Kojima: Japanese game industry is in trouble

[Onyxmeth]

Ail said:

Onyxmeth said:

Ail said:

Onyxmeth said:

Ail said:

Onyxmeth said:

Kojima is saying this because he bet on the wrong horse. His premiere franchise is continuously falling in sales every iteration and is generating much more hype than sales.

 

MGS4 already outsold MGS3.

 

You were saying ?

Sorry I was going by VGChartz numbers. Can you link me to another source?

@psrock-At what point do you see MGS4 reaching the sales levels of MGS2 or the original? My point was that while hype for the game is still as sky high as it's always been, it isn't translating into equally strong game sales and that is because it is on a console that is not generating as well in hardware sales as the two other consoles the MGS games have been on. Kojima bet on the wrong horse from a sales perspective, not a creative one. He's the one bitching about the situation in Japan, not me.

 

VGChartz is fine...

 

So far in 5 months MGS4 has sold more than MGS3 during it's first year, someone was nice enough to link the chartz up there, just clink on sales history inside those links to see them..

 

We're talking sales here so try to use your words carefully. MGS4 trending above MGS3 in a comparable timeframe and MGS4 outselling MGS3 are not the same thing. I was right. You just had no idea how to say what you were were meaning. I guess my question can be answered by you also. Do you feel MGS4 can approach MGS or MGS 2 sales? If so, then explain how. If not, then explain how the series isn't declining.

 

 

 

I don't think it will outsell MGS or MGS2 but it will outsell MGS3 easilly ( a lot of MGS3 sales came late in it's life when it became a greatest hit).

I don't think the franchise is actually declining but MGS4 is suffering from the lack of dominance of the PS3 but otherwise I would say it's back to the level of MGS2 and the latest Opus in the franchise is actually quite refreshing...

 

Depending on wether they decide to make some add-ons to MGS4 or not my estimate is for MGS4 sales to be between 4 and 5 millions... I don't think it's unrealisting to expect MGS4 to keep a 10% weekly attach rate for new console sales in the next year or so which should easilly add 1 million units, more is going to depend on at which time it becomes a greatest hit and if add-ons are made or not...

What would work in its favor is the fact that the PS3 saturation is low enough that there should still be a decent percentage of new PS3 owners that will want to purchase the game( PS3 isn't at the point where new owners are casuals that don't know what titles are around and what good titles are out there).

One reason MGS4 sales declined last few weeks is that PS3 sales declined too. Still this last week the attach rate for new owners was still 14%. 

 

Alright. Those arguments are fair enough. Let's revisit when the holiday season is over and that'll give us a better picture of the situation.