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Aerys said:
BaldrSkies said:
benao87 said:
Olivernintentoal said:
BaldrSkies said:
Olivernintentoal said:
So are there even any wii u games releasing soon in Japan?


Mar 20: Need for Speed Most Wanted

Mar 27: Game & Wario

Mar 30: Dragon Quest X Online HD

That's all that's set for the next 3 months. Like literally, the next game that has a set release date is Resident Evil Revelations on May 23.

Wow. Well that's not good. Those 3 games (except for possibly DQX) are not going to sell very well at all in Japan. I thought there might at least be some Japanese-developed games or something.

I think they are holding the announcements, Nintendo is probably the most conservative of the 3, and they've launched first this time. They may be waiting for a good timing, or considering a pricecut.


Yeah I would definitely say wait for E3 and half-expect a blitz. Nintendo needs something to counter the PS4 and Xbox720 presentations, and a huge, bigger than expected game announcement could just be their hidden card. Too bad that also means current Wii U owners are starved until after June...


Its not a big deal, they'll just bring some Mario kart and Mario 3D land to make people wait for a real ambitious mario 3D(thats what they announced at the nintendo direct : a mario kart later this year), like the 3DS.

And it will work, unfortunately.


Thats why they'll always do the same thing, no matter what the first buyers will think, a bad first year with some mario at the end of the year because they know people just need 2-3 mario to buy their platform.


Personally, the only game I REALLY want is rayman! But the stupid delay..



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Kresnik said:
Dragon246 said:

Yeah, sorry. Just checked the facts. COMP predicted 324k and it got 308k according to media create, accurate to a good degree.


COMG isn't a prediction, though.  And 1 point here doesn't automatically mean 1k preorders in the real world.

From what I've gathered about COMG, it's just a chain of stores somewhere in Japan who release their preorder data.  That's all.  So +1 on this chart means 1 preorder in a COMG store, that's all.

People extrapolate that to take guesses at real world sales.  Very roughly, 1 point here does make about 1k first-week sales for a game.  But oftentimes, this figure is less for Sony games (more like 600 first week sales per point) and more for Nintendo games (closer to 1000 first week sales per point).

But at end of the day it's all just guesswork.  It just gives us a brief idea of how well a game is doing.  Last week we had Magi for 3DS ending with about 86 pre-orders, but it opened with a 25k first week.  So it's not foolproof, just a fun thing to follow :P

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks for the FAQs.  I always check this thread and I always think,"hmm, that's very interesting.  I only wish I knew what it means."



Aerys said:


Its not a big deal, they'll just bring some Mario kart and Mario 3D land to make people wait for a real ambitious mario 3D(thats what they announced at the nintendo direct : a mario kart later this year), like the 3DS.

And it will work, unfortunately.


Thats why they'll always do the same thing, no matter what the first buyers will think, a bad first year with some mario at the end of the year because they know people just need 2-3 mario to buy their platform.

That didn't worked quite well with the GameCube, ...nor with the N64.



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Olivernintentoal said:
Aerys said:
BaldrSkies said:
benao87 said:
Olivernintentoal said:
BaldrSkies said:
Olivernintentoal said:
So are there even any wii u games releasing soon in Japan?


Mar 20: Need for Speed Most Wanted

Mar 27: Game & Wario

Mar 30: Dragon Quest X Online HD

That's all that's set for the next 3 months. Like literally, the next game that has a set release date is Resident Evil Revelations on May 23.

Wow. Well that's not good. Those 3 games (except for possibly DQX) are not going to sell very well at all in Japan. I thought there might at least be some Japanese-developed games or something.

I think they are holding the announcements, Nintendo is probably the most conservative of the 3, and they've launched first this time. They may be waiting for a good timing, or considering a pricecut.


Yeah I would definitely say wait for E3 and half-expect a blitz. Nintendo needs something to counter the PS4 and Xbox720 presentations, and a huge, bigger than expected game announcement could just be their hidden card. Too bad that also means current Wii U owners are starved until after June...


Its not a big deal, they'll just bring some Mario kart and Mario 3D land to make people wait for a real ambitious mario 3D(thats what they announced at the nintendo direct : a mario kart later this year), like the 3DS.

And it will work, unfortunately.


Thats why they'll always do the same thing, no matter what the first buyers will think, a bad first year with some mario at the end of the year because they know people just need 2-3 mario to buy their platform.


Personally, the only game I REALLY want is rayman! But the stupid delay..


And Metroid no ? ^^

I think i wont buy Rayman Legends at the launch, thanks to the delay, there will be too many games to buy, between GTA V, Killzone MErcenary, Pokemon, TearAway....

 

 

Benao87 : I think they worked well on GC, 22M is a good number, just with the first party titles.



Predictions for end of 2014 HW sales:

 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m

 

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spurgeonryan said:
Happy late bday! What's the deal with so many PSP games?

Because the PSP sells incredibly well in Japan. 



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I think this is the part where we're meant to post predictions about the Fw..

So i'll be the most optemistic i can. I'll go with 85k Hw and 90k and 100k for both pso2 and senran kagura



I log on at 11 expecting excitement and there was none :(



Kresnik said:
I log on at 11 expecting excitement and there was none :(



why? No points added O.o



tbone51 said:

why? No points added O.o


Haha.  Nono, there were lots of points added here and there.  It'll be a green day on the chart.  I was just hoping some game would liven things up around here by getting crazzzzyyy pre-orders or something :P