2012 software 3DS/PSV=90%
2013 software 3DS/PSV>90%
That looks like 3DS having the whole handheld market to me.
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Media Create Sales: Week 17, 2013 (Apr 22 - Apr 28)
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2012 software 3DS/PSV=90%
2013 software 3DS/PSV>90%
That looks like 3DS having the whole handheld market to me.
Hero of Legend
Member
A new Super Sentai (Power Rangers I think) game is 3DS-bound, looks pretty bad:
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/05/01/super-sentai-kyoryuger-game-stomping-on-to-3ds/
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/05/01/super-sentai-kyoryuger-game-stomping-on-to-3ds/
electroplankton
Banned
Wow, and Nintendo just released two games so far.
Hero of Legend
Member
I know, but I think BN traditionally make these games different for Japan and for NA/EU, so I'm doubting this is the same game as the western one.
Like Inti Creates made a PR game for Wii and DS a couple of years ago, that was only in the west, Japan got a Wii game I think of the Sentai series by Paon instead, the former was like a beat-em-up, the latter was more like a Musou game.
I was just trying to say I mentioned the Sentai 3DS game in that thread last week. Siliconera is just slow, lol.
DR2K
Banned
See you don't need to be threatened by Sony. Your favorite Nintendo execs will get to eat tonight.
Father_Brain
Banned
Yeah, whether one likes it or not, it's silly at this point to discuss Nintendo having an effective monopoly in the dedicated handheld market as though it's a hypothetical. I could be wrong about Vita dying an early death and it could have a few more years ahead of it as a niche platform, but either way, it's well past the point where there's more than a vanishingly small chance of taking any significant market share from 3DS.
As well you should; stupid meme is stupid. They don't have any panic button they can push until at least July, when they might be able to start getting first-party releases out on something vaguely resembling a regular basis.
Hero of Legend
Member
:lol
This should speak for itself, but beyond that: platform choice is most likely going to come about due to potential for profit. "Our game is niche, so let's put it on the Vita" isn't sound reasoning.
The games that will come out on the Vita will probably be similar to other things that sell there (e.g. otaku games, perhaps hunting action games). Others might avoid fierce competition or have Sony helping them reduce their costs.
metalslimer
Member
Shit....and MH,Pokemon, and Dream Team haven't even been released. How was the split between Gamecube and PS2 on average?
I don't know the first year numbers for the PS2, but the PS3 has had 1.3 million sold according to Garaph in its first 52 weeks. I imagine the PS2 sold a lot more than that.
Reticent Rhino
Member
Code:
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|System | This Week | Last Week | Last Year | YTD | Last YTD | LTD |
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| WIU | 8.262 | 8.798 | | 268.787 | | 896.074 |
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Scramble U indeed.
Seems to be a new game but with more of a focus on the series' supporting characters. I guess there's...an alpaca superhero or something?
Magicpaint
Member
I wonder more what the DS/PSP split was like before MH. Not that the PSP was doing anywhere near as poorly as the Vita is doing currently, but it was MH that really catapulted it into a true mainstream device.
The Horror the horror
Banned
It usually takes a while for the fruit to bear. A steamship isn't going to complete a 180 degree course correction at the moment the wheel is turned.
better make sure no icebergs are around either.
anyway back to topic
what is PhotoKano Kiss ?
sounds like a love sim.
Looks more like nine tenths to me, but maybe my maths is off
michaelius
Banned
C) Buying used games
Also D) Buying games from the eshop (including retail games)
Only just got round to reading thus thread. Be interesting to see the top 50 and where all the Vita Best titles charted.
And few seem to have commented on the lower base for 3DS, not that it's a major concern with Tomodachi last week, Golden week next plus Monster Hunter and Pokémon to come, but a redesigned 3DS (original as opposed to XL/LL), maybe at a lower price, ready for Pokémon with those smaller handed players would be a great idea.
And few seem to have commented on the lower base for 3DS, not that it's a major concern with Tomodachi last week, Golden week next plus Monster Hunter and Pokémon to come, but a redesigned 3DS (original as opposed to XL/LL), maybe at a lower price, ready for Pokémon with those smaller handed players would be a great idea.
electroplankton
Banned
I think those games will be enough to sell 3DS this year. Also, Zelda is pushed to 2014 in Japan, so it's likely they're planning another big release for the holiday season (Kirby?).
shinra-bansho
Member
What do people think Infinite or Dark Arisen would have sold on the Wii U out of curiosity? It's at roughly half the 360's installed base.
This reminds me, PES14 and Wii U and Vita? Can't find anything that says that it will be on either.
Less than the 360 version is my guess.
Though it technically is a bit flawed since the Wii U could be potentially selling better if it had more games coming out.
We don't when know when FF is coming(probably won't be this year or early 2014) and it would need more than that to take off early in its life.
That's pretty surprising but given how a lot of the 3DS games this year has preformed and how the Vita hasn't really gotten too many big name games this year it makes sense.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Comments were from the series marketing producer to Spanish press iirc, it was late last year. Basically saying no for 2013, but "next year" Wii U and Vita will happen. When I'm not on my phone I'll look for a link.
Please, stop criticizing people when you're the first that fails.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=52475091&postcount=1958
Famitsu: 19.879 + 14.755 + 14.666 + 17.070 = 66.370
Haha. That guy is funny. Even if you add the mc, it's only 70,493 sales. People were right predicting for a sub-70k
airmangataosenai
Member
And if those predictions were based on Famitsu numbers you'd have a point. Nice attempt at "Ownage" though, I'm sure you were very excited. The fact that you cut off the part of my post where I explicitly say my prediciton is based on the previous week's MC numbers is most telling.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Well technically they were wrong.
Really confused at this "Gotcha" attempt when you have to use the other tracker to prove your point because it was actually over 70k.
He was much closer than the people saying it'd already be back at sub 10k levels. Thats just factually correct.
metalslimer
Member
Oh give me a break, the MC numbers barely bring it above 70k. Don't pretend like you were in any way right when you get called out for criticizing others for wrong predictions. Everyone is wrong a lot of the time, so just stop running off at the mouth with things like this and Hatsune Miku and you wont get criticized
Who predicted less than 40k this month for Vita? Most of the predictions (including my own) were either very optimistic or as close as the people who were very optimistic because people seemed to give Vita the benefit of the doubt with those march sales
This reminds me of people thinking LBP was going to be a hit in JP back then when PS3 was doing bad lol.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
So, Vita is up due to an Otaku dating game? Hahahaha.
Eteric Rice
Member
Yeah, hell, I remember arguing that Little Big Planet could be done in some forms on the PS2. People told me I was full of it, then suddenly the PSP version was revealed.
Systems dying and coming back from the grave is why I won't count the Wii U out just yet. After the PSP coming back to life, and to a lesser extent, the PS3 (was kind of dead for a while, then came back), I can't really say that shit is dead. Apparently, death can be temporary in the console and handheld world.
All it takes is one game that sets the world on fire. Question is, can Nintendo make that game?
Should pop the champagne open for those extra 500 units sold!! In your faces nonbelievers!
donny2112 and deathcobra almost got it right. They just missed the extra 500 sold for Vita :lol
MasterSheen
Member
IIRC, Vita went down during Golden Week, so don't be surprised if Wii U does too.
airmangataosenai
Member
I'm just going to point out that in the context of that thread, people making higher predictions were being insulted for being ridiculous, where as the very low ones (Some in the mid-50's) received no such criticism.
And I make posts like this because there's a constant drum beat of doom around the Vita for whatever reason and I find it amusing that it hasn't played out quite as dire as some have tried to make the situation seem. It will never be the PSP but it looks like it could at least be viable for support, which is more than anyone would've thought even a few months back. Moreover it's a little different to criticize group think on a message board the way I was than it is to explicitly attempt to call someone out (And in the case of what the guy who sparked this did, misrepresent the initial post).
Either way though, just like last time I really hate the way this thread keeps getting derailed by arguments on semantics, of which I doubt either of us are interested in.
metalslimer
Member
I don't recall anyone ever being insulted. I remember people pointing out the idea that Vita would sell 25k a week for 4 weeks straight being called very unlikely, but no one was insulted. The person who predicted 50k was a lot closer to the truth then 150k.
airmangataosenai
Member
Nintendo has a sort of built in advantage for holidays though, so it's a bit of a wild card. I remember back in the day the Gamecube would be dead for the whole year and all of a sudden make up a huge amount of difference during Christmas. I can see it getting a boost, but it's really hard to know how much if any. I can only say that I doubt a drop will happen.
shinra-bansho
Member
You mean the equivalent of this:
Can gamers expect a Wii U version this year? If not, when? Also, is there a possibility that a Vita version may appear?
At the time we dont plan to make PES for the Wii U or the PS Vita. This does not mean we never will. We are still exploring these exciting platforms to make a successful game that takes advantage of these platforms.
I.e. the typical fobbing off of a question. Because that's the extent of what my google-fu can find and doesn't really imply PES14 for either platform.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
Wii U am doomed.
Sammy Samusu
Member
I would like to know the difference betweekn 9k and 15k.
The game currently has an anime adaption that just started airing airing(though the blu-ray preorders were pretty poor the last time I cheked so I'm surprised it did as well as it did) and the Vita is pretty much for Otaku at this point so that could have something to do with it.