Topic: Official Sales Thread

[Adrock]

PSP outsold Wii. Is that because Nintendo can't get them out fast enough?

And PS3 Gundam is number. That'll last until next week maybe.

[Deguello]

Yes, Wii sales patterns seem to reflect it being restrained by supply.

[BlackNMild2k1]

some first day sales #'s

Yoshi Story (DS) 100k
Karous (DC) 2000 <--- The last DC game ever?
Power Smash 3 (PS3) solld 20% as much as VF5 did on its first day (i.e. ~10k?)
Heroes of Mana (DS) shipped 100k but sold 10k.

[Smash_Brother]

*VOMIT*

Heroes of Mana did that poorly?!

Maybe Japan has become so throughly convince of the series' utter crappiness that they won't touch it anymore.

[NWR_pap64]

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
*VOMIT*

Heroes of Mana did that poorly?!

Maybe Japan has become so throughly convince of the series' utter crappiness that they won't touch it anymore.

That or the game was ''too hard" for them...

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Auto-play wasn't in the game options.

[couchmonkey]

Wow, Mana did pretty poorly.  I think there are a bunch of reasons, but I don't feel like going into them now.

PSP has another okay week, Wii is the undisputed home console champ of Japan.

[Kairon]

I am sad at Mana's repeated poor performances. /cry

What's the next major title due for Wii in Japan? We're about to coast into a pretty decent 2-3 months in America... what's it like over there I wonder?

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

[Edfishy]

I was considering Heroes of Mana until I discovered single cartridge multiplayer wasn' t possible.  I'm sorry, but I'd prefer a four-player splitscreen version of the game on the Wii or something.

[Adrock]

I didn't get Children of Mana for the same reason. I'm not buying 2 versions of the game so my brother and I can play multiplayer. I'm still hoping that Seiken Densetsu 3 eventually makes it to the Virtual Console. Slim chance, I know...

[Smash_Brother]

I'd buy multiple copies of a game if it doesn't suck.

Shame CoM didn't fit into that category...

[BlackNMild2k1]

Media Create March 5th - 11th

Software:
01. (DS, Nintendo) Yoshi's Island DS - 303,114 / NEW
02. (PSP, Capcom) Monster Hunter Portable 2nd - 93,099 / 936,231
03. (DS, Level 5) Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village - 45,344 / 266,017
04. (PS2, Spike) Kenka Bancho 2: Full Throttle - 42,131 / NEW
05. (DS, Banpresto) Super Robot Wars W - 36,310 / 175,620
06. (Wii, Nintendo) Wii Sports - 35,298 / 1,165,674
07. (PS3, Bandai-Namco) Gundam Musou - 31,145 / 201,869
08. (DS, Square-Enix) Dragon Quest Monsters Joker - 26,452 / 1,228,264
09. (Wii, Nintendo) Wii Play - 26,340 / 1,002,628
10. (DS, Nintendo) More Brain Age - 20,716 / 4,060,566

11. (DS, Nintendo) New Super Mario Bros.
12. (DS, Nintendo) Animal Crossing Wild World
13. (DS, Square-Enix) Seiken Densetsu: Heroes of Mana
14. (DS, Nintendo) Mario Kart DS
15. (DS, Bandai-Namco) Iron Left Brain: Mistake Museum 2
16. (DS, Nintendo) Common Knowledge Training
17. (DS, Sega) Doraemon's New Magic World Adventure DS
18. (DS, Nintendo) Picross DS
19. (PS3, Sega) Power Smash 3
20. (DS, Nintendo) Brain Age
21. (DS, Marvelous Interactive) Harvest Moon: The Island I Grew Up On
22. (DS, Pokemon) Pokémon Diamond
23. (Wii, Nintendo) Fire Emblem: Goddess of the Dawn
24. (DS, Nintendo) Hotel Dusk: Room 215
25. (DS, Nintendo) English Training
26. (Wii, Nintendo) Wario Ware Smooth Moves
27. (PS2, Konami) GuitarFreaks & DrumMania Masterpiece Gold
28. (PS2, Nippon Ichi Software) Amagoushi's Mansion
29. (DS, Pokemon) Pokémon Pearl
30. (Wii, Nintendo) Eyeshield 21: The Gridiron's Strongest

DS - 19
Wii - 5
PS2 - 3
PS3 - 2
PSP - 1

Wow @ Yoshi's Island DS getting a good start on its way to it first million & congratulations to Wii Play & FFIII for finally crossing the 1million mark.

I'm also surprised to see Sony has managed to have a game for each console reach the Top 10 all at the same time.  

edit: Also now the Wii has twice as many 1 Million sellers than the Gamecube did in Japan.

[Requiem]

I would like to state that in my hometown (a big college town mind you) there are no Wiis in stock.

It's actually quite sad .

I'm still Wii-less.

[Ian Sane]

"I would like to state that in my hometown (a big college town mind you) there are no Wiis in stock."

I haven't seen a Wii for sale in my entire life but I assumed that this was normal.  Have Wiis suddenly become widely available in certain areas?

[Smash_Brother]

Not that I've seen.

I just called Gamestop and they said that, for the past few weeks, they haven't gotten ANY Wiis in.

I think I was right about Nintendo not being able to manufacture worth a damn...

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Now you're just unreasonable.

[Smash_Brother]

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Originally posted by: Professional 666
Now you're just unreasonable.

I'm unreasonable on many subjects, but this is not one of them.

It makes sense that more Wiis would be arriving in stores as time goes on, not less.

Nintendo must've run out of plastic and are currently negotiating to drill for more.

...in a Japanese wildlife reserve.

[Jin-X]

Link to NeoGaf post of Feb. NPD #s.


Sony's funeral, Nintendo's crowning


Who was it that said it's retarded to say PS3 is dead? I guess it depends on what one means by dead, but it sure as hell ain't gonna be #1, the minute they revealed the price they made sure of that.

 

[Arbok]

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Originally posted by: Jin-X
Who was it that said it's retarded to say PS3 is dead? I guess it depends on what one means by dead, but it sure as hell ain't gonna be #1, the minute they revealed the price they made sure of that.

Jesus Christ... I think the bigger news is that the 360 is still getting its ass handed to it by the PS2.

Oh who am I kidding... PS3 getting taken out by the GBA just can't be beat.

[Jin-X]

Yup GBA>PS3. Can't wait to hear the spin.

In all seriousness, this must be a turbulent time for 3rd party devs/publisher big wigs since so many bet their big projects on the wrong horse.

[Jin-X]

Software numbers here:

Guess Halo 3 and a Wiimote help move games, who would of thunk it?

And Zelda on Wii outsold Gears, guess Zelda is gonna have long legs and keep selling at a steady rate.

[Blue Plant]

Capcom will likely still stick to their guns and back the PS3 to the bitter end.

[IceCold]

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Originally posted by: Jin-X
Link to NeoGaf post of Feb. NPD #s.


Sony's funeral, Nintendo's crowning


Who was it that said it's retarded to say PS3 is dead? I guess it depends on what one means by dead, but it sure as hell ain't gonna be #1, the minute they revealed the price they made sure of that.

Yes! I was disappointed with DS sales last month since it seemed to finally completely take off in North America during the holidays, but didn't do well in January. I guess it was just the shortages.

Nothing can stop the DS. It's a worldwide phenomenon. And the Wii and DS are really driving the industry up.

[Jin-X]

The huge Crackdown numbers and the lacking spike in 360 HW numbers illustrates the 360's problem: the lack of variety in their library, XBX games sell great but they are all too similar so they fail to attract new people, they sell to the same fanbase.

[NWR_pap64]

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
Not that I've seen.

I just called Gamestop and they said that, for the past few weeks, they haven't gotten ANY Wiis in.

I think I was right about Nintendo not being able to manufacture worth a damn...

First, I read that Nintendo would ante ip the shipments in April, so by logic more Wiis should be in stores by summer.

Second, don't you find it weird that even with stores not getting any Wiis it sold roughly 335,000 units in February?

Shouldn't those numbers be lower, especially if the system is hard to find?

WEIRD...