Nintendo World Report Forums

NWR Interactive => TalkBack => Topic started by: NWR_pap64 on June 17, 2010, 02:01:56 PM

Title: Xenoblade Leads Japans Latest Media Create Charts
Post by: NWR_pap64 on June 17, 2010, 02:01:56 PM

Nintendo and Monoliths Wii-exclusive title sees a healthy debut, while Super Mario Galaxy 2 is still seeing good numbers.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=23432

The Media Create sales chart for the week of June 7 through the 13 places Nintendo and Monolith Software's Wii RPG Xenoblade at the top of the charts. The RPG title sold 83,000 copies in its debut week. The previous chart topper, Super Mario Galaxy 2, experienced its first drop since its May 27 debut in Japan. The game sold 73,000 copies, pushing it to the half-million mark (519,000 copies have been sold since launch).

In fourth place is Capcoms Mega Man Zero Collection for the DS. It sold 22,000 copies for the week. Square Enix's Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 rounds out the top five with 20,000 copies sold for a grand total of 1,142,000 copies sold. The top ten closes with two more Nintendo titles. In ninth place is Friend Collection which sold 12,000 copies. Finally, New Super Mario Wii sold 12,000 copies.

The full Media Create chart is as follows:

1.   Xenoblade, Wii (83,000)
2.   Super Mario Galaxy 2, Wii (73,000)
3.   Grand Theft Auto Episodes from Liberty City, PlayStation 3 (64,000)
4.   Mega Man Zero Collection, DS (22,000)
5.   Dragon Quest Monster Joker 2, DS (20,000)
6.   Just Cause 2, PlayStation 3 (19,000)
7.   Fairy Tale Portable Guild, PlayStation Portable (14,000)
8.   World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010, PlayStation 3 (13,000)
9.   Friend Collection, DS (12,000)
10.   New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Wii (12,000)

Title: Re: Xenoblade Leads Japans Latest Media Create Charts
Post by: Toruresu on June 17, 2010, 11:52:27 PM

Good! I hope this game turns out to be awesome sales wise for Nintendo. We need more RPGs.

Title: Re: Xenoblade Leads Japans Latest Media Create Charts
Post by: Mop it up on June 17, 2010, 11:53:53 PM

I didn't even realize that game was released. Is there an NA date yet?

Title: Re: Xenoblade Leads Japans Latest Media Create Charts
Post by: Shaymin on June 18, 2010, 12:04:00 AM

Not yet, and apparently there's a boatload of voicework in the game so it's not exactly a quick turnaround for a localization.

Title: Re: Xenoblade Leads Japans Latest Media Create Charts
Post by: NeoStar9X on June 18, 2010, 12:29:40 AM

We can only hope they started localization work while the game was in production to speed things up. They had to know there was a market for this based on past Xeno games. So hopefully they took this into account while making the game. Same for The Last Story. I hope they at least have done something like that as well.

Title: Re: Xenoblade Leads Japans Latest Media Create Charts
Post by: Zoltan on June 18, 2010, 12:52:53 AM

It's nice to know that Monolith Soft finaly have a hit on there hands. It's always saddened me to see the people behind one of my favorite games of all time (Baten Kaiton Origins) have there games do poorly. I've always been afraid of them shutting down but this makes me feel better.

Title: Re: Xenoblade Leads Japans Latest Media Create Charts
Post by: Arbok on June 18, 2010, 12:54:01 AM

Quote from: Zoltan on June 18, 2010, 12:52:53 AM

It's always saddened me to see the people behind one of my favorite games of all time (Baten Kaiton Origins) have there games do poorly.

Likewise and it's good to see someone praise the Baten Kaiton series, as I love that franchise.

Title: Re: Xenoblade Leads Japans Latest Media Create Charts
Post by: NWR_pap64 on June 18, 2010, 01:52:07 AM

I too am happy that Xenoblade is doing well in Japan. Lord knows the Wii needed a good, exclusive, original RPG and its good to know that Xenoblade is doing great in terms of sales and critical reception.

Also, Mario Galaxy 2 has some great sales in Japan! At this point it might surpass the first game in terms of sales, a good thing for 3D Mario.