| Mar1217 said: Do they wanna ignore the numbers it did on the DS then ? |
Although it manage to sell over 500K. The success story is really overblown. Just a quick history for the sales of Ni NO kuni DS and to put more context on the discussion. The game was massively over shipped. It's initial shipment is 600K. Ni No kuni DS sold 170,548 in it's first week and It took a lot of price cut from retailers to sell the initial shipment.
http://www.siliconera.com/2010/12/08/level-5-ship-600000-copies-of-ni-no-kuni/
http://www.siliconera.com/2011/03/21/ni-no-kuni-over-500000-in-sales-says-level-5-ceo/
http://www.siliconera.com/2010/12/15/this-week-in-sales-ni-no-kuni-reaches-our-world-nintendo-games-see-holiday-bump/
The link below is where you can read the massive price cut after 2 weeks. Some of them are slashing the price at 44%
http://www.siliconera.com/2011/01/02/ni-no-kuni-prices-slashed-at-japanese-retail/
Now, when they said NiNo Kuni is specifically made for the west. They weren't lying. The PS3 version alone shipped. 1.1 Million in PS3 alone and DS 600K as of 2014 and Ni No Kuni was release in Jan. 2013 in the west. basically the west saved the NI No Kuni brand with Hino hinting they will make a sequel because of the sales in the west.
http://level5ia.com/news/ni-no-kuni-wrath-of-the-white-witch-ships-over-1-1-million-units/
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/04/ni-no-kuni-franchise-sold-14-million-units-worldwide
