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Forums - Sales - Japan sales: Famitsu & Media create - Week 11 ( Mar 11 - Mar 17 )

Cloud1989 on 20 March 2013

Well I did a excellent job predicting what the numbers this week would be, so I don't have a lot of questions or anything.

Psvita: I don't know why anyone was surprised, a drop is bound to happen at some point as there were shortages and nothing special came out this week. I expect it to go up next week, not a lot, but with all colors becoming more plentiful and 3 not huge but well know games (Dead or Alive, Atelier Meruru, and Pro Yakyuu) it will go up slightly...43k I predict, even though there is 3 popular games...I think all these games aren't major system sellers.

Wii U: I was dead on and its numbers aren't shocking since literally nothing came out. Next week has nothing for Japan again, so 7800...hopefully NA numbers are good enough to hide its dreadful week.

3DS: I wildly guessed but I was only 4k off :D. With Luigi and Castlevania coming out it should be a good week, I don't think Castlevania will bring that much since it wasn't highly rated, but Luigi is very hyped...96k I think it might be on the low end, but I'll be surprised if it is lower.



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Moren on 20 March 2013
pokoko said:
I expect Luigi's Mansion to do 900k in Japan in its opening week.

Instead of proving a point, you are just ridiculing yourself; and frankly, this is borderline trolling.



Devil_Survivor on 20 March 2013
Max King of the Wild said:
kowenicki said:
Vita has to maintain above 25k. Its that simple.



or else what?


More Vita is doomed threads :P.



 

Devil_Survivor on 20 March 2013
RolStoppable said:
pezus said:
^I know what's missing, ethomaz' crazy predictions (and the responses to them) - easily like 50 posts right there

I see, he is banned. So is VGKing.

Things aren't the same without them.


Well VGKing got a few posts into this thread before the ban, check the first couple pages of the thread.



 

Max King of the Wild on 20 March 2013
Devil_Survivor said:
Max King of the Wild said:
kowenicki said:
Vita has to maintain above 25k. Its that simple.



or else what?


More Vita is doomed threads :P.


We are already getting that in this thread when it sold x2 that much this week



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Jabbamk1 on 20 March 2013

So what's the best way of tracking or estimating Digital downloads. As there must be a good percentage of games sold via digital download thus making the mediacreate numbers lower than they actually are.



Sensei on 20 March 2013

Vita drop is within what I expected. If it can maitain 20k (around PS3 range), it should be okay.

What I'm more curious about is how well Soul Sacrifice will hold.

BTW, Vita - Wii U gap increases again as Wii U numbers hit an all time low in Japan.



POE on 20 March 2013
kowenicki said:
pezus said:
kowenicki said:
Conegamer said:
tbone51 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
The thread has 80 posts in under 4 hours... wow people really are doing exactly what poko said they were doing



wats that??? (seriously i dont kno)

Exactly what me, Kresnik and other people predicted 2 weeks ago, moreso last week.

People were really bigging up the Vita sales and the previous thread got over 100 posts in an hour, claiming outlandish things like Vita is saved, SS is the next Monster Hunter, Vita over 60k this week etc., whilst we claimed that this was a bad move and one which would only produce retaliation comments because of the outlandish nature of the predictions. This seems to be the case.

Whilst the Vita and SS drop is disappointing, it is expected. 

Also it only has 65 posts. 

Correct.  The response to the prevous two weeks regarding Vita being saved was far more vociferous.

I smell paranoia.

You people are surprised that the week of a price cut, plus a week with even higher Vita sales, that beat 3DS, and a big exclusive new IP had more posts? 


no, we arent.  you completely missed the point.


Haha i got banned last week for saying that. Watch out guys, the moderators are evil...and PS fans  :D



NoCtiS_NoX on 20 March 2013

Oh my how did this thread turn into this week is quieter than last week? Obviously this will be a lot quieter.
Last week's number was the first time Vita outsold 3DS. A lot of people was also surprised about the number. Nobody expected that it will still maintain the 60K range sale. A lot of people expected it to drop to 30-40K range and a lot of people expected it not to outsell 3DS for that week. Obviously a lot of people just savored the moment especially the PS fans.



NoCtiS_NoX on 21 March 2013
Conegamer said:
tbone51 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
The thread has 80 posts in under 4 hours... wow people really are doing exactly what poko said they were doing



wats that??? (seriously i dont kno)

Exactly what me, Kresnik and other people predicted 2 weeks ago, moreso last week.

People were really bigging up the Vita sales and the previous thread got over 100 posts in an hour, claiming outlandish things like Vita is saved, SS is the next Monster Hunter, Vita over 60k this week etc., whilst we claimed that this was a bad move and one which would only produce retaliation comments because of the outlandish nature of the predictions. This seems to be the case.

Whilst the Vita and SS drop is disappointing, it is expected. 

Also it only has 65 posts. 


1. Please you are there and a lot of people posted that they are just savoring the moment because it won't happened again. It was an anomaly, not you normal week. 

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5207381

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5207381

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=156961&page=2

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5207579

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5207597

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5207617

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5207686

 

2. Clearly, a lot of people are just joking but anyway saying that Vita is saved is not outlandish and  yes for me Vita is saved in Japan. Look at all the announcment lately. Mind Zero and 3 neptunia games for vita. Will it beat 3DS? No! Does Vita need to outsell 3DS it consistent basis in order to be consider saved? Hell no!

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5207353

3. As for the SS being the next MH they are just comparing it and hoping it to have MHP 1 legs  nobody claimed SS to be the next MH. Qoute me some people to proved me other wise.

As for the Vita

God! even ethomaz is very close he predicted 35K.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5207973

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5208528

I am really disappointed with you congamer. Really didappointed and thank you for making me read the thread again last week just to look at those outlandish claims you are talking about. >_>

It's feels it's like a crime to celebrate vita outselling 3DS just for one week. 

God this is the first time I got angry in this thread. I sure hope you don't derail the future threads thank you!