Dragon Ball Video Game Sales Discussion Thread

[Psycho50501]

I honestly want Dimps to take their time to work out all the kinks and make sure that Xenoverse is great a launch. Especially when Dimps have their hands full with Street Fighter V, which set to be released in 2016. I can honestly wait until 2017 for Xenoverse 2 if mean we'll get a game with much less issues.

Yeah for sure, but lets not forget the 2 years worth of DLC were getting for Xenoverse. So I would say 2017 is likely... 2016 would be way too soon....

[Lord Beerus]

I honestly want Dimps to take their time to work out all the kinks and make sure that Xenoverse is great a launch. Especially when Dimps have their hands full with Street Fighter V, which set to be released in 2016. I can honestly wait until 2017 for Xenoverse 2 if mean we'll get a game with much less issues.

Yeah for sure, but lets not forget the 2 years worth of DLC were getting for Xenoverse. So I would say 2017 is likely... 2016 would be way too soon....

Huh? They're are only going to be three DLC packs released and they're all going to be released this year and the first one is set to be released this month.

[Psycho50501]

I honestly want Dimps to take their time to work out all the kinks and make sure that Xenoverse is great a launch. Especially when Dimps have their hands full with Street Fighter V, which set to be released in 2016. I can honestly wait until 2017 for Xenoverse 2 if mean we'll get a game with much less issues.

Yeah for sure, but lets not forget the 2 years worth of DLC were getting for Xenoverse. So I would say 2017 is likely... 2016 would be way too soon....

Huh? They're are only going to be three DLC packs released and they're all going to be released this year and the first one is set to be released this month.

They said in a stream or something that to a degree that they will be doing DLC for 2 years... A few ppl on here have said it also.

[Silkman3003]

They seriously did? Was it the namco bandai stream with this guy?
https://twitter.com/jkartje

Or another stream?

[Psycho50501]

They seriously did? Was it the namco bandai stream with this guy?
https://twitter.com/jkartje

Or another stream?

Honestly I can not remember,,, But I remember someone saying something about it or hearing it somewhere...

[Hellspawn28]

Seeing how well Xenoverse turn out then I think it's very likely that Namco Bandai will hire Dimps to do another game. I don't see a Xenoverse sequel happening until 2017 seeing how much time and effort went into the first game. I think hiring Spike back will be a very bad idea since it can hurt sales again. I think Dimps didn't return after 2008 could be that Namco Bandai wanted sales for Burst Limit to reach the same level as Sparking 3 and thought having Spike will allow them to do reach the same level of success that the first three Sparking games did. Spike is also cheaper to hire which is why we were stuck with them for a few years after 2009.

[ArchedThunder]

Seeing how well Xenoverse turn out then I think it's very likely that Namco Bandai will hire Dimps to do another game. I don't see a Xenoverse sequel happening until 2017 seeing how much time and effort went into the first game. I think hiring Spike back will be a very bad idea since it can hurt sales again. I think Dimps didn't return after 2008 could be that Namco Bandai wanted sales for Burst Limit to reach the same level as Sparking 3 and thought having Spike will allow them to do reach the same level of success that the first three Sparking games did. Spike is also cheaper to hire which is why we were stuck with them for a few years after 2009.

I think it's pretty likely that we'll see Xenoverse 2 from DIMPS in 2017. Next year's game will be one of two things I think, A Zenkai Battle Royale console port, or a new Spike game that builds off of Raging Blast 2's roster. The second one wouldn't be too bad, they just need to simplify the gameplay and have a stupid amount of characters. If it is a Raging Blast 3/Sparking 4 I would hope that it's been in development since Ultimate Tenkaichi. We'll find out in at least 3 months what we're getting next year, I just hope it isn't a rushed sequel to Xenoverse.
Another thing to note about the whole thing, Bandai might be looking at the yearly model of Western games where they have two different teams release their games one year after eachother with two year dev cycles for each game(This is the model for games like Assassin's Creed and was the model for Call of Duty, but that has been changed to 3 different developers with three year dev cycles). It would be much smarter than having one team try to put out a sequel every year.

[Hellspawn28]

I think we might not get anything in 2016 at all. We didn't get anything in 2013 and it will be up to Namco Bandai if they want another game next year.

[Bullza]

Dimps should be the only developer for the Dragon Ball Z console games from now on and they should do a game every two years. If they could make a game once a year that had notable additions and improvements over it's predecessor then I'd be fine with that but usually such a thing requires a good two years.

After making three increasingly poor DBZ games in a row I hope that they never bring back Spike. It'd also just oversaturate the DBZ video game brand even more.

This isn't Call of Duty or Assassins Creed they don't need to keep pumping out a game every year under different developers. The games would have much greater success if Dimps made a series out of Xenoverse and they took the time to improve on them with each one.

[ArchedThunder]

I think we might not get anything in 2016 at all. We didn't get anything in 2013 and it will be up to Namco Bandai if they want another game next year.

We got DBZ for Kinect and Budokai HD collection in 2013. I'm pretty sure there is a contract in place that requires Bandai release a console DBZ game every year.

EDIT: NPD results came out, for the month of February Xenoverse was the 7th best selling retail game, the 10th was Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate selling just under 300k and the best seller was Majora's Mask 3D which sold 515K. By those two numbers It's likely Xenoverse sold around 350k physical copies in the US from February 24th to February 28th.

[DBZAOTA482]

I think we might not get anything in 2016 at all. We didn't get anything in 2013 and it will be up to Namco Bandai if they want another game next year.

We got DBZ for Kinect and Budokai HD collection in 2012. I'm pretty sure there is a contract in place that requires Bandai release a console DBZ game every year.

Fix'd.

[ArchedThunder]

I think we might not get anything in 2016 at all. We didn't get anything in 2013 and it will be up to Namco Bandai if they want another game next year.

We got DBZ for Kinect and Budokai HD collection in 2012. I'm pretty sure there is a contract in place that requires Bandai release a console DBZ game every year.

Fix'd.

Shit, really? God damn, well they could still have a yearly release contract that goes by the fiscal year, in which case Battle of Z and Xenoverse still fell in place for a "yearly schedule".

[Lord Beerus]

Dimps should be the only developer for the Dragon Ball Z console games from now on and they should do a game every two years. If they could make a game once a year that had notable additions and improvements over it's predecessor then I'd be fine with that but usually such a thing requires a good two years.

After making three increasingly poor DBZ games in a row I hope that they never bring back Spike. It'd also just oversaturate the DBZ video game brand even more.

This isn't Call of Duty or Assassins Creed they don't need to keep pumping out a game every year under different developers. The games would have much greater success if Dimps made a series out of Xenoverse and they took the time to improve on them with each one.

I'm sure Namco Bandai will give Dimps until at least 2017 to get Xenoverse. And I also really hope Spike never come as well. They were given the ball to run with and fucked up consecutively. They're second rate in my eyes now. And that's shame as a Dragon Ball Z fan, I loved Tenkaichi 2 and 3. But I guess you could say they got complacent and thought they could ride off the coat tails of their earlier success in previous games as opposed to coming up with something fresh.

[ArchedThunder]

Just in case no one saw my edit

NPD results came out, for the month of February Xenoverse was the 7th best selling retail game in the US, the 10th was Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate selling just under 300k and the best seller was Majora's Mask 3D which sold 515K. By those two numbers It's likely Xenoverse sold around 350k physical copies in the US from February 24th to February 28th.

[Lord Beerus]

Just in case no one saw my edit

NPD results came out, for the month of February Xenoverse was the 7th best selling retail game in the US, the 10th was Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate selling just under 300k and the best seller was Majora's Mask 3D which sold 515K. By those two numbers It's likely Xenoverse sold around 350k physical copies in the US from February 24th to February 28th.

Then it's well on it's way to selling a million units globally.

[ArchedThunder]

Just in case no one saw my edit

NPD results came out, for the month of February Xenoverse was the 7th best selling retail game in the US, the 10th was Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate selling just under 300k and the best seller was Majora's Mask 3D which sold 515K. By those two numbers It's likely Xenoverse sold around 350k physical copies in the US from February 24th to February 28th.

Then it's well on it's way to selling a million units globally.

With Japanese, European and American sales combined I wouldn't be surprised if it's sitting somewhere around 900k wordwide at this exact moment, and that's just retail units.
I'm so happy this game is such a hit.

[Lord Beerus]

Just in case no one saw my edit

NPD results came out, for the month of February Xenoverse was the 7th best selling retail game in the US, the 10th was Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate selling just under 300k and the best seller was Majora's Mask 3D which sold 515K. By those two numbers It's likely Xenoverse sold around 350k physical copies in the US from February 24th to February 28th.

Then it's well on it's way to selling a million units globally.

With Japanese, European and American sales combined I wouldn't be surprised if it's sitting somewhere around 900k wordwide at this exact moment, and that's just retail units.
I'm so happy this game is such a hit.

That's the power of positive word of mouth. Professional reviewers be damned.

[Bullza]

It really sold over 300,000 copies in US in just 5 days?

Vgchartz must be way off then right? I know they don't include digital sales but that surely wouldn't make up the difference. The NPD only lists the game as PS3/PS4/X360/XONE so I'm not sure if they're even including the PC/Steam sales into that.

So just between US and Japan that's at least 450,000 copies sold.

[ArchedThunder]

It really sold over 300,000 copies in US in just 5 days?

Vgchartz must be way off then right? I know they don't include digital sales but that surely wouldn't make up the difference. The NPD only lists the game as PS3/PS4/X360/XONE so I'm not sure if they're even including the PC/Steam sales into that.

So just between US and Japan that's at least 450,000 copies sold.

I told ya vgchartz isn't accurate, it's no substitution, even when numbers aren't currently available.
Also NPD doesn't track digital sales, Xenoverse is digital only on PC.

[ArchedThunder]

It really sold over 300,000 copies in US in just 5 days?

Vgchartz must be way off then right? I know they don't include digital sales but that surely wouldn't make up the difference. The NPD only lists the game as PS3/PS4/X360/XONE so I'm not sure if they're even including the PC/Steam sales into that.

So just between US and Japan that's at least 450,000 copies sold.

I told ya vgchartz isn't accurate, it's no substitution, even when numbers aren't currently available.
Also NPD doesn't track digital sales, Xenoverse is digital only on PC.

That's the power of positive word of mouth. Professional reviewers be damned.

Yup, with the super positive word of mouth the game could absolutely hit 2 million worldwide.

EDIT:WHOOPS, double post, sorry