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mrstickball on 02 September 2009
saicho said:
mrstickball said:
Neos said:
mrstickball said:
Neos said:
mrstickball said:
I'm not sure how a drop of 33% is 'holding up nicely'? It's had pretty notable drops since it came out, and is still a minimum of 2 weeks away from hitting 900k, and may take 2 months to hit a million, if it does at all.

Otherwise, Tomadachi and DQIX did fantastic, again. Square made the best decision by going to the DS for DQIX - probably should scrap X on the Wii and head over to the DS with that one too. Soul Calibur bombs on the PSP. Poor Namco.

It's going to overtake the X360 install base at this pace.

I didn't know this was a Xbox 360 discussion? It'd be nice if you stuck to the argument, rather than derail it, Neos.

@Soriku, who said it was 40K last week?

Best case scenario is Famitsu, with a 27% drop. Otherwise, VGC and MC will not be so kind. Better drop than it's been, but I don't think one small drop can be considered some sort of massive trend to 'prove' that MH3 is going to obtain some sort of gaudy legs. It may, but given the past drops, which have been pretty bad, this one deserves more time to be looked at.

Why would you use other numbers than famitsu when they are famitsu numbers? And according to the famitsu numbers, it is a 27% drop, and it follows the pattern of MHF2. Everyone with half a brain knows it's going to sell at least 1 million.

It's called perspective? I gave all 3 numbers because I thought that the readers of VGC would like to see the differences, and where it may point for Monster Hunter's drop. Who was arguing that MH3 wasn't going to sell 1 million? It looks like it should in two to three months.

If you used this week's Media Create and VGCarts numbers comparing to their last week's numbers, it would be called perspective. However, when you use Famitsu number to compare Media Create/VGCharts numbers, it is not perpective since there is no guarantee this week's Media Create/VGCharts numbers would be 32000 as Famitsu's.The best case scenario you describe above is misleading since you are comparing data from one source to all sources.

MH3 needs to sell more than 37303 units this week for Media Create number in order to have a drop less than 27%. Considering the difference between Media Create and Famitsu last week was 9000+, it is not impossible for MH3 to have less than 27% drop.

Unfortunately, I did not see any charts available from VGC nor MC for this week. I was only using what's available. I guess we'll have to wait for more authoritative data than Famitsu estimates, which is why I wasn't wanting to use them for a direct comparason - since both last week's and this week's numbers are estimates vs. MC and VGC actuals.



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johnsobas on 02 September 2009
mrstickball said:
saicho said:
mrstickball said:
Neos said:
mrstickball said:
Neos said:
mrstickball said:
I'm not sure how a drop of 33% is 'holding up nicely'? It's had pretty notable drops since it came out, and is still a minimum of 2 weeks away from hitting 900k, and may take 2 months to hit a million, if it does at all.

Otherwise, Tomadachi and DQIX did fantastic, again. Square made the best decision by going to the DS for DQIX - probably should scrap X on the Wii and head over to the DS with that one too. Soul Calibur bombs on the PSP. Poor Namco.

It's going to overtake the X360 install base at this pace.

I didn't know this was a Xbox 360 discussion? It'd be nice if you stuck to the argument, rather than derail it, Neos.

@Soriku, who said it was 40K last week?

Best case scenario is Famitsu, with a 27% drop. Otherwise, VGC and MC will not be so kind. Better drop than it's been, but I don't think one small drop can be considered some sort of massive trend to 'prove' that MH3 is going to obtain some sort of gaudy legs. It may, but given the past drops, which have been pretty bad, this one deserves more time to be looked at.

Why would you use other numbers than famitsu when they are famitsu numbers? And according to the famitsu numbers, it is a 27% drop, and it follows the pattern of MHF2. Everyone with half a brain knows it's going to sell at least 1 million.

It's called perspective? I gave all 3 numbers because I thought that the readers of VGC would like to see the differences, and where it may point for Monster Hunter's drop. Who was arguing that MH3 wasn't going to sell 1 million? It looks like it should in two to three months.

If you used this week's Media Create and VGCarts numbers comparing to their last week's numbers, it would be called perspective. However, when you use Famitsu number to compare Media Create/VGCharts numbers, it is not perpective since there is no guarantee this week's Media Create/VGCharts numbers would be 32000 as Famitsu's.The best case scenario you describe above is misleading since you are comparing data from one source to all sources.

MH3 needs to sell more than 37303 units this week for Media Create number in order to have a drop less than 27%. Considering the difference between Media Create and Famitsu last week was 9000+, it is not impossible for MH3 to have less than 27% drop.

Unfortunately, I did not see any charts available from VGC nor MC for this week. I was only using what's available. I guess we'll have to wait for more authoritative data than Famitsu estimates, which is why I wasn't wanting to use them for a direct comparason - since both last week's and this week's numbers are estimates vs. MC and VGC actuals.

mrstickball stop trying to protect your first post, you know it's wrong.  You can never use famitsu number week after week against MC or vgchartz, they have  been on a completely different track since the sales started.  Best case scenario is not 27% at all, in fact famitsu number have no influence on MC number at all. 

First you say it's a 33% drop and it's bad, and now you're saying that it is good and we have to wait before calling it legs.  Again stop flip flopping, nobody here said that it means it's gonna keep selling to 2 million copies.  You seemed to be offended by someone saying it is "holding up nicely."  Between this week and last week it is for sure.  If you're gonna read so far into someone post that you assume he's talking about first week to second week as well then i really question your motives here. 



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Arius Dion on 02 September 2009

Monster Hunter 3 holding quite nicely. Been in the top 10 for a month now right? I think Capcom made a wise business decision putting the game on Wii. Looking forward to hw numbers too.



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senortaco on 02 September 2009

OH MY FREAKIN GAWDDDDD PEOPLE ARE STILL ARGUING OVER MH3?!?!

...I must ask why? Seriously at this point why try and argue whats its selling still? It's been in the top 10 since day 1, and it actually doesn't look like it's going away...



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Zucas on 02 September 2009

Personally I'm not sure how MH3 will hold up in the long run.  Like Stickball said, I need a little more time to generate how it will sell on a week to week basis.  It is obvious it hasn't hit a slowing point considering it is still dropping so who knows what will happen.  But from the looks of it, it seems that it might generate some legs and have a weekly sales average in the 10k-20k range if it keeps up with the MHF2 on PSP trend.  But if not we are looking at a weekly average of 7k-13k with a continuing decline until oblivion. 

Aside from that, good continual job from MH3, DQIX, WSR, and Tomodatchi.  Those have been quite persistent in the top 10 now haven't they.  And what a wonderful start for that 360 game Dream Club.  Virtual sellout apparently.  Not such a great start for Soul Calibur though.  Will wait for the hardware now.



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saicho on 02 September 2009
axumblade said:
Bruno Muñoz B said:

Dream C Club did it amazing on the contrary Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny bombed hard, also the other new releases.

First Day Sales VS First Week

- Dream C Club (D3 Publisher) - 23,000 (60%) ----- 45,000 (100% shipment sold + 7.000 copies)
- Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny (Bandai Namco) - 23,000 (33%) ----- 31,000 (44%)

Yeah. Soul Calibur didn't do well. But then again, I haven't seen any advertisements or anything for it at all anywhere. I didn't even realize it came out this week in the U.S. until I noticed it on the cart with Guitar Hero stuff...

not sure how this would affect its sale in Japan...



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susymar on 02 September 2009

nice legs for monster hunter. Wasn't expecting such a good performance in a home console.




Noobie on 02 September 2009

Are we going to see the Slims 1st day sale on September 4th's Famitsu first day sales???



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Egghead on 02 September 2009

LOL haha, more MHIII floppage.!

I wont be surprised if there was a homepage article how its the greatest selling game ever.



ph4nt on 02 September 2009
Egghead said:
LOL haha, more MHIII floppage.!

I wont be surprised if there was a homepage article how its the greatest selling game ever.

It is the greatest selling game ever in Japan for home consoles this generation excluding Nintendo games.