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Forums - Sales - Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - Feb 27th - Mar 6th (Switch launch)

Farsala said:
Good launch for Switch.

Decent for Dragon Quest Heroes as usual, pretty bad for Setsuna and Disgaea 5.

Pretty good for the PS4 trinity. The next few weeks will be interesting for the PS4 and Switch alike.

Thats not decent. It's actually bad. Switch version includes 2 games that could easily sell 50-70K first week and even though it's a port it's still Dragon Quest which is big in Japan.

We just hope it will have legs.

Good Sale for Zelda and Awesome sale for Horizon has a High chance of getting to 200K or 250K with all the version icnluded. Nice Legs for Nier It oculd end up 300K or more.

D5 bombed..



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NoCtiS_NoX said:
Farsala said:
Good launch for Switch.

Decent for Dragon Quest Heroes as usual, pretty bad for Setsuna and Disgaea 5.

Pretty good for the PS4 trinity. The next few weeks will be interesting for the PS4 and Switch alike.

Thats not decent. It's actually bad. Switch version includes 2 games that could easily sell 50-70K first week and even though it's a port it's still Dragon Quest which is big in Japan.

We just hope it will have legs.

Good Sale for Zelda and Awesome sale for Horizon has a High chance of getting to 200K or 250K with all the version icnluded. Nice Legs for Nier It oculd end up 300K or more.

D5 bombed..

It might be 2 games, but it is the most expensive non-LE Nintendo SKU I have seen. And unlike the bombas it is 40-60% shipment rate, which I qualify as decent for launch, as can be seen that no Switch game is even close to soldout in this tracking period.



Farsala said:
NoCtiS_NoX said:

Thats not decent. It's actually bad. Switch version includes 2 games that could easily sell 50-70K first week and even though it's a port it's still Dragon Quest which is big in Japan.

We just hope it will have legs.

Good Sale for Zelda and Awesome sale for Horizon has a High chance of getting to 200K or 250K with all the version icnluded. Nice Legs for Nier It oculd end up 300K or more.

D5 bombed..

It might be 2 games, but it is the most expensive non-LE Nintendo SKU I have seen. And unlike the bombas it is 40-60% shipment rate, which I qualify as decent for launch, as can be seen that no Switch game is even close to soldout in this tracking period.

It didn't bombed but those are bad sales. It still has the Dragon quest name in it and has 2 games in it. Also, looking at the shipments those are bad. It means that the game only sold it shipments 40-60% so it's possible that it only sold half of it's shipments or worse.  2nd week will be the test because if it dropped significantly  we won't be expecting another shipment from SE.

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BTW: looking at the normal pricing of Switch games it is 6900 yen and DQ  heroes 1 and 2 are complete games . Just looking at D5 and if you compare the 2 will make DQ bundle a steal price for a launch title.



Do a good amount of people buy digital in Japan?

Because Zelda's attach rate is piss poor considering the console doesn't really have anything else right now.



NoCtiS_NoX said:
Farsala said:

It might be 2 games, but it is the most expensive non-LE Nintendo SKU I have seen. And unlike the bombas it is 40-60% shipment rate, which I qualify as decent for launch, as can be seen that no Switch game is even close to soldout in this tracking period.

It didn't bombed but those are bad sales. It still has the Dragon quest name in it and has 2 games in it. Also, looking at the shipments those are bad. It means that the game only sold it shipments 40-60% so it's possible that it only sold half of it's shipments or worse.  2nd week will be the test because if it dropped significantly  we won't be expecting another shipment from SE.

EDIT*

BTW: looking at the normal pricing of Switch games it is 6900 yen and DQ  heroes 1 and 2 are complete games . Just looking at D5 and if you compare the 2 will make DQ bundle a steal price for a launch title.

Clearly for launch the shipments were high for most games, otherwise Zelda would be close to sold out. I think for that price, it would be normal for PS systems. But for Nintendo systems the price might seem obscene to most buyers, even if it is a good deal.

Some retailer could sell 6 games for 25000 yen or similar deals and it would be a good deal and in fact better deal then DQ, but nobody would buy it due to the high asking price. 

Low asking price is actually a pretty good explanation for why GTAV and Minecraft continue to show legs. With that said, I do not expect any legs to speak of for DQ without price promotions.



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Kresnik said:
estebxx said:

Thats really sad, but then again when i think about it its not a big franchise and its been out for over 2 years so whatever fans where out there already played it, sure it has extra content since its the complete version but seems like not event that was enough to bring in new potential fans.

That argument doesn't hold much weight when this is the exact same thing NIS have done with every previous Disgaea game (a late handheld port with all the DLC included) and every prior game sold miles better than that. Even if you say "well, Disgaea 5 sold less in general so it makes sense", it's still proportionally lower than every other handheld port (Disgaea 3 and 4 on Vita sold ~ 41% of the PS3 versions sales in their first week; Disgaea 5 on Switch has sold 21%).

It's poor, but there's time for them to claw it back. Bear in mind that Disgaea 5 isn't even the biggest Nippon Ichi bomba in the Famitsu top 30 this week (that honor goes to Witch & Hundred Knight 2).

Yeah you are right about the handheld ports, then i guess the fanbase for the series just isnt on Nintendo since the majority of Disgaea games have been on PS, and i feel really bad for The Witch and The Hundred Knight 2 since its the type of game i would buy if i had the extra cash the game has some charm to it.



Great start for the Switch and Zelda!!
Nice that Horizon passed 100k, and hopefully Nier Automata has decent legs.



NoCtiS_NoX said:
Farsala said:

It might be 2 games, but it is the most expensive non-LE Nintendo SKU I have seen. And unlike the bombas it is 40-60% shipment rate, which I qualify as decent for launch, as can be seen that no Switch game is even close to soldout in this tracking period.

It didn't bombed but those are bad sales. It still has the Dragon quest name in it and has 2 games in it. Also, looking at the shipments those are bad. It means that the game only sold it shipments 40-60% so it's possible that it only sold half of it's shipments or worse.  2nd week will be the test because if it dropped significantly  we won't be expecting another shipment from SE.

EDIT*

BTW: looking at the normal pricing of Switch games it is 6900 yen and DQ  heroes 1 and 2 are complete games . Just looking at D5 and if you compare the 2 will make DQ bundle a steal price for a launch title.

Well it being two titles doesn't mean shit when they are two of the most lazy, halfassed ports I've ever seen.  And that counts all the times Koei-Tecmo crapped the bed on PC.  It was obvious before launch that they had screwed these ports up hard, so the lack of hype is no surprise at all.



Nuvendil said:
NoCtiS_NoX said:

It didn't bombed but those are bad sales. It still has the Dragon quest name in it and has 2 games in it. Also, looking at the shipments those are bad. It means that the game only sold it shipments 40-60% so it's possible that it only sold half of it's shipments or worse.  2nd week will be the test because if it dropped significantly  we won't be expecting another shipment from SE.

EDIT*

BTW: looking at the normal pricing of Switch games it is 6900 yen and DQ  heroes 1 and 2 are complete games . Just looking at D5 and if you compare the 2 will make DQ bundle a steal price for a launch title.

Well it being two titles doesn't mean shit when they are two of the most lazy, halfassed ports I've ever seen.  And that counts all the times Koei-Tecmo crapped the bed on PC.  It was obvious before launch that they had screwed these ports up hard, so the lack of hype is no surprise at all.

Then you just agreed to me then that those are bad sales correct? The way you are telling me it expected to sell bad, right?



Switch 330k, 3DS 374k.

Good, not great start then?



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