Japan sales: Famitsu & Media Create - week 8 ( Feb. 18 - 24 )

[outlawauron]

naruball said:

outlawauron said:

naruball said:

outlawauron said:

naruball said:

theprof00 said:
Wow weird vita numbers, but perhaps the sony conference is responsible for that, what with the remote play news.
Next week sales should be higher, and WOW at pezus' prediction coming true. Spot on.
Also great MG:R numbers 350k is way more than I expected. Should be able to do a mil in JP lifetime.

Not likely. Ps3 games don't have legs in Japan. Best case scenario 700k

This is so sad and a complete lie. Games have legs based on their inherent appeal (which is usually linked to a franchise or genre) and even then there are exceptions. Demon's Souls is one example of some sexy legs.

Did it sell over a mil in Japan alone? Did it have a great opening and kept selling for a long time? Can you think of any other examples? How about mgs4? That's right. Bigger opening and didn't manage to sell over a mil (or am I wrong? that's what I read in another tread).

Please explain how this is a lie.

Metal Gear titles won't have legs because it's a MG title. It has a hardcore fanbase that will buy it early. It would have the same legs even if it was on the DS or Wii. Demon's Souls opened with a 38k FW and went on to sell 350k lifetime in Japan. For a niche JPPG that is also a new IP, that's pretty fantastic. All I said that the console doesn't determine the legs, the game itself does.

In order to establish that this is a lie, you need to provide more examples than one game. It seems to me that that was an exception. ffxiii didn't have legs, neither tales of xilia or ever gran tourismo. All big hitters are front loaded in Japan and sell horribly afterwards because mainly of the second hand market.

The only game on a ps console with good legs was monster hunter freedom unite as far as i can remember. Wii and ds games on the other hand have multiple evergreen titles.

and those evergreens are not Tales or FF games. To first prove what you're saying you must find similar games on both platforms where the Wii version had legs and the PS3 version didn't. You can't do this (in fact it hurts you), because nearly all of the comparisons are negative to Wii as most of the Wii versions did worse. Even on the DS and PSP, these games sell ~80% of its lifetime in the first week. This has been the case in FF, DQ, and Tales forever. That isn't bound the console its released on. A larger userbase can help titles have better legs, because there's apple to oranges comparisons to make that prove that PS3 titles can't have legs (especially most recently considering how long HSG, Dark Souls, Pro Evo., CoD, Resident Evil 6, etc. have been in the charts). Take a look right now at the latest Japanese sites and there are several titles still in the top 100 that have been there for 10+ weeks.

This just shows you really haven't been paying much if any attention.