Not surprising, they only had about three or four characters to appeal to Japanese audiences. They really should have at least tried to get a Yakuza or Tales of character as DLC before releasing it Japan.
@MmaFan, consider this... Mario has grown his reputation through THIRTY-TWO years. Give that amount of time to any video game character and they're bound to be popular. -_-
Is there anyway to determine that they are actually from Japan? Anyone can give themselves a Japanese name for their profile. Not to mention that when you join into the server, it will most commonly attempt to connect you to people closer to you for the best possible connection.
Well 1) I live in Japan. 2) I join fights in matters of seconds since the JPN launch instead of waiting mnutes like I did before. 3) They speak natural Japanese over mics. 4) Their profiles say they speak Japanese, with Kanji used, and they play Japanese released games.
So I am pretty sure that I have been playing Japanese people as of late.
Okay, for future's sake, you may wanna mention you live in Japan lol... I didn't mean to offend by any means, it's just that it is not unusual for people to assume that you'd live either within the US or EU.
The Wii U is doing okay. The sales will go up when Monster Hunter/Rayman come out. I personally have never played Monster Hunter, but I am tempted to at least rent it for a couple of days and see if I like it. Now on the flip side Rayman is beautiful and very fun (well the demo is). With very limited must have game exclusives on Wii U right now some could not justify the cost of a new system. That is all changing very shortly. I was a little shocked at 360's sales though.
What does the poor Wiiu sales have anything to do with the current game offerings? Wasn't the Wiiu launch lineup touted as "the best launch lineup ever in the history of gaming", or is that not true anymore?
It's not true anymore. Most of the good looking games that were slated for "Launch window" aren't out yet, and Zombi U wasn't as good as people were expecting.
If you look at total sales it would seem the Wii U is doing OK. But if you look at the sales trend it's not good news. Most of the sales were right at the start, but since then it's plummeted well below what other consoles were selling at this point after launch.
So there was a large pent up demand for the Wii U thus the good initial sales, but so far they have failed to gain widespread appeal beyond their core fans.
Vita Sells more software? Links please? Nintendo sold over 11 million units of software so far. I think the Wii U software sales have actually been good.
However, it needs the second wave of games to come out for it. Rayman is coming soon, and Monster Hunter in March so that will help.
Why were you shocked by the 360s sales? It's pretty much been in line w/ that since launch. Japanese are very proud people and usually back homemade products vs. Foreign made products.
Since xbox 360 is made by an American Company it is much harder to get Penetration in the Japanese market. It has sold over 1 million lifetime to date though.
I live in Japan and have had Japanese High school students over. Whenever I get the Kinect out they LOVE it...They have no idea what it is, but really love Kinect sports.
Why would Rayman boost the sales of the WiiU? I can see Monster Hunter giving it a short term boost esp over here in Japan...But, Rayman? I can't see that giving it any kind of sales for the system.
If giving the Iphone away for free is an awesome business plan then yes! Apple does GREAT over here.
I have lived over here for 3 years. I don't leave Japan until Nov 2013. If a Japanese person has a choice of a home grown product or a foreign product 9 times out of 10 they will go w/ the home grown product.
Japan backed the god awful Mini-Disc Sony format far longer then the rest of the world... That alone should tell you something!
Sony needs to focus on being sony.. Not mimicking nintendo with lbp karting or PSABR.. If they focused that energy into releasing Last Guardian & FF versus 13, stuff like this wouldnt happen... Nx gen will give em a fresh start but all this western appeal with shooters n stuff makes me not wana play games anymore..
Wii U is doing bad because it has nothing but recycled content to offer.. That system shouldve launched with NEW games & not 3DS/Wii games in HD.. Smash bros shouldve been ready at launch even if they had to delay the system launch.. Bayo 2 & rayman legends shouldve been complete & ready to go too
Wii U is not doing bad. It has sold more than PS360at their launch. The Wii U is almost at 4 million. I will betcha PS4/720 will not beat Wii U's numbers in their launch window. I want PS4, but I am going to wait and see what the cost is going to be before I pick one up. PS3 basic at launch $499. The Wii U has a year head start so it should have a nice base by this fall. If Sony and Microsoft release at about the same time they are going to be going head to head against each other. Most people are not going to pick both systems up within a month of one another. That would be over $1000 dollars in consoles. Of coarse I will not be picking up a 720 at all, and I am really hoping PS4 will be under $399 or less, but I I guess I will have to wait and see. Rayman should have been ready at launch it was pushed back, But now it is less than 3 weeks away. Zombi U is hardly "recycled". NSMB is much better on Wii U than WIi, Nintendoland is a very cool game. BOPS 2 is better on Wii U than PS3, Lego City looks great and more importantly fun ( I don't need a game to swear and have a ton of blood to have fun playing it.) Alien Colonial the Wii U version you have the scanner on the gamepad I can not wait to play that game (although the last trailer I HATED the voice work)...By November there will be a very nice library Available....I like games and Sony and Nintendo are the best.
Please just stop. You really think that multiplats are going to help sell the Wii U (with the exception of Monster hunter)? If anything it's their first party ip's is what everyone is waiting for ;)
Idc what anyone says ive enjoyed Play station all stars way more than smash brothers. I like this game and it has a pretty good following with ppl that purchased it. My friends that bought it are always playing it.
Goes to show ppls taste i bought farcry3 and have only played it like 7 hours because i detest its repetition and boredom, however PS All Stars ive probably put more than 20 hours into it. Different genres of course but my point still stands (farcry 3 hyped up to death and i hate it and Ps all Stars constantly criticized and i enjoy it)
not surprised that it flopped. Not a bad game but it just doesn't have an audience. Bad idea on that one sony. Now I guess we will see a XB all stars....lol
Why is the media so trying to focus on All stars flopping? instead of trying to tell people what the game has to offer if you put time into it to learn how to fight.
This article should have been All games are faltering in Japan cause non of them are selling that well. Instead the media trying to put All stars in the forefront just to make it seem like the game is bad.
The games topping it were ones that have been on the market for weeks or even months. To sell 12,000 in your debut is floppier than flop, dude.
It was expected to sell far more than this, and it didn't. News is what's unexpected or surprising; that's what gets reported.
"...instead of trying to tell people what the game has to offer if you put time into it to learn how to fight. " You mean like a review and preview? Those have been posted. You can't make every post try to sell a game. That makes your publication biased.
Most people prefer media without bias, so your idea doesn't really fly.
Of course PS All Stars would flop in Japan. Except for Toro, there are no characters that demographic really cares about. If they put Cloud, Sora or something from Monster Hunter, there would be.
Lol according to the top charts almost every game sold piss ass poor in Japan lol. And it beat Monster Hunter so I guess that game and every game that sold less the PS Allstar sold bad. GTFO of here!!!
PSASBR did fair it's first week WW without Japan. This game has way more characters that appeal to the west then the east. Of course this game was going to sell like trash in Japan. It's first week every where else was decent.
only a few of the playable charters are popular in Japan i can name like 3 and the rest are just like random that's why maybe it didn't appeal to the Japanese crowd i think they should have let Japanese Dev made this game
It's funny, when I said this game was going to flop months ago. In came the disagrees. Been around this scene a very long time. Sometimes it just easy to tell.
same here lol, the roster is bad, Drake, Big Daddy, a skeleton with sword, Donte, prapa or whatever his name is...ect not to mention it's a blind SSB ripoff, of course it's going to flop in japan
That's the thing about this site. The bubble system is total crap. You can't even state facts on this site without having people just click disagree. While some of us have over 30 years of very hardcore gaming experience. We can tell you what it was like to game on PC when they just had green screens.....
we all knew it would flop. it flopped in the NA as well. This is why the dev studio has been let go by SCEA. They probably didnt appreciate the blatant carbon copy of another game, and a bad one at that. the name was also a joke. all star battle galactic royal what the ? LMAO. They should have just done something like MvC visuals. Would have appealed more to sony's 'hardcore' users. I have a ps3 by the way and was hoping it was good but it wasnt.
The Japanese market is irrelevant anyway. They are always--and probably always will be--different from America's. Who cares anyway? Not like it directly effects our economy and it sure as hell doesn't affect our opinion.
I dont know why vita fanｓ keep lying to themselves. First Uncharted would be a success, than Persona 4 would boost vita sales, Then Mod nations, then COD, now PASBR fail hard and they keep this "give it time" bullshit.
If the best vita games are not selling it does not help at all, sony already used a lot of strong cards and vita fans should be aware that if sonys bust all their hits now there will be no big 1st party to help vitas sales... in my opinion the most important is the price; 25,000 yen is still expensive for a handheld (you can buy a ps3 with that money...), plus the overpriced memory sticks, buying a vita is out of question to a lot of users.
Lets hope feb 20, sony will bring a 50 USD price cut for the vita or at least put a bundle for the same price but that includes a free memory stick/game. Vita is already out for more than 1 year and it still cannot beat even its older brother. Pokemon and Monster Hunter 4 is just right on the corner, sony needs to move FAST!
I still think the Vita i suffering there because it lacks an UMD port, i mean for one the PSP keeps getting games because is popular and the digital distribution feels like a Ripoff in Vita when you have your phisycal copy of your PSP games, i mean the Vita is an upgrade is just logical to have backwards compatibility and witouth this the Vita´s current situation in Japan doesnt seems to change anytime soon.
At least thats one of the reasons im not interested in a Vita.
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Stop kidding yourself. We all know Sony blatantly copied Nintendo's SSBB.
bla bla fckn blah, and all the fps in the worlds are a blatant wolfeinstein3d ripoff.
deal with it silly kid.
Sack boy = failed mario
that cart racing thing = failed mario cart
this crap = failed smash brows
whats next paper ____(sony character) ?
sony character tennis?
wii sports cl... well that was done.
...seriously, troll?
Sonic The Fighters. Thats is all.
Nintendo Wii was inspired by the EyeToy
PS3 Trophies was inspired by 360 Acheivements
360 controller was inspired by the Sony Dualshock
or if you want games
Nintendo Wii Sports was inspired by PS2 Eyetoy play sports
PS All Stars was inspired by Nintendo Brawl
360 Lips was inspired by SingStar
You guys need to find another hobby..
it doesnt even matter nor does it make any sense.
Just stop it.
Its dumb
why is it that cookie cut call of duty sold more than all the jrpgs combined from every platform from ps1/n64 to now?
1) I live in Japan.
2) I join fights in matters of seconds since the JPN launch instead of waiting mnutes like I did before.
3) They speak natural Japanese over mics.
4) Their profiles say they speak Japanese, with Kanji used, and they play Japanese released games.
So I am pretty sure that I have been playing Japanese people as of late.
So there was a large pent up demand for the Wii U thus the good initial sales, but so far they have failed to gain widespread appeal beyond their core fans.
However, it needs the second wave of games to come out for it. Rayman is coming soon, and Monster Hunter in March so that will help.
Right hand side.
Global Software by Platform
Platform Weekly (change) Total
PS3 1,453,479 (+2%) 638,418,4 58
X360 1,195,747 (-1%) 735,230, 398
Wii 632,402 (+10%) 835,304,29 6
3DS 427,438 (-4%) 68,726,135
DS 338,893 (+8%) 758,079,168
PC 338,840 (+16%) N/A
PSP 187,109 (-1%) 272,021,795
PSV 130,433 (+69%) 9,943,377
WiiU 72,654 (-6%) 5,060,845
Since xbox 360 is made by an American Company it is much harder to get Penetration in the Japanese market. It has sold over 1 million lifetime to date though.
I live in Japan and have had Japanese High school students over. Whenever I get the Kinect out they LOVE it...They have no idea what it is, but really love Kinect sports.
Why would Rayman boost the sales of the WiiU? I can see Monster Hunter giving it a short term boost esp over here in Japan...But, Rayman? I can't see that giving it any kind of sales for the system.
http://www.wired.com/gadget...
If giving the Iphone away for free is an awesome business plan then yes! Apple does GREAT over here.
I have lived over here for 3 years. I don't leave Japan until Nov 2013. If a Japanese person has a choice of a home grown product or a foreign product 9 times out of 10 they will go w/ the home grown product.
Japan backed the god awful Mini-Disc Sony format far longer then the rest of the world... That alone should tell you something!
Wii U is doing bad because it has nothing but recycled content to offer.. That system shouldve launched with NEW games & not 3DS/Wii games in HD.. Smash bros shouldve been ready at launch even if they had to delay the system launch.. Bayo 2 & rayman legends shouldve been complete & ready to go too
If Sony and Microsoft release at about the same time they are going to be going head to head against each other. Most people are not going to pick both systems up within a month of one another. That would be over $1000 dollars in consoles. Of coarse I will not be picking up a 720 at all, and I am really hoping PS4 will be under $399 or less, but I I guess I will have to wait and see.
Rayman should have been ready at launch it was pushed back, But now it is less than 3 weeks away. Zombi U is hardly "recycled". NSMB is much better on Wii U than WIi, Nintendoland is a very cool game. BOPS 2 is better on Wii U than PS3, Lego City looks great and more importantly fun ( I don't need a game to swear and have a ton of blood to have fun playing it.) Alien Colonial the Wii U version you have the scanner on the gamepad I can not wait to play that game (although the last trailer I HATED the voice work)...By November there will be a very nice library Available....I like games and Sony and Nintendo are the best.
Goes to show ppls taste i bought farcry3 and have only played it like 7 hours because i detest its repetition and boredom, however PS All Stars ive probably put more than 20 hours into it. Different genres of course but my point still stands (farcry 3 hyped up to death and i hate it and Ps all Stars constantly criticized and i enjoy it)
Most people bashing it haven't even tried it.It's a shame sales ain't that great cause I would like to see sequels of this
This article should have been All games are faltering in Japan cause non of them are selling that well. Instead the media trying to put All stars in the forefront just to make it seem like the game is bad.
It was expected to sell far more than this, and it didn't. News is what's unexpected or surprising; that's what gets reported.
"...instead of trying to tell people what the game has to offer if you put time into it to learn how to fight. "
You mean like a review and preview? Those have been posted. You can't make every post try to sell a game. That makes your publication biased.
Most people prefer media without bias, so your idea doesn't really fly.
Yeah, it's in this post below the MC numbers.
For PSABR, I don't doubt it sold poorly...
And after Pokemon and Dragon Quest release, 3DS will basically have Japan on lock (well, more on lock than it oes currently).
That is why PSP is popular. It has a ton of games to play + all the other stuff you can do with it.
hope that is the last we see of that rip off game
smash brothers is the real deal and the Japanese know it
1) Not every game was BRAND NEW on the market. Your first week is almost always your biggest, especially in Japan.
2) Most of those games had budgets below that of PSASBR, meaning they can afford to sell fewer copies and still make a profit.
PS Vita is picking up more speed in Japan, it's sales are almost as much as the Wii U's.
http://www.famitsu.com/news...
Point is, though, that the two are selling about the same, which is a pretty interesting storyline for sure.
If the best vita games are not selling it does not help at all, sony already used a lot of strong cards and vita fans should be aware that if sonys bust all their hits now there will be no big 1st party to help vitas sales... in my opinion the most important is the price; 25,000 yen is still expensive for a handheld (you can buy a ps3 with that money...), plus the overpriced memory sticks, buying a vita is out of question to a lot of users.
Lets hope feb 20, sony will bring a 50 USD price cut for the vita or at least put a bundle for the same price but that includes a free memory stick/game. Vita is already out for more than 1 year and it still cannot beat even its older brother. Pokemon and Monster Hunter 4 is just right on the corner, sony needs to move FAST!
At least thats one of the reasons im not interested in a Vita.