Aquamarine said:
Agreed, considering the time invested into Mirror's Edge: Catalyst. 100K for that result is horrible. But an even weaker result for Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE....man....I heard about that game back in early 2013. It's been in development for a WHILE and Nintendo had likely put a lot of development resources into it. A shame to see that....not really go anywhere. |
Unfortunately, the current Wii U state severly damaged the game's potential, alongside the game's presentation style not thrilling enough for the userbase (especially as how they showed it from the re-unveiling...however I'd dare to say that, maybe, NoA did a better job at selling it compared to NoJ, even when factoring in the censorship. Bold statement, and I can perfectly be wrong, but it's an impression I got considering the game's Japanese launch as well). Metacritic's average is not that bad, 81 is good, I think it could've been actually worse if it weren't for that. I thought it would've been in the 50,000-to-75,000 gap, so around 50,000 (if your hint really pointed at that as another poster guessed) would be at the lower limit of my forecasted gap. Not such a good result for a game with this kind of development (however, they announced it without any resemblance of footage of it either, and the Atlus events before SEGA acquired them surely influenced the development time), but I'm not as "catastrophic" as you sound about its debut month. It could've been way worse. It would've surely been way worse if it launched before Mario Kart 8, that's for sure :P Again, if it's around 50,000 as guessed earlier.
Mario & Sonic did pretty bad. Yeah, the game is doing pretty well on 3DS in Japan and it was charting nicely in some European countries, and the Wii U version is doing decently in Japan, but both of them were failures in US. I wonder what's going to happen with the next iteration (if there's going to be another), maybe some major changes would be needed to the formula.
Also, let's see if I'm good at this: I guess a range between 75,000 and 130,000 for Kirby and one between 60,000 to 120,000 for Minecraft Wii U. Are those good ranges, after all? :P
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