didnt had NSMBU on mind when I said 2D Mario but something like Mario Maker or new 2D Mario game, but NSMBU will also have strong sales and effect in some degree on Switch. DQ11 is a port but will have effect on sales in any case.

If you paid attention lately you would notice that Switch has increasing 3rd party support, most 3rd party decided or to support or to take Switch more seriously this year, and that means we will start seeing more bigger games next year and in 2020. Also Nintendo itself will keep investing in 3rd party exclusives in any case. Despite point that games like Dark Souls, Diablo 3, CrashBandicot...are ports they still have effect in some degree on Switch sales because we talking about great games in any case that now could be played in full handheld mode.

We just got announced MK11, Crash Bandicoot Racing and Marvel Heroes like Switch exclusive, we will have much more of those when we actually get in 2018.

But Switch is changing this, its getting very wide support on market, going from Indies, to A, AA, last gen ports to some AAA games and 3rd party exclusives, and we can expect much more of all that next year.

 

Look on this list will gave you clear picture just how much stronger 2019. currently looks compared to how 2018. looked in same period of last year:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=238576&page=1#

MK11, i forgot about that game. See, games like this i meant, i'll give you that with this game. 

But Crash Team Racing won't sell anything close to the PS4 version, and not just because of install base, i can guarantee you that.

Edit: Oh, and i saw that list that other day, and precisely represents what i'm trying to say... There's nothing big or new there.

Oh, I think Crash Team Racing Racing will sell great on Switch, maybe not like on PS4 (PS4 still has like 3-4x higher install base), but I can bet it will sell better than it will on Xbox One and better attach rate than will have PS4 with that game.

Team Sonic Racing, Dauntless, Inazuma Eleven Ares, Daemon X Machina, Yokai Watch 4, MK11, Crash Bandicoot Racing (I mean Crash is remake but its not port ) and Marvel Heroes are all new games, and MK11 and Yokai Watch 4 are big game in any case. But have on mind those are just currently confirmed games, and we are still in 2018. and that list shows night and day difference compared to 2018. in same time period.



Green098 on 12 December 2018
Megiddo said:
This is week 49. So that leaves weeks 50, 51, and 52 for the year. Unless the first week of 2019 also counts for 2018. I have no idea.

Week 52 would be the last counted week for the calendar year.

Week 53 / Week 1 of the new year does tend to have holiday sales momentum though. For example for Week 1 2018 Switch did 146.006, and PS4 did 91.683 which were both up from Week 52 2017.



zorg1000 on 12 December 2018
Green098 said:
Megiddo said:
This is week 49. So that leaves weeks 50, 51, and 52 for the year. Unless the first week of 2019 also counts for 2018. I have no idea.

Week 52 would be the last counted week for the calendar year.

Week 53 / Week 1 of the new year does tend to have holiday sales momentum though. For example for Week 1 2018 Switch did 146.006, and PS4 did 91.683 which were both up from Week 52 2017.

Do you know the next time Media Create has a 53 week year? Last time was 2015.



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Acevil on 12 December 2018
zorg1000 said:
Green098 said:

Week 52 would be the last counted week for the calendar year.

Week 53 / Week 1 of the new year does tend to have holiday sales momentum though. For example for Week 1 2018 Switch did 146.006, and PS4 did 91.683 which were both up from Week 52 2017.

Do you know the next time Media Create has a 53 week year? Last time was 2015.

If I had to guess, might be 2020?



 

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Kai_Mao on 12 December 2018
colafitte said:
RolStoppable said:

Must be the language barrier. You initially said that "Switch is not allowing third parties to flourish," so that implied that third parties have tried, but failed. If your point was all along that third parties aren't spending big on Switch, then your original statement should have been "Third parties aren't allowing themselves to flourish on Switch."

Well, i said that because i felt it was implicit. "Switch as a hardware is not allowing third parties to flourish..." because whatever the reason. In my opinion, and is just that, my opinion, it's because the hardware limitations compared to PS4/XBO put a lot of pressure on 3rd parties to make different games that have to look similar to PS4/XBO relatives, so that's an added effort; Online service not being on par with the other two is a problem too; Nintendo first party games are so good, that other games can't receive the same attention, etc...

Then that's ultimately on third parties to make games on Switch. Nintendo can do all they can to court third parties, and, so far, they have with ports at least. Money hatting and all that won't work in the long-run.

Plus, the Switch is what it is. It could not release in 2017 with PS4/Xbone hardware while remaining portable at $300 due to tech not being feasible at that time. It is what it is. It's now up to third parties to create teams that will make Switch games. The Switch has an install base and momentum unlike the Wii U ever did.

 

Also pretty cool seeing the Labo kit #3 creep up the top 20 charts.



Kerotan on 12 December 2018
Megiddo said:
This is week 49. So that leaves weeks 50, 51, and 52 for the year. Unless the first week of 2019 also counts for 2018. I have no idea.

I was guessing that there would be a week 53 this year. So 1.7m for the year instead is my estimate. Very healthy if it happens. 



Green098 on 12 December 2018
zorg1000 said:
Green098 said:

Week 52 would be the last counted week for the calendar year.

Week 53 / Week 1 of the new year does tend to have holiday sales momentum though. For example for Week 1 2018 Switch did 146.006, and PS4 did 91.683 which were both up from Week 52 2017.

Do you know the next time Media Create has a 53 week year? Last time was 2015.

2021? I'm not totally sure. Week 1 of January 2019 only includes 1/7 days of 2018 while January 2016 had 4/7 days of 2015 in it. I'm not sure what the threshold is for media create to have 53 week chart years.

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Megiddo on 12 December 2018
Green098 said:
Megiddo said:
This is week 49. So that leaves weeks 50, 51, and 52 for the year. Unless the first week of 2019 also counts for 2018. I have no idea.

Week 52 would be the last counted week for the calendar year.

Week 53 / Week 1 of the new year does tend to have holiday sales momentum though. For example for Week 1 2018 Switch did 146.006, and PS4 did 91.683 which were both up from Week 52 2017.

Oh definitely. New Year's in when all the relatives give the kids their New Year's money. It's huge for video games and certainly continues holiday sales momentum. Was just referring to whether or not it counted in this year's Media Create totals or not.



PAOerfulone on 12 December 2018

Just out of curiousity, what were the two games bundled with the discounted PS4?



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