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Forums - Sales - Media Create & Famitsu Japan Sales: Week 31, 2012 (Jul 30 - Aug 05)

If digital sales were high then Nintendo would have a press release out to that effect.

We will hear in the quarterly numbers.



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Regular Hatsune Miku looks cuter than Chibi.



Soleron said:
If digital sales were high then Nintendo would have a press release out to that effect.

We will hear in the quarterly numbers.

As Nintendo moves to digital downloads, this is the part that is gonna suck... having to wait until quarterly results to get digital sales.



Kenology said:
Soleron said:
If digital sales were high then Nintendo would have a press release out to that effect.

We will hear in the quarterly numbers.

As Nintendo moves to digital downloads, this is the part that is gonna suck... having to wait until quarterly results to get digital sales.

When is it coming again? 



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Kenology said:
Pavolink said:
RolStoppable said:
Boo for NSMB2. I doubt that the download numbers are significant (probably sub-100k up until now), so this isn't a good start for the game. What's more important are the sales in the long run though (both of the game and the 3DS hardware), so if this beast can stay above 10k units in weekly sales for a long time and raises the 3DS baseline a bit, it's still all good, because Japan already has a steady flow of appealing software.

The game's performance in the Western markets will be much more important, but if it's not doing hot in Japan, then people shouldn't expect too much for America and Europe (i.e. not an immediate turnaround from poor 3DS sales to great ones).

Sadly, true. Digital sales won't be as big as people wants to believe, so maybe it is at 680-700k right now. In western markets I'm expecting a ok performance.

I don't know.... why would NSMB2 flop like this though?  I feel like digital sales would explain it. 

Series fatigue. When NSMB came out, it was revolutionary. Also the Mega Mushroom made the game larger than life. The Wii version was good because it added 4 players and improved graphics. This version I don't see add too much more other than the new coin mechanics. So possibly consumer fatigue. Like someone said in gaf, had it been NSMW, it may have been a different story.

However, I personally think the digital sales will be strong for the reason Mr Khan gave, and others I gave in last week's thread, including the massively available retail vouchers for DD.

So it's honestly up in the air at this point, and can go either way.



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lol DQX would have done way better on PS3! like 900k or something!


there I said it for turkish


I think the numbers are great 420k is very good and its not even an entire week! nice to see Wii up there again but it will probably go back to 10k level in two weeks time not that the final big game came out for it. I wonder when Nintendo will cut the price of the Wii



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Turkish said:
Horrible for mainline DQ, it probably won't cross 600k.
ethomaz said:

Bad DQX numbers... the franchise is more popular than FF in Japan.

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OT: Nice Wii HW numbers, slightly higher than most people's predictions. We'll definitely have to see how many subscribers DQX will have, and maintain.

Any info on how people are receiving the game?

Wondering how all are going to perform after obon.



benao87 said:
Turkish said:
Horrible for mainline DQ, it probably won't cross 600k.
ethomaz said:

Bad DQX numbers... the franchise is more popular than FF in Japan.

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