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Kirby should have a decent opening. I think it'll be along the lines of Captain Toad, but it'll probably sell more in the long run...because it's Kirby.



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tought that resident evil was alreadly released over there in 2014, maybe was just the ps3 version?



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bowserthedog said:
TheGoldenBoy said:
Is that good for bad for Kirby?


Kirby's Epic Yarn did 90,000 first week in Japan and did just over 2 million lifetime. So by that standard we can probably take week one Japan sales of this game and times it by 22 or 23 for ww lifetime sales.

There's a pretty big difference. Epic Yarn was released before the holiday season on a popular System. Rainbow curse is released after the holiday season on an unpopular system.

of course it will double and triplicate its first week sales (20-30k), but it will struggle to break the 100k barrier, and forget that it will sell more than Captain Toad which was released before christmas.



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It'll be interesting to see the drop LoL has next week, it was advertised as having classic JRPG gameplay, but from what I've read, that's not the case, word of mouth will hurt the game.

Anything lower than 80% will at least mean hope for the game.



hiska-kun said:
bowserthedog said:
TheGoldenBoy said:
Is that good for bad for Kirby?


Kirby's Epic Yarn did 90,000 first week in Japan and did just over 2 million lifetime. So by that standard we can probably take week one Japan sales of this game and times it by 22 or 23 for ww lifetime sales.

There's a pretty big difference. Epic Yarn was released before the holiday season on a popular System. Rainbow curse is released after the holiday season on an unpopular system.

of course it will double and triplicate its first week sales (20-30k), but it will struggle to break the 100k barrier, and forget that it will sell more than Captain Toad which was released before christmas.

One major difference here is that this is a budget title this time. Epic Yarn was full price.  The problem with the wii broad audience is that they didn't by that many games. The casuals didn't buy games and alot of the nintendo faithful weren't that enthusiastic to buy games for it because the system did't cater to them as much. The wiiu has way fewer hardware sales but those who own the hardware are more passionate about the system.

It kind of works out like this.  The Wiiu will have 25% to 30 % of the wiiu install base but games will sell perhaps at 50% of what they would have sold on wii on average. Of coarse it depends on the game. Some games will actually sell better on Wiiu if they are more hardcore focused such as Xenoblade.



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That's a decent first week for Kirby all things considered!



                
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nanzano said:

Nice to see some new vita games!! But I expected Atelier to be a little higher on ranking

it's a re-release, it was never going to have high sales. Seems 10Kish at best imo. Ken no Machi that high is a pleseant surprise tho.

Surprised that RE Remake got a physical release on PS4. That's not the case in the West, is it?



ryuzaki57 said:

it's a re-release, it was never going to have high sales. Seems 10Kish at best imo. Ken no Machi that high is a pleseant surprise tho.

Surprised that RE Remake got a physical release on PS4. That's not the case in the West, is it?

Its not physical, just a download card, physical is PS3 only.

And yes, the game is download only on the west.



JWeinCom said:
TheGoldenBoy said:
Is that good for bad for Kirby?


Hard to say really.  Yokai was over 200K this week, but it probably came down a bit.  Monster Hunter was about 40K.  So we can only narrow it down to between 40 K and about 180 K.  I'd say 70-100K would be good, over 100 would be great, and under 70 would be bad.


What? Youkai was at 50k this week.

http://gematsu.com/2015/01/media-create-sales-11215-11815



Teeqoz said:
JWeinCom said:
TheGoldenBoy said:
Is that good for bad for Kirby?


Hard to say really.  Yokai was over 200K this week, but it probably came down a bit.  Monster Hunter was about 40K.  So we can only narrow it down to between 40 K and about 180 K.  I'd say 70-100K would be good, over 100 would be great, and under 70 would be bad.


What? Youkai was at 50k this week.

http://gematsu.com/2015/01/media-create-sales-11215-11815

Yes, someone already pointed out that error.