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Kenology on 12 August 2009
wenlan said:
I still remember those people calling Rorona bombed for selling 47,456 copies first week.

I wonder what's their take on these numbers?
[WII] SD Gundam G Generation Wars (Bandai Namco) - 33,000
[NDS] Blood of Bahamut (Square Enix) - 32,000

Nobody cares.  Nice try though.



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digitalentourage on 12 August 2009

I'm actually really surprised with the wii version of SD gundam selling so low. why would the PS2 version out sell it by so much?



johnsobas on 12 August 2009
edjevink said:
It's all about expectations. Looking at the expectations that Capcom, Nintendo, retailers and gamers had for this game, and looking at the sales of the first 2 weeks, than all i can say is this: The sales of Monster Hunter 3 did not meet expectations, FOR NOW.

I mean, the last 2 Monster Hunter games sold 892.000 and 1.439.000 copies in 2 weeks time. With that knowledge the 700.000 copies sold of Monster Hunter 3 doesn't sound like a lot. And yes, it's already the best-selling third party game in Japan, on current-gen consoles, and it will probably reach 1 million copies. BUT, if Final Fantasy XIII on the PS3 would sell 700.000 copies in 2 weeks than everybody would call it a bomb. Why? Because sales of previous Final Fantasy games give higher expectations.

I'm not saying Monter Hunter 3 bombed, it's too early to tell, but it's sales sure didn't meet my expectations. And looking at the current MH3 price at certain Japanese retailers i think we all can agree that MH3 sales of the first two weeks didn't meet their(retailers) expectations as well.

People need to stop comparing MH3 to the PSP games, they aren't comparable.  It's a social phenomenon born on handhelds and built on the premise of playing with a friend next to you in a country where you don't spend that much time at home.  There is plenty of evidence of this, the ps2 games didn't sell nearly as much as the PSP ones either.  People didn't know how much to expect this time, MH grew in popularity greatly after the last 2 PSP iterations were released so people knew MH3 was gonna sell better than the previous PS2 versions but they didn't know how much because there was no way to measure it.  For retailers it was a bit of a guessing game and they slightly overshipped it, honestly 70% sell through after 2 weeks isn't as much of a disaster as you make it out to be, the problem is that the stand alone game sell through is more like 50% while the bundles are nearly sold out. 



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Barozi on 12 August 2009

hmmm I expected much more from MH, but well maybe it is sold out everywhere, IDK.



peachbuggy on 12 August 2009

When it is restocked, Nintendo and Capcom should make sure it is mainly bundles. That would keep Wii sales nice and high, too.



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digitalentourage on 12 August 2009

interestingly, the bundles selling more suggests that a large number of MH fans did not have a wii, probably because they bought a PS3 in anticipation for the game. obviously many did have one though.

 

I wonder if it would of sold more on PS3? probably not, but maybe. Would certainly be very similar. I believe MH is independant of its platform.



johnsobas on 12 August 2009
metalmonstar said:

But there's somewhat of a dark side to the story here. You might recall an announcement from Capcom last week about a million in shipments for MH3. Media Create reports today that the game managed to sell just 54.36% of its stock. The Classic Controller Pro and black Wii bundles performed well, selling, respectively, 70% and upwards of 80% of their stock. But the standalone version of the game didn't even reach the 40% mark in sell-through.

 

Taken right from the article. It is easy to see the huge mistake made by both capcom and retailers. The initial million copy shipment forced both into a situation that they can't get out of. The bundles are probably sold out or pretty close to it. Whereas the standalone isn't selling that well. Capcom can't send another shipment out because they still have 300,000 copies still on the shell.  Seeing that the standalone copy isn't selling to expectation and fear that the stock will just sit, has forced retailers to drop price. Hopefully with the holiday and the price drop, retailers can get rid of their stock. From then on it is lesson learned and they move on. Most likely there won't be many standalones after the next couple of weeks.

 

It is a real shame for MH3 because this blunder will probably cost the game quite a bit.

 

they should have learned that in Japan you need to bundle a classic controller with the game.  Capcom should have already known this from their test with MHG that's what is dumb about this whole thing. 



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digitalentourage on 12 August 2009
johnsobas said:
metalmonstar said:

But there's somewhat of a dark side to the story here. You might recall an announcement from Capcom last week about a million in shipments for MH3. Media Create reports today that the game managed to sell just 54.36% of its stock. The Classic Controller Pro and black Wii bundles performed well, selling, respectively, 70% and upwards of 80% of their stock. But the standalone version of the game didn't even reach the 40% mark in sell-through.

 

Taken right from the article. It is easy to see the huge mistake made by both capcom and retailers. The initial million copy shipment forced both into a situation that they can't get out of. The bundles are probably sold out or pretty close to it. Whereas the standalone isn't selling that well. Capcom can't send another shipment out because they still have 300,000 copies still on the shell.  Seeing that the standalone copy isn't selling to expectation and fear that the stock will just sit, has forced retailers to drop price. Hopefully with the holiday and the price drop, retailers can get rid of their stock. From then on it is lesson learned and they move on. Most likely there won't be many standalones after the next couple of weeks.

 

It is a real shame for MH3 because this blunder will probably cost the game quite a bit.

 

they should have learned that in Japan you need to bundle a classic controller with the game.  Capcom should have already known this from their test with MHG that's what is dumb about this whole thing. 

THe bundles with the classic controller are not sold out.



wenlan on 12 August 2009

taken from sinobi's website:

2006/02：PS2「MH2」368K→95K→39K→20K
2009/08：Wii「MH3」583K→138K

it seems the sale pattern of MH3 is very similar to MH2, so he predicted next weeks' number will be 60K and then 30K a week after
that will bring the total up to 800K in 4 weeks, leaving 200K unsold copies in retailers.

this may explain the unusual behavior of "certain" retail store



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peachbuggy on 12 August 2009

Just looked at a separate thread about predictions for the first 10 weeks of MH3 sales and i can honestly say it hasn't performed below any of the posters on that threads' expectations. No-one predicted above 1M LTD so i would say it is performing well within expectations.



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