Video Game Sales Thread

[DerNebel]

Decent start for Persona 5 on Amazon

[Aura7541]

Decent start for Persona 5 on Amazon

Decent? It's already outpreordering Horizon.

Spoiler for Hidden:

Another Horizon delay incoming <img src="https://vizioneck.com/forum/Smileys/alienine/tongue.png" alt="&#58;P" title="Tongue" class="smiley">

[Kerotan]

Media Create Sales: Week 22, 2016 (May 30 - Jun 05)

01./01. [PS4] Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and Prophecy's End <RPG> (Square Enix) {2016.05.27} (¥7.800) - 43.640 / 228.460 (-76%)
02./02. [PSV] Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and Prophecy's End <RPG> (Square Enix) {2016.05.27} (¥6.800) - 38.984 / 159.647 (-68%)
03./03. [PS3] Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and Prophecy's End <RPG> (Square Enix) {2016.05.27} (¥6.800) - 24.742 / 93.117 (-64%)
04./04. [PS4] Overwatch <ACT> (Square Enix) {2016.05.24} (¥7.800) - 17.897 / 76.261 (-69%)
05./06. [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot <ACT> (Nintendo) {2016.04.28} (¥4.700) - 14.832 / 300.479 (-14%)
06./07. [PS4] Uncharted 4: A Thief's End # <ADV> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2016.05.10} (¥7.900) - 6.742 / 166.661 (-33%)
07./10. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition <ADV> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.03.19} (¥2.400) - 6.555 / 786.986 (+3%)
08./09. [3DS] Yo-Kai Sangokushi <SLG> (Level 5) {2016.04.02} (¥4.600) - 6.496 / 532.480 (-13%)
09./05. [PS4] Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator # <FTG> (Arc System Works) {2016.05.26} (¥6.800) - 5.991 / 23.821(-66%)
10./13. [WIU] Splatoon # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.05.28} (¥5.700) - 5.392 / 1.377.885 (+3%)
11./12. [PS4] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 <SPT> (Konami) {2016.04.28} (¥7.980) - 5.260 / 151.392 (-7%)
12./11. [PSV] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 <SPT> (Konami) {2016.04.28} (¥6.980) - 5.065 / 136.953 (-13%)
13./16. [WIU] Super Mario Maker # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.09.10} (¥5.700) - 4.815 / 887.719 (+9%)
14./00. [PSV] Taishou x Alice: All in One <Taishou x Alice Episode 1 \ Taishou x Alice Episode 2 \ Taishou x Alice Episode 3 \ Taishou x Alice Epilogue> <ADV> (Prototype) {2016.06.02} (¥6.500) - 4.539 / NEW
15./14. [PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 <SPT> (Konami) {2016.04.28} (¥6.980) - 4.048 / 89.580 (-21%)
16./19. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games <SPT> (Nintendo) {2016.02.18} (¥4.700) - 3.344 / 167.295 (+15%)
17./18. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 <RPG> (Square Enix) {2016.03.24} (¥5.250) - 3.042 / 602.831(-11%)
18./08. [PS3] Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator # <FTG> (Arc System Works) {2016.05.26} (¥6.800) - 2.888 / 12.273(-69%)
19./26. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V [New Price Edition] <ACT> (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2015.10.08} (¥4.990) - 2.650 / 114.796
20./21. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf [Nintendo Selects] <ETC> (Nintendo) {2016.03.17} (¥2.700) - 2.462 / 52.923

Top 20

PS4 - 6
3DS - 5
PSV - 4
PS3 - 3
WIU - 2


Ps4 23k
3ds 16k
Vita 14k
Wii U 4k
PS3 1k
X1 0.05k

Ps4 beasting in Japan.  Way up on this week last year.  

Minecraft vita still killing it.  Up 3% and at #7.

Dragon quest heroes 2 second week excellent

[ethomaz]

Windows 10 notably below expectations...
Xbox One notably below expectations...
Halo 5 notably below expectations...
Minecraft notably below expectations...

These together made Phil kill Lionhead.

New Kotatu rumor.

How Fable Legends Took Down Lionhead | Kotaku UK

[Max King of the Wild]

How's mine craft below expectations?

[Xevross]

How's mine craft below expectations?

They paid $2.5bn for it. They obviously expected miracles

[Dr. Pezus]

They paid $2.5bn for it. They obviously expected miracles

They will get more than that though. Eventually

[Raven]

The thing with Minecraft is that a vast majority of its success happened before Mojang was bought by Microsoft. It was already on nearly every platform and had already sold an absurd number of copies. Microsoft likely expected its meteoric rise to continue as it was and made bad projections. The question now is, will Minecraft be a singular phenomenon that dies off over the next couple years or will it thrive as a franchise for decades?

[the-pi-guy]

The Minecraft and Windows are likely because of stupidly high expectations rather than any sort of failure.

As for Halo and Xbox. That's definitely not doing as well as expected.
What was it?  1.2m in 2 months in the biggest market at the best selling time of the year;for a franchise that basically expects to sell 7-8m, that's awful.  Wouldn't be surprised if it sold like a third of what was expected overall, and same for the Xbox.  

[Legend]

They will get more than that though. Eventually

Businesses don't care about eventually. It's all about making short term profits.

[Legend]

Windows 10 notably below expectations...
Xbox One notably below expectations...
Halo 5 notably below expectations...
Minecraft notably below expectations...

These together made Phil kill Lionhead.

New Kotatu rumor.

How Fable Legends Took Down Lionhead | Kotaku UK

Kotaku: 98% of PC Copies of Rise of the Tomb Raider Were Bought on Steam - NeoGAF

From the new article on the closure of Lionhead there was this little tidbit.

"When we started the project we weren't aware of Windows 10," says a source. "We were going to ship on Xbox One initially and then we wanted to come out on PC at a later point, most likely though Steam. But we got burnt quite badly." "Without Steam, without other platforms, it was just painful," says another. "The Windows Store is a giant disaster. It's on fire. 98% of PC copies of Rise of the Tomb Raider, a flagship Windows 10 game, were bought on Steam. The same is true for Minecraft. That hurt us, too. The store's a mess; the number of people who couldn't even install the game from the Microsoft store was... significant."

 

Windows 10 installs also lagging behind Microsoft's expectations.

Windows 10 installs, too, were nowhere near what Microsoft had planned..."There are supposed to be 2x as many Xboxes out there as there are right now. There are supposed to be 2x as many Windows 10 installs as there currently are.

 

Going off current steamspy numbers that would put the Windows Store version around ~15000 copies sold.
 

Crazy

[Dr. Pezus]

The thing with Minecraft is that a vast majority of its success happened before Mojang was bought by Microsoft. It was already on nearly every platform and had already sold an absurd number of copies. Microsoft likely expected its meteoric rise to continue as it was and made bad projections. The question now is, will Minecraft be a singular phenomenon that dies off over the next couple years or will it thrive as a franchise for decades?

I don't see it dying off. It's selling 50k+ per day even now

[Raven]

I don't see it dying off. It's selling 50k+ per day even now

In its current incarnation, yes. It's crazy. But the man behind the game didn't come with the purchase. I wonder how a sequel will do or how much longer the current version will sustain its sales.

[Dr. Pezus]

In its current incarnation, yes. It's crazy. But the man behind the game didn't come with the purchase. I wonder how a sequel will do or how much longer the current version will sustain its sales.

I mean, it could be immortal. It's like LEGO (the toy). It doesn't rely on technology or anything that time damages

[the-pi-guy]

Those are stupid high expectations.  

40m Xbox Ones?  When were these predictions made?