11-02-2018, 04:14 PM | #1 |
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LGPE Final Predictions
How do you think LGPE is going to fare in its opening month sales-wise?
Gross Sales: How many copies do you think it will sell in its opening week/month? How do you think it will compare sales-wise with past main series titles? Demographics: Do you think it will sell well/poorly across the board? Or do you predict it selling really well with one or more demographics while selling really poorly with one or more other demographics? Pikachu vs. Eevee: Which copy is going to sell more? And by how much? Switch Sales: How many Switches do you think will be sold the week/month of LGPE's release? Would you view any of these Switch sales as coincidental, or would you credit LGPE for most of them?
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11-02-2018, 04:41 PM | #2 |
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I think the opening sales will probably be big, but it's going to tank swiftly. It's not going to come anywhere close to past main-series titles, even the sequels and remakes. They're pushing for a wider audience that they're not sure is going to bite, and they're alienating most of their hard core with it.
Demographics, I'm thinking it'll probably appeal more to younger PoGo players. Most adults will probably have looked at the trailers and realised it's a lot more kiddish than most Pokemon, which already gets stick for being childish. I think it'll probably see Eevee sell more than Pikachu. Pikachu's the mascot, but that's it. Eevee's cuter, and that's probably what the buyers will go for, given that the game's only actual selling point is the graphical beauty (which in all fairness it does have). Console sales I think will probably not spike as much as fans and producers will hope for. I don't see it flogging new consoles like any of the main titles did for older consoles. The pull of the series rep will sell a few, but honestly that could backfire. I can actually see LGPE being a severe chunk of the Switch preowned bin at most videogame stores.
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11-02-2018, 06:36 PM | #4 |
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It's going to bomb right from the outset.
Pikachu will outsell Eeevee by a longshot. I think Eevee's popularity with casuals is exaggerated by online communities. I think LGPE will drive Switch sales but since we're also heading into the holiday season, it'll probably not be coincidental, but lightly correlated.
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11-03-2018, 08:52 AM | #5 |
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Gross Sales: I'm going to guess 2 million in sales opening week, 3.5 million in sales opening month. For comparison, XY sold 4 million in its opening week and 11.6 million in its first five months.
Demographics: I think we will see obvious patterns like:
Pikachu vs. Eevee: I think Pikachu will sell more copies internationally, but that it will be a demography breakdown: the college-age casuals will have a predilection towards Eevee, while the ages 4-8 demographic will swarm towards Pikachu. In the end, I'll hazard the blind guess of 60% of all sales in the opening month will be the Pikachu version vs. 40% of all sales in the opening month will be the Eevee version. And for what it's worth: when hardcore Pokémon players pick LGPE up, I think they will display a strong bias towards the Eevee version. Blind guess of 75% Eevee 25% Pikachu sales among the Pokéfaithful. Switch Sales: I think Switch sales will be kinda lackluster. Not abysmal but not what Nintendo was wanting out of a Pokémon launch either. There's already discussion about Switch market saturation and the need for a) a price drop or b) a hardware revision to get more households to buy Switches. Normally, Pokémon would be the game to sell old, price-set hardware despite such gossip. It's what XY did with the 3DS, 3DS XL, and nascent 2DS back in 2013. But with LGPE, I don't think that many Switches are going to leave store shelves. In short, it's not the console seller it ought to be as a Pokémon main series title. But enough with the chitchat: throwing out baseless number claims, I'll hazard the guess that LGPE's opening weekend will see Switch sales total 750,000 and that its opening month will see Switch sales total 1.25 million. In other words: a little less than half of people who buy LGPE will also need to be a Switch to go with it. The rest will have already bought one for Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, or any of the other games currently out for Switch.
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