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Re: Monster Hunter Generations Hits 3 Million Sales Across Switch And 3DS

Pikachupwnage

The breakdown is roughly 1.2 Million on Switch and roughly 1.8 Million on 3DS,as 1.8 Million is where the 3DS version sales stopped at(looking at previous updates of the platinum sellers list) and obviously given the Switch version, the typical legs of a traditional MH game in japan, and the lack of data from any source such as media create/famitsu indicating any notable sales of the 3DS version it’s likely little sales have been made since on the 3Ds Version.

Also it’s Generations Ultimate/XX not generations.

The original generations did 4.3 Million worldwide on 3DS.

This is a very sloppy article..

Re: Pokémon GO Update Makes Raid Bosses Harder To Beat, New Sinnoh Pokémon Now Available

Pikachupwnage

Wooooow what the ****? Surely they boosted drop rates of rare candy and TMs vastly as well as catch rates to make up for it being harder right?

It’s winter so it’s harder to get raid players anyways.....but rural players, disabled players, those who don’t live in an active area or simply don’t have the time

Besides the only people who can solo tier 4 raids are Endgame longtime players with full optimized teams of six Machamp/Kyogre and the like.

And tier 5 raids were still mathematically impossible to solo so why are they making them harder? Why are you making it nigh impossible for a mostly solo player to get rare candy and TMs?

I don’t have the mobility or social skills to do raids with people much. It takes like 30+ minutes walking just to get to a halfway decent raiding area in my area.

I don’t have that kind of time and for like half the year it’s too hot or cold to walk that far. I also have a job so days where I have both the time and energy to do that aren’t super abundant.

Just completely ruin raiding why don’t you....it was still tough to solo tier 3 raids and the only reason one could even solo tier 4s(with great difficulty mind you) was bevause they buffed the effect of super effective moves.

Literally all they had to so was raise the HP of the Pokémon equivalent to that buff to make it back to how it was.

They didn’t have to make Tier 3’s non soloable....you know like they have been with a high level, well made team for like for what a year+ now? The window to change that ended a long time ago. You don’t change longtime features majorly like that.

They should be refunding everyone for every premium raid pass they have led in their inventory

There was a good size playerbase of Endgame players with nothing left to do who challenged themselves to solo as many raids as possible often with handicaps.

So you just lost them too.

What a cluster****.

Refund me for every single premium raid pass in my inventory Niantic.

Re: UK Charts: New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe Launch Sales 24.8% Higher Than On Wii U, Hits Number One

Pikachupwnage

@pdapanda

And? The UK is a smaller market than say...the United States. Possibly japan to by a much smaller margin. Don’t think in terms of “ZOMG Million seller!” because outside of like FIFA, COD and maybe 1-2 outliers a year it doesn’t really happen in the UK.

These are the numbers for the top 20 selling games in the UK in

1 FIFA 19 1,889,401
2 Red Dead Redemption 2: 1,757,212
3 Call of Duty: Black Ops 4: 1,172,855
4 Spider-Man 676,621
5 Mario Kart 8: Deluxe 458,675
6 Far Cry 5: 434,133
7 Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy 430,551
8 God of War 399,395
9 Forza Horizon 4 392,960
10 FIFA 18: 351,788
11 Grand Theft Auto V 339,805
12 Spyro Reignited Trilogy 333,725
13 Battlefield V 313,100
14 Assassin's Creed Odyssey 305,937
15 Super Smash Bros Ultimate 284,155
16 Super Mario Odyssey 240,710
17 Call of Duty: WWII 230,576
18 Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu 227,767
19 Shadow of the Tomb Raider 226,125
20 Fallout 76: 218,534

A mere three games passed the Million seller mark.

In the United States I can assure that there are many more million sellers

Confirmed (officially or not)

Smash Ultimate
Pokémon Let’s Go
Super Mario Party
Super Mario Odyssey
Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
Spider-Man
Call of Duty Black OPS 4
Red Dead Redemption 2
Grand Theft Auto V
Monster Hunter World
And quite a few more

Re: Random: Project Cars Studio Is Creating Its Own Games Console, The Mad Box

Pikachupwnage

I except the company to shutter or be forced to downsize within five years. Could easily be earlier

Lmao. Why on earth would you announce it this far ahead? Why on earth would you try to compete with the big three?

And frankly if you don’t believe in exclusives why on earth would anyone buy it over the systems with established libraries, brands and a bunch of exclusives? If they want top of the line specs they will just build a PC. If they want Exclusives they will buy Switch or PS4/PS5

You won’t have as much freedom on pricing as the big companies do. It will be harder to get good deals with major manufacturers as it’s hard to safely assure enough volume and long term sales and a loss leader strategy will likely be impossible.

This thing is gonna flop. Ouya gonna have a new buddy in the “dead on arrival” club(which happens to host its meetings in a graveyard due to Ouya resisiding there)

Vita has an honorary membership and Virtual Boy Started the club though it has some old geezers everyone forgot about complaining they did it before it was cool.

Re: Nintendo Still Expects To Hit 100 Million Switch Software Sales This Financial Year

Pikachupwnage

The hardware target is still up in the air but possible.

Software target is absolutely in the bag. They did 42 Million in the first two Quarters largely on evergreens, spinoffs and ports.

Holiday boost + various bundles(Odyssey, Kart, Rabbids, Tennis, Smash etc. depending on region and such) + Pokémon + Record breaking MP sales + Record Breaking smash sales + Absurdly High attach rate evergreens...they are gonna sell more than the first two quarters combined

Honestly I think they will hit that 100 million by the end of Q3 or be so close they would effortlessly pass the goal before January ends.

Smash, Pokémon and Party are going to do over 20 Million combined alone. Smash did 5 Million in three days. Pokémon did 3 Million in a week and Super Mario Party did 1.5 Million in October(it’s done over 1.4 Million in NA alone now and ~600K at retail in japan)

So yeah. Smash will pass 10 Million. Pokémon will probably be towards the upper middle range of 5-10 Million. And Super Mario Party will do 4 Million+

Re: Feature: Inside The Twisted And Abusive Culture Of Yasha Haddaji's Nintendo Russia

Pikachupwnage

@Giygas_95

Sadly it can take awhile before enough evidence/allegations are brought to the attention of those with the power to do anything. In cases of nepotism it’s even worse.

And it’s easy enough to without evidence simply go “Yeah that person I fired was pretty crazy. Such a liar” for awhile. Companies aren’t gonna fire someone so high level he said she said or three.

And like the article says there was good pay for many so a lot of people probably just were like “Just stay quiet and think of the paycheck.”

When the only people above you are the heads of the entire worldwide company itself chances are it’s gonna take a lot to get it noticed by them.

Re: Nintendo Reveals Money-Saving Black Friday Deals For Switch And 2DS In The US

Pikachupwnage

@Pikachupwnage That said I think if Nintendo wants to keep the 3DS family going in 2019 and beyond...a price drop of 2DS to 59.99$ or even 49.99$ would be a good move in early-mid 2019.

And more Selects titles. They release those too slow. Last couple years it’s been 2-3 in Q1(CY) and that’s it(In America at least)

Plenty of good candidates for Selects releases.

Miitopia
Bravely Default(limited print)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3D(Limited print)
Starfox 64 3D(Limited Print)
Fire Emblem Awakening
Kid Icarus Uprising
Fire Emblem Fates(Especially as they can still sell DLC and the other routes to people)
Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon
Detective Pikachu(Near the movie’s release in 2019)
Super Mario Maker
Super Smash Bros
Metriod Samus Returns
Kirby Planet Robobot
Style Savvy Trendsetters
Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask 3D

And yes I know Bravely is a third party game...but Nintendo published it in the west and third party games have been Selects before.

Re: Nintendo Reveals Money-Saving Black Friday Deals For Switch And 2DS In The US

Pikachupwnage

@GameOtaku

80$ for 2DSXL is a quite steep discount...that is 70$ off. N3DSXL would be 120$.

Doesn’t sound very likely.

Anyways solid deals. It was pretty unrealistic to expect an official price drop for Switch even just for Black Friday.

I don’t expect to see any official price drop of any sort until PS5 is near(2020). Maybe a deal for 250$ Switch next Black Friday. Though they will probably just do a bundle or three at 300$(Pokémon Gen 8, Mario Odyssey, Smash Bros etc.)

Re: The 3DS Is Far From Dead, Nintendo Says It's "Continuing With Efforts To Expand Sales"

Pikachupwnage

@carlos82

The resources being put into 3DS are trivial and would not do much for Switch. They have a small handful of second party/third party developers making ports pretty much.

3DS lets them tap into a market Switch is hard pressed to hit right now because the far lower price of entry.

Reggie said awhile ago 3DS is a way to get kids into Nintendo so they buy a Switch down the line.

3DS is pretty much a form of marketing for Switch that also makes a bit of easy money as a bonus.

If 3DS were to be completely dropped the increase in software production for Switch would be nearly imperceptible.

Re: Soapbox: It's Not Cool To Lock Pokémon Behind A Paywall

Pikachupwnage

@FoxyGlen

Do your research.

https://pokemongohub.net/post/news/meltan-mystery-box-announced-new-special-research-coming-new-videos-new-mystery/

“New Special Research quests will be coming to Pokemon GO that will let you embark on a search for the Mythical Pokémon Meltan. Look forward to this new Special Research this winter, when you can participate in various investigations with Professor Willow and catch Meltan!”

Let’s go just let’s you get more Meltan. But you can get one without it.

Re: Yo-Kai Watch 3 Is Finally Headed To Europe And North America This Winter

Pikachupwnage

@Mando44646

This cannot be a serious question...

First of all a Switch version of the game never existed. This released in japan a nearly a year before Switch was released and before it was fully announced. A Localization isn’t going to make a Switch version for the west only.

Second. Google exists. For such a basic question seriously man just google it.