| Michael-5 said: in a week 5 new games will make the list, I hope one is Drakengard 3. As for Zelda making the list....looks unlikely now. |
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Pokemon is really starting to worry me. Hope it's just stock.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/92109/nintendopie/ Nintendopie Was obviously right and I was obviously wrong. I will forever be a lesser being than them. (6/16/13)
Well I guess Legend of Heroes will have to be the game I cheer on today :(
| Otakumegane said: Pokemon is really starting to worry me. Hope it's just stock. |
why? MH4 was not even close to MH3P and outsold it in the end
EricFabian said:
why? MH4 was not even close to MH3P and outsold it in the end |
There was a negative platform swap (in terms of COMG) between MHP3 & MH4 though.
(As in, PSP is vastly more popular in COMG-circles, so more points for a PSP game on here = less actual sales).
There's probably been a similar swap between Pokemon Black&White 2 -> Pokemon X & Y (i.e. DS -> 3DS), but I'd imagine it's far less severe than the MonHun swap.
I'm beginning to wonder why Pokemon is going so slowly, too. But I presume it's something to do with stock.
| Kresnik said: There was a negative platform swap (in terms of COMG) between MHP3 & MH4 though. (As in, PSP is vastly more popular in COMG-circles, so more points for a PSP game on here = less actual sales). There's probably been a similar swap between Pokemon Black&White 2 -> Pokemon X & Y (i.e. DS -> 3DS), but I'd imagine it's far less severe than the MonHun swap. I'm beginning to wonder why Pokemon is going so slowly, too. But I presume it's something to do with stock. |
I know, but I'm not worried because COMG! was always a little happy place for Playstation brand
Orochi Warriors come on and beat Armoured Core!
| outlawauron said: I don't know why it's so hard for you to understand that the amount of preorders a game gets has more to do with the game itself and the audience it targets. Very niche games have higher preorders because their target audience is far more likely to preorder a game than the target audience of most games on Nintendo platforms. This is why visual RPGs, anime based games, etc. all have higher numbers than the 1:1000 ratio. With huge games, that number doesn't work regardless of platform for very obvious diminishing return reasons. There are always anolmalies and exceptions, because we're dealing with a very small retailer in a not very populated area of Japan. |
This was a while ago, but I thought this would be an interesting topic to revisit in the wake of MH4's release.
Portable 3rd ended with 5,024 points on COMG and sold 1.951 million copies FW according to Media Create. MH4 ended with 3,872 points on COMG and sold 1.715 million physical copies (best to assume COMG wasn't including download cards in their numbers) FW according to Media Create. This means Portable 3rd had roughly 388 physical sales per COMG point, while MH4 had roughly 443 physical sales per COMG point.
Obviously one example isn't conclusive, but it seems to me that both the genre/series and the platform have an effect on how COMG points translate to actual sales.
Kresnik said:
(As in, PSP is vastly more popular in COMG-circles, so more points for a PSP game on here = less actual sales). There's probably been a similar swap between Pokemon Black&White 2 -> Pokemon X & Y (i.e. DS -> 3DS), but I'd imagine it's far less severe than the MonHun swap. I'm beginning to wonder why Pokemon is going so slowly, too. But I presume it's something to do with stock. |
It makes no sense that as soon as pre-orders were available, 50 points a day were being added, and then one day suddenly it's single digits, and stayed single digits last few weeks.
It's stock, Black/White 2 was only localized a year ago, and only released 2 years ago in Japan. To make a whole new engine, and have a worlwide release in 2 years is just.....wow. GameFreak was probably still touching it up when the opened for pre-orders, and Nintendo can't produce enough copies.
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