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Viper1 on 30 July 2014
phaedruss said:
Yakuzaice said:
Viper1 said:

Hyrule Warriors
Wii Sports Club
Bayonetta
Bayonetta 2
Watch Dogs
Super Smash Bros Wii U
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker
Splatoon
Yoshi's Wooly World
Dragon Quest X (Japan)
Monster Hunter Frontier G5 (Japan)
Sonic Boom
Mario Maker

DQX and MH are already out.  Wii Sports club has been out for ages for download and the retail release seemed to have no impact anywhere.  Several of the others aren't coming till Q4 at the earliest and are listed as first half which could easily fall into next fiscal year.

Yep. Splatoon is 2015, probably summer. The only significant title there is Super smash brothers.

The only significant title last quarter was Mario Kart 8 which pushed sales to 60k.   You implied there were no games for the remainder of the fiscal year to maintain that sales trend.   Smash alone is enough and yet there are far more games that will push or maintain hardware sales from that list than we ever saw in the previous quarter.  60k should not be hard to maintain with that list.  Do you not think?



The rEVOLution is not being televised

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DerNebel on 30 July 2014
KLXVER said:
phaedruss said:

Yep. Splatoon is 2015, probably summer. The only significant title there is Super smash brothers.


Cool. Now who will win the 2018 World Cup?

Ivory Coast.



KLXVER on 30 July 2014
DerNebel said:
KLXVER said:
phaedruss said:

Yep. Splatoon is 2015, probably summer. The only significant title there is Super smash brothers.


Cool. Now who will win the 2018 World Cup?

Ivory Coast.


Well Ill be damned...



Clyde32 on 30 July 2014
phaedruss said:
Yakuzaice said:

DQX and MH are already out.  Wii Sports club has been out for ages for download and the retail release seemed to have no impact anywhere.  Several of the others aren't coming till Q4 at the earliest and are listed as first half which could easily fall into next fiscal year.

Yep. Splatoon is 2015, probably summer. The only significant title there is Super smash brothers.


Didn't they say Splatoon was early 2015?



phaedruss on 30 July 2014
Clyde32 said:
phaedruss said:
Yakuzaice said:

DQX and MH are already out.  Wii Sports club has been out for ages for download and the retail release seemed to have no impact anywhere.  Several of the others aren't coming till Q4 at the earliest and are listed as first half which could easily fall into next fiscal year.

Yep. Splatoon is 2015, probably summer. The only significant title there is Super smash brothers.


Didn't they say Splatoon was early 2015?

http://e3.nintendo.com/games/wiiu/splatoon/

This says "first half" so probably 2nd  quarter, but this is Nintendo so I said summer lol.



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phaedruss on 30 July 2014
Viper1 said:

The only significant title last quarter was Mario Kart 8 which pushed sales to 60k.   You implied there were no games for the remainder of the fiscal year to maintain that sales trend.   Smash alone is enough and yet there are far more games that will push or maintain hardware sales from that list than we ever saw in the previous quarter.  60k should not be hard to maintain with that list.  Do you not think?


There's one game that has a chance of maintaining that sales trend and it comes out in 4-5 months.



Viper1 on 30 July 2014
Yakuzaice said:
Clyde32 said:

That's a lot of nitpicking...

Nearly half the list already being out or very likely not being out for the fiscal year doesn't really seem like nitpicking.  Could have gotten into inclusions of the first Bayonetta or Watch Dogs if I wanted to do that.

This expansion pack for DQX is not already out.   Wii Sports Club and MHF G5 just released and we don't yet have sales data to cover them.  Hence why both are included.

Watch Dogs is still a big game.  Certainly not as big as the other console iterations but big enough to draw sales.

3 titles are listed for the first half of 2015.  Given that 2 quarters represent that period and 1 of them falls within the fiscal year, by default they have a 50/50 chance.

 

Of 13 games listed, only 3 are possibly off the list for next fiscal year and only 2 has launched.   That's hardly half.

 

phaedruss said:
Viper1 said:

The only significant title last quarter was Mario Kart 8 which pushed sales to 60k.   You implied there were no games for the remainder of the fiscal year to maintain that sales trend.   Smash alone is enough and yet there are far more games that will push or maintain hardware sales from that list than we ever saw in the previous quarter.  60k should not be hard to maintain with that list.  Do you not think?


There's one game that has a chance of maintaining that sales trend and it comes out in 4-5 months.

It's not about one game, it's about the combination of games.



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phaedruss on 30 July 2014
Viper1 said:

This expansion pack for DQX is not already out.   Wii Sports Club and MHF G5 just released and we don't yet have sales data to cover them.  Hence why both are included.

Watch Dogs is still a big game.  Certainly not as big as the other console iterations but big enough to draw sales.

3 titles are listed for the first half of 2015.  Given that 2 quarters represent that period and 1 of them falls within the fiscal year, by default they have a 50/50 chance.

Of 13 games listed, only 3 are possibly off the list for next fiscal year and only 2 has launched.   That's hardly half.

It's not about one game, it's about the combination of games.


No one is going to buy a wii u for watch dogs.

It's not a very compelling combination of games that's the point. They'll sell to people who own wii u's already, hell even Super Smash Brothers might sell mostly to current owners, moreso than MK8.



Viper1 on 30 July 2014

Read the edit to my post just above you.



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KLXVER on 30 July 2014
phaedruss said:
Viper1 said:

This expansion pack for DQX is not already out.   Wii Sports Club and MHF G5 just released and we don't yet have sales data to cover them.  Hence why both are included.

Watch Dogs is still a big game.  Certainly not as big as the other console iterations but big enough to draw sales.

3 titles are listed for the first half of 2015.  Given that 2 quarters represent that period and 1 of them falls within the fiscal year, by default they have a 50/50 chance.

Of 13 games listed, only 3 are possibly off the list for next fiscal year and only 2 has launched.   That's hardly half.

It's not about one game, it's about the combination of games.


No one is going to buy a wii u for watch dogs.

It's not a very compelling combination of games that's the point. They'll sell to people who own wii u's already, hell even Super Smash Brothers might sell mostly to current owners, moreso than MK8.


Well the library grows, so thats never a bad thing.