Japan Sales: Famitsu & Media Create

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gigantor21 on 30 January 2013

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pezus said:
WiiU below PSP now. How long until it drops below PSV?

Now that would be hilarious if it happend.

That 100% sure happens on Senran Kagura and Tales of Hearts R release.

Senran Kagura's the boob ninja game right? Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me... XD

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BaldrSkies on 30 January 2013

pezus said:

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pezus said:
WiiU below PSP now. How long until it drops below PSV?

Now that would be hilarious if it happend.

It's already behind PSV's weekly pace, as you can see in the YOY comparison I posted above. I wouldn't bet against it. Nintendo owns Japan, eh?

Nintendo killed DS sales in Japan to sell the 3DS, and it was a resounding success, but only after a major price drop to the point of losing money per console, and ambassador program.
Nintendo killed Wii sales in Japan to sell the WiiU, and have failed thus far... but I'm sure there will be a price drop and another ambassador program soon. This will be more financially difficult, however, since the Wii U is already a net loss per console sold, and Iwata even hinted that this problem could not be solved until 2014.

Nintendo's "domination" of Japan actually totters on a razor thin line that is highly reliant on overseas profits, which have been struggling due to lower than expected 3DS sales. The LDP's recent monetary policies to weaken the yen have been extremely beneficial to the company, however.

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SwansVanTerif on 30 January 2013

Nomnom, it'll soon be pacman style for the 3DS in Japan.

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gigantor21 on 30 January 2013

pezus said:

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pezus said:

maverick40 said:

pezus said:
WiiU below PSP now. How long until it drops below PSV?

Now that would be hilarious if it happend.

It's already behind PSV's weekly pace, as you can see in the YOY comparison I posted above. I wouldn't bet against it. Nintendo owns Japan, eh?

Even with handhelds alone it's not immune. Remember the Virtual Boy? XD

Still, they have plenty of room to turn it around. This launch has been shit compared to their expectations, but there still aren't any big system sellers out for it yet. If Zelda and Smash don't push units, then we can start calling next of kin and making funeral arrangements.

I for one would say Mario and MH are two of the biggest system sellers in Japan, but maybe not when looking at the sales of the WiiU

With Monster Hunter, though, isn't that the THIRD port of a game that came out 4 years ago? Not to mention it was already on the Wii and the 3DS, which is getting a proper 4th game as well. I don't know if MH3U was destined to push much.

Same with NSMBU, which came out just a few months after NSMB2 and is the 4th game in a series built around 80's/90's nostalgia. You can only prime that pump so many times so quickly. I'm waiting to see how the new 3D Mario does.

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Lelouch_Vi_Brittania on 30 January 2013

I'm starting to get scared of 3DS and Animal Crossing, it's selling ridiculously good.

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Lelouch_Vi_Brittania said:
I'm starting to get scared of 3DS and Animal Crossing, it's selling ridiculously good.

It is extremely popular among women and children demographic. That female demographic in particular is especially good since it is pulling a lot of customers who would normally not be purchasing video games.

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Lelouch_Vi_Brittania on 30 January 2013

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Japan isnt Nintendoland, its 3DSLand.

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pezus said:

It's already behind PSV's weekly pace, as you can see in the YOY comparison I posted above. I wouldn't bet against it. Nintendo owns Japan, eh?

WiiU really does not matter, the thing could be discountinued and Nintendo would still own Japan, at least for this year. Should I start listing the releases of 3DS for 2013.

OT: I guess there was a new shipment for Fantasy Life, and I really wasn't expecting those two PSV. But still quite a meh week. Now, the countdown until WiiU gets below the infamous 10k.