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outlawauron on 26 June 2014

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I dont think it'll happen that bad.... Maybe it'll stabilize like one of these options? :P

Because an expected drop of an anticipated game is 75-80%, this is the norm for almost all games across all consoles (including MK8 which had a 78% drop and was still praised for holding well). So I wanted to know what he thought would qualify.

Mario Kart 8 sold 325k-350k FW then 70k-75k 2nd week. It was huge FW. Of course thats a good hold, i dont think percentages are needed so much. I mean PQ had 185k FW to 30k 2nd week, so techniqually thats worse if you look at percent.

I think percentage doesn't mean much if software had much different numbers to begin with. MK8 will go on and continue to sell well despite first couple of weeks and its low userbase. Freedom Wars will get 130k-180k FW and even if it drops to 25k-30k the next week,its still good cuz overall its already going to or already has surpass the 200k mark.

Not really aiming it at you but the biggest percentage crap i hear all the time in Japan this year is Vita+3DS. The excuse of Vita being up by alot YoY during many weeks and 3DS being down by a huge amount gets tossed around sometimes too much :0 Though 3ds is still by far #1 in 2014, people use this YoY percentage excuse :P

Percentage is one of many stats to look at, not an end all be all. As you said, overall sales are still most important. I was only asking because Meret comments seem more like jabs that actual commentary.

As far as HW %s (completely irrelevant to this discussion), YoY is only used to say that while the 3DS is selling a decent number, it's waaaay down from what it did previously. 3DS' hardware sales are mediorce, but that is enough for 1st place in Japan.

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tbone51 on 26 June 2014

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Percentage is one of many stats to look at, not an end all be all. As you said, overall sales are still most important. I was only asking because Meret comments seem more like jabs that actual commentary.

As far as HW %s (completely irrelevant to this discussion), YoY is only used to say that while the 3DS is selling a decent number, it's waaaay down from what it did previously. 3DS' hardware sales are mediorce, but that is enough for 1st place in Japan.

Yeah, i kinda went off with that. Meret is Meret :P

3DS down by alot, no denying it. Its just the few i see try to justify Vita sales by using the YoY excuse is wrong. WiiU could be up by double and it wouldn't be something to brag about sadly! :0