Japan Sales Thread

obonicus said:
Well, maybe all the PSP games in the top 10, but that's unlikely to last.
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Not like this maybe but I think it's setting a trend. The PSP has been selling well this year in Japan and even now is 200.000 sales ahead of the DS/DSi. Normally this wouldn't necessarily mean that software for the system is also picking up, but the Monster Hunter social gaming trend is putting PSP games back on the map for third parties more than anything and I think what you see in this list is actually representative of the PSP regaining popularity as a gaming system. Of course its presence in the top 10 is skewed because there's a much smaller amount of games being released versus the DS in comparison to the amount of units both systems have out there. But the PSP can do some things the DS can't, and when people are looking for something new after three years of DS, the PSP can be an attractive alternative with a lot of extra media features.
 
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Hardware | This Week | Last Week |    YTD    |    LTD    
DS+      |   114,036 |   107,423 | 3,103,426 | 24,276,480
PSP      |    55,090 |    61,226 | 3,301,982 | 10,967,059
Wii      |    49,848 |    35,298 | 2,448,463 |  7,064,602
PS3      |    34,978 |    17,436 |   831,675 |  2,473,351
360      |    11,423 |    15,474 |   274,387 |    782,832
PS2      |     5,628 |     5,281 |   441,021 | 21,368,061
 
12/01-12/07, from here.

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01. [NDS] Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel - 87,100 / 434,400
02. [PS2] Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World - 76,500 / 76,500
03. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk - 75,600 / 489,300
04. [NDS] Kirby Super Star Ultra - 60,200 / 535,000
05. [PS3] Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 - 42,400 / 210,800
06. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode - 37,900 / 278,600
07. [NDS] Pokemon Platinum - 37,300 / 2,008,800
08. [WII] 428: Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de - 34,000 / 34,000
09. [360] Fallout 3 - 30,600 / 30,600
10. [NDS] Rhythm Heaven - 29,600 / 1,244,100

DSi 126,700
PSP 54,800
Wii 56,700
PS3 30,300
DSL 12,100
360 10,000
PS2 5,700

Impressive Fallout 3 numbers, considering.
 
End of year Japan figures (or as near as it gets, 28 Dec) from Media Create:

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|System |  This Week  |  Last Week  |        YTD  |         LTD  |
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|  NDS  |    245,150  |    254,452  |  3,946,585  |  25,119,635  |
|  WII  |    134,958  |    131,054  |  2,862,818  |   7,478,977  |
|  PSP  |    118,765  |    145,957  |  3,693,026  |  11,358,103  |
|  PS3  |     45,989  |     39,136  |    980,797  |   2,622,468  |
|  360  |     13,011  |     12,914  |    322,097  |     829,437  |
|  PS2  |     10,404  |      8,662  |    472,489  |  21,399,529  |
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|  DSi  |    188,697  |    204,144  |  1,231,359  |   1,231,359  |
|  DSL  |     56,453  |     50,308  |  2,715,226  |  17,302,805  |
------------------------------------------------------------------
 
MS will surely break 1m in japan this time.


I think its very important for ms to shrink the console. A smaller console in japan couldh elp sales greatly
 
eastmen said:
MS will surely break 1m in japan this time.


I think its very important for ms to shrink the console. A smaller console in japan couldh elp sales greatly
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I honestly don't even think they have to do that. With Magna Carta 2 coming out, and the bundles they're putting out for RE5 and SO4, I think they've already done all they need to break 1 Million in Japan, and then some.
 
MS will surely break 1m in japan this time.


I think its very important for ms to shrink the console. A smaller console in japan couldh elp sales greatly
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You know the PS3 is outselling the 360 in Japan as well. The PS3 is freaking huge.
 
DeadlyNinja said:
You know the PS3 is outselling the 360 in Japan as well. The PS3 is freaking huge.
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Yea but the ps3 is the follow up to two 100m + selling systems. The 360 is a follow up to one 500k selling system.

The ps3 also has bluray which seems to be more popular in japan than anywhere else. I think that a smaller 360 will make it easier for people to pick up esp with the price diffrence . AAlso the ps3 isn't exactly selling gang busters either and neither is it selling consistantly well. We are talking about 2.6m units vs 800k units. Its not like we are talking about the 21.4m vs 500k of the ps2 vs xbox 1
 
eastmen said:
Yea but the ps3 is the follow up to two 100m + selling systems. The 360 is a follow up to one 500k selling system.
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You're not comparing like values there. Not that it makes any difference to the argument mind, but still, XB was 500k in Japan. PS2 was 20 million. So the difference was a market 40 times larger, not 200 times larger. Again, not that that makes any difference!
 
tha_con said:
I think they've already done all they need to break 1 Million in Japan, and then some.
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Then what? They will keep selling around 8k units per week just like they are doing now.

You can get to any number by consistently selling small numbers, but what's the point when competition gets there way faster?

Milestones don't mean jack. Average/Monthly sales do.
 
Some lists from Kotaku:

Weekly hardware sales for the week of December 8th to the 14th are as follows.

• Nintendo DSi - 173,693
• Wii - 91,641
• PSP - 71,540
• PlayStation 3 - 33,688
• Nintendo DS - 31,120
• Xbox 360 - 11,797
• PlayStation 2- 6,659

--missing this week----


Not much happening on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2 front, but the full chart from December 22 to 28 looks like...

• Nintendo DSi - 188,697
• Wii - 134,958
• PSP - 118,765
• Nintendo DS - 56,453
• PlayStation 3 - 45,989
• Xbox 360 - 13,011
• PlayStation 2 - 10,404

The hardware race for the week of December 29th to January 4th ended like so.

• Nintendo DSi - 182,518
• PSP - 157,088
• Wii - 119,965
• PlayStation 3 - 60,654
• Nintendo DS - 48,160
• Xbox 360 - 19,694
• PlayStation 2 - 12,548

Pretty good sales for both PS3 and 360.....
 
catisfit said:
End of year Japan figures (or as near as it gets, 28 Dec) from Media Create:

Code: 
__________________________________________________________________
|System |  This Week  |  Last Week  |        YTD  |         LTD  |
------------------------------------------------------------------
|  NDS  |    245,150  |    254,452  |  3,946,585  |  25,119,635  |
|  WII  |    134,958  |    131,054  |  2,862,818  |   7,478,977  |
|  PSP  |    118,765  |    145,957  |  3,693,026  |  11,358,103  |
|  PS3  |     45,989  |     39,136  |    980,797  |   2,622,468  |
|  360  |     13,011  |     12,914  |    322,097  |     829,437  |
|  PS2  |     10,404  |      8,662  |    472,489  |  21,399,529  |
------------------------------------------------------------------
|  DSi  |    188,697  |    204,144  |  1,231,359  |   1,231,359  |
|  DSL  |     56,453  |     50,308  |  2,715,226  |  17,302,805  |
------------------------------------------------------------------
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Wow 360 likley to make it to 1m this gen. hehe :cool:
 
12/29 - 01/04

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Hardware | This Week | Last Week |    YTD    |    LTD    
NDS      |   230,678 |   245,150 | 4,177,267 | 25,350,321
PSP      |   157,088 |   118,765 | 3,850,175 | 11,515,252
WII      |   119,965 |   134,958 | 2,982,727 |  7,598,866
PS3      |    60,654 |    45,989 | 1,041,406 |  2,683,082
360      |    19,964 |    13,011 |   341,789 |    850,234
PS2      |    12,548 |    10,404 |   485,032 | 21,412,072
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DSi      |   182,518 |   188,697 |   838,570 |    838,570
DSL      |    48,160 |    50,308 | 2,715,226 | 17,350,965

YTD still 2008.
 
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