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tbone51 on 25 March 2020
Mar1217 said:
tbone51 said:

Digital has changed drastically for Nintendo in the last 6-8months  

1st to note is the voucher program, it help boost digital sales significantly. That said AC is a game much more oriented for buying it digitally (having it with you at all times) as well as the situation now COVID19 even with 1.9mil people buying the games

lastly the games digital ratio have all been 20%-30% lately with 2 of them starting off with 40%+ digital ratios

The voucher program was a limited offer to Nintendo Online members first which isn't even covering half the sold market. Then you still need to buy the thing. Which I doubt the numbers were overwhelmingly great since Nintendo back off the offer in most region already.

It's influence is a marginal print.

As for your last claims. First, the Japanese market which is what I am referring my first post with, isn't still wild in the adoption of digital video games on Nintendo console market. Most of the digital sales numbers confirmed the drop digital adoption after the first few weeks of release. It drops fast which means in the long term. The digital ratio actually loses ground against physical.

Lastly, I'd be interested to know the names of these two 1st party Nintendo games with a digital ratio of 40% and where you found that info.

Yeah for digital ratio I do agree it’s much higher within launch than long term. Ex of this is Smash. I’m mostly talking about the launch for the titles

as for the 2 titles it’s Fire Emblem and Astral Chain. I don’t have the source for that (someone could help?) on me but it was discussed on resetera going by sales/sell thru/shipments. 

that’s how we got estimates for smm2 (20%) and more



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dark_gh0st_b0y on 25 March 2020

Thank you god! I feel like I'm dreaming!! Been a fan for the last 12 years, always knew that AC could be so much more if Nintendo would open the wallet, but not even in craziest dreams as huge

Would be great to see something as happy and pure selling in US/EU too... without sex, drugs, guns, black rapper's lifestyle and all that useless crap that is being forced onto the public 24/7

I better shut it here or I'll be called things again ^_^



don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^

PortisheadBiscuit on 25 March 2020
dark_gh0st_b0y said:

Thank you god! I feel like I'm dreaming!! Been a fan for the last 12 years, always knew that AC could be so much more if Nintendo would open the wallet, but not even in craziest dreams as huge

Would be great to see something as happy and pure selling in US/EU too... without sex, drugs, guns, black rapper's lifestyle and all that useless crap that is being forced onto the public 24/7

I better shut it here or I'll be called things again ^_^

What is black rapper's lifestyle exactly??



tbone51 on 25 March 2020
PortisheadBiscuit said:
dark_gh0st_b0y said:

Thank you god! I feel like I'm dreaming!! Been a fan for the last 12 years, always knew that AC could be so much more if Nintendo would open the wallet, but not even in craziest dreams as huge

Would be great to see something as happy and pure selling in US/EU too... without sex, drugs, guns, black rapper's lifestyle and all that useless crap that is being forced onto the public 24/7

I better shut it here or I'll be called things again ^_^

What is black rapper's lifestyle exactly??

That was my only question to haha. I want to know what a white rappers lifestyle is more though



tbone51 on 25 March 2020
theDX said:
Price / Game / Retail / shipments + digital - retail (share of shipments+digital)

Q3 2019 (after vouchers)
5,980 Pokemon Sword/Shield - 2,988,134 / 1,221,866 (29%)
5,980 Super Mario Maker 2 - 800,504 / 319,496 (28%)
6,980 Fire Emblem: Three Houses - 273,905 / 256,095 (48%)
5,980 Luigi's Mansion 3 - 505,998 / 224,002 (30%)
5,980 Link's Awakening - 250,947 / 169,053 (40%)
7,980 Astral Chain - 54,105 / 105,895 (66%)

Q3 2018 (before vouchers)
5,980 Pokemon Let's Go - 1,253,677 / 596,323 (32%)
7,200 Smash Bros. Ultimate - 2,774,747 / 395,253 (12%)
5,980 Super Mario Party - 764,853 / 285,147 (27%)
5,980 Mario Tennis Aces - 376,366 / 143,634 (27%)
5,980 Donkey Kong Country TF - 222,025 / 57,975 (20%)
5,980 Kirby Star Allies - 291,933 / 38,067 (11%)

I think we actually got a estimate for some of them going by sell % no? Anyways thanks for posting goes and shows what vouchers do



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dark_gh0st_b0y on 25 March 2020
tbone51 said:
PortisheadBiscuit said:

What is black rapper's lifestyle exactly??

That was my only question to haha. I want to know what a white rappers lifestyle is more though

um, which world do you live in?  it's not about the colour, it is what it is...



don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^

PortisheadBiscuit on 25 March 2020
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
tbone51 said:

That was my only question to haha. I want to know what a white rappers lifestyle is more though

um, w

hich world do you live in?  it's not about the colour, it is what it is...

It's not about color yet you said 'black rapper's lifestyle'... If you're worried about being 'called things' how about 'shutting it' before making tone deaf comments that aren't pertinent to the thread. 



tbone51 on 25 March 2020
Mar1217 said:
tbone51 said:

Yeah for digital ratio I do agree it’s much higher within launch than long term. Ex of this is Smash. I’m mostly talking about the launch for the titles

as for the 2 titles it’s Fire Emblem and Astral Chain. I don’t have the source for that (someone could help?) on me but it was discussed on resetera going by sales/sell thru/shipments. 

that’s how we got estimates for smm2 (20%) and more

tbone51 said:

I think we actually got a estimate for some of them going by sell % no? Anyways thanks for posting goes and shows what vouchers do

After DX posts I'll take back what I said for the marginal influence of the vouchers. Although, I wonder if it'll be durable in time ... There's fact the info he got is refering to quarterly sales results so it's not the full picture of the total sales.

As for FE Three Houses and Astral Chain. Since the volume of copies sold isn't as enormous as others I think the possibility of it being over 30% is a good possibility.

If only Nintendo was more outright about these specific ratios instead of bundling them with all online purchases related stuff ...

Going by sell thru data we can tell. Astral specifically sold roughly 50k retail and shipment wasn’t more than 60k and for the quarter was about 105k (have to go back and see exact numbers)

I think smm2 and LoZ LA were literally at the end of the quarter so it’s fine for the full picture on those 2 titles



dark_gh0st_b0y on 25 March 2020
PortisheadBiscuit said:
dark_gh0st_b0y said:

um, w

hich world do you live in?  it's not about the colour, it is what it is...

It's not about color yet you said 'black rapper's lifestyle'... If you're worried about being 'called things' how about 'shutting it' before making tone deaf comments that aren't pertinent to the thread. 

and here we go... again, I said it because that's what it is! it's not my fault if people love to be offended from 'everybody knows' things

just commented on how happy I am that AC is exactly the opposite of GTA and the relevant trending cult, and still increased its relevance this much ^_^



don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^

PortisheadBiscuit on 25 March 2020
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
PortisheadBiscuit said:

It's not about color yet you said 'black rapper's lifestyle'... If you're worried about being 'called things' how about 'shutting it' before making tone deaf comments that aren't pertinent to the thread. 

and here we go... again, I said it because that's what it is! it's not my fault if people love to be offended from 'everybody knows' things

just commented on how happy I am that AC is exactly the opposite of GTA and the relevant trending cult, and still increased its relevance this much ^_^

Here we go again?? Ah I get you now, you like to stir the pot and irritate people with your narrow-minded views and then claim innocence. Okay, carry on, back to Animal Crossing.