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italo244 on 01 July 2011
Seece said:
trestres said:
Somebody please hit me with a hammer if I'm wrong. Where the HELL is Wii Play Motion?? The game was released a while ago in the US and last week in EMEAA.

I assume it didn't bomb and that it's just missing from the charts.

http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/sales/50842/wii-play-motion/

Mega Bomba

Reminds me this: http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/sales/45677/playstation-move-heroes/

 

LOL



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BHR-3 on 01 July 2011
kowenicki said:
BHR-3 said:
kowenicki said:
BHR-3 said:
wheres kowen i miss his YOY posts?

Wii 164k
PS3 134k
360 109k

last year

Wii 162k down 2k
PS3 172k down 38k
360 227k down 118k

seriously... how pathetic is that little stealth dig there?

I was working, you know...? work.... ?  (perhaps you dont know)

Anyway, where the hell have you been  since the last NPD and qtr financial shipment numbers...?  huh? 

Hung by your own petard...  (look it up)

oh my


there was no dig there

i always seen you post the info in past WW up threads very consistently i think the last week in May was the the last one you did

"I was working, you know...? work.... ?  (perhaps you dont know)" now thats a dig, i dont believe your work has stopped you from posting the info that requires very little time to post considering that your post history shows that you have been quite active since your last YOY info post

i'll admit that i have missed plenty of sales threads but thats b/c i wasnt  able to be on the site meaning i havent even logged in for extended periods of time

well done.

the reason why it posted "wheres kowin" is b/c your known for posting that info in the WW threads i didnt want to just post info that another poster was known for posting w/o giving that original poster some type of credit



                                                             

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oniyide on 01 July 2011

everyone saying how Ninty messed up with the 3DS advertisment, how are they supposed to advertise it??? THe main draw for the system is the 3D which cant be shown on tv, so its already an uphill battle. They put it in Walmarts and other big stores which was a good move, but IMHO maybe people are not that impressed by the effect. Redesign??? How, the DS had one of the best designs for a portable ever, if not the best. How would you redesign it and still have an analog and a 2nd screen that makes sense to use???



Potable_Toe on 01 July 2011
oniyide said:
everyone saying how Ninty messed up with the 3DS advertisment, how are they supposed to advertise it??? THe main draw for the system is the 3D which cant be shown on tv, so its already an uphill battle. They put it in Walmarts and other big stores which was a good move, but IMHO maybe people are not that impressed by the effect. Redesign??? How, the DS had one of the best designs for a portable ever, if not the best. How would you redesign it and still have an analog and a 2nd screen that makes sense to use???


Well there are a few 3D channels out there, they could atleast put adverts made specifically for those out. But you are right, the required infrastructure just isn't there to effectively advertise it but if it were then its USP wouldn't exist either so they kind of shot themselves in the foot a little bit there din't they.



dany612 on 01 July 2011
Roar_Of_War said:
dany612 said:
Sad when OOT in Americas didn't sell as well as it did in Japan, considering Zelda isn't as hot in Japan. Neither did it move as many 3DS units,very close to where Japan hit. I hope Nintendo starts realizing that many still think this is an extension of the DS family and not a new system on its own.


OoT 3D in Americas has sold more in one week than Japan has in two weeks. Also, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Last week, 3DS sales for Americas were 20k, and this week they're 44k. That's a 24k boost, and Japan's first-week increase was 24k to 40k, which is only a 16k boost. You got your number wrongs in both areas.

 

Although, I completely agree that Nintendo needs to advertise the 3DS as a new platform. Even my entire family who I showed it to thought it was just another DS, even when I showed them the 3D. "So it's a DS with 3D?"

Compare that to sales of the 3DS in Japan when OOT released

Japan approx 40,000

America approx 44,000  (couldn't even surpass the DS)

approx: 166,000 to 215,000 isn't something to brag about.

 

America is Nintendo's strongest region yet only surpasses Japan 3DS sales by 4,000 and 49,000 in software. 



 

        

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dany612 on 01 July 2011
Potable_Toe said:
oniyide said:
everyone saying how Ninty messed up with the 3DS advertisment, how are they supposed to advertise it??? THe main draw for the system is the 3D which cant be shown on tv, so its already an uphill battle. They put it in Walmarts and other big stores which was a good move, but IMHO maybe people are not that impressed by the effect. Redesign??? How, the DS had one of the best designs for a portable ever, if not the best. How would you redesign it and still have an analog and a 2nd screen that makes sense to use???


Well there are a few 3D channels out there, they could atleast put adverts made specifically for those out. But you are right, the required infrastructure just isn't there to effectively advertise it but if it were then its USP wouldn't exist either so they kind of shot themselves in the foot a little bit there din't they.


It requires imagination to build a great tv ad that really showcases it's 3D ability. Having things 'pop out' of the screen, and someone fitting their head inside the 3D screen to view a wide open view. @oinyide So you expect Nintendo to forever use the DS design? You lack imagination if you think there is no way to redesign it. Sliding instead of opening. One could also redesign it so when closed the 3D screen is protected. Nintendo has great minds that work with them, I'm sure they could think of an awesome design for it. Because like many before, my own family thinks its a DS with 3D at a higher 250 price tag.



 

        

kitler53 on 01 July 2011
oniyide said:
everyone saying how Ninty messed up with the 3DS advertisment, how are they supposed to advertise it??? THe main draw for the system is the 3D which cant be shown on tv, so its already an uphill battle. They put it in Walmarts and other big stores which was a good move, but IMHO maybe people are not that impressed by the effect. Redesign??? How, the DS had one of the best designs for a portable ever, if not the best. How would you redesign it and still have an analog and a 2nd screen that makes sense to use???


i'm not sure if it would be cost effective or not but in the previews of a 3D movie.  1) you could actually show off the 3D in that setting 2) the audience is obviously interested in 3D already 3) especially once the 3D movie store launches they could really push the "bring this experience home without glasses and for cheap" angle.

that's the first place i'd think to advertise at least.



LivingMetal on 01 July 2011
Seece said:
EncodedNybble said:
Allfreedom99 said:
pezus said:

Coincidence? ;)

X360 taking big plunges YoY. This is largely due to the new 360 S console being released close to this time last year. It used to be that X360 was up quite a bit from last year to this year, but I think this is going to flip very fast as the slim model from last year had some very large sales. Im sure X360 will be down YoY for a while until they do a price cut.


I wanna say his "coincidence?" was more of "coincidence that Kowen didn't do the YoY post because 360 is down so much YoY." It's subtle:)

It's stupid, you can't expect kowen to be on 24/7


Yep.  And I'm sure he also wasn't on 24/7 when he did posted the numbers.  ;)



saicho on 01 July 2011

so 3DS doesn't sell the most in any region but is the bestselling portable WW... that's a little odd.



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

Roar_Of_War on 01 July 2011
dany612 said:
Roar_Of_War said:
dany612 said:
Sad when OOT in Americas didn't sell as well as it did in Japan, considering Zelda isn't as hot in Japan. Neither did it move as many 3DS units,very close to where Japan hit. I hope Nintendo starts realizing that many still think this is an extension of the DS family and not a new system on its own.


OoT 3D in Americas has sold more in one week than Japan has in two weeks. Also, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Last week, 3DS sales for Americas were 20k, and this week they're 44k. That's a 24k boost, and Japan's first-week increase was 24k to 40k, which is only a 16k boost. You got your number wrongs in both areas.

 

Although, I completely agree that Nintendo needs to advertise the 3DS as a new platform. Even my entire family who I showed it to thought it was just another DS, even when I showed them the 3D. "So it's a DS with 3D?"

Compare that to sales of the 3DS in Japan when OOT released

Japan approx 40,000

America approx 44,000  (couldn't even surpass the DS)

approx: 166,000 to 215,000 isn't something to brag about.

 

America is Nintendo's strongest region yet only surpasses Japan 3DS sales by 4,000 and 49,000 in software. 

Yeah, it isn't anything to brag about, but you just said in general it didn't sell as well, so I took it more literally.

 

OoT 3D is a remake/port. I'm not surprised it only sold so much hardware in the US, especially given that it's on the 3DS. Not only that, but a lot of Zelda fans could already own a 3DS in the US once they knew about Ocarina of Time (but this is obviously just a theory). Japan also got a bigger boost than I thought from OoT 3D, which to me explains the similar boosts. Japan is mostly back to normal, too. OoT may have a longer lasting affect for 3DS sales in the US than it did in Japan.

In terms of software sales, Japan and US were both apparently running out of stock in a lot of places (and Japan didn't recover with restocks until after its 2nd week). We'll see how the game legs out in both regions from here on out.