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megaman79 on 19 July 2012

I don't know why this is the case.

Id suspect that downloadable titles will do better in the US Market, and we'll see what happens to Europe later this year once the Vita market levels off. Sony has a lot of friends in Europe still.



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scottie on 19 July 2012

18 million hardware sales for a handheld (handhelds have lower attach ratios because home consoles are often shared, but handhelds aren't) and there are 5 games that sold a million. It's hardly bad.



menx64 on 19 July 2012
SaviorX said:
I thought the barometer for success was lower for handheld games; like 250k+?

The games will obviously sell more over time at lower prices. Nobody wants to pay $40 for a damn handheld game...We'll see what happens after the holidays when 3DS starts its peak year and sales in the West actually pik up a bit.

Right now, there is absolutely no Nintendo advertising going on in America, and hasn't been for months...and I will not expect anything until Wii U drops.


I do buy all my games at launch (At least most of them) I am always willing to pay the full price if the game deserves it. RE was a very good game and while I agree that the game deserved a lot more of sells, the sold more more than 400k at full price. Not bad at all IMO.



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aikohualda on 19 July 2012

it is sad kid icarus hasn't break the 1 million wall yet :(



 

oniyide on 19 July 2012

anyone who thought MGS3D would have sold a million by now is insane or on drugs. That game had no chance in hell, not when an HD COLLECTION was just released for PS360 for the same price. Even if you could make the argument that you HAVE to play it on the go. There is the Vita collection which comes with not just that game but MGS2, MG1 and 2, thats four games right there for the price of one. I dont know who that game was made for.
As for RE:R I dont know what the hell happened there, it plays ok. I would have thought ORC would give it a boost, maybe holidays will help. SSF4, dont know why thats not a a mil yet, im gonna chalk it up to way to many versions of that game being released. Shinobi, nobody cared. Tekken flopped cause it sucked. RE Mercenaries, most people arent going to pay full price for a game that is just basically a mode from one of the real games

BTW im loving the revisionist history in regards to NMH games, so now all of a sudden those are good sales, when people on this very website were swearing that those games were great and would do a mil at least?? And comparing them to the PS360 versions when those were released YEARS after the original?



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MANUELF on 20 July 2012

I believe Resident Evil has sold very good, in Mexico is still full price everywhere but Metal Gear Solid 3D is like half price right now



NintendoPie on 20 July 2012
SaviorX said:
I thought the barometer for success was lower for handheld games; like 250k+?

The games will obviously sell more over time at lower prices. Nobody wants to pay $40 for a damn handheld game...We'll see what happens after the holidays when 3DS starts its peak year and sales in the West actually pik up a bit.

Right now, there is absolutely no Nintendo advertising going on in America, and hasn't been for months...and I will not expect anything until Wii U drops.

That's a great price. I can practically get a 60$ game for 40$.



davidd_err18 on 20 July 2012

Resident Evil: Revelations problems were:
- poor marketing (compare the one this game got to the ones mainline titles have gotten)
- another 2 Resident Evil games announced BEFORE this game actually saw the light of day, some people would prefer to wait for these games (both Residen Evil Operation Racoon City AND a MAINLINE title Resident Evil 6 for 360PS3)
- "small userbase" for the 3DS, its sales hadnt exploded yet (they will in a matter of week from now)
- some people bought RE: Mercenaries, were dissapointed with it and decided not to buy this game (not knowing that it was a better game, with a real story)
-the cover is awful (yep, some people actually decide what to buy just for the cover...)
-its an M rated game, and the 3DS still doesnt have a big "hardcore gamers" userbase, yet

and for Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D
-poor marketing efforts
-the announcement of a COLLECTION of Metal Gear Solid games, both on PS3/360 AND the PSVita. This collection contains that game (MGS3) and MG1 and 2 and MGS2, also it LOOKED and PLAYED better, and it was CHEAPER, so there was little reason to buy the 3DS game.
- you are really naive to think this game could sell a million :P:P! not even those BETTER collections of Metal Gear Solid games will sell that ammount :)



davidd_err18 on 20 July 2012
Aielyn said:

Not much by way of standout games on the system, yet, outside of first-party.

Cobretti2 said:
Couple games I would have expected to get there already:

RE: Revelations

Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater

 

Arn't these the type of games the west wanted from 3rd parties?

Well, MGS:SE is a port, and had been released three different ways before 3DS, and was set for release on Vita, too. And it was released in February/March - it hasn't been through a holiday season, yet.

In fact, neither of the games you mentioned have been through a holiday season. Both were released this year, which would explain why they haven't broken the million mark, yet.

Meanwhile, Revelations is the best-selling handheld Resident Evil to date, and as I noted, it hasn't even been through a holiday season, yet. It has already easily outsold RE: The Mercenaries 3D, despite that title having been through a holiday season. There's really no doubt that it'll make it to 1 million, almost certainly by the end of the year.

Other third-party titles on that list that are probably going to break 1 million include Dragon Quest Monsters (probably Japan only, though) and Kingdom Hearts 3D (over 300,000 in Japan so far this year, set to release elsewhere at the end of the month, and usually sells significantly better in America than Japan).

I'm also not sure what you mean by "these... types of games". Are you saying "realistic"? Dark? Shooters?


You have to remember that Retailers only carry a certain amount of titles for any perdiod of time, they are VERY selective on which titles will occupy the limited Shelfspace (SPECIALLY ON THE HOLIDAYS!!!!); so dont expect them to restock a lot of copies of this game in particular, nor give it a lot of exposure.

we will have a lot of NEW 3DS games by that time that will be a PRIORITY, at least for the retailer.



davidd_err18 on 20 July 2012

Also is obvious that the 3DS wont have the same ammount of million seller as the DS
-the lifetime sales of the 3DS will be much lower than the ones of the DS
-a good chunk of the 130 million sellers of the DS are Shovelware titles that will not sell on this system now (see Cooking Mama 4 and Carnival Games for the 3DS to see what I am talking about) and casual titles that are better suited for the Mobile Market (like the brain games for example)
-we live in a POST Smarthphone era, and the perception of a correct price for the software on portable systems is different, most people are not willing to pay premium price $39.99 for a portable game :)