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Seneque on 27 November 2008

The Japanese market is significantly down compared to previous years. It is no surprise Marvelous/MMV is directly impacted. And with the strong yen, interior losses aren't triggered off by overseas sales.

The previous half-year, in Japan, looking through VGChartz numbers, Marvelous sales were like this :

Valhalla Knights 2 (PSP) : 115k (Expectation : 68k)

Luminous Arc 2: Will (DS) : 89k (Expectation : 86k)

Hitman Reborn DS: Fate of Beat (DS) : 65k

Hitman Reborn: Battle Arena (PSP) : 34k

Tokyo Majin Gakuen: Kenfuuchou (DS) : 23k

To Love Ru - Trouble - Waku Waku! (DS) : 17k

Hitman Reborn: Ring x Bongole Returns (PS2) : 12k

Demon Detective Nougami Neuro (DS) : 9k

Hanayoi Romanesque: Ai to Kanashimi (PS2) : 4k

Steal Princess (DS) : 3k (Expectation: 16k)

 

Regarding the next half-year, so far, going by VGChartz numbers, it looks like this :

To Love Ru - Trouble - Doki Doki (PSP) : 28k

Ikki Tousen: Eloquent Fist (PSP) : 23k

Harvest Moon: Animal March (Wii) : 15k

Avalon Code (DS) : 37k (Expectation: 56k)

Akagawa Jirou Mystery: Tsuki no Hikari (DS) : 5k

Not very encouraging.
And, 'Rune Factory: Frontier' (Wii) is being released today in Japan. I don't feel it... :(



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badgenome on 27 November 2008
Kasz216 said:
Esa-Petteri said:

How could they post a loss, after all they developed mostly on nintendo platforms and we all know it is almost free to develop on wii/ds. Oh and I see they developed NMH which was a huge success. These number must be due those few psp-games they have developed.

No More Heroes was a huge success.  They threw a party they were so happy.

 

Perhaps the party put them over budget.

 



Seneque on 27 November 2008
badgenome said:
Kasz216 said:
Esa-Petteri said:

How could they post a loss, after all they developed mostly on nintendo platforms and we all know it is almost free to develop on wii/ds. Oh and I see they developed NMH which was a huge success. These number must be due those few psp-games they have developed.

No More Heroes was a huge success. They threw a party they were so happy.

 

Perhaps the party put them over budget.

 

Ahah ^^

This fiscal report is for the period of April-September 2008.

'No More Heroes' has been released in 2007 in Japan, and January 2008 in the USA. So, it is not counted here.

The problem is not platform specific. They just didn't have any real good success during this half-year.



crho on 28 November 2008

http://dubai.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/ghard/1227775514/690
http://dubai.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/ghard/1227775514/701

Fiscal Year 2009: First-Half Results

Japan

First-Half
Shipments

Total
Shipments

 Planned
Shipments
Luminous Arc 2 (DS) 70,000   86,000
Valhalla Knights 2 (PSP) 43,000 56,000 60,000
Hitman Reborn: Battle Arena (PSP) 85,000 87,000 (+22k) 90,000
Eloquent Fist (PSP) 24,000 34,000 (2k) 35,000

Fiscal Year 2009: Second-Half Forecast

Japan

First
Shipments

 Planned
Shipments
Bokujou Monogatari: Waku Waku Animal March (Wii) 43,000 50,000
Avalon Code (DS) 74,000 (+29k) 85,000
Akagawa Jirou Mystery: Tsuki no Hikari (DS) 23,000 29,000
Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! Kindan no Yami no Delta (Wii) 17,000 19,000
Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! Kindan no Yami no Delta (PS2) 17,500 30,000
Rune Factory Frontier (Wii) 45,000 55,000
Junjou Romanchika (PS2) 13,000  
Bokujou Monogatari: Youkoso Kaze no Bazaar e (DS) 120,000 170,000
Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Wii) 56,000  
Europe First
Shipments		 Planned
Shipments
Harvest Moon DS: Island of Happiness (DS) 130,000 (-200k) 250,000
Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon (DS)   (-20k) 60,000
Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility (Wii)   220,000
Little King's Story (Wii)   (+1k) 125,000
North America First
Shipments		 Planned
Shipments
Valhalla Knights 2 (PSP) 32,000 35,000
Avalon Code (DS)   40,000
Rune Factory Frontier (Wii)   100,000
Little King's Story (Wii)   (+30k) 150,000



BengaBenga on 28 November 2008
Esa-Petteri said:

How could they post a loss, after all they developed mostly on nintendo platforms and we all know it is almost free to develop on wii/ds. Oh and I see they developed NMH which was a huge success. These number must be due those few psp-games they have developed.

 

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BKK2 on 28 November 2008
BengaBenga said:
Esa-Petteri said:

How could they post a loss, after all they developed mostly on nintendo platforms and we all know it is almost free to develop on wii/ds. Oh and I see they developed NMH which was a huge success. These number must be due those few psp-games they have developed.

 

 If you had taken the time to actually read the post you would have seen that the software division is posting a profit and that the loss comes from the digital contents division.

Isn't the software division and the digital contents division the same thing?

 



BengaBenga on 28 November 2008
BKK2 said:
BengaBenga said:
Esa-Petteri said:

How could they post a loss, after all they developed mostly on nintendo platforms and we all know it is almost free to develop on wii/ds. Oh and I see they developed NMH which was a huge success. These number must be due those few psp-games they have developed.

 

 If you had taken the time to actually read the post you would have seen that the software division is posting a profit and that the loss comes from the digital contents division.

Isn't the software division and the digital contents division the same thing?

 

Yep, sorry looked at the wrong column. Why do they call everything software...

 



Seneque on 28 November 2008
BKK2 said:
BengaBenga said:
Esa-Petteri said:

How could they post a loss, after all they developed mostly on nintendo platforms and we all know it is almost free to develop on wii/ds. Oh and I see they developed NMH which was a huge success. These number must be due those few psp-games they have developed.

 

If you had taken the time to actually read the post you would have seen that the software division is posting a profit and that the loss comes from the digital contents division.

Isn't the software division and the digital contents division the same thing?

 

Unfortunately it is. ^^'

Edit : Ah, too late.

The 'Music and Video' department is only for that : Anime (Artland being the subsidary's name) and Music (Delfi Sound).



BengaBenga on 28 November 2008

Software Shipments by Platform

Japan

New Titles

PCT

 Total Shipped
(All Titles)		 PCT
Wii 0 0.0 1,000 0.4
DS 8 57.1 184,000 42.9
PS2 2 14.3 51,000 13.3
PSP 4 28.6 189,000 43.4
Total 14 100.0 426,000 100.0
Europe New Titles PCT Total Shipped
(All Titles)		 PCT
Wii 2 28.6 60,000 30.0
DS 2 28.6 86,000 42.6
PS2 2 28.6 4,000 2.4
PSP 1 14.3 50,000 25.1
Total 7 100.0 202,000 100.0

 

The issue actually looks to be that they didn't have Wii titles in the first half. Next year should be much better with a lot of major Wii titles.



Kyros on 28 November 2008

Wow a developer who didn't target HD consoles at all has made a loss? Completely impossible: after all Wii titles can be developed by two interns and a part-timer and are much more profitable than HD games.