Topic: Official Sales Thread

[Nile Boogie Returns]

Gaming demographics differ from political ones. You can generalize, but it lessens the validity of your point. Who expected Donkey Kong to sell WiiUs? Not one site, including this one pegged that title as a "system seller", formally known as a "killer app"?  I don't think Nintendo thought that either. It was a supplemental title at best. A support trophy if you will, not on the main roster.

Which leads me to the meat. Smash bros. is the ONE.  The game that can and will sell  systems.

[Enner]

Japan numbers!

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=826627

Top-seller: [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2014: Samurai Blue Challenge  - 35.656 / NEW

Nintendo 3DS/3DS XL sales:    23.224 /  15.585.986

PlayStation Vita/Vita TV sales:  15.212 /   2.922.219

Wii U sales: 9.024 / 1.745.554

PlayStation 4 sales : 7.543 /    581.182

Media Create Sales: Week 21, 2014 (May 19 - May 25)

01./00. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2014: Samurai Blue Challenge <SPT> (Konami) {2014.05.22} (Â¥8.208) - 35.656 / NEW
02./00. [PS4] Infamous: Second Son <ACT> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.05.22} (Â¥7.452) - 34.801 / NEW
03./03. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch <RPG> (Level 5) {2013.07.11} (Â¥4.800) - 33.974 / 984.009 (+12%)
04./00. [PSV] To Love Ru Trouble: Darkness - Battle Ecstasy # <ADV> (FuRyu) {2014.05.22} (Â¥7.538) - 22.327 / NEW
05./00. [3DS] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2014: Samurai Blue Challenge <SPT> (Konami) {2014.05.22} (Â¥5.119) - 16.762 / NEW
06./01. [PS3] The Idolmaster: One for All # <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.05.15} (Â¥8.208) - 12.488 / 95.883 (-85%)
07./02. [PSV] Genkai Totsuki Moero Chronicle # <RPG> (Compile Heart) {2014.05.15} (Â¥7.344) - 9.492 / 42.450 (-71%)
08./00. [PSV] Amnesia World # <ADV> (Idea Factory) {2014.05.22} (Â¥6.264) - 8.650 / NEW
09./00. [PSP] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2014: Samurai Blue Challenge <SPT> (Konami) {2014.05.22} (Â¥3.067) - 7.245 / NEW
10./04. [3DS] Mario Golf: World Tour <SPT> (Nintendo) {2014.05.01} (Â¥4.937) - 7.069 / 93.279 (-25%)
11./05. [3DS] Mario Party: Island Tour <ETC> (Nintendo) {2014.03.20} (Â¥4.800) - 6.741 / 377.925 (-16%)
12./07. [3DS] Pokemon X / Y # <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2013.10.12} (Â¥4.800) - 5.489 / 4.068.956 (-1%)
13./06. [PSV] Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment # <RPG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.04.24} (Â¥6.664) - 5.267 / 206.648 (-33%)
14./10. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 # <ACT> (Capcom) {2013.09.14} (Â¥5.990) - 4.244 / 3.281.369 (+25%)
15./09. [3DS] Kirby Triple Deluxe <ACT> (Nintendo) {2014.01.11} (Â¥4.800) - 4.055 / 588.563 (-10%)
16./12. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 <RCE> (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} (Â¥4.800) - 3.960 / 2.322.537 (+18%)
17./08. [3DS] Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call # <ACT> (Square Enix) {2014.04.24} (Â¥6.264) - 3.057 / 123.606 (-33%)
18./15. [PS3] Grand Theft Auto V <ACT> (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2013.10.10} (Â¥7.770) - 3.020 / 778.762 (+2%)
19./13. [3DS] Style Savvy: Trendsetters - Tokimeki Up! <ETC> (Nintendo) {2014.04.17} (Â¥4.936) - 2.972 / 39.121 (-6%)
20./14. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2012.11.08} (Â¥4.800) - 2.932 / 3.737.633 (-4%)

Top 20

3DS - 11
PSV - 4
PS3 - 3
PS4 - 1
PSP - 1

HARDWARE
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|System | This Week  | Last Week  | Last Year  |     YTD    |  Last YTD  |     LTD     |
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| 3DS # |     23.224 |     23.600 |     54.710 |    924.066 |  1.711.397 |  15.585.986 |
| PSV # |     15.212 |     13.865 |     12.171 |    566.862 |    463.393 |   2.922.219 |
|  WIU  |      9.024 |      6.716 |      5.648 |    220.124 |    301.619 |   1.745.554 |
|  PS3  |      7.565 |      7.339 |     13.318 |    261.286 |    417.831 |   9.970.960 |
|  PS4  |      7.543 |      6.792 |            |    581.182 |            |     581.182 |
| PSP # |      1.479 |      1.642 |      5.749 |     72.663 |    268.980 |  20.141.072 |
|  360  |        202 |        201 |        382 |      5.540 |     13.393 |   1.644.856 |
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|  ALL  |     64.249 |     60.155 |     93.170 |  2.631.723 |  3.215.097 |  52.591.829 |
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| PSVTV |      1.142 |      1.055 |            |     36.933 |            |     113.177 |
|  PSV  |     14.070 |     12.810 |     12.171 |    529.929 |    463.393 |   2.809.042 |
| 3DSLL |     18.374 |     18.350 |     40.651 |    658.620 |  1.090.638 |   6.084.506 |
|  3DS  |      4.850 |      5.250 |     14.059 |    265.446 |    620.759 |   9.501.480 |
|  PSP  |      1.479 |      1.642 |      5.749 |     72.663 |    268.980 |  19.965.085 |
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Soccer is the name of the game this week as Winning Eleven takes to the top 10. Alongside it is Infamous Second Son at 2nd. Yokai Watch should top one million by next week.

[Khushrenada]

Wii U has beat the PS4! This generation is over! Calling it.

[Ian Sane]

Not a bad jump for the Wii U and yet it has no titles in the top 20.  What made this week so special?

[Nile Boogie Returns]

Mario kart 8 comes out next week, these are people picking it up in advance of that. NSMB U. Also saw a considerable jump this week. Next week, Nintendo will crush the world under its Zero G gas pedal. Expect Wii u to jump to 35-40k and MarioKart8 to hit about 300,000 for the month.

[marvel_moviefan_2012]

I don't get the notion Wii was a once in a lifetime success considering Sony had TWO generations in a row that sold that well and had that same level of success. PS3 is considered a "flop" because it 'barely' sold 60+ million and somehow SNES which sold less than that was a smash success? I think people put too much into the numbers.


I don't think Metroid would have moved consoles. I don't have a Wii U yet but I am still interested in Super Mario 3D World and DKC:TP, a new Metroid for me at least would have to be a side scroller like the old ones or else not interested. I enjoyed prime but that was it, I didn't care one bit for it's sequels.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I don't get the notion Wii was a once in a lifetime success considering Sony had TWO generations in a row that sold that well and had that same level of success. PS3 is considered a "flop" because it 'barely' sold 60+ million and somehow SNES which sold less than that was a smash success? I think people put too much into the numbers.

The Playstation did big numbers, had all the support and long steady sales because of it.
Playstation 2 did bigger numbers, had all the support and did even longer steady sales because of it.

Wii came off a failure, had little to no serious support, was sold out for the first 3 years, and did record numbers in those 3 years based off of HYPE and Nintendo Wii___ games. Had the Wii held long steady sales like the PS/2... it would have sold like 200M systems by now. It was a once in a lifetime lightning strike on a gold mountain encrusted with diamonds. Nintendo obviously couldn't recreate it if they wanted to... because they already tried and failed.

PS3 is considered a "Flop" because despite selling 60Million consoles, they lost every bit of profit from the PS/2 generations in the first 3-4years on the market first.
Just as the Xbox Division is considered a disaster despite selling 50-60M X360 consoles, since regardless of what they have sold, the division has yet to come within $1B of breaking even, much less making a profit.

SNES was a "smashing" success because it was awesome. It was the Playstation before there was a playstation. It may not have sold as much as the NES, but there was a smaller market and stiff competition from Sega, and other competitors in the market like NeoGeo, CDi, and a few others I can't remember right now (Pippin?) that the NES didn't really have.

[BranDonk Kong]

PS3 wasn't and isn't a flop. It wasn't profitable for a long time, but it still sold over 80 million systems (don't know where that 60 came from). Xbox 360 also sold 80 million.

[marvel_moviefan_2012]

I don't get the notion Wii was a once in a lifetime success considering Sony had TWO generations in a row that sold that well and had that same level of success. PS3 is considered a "flop" because it 'barely' sold 60+ million and somehow SNES which sold less than that was a smash success? I think people put too much into the numbers.

The Playstation did big numbers, had all the support and long steady sales because of it.
Playstation 2 did bigger numbers, had all the support and did even longer steady sales because of it.

Wii came off a failure, had little to no serious support, was sold out for the first 3 years, and did record numbers in those 3 years based off of HYPE and Nintendo Wii___ games. Had the Wii held long steady sales like the PS/2... it would have sold like 200M systems by now. It was a once in a lifetime lightning strike on a gold mountain encrusted with diamonds. Nintendo obviously couldn't recreate it if they wanted to... because they already tried and failed.

PS3 is considered a "Flop" because despite selling 60Million consoles, they lost every bit of profit from the PS/2 generations in the first 3-4years on the market first.
Just as the Xbox Division is considered a disaster despite selling 50-60M X360 consoles, since regardless of what they have sold, the division has yet to come within $1B of breaking even, much less making a profit.

SNES was a "smashing" success because it was awesome. It was the Playstation before there was a playstation. It may not have sold as much as the NES, but there was a smaller market and stiff competition from Sega, and other competitors in the market like NeoGeo, CDi, and a few others I can't remember right now (Pippin?) that the NES didn't really have.

The Playstation had stiff competition for a year too. Most of that was killed off early on but when it launched it was up against Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, Jaguar, Neo Geo CD, 3DO, and it was a new unknown company to the video game arena. They didn't just put it out and it sold like hot cakes it took off quickly sure but it was a bumpy first year, it's first year it was out sold by Saturn. There were others out there and by the time n64 came along most of the other competition was long gone leaving just PS and N64 to duke it out as Sega was already showing their irrelevance by then.


PS2 had a big help in that it was ridding the success of PS1 and it was riding the DVD hype train for the first year or so. Once that wore off it was too late the machine was up and running. Wii sold like crazy Nintendo could have turned that around and repeated it with Wii U, they chose not because they listened to those who wanted a supposedly more hard core machine. Wii was only $250 when it launched, which was of course barely fifty bucks higher than it's predecessors, Ps2 was priced for the masses it launched at $300 bucks, could play PS1 and Ps2 games and was a decent DVD player for the time, price wise anyways. PS3 was over priced when it was new Wii U is still overpriced for what it is.



Wii lost steam early on but at least it had some steam to being with, Game Cube was an uphill battle the entire time and yet it did better than Wii U is doing right now. The reality is nobody can predict where Nintendo did wrong or what will fix them, not even Nintendo can figure it out so it's just such a crazy business. If anything in the gaming industry made sense Atari would still be running the show.

[Soren]

Mario Kart 8 sold 1.2 million units worldwide over the weekend, becomes the fastest selling Wii U game to date.


http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=41679




 

[Khushrenada]

I predict PS4's will be sold in the bargin bins by the end of the year with the way things are going now.

[Luigi Dude]

[BlackNMild2k1]

Finally, some good news.
Hopefully this is the start of a resurgence.
Please fix my Netflix Nintendo.

[Nile Boogie Returns]

Have you tried uninstalling the Netflix app? I haven't had a problem since doing that.






BACK ON TOPIC: Looks like my 300,000 sold for MarioKart in japan may be slightly off. Make that 650,000 for june and 2million WW.

[BranDonk Kong]

1.2 million is really good for the Wii U, but imagine if the console actually had an established install base.

[azeke]

1.2 million is really good for the Wii U

It's a baseline. Every single Mario game console did at least million. Even freaking Luigi hit million.

[Caliban]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH that's just awesome.

[BranDonk Kong]

Who is the guy between Ballmer and Kaz? Looks like Jean-Philipe from Hell's Kitchen.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Have you tried uninstalling the Netflix app? I haven't had a problem since doing that.

I will give that a shot. Nothing to lose at this point...

[ShyGuy]

Who is the guy between Ballmer and Kaz? Looks like Jean-Philipe from Hell's Kitchen.

Don Mattrick, formerly of MS.

[Stratos]

That is an amazing turnaround for the system. Though, if it is just for the current install base then this will die out real fast. Any word on system sales during this time?

[Mop it up]

How does it compare to the first week of Mario Kart Wii? That may be a relevant comparison.

[broodwars]

News flash: 1st party Nintendo title sells well on a console built to only sell 1st party Nintendo games.

[BlackNMild2k1]

News flash: 1st party Nintendo title sells well on a console built to only sell 1st party Nintendo games.

Are you being sarcastic? I think you're being sarcastic. He's being sarcastic folks.

[broodwars]

News flash: 1st party Nintendo title sells well on a console built to only sell 1st party Nintendo games.

Are you being sarcastic? I think you're being sarcastic. He's being sarcastic folks.

Wait! WAIT! We're getting an update! "Breaking News: Wii U owners with nothing to play for 3 months decide to spend money on new Nintendo 1st party title! Truly, this is a game-changer in the Wii U's fortunes as the console looks to have its next retail title in...December-ish, 6 months later. Back to you, Black!"