Author Topic: Official Sales Thread (Read 3156593 times)

31 Flavas · « **Reply #650 on:** February 14, 2007, 09:59:07 AM »

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Originally posted by: BlackNMild2k1

so the #1 spot is around 50k!!? and the #8 spot is around 30k?
Something seems a little off here. It must be a really really slow week in Japan for such low #'s.

Nah, it's rather normal. On a non-holiday time schedule, Japanese sales charts tracked the same. #10 is typically around 20-25K. #1 varies depending on the top games. But if they aren't being ravaged by NSM, Pokemon, or a brand new PS2 game, #1 is anywhere from 50-80k.

During xmas though the minimum for #10 was 135k.

IceCold · « **Reply #651 on:** February 14, 2007, 04:30:26 PM »

According to IGN and NPD, software sales have been very strong in North America, especially third party ones.

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Madden NFL 07 was PS3's number-one third party effort with approximately 185,000 in sales. Incidentally, despite having a larger installed base, Madden sold slightly less on Wii with about 180,000 units. The numbers aren't incredibly different, especially since Nintendo fans have not traditionally flocked to the Madden franchise. PS3's second biggest third party seller, Call of Duty 3, amassed 110,000 purchases. The Wii version of the game, however, sold through 155,000 copies.
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ven so, third parties have definitely already found in Wii a console that they can turn a profit. Wii had nine games - six of them from third parties - that sold at least 100,000 copies through December. That is, again, compared to two for PS3. Ubisoft in particular was a big winner. Its Red Steel and Rayman Raving Rabbids Wii titles sold approximately 220,000 and 185,000 respectively - nothing to scoff at for a brand new franchise and another that has slumbered for years. Sega's Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz managed 175,000 in sales. And Atlus had a sleeper on its hands with Trauma Center: Second Opinion, which sold through 115,000 copies.

So Red Steak sold 220,000, eh? I'm curious to know how much it sold in Europe, so we know the total to date. Strong numbers across the board, though. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance sold 150,000 also.

Kairon · « **Reply #652 on:** February 14, 2007, 05:00:55 PM »

It's strange to see how IGN is defending Nintendo recently, with reference to the "kiddy" stigma and with reference to third party sales. I've come to expect criticism from them, not support!

Oh, and that said, IGN was looking at the NPD numbers for JUST DECEMBER. This means that any sales in the first 10 or so days after and including launch aren't included, nor are any sales in 2007. 220,000 units for RS is a good launch point that, combined with front-loaded launch sales and residual 2007 sales, suggests that UbiSoft did achieve a measure of success with the title.

Hopefully, for the sequel they can keep costs down, not rush so much, increase quality and increase profits.

Oh, and its nice to see that several multiplatform games sold better on the Wii than the PS3. Not Madden though.. darn! It would've been a cleansweep!

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

IceCold · « **Reply #653 on:** February 14, 2007, 05:09:01 PM »

I'm honestly surprised Madden sold so much for the Wii.. I wonder if the motion controls helped.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #654 on:** February 14, 2007, 05:25:15 PM »

The fact that Madden sold that well on the Wii and the Wii's ever expanding userbase is why EA is so strongly shifting development resources to the Wii instead of the PS3.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #655 on:** February 14, 2007, 05:58:50 PM »

GO HOT NURSE

Requiem · « **Reply #656 on:** February 14, 2007, 07:46:59 PM »

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Originally posted by: Kairon
Oh, and its nice to see that several multiplatform games sold better on the Wii than the PS3. Not Madden though.. darn! It would've been a cleansweep!

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Well, like you said, it was only the numbers for December only. Who knows, maybe Nintendo did outsell Sony.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #657 on:** February 14, 2007, 08:14:41 PM »

Since no one has posted it yet...

Media Create Feb 5th - 11th

01. (PS3, Sega) Virtua Fighter 5 - 48,346 / NEW
02. (Wii, Nintendo) Wii Sports - 45,897 / 1,004,555
03. (Wii, Nintendo) Wii Play - 36,090 / 879,432
04. (DS, Nintendo) More Brain Age - 32,800 / 3,963,712
05. (DS, Nintendo) New Super Mario Bros. - 29,026 / 4,118,078
06. (PS2, Capcom) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - 27,519 / 304,113
07. (DS, Nintendo) Wario: Master of Disguise - 26,815 / 185,695
08. (DS, Marvelous Interactive) Harvest Moon: The Island I Grew Up On - 26,804 / 106,212
09. (DS, Marvelous Interactive) Luminous Arc - 25,676 / NEW
10. (PS2, Sega) J-League Pro Soccer 5 - 24,468 / 131,541
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11. (DS, Nintendo) Animal Crossing Wild World
12. (DS, Nintendo) Picross DS
13. (DS, Nintendo) Common Knowledge Training
14. (DS, Nintendo) Mario Kart DS
15. (DS, Nintendo) Brain Age
16. (DS, Pokemon) Pokémon Diamond
17. (DS, Nintendo) English Training
18. (DS, IE Institute) Kanji Brain Test 2M
19. (DS, Pokemon) Pokémon Pearl
20. (DS, Sega) Sangokushi Taisen DS
21. (DS, Sega) Love+Berry
22. (PSP, Capcom) Monster Hunter Portable
23. (DS, Square-Enix) Dragon Quest Monsters Joker
24. (DS, Nintendo) Hotel Dusk: Room 215
25. (DS, Rocket Co.) Kanji Test
26. (DS, Bandai-Namco) Heisei Board of Education DS
27. (Wii, Nintendo) Wario Ware Smooth Moves
28. (DS, Nintendo) 1000 Recipes
29. (DS, Nintendo) Kirby Squeek Squad
30. (DS, Sega) Puyo-Puyo!

NDS - 23
Wii - 3
PS2 - 2
PSP - 1
PS3 - 1

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #658 on:** February 14, 2007, 08:18:35 PM »

VF5 outsold Wii sports by 3 thousand and was number 1? It is obvious this is signaling the end of Nintendo's dominance in Japan!

couchmonkey · « **Reply #659 on:** February 15, 2007, 02:47:42 AM »

Do we get NPD numbers today? I'm really curious to see if Wii outsold PS3 in January, or if the shortages are holding Nintendo back.

The story in Japan is the same old. It's really impressive to see Wii Sports and Wii Play still up there after all this time, it's clear that Nintendo owns the non gamers. Otherwise, DS took 23/30? Wow! I guess I should mention VF5 as well, but seriously, any major new release could take 1st place in Japan right now: the sales are pretty low.

I'd argue that Madden and other third party titles doing well are due to new consumers jumping on board. Not just non-gamers either: my dad has a hardcore Xbox/360 gamer in his office who won't shut up about Wii. The guy had his mom lining up at Future Shop to get him a Wii and, later, WiiPlay.

Jin-X · « **Reply #660 on:** February 15, 2007, 03:23:17 AM »

Madden Wii would have even sold a lot more than that if EA WOULD HAVE ADVERTISED THE DAMN GAME. I still can't believe how they didnt do that. For you guys outside of the US, you have no idea the kind of popularity a football game with much greater immersion can have.

Darc Requiem · « **Reply #661 on:** February 15, 2007, 02:00:35 PM »

Well no has posted the hardware sales for Japan this week, so I thought I'd do the honors.

Media Create Feb 5th - 11th

1. DSL - 201,177 (+54,085) - 1,104,028 - 8,553,912
2. Wii - 78,550 (+12,810) - 603,478 - 1,523,121
3. PSP - 32,175 (+959) - 303,113 - 4,835,242
4. PS3 - 23,431 (+4,704) - 178,734 - 636,292
5. PS2 - 16,033 (-1,507) - 149,437 - 20,304,296
6. 360 - 4,811 (-1,319) - 52,617 - 317,319
7. GBASP - 980 (+256) - 8,136 - 5,927,087
8. GBM - 884 (-166) - 10,245 - 570,175
9. NGC - 383 (+77) - 3,459 - 4,172,927
10. NDS - 121 (+2) - 581 - 6,582,838
11. GBA - 36 (+8) - 308 - 8,823,514

Artimus · « **Reply #662 on:** February 15, 2007, 02:16:35 PM »

Is that over 15 million DSs sold? Why yes, it is.

Deguello · « **Reply #663 on:** February 15, 2007, 03:27:18 PM »

Kinda Strange isn't it? The DS is only a little over two years old and it's within 5 million of the PS2. And if it keeps selling at this pace, it will surpass the PS2 in less than 7 months.

Edit: Oh yeah, just to stroke the fanboy inside me... The PS3 is at the exact same total the Gamecube was at at this time in their lifespans. However, next week, in order to keep pace with the GC, the PS3 has to sell 160,000 units (The GC got a little boost at this point from SSBM.) If it can't, the PS3 will be officially doing worse than the GC in Japan.

IceCold · « **Reply #664 on:** February 15, 2007, 06:18:16 PM »

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Originally posted by: couchmonkey
Do we get NPD numbers today? I'm really curious to see if Wii outsold PS3 in January, or if the shortages are holding Nintendo back.

Here you go.. (courtesy Brandogg)

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Originally posted by: Brandogg
Sorry, here's the NPD numbers, should have included them in the original post.

Wii 431,550
Nintendo DS 389,901
PlayStation 3 288,636
PlayStation 2 253,456
Xbox 360 217,670
PSP 164,342
Game Boy Advance 146,667
GameCube 28,954
Xbox 1,099

Looks like Wii is set to reach the 6 million pre-2008 fiscal year goal.

Kairon · « **Reply #665 on:** February 16, 2007, 02:50:42 AM »

Are those numbers confirmed? I can't find them anywhere else and Gaf doesn't seem to have an NPD thread...

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #666 on:** February 16, 2007, 04:23:10 AM »

I got them from a thread on gamefaqs...

Arbok · « **Reply #667 on:** February 16, 2007, 05:20:44 AM »

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Originally posted by: Brandogg
I got them from a thread on gamefaqs...

Uh oh...

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #668 on:** February 16, 2007, 07:34:58 AM »

Virtua Fighter 5 didn't sell systems, even if it was # 1. It sold mostly to people who already had a PS3 (more than twice as many copies were sold than PS3 systems were sold.) This is just very laughable.

This is like the Seinfeld episode were Elaine's and George's luck seemed to have switched between them.

jasonditz · « **Reply #669 on:** February 16, 2007, 09:13:04 AM »

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Originally posted by: nitsu niflheim
Virtua Fighter 5 didn't sell systems, even if it was # 1. It sold mostly to people who already had a PS3 (more than twice as many copies were sold than PS3 systems were sold.) This is just very laughable.

This is like the Seinfeld episode were Elaine's and George's luck seemed to have switched between them.

What're you, sticking it to me?!

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #670 on:** February 16, 2007, 09:42:01 AM »

STICKING IT!!!!

UncleBob · « **Reply #671 on:** February 16, 2007, 02:45:04 PM »

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Originally posted by: Brandogg
I got them from a thread on gamefaqs...

Damn, I was gone for what, two weeks? and the entire internet has gone upside down... GameFAQ's boards are now a reliable source of infomation? What's next, IGN developing into a worthy site?

Kairon · « **Reply #672 on:** February 16, 2007, 08:22:39 PM »

Tecmo seems to be pleasantly surprised that they shipped more than they expected concerning Super Swing Golf. 200,000 units shipped overall in the US and Japan, which apparently seems good numbers for the game's scope. And they seem to think that Europe numbers will be good too.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

ReverendNoahWhateley · « **Reply #673 on:** February 16, 2007, 08:43:35 PM »

I noticed today that Wii prices on eBay are really starting to look more...sane. Most of the prices as of right now are between 300 and 350 American rubles. That's including hefty shipping fees, mind you.

At this rate, they'll be down to proposed retail value within the next two months! I can't wait to get some use out of those copies of Twilight Princess and Rayman that have been sitting inert in my kitchen cabinet since November!

Kairon · « **Reply #674 on:** February 20, 2007, 01:32:42 PM »

Official NPD numbers from Bloomberg

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Wii 436,000
X360 294,000
PS3 244,000

Possible complete numbers from a NEOGaf post

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PlayStation 2 299,352
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Nintendo DS 238,869
PlayStation Portable 210,719
Game Boy Advance 179,482
GameCube 33,806
Xbox 833

Looks good!

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

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