Video Game Market Analysis Thread

[saintsflow20]

Famitsu Sales

01./00. [NSW] Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (Marvelous) {2023.01.26} (¥4.980) - 40.759 / NEW

02./02. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Violet # (Pokemon Co.) {2022.11.18} (¥5.980) - 37.265 / 4.776.300 (-15%)

03./00. [PS5] Forspoken (Square Enix) {2023.01.24} (¥8.800) - 29.055 / NEW

04./01. [NSW] Fire Emblem: Engage # (Nintendo) {2023.01.20} (¥6.980) - 28.442 / 173.000 (-80%)

05./03. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo) {2022.09.09} (¥5.980) - 14.844 / 3.848.543 (-8%)

06./04. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} (¥5.980) - 13.138 / 5.128.314 (-5%)

07./00. [NSW] Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless # (Nippon Ichi Software) {2023.01.26} (¥6.980) - 10.359 / NEW

08./06. [NSW] Minecraft # (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} (¥3.600) - 8.399 / 3.025.019 (+3%)

09./05. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports # (Nintendo) {2022.04.29} (¥4.980) - 8.231 / 986.742 (-11%)

10./08. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami) {2020.11.19} (¥6.300) - 6.041 / 2.836.256 (+2%)

PlayStation 5 – 62.908 (2.611.718)

Switch – 51.108 (28.152.150)

Xbox Series X|S – 1.265 (403.396)

PlayStation 4 – 1.061 (9.426.599)

3DS – 74 (24.598.492)

Finally, something interesting to talk about… Forspoken opens at a grand 30k units sold. Disgaea 7 with 10k on Switch, and I’m assuming once we get the PS4 and PS5 versions listed in the Top 30 tonight, it’ll be about 20k, which would mean the low-budget small-team D7 sold 66% of Forspoken’s physical sales. This is a quite low selling Disgaea game too… D6 had a bit of a boost from a Nintendo marketing deal which was not the case here (in fact it had a small Sony marketing deal, oof). D7 was also apparently ahead of Forspoken on the PS digital marketplace.

On the other hand, PS5 took the crown for console sales. Recently, stores finally put away the lottery system you had to do to get one, so we might start seeing higher sales now. Whether or not all these consoles are actually staying in Japan is another story though.

For Xbox, it beat the PS…4 for the first time in a while lol . After the price hike announcement, Series S shot way up on Amazon.jp. We might see a decent bump next week at least.

[TheLegendaryGamer]

@FarSightXR-20

Spain Week 2

• Switch: 5.500 / 33.500 YTD
• PS5: <2.000 / 6.000 YTD
• XBS: >500 / 2.500 YTD

Week 3

Hadware

• PS5 8900
• Switch 4250
• Series 550

Xbox seem to prioritize console stocks in North America. It’s either that or it just not selling anywhere else? see the low numbers in Japan and Central Europe.

[Vivir]

Dom

[TheLegendaryGamer]

@Vivir

That good. Shows this to the FTC & EU & CMA so they can see ABK deal is not harming Sony.

[Sparda3g]

@saintsflow20

…l be about 20k, which would mean the low-budget small-team D7 sold 66% of Forspoken’s physical sales. This is a quite low selling Disgaea game too… D6 had a bit of a boost from a Nintendo marketing deal which was not the case here (in fact it had a small Sony marketing deal, oof). D7 was also apparently ahead of Forspoken on the PS digital marketplace. On the other hand, PS5 took the crown for console sales. Recently, stores finally put away the lottery system you had to do to get one, so we might start seeing higher sales now. Whether or not all these consoles are actually staying in Japan is another story though. For Xbox, it beat the PS…4 for the first time in a while lol . After the price hike announcement, Series S shot way up on Amazon.jp. We might see a decent bump next week at least.

Maybe Disgaea overstay its welcome?

[thiagosilva (thiagoツ)]

@Proven

So the two metrics Xbox really seem to care about is MAU’s and Game Pass growth, and despite shortcomings in other places both of their two most important metrics are higher than ever before.

So its a good thing to keep that in mind when analyzing this info and as you see some try and spin things a certain way.

or maybe it’s the only “good things” they have to say

[Boosted_Gear]

@thiagosilva

or maybe it’s the only “good things” they have to say

It has always been these metrics being the most important for MS, good quarter or not.

[saintsflow20]

@Sparda3g

Maybe Disgaea overstay its welcome?

Eh, it could be over saturating itself. D6 only came out in 2021 (and was one of the weakest titles in the series to boot, D7 fixed a lot of that though but maybe the damage was done). And again, them taking a small Sony marketing deal for D7 certainly didn’t help.

To compare, Disgaea 5 came out all the way back in 2015.

There’s an absolute ton of NIS America published games releasing this year though, not too worried for NIS, they’ve already admitted that NISA is their biggest source of income.

[Sparda3g]

@saintsflow20

Eh, it could be over saturating itself. D6 only came out in 2021 (and was one of the weakest titles in the series to boot, D7 fixed a lot of that though but maybe the damage was done). And again, them taking a small Sony marketing deal for D7 certainly didn’t help.

To compare, Disgaea 5 came out all the way back in 2015.

There’s an absolute ton of NIS America published games releasing this year though, not too worried for NIS, they’ve already admitted that NISA is their biggest source of income.

Not worry about NIS. Just wondering the case.

[Proven]

@thiagosilva

or maybe it’s the only “good things” they have to say

They focus on these metrics through good and bad, contrary to popular belief they are not hiding anything. And they already highlighted the areas they declined.

[thiagosilva (thiagoツ)]

@Proven

they are not hiding anything

[Proven]

@thiagosilva

They moved away from focusing on console sales to align themselves more with Microsoft’s overall goals of MAU’s. No matter how you want to spin it they haven’t focused on console sales in years because their ambitions go well beyond plastic boxes

[thiagosilva (thiagoツ)]

@Proven

They moved away from focusing on console sales to align themselves more with Microsoft’s overall goals of MAU’s. No matter how you want to spin it they haven’t focused on console sales in years because their ambitions go well beyond plastic boxes

they don’t show the profits of the Xbox division. to this day we don’t know how many subscribers Live Gold has, as they keep this thing alive, it’s been a long time since we last knew the number of XGP subscribers. and other things… it is not possible to say that they do not hide anything.

[CallMeCraig]

@thiagosilva

they don’t show the profits of the Xbox division. to this day we don’t know how many subscribers Live Gold has, as they keep this thing alive, it’s been a long time since we last knew the number of XGP subscribers. and other things… it is not possible to say that they do not hide anything.

They also don’t show the profits for Windows, Office, SQL Server, Visual Studio or other stuff. What are they hiding?

[Zappy5]

@thiagosilva

they don’t show the profits of the Xbox division. to this day we don’t know how many subscribers Live Gold has, as they keep this thing alive, it’s been a long time since we last knew the number of XGP subscribers. and other things… it is not possible to say that they do not hide anything.

You know that financial reports aren’t done to satiate the needs of rabid internet console war fanboys yeah? They are prepared to align to a companies financial reporting structures and obligations.

It’s amazing how people don’t get this.

[Resist]

I really wonder how some of you go through the trials and tribulations of real life with how the way you constantly react to some gaming news.

[ShinMegamiTenseiX]

@Sparda3g

World Cup hype really helped.

That remind me, is the contract with Game Pass close to ending or has it expanded? It has been doing more good than harm.

Shame EA didnt do a proper world cup game for FIFA. I miss those days

One of the best football games ive played was Fifa world cup 2010.

[thiagosilva (thiagoツ)]

@Zappy5

You know that financial reports aren’t done to satiate the needs of rabid internet console war fanboys yeah?

i’m a PC guy. i don’t have time for this.

[BadNews]

Just seen this, and makes me wonder that Microsoft failing last gen was the worst time since last gen was about building digital library

NESbot

[thiagosilva (thiagoツ)]

looking forward to Nintendo numbers.