Shenmue 3 Marketing Analysis Thread

Agh, so much negativity in the comments. Epic this, Steam that... I thought people had let that garbage go by now.

That's one thing I'm afraid of. Curious new customers google Shenmue III and get results about how "it broke promises" when it didn't.
Yeah googling Shenmue 3 it's what I get a lot of. The thing needs to launch. I think they'll be drowned in users streaming themselves playing their dreams come true. Especially if you'll be from PC streaming Epic's version. Showing it didn't make your PC explode.
 
You literally have no life if it's emotionally centered around choosing a stupid platform, i.e., Epic or Stream. Who cares???? Download both and, then, spend time crying about something that matters. People are legit losers, and this has nothing to do with defending S3, either. It just blows my mine this is still a thing. They have it too good...brats!
 
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Here's a link to sites with preorder data we can access:

Note that a lot of these preorders aren't cumilative. It's how they are doing as of the time and date. So if Shenmue had 50 preorders yesterday putting it at say #5 and only 10 today, then it'll go to #10 for example.

Amazon UK At time of post #10 and #31 and #64 (day one, koch media, and collectors which is out of stock)
Game UK #35 (but just behind Need for Speed and Death Stranding which launch 11 and 7 days ahead, respectively, so if it's keeping track with those titles, that's good)
Simply Games UK - #8 (collectors edition) and #14 (day one edition) across ALL sales including released (so includes CoD for example)

Best Buy USA #8 (but #1-5 are mutiple versions of Jedi and Death Stranding). Ahead of Need for Speed which launches a week earlier.
Amazon USA #25 includes already available games, systems and accesories.

Amazon JPN #21 includes already available games.
 
You literally have no life if it's emotionally centered around choosing a stupid platform, i.e., Epic or Stream. Who cares???? Download both and, then, spend time crying about something that matters. People are legit losers, and this has nothing to do with defending S3, either. It just blows my mine this is still a thing. They have it too good...brats!

Imagine in 2010 someone told you that Shenmue 3 would come out 9 years later but you had to download a different game launcher to play it. We'd all be ecstatic and legit would not care. I never understood the Epic Games controversy as I would've bought Shenmue III if it released on Sega Genesis if I had to.
 
Imagine in 2010 someone told you that Shenmue 3 would come out 9 years later but you had to download a different game launcher to play it. We'd all be ecstatic and legit would not care. I never understood the Epic Games controversy as I would've bought Shenmue III if it released on Sega Genesis if I had to.
I'd have bought a PS4 just for it. If these jerks affect PC sales badly it may end up a PS5 or nothing for Shenmue 4, and they just can't get it through their thick skulls. It's not a PC franchise, if it comes to PC at launch, you better prove to the publisher there's interest on PC. They talk about Steam in a year after their refund. That's too late. The only ones I can possibly understand, though they are wrong too, are the ones taking a Steam key option in a year in the survey, and a free Epic key now, that they are too thick headed to use. Even I have to admit THEY are not hurting the game on PC. Just denying themselves for a year over literally nothing.
 
You literally have no life if it's emotionally centered around choosing a stupid platform, i.e., Epic or Stream. Who cares???? Download both and, then, spend time crying about something that matters. People are legit losers, and this has nothing to do with defending S3, either. It just blows my mine this is still a thing. They have it too good...brats!
You know, I grew up standing in line on Leningrad square in Kiev outside the Radio Store, cause they "threw out" size D batteries. It was a phrase used for when something showed up for sale after being absent for many months. I remember lines over the most ridiculous things I can describe here. None of you would have wanted them for free. It kills me hearing Bernie Sanders, and Liz Warren. This was in the tame socialism years. Post Brezhnev, early Gorbachev. If they get their wish, you'd get early Lenin here. Confiscations, people rising up. Civil war, idiotic class warfare. You'd get the worst bits my homeland lived through, and no west to buy things after stealing from their own population. It might be worse here than it ever was there. They better never come anywhere near power. People really need to be re-educated too. Socialist professors fired, and the truth taught. Karl Marx should have been prohibited, instead I know it's studied here. After the grand failures of his great ideas fully implemented for 70 years no matter the cost.
 
You know, I grew up standing in line on Leningrad square in Kiev outside the Radio Store, cause they "threw out" size D batteries. It was a phrase used for when something showed up for sale after being absent for many months. I remember lines over the most ridiculous things I can describe here. None of you would have wanted them for free. It kills me hearing Bernie Sanders, and Liz Warren. This was in the tame socialism years. Post Brezhnev, early Gorbachev. If they get their wish, you'd get early Lenin here. Confiscations, people rising up. Civil war, idiotic class warfare. You'd get the worst bits my homeland lived through, and no west to buy things after stealing from their own population. It might be worse here than it ever was there. They better never come anywhere near power. People really need to be re-educated too. Socialist professors fired, and the truth taught. Karl Marx should have been prohibited, instead I know it's studied here. After the grand failures of his great ideas fully implemented for 70 years no matter the cost.
They don't want to recreate the failed Soviet Union. They want to make the US a little more like the Scandinavian countries.

Huge difference.
 
Here's a link to sites with preorder data we can access:

Quick update

Amazon UK Moved up 1 place to #9
Amazon JPN moved up 3 places to #18
Amazon US moved up 1 place to #24
Game UK moved up 5 places to #30

Best Buy USA drops all the way from #8 to #22 (that'll be the Black Friday discount leaking effect)

On the whole, a good performance for a single day.
 
I'd have bought a PS4 just for it. If these jerks affect PC sales badly it may end up a PS5 or nothing for Shenmue 4, and they just can't get it through their thick skulls. It's not a PC franchise, if it comes to PC at launch, you better prove to the publisher there's interest on PC. They talk about Steam in a year after their refund. That's too late. The only ones I can possibly understand, though they are wrong too, are the ones taking a Steam key option in a year in the survey, and a free Epic key now, that they are too thick headed to use. Even I have to admit THEY are not hurting the game on PC. Just denying themselves for a year over literally nothing.

Literally the only reason I'm getting back into gaming -- and purchasing a PS4 -- is to just to play this game.
 
From @Cebman in the random thoughts thread.

Listed in the "What's hot" section on PS Store in the USA

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Here's a link to sites with preorder data we can access:


OK So one week out,we're looking like this:

Amazon UK Holding at #3
GAME UK at #26 ( I don't think it's updated for days)
Simply Games UK #5 across all formats (collectors edition)

Best Buy USA #6 (amazing result as was #22 a few days ago! Looks like not everyone is now waiting for the BF discount)
Amazon USA Holding at #25 includes already available games, systems and accesories.

Amazon JPN up to #13 includes already available games.

Looking good folks !
 
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