Japan sale numbers psp doing ok. 24-30jan

[hey69]

new numbers
JPN] -- weekly sales (24-30 Jan) #1
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PS2 : 53,800
NGC : 9,700
Xbox : 500
GBA : 400
GBA SP : 22,000
PSP : 71,000 (total 699k)
NDS : 42,000 (total 1.547m)




old numbers

PSP：66,000（628k）
PS2：52,000
DS：47,000（1505k）
GBA SP：19,000
GC：4,000
GBA：600
XB：400


And software:

1 PS2 Monster Hunter G 128,000
2 PS2 Fuun Bakumatsuden 54,000
3 PS2 Gran Turismo 4 33,000 (924,000)
4 DS Sawaru: Made In Wario 26,000 (604,000)
5 PS2 Mahou Sensei Negima! Tokime - Magister Negi Magi 26,000
6 GBA Mario Party Advance 26,000 (99,000)
7 DS Super Mario 64 26,000 (586,000)
8 PS2 DQ & FF in Itadaki Street Special 21,000 (328,000)
9 PSP Everybody's Golf Portable 18,000 (245,000)
10 PS2 Neon Genesis Evangelion: Koutetsu no Girlfriend 17,000
11 GBA Bouken Ou Beet Busters Road 14,000
12 PS2 Daito Pachislot 13,000 (359,000)
13 PS2 Story of Hero Yoshitsune 13,000 (53,000)
14 PSP Ridge Racers 12,000 (198,000)
15 GBA Rockman EXE 5 Team Of Blues 12,000 (323,000)
16 PS2 Dragon Quest VIII 11,000 (3,417,000)
17 PS2 Metal Gear Solid 3 10,000 (770,000)
18 PSP Dynasty Warriors 9,700 (190,000)
19 PSP Piposaru Academy 9,400 (61,000)
20 DS Pokemon Dash 8,600 (274,000)

 

[101998]

Re: Japan sale numbers psp doing well ..ds also

10 PS2 Neon Genesis Evangelion: Koutetsu no Girlfriend 17,000

We will never see that in the states, fucking bastards.

 

[hey69]

what is that ? a dating game,

 

[101998]

Hell if I know, but it says Eva on it and all the cool Eva games never make it to the states. Best example was the N64 game which, IMO, was the best looking game for the N64. There was also another ps2 game realeased a while back that let you play out the whole Eva story but sadly no english version.

 

[Phil]

heh, it's great to see PSP doing well.

BTW; is Golf that big of a sport over there? I can't believe it's selling at a higher rate than a cult game such as Ridge Racer?!

 

[tuna]

I played the first EVA dating simulator on Saturn, and it was pretty crap. I expect the sequel to be pretty crap as welll.

 

[Farid]

BTW; is Golf that big of a sport over there? I can't believe it's selling at a higher rate than a cult game such as Ridge Racer?!

Yep, Golf is a very popular game in Japan (Like in the US), especially among salarymen. Also, the Minna No Golf serie is a best seller 'round there, since the PSone.

 

[Sonic]

The reason they do not bring those games to the US is because noone would buy them. At least not enough people.

 

[cthellis42]

BTW; is Golf that big of a sport over there? I can't believe it's selling at a higher rate than a cult game such as Ridge Racer?!

Golf is pretty damn big. Minna no Golf is a really popular license for them. (And MnG Online is one of the only non-MMORPG games to be able to claim a subscription fee, to my knowledge.) Sport-wise, a Winning Eleven Portable game may do better, but not by much.

Still, both portable's games aren't doing QUITE as well as I thought they would since the systems are new and everyone excited... But I guess that's more a testament to the way people play portable games and a broader selection of good launch/just-after-launch titles than usual. Spreads the sales out rather than focuses them on one or two directions.

 

[Jov]

Hi Guys,

I am currently in Japan for a holiday and was checking out a handful of games store from Tokyo to Osaka and they all seem to be out of PSPs!!

I got to check out a display unit and the screen is great. The graphics is not as alias as I expected which is another surpise given the resolution.

Keeping my fingers cross to get my hand on one.

 

[Teasy]

I thought Sony said that they shipped over 800,000 to Japan and sold just over 500,000 ATM?

 

[Evil_Cloud]

I thought Sony said that they shipped over 800,000 to Japan and sold just over 500,000 ATM?

I thought most PSP units were centralised into the Tokyo & Osaka region to garner more press attention...

 

[cthellis42]

I thought Sony said that they shipped over 800,000 to Japan and sold just over 500,000 ATM?

They shipped 510k by the end of December and 482k were sold as of January 2nd, and the first three weeks of January have sold 193k more... That puts them at at least 675k. We also don't know how much of their shipped total was still in transit or otherwise unavailable for sale yet (if they announced it right after they shipped their 800,000th out the door, for instance...)

Nothing worrisome about the numbers. Both it and the DS seem to still be effectively selling out. (A week later Nintendo announced shipments of 2.84 million to Japan and the US, and though I don't have exact US numbers they had shipped roughly 1.3 by the end of December, and sold 1.7 million up until the time of that announcement in Japan... In fact, their numbers seem to be off, so perhaps they were giving end-of-calendar-year totals? That would make the numbers like up much better, as they'd sold effectively 1.5 million by the end of the year in Japan.)

 

[marconelly!]

I thought most PSP units were centralised into the Tokyo & Osaka region to garner more press attention...

That's where the most sales are made anyways. Yet, according to some people living in Tokyo, it's still very difficult to come across a PSP readily available for sale. All stores are sold out.

 

[cthellis42]

On a bit of a tangent, there's a throwaway comment on MagicBox I find curious:

- Sony expects the production of PSP to become profitable by summer 2005.

Does anyone know the source and context of the release they pulled this from?

 

[MechanizedDeath]

On a bit of a tangent, there's a throwaway comment on MagicBox I find curious:

- Sony expects the production of PSP to become profitable by summer 2005.

Does anyone know the source and context of the release they pulled this from?

Wouldn't that be the time that productions supposedly gonna bump to 2M per month? I can't imagine it'll be profitable that fast. That would be amazing. OR...the PSP's really gonna cost $200 here. PEACE.

 

[cthellis42]

Nor I, which is why I'm wondering about the context of the whole statement. I know earlier ones had alluded to big cost reductions with the screens (obviously a big expense) once they hit their stride, but... <shrugs>

 

[Deepak]

From MB,

Japanese Console Hardware Chart
From: Jan 17 - 23, 2005

System Sales this week Total this year
PlayStation Portable 66,543 193,197
PlayStation 2 56,374 246,612
Nintendo DS 44,608 206,696
GameBoy Advance SP 13,317 102,457
GameCube 5,359 32,537
Xbox 498 2,183
GameBoy Advance 332 2,639

 

[Shifty Geezer]

On a bit of a tangent, there's a throwaway comment on MagicBox I find curious:
- Sony expects the production of PSP to become profitable by summer 2005.
Does anyone know the source and context of the release they pulled this from?

Prior to PSP's launch, an interview with some Sony bigwig I read online had him saying he didn't expect PSP hardware to be profitable for a few years. Maybe this above statement is about the PSP line - the console and software making a profit?

 

[cthellis42]

Prior to PSP's launch, an interview with some Sony bigwig I read online had him saying he didn't expect PSP hardware to be profitable for a few years. Maybe this above statement is about the PSP line - the console and software making a profit?

I don't think so, offhand. I mean certainly the software could compensate, but even those sales aren't going to be all that magnificent by then. The hardware would have to be pretty close regardless...

Meanwhile, their precise phrasing is "production of" which doesn't point that way. But of course it IS quite the throwaway line, which is why I want to see where they pulled it from to get a better idea. Right now it just leaves me confused.