Japan Sales Thread *renamed
- Thread starter 22psi
- Start date
May 7th-May 13th
MC HW numbers:
DSL 163,785
Wii 52,544
PSP 34,433
PS2 10,414
PS3 8,839
Xbox360 2,105
GBM 408
GBASP 343
GC 315
DS 39
GBA 18
MC HW numbers:
DSL 163,785
Wii 52,544
PSP 34,433
PS2 10,414
PS3 8,839
Xbox360 2,105
GBM 408
GBASP 343
GC 315
DS 39
GBA 18
tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
Damn, give it a few weeks and ps3 will be competing with x360 in Japan, who has ever though that?
Yeah... Unreal.
It's hardly that bad! currently they're selling 4 times the number xb360 is.
What would be interesting to see is if MS managed to outsell ps3 if only for a week on the back of something like a trusty bell or LO.
scooby_dooby
Legend
lol, at this rate, you really gotta feel sorry for japanese centric nextgen developers. All their big expensive projects have a collective install base of....1.5million?
I'm sure they've already jumped ship on 360 a long time ago though, and will still be firmly in Sony's boat for better or worse.
For better or worse indeed!
... for richer or poorer ... in good times and bad ... I wonder if they signed a prenuptial agreement
I doubt it. The 360s outlook going forward since before inception is that it would languish in third place in japan. So if Japan devs took a chance on the 360 they probably did so with games that could target the world market.
The PS3 on the other hand might be a different scenario especially if there were a good amount of devs who targetted that platform with japanese centric games, which is way more than likely in comparsion to the 360.
But the question is:
With current Japanese sales trends (and worldwide sales trends), why would a J-Dev not target Wii instead?
The answer is: not everyone feels that being a small fish in the big pond is better than being the big fish in a small pond.
Not everyone but look at ps2's game library last gen. Most didn't mind swimming in a big pond.
Otherwise we would have seen many more GC and or xbox1 games from these devs.
I agree with your thought process though and I'm sure some will do just this. May have been Tecmo's thought process as well with xbox1 and Ninja Gaiden...
Not everyone but look at ps2's game library last gen. Most didn't mind swimming in a big pond.
Otherwise we would have seen many more GC and or xbox1 games from these devs.
I agree with your thought process though and I'm sure some will do just this. May have been Tecmo's thought process as well with xbox1 and Ninja Gaiden...
Yeah, but if you were a japanese dev you were never expecting the 360 to represent the big pond while with the PS3 for a large % of japanese devs that pond is a lot smaller than expected.
Agreed.
That's why I expect Wii domination on the "to-do" list of Japanese developers. Whether that means ps3 to Wii ports or dropping ps3 development all together will likely be up to the studio and what they can fiscally accept/absorb.
May be a good time for MS/Sony to start fostering a few $ relationships with some of these devs that may be facing a very different landscape than they planned for and may be ripe for financial assistance (paid exclusives or buyouts).
Agreed, but I think most devs aren't giving up on the PS3 just yet but the current conditions forces devs to account for the Wii more heavily than before.
DuckThor Evil
Legend
I found these on a Finnish site, they should be real.
Hardware - This Week | Last Week | YTD | LTD
1. NDS - 111,239 | 163,824 | 3,163,455 | 17,169,134
2. WII - 52,193 | 52,544 | 1,556,909 | 2,476,552
3. PSP - 27,505 | 34,433 | 901,333 | 5,433,462
4. PS2 - 10,881 | 10,414 | 345,899 | 20,500,758
5. PS3 - 8,659 | 8,839 | 434,554 | 892,112
6. 360 - 2,026 | 2,105 | 97,681 | 362,383
7. GBA - 791 | 769 | 36,867 | 15,334,946
8. NGC - 276 | 315 | 7,354 | 4,176,822
Software
01./00. [PS2] Shining Wind (Sega) - 78,030 / NEW
02./00. [NDS] Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 (Nintendo) - 70,821 / NEW
03./00. [PS2] Odin Sphere (Atlus) - 59,248 / NEW
04./01. [PSP] Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War (Square-Enix) - 39,480 / 194,371
05./03. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 27,788 / 1,601,564
06./02. [NDS] Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (Square-Enix) - 23,904 / 445,237
07./04. [NDS] More Brain Age (Nintendo) - 18,790 / 4,284,904
08./07. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 18,179 / 1,317,807
09./05. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) - 17,862 / 4,458,786
10./08. [WII] Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo) - 15,816 / 133,304
11./06. [WII] Super Paper Mario (Nintendo)
12./10. [NDS] Yoshi's Island DS (Nintendo)
13./09. [NDS] Momotarou Dentetsu DS: Tokyo & Japan (Hudson)
14./11. [NDS] More English Training (Nintendo)
15./13. [NDS] Phoenix Wright 4 (Capcom)
16./16. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
17./00. [NDS] Custom Beat Battle Draglade (Banpresto)
18./17. [NDS] Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo)
19./18. [NDS] Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village (Level 5)
20./12. [NDS] Brain Age (Nintendo)
21./14. [NDS] Panel de Pon DS (Nintendo)
22./15. [NDS] Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Nintendo)
23./22. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom)
24./20. [NDS] English Training (Nintendo)
25./25. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (Square-Enix)
26./21. [NDS] Word Puzzle Mojipittan DS (Bandai-Namco)
27./24. [NDS] Kanji Brain Test 2M (IE Institute)
28./19. [NDS] Common Knowledge Training (Nintendo)
29./31. [NDS] Pokémon Diamond (Pokemon)
30./44. [WII] One Piece: Unlimited Adventure (Bandai-Namco)
31./27. [PSP] Final Fantasy (Square-Enix)
32./36. [NDS] Pokémon Pearl (Pokemon)
33./30. [NDS] Tetris DS (Nintendo)
34./32. [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 4 (Konami)
35./29. [NDS] Kanji Test (Rocket Co.)
36./00. [WII] Case Closed! Mirage of Recollection (Marvelous Interactive)
37./35. [NDS] Big Brain Academy (Nintendo)
38./38. [NDS] DS Kageyama Method Electronic Kanji Drills (Shogakukan)
39./23. [NDS] 1000 Recipes (Nintendo)
40./40. [NDS] Nodame Cantabile (Bandai-Namco)
41./33. [NDS] Phoenix Wright 2 (Capcom)
42./28. [NDS] Cooking Navi (Nintendo)
43./37. [PS2] Musou Orochi (Koei)
44./43. [NDS] Crayon Shin-chan DS: Arashi wo Sakebunutte Crayon Daisakusen! (Banpresto)
45./41. [NDS] SimCity DS (EA)
46./50. [WII] Wario Ware Smooth Moves (Nintendo)
47./34. [PS2] Persona 3: Fes (Atlus)
48./42. [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Portable 2 (Konami)
49./46. [NDS] TOEIC Test Training DS (IE Institute)
50./39. [NDS] Puyo-Puyo! (Sega)
NDS - 34
WII - 7
PS2 - 5
PSP - 4
Hardware - This Week | Last Week | YTD | LTD
1. NDS - 111,239 | 163,824 | 3,163,455 | 17,169,134
2. WII - 52,193 | 52,544 | 1,556,909 | 2,476,552
3. PSP - 27,505 | 34,433 | 901,333 | 5,433,462
4. PS2 - 10,881 | 10,414 | 345,899 | 20,500,758
5. PS3 - 8,659 | 8,839 | 434,554 | 892,112
6. 360 - 2,026 | 2,105 | 97,681 | 362,383
7. GBA - 791 | 769 | 36,867 | 15,334,946
8. NGC - 276 | 315 | 7,354 | 4,176,822
Software
01./00. [PS2] Shining Wind (Sega) - 78,030 / NEW
02./00. [NDS] Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 (Nintendo) - 70,821 / NEW
03./00. [PS2] Odin Sphere (Atlus) - 59,248 / NEW
04./01. [PSP] Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War (Square-Enix) - 39,480 / 194,371
05./03. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 27,788 / 1,601,564
06./02. [NDS] Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (Square-Enix) - 23,904 / 445,237
07./04. [NDS] More Brain Age (Nintendo) - 18,790 / 4,284,904
08./07. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 18,179 / 1,317,807
09./05. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) - 17,862 / 4,458,786
10./08. [WII] Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo) - 15,816 / 133,304
11./06. [WII] Super Paper Mario (Nintendo)
12./10. [NDS] Yoshi's Island DS (Nintendo)
13./09. [NDS] Momotarou Dentetsu DS: Tokyo & Japan (Hudson)
14./11. [NDS] More English Training (Nintendo)
15./13. [NDS] Phoenix Wright 4 (Capcom)
16./16. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
17./00. [NDS] Custom Beat Battle Draglade (Banpresto)
18./17. [NDS] Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo)
19./18. [NDS] Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village (Level 5)
20./12. [NDS] Brain Age (Nintendo)
21./14. [NDS] Panel de Pon DS (Nintendo)
22./15. [NDS] Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Nintendo)
23./22. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom)
24./20. [NDS] English Training (Nintendo)
25./25. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (Square-Enix)
26./21. [NDS] Word Puzzle Mojipittan DS (Bandai-Namco)
27./24. [NDS] Kanji Brain Test 2M (IE Institute)
28./19. [NDS] Common Knowledge Training (Nintendo)
29./31. [NDS] Pokémon Diamond (Pokemon)
30./44. [WII] One Piece: Unlimited Adventure (Bandai-Namco)
31./27. [PSP] Final Fantasy (Square-Enix)
32./36. [NDS] Pokémon Pearl (Pokemon)
33./30. [NDS] Tetris DS (Nintendo)
34./32. [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 4 (Konami)
35./29. [NDS] Kanji Test (Rocket Co.)
36./00. [WII] Case Closed! Mirage of Recollection (Marvelous Interactive)
37./35. [NDS] Big Brain Academy (Nintendo)
38./38. [NDS] DS Kageyama Method Electronic Kanji Drills (Shogakukan)
39./23. [NDS] 1000 Recipes (Nintendo)
40./40. [NDS] Nodame Cantabile (Bandai-Namco)
41./33. [NDS] Phoenix Wright 2 (Capcom)
42./28. [NDS] Cooking Navi (Nintendo)
43./37. [PS2] Musou Orochi (Koei)
44./43. [NDS] Crayon Shin-chan DS: Arashi wo Sakebunutte Crayon Daisakusen! (Banpresto)
45./41. [NDS] SimCity DS (EA)
46./50. [WII] Wario Ware Smooth Moves (Nintendo)
47./34. [PS2] Persona 3: Fes (Atlus)
48./42. [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Portable 2 (Konami)
49./46. [NDS] TOEIC Test Training DS (IE Institute)
50./39. [NDS] Puyo-Puyo! (Sega)
NDS - 34
WII - 7
PS2 - 5
PSP - 4
inefficient
Veteran
I'm doing my part...
This is where I brag about my contribution to the Japan PS3 sales charts
There has been such a dearth of PS3 games I have mostly been buying BR movies. Last game I bought on disc was in Feb (VF5). But at least there have been a couple good games on PSN to DL. Even Calling All Cars just came out in on the JP PSN.
This is where I brag about my contribution to the Japan PS3 sales charts
There has been such a dearth of PS3 games I have mostly been buying BR movies. Last game I bought on disc was in Feb (VF5). But at least there have been a couple good games on PSN to DL. Even Calling All Cars just came out in on the JP PSN.