Software Sales (physical only)
1. [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – 112,728 / NEW
2. [NSW] Digimon Survive – 28,536 / NEW
3. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 24,966 / 623,493
4. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak Set – 17,209 / 217,472
5. [NSW] Live A Live – 14,098 / 85,235
6. [PS5] Gran Turismo 7 – 12,453 / 139,888
7. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 11,542 / 4,745,609
8. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 11,201 / 823,909
9. [NSW] Tengoku Struggle: Strayside – 10,912 / NEW
10. [NSW] Minecraft – 9,873 / 2,727,866
11. [NSW] Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 – 9,493 / NEW
12. [PS4] Digimon Survive – 7,757 / NEW
13. [NSW] Koumajou Remilia: Scarlet Symphony – 7,604 / NEW
14. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 6,867 / 3,228,007
15. [NSW] Nobunaga’s Ambition: Rebirth – 6,607 / 28,360
Hardware Sales
Switch – 73.238 (25.472.171)
PlayStation 5 – 39.336 (1.803.981)
Xbox Series X|S – 8.988 (283.025)
3DS – 87 (24.595.901)
PlayStation 4 – 17 (9.395.481)
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16. [NSW] Anonymous;Code – 6,450 / NEW
17. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 5,871 / 7,297,474
18. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 5,714 / 4,936,314
19. [PS4] Nobunaga’s Ambition: Rebirth – 4,975 / 28,400
20. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 4,647 / 1,004,727
21. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 4,055 / 2,685,422
22. [PS4] Anonymous;Code – 3,696 / NEW
23. [NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 – 3,599 / 208,134
24. [NSW] GrimGrimoire OnceMore – 3,524 / NEW
25. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 3,007 / 2,058,313
26. [PS4] Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha – 2,970 / NEW
27. [NSW] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles – 2,805 / 147,034
28. [NSW] Pokemon Legends: Arceus – 2,657 / 2,276,532
29. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 2,640 / 1,001,223
30. [PS5] The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki – 2,407 / NEW
>30. [PS5] The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki – 2,407 / NEW
Oof no wonder Kondo called the Playstation a dull market Jesus.
I was right about it being below 10k in the end.
The next two to three weeks will be crucial to see what kind of legs it'll have.
>I was right about it being below 10k in the end
I bet kondo is regretting all his decision i still remember after Falcom games started to flop on PlayStation he had the gall to say the Switch was the dream console he alway wanted to work with, Jesus frick kondo.
>21. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 4,055 / 2,685,422
Choo choo motherfrickers!
>30. [PS5] The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki – 2,407 / NEW
Falcomsisters...
>30. [PS5] The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki – 2,407 / NEW
Goddamn... I really hope Falcom can bounce back from this. The next game they release should come out on PS4, PS5, Switch and PC day 1 in the west and Japan to maximize sale potential tbh
Ys X needs to be a Switch/PS launch at the very least. I know Falcom claims they're going to try to do it, but I do not have 100% confidence.
At this point I have to wonder if it's even worth investing in Playstation versions at all
Falcom games would probably keep selling better on PS when/if they start doing PS4/Switch launches. Faclom's done very little to foster a Switch fanbase in Japan. Though this isn't accounting for when they inevitably have to let the PS4 go, because they will certainly not be selling better on PS5.
Well they better do something as people are gonna play less now that people are going outside again plus the economy is looking rough for the future
Best part on whole actiblizz shitfest is that Sony really can't do nothing. Unless, they sue but then good luck.
Japan is lost cause for them.
That CADE document reveal just how fricking scare sony is which is something i never thought they would admit, if thing are this bad on public just imagine how bad thing are behind close doors. The funniest part is that Sony is crying foul about the activision buyout but microsoft point it out that Sony had been buying exclusives since forever and that just they opinion that wasn't redacted.
Imagine literally buying the rights to spiderman and then complaining that someone else bought an IP.
What's this "CADE document" I keep seeing mentioned lately?
Basically the brazilians FTC.
This document gave us an inside how is sony doing and it confirmed shit we suspected for a while like that the "explosive" sales for their exclusives are largely inflated by bundles and fast discounts
>it confirmed shit we suspected for a while like that the "explosive" sales for their exclusives are largely inflated by bundles and fast discounts
Can you post a snip of this? I want to see Sony admit that their games suck so much that they have to give them away for free.
>Sony's habit of moneyhatting 3rd party exclusives is the reason why Microsoft will buy COD
That's fricking ironic. God damn, that's funny.
Sony is finally getting hit by karma after all this years, they better pray their 12 gaas game do good.
>but it's broader strategy of obtaining rights that make "third-party" games exclsuive to it console
and where did that get you sony? fricking losing COD of all things
>Sony to take action
What are they going to do?
Also, they pushed all the weeb NEETs who play games 16 hours a day off their platform. Of course engagement numbers have fallen.
>What are they going to do?
12 gaas
Sony getting their comeuppance, you love to see it
>world recession
>willfully torched the Japanese market like spoiled brats because things didn't go their way with the PS3 or Vita
>normies losing interest in the PS5 as the hot new status symbol tech toy (so this is also going to start leaving a bunch of scalpers holding garage-sized bags)
>a lot of the world is opened up again, noticeably reducing gaming revenue for a lot of companies
>Sony panicked and admitted to the world that losing COD would indeed frick Playstation, turning the notion of Microsoft making COD exclusive to PC/Xbox from a worrying possibility into a lethal certainty as soon as Microsoft can hell they could nullify some standing contracts and tank the comparatively piddly fines from doing so, just to accelerate it
Sony sold Playstation's soul to the devil to save the PS3 and give PS4 an enormous default victory, and now they're shocked that the devil's actually rearing his head to come collect on Sony's side of the bargain after all.
talk about karma xD
Don't forget EA losing fifa licensing.
Honestly EA came out on top in that regard, they still have the licenses for every other league.
And the players. It doesn't hurt that FIFA is getting a bit of a bad rep as we draw closer to the 'genius' idea of a World Cup in the desert in stadiums built by slave labour
Last I looked like a thousand people had died building the stadiums.
Kinda amazed that there could ever be a realizable situation where EA were the LESSER of evils.
Who will make the FIFA games after EA? Konami?
Nothing announced yet, it expires next year, this year is mostly for sake of having official WC game.
The best bid I guess. Nobody has trow their hat into the Ring yet, but I guess 2K is a solid bet.
The best part is Sony's lack of confidence in their 1st party games. They don't think their shit holds a candle to Nintendo's bigger series or COD. Sony's games are bargin bin fodder.
Wanna know the saddles and pettiest thing about the document? Sony claims the Switch is a se ondary console to the Playstation and Xbox aimed at kids but of the sales of the Switch taught is anything is that people play it more than the Playstation good lord i bet nintendo is laughing so hard, hell yamauchi is probably laughing from beyond the grave.
Yamauchi is probably saying "I told you so" from beyond the grave
Yeah, he warned everyone about chasing the graphics meme and he was proven right now, i honest to god wonder what sony is gonna do if their AAA gaas games don't do well, remember that by their own admiission they don't believe they can create a money maker like COD hence why they bought bungie to help them in their transition to gaas, good lord chasing AAA cinematic games is finally fricking them, that wasn't a sustainable model on the long run.
>that wasn't a sustainable model on the long run.
to be fair the more overarching problem is that they thought Playstation was going to be a self-sustaining default platform forever and that they could just get fat off of Fortnite/CoD/FIFA MTX residuals without needing to lift a finger ever again after kicking Microsoft's shit in at E3 2013. They thought Xbox would die and Nintendo would be an irrelevant second-fiddle (hell they just said they still think that), which shows that they've been willfully ignorant of the non-Sony side of the gaming market for years. 2017 saw Nintendo become a head-turning industry player again and Xbox make moves to begin a massive big-picture pivot with GamePass. The public saw this, there was no good excuse for Sony not to.
didn't they make a ps1 mini that flopped hard? how couldn't they know that people remember them fro the games in their platforms (which were mostly not theirs to begin with)?
>which were mostly not theirs to begin with
One would think they learned their les son afte PSABR and the PS3 but nope they really do think people will flock to them without question
>Persona now has a stronger Nintendo connection than SotN and mainline Tekken
What wild ride this few years have been, seriously Persona is getting ported to Switch so is nier automata and team asano games are doing better than square main games, it really is a wild ride this passage of fate
to be fair it's taking forever for square to actually launch a new main FF game
And said new FF it's a PS5 exclusive i wonder if they would try to pull a XIII and make it multiplatform anyway
It will be multiplat.. after they get sony bucks for 1 year of exclusivity.. and 1 year epic pc exclusivity.
>team asano games are doing better than square main games
Literally they're not lmao? I swear tendies think the world revolves around shitendo
octopath and triangle strategy both sold a million while having a tenth of the budget and marketing of the remake of the fabled "greatest jrpg of all time that I played on PS1 when I was 10", which has barely sold 10 millions on an install base of 117 millions ps4 + PC. Yeah they're doing better.
No it's not.
Meanwhile only nocturne managed to slip from Nintendo platforms from main series, and most spin offs are playabe on portables.
>Persona main
P3P
P4G
P5R
>Persona spinoff
PQ
PQ2
P5S
>Tekken main
Tekken 3D
>Tekken spinoff
Tekken Advance
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
>SotN directly
Nope
>SotN-adjacent
Aria of Sorrow
Dawn of Sorrow
(debatably) Portrait of Ruin
Yeah, the PS Classic was a tragedy.
>$100
>20 games
>crap game selection
>most of them were 50hz PAL versions in the western version for some godforsaken reason (check my spoiler at the end for my dumb theory on why this might've happened)
>no analog controllers (this one infuriates me because this means we were denied official USB classic Dualshocks)
>the onboard PS1 emulator wasn't even made by Sony or someone they contracted unlike literally the other major mini console releases; they grabbed some ancient bullshit emulator off the internet (and managed to frick it up with even worse performance out of the box than the PS Classic was capable of)
My theory for why PAL games were chosen is that the wageslave responsible for sourcing ISOs saw "(E)" or whatever on the downloads/database entries and ignorantly figured that it meant "English". But I have nothing to back this up.
Don't forget the funniest part.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/12/video_snes_classic_runs_psone_games_better_than_the_playstation_classic
>The snes classic emulates better the ps1 games.
Jesús sony how can fricked up this bad
It's was because the PAL versions had multiple languages built in(usually some combination of English, French, Itailian, German, Spanish) and the NTSC versions didn't
>They thought Xbox would die and Nintendo would be an irrelevant second-fiddle (hell they just said they still think that), which shows that they've been willfully ignorant of the non-Sony side of the gaming market for years. 2017 saw Nintendo become a head-turning industry player again and Xbox make moves to begin a massive big-picture pivot with GamePass. The public saw this, there was no good excuse for Sony not to.
The PS2 and PS4 success really went to their heads didn't it, i wonder what they will think when the Switch outsells the PS4 by the end of the year, Sony can't be fix since they started to believe their own hype and now that they are getting a taste of their own medicine they are crying foul fricking christ
I wonder how bungie feels about this, i know that destiny is not as big as COD but it must sting your parents company straight up thinks you can't do something like cod, then again how many FPS sony has killed in the past.
>Resistance fall of man
>Killzone
>Mag
>SOCOM
>Haze
Did i miss anything?
Warhawks fact they had to scrape the barrel to use this ip in PS allstars only to never make a third game shows how shit Sony has become.
>Warhawks
The only reason I even remember warhaws it's because sony fricked over incognito just like they did with Factor Five's Lair by forcing them to add motín controls to their games and incase of Factor Five is even funnier because they abandoned their partnership with nintendo when they announced the Wii because they thought nintendo was gonna force them to used them only for sony to force them to use it for Lair.
>Sony's games are bargin bin fodder.
didn't someone show earlier today that GT7 is already discounted to 20 bucks?
Hell they had to pretty much give away copies of The Last of Us 2 while most other retails were sitting on copies of the games collectors editions cause no one was buying them.
I feel no pity or simpathy. Shouldn't have touched my anime tiddies
You wanted power and you paid for fame
You wanted everything the easy way
You wanted gain without pain
Now your bill is in the mail
Your sales got stronger but your games got weak
You made a promise that you couldn't keep
You got it all - you lost more
It's all there in the fee
Via hell incorporated (regeneration)
First you love it then you hate it (you're such a snoy)
And now you're never gonna make it (bad situation)
Get on get on down
There's hell to pay ´cause
Sony is a loser and it's my b***h
For better or for worse and you don't care which
Sony is a loser and it's my b***h
Runnin' into trouble you skitch
It's my b***h
You wanted richest and exclusives to kill
You got poverty then you got ill
You got poor and you lost your will
All your dreams unfulfilled
I get my kicks when you blow your fuse
Many got killed, you have no excuse
Hands up, I let you know when it's done
I've got the only gun
Via hell incorporated (regeneration)
First you love it then you hate it (you're such a snoy)
And now you're never gonna make it (bad situation)
Get on get on down
There's hell to pay ´cause
Sony is a loser and it's my b***h
For better or for worse and you don't care which
Sony is a loser and it's my b***h
Runnin' into trouble you skitch
It's my b***h
And there were no refunds
Just failing guarantees
"We believe in generations"
Said the Jim on The stream
You got yourself some graphics
Set of boring art
All you got was laughter and
Yamauchi on your back
Sony is a loser and it's my b***h
For better or for worse and you don't care which
Sony is a loser and it's my b***h
Runnin' into trouble you skitch
It's my b***h
Sony is a loser and it's my b***h
For better or for worse and you don't care which
Sony is a loser and it's my b***h
Runnin' into trouble you skitch
He's my b***h
Running into trouble you skitch
If they were actually releasing games on the Switch as a faster rate than they currently are or could get Nintendo to help them localize their games, I would say no.
>24. [NSW] GrimGrimoire OnceMore – 3,524 / NEW
>No PS4 version
Umm, Vanillawarebros I thought 13 sentinels was a fluke?? Frick we can't lose them too
>24. [NSW] GrimGrimoire OnceMore – 3,524 / NEW
>[PS4+PS3+PSV] Odin Sphere Leifthrasir (Atlus) {2016-01-14} — 95,428 / NEW
kek
>[PS4+PS3+PSV]
You are actually pathetic. Please move out of your mother's house, seek therapy, and get a job.
And have vanillaware lose another potential customer? They need all the neet customers they can get, anon.
b***h ass homie had to combine ps4 ps3 and vita to get some sort of fake W. man, you sony fans suck dick
Those three platforms combined have equivalent sales to the switch. Assuming they all sold equally, that’s 30,000 per platform compared to 3000 on the highest selling current gen system. I like their games but that’s a bomb.
A PS3 + PS4 + PSVITA ≠ Switch. No matter what you say, you are comparing apples to oranges. I agree that the game bombed, I am not arguing that at all but holy shit your take is so wrong
Okay fine. I’ll break down the sales.
>Odin Sphere Leifthrasir (PS Vita) – 43,394
>Odin Sphere Leifthrasir (PS4) – 42,263
>Odin Sphere Leifthrasir (PS3) – 9,771
>24. [NSW] GrimGrimoire OnceMore – 3,524 / NEW
Now it bombed compared to three smaller install bases rather than a single large one.
I’m still buying the game if it’s ever localized but those sales are still funny.
Atlus vs NIS
See? it's not that hard, you could have just compared PS4 to Switch. You didn't have to do all that extra shit
Why even compare entirely different games, when OnceMore has a direct Playstatiion analogue? OnceMore just couldn't even rank in the top 30 on Playstation. Unless your cope is that you think OnceMore with PS4 and PS5 combined would have been.
But lol, have you seen the PS4 to PS5 ratios in Japan even?
All this suggests is that if Leifthrasir had released on the Switch it would have sold way more than it did on Playstation. Because that's what GrimGrimoire did.
Shut up, trannies.
problem, snoy?
It suggests that a vanillaware remake bombed compared to the last remake. I don’t care about what it suggests about the console market.
GrimGrimoire was always a significantly smaller game than Odin Sphere. This goes back to the originals, and the relative ratio just appears to have stayed somewhat true for the remakes.
anon you do understand that GrimGrimoire OnceMorehas a ps4 version and that didn't even chart right?
>GrimGrimoire OnceMore
Is this coming to the west?
I don't think so.
It doesnt have english on the cart?
nah
Nope. NISA is stuck translating 1,000,000 page long Falcom scripts. It's taking them like 3 years to localize Labyrinth of Galleria. Doubt GrimGrimoire is even on their bucket list.
Not confirmed yet. I expect it to come eventually, but I don't expect it to happen in the near future.
Probably early next year. NISA releases every niche jp game now.
>30. [PS5] The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki – 2,407 / NEW
Makes sense why the Falcomgays are in full shitpost mode towards Xenoblade for the past few days.
Trails is dying. YES.
Playing FC/SC/3rd/Zero/Ao/SenI/SenII was the most miserable RPG experience I ever had in my life.
>I played 7 games that I hated
Yes. Better than hating everything without even playing, like everyone on Ganker.
Should have done something else with your finite time on this rock, but whatever
>24. [NSW] GrimGrimoire OnceMore – 3,524 / NEW
>No PS4 in sight
UUUUUHHHHHHHH.... SONYGROES??????????
I THOUGHT PLAYSTATION WAS THE HOME TO VANILLAWARE GAMES??????????????
>[PS4] Tales of Arise # <RPG> (Bandai Namco Entertainment) {2021.09.09} (¥7.980) - 246.721 / NEW (170.607 <94,07%>)
>[PS5] Tales of Arise # <RPG> (Bandai Namco Entertainment) {2021.09.09} (¥7.980) - 84.146 / NEW (65.003 <88,35%>)
>Japan sales: Persona 5 900,000, Persona 5 Royal 500,000, Shin Megami Tensei V 190,000
https://krsw.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/ghard/1644575223/
>9. [NSW] Tengoku Struggle: Strayside
Nice
>A copy of Zenobureido 3 onegai-shimasu. Why yes I chose Pyra in chapter 8 of 2, how did you know?
>Why yes I chose Pyra in chapter 8 of 2
Not like it fricking matters as of XC3.
So that image or whatever it was is true?
Yes.
I mean, if one is forced to choose.
To be honest, I consider myself lucky to prefer Mythra, cause even if I liked Pyra more, I would had feel guilty of saying anything but Mythra during the context of that scene. It just seems mean saying Pyra during that moment.
Yes
Rex, I am proud of you, my boy!
Out of all the spoilers... I keep seeing this and not even once I even thought it could be a real thing. I am out of words, the mad lads actually did it.
>He wasn't lying about loving them all.
True gigachad
>He actually did love all of them.
I take back every bad thing I've said about Rex
>He actually loved all of them.
I LIKE YOUR ATITUDE
Do you guys think they took turns or they just fricked at the same time in a foursome?
Here's the important choice though.
>virgin hag bird who'll call you Shulk in bed
>cat MILF who got railed by leftherian wiener who knows how many times
What do you choose?
I choose Fiora!
SHULK YOU PIECE OF SHIT FRICK MY SISTER RIGHT THE FRICK KNOW OR I SWEAR TO THE ARCHITECT
It's a matter of principle.
I appreciate your strong convictions Aegisgay, but some of us wound up taking the big hit just so the coomers could get one more trophy
>25 million switches
>100k Xenoblade 3
what the frick ?
Pozzed censored shit
>xc2 opened at 97.274
>xc3 opened at 112.728
What the frick, Ericbros?!
Let's stop talking about Xenoblade X shall we
Seems like Xenoblade 3 had a somewhat low sellthrough rate.
Overshipped lmao.
I heard the same thing about KnY, and now it's on 80-100%.
>Seems like Xenoblade 3 had a somewhat low sellthrough rate.
Reality is, JRPGs sell like shit and always will. No matter how good or how high the production values, most people don't want it.
Just like Pokemon right! Or next Dragon Quest.
Pokemon is Pokemon. Whatever they make will be a guaranteed success
Kek so what's the cope for this one? Even SMtroonyV sold through most of its (tiny) shipment in the first week
Copium moment, lots of unaccounted sales came from the special edition that Nintendo themselves sold.
>lots of unaccounted sales came from the special edition that Nintendo themselves sold.
Yeah pretty much since it was exclusive to the nintendo store for some reason, plus xenoblade 3 still opened higher than xenoblade 2
>1) [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 97.274
the question is how good are those legs
XC3 like XC2 is part of the vouchers program, let's see if it benefits 3 the same way it did for 2.
>XC3 like XC2 is part of the vouchers program
Hih i didn't know that, that will probably help Xenoblade 3 in the long run considering how expensive this game is in japan
Probably part of the reason XC2 still charts digitally in Japan can be attributed to that.
Yeah i notice that Xenoblade 2 reappears on the top eshop once in while like recently before the launch of xenoblade 3
>plus xenoblade 3 still opened higher than xenoblade 2
yes but switch 2 has 26 million extra users
a 15k increase isn't much KEK
Under your logic evey single PS2 game was a flop because it didn't match the PS2 massive Install base.
what is that moronic comparison? everyone was hyping xenoblade 3. and a lot saying it would outsell FF16 in japan.
Xenoblade 2 had great legs and popularized xenoblade
Its like if elden ring had just 30k increase from Dark souls. It wouldn't be a "flop" but it would still be disappointing compared to its hype and expectations
>Hype
LOL you probably also think youtube numbers matter
you do realize XB's massive sales was due to time right
yeah I'm pretty sure they did the same thing for switch sports and the mario strikers. looks like they will let the legs carry this first shiptment wave
Watching people get BTFO about strikers was so funny they really thought the game flopped but it didn't
The problem with strikers is that the game itself is just fricking dogshit lol
I feel bad for anyone getting scammed out of $60 for a $20 game
It's not a scam because it's exactly what it claims to be, a soccer game where you play as Mario characters. If someone wants to pay 60 bucks for that, I think they're wasting their money, but they know what they're paying for. Someone must like these Mario sports games or they wouldn't sell and Nintendo would stop making them.
Holy shit. Looks like Japan didn't take kindly to the censorship.
Yeah, they turned XC3 in the best launch for a Xeno game...
maybe if you are a shitty American
Eh, it's better that it's overshipped and has stock to move over the next few weeks, rather than undershipped and people forced to resort to digital, which was a gigantic fricking problem for the last 10 years of Nintendo JRPGs(e.g. anyone who has functional memories of trying to buy a physical copy of Fire Emblem Awakening that wasn't smart enough to preorder). Especially when Nintendo loves doling out digital incentives.
The real metric will be how soon Nintendo sees fit to announce total numbers. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 took one month to hit one million. Let's see how fast XC3 can get to that mark.
Japan's release calendar is going to be dry as hell for the next month and a half, until Splatoon 3 launches, so it's not like XC3 has to sweat over any competition anyway outside of competing for attention from other Switch games.
Really, the biggest threat to XC3's growth is just waiting for people to wrap up playing Live a Live.
That only applies if people are actually liking the game spreading good word. I've been playing through it and it's a bit of a slog, the setting isn't as interesting this time and neither are the characters, and, well, there isn't much of the sexiness factor to drawn otakus in. It hinges on people really really liking Xenoblade as a franchise.
I'm at chapter four now and quite enjoying it. My personal opinion is that 1 has a better intro sequence and 2 having a better ending of first chapter, but at this point of the story I'd say 3 has set up more threads, possibilities and had better dialogue/thematic than both 1 and 2. 2 does come close with the end of chapter 3/start of 4, however.
I don't know, I'm a bit tired of the 'war-is-hell' 'born-to-die' 'life-is-frick' theme. It might seem so at first glance we're reshaping the geopolitics of the war but don't expect the game to follow through a lot, the best we get most of the time is a 'villain of the week' kinda hero quest, with the rights death by mecha explosion. I see a lot of people praising the romance but I'm not feeling it since they pretty much just gravitate towards each other, Tales of Arise did it better in my opinion. It's a bit of swallow game trying to look deep.
Just wait for a VTuber to shill it. You know it's coming.
I'm actually surprised Nintendo hasn't done a sponsored stream in general. They fricking pioneered the whole idea of promotional playthroughs with the original Xenoblade.
Then again, the market is weird compared to ten years ago, streamers have whole ass different revenue streams where people will pay them $20 to read their name out loud.
I bet it'll be Kiara or Subaru
Pekora and you know it
>there isn't much of the sexiness factor to drawn otakus in
That's not true.
It is true, they've been conditioning you to accept scraps and lust over armpits and feet or whatever 'safe' shit can fly under Twitter's radar.
2homosexual coomer cope
Goddamn those XC3 sales are underwhelming. They clearly thought it was an evergreen title that would simply sell better the more switches there are but it's clear now that only Xenoblade fans give a shit about the series and they already bought systems long ago. XC3 will probably sell a little bit better than XC2, probably around 2.3M WW lifetime which isn't awful but clearly cements it as a C tier franchise below stuff like Fire Emblem and down there with Pikmin.
In my opinion, they just had to add more girls like Pyra/Myhtra. That was what everyone was expecting and people were already looking forward to get them in the next Smash without even seeing them. Baffles me that they didn't follow through. Don't know if it wad hubris or arrogance. Call me crazy but I don't see people getting crazy over a Noah or Mio Smash dlc.
It's not going to happen, anyway. The next Smash will be out around the time of Xenoblade 4. They will prefer those protagonists.
No, they are finally put Adult Rex.
And he's gonna frick and preg every single smash character. Including Bowser.
Not happening, Pyra and Mythra occupied the Xenoblade 2 slot. Xenoblade 2 will be a decade old by then
It's gonna happen and it's gonna be hilarious.
No, you'll get BOTW 2 Link, Xenoblade 4 protag, popular 2024 game protag, Fire Emblem 18 protag, Gen X Pokemon, and Fortnite Jonesy
4 is not happening according to Takahashi.
Adult Rex is gonna frick and preg Peach and Daisy.
didn't they said in the ask not-iwata that the series will go for a long time? there's no fricking way they aren't already planning the next game of the series, be it XB4 or XBX2, while developing XC3's expansion
The next Smash game will just be a port of Ultimate for the Switch 2 with balance changes and some new characters. I doubt Nintendo thinks they can top Ultimate in any significant way, especially without Sakurai, and they'd be right. It'll just be MK8 all over again.
Not happening with licensing agreements, though that would be the best course of action
Renegotiating for a port would be easier than a new game. I don't see why else Nintendo stopped DLC development for Ult so early if they knew they could never top the game.
>port of Ultimate
nah. smash is a franchise that actually benefits from rostergayging
Does cutting lots of characters really make that many people happy? That's a thing for psychopaths from here, not the general audience.
no but you need to announce new characters and probably shill new modes. getting trophies back and modes that people liked would be good for marketing as well. point is that this is not mario kart, they can't just port ultimate and sell well
You can do both of those things with a port. Just put two fighters passes worth of characters into the new version and people will be excited again.
that doesn't generate hype. besides people that already played ultimate and are waiting for a new game with new mechanics and new items won't want to get the same game again
>besides people that already played ultimate and are waiting for a new game with new mechanics
This isn't really true at all. The competitive and casual scenes for Ultimate are still rather healthy. One of the largest tournaments ever hosted is happening this weekend. The massive roster Ult has is preventing the game from getting boring; just last week Meta Knight got second place in a Japanese major (the best region in world by a significant margin). All they would have to do is improve the netcode for the Switch 2 version and it would bring back a lot of people.
>The competitive and casual scenes for Ultimate are still rather healthy
while I don't disagree with you about that we both know that the bulk of those 25M sales is not from people playing competitive smash
It's harder to argue for the casual side of things since there is no data. But I'm sure improved netcode would excite a lot of people. It's the number one complaint you'll hear from casuals in this place, for example.
Real question is how much of an ass SE will be about letting any of their characters return it took two games and two characters just to get more FF7 songs.
My personal crackpot theory is that Nintendo already negotiated the right to port these characters to a new version of Ultimate during FP2, which is why they never did any more.
A lot of the new characters are very unfun to go against and because of that are picked by trolls who infest online. I imagine that most online players feel the same way
This, they will go the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe route.
I hope Sakurai can take a rest for 5 years, at least.
>Poor Sakurai 🙁
Millionaire who works on Smash by his own volition.
My gut feeling says the next Smash is going to be out by 2024-2025.
Xenoblade 4 could be several years away, it likely won't be next Monolith Soft's game.
Then why is XC2 still selling?
No.
Turns out 5 years ago Monolith Soft started development on a game in favor of the Roe v. Wade overturn or something according some ResetEra posters.
Even without Pokémon TLoU wouldn't really move a needle in Japan.
>evergreen
we'll just see from next week onwards since we'll need to see the legs, but that extra shipment is the same we had for switch sports and mario strikers
>clearly cements it as a C tier franchise
Is that supposed to be a bad thing? Xeno games feels like Nintendo giving reward to monolithsoft for helping making those best selling games like Botw, splat and AC
that's basically what it is, nintendo throwing them a bone.
>want to make their dream game
>shitendo only gives them the ok on Xenoblade. Everything else is rejected
Highly doubtful it's a reward
t. moron
Change the battle to card system, cut shulk voice and Klaus flashback and Xeno2 became Baten Kaitos 3. Even Soma Bringer can easily turned into a xenoblade game
yeah, the game requires you to play 3 other 150 hour games, it's going to be a niche audience at this point
XC1 & XC2 I get but as someone who hasn't played a single XC, do I really need to play XCX?
Not really. I would recommend it on it's own merits, but likewise it barely qualifies as a Spin Off of the main Xenoblade Trilogy. In a similar example, is more Megaman Legends than Megaman X in relation to the main series, if that makes any sense.. Without spoilers, XC2 kind of explains X's place in the canon with a quick "There is an infinite multiverse out there, with worlds that can be completely different to ours, but also have some common elements due to this giant lore event..." which basically, other than the big lore reveal, is also Monoliths way to said "Don't think to much about the Noppons in X"
How are you going to cope when Nintendo will announce it the best selling game in the series by a wide margin?
and that is still a drop in the bucket that nobody cares about...
You care enough to cry about it
The bigger question is yours if not after that post.
>Already goalposting and admitting 3 will outsell 2 after all b-but (insert irrelevant shit here)
LMAO
Like I said in the first thread yesterday, Xeno 2 launched at 97k, had the first shipment of 160k and ended up selling 300k physical only in Japan by the end of 2021. It was also out of stock for a long time before Nintendo shipped more, driving the digital rate higher.
Nintendo made a bigger initial shipment knowing there's more interest in Xeno 3.
Well, it depends. Xeno 2 didn't show it's going to sell additional 200k in its first 3 weeks.
No see, XCDE in 2 weeks had a better turnover than XC2, but in the third week plummeted, so it was more frontloaded but had no legs, and as it's cheaper than XC2 it doesn't get a lot of help from vouchers even though it had a very high digital split(almost 60%), it gets a boost when it goes on sale but doesn't chart anywhere near as often as XC2.
that happens when you fly to close to the sun takahashi
GrimGrimoire didn't chart for PS4? Nice to see a lot of new releases at least.
>2. [NSW] Digimon Survive – 28,536 / NEW
>12. [PS4] Digimon Survive – 7,757 / NEW
Christ
Knowing that Harada is a PS fanboy but also hates Digimon, how do you think he feels about PS4 selling so low?
He probably doesn't give a shit about Digimon.
Are Bandai secretly infiltrated by Pokemon fans or something? I swear only Habu gives a frick about the franchise, at this point.
>Are Bandai secretly infiltrated by Pokemon fans
It's no secret that most people prefer pokemon over digimon.
Because morons handling there don't even have a proper target audience, I mean pokemon keep getting new batch of pokegays every game. Digiman keep wanking oldgays but some part want kids back, cue clusterfrick of uncertain audience.
this is the point were companies that mocked "Nintendo is childish" are starting to realize making games that appeal to a wide range of audience is actually hard (and Pokemon is the bottom of the totem on this from other "Family Friendly" Nintendo franchises)
Digicoping and making excuses since 1997.
I blame the Pokemon lobby.
Harada homosexual is an interesting case:
>Seething hard because Bamco didn't grow enough (except for the From games that they only published)
>Hates the Switch and only published games from outside studios
>Hates Digimon
>But he is shilling Pokemon and agree to re-release Pokken.
He is a moron, same thing with the majority of higher-ups working with him. Namco had shitloads of high valued IPs that are just neglected and instead they prefer to work or publish external IPs.
And they don't even milk them like Konami or Capcom, because old Digimon games remakes would basically print them free money.
They don't even do collaborations. That only happened once, with Lili in Decode, and it was like he was forced to.
It's weird, they just don't care, at all. Even Toei is doing more thing with the franchise, even if they sometimes fail at it.
Kill them all, Aoi.
I know they swapped those sales numbers. I knew it was Sony first, Nintendo in second. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. They covered their tracks, they got those idiots at Famitsu to lie for them. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? They've done worse. Those Sony production numbers. Are you telling me that a company just happens to struggle with making systems? No! They orchestrated it! Nintendo! They released an under-powered tablet! And I bought it! And I shouldn't have. I took them into my own house! What was I thinking? They'll never change. They'll never change! Ever since the 80s, always the same! Couldn't keep their hands off of some ridiculous gimmick! But not our Nintendo! Couldn't be precious Nintendo! Robbing customers blind! And they get to be a hardware maker? What a sick joke! I should've stopped them when I had the chance! And you have to stop them, you...
forgot the image anon
>11. [NSW] Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 – 9,493 / NEW
>13. [NSW] Koumajou Remilia: Scarlet Symphony – 7,604 / NEW
Nice. Wonder where those morons saying GV3 flopped went? Sold just as well as previous entries.
Nice number for Touhouvania too. I got the collector's edition, it's sexy.
So, can we expect GV4 in 5 years?
those are a los of PS systems sold and several games on the list. Next week they will be gone though
>those are a los of PS systems sold and several games on the list. Next week they will be gone though
Well yeah all the more reason why i think all the PS5 sold in Japan are getting scalped because it's attachment rate still below 1.
From nintendo recent report, their digital sales are now at 53% weird it took them this long.
In Japan at least the vouchers clearly help some games. Also the big japanese third parties have sales fairly often. I wouldn't be surprised if in Japan RE6 ended up selling the most on Switch for example.
>RE6
If the Revelations Collection could pull 1 million, I wouldn't be surprised to see the NSW skus of mainline RE games pop up on Capcom's Platinum page eventually. It's not just RE6 and not just in Japan. I've seen REmake crop up on the US eShop top 30 download games before without any special occasion.
PS5 digital sales are 112%
>digital sales are 112%.
Not sure if trolling or legit moronic
Either way is actually 80%... buuuut most of it comes from DLC and MTX which why they are shifting to gaas and are scared shitless of loosing COD according to that CADE document.
That number gets higher every week I swear
what is the source for this?
Also here are the million sellers.
>Mario kart can reach 50m
Jesus frick.
>Ring Fit on the verge of passing BDSP and LGPE
Gogogo
Is MK8D the best selling single platform release of all time?
Wii Sports probably still.
That really shouldn't count
Wii sports mostly due bundles, then Pokemon rbg.
Pokemon RBG is only at 31 million
Just checked the wiki and yeah, I guess it is, with some asterisks. Wii Sports doesn't really count. But then again MK8 is being counted along side MK8D and is 2 platforms. If you separate the two then I still think it passes Pokemon Red/Blue/Green/Yellow, but that's 4 games, and also on GBC and GB, two platforms. Next is Wii Fit/Wii Fit Plus, technically 2 games?
The actual best single platform release on a single device with no splitting hairs is probably Mario Kart Wii
Mario kart 8/deluxe/wii all have hade bundles too
Snoytroony, try being less obviously coping next time
>BDSP surpassed LGPE
>chad faithful DP remake
>virgin RBY casualized genwun wankfest
Based.
>Strikers sold 1.9 mil copies in one quarter
Neat, but I honestly wished the game got a bit more content other than Multiplayer and the current Cup tourney
It is what it is. It's the same content as before.
>MK8 being this high
I will now buy your game that I refused for being a shameless re-relase to fill gaps just to boost this amazing numbers.
>New pokemon snap
>Asstral Chain
>Shulk's Blade
>Clubhouse Games
>Pokken
XBC2gays never wanted to listen, XBC was bound to be this successful. 2's getting stuck was bound to happen.
>the fricking unfinished strikers sold 2 million
mario sport games are fricking dead holy shit
In 3 weeks.
To clarify, sales means revenue here.
hey do you have the source for that pic?
https://twitter.com/pierre485_/status/1554719035568291840
I don't know if the guy made the graph, or if he got it from somewhere else.
it's strange that it completely contradicts the financial reports. unless it's not revenue but total of games that were bought, because it would make sense for more indies to sell on Q1 and Q2 that are slower months of the year for new big releases
If you look at the accompanying pic in the tweet, you'll see that it's all revenue from digital sources.
Gunvolt 3 sold better than iX2 despite less platforms (iX2 was full multiplat with retail PS and NSW, GV3 is Switch exclusive)
>111 million Switches sold
>117 million PS4 sold
OH BLUNDERgay! I think it's about time to rope yourself! You have been DREADing this day for awhile now. Imagine wasting years of your life for nothing. It's now time to end it.
>PS4 version of Digimon Survive didn't even chart
guck...
It's 12th.
Erm...Xbox xisters...I thought we were winning...no...it's not fair...
>2. [NSW] Digimon Survive – 28,536 / NEW
Fricking hell, why didn't Bandai try to market Survive more? It's like they wanted the game to fail on purpose.
>Fricking hell, why didn't Bandai try to market Survive more? It's like they wanted the game to fail on purpose.
That digicon panel was the saddest thing about this, but in plus side at least digimon still not as bad a yokai watch... For now that is
Digimon still is a multimedia IP, YW barely exists as it is.
>For now that is
Level-5 would need to not be nearly bankrupt for that.
Level-5 leaving Nintendo really fricked them up pretty bad huh
>Level-5 leaving Nintendo really fricked them up pretty bad huh
You have not idea how bad it was.
2013 - 1,508,340
2014 - 6,272,868
2015 - 2,960.877
2016 - 2,709,735
2017 - 1,122,801 <------- when they ended they partnership with Nintendo
2018 - 458,876
2019 - 433,404
2020 - 118,226
2021 - 111,965
Fricking hell mate
>2021 - 111,965
Xenoblade 3 sold that in like two days...
Who made that call? I don't think it was Con man.
>like that the "explosive" sales for their exclusives are largely inflated by bundles and fast discounts
Surprising no one.
Nah, bullshit. This is beyond hilarious, it's a slap on the face with a dick.
They were going to fall sooner or later, their modus operandi was unsustainable.
>create one popular franchise
>focus on it and milk it in all the ways you can
>once it is dry, jump to another new franchise
>use the money of the former franchise to finance the new one
>repeat
Everything depended on how popular the new IP was in comparison with the former one to keep them going, thing that didn't happen because Megaton Musashi was a flop and they didn't have enough money for the rest of their IPs to work. That's why they keep delaying their future games.
"We are considering marketing the game but..."
Doesn't help when the General Manager over there hates Digimon. Lucky it even came out
The game had a troubled development, they probably just wanted to release it and recoup as much of the costs as it were possible, also the release date of XC3 probably caught them off guard too.
Can't believe every game was a flop.
Lmao my sides holy shit. Nincel can't claim the 'snoy meltdown' they thought was gonna happen this week
>switch couldn't beat PS4 this quarter like they thought it would
>Xb3 barely sold 100k
>wait for the sell through they said
>turns out the sell through was piss poor too
Now they're jumping on trails PS5 port. A late port for a game already out on PS4 and can be played on a PS5. I'm wheezing
>I'm wheezing
Galar or Kanto?
So is that good or bad for such a small and niche project like GrimGrimoire port? At the very elast VW knows their audience moved to Switch and is no longer on ps consoles.
It's niche, and had next to no marketing in general. So I am impress in charted at all.
It wouldve sold more as a ps exclusive just like 13 sentinels
Niche game, no marketing at all, launched within a 10 day timeframe of Live a Live, Xenoblade 3 and Digimon: Survive. Try to think if you know anyone who would buy it before any of these 3 games.
Anyone with half their cortex intact should consider those sales a decent first week. Who knows about profits, gotta hope on legs.
Eh, I honestly don't know what they were expecting.
>dropping Grimgrimoire right next to Xenoblade instead of just waiting a week or two
>next to no press or marketing
If I was the publisher I would be fricking screaming that this was the prototype for Aegis Rim.
why do people keep buying mario kart 8 after years
do they just get another copy every month
In the spirit of Switch being a console for as many members of the family as possible, I just assume that the attache rate of Mario Kart copies with each Switch sold is huge. Still, I am personally of the opinion that MK is a game that's more convenient to own digitally, but to each their own.
I've actually been considering buying a second one because I sold my copy, which I had had since release, one week before the DLC was announced
MK is fun with friends. It's basically the evergreen poster child
Fine, but what's the excuse for Animal Crossing? How in the nine hells can that thing have such a big market?
Literally zero barrier of entry and as casual as it gets. Every switch gamers girlfriends/wife/moms favorite game, and launched at the absolute perfect time. It was a worldwide fad due to lockdowns. Any other year and it probably tops out at 15 million lifetime sales.
New Gal Gun spinoff that plays like a Classicvania.
It being on Xbox and PS means no fanservice, in which case attaching it to Gal Gun is kinda dumb.
That sounds idiotic but i’ll probably play it.
Looks surprisingly solid, even if nothing special for the genre. Still, it looks the part to feed my nostalgia, specially as a Portrait of Ruin fan.
Wow that does look decent. I was hoping it’d be the gal gun setting too though
Looks like there's fanservice to me?
Inti fricking Creates are not the types to bend the knee so easily.
They'll actually cancel the PS and Xbox ports if they have to.
>12. [PS4] Digimon Survive – 7,757 / NEW
disappointing that japan has become full of nintendo drones
>disappointing that japan has become full of nintendo drones
Well anon maybe if sony hadn't bail put on japan this wouldn't be a problem, they made their bed now they get to lay on it
>become
Sunny D getting what they deserve. Maybe they shouldn't have been censoring Japanese games?
>snoytard finally begins to realize what pandering to the LGBTBBQ in the west fully entails
lol you love to see it
Damn
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 sell through is pretty low, overshipped a lot
That's at least 150k copies left on the wild. If next week the game fall around 80% on sales. That will be hard to clean up all the remaining stocks.
Hard to see it selling out so quickly. The game doesn't have legs. I'm pretty far into it and I shit you not one of the party members still hasn't had a single moment of development. It's the brown e-girl.
>150k copies left on the wild
It's likely closer to 100k, which isn't much.
And just like that, Nobunaga Switch has almost reached the Nobunaga PS4 sales
>11. [NSW] Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 – 9,493 / NEW
Oh cool. So it wasn't in the top 10, but right underneath it. That's still not too bad.
Inti are rad and makes wonderful games.
CLUBHOUSE CHADS WE FINALLY WON!
Wasn't it reported that Playstation users are starting to use their Playstations less and less?
Turns out pandering to normalgays that "have lives" backfires when they want to have said life and not spend all day locked inside playing vidya. Who would've thought?
Every time I feel like playing my ps4, I remember the "cities can rebuild" tweet during the race riots a couple years ago and I instantly lose all desire to play. I can't speak for everyone but I bet I'm not the only one who feels that way.
So Digimon Survive sold 36.2k on it's first week in Japan (as far as physical goes). Is that considered good?
To be honest, considering what it was up against, and it's lackluster marketing, I think is a positive surprise.
Depends on their sales expectations. The game sold less than the last digimon game, but it’s a visual novel which tend to sell less than JRPGs.
So, how long will take to Fatlus to release a Soul Hackers 2 Switch port?
I give it 6 months
She is so beautiful
I don't think Soul Hackers 2 is a game Atlus is losing any sleep over.
What a weak bait, if it surpasses XC2 then it'll have become an evergreen since XC2 already more or less achieved that status.
Bombs don't get ports. Porting would be just a waste of money and you want to cut losses
Xenoblade 3 would have sold more if it kept the fanservice. I cannot be proven wrong on this.
>removed fan service
>dialogue is still cringe
Worst of both worlds anon
I reiterate: a fanservicey game was what everyone was expecting, no one would be upset over it. Now people who don't like the franchise and won't buy the games are happy because they triumphed in another stage of the culture war, while the real fans are either dragging their feet to buying it or wrinkling their noses at their copy.
>real fans hate it trust me please
Laugh as much as you want, the numbers tell their story.
The one where it's selling better than XC2 in every market?
>a fanservicey game was what everyone was expecting
Maybe 2 zoomers, it's way got more fanservice than 1 unless you want to individually count every one of Fiora's outfits.
XB2 is why XB3 isn't selling...
Xenoblade 3 sold better than Xenoblade 2. Eric doompost failed again.
Remember when he did this with anything Nintendo related ?
Remember when they shitpost ed xeno 2 FOR FIVE FRICKING YEARS.
This image was made 2 year ago
And not the guys is nowhere to be seen, and suddenly is praises all around for XC2. Gee, I wonder why.
shitposters are now coping with muh switch percentages, it's hilarious
>Eric
nah this guy is definitely the brazillian shitposter
Is the macaco still banned? Maybe he acked himself after sony confessed to the brazil themselves that they are basically begging phil won't ass frick them hard without lube.
Eric is the brazilian shitposter
If fan service is everything that matters then why is Kuro no Kiseki selling like shit?
Pretty much he didn't write that. You're making shit up. He never said it's everything.
>I cannot be proven wrong on this.
>you cant not prove a negative
are you moronic
much more if it was full of waifupandering but they fricked up and I hope they pay the price
Why are these posted every week and why do people care what video games the citizens of Japan are buying?
It's fun, and fun things are fun.
How much is Xenoblade 3?
Using voucher with Xenoblade 2 can cut the price down like 40% so I guess they will go that route.
>How much is Xenoblade 3?
>Using voucher with Xenoblade 2 can cut the price down like 40% so I guess they will go that route
Probably alot since the game is also on the voucher program, plus alot the game is going untracked because the special edition was made exclusive to the nintendo score, people on this thread dooming xenoblade 3 forget that xenoblade 2 was also on the voucher program and the special edition of 2 was tracked.
Remember that xeno 2 opened at 97.274 and that was thank to the special edition
If you look it up in Amazon JP, it's considerably more expensive than other games.
This is true, the voucher system helped Xeno 2 and astral chain alot when they released, hell look at this
1 million for astral chain, plus xenoblade 2 took a long time to reach 2 million.
>7500 yen for physical
>or 5000 yen for digital with voucher
Damn, I want that treatment.
Weren't people accusing XB2 of being a flop back in the day until Nintendo reports proved most of the JP salers were virtual due to vouchers and expensive digital versions?
>Weren't people accusing XB2 of being a flop back in the day until Nintendo reports proved most of the JP salers were virtual due to vouchers and expensive digital versions?
Yes, look at the sales here.
I like how every shitposter is trying to call xenoblade 3 a flop but they did the same shit with 2 and they got proveen wrong when we got the actual numbers
I think every single First Party and Nintendo exclusive in general, has been declared a "floop" over here at launch. No exceptions, other than the common sense that it is Pokemon, and even then.
>Pokemon, and even then.
>That anon that claimed Elden ring was gonna outsell pokemon in Japan.
Some people really are that stupid aren't they.
Dont take it seriously, nobody actually gives a shit, its just shitposting in general, do you think that every single thread and post shitting on XC2 disappearing overnight after 4 years was just a miracle? Its just some obsessed morons that hate the franchise in general.
Predictions on what they pull?
That's one may surprise too because of digital ratio, I've seen a few jp videos on youtube talking about which version to get and it is surprisingly divisive.
The hype around this seems to be rather muted from what I can tell. Nothing they have shown seems to be convincing enough to the average consumer to purchase if they already have Splatoon 2. 1 million less long-term than Splatoon 2
My favorite Famitsu poster is the May Sakaali one
>My favorite Famitsu poster is the May Sakaali one
Does anyone still have the link to the blog of the original May sakaalibposter? Since he stopped posting on this threads now everyone just post may sakaali after that.
>Digimon Survive
>2nd place
>35k total
Digimon survive... actually SURVIVED lmao
>XB3 tanks
XB2's effect?
>tanks
>sold more than either XB
please don't be moronic
>sold more than either XB
>100k > 2 millions
Surely you jestin'
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please someone talk some sense to this anon
Anon... Xenoblade 2 opened at 97.274 and took a while for it to reach 2 million.
why did you quote me
anon, do you understand what TIME is? is it too hard to comprehend?
That's lifetime sales vs 1 week, idiot
>millions
>plural
What subhuman shithole do you people come from where you pluralize million? I keep seeing shit everywhere recently.
Take the trend from the opening numbers, brainlet.
?
It was supposed to be LE POZZED and flop... What went so wrong?
>THE THOUGHT POLICE HAVE ORDERED THE AUTHORITATIVE VERDICT
ALL OPPOSITION WILL BE PRUNED
why do you think discordtrannoids and shazamgays are on suicidewatch and shitposting XC3 constantly by calling it a flop?
they're having meltdowns because their actual pozzed games even with all the LGBT shit added to appease to journos still got beaten by xenoblade 3
They tried to review bomb the game at the beginning of the week, it didn't work
Are they actually angry over this game
apparently rex being a father of three is against abortion
Yes, it's moronera anon they hate ethel and eunie designs.
>XB3 tanks
XB2 made the series popular there XB3 would have sold much more if it wasnt pozzed as frick with blacked and cuck shit
>Gankerirgins now pretend to care about xenoblade 2
Lol lmao i hope you homosexuals ack yourselves when xenoblade 3 outsells the previous 2 games
Reminder that even if the Switch outsells the PS2, the PS2 has still sold more
>counting DVD players
But YouTube isn't a thing during PS2 era
>jokergay
every time
all normies had a pirated ps2
the reason for the ps2 success was piracy
>normies
>pirating
Anon, I...
people used to pay to get their ps2 hacked bro
Pretty much it run copied disks in most of world. I used to get games for less than 3 usd and sometimes less than 1usd.
yeah people sold the pirated games on dvds and cds
3rd world normies anon. you'd walk into a gaming cafe with 12 of these running fifa and a host of other games. you could buy it preloaded with games on a hard drive
My mom did it.
>all normies had a pirated ps2
No, those were the hispanics and hues that's why it was so popular on South America
The point was the sales not who used the pirated device.
Can confirm, that's why Latin America switched from Nintendo to Sony, in first place.
>It doesn't count.
EVERY FRICKING TIME.
>Gaming is bigger so it doesn't count despite the Fact the Switch it's outpacing the PS2 in less time than that of the PS2 itself.
This frickers never learn do they
so who wants to tell him most PS2 sold cause they were DVD Players??
>counting cheat units sold after the gen ended
>for an entire decade
In reality PS2 was already outsold.
True. Only zoomers wouldn't know since they can't into simple piracy.
We are now witnessing an age of pre-coping.
>We are now witnessing an age of pre-coping.
It's has already started when Nintendo announced the Switch is currently 111 million meaning the Switch is really close to surpassing the PS4.
>Inb4 NEVER EVER TENDIES
Sure just like persona 5 was never gonna be on switch right?
>This level of cope
Ironically moronera bots doesn't notice their flawed logic. Since the audience is bigger now it only means Switch is already bigger than ps2 and when the numbers drop it will only make it more glaring.
100% hipocrites; it's only the best selling just because of their bias at this point. It's going to be a glorious meltdown.
>30. [PS5] The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki – 2,407 / NEW
Other than doing a playstation exclusive release, what the hell were they thinking putting it against Xenoblade?
I think they announced it before XC3 got its release date, also it's kind of pointless because the original release was on PS4 meaning you could play it on PS5 anyway.
If Switch were ever to surpass PS2 sales, it will practically sit on that throne forever.
Nintenbros... the future looks bleak, doesn't it? Xenoblade 3 is a flop, Switch sales are stagnating, all our games are getting delayed... Is this it? Is Sony actually going to win?
If a JRPG not called Final Fantasy or Pokémon already reached 200~300K worldwide is far of being a flop.
Take your (you) and frick off.
PS2 piracy wasn't much of a thing in the West, at least not where I lived. I only recently got freemcboot on my old PS2 to play games that don't run well in pcsx2.
>PS2 piracy wasn't much of a thing in the West, at least not where I lived.
Completely disconnected from reality. kys
>at least not where I lived
It existed, I considered buying one of those swap magic discs back in the day, but I didn't know anyone who was pirating PS2 games and I had a pretty big pool of friends back in highschool who had PS2s during it's heyday. I really don't know why this would set you off so much, I'm not arguing against piracy or something.
You're spouting subjective nonsense; ps2 piracy was huge in the west. You were living the amish life in comparison so don't claim otherwise as your case is nothing more than less than the 0.5%
They never learn, pokemon is gonna outsell tlou2 100:1 just like AC did and no amount of "MUH GAWPHICS" will change that
>Nintendo fans = GF wienersuckers
misleading.
Didn't GameCube babies hates Pokémon?
I think so.
why are morons always using "muh hardware percentage" as some sort of counter argument to big sales?
No matter how many BS cope you come up with. It is disappointing.
Kirby new game is going to be a sizeable increase over its predecessor and good chance at being the biggest in the franchise. while XB3 Is not
XB3 is the biggest of its franchise tho
Is it though? Its going to be by a small margin if it even does. Its not going to be FE TH that's for sure
Its going to sell 2m-3m more by the end of it.
Kirby isn't a common large seller. Most of kirby games sold 1m-3m. the 5M (the biggest) was from 1992. Its actually close to xenoblade but less mass appeal obviously
Yeah ok keep coping
>Kirby isn't a common large seller. Most of kirby games sold 1m-3m. the 5M (the biggest) was from 1992. Its actually close to xenoblade but less mass appeal obviously
I want to post multiple ellipses but I...
...anon Kirby has a cafe and merchandising branch while Xenoblade doesn't.
And that still didn't translate to its games on the past.
Sorry,obviously meant xenoblade has less mass appeal
>And that still didn't translate to its games on the past.
yes it does anon, if paltry 500k~ish games like persona can, so can kirby
Sure maybe it contributed a bit to its past game sales. But that isn't an explanation for its last game to surpass every kirby game
what
you're going in circles in attempt to shitpost XB3 because you picked fricking kirby
I'm not going in circles.
You're saying kirby has high sales since it has a merch and cafe store. But 99.99% of Kirby sales falls within the xenoblade range. The latest kirby game obliierating every kirby game in sales is not solely due to the merch and cafe
Xenoblade 3 performance IS disappointing. unless you cope by saying it had 80% digital or whatever
...no, I said Kirby isn't a fricking niche franchise. It has actually wider sales than XB's. The frick are you on?
It is niche unless you consider FE and XE mainstream.
https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Kirby
https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Xenoblade_Chronicles
Kirby never been that much bigger than xenoblade aside from the first game and latest game released
Only XB2 managed to beat most of them, and that's over a year's worth of sales
>Kirby is niche
Holy kek Xenoblade fans are a special brand of moronic
Meh, the same thing could be said about Metroid.
>Its actually close to xenoblade but less mass appeal obviously
>sells more than Xenoblade
>less mass appeal
What?
Kirby and the Forgotten Land is still like 1 million away from being the biggest of its franchise.
>Kirby new game is going to be a sizeable increase over its predecessor
It's didn't sold 11a million so it's a fricking flop
what cope? why are you using kirby, a common large seller, as an example
He really wants to believe xenoblade 3 is a flop
What are the chances of him being the Arisegay? It'd be hypocritical lmao
Nah, he is probably eric tho, sometimes he tries to falseflag as nintendo user but he always puts himself
I remember Dread and SMTV is a flop weren't this dumb
To downplay how a game sells the funny thing is that Mario Kart 8 is currently the best selling Switch game but under thier stupid logic then it's a flop because it didn't sold 111 million like the Switch, this morons are running out of copium
Xenobros we eatin'.
>never say its a flop
>morons think i'm saying its a flop
XB3 and SMTV both have the slightly dubious issue of being the best selling games in their respective franchise's history, but it wasn't the explosive growth some other series have been blessed with by coming out on the Switch, so you do wonder if the devs aren't somewhat disappointed. And of course shitposters shriek the games are total bombs because 100 million Switch owners didn't rush out to buy six copies a piece.
Technically Xenoblade already had it with 2, if 3 surpasses it'd just continue the trend.
Yeah, people doom posting xenoblade forget that this series still niche compared to the other nintendo big hitters.
1) [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 97.274
2) [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles - 90.789
3) [WIIU] Xenoblade Chronicles X - 88.544
Plus xenoblade 3 special edition isn't been tracked because it's a nintendo store exclusive, people need to stop shitposting games that sell well
The special edition also has a digital variant so it makes sense they don't track it.
That too also the fact that Xenoblade 3 is also on the voucher program which makes it way cheeper to get on digital since xenoblade 3 it's 7500 yen
>7500 yen
8700 actually.
Sounds more like the only people who buy or even care about Xenoblade are dedicated Xenoblade fans in general. That group will buy every single one no matter what it's on and the rest of the numbers are the small portion of non fans who just happened to buy it.
Xenoblade will never grow or expand beyond it's current sales, it's way too niche and all the nonsense mmo and waifu shit is simply an impassable barrier for 99% of regular people. The series has it's niche but it will never ever ever be a big open world tentpole or even reach the moderate success of stuff like Persona and Fire Emblem.
>Yeah, people doom posting xenoblade forget that this series still niche compared to the other nintendo big hitters.
>But it's niche!!!
>But it sold well!!!
Which one is it? Make up your fricking mind already.
Sold well as a niche series
That would have worked as an argument for 90% of the actual niche series besides Xenoblade.
Elaborate
Xenoblade has the first party treatment, that should reflect a boost on its numbers, reach and marketing. Something the vast majority of niche games do not have.
By your logic metroid is even bigger failure
Metroid has been a failure. The odd case of an IP with good/great games that sell jackshit somehow.
Metroid is all about hype and no interest. Whenever a new Metroid game is announced/rumored or even about to come out you see people coming up with dumb excuses to not buy the games, yet in the period between games will rant on how great the series is and that it deserves more attention from Nintendo.
>Metroid is all about hype and no interest.
Sounds like xenobalde as well to me.
Xenoblade is nowhere near as overhyped on the internet as Metroid.
Both are coomer central, Black person.
*Shulk's game, the rest capitalized on it.
JRPGs aren't big sellers, besides DQ and FF most of them always had modest sales, which is why the genre pretty much died out
XC sells really fricking well all things considered
It is a disappointment for sure unless digital ratio was high. morons here don't think in capitalistic mindset.
Nintendo is not going to be satisfied with 10k increase over its previous game. and neither is the studio. They can make up a new game that spawns a mainstream hit like Splatoon vs sticking to this stagnant franchise
I bet Hal thought the same about Kirby seeing this post
XB3 was supposed to be Kirby and the Forgotten Land but instead its a Kirby: Triple Deluxe
Kirby Triple Deluxe sold better than the majority of the Kirby games.
Yet won't be a kirby and the forgotten land.
No matter how much you cope. IT IS a disappointing result and you cannot deny you expected more.
It even had a fricking massive shipment
>Yet won't be a kirby and the forgotten land.
That was XC2.
>It even had a fricking massive shipment
>200k
>massive
(You) sound like the kind of moron that insisted KnY on Switch was a flop on its first week.
I'm not going to argue anymore as I don't care that much. you know I'm right and you I know you expected a lot more
I expected it to be in the 120-150k range, is that much more for (You) moron. And even then I argued that there were things playing against it at retail. Frick off homosexual.
Why are you even seething this much. You're not getting money out of it moron
get a fricking life
Nice projection moron, wasn't it that you didn't care that much or are (You) seething for being called out?
SMTV was shit.
what the frick is a famitsu
i see this every week and never know or care
2coomershit? Outsold by 3. The series went back to its roots and 2 is the new black sheep.
>The series went back to its roots
So to 1's coomer designs?
2 was always the black sheep.
That's still X.
>end X on a massive fricking cliffhanger
>it will never be followed up on ever
TAKAHASHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
>copium comes after xenogays were hyping it up to be this massive series that would outsell nearly every JRPG including FF
kek
Ganker is the only place where one's sales numbers are bigger than the previous games but is seen as failure (and conversely, ones sales numbers are smaller than previous games but is seen as success)
Super Mario Maker 2 is also considered a flop for some people when it sold 70% more than its predeccesor.
You xenotards are failing to account for budget. Xenoblade is a massive fricking open world game that requires hundreds of people to work on for several years. The fact that it only sells as much as some 2D games that get by with a fraction of the staff and budget is an embarrassment.
>requires hundreds of people
moron, XC2 was developed by a skeletron crew of less than 50 people because they were all working on BotW
>Takahashi shares with Hashino. “Of that group, between 50% to 60% was helping Nintendo with Zelda (Breath of the Wild). Of the remaining 40 to 50 people, several were part of R&D (Research & Development), and the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 staff was made of the remaining 40-plus members.
even though they hired a frickton of people since then, XC3 also probably only had a small team working on it since the bulk of the studio is probably working on BotW 2 which is most likely a massive trainwreck that they're still trying to salvage to this day
what kind of cope is this? It should be expected and known that XC3 had bigger budget than XC2. even if it was only marketing.
switch install base is nearly a hundered million higher too
And XC3 sold better.
Not by much. Only they know how much relative to its budget
No. but a game launching at 10m install base is not going to have as much audience and capability to sell as a game launching at 111M install base
Unless somehow all XC2 fans were first buyers of Nintendo. It should be expected that games tend to be bigger with the userbase. Games with hype and marketing,especially first party ones that is.
>Games with hype and marketing,especially first party ones that is
Then metroid dread is also flop since it only sol 3 million just because a console has big Install base doesn't mean everyone will be a fan of all the games, under this bizarre logic then all PS2 games were flops
For metroid that's a huge surprise since it always have dismal sales.
>under this bizarre logic then all PS2 games were flops
Not to crazy. Exclusives are the reason the system sells, when they fail to get big numbers when the system had million units around something's up. I can't remember a system with more exclusive games completely ignored than ps2.
>Not by much. Only they know how much relative to its budget
This numer doesn't include the Special Edition which XC2, included and it's a good chance it sold ~80k, effectively meaning XC3 doubled XC2's sales.
>No. but a game launching at 10m install base is not going to have as much audience and capability to sell
That's why XC2 was selling over a long period of time as the installbase grew to 110M users
>MUH Install base.
OK homosexual under your logic MK8 deluxe is flop because it only has sold 46 millions instead of 111 million like the Switch while i'm at BOTW it's also a flop because it only sold 27 million
mariokartsisters...
As a side note, you just know people are going to try and shitpost the frick out of the next Mario Kart game if it sells less than 50 million copies.
Hell why stop here? ER MEGA FLOP because it didn't sell 117 like ps4, All dark souls games? Flops too.
Tales of arise sold 300k first weak in PS4 and PS5
ER sold 1m PS4 - PS5 - PC
So which is it?
Arise? Flop too since it didn't sell 117 million with the PS4 Install base
All games are flops since we are 7 billion humans on this homosexual earth so all games that don't sell 7 billions are flops
>Tales of arise sold 300k first weak in PS4 and PS5
And it was the worst Tales of launch in the past 20 years
XBC3 is the best launch in the series.
See the difference?
not to mention Arise is a standalone story in an almost 3 decades old series that went for 5 years without a new title
meanwhile XC3 is the third Xeno game just on Switch, and is marketed as a sequel to both games to the point Nintendo had to spoil both 1's and 2's endings in their XC3 article
>And it was the worst Tales of launch in the past 20 years
that is due to PS brand declining no? as well as digital. and it wasn't that much of a decrease either. It's going to be the biggest tales overall.
>You listed 2 series that always eclipsed Xenoblade in sales.
I listed them since they're JRPG in a dead platforms
You literally had a circlejerk of moronic fanboys claiming XC3 will eclipse FF16 in Japan
I never said the game flopped. Take your fricking meds. It unironically deteriorated your brain. stop looking up sales
>stop looking up objective numbers
yeah, let's listen to your flawed logic instead
You're mentally ill who thinks everyone who even suggest a nintendo game was disappointing is a sonygay. You're mentally ill.
PS5 also has like 1M install base with half of them scalped
>someone who cites a game selling more than the previous games is disappointing is calling others mentally ill
Its really surprising with how invested you're on this you know jack shit about how this works.
I said it before. but look up Marvel movies for Disney. Some of them just above breakeven. Do you think shareholders think its good? Some of them get a hundred million more over breakeven due to inflation. Do you think shareholders think its good? When they could have gotten 200m-300m more like they used to do.
Look up opportunity cost and shareholders maximization . Nintendo isn't a family owned restaurant that's okay with stable income
>he even brings up shit as though he knows how the inner workings work
it's cute!
I don't care if you take my words in mind or not. I'm doing it for the lurker.
TLOU2 is a disappointment by the way too. same as Horizon 2
Xenoblade 2 had 90k sales but it was a niche series and progressively got more popular that made massive hype for XB3. XB3 also had bigger budget.
I'm not an industry insider. and I never said i was. I do work in a relevant subject though.
Nintendo does have better data. especially digital. Digital can be a make or break it for this game
here's the UK
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/xenoblade-chronicles-3-is-the-biggest-xeno-game-launch-in-the-uk-so-far-uk-boxed-charts
>Xenoblade Chronicles 3 beat its predecessor by just a handful of units in terms of week one physical sales. In fact, all three Xenoblade games on the Nintendo Switch sold roughly the same amount of units at launch, with Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition the No.3 biggest launch.
Well here's a thought; the audience for these games has remained largely flat, with slight growth with each subsequent release. If Nintendo were unhappy with the sales the series produces, it's likely that they wouldn't continue greenlighting these projects, since this is the third Xenoblade game released for the Switch.
Yeah that's about what I'm getting at. The growth didn't correlate to its hype or the word of mouth-marketing it had prior to launch. Which is why its disappointing.
And how precisely are we quantifying "hype" and "word of mouth marketing"? From where I'm sitting the marketing for Xenoblade 3 has been pretty much identical to what Xenoblade 2 got.
Let me guess you also think youtube views are a metric for sales too?
The fact Nintendo was happy with Astral Chain and MUA3 crossing 1 million each and calling them successes shows that they have a much lower treshold than most others, which is mostly because they know how to budget their projects to a near absurd degree
>XB3 also had bigger budget
why do you keep repeating this without a single source to back it up?
and you're also completely missing the point of series like Xenoblade existing, Nintendo "isn't a family owned restaurant", but anyone who has a basic understanding of economics would know how important is to offer a variety of products even if they're not best sellers
if it was as easy as saying "just focus on your flagships bro", Nintendo would force every single one of their studios including Monolith to develop Mario games exclusively and we would have 10 different Mario platformers and god knows how many Mario party/sports games at this stage of Switch's life because that's what sell
>I'm going to call it disappointing despite objective metrics because HYPE!
i know you're moronic, no need to show more
Obviously your care, snoytroony.
And sequels on the same system usually sell less, but a moron like you wouldn't know that
please tell me you're just an underage homosexual baiting for (you)s
this is not even about gaming industry anymore, you're completely disconnected to how the world works as a whole but still trying to pretend you know how the industry operates, this is beyond sad
Why are snoytrannies so desperately coping?
Odd you never see that argument about tlou2, even though it sold half of the first game
this is the most moronic post in the entire thread, congratulations
It's amazing that apparently Ganker is frequented by industry insiders that not only know the intricate details of Nintendo's budgeting for their games but also have insight into their feelings concerning those games as well.
Didn't BotW just need to sell like 2 million to break even? Nintendo and many other japanese devs don't usually have bloated budgets like most big western devs.
Well unless your name is Square Enix
Square is an outlier when it comes to this, but they also invest in NFT shit now so its probably gonna bite them in the ass.
Square doesn't care, wanna know why? Because FF14 keep bailing them out go look their financial reports only the team asano games do well
>Didn't BotW just need to sell like 2 million to break even?
Yes nintendo doesn't bloat their games like sony does which weird to me he keep bringing budget concerns considering how good is nintendo at maneging their budget.
Just ack yourself anon this is just sad at this point
>even if it was only marketing
so were is this marketing you're talking about anon?
you do know it costs next to nothing for nintendo to show a few minutes of ingame footage during their directs right? and that's all they did for both XC2 and XC3, there was no mass marketing campaign for either game
No,XC3 def had more marketing esp in the west. I remember a tweet from an analyst saying its the biggest they had ever. I'm looking it up.
Yes it is true. but remaining relatively flat or a minor increase is not a good result. We don't know how Metroid prime will do. and Metroid game did sell very well, much better than most metroid games in fact
No game will sell 1:1 with installbase unless it was packed with it like Wii sports nearly did
PS4 has 9M install base in japan. Switch has 26m. 23M more than when XC2 released yet only 15k more
Why are snoytrannies so bad at coping?
Sao you think bloodborne flopped, because xc3 is on its way to outsell xc2, which did.
>snoy snoy
That's how you know you need to stop visting Ganker and obsessing over numbers that have no effect in your life.
PS5 is a flop in Japan. I listed Arise and ER sales to showcase that JRPG DO get high sales even in a dead platforms like PS4 and PS5 are in Japan.
You listed 2 series that always eclipsed Xenoblade in sales.
>and PS5
PS5 was a tiny fraction of those sales
Then why are you obsessed with claiming the game flopped?
Snoytroony, that cope doesn't work
people are hyping metroid prime. not the shitty cheap 2d's
>niche JRPG grows its first week sales by about 15 percent
>this is a flop to mentally ill troons on Ganker because reasons
You dense motherfrickers
Good point HOWEVER
>first party exclusive game
>sells less at release than a ygo console game
>have to combine numbers
lol he's not even hiding it
is percentages the new shitpost to successful sales
t. defense force
I'm honestly amazed at the logic defying ways people find to cope about things in these threads.
Yeah, that's the reason why i still come to this threads. .. that and eric meltdowns, which surprisingly has happened on this current thread, maybe he is still banned after his last break down.
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/607250016/#607251502
prepare your eyes when splat3 comes, you'll have the same moronic logic of how it didn't sell bajillion copies in its first week
God, it already started if splat3 opens higher than splat2 they will scream about how it's a flop
expect that
although maybe the tards will be overpowered by squidfans
Well I'll be too busy actually playing the goddamn video game to waste my time here shitposting once it releases.
Can't wait for splatoon 3
>FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP
Ahh that explains a lot
look at this shitposting thread
Of course EVERY FRICKING TIME