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NoCtiS_NoX on 23 May 2018
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
Labo holding pretty well, but everything's quite meh this week

@NoCtis: You don't have that box with the sales compared to last week and last year anymore?

I am just a bit busy. Sorry. 
I am also trying to learn excel so I hope making the tables will be a lot faster and easier. 

Mnementh said:
outlawauron said:

Is this just a thing you're doing to get at Kerotan or is this real? God of War has sold very well. It's surpassing expectations. How is the budget of the game relevant when it's doing better than everyone has expected in every region. As far as MonHun, it's keeping well digitally so it's not like it's falling off the map completely.

Very well and surpassing expectations is very subjective. It does slightly better than GoW III, something that could've been reasonably expected. So it does fine, without a question. But I just think the extensive praise is misplaced, as it is a mid-level IP for Japan. Sure, nothing new, but I don't see the same praise for baseball, which actually did better. This is not to diminish GoW, it is just not an IP doing very well in japan.

EDIT: And he said it will have decent legs. This is difficult too parse, as again decent is very open to interpretation, but even now some weeks old it is outlegged by multiple 2017 titles.

Frigging Snack World outlegs it and has actually barely lower overall sales. So doing 'very well' is only appliable if you start with very low expectations. And that bothers me, because on the other hand titles that sell ten times as much are talked down, because of even higher expectations. Can we keep it all in relation?

And budget actually is an expression of expected sales on the side of the developer/publisher (in most cases). So big budget means big expectations.

FYI GOW started slow and GOW had a great 2nd week. It's actually having a decent legs and not great legs so Kerotan is actually correct. 
1st week 46K
2nd week 29K
3rd week 16.4K
4th week  6K
5th week 3K

Now give me Japanese  PS4 games that sold 40K and had the legs of GOW? I doubt you will find that many.
That's just retail and we might get an info. about DD this week from Famitsu.

Also, the budget is irrelevant because if you expect it to sell like 250K and expect it to have legs like the ever green titles something is mess up with your expectation.
And the fact we all know that GOW is not targeted for Japanese people. 

So I am not really getting your point.