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outlawauron said:
PwerlvlAmy said:
outlawauron said:
PwerlvlAmy said:
doh has to be dooom

Your shtick is old. To borrow from Smear-Gels' sig.

 

you so funny

I'm not trying to be. But your response in nearly every thread where the news isn't overwhelmingly positive for Nintendo has been a variant of this.

If you want to believe that,then by all means,knock yourself out :)



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Ouch at smash sales. This gen couldn't end sooner for Nintendo.



PwerlvlAmy said:


DOOM needs to be ported to Wii U now so they circle can be complete

A petition will certainly convience the devs to port over the game to the WiiU!



                
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padib said:

The software sales are fine. We're used to low U software sales. It's the HW sales that are low because most of us expected smash to be a system-seller. Looks like it bumped it up 100% but that's only relative.


Actually, I'd expect Nintendo fans to already own the console.  There's been a fair few incentives to jump into the console up until this point, and plenty of promises for the future too.

Given that Smash is a fanservice game, I'd expect it to have strong first week sales and less tail than something like Mario Kart, though still with some decent legs.  The fact it opened a good 100k below MK8, to me, isn't a particularly stunning performance.

The saving grace is the holidays in that people may well be holding off.  So we'll have to see how that pans out.  But there's "low" U software sales and "low, even with lowered expectations", and this one is the latter.



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Kresnik said:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=142691050&postcount=277

Thanks for this data.

 

Kresnik said:

N64 : Super Smash Bros. ( Nintendo ) { 1999-01-21 } - 183,097 / 1,632,055
NGC : Super Smash Bros. Melee ( Nintendo ) { 2001-11-21 } - 357,101 / 1,349,418
WII : Super Smash Bros. Brawl ( Nintendo ) { 2008-01-31 } - 816,198 / 2,303,103
3DS : Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS ( Nintendo ) { 2014-09-13 } - 987,239 / 1,841,754
3DS : Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS [Nintendo eShop] {DL} ( Nintendo ) { 2014-09-13 } - - / 112,041
WIU : Super Smash Bros. for Wii U ( Nintendo ) { 2014-12-06 } - 244,747 / 244,747

This clearly shows the move to handheld. Melee was more frontloaded but overall worse than the first entry. Brawl was strong, given with the strong Wii. Smash 3DS opeed even stronger than Brawl and already outsold Melee and Smash 1 lifetime - that is pretty good. Brawl seems possible to catch.

Smash WiiU performs really bad. The opening is better than the first game, but that is also true for Melee, that ended up worse. I think Smash WiiU will be similarly frontloaded, that would mean it will be worst selling Smash.

Kresnik said:

3DS : Aikatsu! Cinderella Lesson ( Bandai Namco ) { 2012-11-15 } - 9,019 / 142,603
3DS : Aikatsu! Futari no My Princess ( Bandai Namco ) { 2013-11-21 } - 53,866 / 244,378
3DS : Aikatsu! Futari no My Princess [Nintendo eShop] {DL}**1 ( Bandai Namco ) { 2013-11-21 } - - / 2,097
3DS : Aikatsu! 365 Nichi no Idol Days ( Bandai Namco ) { 2014-12-04 } - 33,475 / 33,475

It doesn't look that bad in comparison, but whatever it is, it doesn't seem to be a strong series.

 

Kresnik said:

SFC : Derby Stallion '96 ( ASCII Entertainment ) { 1996-03-15 } - 377,996 / 909,021
PS1 : Derby Stallion ( ASCII Entertainment ) { 1997-07-17 } - 920,565 / 1,737,819
SFC : Derby Stallion '98 ( Nintendo ) { 1998-08-25 } - 30,000 / 30,000
SAT : Derby Stallion ( ASCII Entertainment ) { 1999-03-25 } - 43,680 / 76,541
PS1 : Derby Stallion '99 ( ASCII Entertainment ) { 1999-09-30 } - 451,981 / 871,059
N64 : Derby Stallion 64 ( Media Factory ) { 2001-08-10 } - 48,493 / 86,817
GBA : Derby Stallion Advance ( Enterbrain ) { 2002-12-06 } - 45,184 / 124,261
PS2 : Derby Stallion 04 ( Enterbrain ) { 2004-04-22 } - 305,973 / 615,552
PSP : Derby Stallion P ( Enterbrain ) { 2006-07-27 } - 37,733 / 123,227
NDS : Derby Stallion DS ( Enterbrain ) { 2008-06-26 } - 147,158 / 302,041
3DS : Derby Stallion Gold ( Kadokawa Games ) { 2014-12-04 } - 70,402 / 70,402

What is SFC?

 

Kresnik said:

PS1 : Guilty Gear ( Arc System Works ) { 1998-05-14 } - 14,342 / 39,972
SDC : Guilty Gear X ( Sammy ) { 2000-12-14 } - 77,609 / 131,756
BWS : Guilty Gear Petit ( Sammy ) { 2001-01-25 } - 10,400 / 10,400
PS2 : Guilty Gear X Plus ( Sammy ) { 2001-11-29 } - 49,131 / 107,039
GBA : Guilty Gear X Advance Edition ( Sammy ) { 2002-01-25 } - 7,312 / 7,312
PS2 : Guilty Gear X2 ( Sammy ) { 2002-12-12 } - 86,853 / 146,814
PS2 : Guilty Gear X Plus [Playstation 2 the Best] ( Sammy ) { 2003-02-13 } - 601 / 601
PS2 : Guilty Gear XX Reload ( Sammy ) { 2003-07-31 } - 41,001 / 91,130
XBX : Guilty Gear XX Reload ( Sammy ) { 2004-04-29 } - - / 6,299
PS2 : Guilty Gear Isuka ( Sammy ) { 2004-07-29 } - 44,917 / 74,270
XBX : Guilty Gear Isuka ( Arc System Works ) { 2004-12-16 } - 684 / 684
PSP : Guilty Gear XX Reload ( SEGA ) { 2005-09-29 } - 14,458 / 31,910
PS2 : Guilty Gear XX Slash ( SEGA ) { 2006-04-13 } - 43,479 / 87,414
PSP : Guilty Gear Judgment ( Arc System Works ) { 2006-08-24 } - 9,808 / 20,254
PS2 : Guilty Gear XX Accent Core ( Arc System Works ) { 2007-05-31 } - 34,106 / 50,983
WII : Guilty Gear XX Accent Core ( Sammy ) { 2007-07-26 } - 900 / 900
360 : Guilty Gear 2: Overture ( Arc System Works ) { 2007-11-29 } - 5,271 / 7,062
PS2 : Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus ( Arc System Works ) { 2008-03-27 } - 14,186 / 28,867
PSP : Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus ( Arc System Works ) { 2008-07-24 } - 4,900 / 4,900
PS3 : Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- ( Arc System Works ) { 2014-12-04 } - 34,068 / 34,068
PS4 : Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- ( Arc System Works ) { 2014-12-04 } - 13,967 / 13,967

Looks like Guilty Gear never was an especially good seller. Looking at these numbers I wonder why it got so much sequels - does a few K justify more and more games? Or does it sell better in the West?

Anyways, judging by these numbers the current release isn't so much a bomb. It sold even better than some of the PS2 releases.

Something interesting to take from these numbers is, that PS3 still seems to have the better consumer-base. It sold more than double on PS3 than on PS4. I think it is a sign of the switch to portables - many who bought still a PS3 now pass on the PS4 and buy Vita or 3DS instead. Or stick to mobiles. Will be interesting to watch if that will change over the course of the gen. If not, it really looks bleak in Japan - and that could mean japanese games switch more and more to mobiles. If that happens it might end my interest in consoles, as I deem japanese games usually more interesting than western ones.

Kresnik said:

3DS : Samurai Warriors Chronicles ( Koei Tecmo ) { 2011-02-26 } - 43,044 / 155,059
3DS : Samurai Warriors Chronicles 2nd ( Koei Tecmo ) { 2012-09-13 } - 35,806 / 68,360
PSV : Samurai Warriors Chronicles 3 ( Koei Tecmo ) { 2014-12-04 } - 23,644 / 23,644
3DS : Samurai Warriors Chronicles 3 ( Koei Tecmo ) { 2014-12-04 } - 17,646 / 17,646

Looks like a weak selling spinoff. I thought the Warriors name would secure more sales in Japan. Stronger on Vita, but I would expect that for a title like Warriors. Koei might have tested with this title how it works on Vita, future titles might switch to Vita altogether.



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AZWification said:
PwerlvlAmy said:


DOOM needs to be ported to Wii U now so they circle can be complete

A petition will certainly convience the devs to port over the game to the WiiU!


Yes, we should start a petition right away! get on it!



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Mnementh said:

Thanks for this data


You're welcome.

Mnementh said:

What is SFC?

Super Famicom.  aka SNES



AZWification said:
PwerlvlAmy said:


DOOM needs to be ported to Wii U now so they circle can be complete

A petition will certainly convience the devs to port over the game to the WiiU!

Doom is OpenSource since some time now and is ported from enthusiast to anything they can code for.



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