Team NINJA Social Media Updates for DOA6
- Thread starter deathofaninja
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Is it really flopping though?... I mean for a DOA anyway. I'd like to see some actual sales figures for the current state. I don't think it's doing that badly. They're just being real stupid right now with their communication.
There's a lot of anxiety from a lot of fans that's starting to turn into bitterness and angst and they're not doing anything to alleviate that and I feel like that makes it feel worse. Like they don't care.
I'm not giving up on the game though. Because at the end of the day this is still my favorite fighting game franchise and I have hope this will eventually be the best entry so far.
isn't it too soon to say it flopped? I am sure they will fix things around hopefully.
If what they've got going right now is enough to carry the game through this year I bet the game will start to take off Q3. Like pre-launch however, they have got to do something about this communication gap. They can't let this fan anxiety hang in the air. More than the Fanservice talks this is genuinely hurting the game.
Xhominid The Demon Within
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Dude, people have been saying SF5 is going to flop for the past 4 years and it was still successful.
SCVI was also said to be a flop, nothing happened either.
DOA is not going to flip, there's alot of dumb shit, but it's not a flop.
SF5 is still going stronger after its lackluster release. ( still bought it at launch and I don't regret it lmao). Anyways the game literally came out 15 days ago, give it at least a few months to see how things are getting fixed lol. I still wish mvcI gets an update >_<
zoo
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Same tbh, maybe in the off chance Hitomi's c4 from doa4 returns but I'm usually fine with the base costumes.
Tbf street fighter is still street fighter at the end of the day, even if capcom died suddenly that series would probably live on somewhere
Xhominid The Demon Within
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You can say that but it overall hits my point.
Guilty Gear and Blazblue and UNIEL have one thing in common: They. Sold. HORRIBLY. I highly doubt that any of those games have anything close to even half a million in sales... but they are still successful in the eyes of the publisher(well Blazblue is the most successful of the 3 but Arc-Sys never once had a massive hit in the West). So if @Tyaren or whoever in Restera say that "DOA6 ultimately sold 200K units in the first month" that's still isn't really a failure because not only has the times ultimately changed but most fighting games don't even really GET a budget anymore.
SFV absolutely did not get a budget and it's obvious they never had one and it's the same with every other Fighting game released lately and only Arc-Sys really shows that they are willing to throw down extra money for their budget and even THEY still go into the typical habits of releasing $60 re-releases and other typical crap to get some extra cash.
Raansu
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You can buy them individually on xbox which makes me believe its an issue with the stores themselves.
The only true exception to what you're talking about that I can think of is Mortal Kombat 11 with NRS/WB right now. That's what a huge budget fighter looks like and it seems to be going against the grain of current trends.
You are tagging me why?
Xhominid The Demon Within
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Well yeah, NRS has always made cash with Mortal Kombat and it's the biggest fighting game in the West due to massive casual appeal. Not even Street Fighter and Tekken can reach it's numbers lest it's worldwide.
I only tagged you due to you apparently knowing someone from Resetera? My bad.
Jyu_Viole_Grace
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As we discussed one week ago, not even FighterZ could reach DOA 5 2015 initial sales so ... obviously DOA 6 couldn't aim to these numbers but in other hand, it sold almost the same as DOA5LR so I think DOA 6 is doing well all things considered (initial controversy campaing, western media attacking it in reviews, a good bunch of youtubers attacking the day one 92€ season pass, no lobbies ... etc)
I will be happy if they fix some graphical flaws (materials, lighting and some low res textures in characters), if they add lobbies this month (today they said they will share news soon so I guess we will have it next 29th together with next DLC costumes), if they fix 8 frames delay, if they release free additional stages like in DOA5 and if they let me update the game to Ultimate (or whatever they call it) version without spending 60€ again and being able to access all that version content (stages as well).
I will be happy if they fix some graphical flaws (materials, lighting and some low res textures in characters), if they add lobbies this month (today they said they will share news soon so I guess we will have it next 29th together with next DLC costumes), if they fix 8 frames delay, if they release free additional stages like in DOA5 and if they let me update the game to Ultimate (or whatever they call it) version without spending 60€ again and being able to access all that version content (stages as well).
Do you have actual sales numbers that the rest of us doesn't have?
Jyu_Viole_Grace
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We only know JP numbers for now:
DOA 6 first week:
[PS4] Dead or Alive 6 (Koei Tecmo, 03/01/19) – 26,442 (New)
DOA5LR first week:
[PS4] Dead or Alive 5: Last Round (Koei Tecmo, 02/19/15) – 24,457 (New)
[PS3] Dead or Alive 5: Last Round (Koei Tecmo, 02/19/15) – 11,271 (New)
DOA6 second week:
[PS4] Dead or Alive 6 (Koei Tecmo, 03/01/19) – 5,223 (31,665)
DOA5LR second week:
It didn't even reach top 20 sales and the 20th top title was:
[PS4] The Order: 1886 (SCE, 02/20/15) – 4,840 (29,863)
Derock
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But that's going from physical copies. We don't know about digital copies. Right now, I'm thinking 6 will be doing ok. Nowhere near anything extravagant numbers. People did the exact same thing with Soul Calibur 6 and that exceed expectations from Namco.