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F0X on 12 November 2012
Immortal said:
3DS is being inconsistent in Japan.
While NSMB2, Nintendogs+Cats, Brain Age and some others will struggle to compare to the sales of their predecessors , Animal Crossing is already making the DS version cry for its mommy; during the week of 27 November 2005, VGC shows Wild World to have sold 340k. Well over twice this amount for New Leaf! Of course, this can't possibly maintain since no game will sell that much in Japan. Ever. (The DS version finished significantly over 5m.) But it's still unbelievably decent.
I don't get why AC is doing so well while some others aren't. Can't wait to compare its legs to its predecessor. To keep up this proportional lead, it'll need something over 300k (~250k physical?) next week. Don't think it can keep up quite that well, but it'll do a hell of a lot nonetheless.


It's simple. Animal Crossing is better than Mario, pets, and Dr. Kawashima. :P

Anyway, I would not be surprised if AC:NL becomes the bestselling 3DS game in Japan rather quickly. I don't think anything short of Pokemon will unseat it, unless maybe Monster Hunter 4 does about as well as the PSP versions.



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dahuman on 12 November 2012

That's fucking ridiculous O_O



noname2200 on 12 November 2012
VGKing said:

I'd love to know how many of these digital downloads were from those download codes they sold at retail.

...All of them...? Because the report is giving us the number of download codes they sold, without saying a word about how many total copies of the game were downloaded...?

What exactly is your understanding of the article?



the_dengle on 12 November 2012

Holy cow. By comparison, Super Mario 3D Land sold 340k first week in Japan. Mario Kart 7 sold 430k. Monster Hunter 3G sold 525k.

Animal Crossing is bigger than Mario and MonHun. I had no idea it was this big in Japan.



forest-spirit on 12 November 2012

Not too shabby. Could be worse.



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VGKing on 12 November 2012
miz1q2w3e said:
Paul said:

So you actually mean that the eshop is so poorly laid out that it would be impossible for 200,000 people to find the game there?

This is getting more confusing by the post.

I'm with you, I find VGKing's posts both confusing and pointless, but mostly confusing. Oh, not to mention baseless and false.

lol @him trying to talk about infrastructure.

What a rude person. Did your mommy not teach you any manners? It's not nice to talk about someone especially if they can hear everything you're saying.

You got a problem with me? I'm right here. Let's have a nice argument.



Immortal on 12 November 2012
F0X said:


It's simple. Animal Crossing is better than Mario, pets, and Dr. Kawashima. :P

Anyway, I would not be surprised if AC:NL becomes the bestselling 3DS game in Japan rather quickly. I don't think anything short of Pokemon will unseat it, unless maybe Monster Hunter 4 does about as well as the PSP versions.


That's an insufficient explanation. Why did it not outsell them last gen then, :P?

And AC's definitely gonna be the bestselling 3DS game for a period of time. For the record, even if MH does as well as the PSP versions - about 4 or 5 million - that probably won't be close to enough to match AC, which is currently projecting to hit over 12m in Japan alone (like that's gonna happen, xD), but should still end up with well over 6m if nothing goes too wrong. Of course, MH will probably do better than PSP versions, being on a more popular console, but I don't think it can beat this.

At this point, I'm not even sure if Pokemon can beat AC. I mean, DP did about 6m and BW's looking to die off at 5.5m-ish. Next Pokemon will have to beat this substantially to match what New Leaf looks like it'll manage.



 

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TripleMMM on 12 November 2012

@F0X: Actually that same chart made me realize how well the series is popular now on your earlier post, my eyes almost popped out how it jumped from one system to the next...



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miz1q2w3e on 12 November 2012
VGKing said:
miz1q2w3e said:

I'm with you, I find VGKing's posts both confusing and pointless, but mostly confusing. Oh, not to mention baseless and false.

lol @him trying to talk about infrastructure.

What a rude person. Did your mommy not teach you any manners? It's not nice to talk about someone especially if they can hear everything you're saying.

You got a problem with me? I'm right here. Let's have a nice argument.

I know you can read that.

I'd rather not waste my time, especially not with an attitude like that.



S.Peelman on 12 November 2012
VGKing said:

Upset? Not in the slightest.

Vita has nothing to do with this topic. Stop assuming crap. I don't even own a Vita.

BTW, they're not really "digital sales" since they were sold at retail.

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That doesn't matter.

600k people bought the retail version of the game, this means there are now 600k real-life Animal Crossing boxes in people's homes. 200k people downloaded the game. It remains the same wether or not people first bought the download-card or they went to the eShop directly, it does prove people used and found things in the eShop one way or the other. These are all in the reported 200k, all of these units were downloaded over Nintendo's servers making them all digital sales and making the servers definitely capable of handling this much traffic. Iwata makes a clear distinction in what he's saying in the message. I don't see the problem or what's not to understand or whatever's going on.

I'm with the people that find your posts here now to be continually confusing.