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Riachu on 24 October 2008
Ail said:
Soriku said:
But the other Tenchus have sold more than this. There must be a problem.

Of course advertising isn't the only reason but it's still a factor ;3

@Ail

Oh come on. I doubt there was that much advertising.

 

You have no idea whatsoever how Tenchu 4 japanese marketing budget compares to Tenchu 3 budget and are just making this up, admit it.....................

 

 

Is the marketing budget for Techu 4 lower?

 



 

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Ail on 24 October 2008
Riachu said:
Ail said:
Soriku said:
But the other Tenchus have sold more than this. There must be a problem.

Of course advertising isn't the only reason but it's still a factor ;3

@Ail

Oh come on. I doubt there was that much advertising.

 

You have no idea whatsoever how Tenchu 4 japanese marketing budget compares to Tenchu 3 budget and are just making this up, admit it.....................

 

 

Is the marketing budget for Techu 4 lower?

 

I have no idea and I will admit it.

Soriku is the specialist for this and seems to be in the know ( I don't get why he isn't the one posting first day sales as well as all the japanese data seeing how he knows so much about how things are done there)...

But by applying Soriku's logic I can already tell you that Devil Summoner had a huge marketing campaign compared to Tenchu 4...



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Ail on 24 October 2008
Soriku said:
lol. Maybe you should read more. I said marketing was obviously not the only factor.

Done yet?

 

so it's still a factor even if you have no clue how the game was marketed right ?



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Yakuzaice on 24 October 2008
Soriku said:
Knee-jerk? This is happening to all systems. I've noticed this with many games across many systems. Don't accuse me of that bull.

Noticed what? No advertising in Japan? Like I said, you don't seem to actually know how Tenchu was advertised, and yet once you found out it was under 10k, you immediately blamed the lack of advertising. Sounds like a knee-jerk reaction to me.



colonelstubbs on 24 October 2008

That girly game doesnt deserve those sales ahead of tenchu....



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masschamber on 24 October 2008
Riachu said:
Soriku said:
How do we know Tenchu 4 sold bad? We just have the shipment sell through %...no numbers. Tenchu 4 should sell 50% of the shipment by the end of the week though.

How well as previous Tenchu games sold in Japan?

@MANUELF

Thanks for the data. Those sales even show that PoR's sales were better than DoS's sales.

@masschamber

Even so, Castlevania has never been a big hit in Japan and there is no chance of that changing anytime soon.

 

huh, what does Castlevania OeE compared to the other 2 ds games have to do with castlevania becoming big in Japan?

 

as for Tenchu, it used to be fairly big in Japan, as 1 and 3 both sold about 250000 lifetime, but Ds one and the 360 one are both 10~20K games... Time and Tide wait for no man, or video game series



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Zucas on 24 October 2008

Haha so the 3rd party conundrum in Japan continues. They can't sell on Wii unless they have decent hype or brand or marketed well. And can't sell well on 360 or PS3 given same conditions and higher development costs. Poor 3rd party in Japan... I feel your pain.



shams on 24 October 2008

The Castlevania games never sold that well in Japan - on the DS anyway. Not sure how big Castlevania is in Japan in general.



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Riachu on 24 October 2008
shams said:
The Castlevania games never sold that well in Japan - on the DS anyway. Not sure how big Castlevania is in Japan in general.

From what I can tell, Castlevania has never been a big seller in Japan. Even SotN, best game in the series, only did a little over 200K there. It might have to do with the series atmosphere not appealing to Japanese tastes. Also, IGA stated that the series has always been aimed at Western gamers albeit not directly.

 



 

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Diomedes1976 on 24 October 2008

Previous Castlevania have bombed in Japan ,so its normal this one hasnt done too well.

Tenchu bombs as well .....

Japanese gaming is in very bad shape ,japanese dont care about HD consoles and the Wii is only having success because casual games and the bigger Nintendo franchises nearly everything else bombs terribly .