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Forums - Sales - Japan sales week 38: Famitsu and media-create. September 17-23

^Yeah, I agree with that... next week PSP will have a huge hit releasing (gundam)... exactly the week Vita gets 4 new games. It's like they don't care, this will totally impact those software sales.





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Vita is doing great for a non Nintendo handheld! 3DS need more big games though!

boring week as most weeks



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

Well, well well well. That PSP price cut certainly did it's job... of making the Vita look worse! (I wonder if FF III had any effect as well).

Other than that: LBP PS Vita opens poorly, but higher than the PSP version did. I'm not quite sure why everyone's expectations were seemingly so high for this game. I was expecting it to open lower than the PSP version seeing as Vita has about 1/10th of the install base comparatively...

Also: Kingdoms of Amalur #5, good heavens.



3DS is doing ok but not gangbusters - it could reach 5m sales this year but that's still far from the over 8m the DS posted back in its high time. The XL didn't do a lot to push 3DS sales, what Nintendo needs is a "3DS Lite" with a more mass market feeling (lighter, better looking, less complicated design. battery life improvements) and a subsequent lower price point of the current model. I hope they got one ready for 2013.

The Vita reminds me a lot of the N64's sales pace - a huge first week followed by low sales. Just like the N64 the Vita is having trouble to sell 10k units a week. The N64 reached that 1 million units mark quite a bit faster, though. Gamecube was much faster as well. At least those consoles had a user base right from the start - the Vita still doesn't even have that 1 million units base installed. I am still hoping for the Vita to turn out like the PSP did - lots of good games for very low prices. But that won't happen with those kinds of sales.



3DS doing fine then,

they have had a price cut for vita haven't they and colours too



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Next week for "next gen" portables

Some hardware boost is expected. I don't think software will do gangbusters though. Prediction: 60k

Kokuga - a shmup. If it even chart, it'll be low. Prediction: 4-6k, but probably won't chart in a week with so many releases, imo.

Nobunaga's ambition. Maybe some good numbers here. Prediction: 360 did awful. PS3 did ok. Vita will do middle term so... around 20-30k FW.

Another one that could do some good numbers. Very hard to tell, though. Prediction: 40k.

Have no idea... no prediction.

Another one that might pull ok numbers. Hmm, trailing a lot behind in COMG net... but I say 30-40k FW.

And the undisputed king of the week:

No predictions, but t's going to be big.

Definitely Vita's busiest week of the year. 



How much did Girl's Mode sell it's first week on the DS? I remember it reaching up to 900k LTD, iirc.



VicViper said:

Next week for "next gen" portables

Some hardware boost is expected. I don't think software will do gangbusters though. Prediction: 60k

Kokuga - a shmup. If it even chart, it'll be low. Prediction: 4-6k, but probably won't chart in a week with so many releases, imo.

Nobunaga's ambition. Maybe some good numbers here. Prediction: 360 did awful. PS3 did ok. Vita will do middle term so... around 20-30k FW.

Another one that could do some good numbers. Very hard to tell, though. Prediction: 40k.

Have no idea... no prediction.

Another one that might pull ok numbers. Hmm, trailing a lot behind in COMG net... but I say 30-40k FW.

And the undisputed king of the week:

No predictions, but t's going to be big.

Definitely Vita's busiest week of the year. 


Pictures make everything better :>



Kenology said:
How much did Girl's Mode sell it's first week on the DS? I remember it reaching up to 900k LTD, iirc.


Around 86k.

It was during the golden year of 2008, though.



VicViper said:
Kenology said:
How much did Girl's Mode sell it's first week on the DS? I remember it reaching up to 900k LTD, iirc.

Around 86k.

It was during the golden year of 2008, though.

Hmmm...  yeah, I think your 60k prediction is spot on.