Japan Sales Thread *renamed
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tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
Wasnt golden week something like 2 week ago?
Golden Week was last week.
Or beautifull if you are Nintendo:smile: ...
tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
Yes, but its hard to be in a top50 when so little people have your hardware.
scooby_dooby
Legend
360 has 2 games in Top 50, with 1/3 the install base.
A more accurate statement would be: It's hard to be in the Top 50 when you don't release any games.
tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
Hehe thats because x360 owners always buy alot of software
But you are right I suppose.
thatdude90210
Regular
There was Madden... it just didn't make top 50.
An American football game for Golden Week, heh.
DuckThor Evil
Legend
I don't know if they can be sadistic enough to think that such a bloody mess is beautiful :smile:
thatdude90210
Regular
Looks like Japanese dev are feeling the heat in the slow PS3 sales. Namco Bandai has a lot more games planned for release this fiscal year for the Wii than PS3 or x360.
It's a vicious circle. You can delay games for the PS3 until it has a larger install base... to increase chances for profit / recoup cost. But if you delay games for it, the install base grows slower.
It's a vicious circle. You can delay games for the PS3 until it has a larger install base... to increase chances for profit / recoup cost. But if you delay games for it, the install base grows slower.
tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
IMHO 23 already sounds like alot, wonder how much of those games someone is actually willing to spend money on. But isnt 99% of the games bandai make anime related? Not that I would mind if they were good games but unfortunatly that almost never is the case.
MC sales, golden week
As usual from Cheesemeister on GAF.
01./01. [NDS] Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (Square-Enix) - 109,326 / 383,330
02./03. [WII] Super Paper Mario (Nintendo) - 90,151 / 310,182
03./04. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 84,782 / 1,543,596
04./12. [NDS] Yoshi's Island DS (Nintendo) - 58,948 / 791,132
05./06. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 58,718 / 1,279,131
06./08. [NDS] Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Nintendo) - 57,741 / 233,477
07./05. [WII] Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo) - 55,165 / 97,424
08./14. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) - 51,681 / 4,419,592
09./02. [NDS] Momotarou Dentetsu DS: Tokyo & Japan (Hudson) - 45,662 / 124,642
10./13. [NDS] More Brain Age (Nintendo) - 44,047 / 4,238,185
11./09. [NDS] Phoenix Wright 4 (Capcom)
12./20. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
13./15. [NDS] More English Training (Nintendo)
14./10. [NDS] Panel de Pon DS (Nintendo)
15./19. [NDS] Brain Age (Nintendo)
16./22. [NDS] Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo)
17./16. [NDS] Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village (Level 5)
18./29. [NDS] Common Knowledge Training (Nintendo)
19./34. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (Square-Enix)
20./30. [NDS] English Training (Nintendo)
21./26. [NDS] Word Puzzle Mojipittan DS (Bandai-Namco)
22./23. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom)
23./36. [NDS] Pokémon Diamond (Pokemon)
24./41. [NDS] Pokémon Pearl (Pokemon)
25./17. [PSP] Final Fantasy (Square-Enix)
26./28. [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 4 (Konami)
27./18. [PS2] Persona 3: Fes (Atlus)
28./47. [NDS] Tamagotchi's Splendid Rainbow-venture (Bandai-Namco)
29./07. [WII] One Piece: Unlimited Adventure (Bandai-Namco)
30./38. [NDS] Kanji Test (Rocket Co.)
NDS - 21
WII - 5
PS2 - 2
PSP - 2
As usual from Cheesemeister on GAF.
iceberg187
Regular
This race in Japan is over.
thatdude90210
Regular
Holy crap! Top 21 are all Nintendo.
Looking at the Wiisports number, I'm guessing Wii hardware will be over 140k this week. Because the usual Wiisports attach rate is around .6.
Looking at the Wiisports number, I'm guessing Wii hardware will be over 140k this week. Because the usual Wiisports attach rate is around .6.
It looks like we really will have a psuedo repeat of the SNES v Genesis days with one console dominating one region and the other grabbing the other region. With the addition of another console and another region dominated by that console.
PS3 = EU
XB360 = US
WII = JP
Of course that doesn't mean the other consoles aren't selling "well" in other regions, just that they have specific regions in which they dominate. Like SNES v Genesis.
One thing that sucked though was being on the Genesis side of that era, I got screwed with the lack of key JP support. SF2 was an after thought* and FF series was nowhere to be found. Not to mention the plethora of other games which never saw the light of day on Genesis. There were of course reverse cases but for the most part, I was at a friends house playing SNES (MarioKart all night sessions FTW)
(*not only after SNES had SF2, but after they had SF2-Turbo ... then Gensis got SF2 CE which was the prior version and looked horrible in comparison)
This gen I expect similar but not to the same extent. I think the smaller more quirky JP games will originate and remain on Wii. The medium/bigger titles will either be ported up to PS3 (or down to Wii with Simultaneous release) or to xb360 depending on focus region.
At this rate:
-JP
Wii = 6.4m /yr - (100k/wk)
PS3 = 768k /yr - (12k/wk)
xb360 = 256k /yr - (4k/wk)
-US
Wii = 6.4m/yr - (400k/mo)
xb360 = 4.0m/yr - (250k/mo)
ps3 = 2.1m/yr - (130k/mo)
-EU
PS3 = ? 1st?
Wii = ? 2nd?
xb360 = ? 3rd?
Rainbow Man
Veteran
Erm.. Going from current sales trends in the west Wii will soon beat 360 too in sales.
YUnless some drastic downturn in Wii demand occurs in EU/NA it won't take more than say six months at most for Nintendo to catch up with MS.
Not that it really interests me.. I just want good games to play so I'd prefer if each of the major consoles had a third of the market each.
Peace.
tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
OTOH, if one is the ''winner'' atleast you dont have to buy 3 different consoles. Im not as rich as most of you guys
At this stage it looks like people will have to buy 2 consoles at most to fully enjoy this generation.
PS3 or 360 for the hi-def games.
Wii for the wiimote games.
That's probably how I'm going to go. With most of the exclusives becoming cross platform for PS3/360, and PS3 sales bombing badly due to price, the 360 is probably going to be my purchase by this time next year when they get a premium package under $300. I just don't see a justification for a PS3 at this time without the exclusives the PS2 enjoyed.
Wii I'll get whenever I can find one.
As an aside actually, since the Wii sold over 100k systems in Japan last week, maybe Nintendo's increased supplies are finally kicking in. The most Wii's we've seen sold in a single week in Japan have typically been in the 70-80k range.
PS3 or 360 for the hi-def games.
Wii for the wiimote games.
That's probably how I'm going to go. With most of the exclusives becoming cross platform for PS3/360, and PS3 sales bombing badly due to price, the 360 is probably going to be my purchase by this time next year when they get a premium package under $300. I just don't see a justification for a PS3 at this time without the exclusives the PS2 enjoyed.
Wii I'll get whenever I can find one.
As an aside actually, since the Wii sold over 100k systems in Japan last week, maybe Nintendo's increased supplies are finally kicking in. The most Wii's we've seen sold in a single week in Japan have typically been in the 70-80k range.