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tbone51 on 20 September 2013
Otakumegane said:
Pokemon is really starting to worry me. Hope it's just stock.



1mil pre orders confirmed yesterday, its a stock issue, you think the most hyped gen would be this slow



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tbone51 on 20 September 2013
Kresnik said:
EricFabian said:
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


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.



pokemon has 1mil pre orders as of yesterday



kopstudent89 on 21 September 2013

I think it's doing really well compared to Pokemon D/P and it has digital sales to add. That for me si the most comparable game to X/Y



Conegamer on 21 September 2013

This slow on a weekend? Everyone must be playing MH.



 

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Mordred11 on 21 September 2013

GTAV will end up with over 200 points. There's a good chance it gets close to 250. How much would that translate into?



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Kresnik on 21 September 2013
Michael-5 said:

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.


I'm... not quite sure why you're telling me this.  I was saying the same thing in the post you quoted!

tbone51 said:

pokemon has 1mil pre orders as of yesterday

I'm... not quite sure why you're telling me this.  I made a comment about the 1 million pre-orders in this very thread!



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Pavolink on 21 September 2013

People is busy playing MH4 to go to pre-order pokemon. Yeah, that must be the reason.



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EricFabian on 21 September 2013

GTA V will be ahead God Eater 2 lol


and no Zelda =(



outlawauron on 21 September 2013
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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.

I suppose that's a fair statement, although there is quite a time gap between releases (there is also the sequel effect to consider). Will be super interesting how MH4G or MH5 plays out with COMG and all of the other metrics.



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