Japan Sales - Media Create,Famitsu, & dengeki: week 29

[ryuzaki57]

spurgeonryan said:

BaldrSkies said:
Absolutely atrocious first week sellthrough for both M&L and Danball... wtf? It's rare to see Famitsu stock estimates in the green range. I hope publishers realize that just because something is on 3DS, it won't always fly off shelves.

Youkai Watch showing some decent legs though, it seems to be benefiting from word of mouth among children according to Tsutaya.

3DS games have legs, and I think they have been doing quite well. Just Japan sales alone are pretty good actually. 

You can't expect every 3DS game to have legs. The truth is that 3rd party 3DS games are starting to show a Vita-esque behavior. Look at the Toriko and the Danball Senki games : they're still on shelves for most part and they aren't the type of games to show legs, it's a disaster for their publisher which obviously expected much more given the install base. Even Yôkai Watch which is major 3rd party release is looking 200Kish, which major PSVita games already do. With Vita and 3DS 3rd party games selling in similar quantities, publishers might be tempted to switch to PSVita given that Vita games can generally be priced higher.