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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan Sales - Media Create,Famitsu, & dengeki: week 47 ( Nov. 18 - Nov. 24 ) Bomba everywhere!!

gmcmen on 27 November 2013
Soundwave said:
gmcmen said:
Soundwave said:
gmcmen said:
Soundwave said:
To be honest I think the Japanese market is in so much trouble that Nintendo + Sony would have to team up in some way to rescue it. It's really bad right now.



even though i would love this to happen, its pretty obvious to me nintendo franshises are no longer system sellers they once were and there traditional consoles have been in decline, nintendo has always made great games, but there console market has been in decline, since the super nes days, the wiiu us the exception they came up with controls that every but wanted to try, but it was really just a fad that's over now, and nintendo goes back to norm ,

NES 69 million

SNES 49.10 million 

N64 32.93 million 

GC 21.74 million


Nintendo's the only Japanese publisher that really has any true might left though. 

Sorry but Square-Enix and Capcom are shell's of what they used to be, and hearing Square-Enix's president talk so much about going more and more mobile makes me think their Japanese side is basically going to be mobile centric aside from a small number of console games. 

Konami is basically the Metal Gear company, and I think they are due for some franchise fatigue there. Sega/Namco-Bandai/Level 5 .... ugh. 

It's not looking pretty right now. 

Nintendo still makes strong games, they just are hamstrung by stupid hardware decisions they made with the Wii U. Sony makes good hardware but doesn't have the effort/ability to make the types of Japanese games that Nintendo does. 

Nintendo's the only Japanese studio left pumping out games that are equal or better quality-wise than the best Western games (see: Mario 3D World's metacritic and Zelda: ALBW's also). Everyone else in Japan is just sucking gas. 


Nintendno makes amazing games, but GTA, BF4 and CODghosts have all out sold mario 3d first week, there franchises are just not big system sellers anymore.


No one wants the Wii U. No one likes the concept. That's the problem. COD doesn't sell on the Wii U either, does that mean it's not a powerful franchise? Of course not, it just means its hard to sell software on the Wii U because its a platform without an audience. 

Mario 3D Land is tracking to sell 10 million on the 3DS, which is just fine. People just don't want to spend $300 on Wii U.

and it doesn't have an audience cause all the core gamers have left the wii and moved to 360/ps3, every big third party game has established a home base on the xbox/playstaion brand, they basically missed out on an entire 7th gen of third party games and online gaming. and the console market biggest franshises and best sellers are third party games and online games.



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Nirvana_Nut85 on 27 November 2013
Soundwave said:
To be honest I think the Japanese market is in so much trouble that Nintendo + Sony would have to team up in some way to rescue it. It's really bad right now.


I wish! Then I wouldn't have to fork out the cash for an extra system.



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Scisca on 27 November 2013

I remember some Nintendo fanboys (Zero999?) giving me hell for saying this Mario won't be the huge system seller and that Christmas will give the console a bigger boost, than this game. Where are you now?



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S.Peelman on 27 November 2013

Oh my.

Gaming is so rapidly declining in Japan it's painful to watch. This week is atrocious. Games flop and hardware bombs. I don't see how the PS4 (and well... XBOne if it'll even sell at all there) will not have the same problems, even after skimming over all the replies here. Everything is either already dead or dying. I mean, VitaTV. What the h*ll, they could just as well discontinue it right now and it wouldn't even matter.

Only the 3DS does something, but it's a far-cry still from the rocket that was the original DS. Realistically it's just Pokémon that sells, and a bit of Monster Hunter. If something isn't done fast in Japan on all fronts, gaming is basically dead at the end of the 8th Gen and almost completely moved to mobile.



thismeintiel on 27 November 2013

Hopefully now, the hard reality that 2D Mario ALWAYS sells better than 3D Mario will be realized by some of the Nintendo faithful who thought 3D Mario will save the Wii U.

It will be interesting to see how PS4 sales go. It will definitely have a good launch considering they sold out of two preorder allotments within 72 hrs (or was it 48 hrs?). I do see it doing better than the Wii U.



 

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Incubi on 27 November 2013

Famitsu will report digital sales from January 2014 (retail+ retail download card+digital stores (eshop/psstore)

As a tease they gave"real" sales numbers from, among others, Monster Hunter 4 and Pokemon X&Y. Interestingly MH4 eshop sales is higher than Pokemon X&Y.

Combined, Pokemon X&Y is actually yet to overtake MH4 sales.



naruball on 27 November 2013
Scisca said:
I remember some Nintendo fanboys (Zero999?) giving me hell for saying this Mario won't be the huge system seller and that Christmas will give the console a bigger boost, than this game. Where are you now?

I'd also like to hear what he says about his prediction about wiiu selling close to 10m by the end of the year.

Doom everywhere. It's hard to feel bad for yet another Mario game not doing exceptionally well,  but I do hope X and Bayonetta 2 do so, as they desevre it more as far as I'm concerned.



BaldrSkies on 27 November 2013

Taiko no Tatsujin? More like Zaiko no Tatsujin.

Seriously though when was the last time you saw a full green stock symbol from Famitsu?



Moren on 27 November 2013
naruball said:

I'd also like to hear what he says about his prediction about wiiu selling close to 10m by the end of the year.

Doom everywhere. It's hard to feel bad for yet another Mario game not doing exceptionally well,  but I do hope X and Bayonetta 2 do so, as they desevre it more as far as I'm concerned.

I am sure you played through the game and genuinely disliked it.



outlawauron on 27 November 2013
Incubi said:
Famitsu will report digital sales from January 2014 (retail+ retail download card+digital stores (eshop/psstore)

As a tease they gave"real" sales numbers from, among others, Monster Hunter 4 and Pokemon X&Y. Interestingly MH4 eshop sales is higher than Pokemon X&Y.

Combined, Pokemon X&Y is actually yet to overtake MH4 sales.

They managed to get Sony and Nintendo to sign off on that info? Woah, very impressed Famitsu.



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