Topic: Official Sales Thread

[NWR_Lindy]

OK, in order to avoid COMPLETE derailment of this thread, I'll start a new one.

Back to the regularly-scheduled Wii Sales Thread.

[King of Twitch]

I'm just not understanding why Mario KArt and SSBB are labeled "party" games.

Well I can understand SSBB, with all the "punch" being served

[Flames_of_chaos]

10/13 - 10/19

1. [WII] Wii Music (Nintendo) 91,638 / NEW
2. [NDS] Pokemon Platinum (Pokemon Co.) 72,470 / 1,754,000
3. [PSP] Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida or 2 (SCEI) 58,806 / NEW
4. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 51,504 / 1,010,000
5. [NDS] Culdcept DS (SEGA) 50,374 / NEW
6. [PS2] Kidou Senshi Gundam 00: Gundam Meisters (Namco Bandai) 43,175 / NEW
7. [PS2] Shin Sangoku Musou 5 Special (Koei) 27,170 / 184,000
8. [PSP] Macross Ace Frontier (Namco Bandai) 25,764 / 130,000
9. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 18,305 / 2,740,000
10. [PS2] Super Robot Taisen Z (Namco Bandai) 12,629 / 462,000

11. [WII] Daikaijuu Battle: Ultra Coliseum (Namco Bandai)
12. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
13. [NDS] Dragonball DS (Namco Bandai)
14. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven (Level 5)
15. [NDS] Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (Nintendo)
16. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo)
17. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2 G (Capcom)
18. [PS2] Powerful Major League 3 (Konami)
19. [NDS] Kanji Brain 2 + Dictionary (IE Institute)
20. [WII] One Piece Unlimited Cruise: Episode 1 (Namco Bandai)
21. [WII] Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces (Namco Bandai)
22. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
23. [NDS] Taiko Drum Master 2: The Seven Island Adventure (Namco Bandai)
24. [NDS] World Destruction (SEGA)
25. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo)
26. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
27. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
28. [NDS] Intuition! (Rocket)
29. [NDS] Beautiful Letter Training DS (Nintendo)
30. [PSP] Shinobido PSP (Spike)

31. [NDS] Dragon Quest V (Square Enix)
32. [PS2] J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship (Konami)
33. [NDS] Yattaman DS 2: Bikkuridokkiri Animal Daibouken (Takara Tomy)
34. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
35. [NDS] Kawaii Koinu DS 2 (Pretty Puppy 2) (MTO)
36. [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 3 (Konami)
37. [PS2] Kinnikuman Muscle Grand Prix Max 2 Tokumori (Namco Bandai)
38. [PSP] Ikki Tousen: Eloquent Fist (Lone Rider with Strength to Withstand a Thousand) (Marvelous)
39. [PSP] Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! Battle Arena (Marvelous)
40. [PS2] Tales of the Abyss (BEST) (Namco Bandai)
41. [PS3] Trusty Bell: Chopin's Dream - Reprise (Namco Bandai)
42. [WII] Disaster: Day of Crisis (Nintendo)
43. [NDS] Mario Party DS (Nintendo)
44. [NDS] Mame Goma 2: Uchi no Ko ga Ichiban! (My Kid is Number One!) (TDK Core)
45. [NDS] Fire Emblem: New Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light (Nintendo)
46. [PS3] Aquanaut's Holiday: Kakusareta Kiroku (SCEI)
47. [NDS] Tottadoo! Yoiko's Deserted Island Life (Namco Bandai)
48. [NDS] Puyo Puyo! (BEST) (SEGA)
49. [PS3] Cross Edge (Compile Heart)
50. [PSP] Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida (BEST) (SCEI)

NDS - 22
WII - 10
PSP - 8
PS2 - 7
PS3 - 3

Hardware | This Week | Last Week | Last 4 Weeks |    YTD    |    LTD   
DS       |    29,839 |    31,914 |      161,985 | 2,468,544 | 23,641,598
PSP      |   159,816 |    23,901 |      235,433 | 2,992,962 | 10,658,039
WII      |    26,024 |    22,877 |      100,545 | 2,264,389 |  6,880,528
360      |     7,856 |     7,763 |       35,181 |   212,785 |    721,230
PS2      |     7,261 |     6,982 |       32,709 |   405,272 | 21,332,312
PS3      |     4,725 |     5,734 |       25,966 |   699,941 |  2,341,617

[Flames_of_chaos]

First 5 Weeks, Wii-series:

Wii Sports: (launched with system, 11/27/06)
176,880
75,575
62,119
142,157
96,483

Wii Play (launched with system, 11/27/06)
171,888
68,053
55,080
126,161
82,003

Wii Fit (launched on one-year anniversary, 11/26/07)
254,009
153,219
119,841
210,406
80,691

Wii Music (launched 10/13/08--a month early?)
92,000
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a

[KDR_11k]

I have a feeling that the time of the year has a bigger impact on Wii Music sales than the time after release, it'll probably be important to look at the weeks that match the first five weeks of those other games.

[Luigi Dude]

I have a feeling that the time of the year has a bigger impact on Wii Music sales than the time after release, it'll probably be important to look at the weeks that match the first five weeks of those other games.

This is correct.  During December, videogame sales in Japan just explode and everything sells like crazy.  All the other Wii (insert name) games came out during the December rush where sales are traditionally higher, while Wii Music is out right now, when the sales in Japan are traditionally much lower.

[Flames_of_chaos]

Credit goes to Neogaf

2008 console sales

Wii
Month   Europe      USA      Japan
Jan   383.000      274.000      542.982
Feb   399.000      432.000      288.359
Mar   512.000      721.000      268.720
Apr   575.000      714.200      210.851
May   536.000      675.089      208.778
June   605.000      666.700      224.245
July   483.000      555.000      164.704
Aug   478.000      453.000      162.470
Sep   548.000      687.000      144.379

Total   4.519.000           5.177.989           2.215.488

YTD:   11.912.477

Playstation 3
Month   Europe      USA      Japan
Jan   315.000      269.000      217.366
Feb   180.000      280.800      69.202
Mar   306.000      257.120      71.325
Apr   242.000      187.071      34.954
May   218.000      208.700      33.995
June   245.000      405.488      138.835
July   145.000      225.000      43.911
Aug   181.000      185.353      39.861
Sep   250.000      232.400      40.033

Total   2.082.000           2.250.932           689.482

YTD:    5.022.414

Xbox 360
Month   Europe      USA      Japan
Jan   164.000      230.000      29.361
Feb   82.000      254.600      10.096
Mar   191.000      262.000      9.041
Apr   176.000      188.000      5.231
May   188.000      186.600      6.678
June   147.000      219.800      16.878
July   119.000      205.000      18.315
Aug   128.000      195.200      38.995
Sep   222.000      347.200      62.571

Total   1.556.000            2.088.400    212.785

YTD:    3.857.185

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

EREVEN POINT NINE MILLION

[BeautifulShy]

Yep and the year isn't over.Maybe there can be 15 million at the end of the year.

[Flames_of_chaos]

I'd expect the 360 to get a small bump because of the price drop but the PS3 is doing pretty well this year. Once it hits 299.99 and software PS2 BC it should get another bump.

[KDR_11k]

What makes you think it'll "hit" software BC?

[Flames_of_chaos]

Sony's been hinting at it for a while. They primarily want the PS2 singstar games to work on the PS3.

[Bill Aurion]

Sony has shown time and time again that they don't really care for BC, so I doubt it...

[KDR_11k]

When Sony "hints" that means they want to give people the impression they are doing something when they really don't, often to mislead competitors.

[Flames_of_chaos]

When Sony "hints" that means they want to give people the impression they are doing something when they really don't, often to mislead competitors.

Well the only developer house I don't trust anymore is Lionhead after the fable 2 fumbles.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

BC = DOWNROADABLE 700MB PSX GAMES

[BranDonk Kong]

No PSX games were ever 700MB, not counting multi-disc games. They were all under 650MB.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

The other 50mb goes into Sony's game-enhancing DRM.

[Kairon]

Yep and the year isn't over.Maybe there can be 15 million at the end of the year.

Hmmm....

Well, earlier this year Nintendo was manufacturing 1.6 million Wiis a month worldwide, and I'm not sure when they upped that to 2.4 million and how gradual that was. If, like they say, they are at 2.4 million monthly worldwide now, that could be pretty awesome...

[BeautifulShy]

Hmmm looking at the numbers that Flames provided I would surmise that in June they increased the number of units shiped.
Speaking of the number 15 million. In North America that is how much has sold thus far.

[KDR_11k]

Well the only developer house I don't trust anymore is Lionhead after the fable 2 fumbles.

Huh? I stopped taking Molyneaux seriously after Black & White, according to some employees he has a tendency to spontaneously make features up during interviews and act like they're already done and in the game, later they get cut for being pointless or just never implemented at all.

[GoldenPhoenix]

Fable II fumbles? The game is great. If that is a fumble I'd love to see a touchdown from him!

[Flames_of_chaos]

Fable II fumbles? The game is great. If that is a fumble I'd love to see a touchdown from him!

The game is GOOD just plagued with game stopping glitches like the black screen of death where the game keeps freezing on a loading screen, if you skip a specific conversation a monk won't move which is needed to initiate a important mission and so forth. The main issue with these is that there is only 1 save slot.  Just click here to see how many people are having issues with it.

My other main gripes with fable 2 is spell switching, and the whole borderline unfriendly user interface that's context sensitive and finally how sometimes how the dog leads you in the wrong direction while your looking for the treasure or the dig spot that he's found.

My mainpoint is that fable 2 and a lot of other key releases on retail, XBLA had horrible glitches and issues that Microsoft QA should of found and make the developer fix it. It just show's how Microsoft's QA is abysmal.

[Kairon]

It just show's how Microsoft's QA is abysmal.

It's as if they don't think we have enough evidence of that already. T_T

[Flames_of_chaos]

It just show's how Microsoft's QA is abysmal.

It's as if they don't think we have enough evidence of that already. T_T

Well my limited edition of fable 2 had the bonus disc off it's spindle but people had issues of having either: game disc, bonus disc, Limited Edition code card  missing. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones that had everything. I think this is the last time I genuinely trust Lionhead.