Dead or Alive 5 Ships over 500k in first month
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ChrisArmoun
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Tecmo is targeting 1 million sales for DOA5. Considering they have already hit 580k in it's first full month of sales and that fighting games rarely sell at the volume of other more established brands or genres, this is looking quite good. Tecmo also said sales of DLC are doing well, though it doesn't specify any particular game in their library.
dawnbringer
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I too think those are very decent sales for the first month. Considering all the other games released and coming up.
Interestingly, DoA5 and TTT2 had comparable first week sales in Japan (on PS3):
[PS3] Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (Namco Bandai, 09/13/12) – 62,630
[PS3] Dead or Alive 5 (Tecmo Koei, 09/27/12) – 66,586
That's actually GOOD considering it's DOA(And not SF or Tekken). Also good for a fighting game.
Raansu
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Ya 500k is pretty solid sales for the type of game it is.
Skilletor
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You say this as if DoA has a thriving competitive scene anywhere in the world.
MaxwellMouse
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I wonder how much NG3 sold.
DR2K
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630K, but that was 3 months of sales.
MasterHavik
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Even though this is good news.....we can only get 4 people at a major.
Dude. That was like one tournament in Canada that NO ONE knew about.XD
Berzerk!
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Still, its good to know and TN / TK must be given impetus to support events, even if just promotionally via their community social media channels to try and convert more of those purchasers to tournament attendees.
More tournament attendees is more exposure, and therefore more sales... and so on.
More tournament attendees is more exposure, and therefore more sales... and so on.
ChrisArmoun
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If anything, I think the initial sales help to validate their decision to openly communicate with, and receive input from, the community. The decision to tackle social media heavily also paid off. I remember when DoA5 was first announced, almost every FG site I visit, not directly dedicated to DoA (i.e. Eventhubs, iplaywinner, Shoryuken, etc.), was filled with negative reactions and biased bashing towards the game. Overtime I noticed the support continually grew more and more positive and people that previously downed the game began opening up to trying it or being completely won over entirely. I don't know how advertising went in other markets, but I've yet to see a single DoA5 commercial on TV here.
Was it even a TN event? I mean were they even involved?
MaxwellMouse
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Even still I'm a little surprised with that. I was under the impression very few people liked it. I guess that is what getting your primary opinion from internet message boards does to skew your view.