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Forums - Sales Discussion - Global UP (30th June)! A week of new releases, Vita sales increase!

NintendoPie said:
Sal.Paradise said:

The Tokyo Jungle momentum is hitting Playstation platforms hard this week with the recent announcement of a western release of this monster game whipping up a fever in North America. Consumers are now desperate to buy anything with the playstation-brand name on, including Sony's own skype(tm)-enabled handheld, the PSVITA. 

Lol, did you make this up Sal? xD

Duh, hence it's high quality. 



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NintendoPie said:
kitler53 said:
NintendoPie said:
kitler53 said:
let me start by saying i haven't visited one of these threads in months...

...but wii < psp?!?!? just wow.

Why is that such a big surprise to you?


A) like i said, i haven't looked at the numbers in months.

B) psp is deader than dirt.  last i look wii was doing bad but still ~3xpsp numbers.

Wii has been doing horrible for the past few months. It's not much a surprise anymore.


Not to be confrontational, but you are coming off as very condescending to me right now. He clearly said he has been out of the loop and was surprised by how poorly the wii has maintained itself. No need to make him feel bad by acting like he is stupid and that everyone knew something he didn't.(Although...one would expect a person on a sales website to keep up with...sales). Still no need to be mean.

Also, in your previous posts, you state the ipod and iphone as potential inhibitors to the vita, and I agree somewhat. That being said though, I see them as potentially being inhibitors to the 3ds just as much so. I actually could see the dedicated handheld market shrinking this gen but there is still a market for these games and I believe the growth in popularity along with the added potential of the vita will cause CoD to sell better on the vita than psp. That of course being in an ideal world. One where the devs who are making this CoD spin off are competant and make a competant online experience. This hush hush over it does not look good in my eyes. It makes me think this game will be severely underwhelming. At least AC Liberation looks like a quality independent story. Will the average AC player choose to pick up this game over AC 3? No. Not at all. People are more likely to buy this game alongside AC 3 or really, in the beautiful white bundle it comes in. The bundle itself will ensure that this game sells at least ok.(It is a beautiful color, and it includes a memory card and game for no additional cost)

OT: Wii performing terribly. It's so sad to see nintendo shoot a cash cow like that. They could have definately kept it going good, but they just...haven't been putting out software for it that would make it sell hence why the psp is outselling it. Perhaps sony is just better at properly prolonging the life of their consoles.

PS3 doing great. Hopefully a super slim/price cut will come so that it will its last big hurrah before it is obsolete. Maybe they can also try to steal some of the wiiu's thunder.

Vita...price cut, Assassins Creed bundle, and a CoD game will help it but the first one isn't a given. I expect CoD to do reasonably well, although I am interested to see how ot will do. On one hand, the psp version of CoD sold exceptionally well for a handheld game and now CoD is more popular than ever so one would expect it to sell well, but on the other hand...it could very well be terrible but terrible games sometimes sell well. Didn't stop the DS CoD games from nearly reaching a million and I believe the general consensus was that they were garbage.

DS still clinging on. Aren't the dsi models the only ones being sold now? I don't think it will pass ps2 though. :(

 



"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." -My good friend Mark Aurelius

the vita might have a slight increase in the next couple of weeks or atleast remain higher than normal, it seems gamestop is doind a "buy a vita and get a $50 gift card" that basically a free game or memory card. speaking of the NA of course.



arcane_chaos said:
the vita might have a slight increase in the next couple of weeks or atleast remain higher than normal, it seems gamestop is doind a "buy a vita and get a $50 gift card" that basically a free game or memory card. speaking of the NA of course.

Yeah, this is what I felt caused the increase, though I don't see it going above the current level, which is still pretty darn poor.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

NintendoPie said:
spurgeonryan said:
NintendoPie said:
Why in the world was there a Vita increase in America of all the places? This makes no seeeennnnssseee!


Word of mouth is starting to push it. Gravity Rush Word of mouth. Lego Batman Just came out on it. Some retailers I think gave a small price reduction either this past week or the week before.

I don't think LEGO Batman coudl've done anything as it came out on all of the platforms. (Like ALLL of the platforms!)

And Gravity Rush doesn't seem like a game that would do too well in the West. 

Nope, but it's critically acclaimed and looks like it'll be a "cult classic" so word of mouth should sell it quite a bit. Could easily explain an extra 3-5k people in NA getting a Vita for it.



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spurgeonryan said:

Some 3DS games that I want to point out.

That is not a good sign for Sega on the 3DS...

60. Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure 2012 Misc Sega 0.01 0.01 0.09 0.00 0.11

A fishing game on the Handheld that sells!

57. Reel Fishing Paradise 3D 2011 Sports Marvelous Interactive 0.06 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.12

America has this! We will double these sales, maybe even triple them.

47. Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy 2012 Misc Square Enix 0.00 0.00 0.16 0.00 0.16

Send it back to the Wii!

37. Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic! 2011 Simulation 505 Games 0.18 0.04 0.00 0.02 0.24


About SEGA, the thief game cant have cost much to develop, just like the shinobi game they made and ddnt sell too hot either. I'm sure the losses arent that big if there are any.

Sonic generations on the 3DS sold quite well though. VGC has it at 470k, wich is probably a nice profit given the game is pretty good but is short on content (7 levels).



Rhythm Thiefs numbers are a shame, I like this game a lot. More than Theatrhythm since I am not a sucker for Final fantasy. Would've loved to see this as a new IP alongside Layton and Wright.



Ongoing bet with think-man: He wins if MH4 releases in any shape or form on PSV in 2013, I win if it doesn't.

Chandler said:
Rhythm Thiefs numbers are a shame, I like this game a lot. More than Theatrhythm since I am not a sucker for Final fantasy. Would've loved to see this as a new IP alongside Layton and Wright.

Yeah, I loved Rhythm Theif, and I really hope for a sequel from the way it ended, so go buy it guys!



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

Dismal sales all round with a few exceptions. Time for the next gen!!

Oh, and this must be the most successful weekly sales thread in a long time!



man-bear-pig said:
Dismal sales all round with a few exceptions. Time for the next gen!!

Oh, and this must be the most successful weekly sales thread in a long time!

Correct you are! Because we actually tried to stimulate discussion, unlike in past threads. 

But it doesn't make the actual core of the thread, the WW sales, any better.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.