zorg1000 said:
How often do Blue Ocean Products start out with massive sales right off the bat? Or how about new IPs aimed at kids/family/casual gamers in general?
GB Pokémon Red / Green / Blue FW 140.074 / LTD 7.936.360 NDS Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! 44.166 / 3.847.136 Nintendo 19/05/2005
Its not uncommon for games aimed at kids/families/casuals to sell 10-20x their FW sales.
As for the 30% sell-through, Golden Week started like 8 days after Labo launched, clearly retailers wanted to have plenty of stock for the holidays. |
Your first question: That actually happens quite a lot. The products that sell bad at first a lot of the time are disruptive technologies not blue ocean products.
I know that it's not uncommon for those games to sell over the long-run. But again, considering that Labo is not a blue ocean product, not disruptive and had moderate sales despite a big marketing push I still think Labo is not going to be as big as Nintendo wanted it to be and won't sell as many consoles as Nintendo had hoped. By the way, if Labo is going to develop legs and lift platform sales, it's probably going to show around week 8-10. Iwata said that - for some reason he didn't know himself - the expanded market games on Wii and DS started to give the platform a boost after that period of time. I just don't think Labo will do that.
