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Forums - Sales - Japan sales: Famitsu, Media Create & Dengeki - Week 16 ( Apr 15 - Apr 21 )

ethomaz on 24 April 2013
Conegamer said:

I see a decline in Vita sales. What am I missing?


Vita sales are up 1k in comparison with the last week.

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metalmonstar on 24 April 2013

Vita for the most part even. I figured the week before Golden week would see a slight dip or no drop hardware wise with the exception of the 3DS of course. Really good opening for Tomodachi, I just wish the 3DS boost was larger. Lets hope the 3DS stays strong through Golden week. Vita seems to be approaching a baseline. I would say the Vita likely has a baseline of 11k to 13k. We will have to see how it behaves after the holiday though. Luigi Mansion and Animal Crossing are both dropping. I am kind of sad, I was hoping Animal Crossing legs would last forever. Nice Monster Hunter boost. Also Run for the Money came out of nowhere; was there a new episode last week?



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aikohualda on 24 April 2013

luigi showing good legs....
tomodachi.. nice sales
3ds... nice push

3ds is definitely glued in japan market... now work on the west!



 

NoCtiS_NoX on 24 April 2013
Conegamer said:

Hmm, I didn't realise the double pack was tracked by Media Create.

And I'm not going to say if it's fair or not. The game as a whole will easily pass that mark, but my only concern is the version which is still in the charts. I'm not "hating" on the game or anything. I'm looking forward to picking it up, and I wish it all the success.

So the single game by itself will not pass 250k, not including the double pack or other re-releases, regardless if it's "fair" or not. Because aside from the data you provided for the double pack (which I concede I did not realise was avaliable), we don't know how these other versions have sold.


We will know the total sales of the double pack as soon as MC realeases their top 500.

Anyway, nobody said that you are hating the game.

I am just stating facts because people might think that SS only sold 167K.



Chandler on 24 April 2013
BaldrSkies said:
Soriku said:
ethomaz said:
Soriku said:


When there is large demand for HW, SW demand follows. Sure new owners buy games alongside HW each week, but there are over 1 million Vita owners out there and they're buying games each week too. If the highest a game is selling this week for Vita is only 4.5k it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of interest in the games in general.

Valid point.. you just forget Vita have digital sales too .


While true, I don't believe that digital sales will have made up for that many sales. I mean the 3DS has 8 titles in the charts this week...and that's, of course, discounting digital. Physical is still very very strong and when we're only talking about a couple thousand in sales for the highest game...I wouldn't expect digital sales to be that big.

I will say though that Soul Sacrifice digital sales could be interesting.


3DS has around 10 million install base, Vita has around 1 million install base. It would be natural to think the 3DS should be selling 10 times the amount of software Vita is (retail). Although in reality it's only about 5 times that of total Vita software per week. If anyone is slacking in buying games, it's 3DS owners. When you consider the "megaton" games 3DS has, and the big number of new 3DS owners per week over Vita, it's even sadder when you look at it that way...

 

Ok now this is just sad.



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carlos3189 on 24 April 2013

Omg... people... As easy as this, there was Vita shortage, then supplies came and Vita did not increase that much. I'm pretty sure that means people are not very interested in the system...



MystVearn on 24 April 2013
Soriku said:
BaldrSkies said:

3DS has around 10 million install base, Vita has around 1 million install base. It would be natural to think the 3DS should be selling 10 times the amount of software Vita is (retail). Although in reality it's only about 5 times that of total Vita software per week. If anyone is slacking in buying games, it's 3DS owners.


Sales don't ever work in ratios so I wouldn't assume that it'd be natural for the 3DS to sell 10x more SW. The 3DS has some big games constantly in the charts selling tens of thousands weeks after...while the Vita doesn't really have anything like that. The Vita's biggest game with legs now is Soul Sacrifice and is only selling in the 4k range about now. But again, I wish we knew SS digital sales.

Yep, that post is one of the worst spins I've ever read here.



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benao87 on 24 April 2013

We don't know when was the re-stoking. Claiming that PSV got their base line at 15k is just wrong, next week is Golden week, and that affects sales, mid May will be a better teller, besides by that time the effect of the price cut will be settled.

Sigh, shouldn't we all be older and wiser? This partisan attacks will never end?



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Conegamer on 24 April 2013
pezus said:
Conegamer said:
pezus said:
Soriku said:
pezus said:
Soriku said:


Sales don't ever work in ratios so I wouldn't assume that it'd be natural for the 3DS to sell 10x more SW. The 3DS has some big games constantly in the charts selling tens of thousands weeks after...while the Vita doesn't really have anything like that. The Vita's biggest game with legs now is Soul Sacrifice and is only selling in the 4k range about now. But again, I wish we knew SS digital sales.

I still fail to see how that proves that there isn't a shortage of Vita. Or are you saying something diffeerent?


Nah, that's not what I'm saying. We don't know for certain how much they shipped this weekend, stock could've been short and it could've been OK. But a mere 1k increase with some overall better stock this week than the last doesn't seem good to me.

But at least it's a sign of there being a higher demand than we saw last week. It's also a sign that the shortages were (and maybe still are) real, yet some people here continue to deny them with "logic" (not you )

I see a decline in Vita sales. What am I missing?

And yeah, there are stock shortages, but not enough for there to be a huge difference in weekly sales. It's not going to jump to 20-25k a week, for example.

Media Create ;o

Italic: How do you know?

Oh, fair enough then. I was looking at the Famitsu numbers.

And I don't know. But I don't think there's enough of a stock shortage that sales will increase around 50% from here.



 

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ethomaz on 24 April 2013

I'm waiting the MC article.

http://www.m-create.com/ranking/