Media Create Japanese charts 4 - 10 April

[Teasy]

PS2 - 37,870
DS - 30,028
PSP - 28,848
GBASP - 13,693
GC - 3,406
GBA - 347
Xbox - 315

DS has settled back to 30,000 a week (after some new colours and games). Meanwhile PSP's sales have dropped to a new low. Its sales in Japan have been dropping every week since it was released in the US (43,043 to 33,911 to 28,848).

1. PS2 Mobile Suit Gundam: 1 Year War - Bandai - 159,000 (NEW)
2. PS2 Saint Seiya - Bandai - 89,000 (NEW)
3. PS2 Pro Baseball Spirits - Konami - 55,000 (NEW)
4. PS2 Tekken 5 - Namco - 44,000 (218,000)
5. PS2 Winning Eleven 8 Liveware Evolution - Konami - 24,000 (330,000)
6. NDS Touch! Kirby - Nintendo - 20,000 (128,000)
7. PS2 Baldrforce Exe - Alchemist - 12,000 (NEW)
8. PS2 Wild Arms 4th Detonator - SCEI - 10,000 (169,000)
9. PS2 Yamato - Bandai - 9,000 (NEW)
10. PS2 WRC4 - Spike - 9,000 (NEW)

 

[PC-Engine]

PSX...

 

[jvd]

I think both the psp and ds will settle in at a steady 20k starting next month till the holidays then you will see another big jump in japan

 

[Teasy]

I think DS will get another big leap in sales not this current week but the week after when the pink DS is released with Nintendogs. The release of the black colour brought sales up to 55k and apparently the pink DS is the most pre-ordered of any of the new colours. Nintendogs is the perfect game to compliment it as well IMO.

 

[jvd]

ah wasn't aware the pink wasn't out , not up on my japan products hehe but okay after the pink one it will lvl off with i guess spikes for both the psp and ds when big games come out

 

[Qroach]

Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:44 AM ET
LOS ANGELES, April 15 (Reuters) - Video game sales rose 32 percent in the United States in March, analysts said on Friday, noting Sony Corp's top-selling "Gran Turismo 4" racing game as well as an improved supply of console hardware.

Citing figures from market researchers NPD Group, analysts also said Sony Corp.'s (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) new PlayStation Portable handheld gaming unit sold 620,000 units of hardware in the month and 1.1 million pieces of software. The PSP was released on March 24.

By comparison, Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s (7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research) DS dual-screen handheld has sold 428,000 units this year, analysts said, quoting NPD. The DS, which costs $100 less than the PSP, launched last year.

The supply of Sony's PlayStation 2 console continued to improve, analysts said, with 495,000 sold in the month, compared with 227,000 units of Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Xbox and 94,000 units of Nintendo's GameCube.

Microsoft has acknowledged the Xbox is in short supply, which some retailers fear may continue through the year as the company prepares to launch its next-generation console, most likely around the holidays.

"Gran Turismo 4" led game sales in the month, with more than 532,000 units sold, followed by the value-priced "MVP Baseball 2005" from Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) at just under 338,000 units.

Most analysts expect U.S. software sales to grow about 5 percent in 2005, driven by growing sales for handheld devices like the PSP and DS.

 

[wazoo]

Meanwhile PSP's sales have dropped to a new low. Its sales in Japan have been dropping every week since it was released in the US

Do you imply, most of previous sales were due to importers ??

 

[Teasy]

Do you imply, most of previous sales were due to importers

Most?, no not at all, what gives you that idea? Though obviously some of those weekly sales will have been from importers in Europe and US. So I'm sure the loss of those imports will have had some effect.

Either way I'm just pointing out that sales have been dropping in Japan ever since its US release, for whatever reason.

 

[PC-Engine]

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