Famitsu Sales 5/25 - 5/31

[Dazkarieh]

zexen_lowe said:

Dazkarieh said:

outlawauron said:

@ Daz

Not sure on the shipment, but it seems perfect. 50% first day meets demand and there's plenty left over. And I think we need to cut out the Muramasa supply constraint stuff. It isn't any more and the sales did not jump up.

You're seeing it the wrong way. If you had more shipped, it would have more visibility, or do you think the wide public buys from the internet. And if let the novelty and hype get away, you're loosing sales.

Why do you think Ben10 and whatever sales? Good exposure. This doesn't have the same appeal, but you can be sure that, if you shiped arround 50-60k, you would have the same percentage sold first day (-2-3%, perhaps). And it would sell everything, you can be sure of that. The same way Muramasa and Valkyria Chronicles continue ;)

Yeah, but who'd buy it? You only ship what the retailers demand, you can't ship more. If retailers demand 36K units, you can't ship 50K

I worked in the field and there are ways to persuade it withou loosing much margin. And yes, I know that in Japan shelf space is much more expensive (that's why they sold X360 for $10), so it could work diferentely. But ok... I solve the problem by calling retailers dumb instead :P