Author Topic: Official Sales Thread (Read 3202302 times)

Kairon · « **Reply #2150 on:** October 28, 2007, 04:39:50 AM »

School started in Japan. This is traditionally a very slow sales period year after year, I'm led to believe, though I haven't seen numbers from past years myself.

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #2151 on:** October 28, 2007, 07:19:28 AM »

02./00. [DS] [DS (Nintendo) - 32,438 / New!

The DS has it's own game now?

son of lucas · « **Reply #2152 on:** October 28, 2007, 09:45:32 AM »

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Originally posted by: Kairon
School started in Japan. This is traditionally a very slow sales period year after year, I'm led to believe, though I haven't seen numbers from past years myself.

Really? It's been my understanding that the return from summer break isn't as important there as in the U.S.. More like an extra long seasonal holiday.

It isn't even the beginning of a new school year.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #2153 on:** October 28, 2007, 10:01:14 AM »

Mid-terms are generally this month in Japan, but I doubt that has any real effect on sales...

Kairon · « **Reply #2154 on:** October 28, 2007, 06:56:27 PM »

Old VGChartz sales estimates seem to bear the theory out. For example, their estimates for the Japanese hardware sales of the week ending August 4, 2002 puts the PS2 at about 81k sales. Then it goes on a decline through September, going as low as 33k in the week ending November 17. By the week ending December 8, 2002, it's rebounded back to 84k.

SalesBot · « **Reply #2155 on:** October 31, 2007, 08:29:12 PM »

Media Create Oct. 22nd - 28th

01. [DS] Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (Square-Enix) - 142,000 / NEW
02. [PS2] Ar Tonelico 2 (Banpresto) - 72,000 / NEW
03. [DS] World Soccer Winning Eleven DS: Goal to Goal (Konami) - 29,000 / NEW
04. [PS3] Imabikisou (Sega) - 23,000 / NEW
05. [DS] DS Literature Collection (Nintendo) - 21,000 / 54,000
06. [DS] Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (Bandai-Namco) - 20,000 / NEW
07. [Wii] Ghost Squad (Sega) - 20,000 / NEW
08. [PS2] God of War II (Capcom) - 17,000 / NEW
09. [DS] DS Nishimura Kyotarou Suspense Detective Series: Deadly Intent (Tecmo) - 17,000 / 98,000
10. [DS] Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Time Expedition Party (Pokémon) - 16,000 / 537,000

11. [DS] Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day (Nintendo)
12. [DS] Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Shadow Expedition Party (Pokémon)
13. [DS] Kanji Test 2 (Rocket Co.)
14. [Wii] Wii Sports (Nintendo)
15. [PSP] Gundam Battle Chronicle (Bandai-Namco)
16. [PS2] Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! Meteor (Bandai-Namco)
17. [DS] Taiko Drum Master DS (Bandai-Namco)
18. [Wii] Mario Party 8 (Nintendo)
19. [DS] Gurren Lagann (Konami)
20. [PS2] Volleyball World Cup: Venus Evolution (Spike)

21. [PS2] Seaman 2 (Sega)
22. [Wii] Gintama: Banjiya Chuubu! (Bandai-Namco)
23. [DS] Tamagotchi no Puchi-Puchi Omisecchi: Thanks Everybody! (Bandai-Namco)
24. [DS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
25. [Wii] Wii Play (Nintendo)
26. [DS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
27. [DS] My Housekeeping Diary (Nintendo)
28. [DS] More Brain Age (Nintendo)
29. [Wii] Zak & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (Capcom)
30. [PS2] Home Teacher Hitman Reborn! Let's Assassinate!? (Marvelous Entertainment)

# of Games Sold by System (Currently in no order):
Wii- 6 games
DS- 16 games
PS3- 1 game
PS2- 6 games
PSP- 1 game

# First Party Games Split by Company:
Nintendo: 11
Sony: 0

First to Third Party Number and Ratios by Company:
11 out of 22 or 50% of games Published for a Nintendo System were 3rd Party.
8 out of 8 or 100% of games Published for a Sony System were 3rd Party.

DSL 76,243
PSP 59,792
Wii 27,502
PS3 18,785
PS2 11,698
360 3,718
GBM 64
GC 58
GBASP 41
DS 30

Legend:
Game- Nintendo System
Game- Sony System
Game- Microsoft System

Disclaimer: All of the above non-Media Create links and data were auto-generated from the Media Create Data. Therefore the accuracy of the links have not been verified.

Louieturkey · « **Reply #2156 on:** November 01, 2007, 01:47:32 PM »

30. [PS2] Home Teacher Hitman Reborn! Let's Assassinate!? (Marvelous Entertainment)

What is this?

Ceric · « **Reply #2157 on:** November 01, 2007, 01:56:30 PM »

Its From this Series.
I've been wathcing the Anime. I enjoy it even now that its to the more serious part though not as much.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #2158 on:** November 02, 2007, 02:53:38 AM »

Reborn (or more exactly, Tsuna with Reborn helping from the sidelines) is a playable character in JUMP Superstars.

Louieturkey · « **Reply #2159 on:** November 02, 2007, 03:44:55 AM »

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Originally posted by: Ceric
Its From this Series.
I've been wathcing the Anime. I enjoy it even now that its to the more serious part though not as much.

Ah, that makes sense. I saw the Hitman name and How to Assassinate and I was thinking the Hitman series of fps games.

Ceric · « **Reply #2160 on:** November 02, 2007, 02:01:45 PM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
Reborn (or more exactly, Tsuna with Reborn helping from the sidelines) is a playable character in JUMP Superstars.

That's cool. I really should get that game.

Arbok · « **Reply #2161 on:** November 02, 2007, 08:21:29 PM »

Well, it seems Salesbot only posted this in the DS thread, but it should probably spur more conversation here:

"Super Mario Galaxy ~ 130k (First Day Sales)

http://ameblo.jp/sinobi/ "

Am I the only one who is pretty disappointed by that? I was hoping that Galaxy would light the charts a blaze after the performance of New Super Mario Bros...

To be fair, it's not bad at all, but it's not what I was hoping for, which was a rebound in the Wii system sales in Japan which I don't see happening anymore this year.

Mashiro · « **Reply #2162 on:** November 02, 2007, 08:23:36 PM »

But . . . I thought Japan got over 700k pre-sales for SMG?

IceCold · « **Reply #2163 on:** November 02, 2007, 08:49:58 PM »

Those were retailer pre-orders. And yeah, the numbers are a bit disappointing, but it is 3D Mario after all - the Japanese have always liked the 2D versions better. Even Mario 64 didn't do too well over there.

Kairon · « **Reply #2164 on:** November 02, 2007, 08:56:32 PM »

Those numbers are to be expected I guess. Sunshine didn't break a million in Japan, so I'm hoping that Galaxy has a shot at it.

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #2165 on:** November 03, 2007, 03:29:11 AM »

There's gotta be some mistake... the sales figure for Galaxy must be missing a 0 on the end....

Say it isn't so! /cry

Mashiro · « **Reply #2166 on:** November 03, 2007, 03:42:20 AM »

Well it's only the first day sales. If the game has legs in Japan and it keeps selling at a steady pace then that's just as good no? =)

Arbok · « **Reply #2167 on:** November 03, 2007, 04:29:12 AM »

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Originally posted by: Mashiro
Well it's only the first day sales. If the game has legs in Japan and it keeps selling at a steady pace then that's just as good no? =)

I hope so... the fact that it had less sales on the first day compared to Hot Shots Golf 5 on the PS3 is very disheartening to me.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #2168 on:** November 03, 2007, 05:23:16 AM »

My guess is that mostly only the casuals have their hands on Wiis and alot of the Nintendo HARDCORE have been waiting for SMG to release before picking up a Wii. Problem is that their is only so many Wiis to be found in the stores which prevented alot of future SMG owners from buying the game.

Besides, I hear the advertising wasn't all that great as it seemed Nintendo thought that the name alone would sell the game. I guess not...(on the first day atleast.)

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #2169 on:** November 03, 2007, 05:50:58 AM »

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Originally posted by: BlackNMild2k1
My guess is that mostly only the casuals have their hands on Wiis and alot of the Nintendo HARDCORE have been waiting for SMG to release before picking up a Wii. Problem is that their is only so many Wiis to be found in the stores which prevented alot of future SMG owners from buying the game.

Besides, I hear the advertising wasn't all that great as it seemed Nintendo thought that the name alone would sell the game. I guess not...(on the first day atleast.)

But it isn't like the Wii has been tearing up the charts in Japan. Last week they only sold 35,000 which is better than the other consoles, but far less than the handhelds and much less than the PS2 was in its heyday. So it really shouldn't be hard to get a hold of.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #2170 on:** November 03, 2007, 05:58:05 AM »

From what I've been hearing, Nintendo has been diverting systems from Japan over to the N.A. and EURO shores cause they were anticipating a slow-down period (and the stack of left-over Wiis on shelves helped make that decision), so its not like they have been flooding the channel with Wiis. Its more like they are either diverting some stock or they have been stock-piling and the flood gates are about to open.

I wouldn't be surprised if Wii sales were around 60-80k for this upcoming week.

NWR_pap64 · « **Reply #2171 on:** November 03, 2007, 07:58:13 AM »

To be honest, I think the Wii is going to be a flop in Japan. It keeps dropping each and every day and many hit titles are dropping like flies in just the first weeks.

Its just so weird! The Wii survived Halo 3 mania and sold many consoles without a major title out yet in Japan people give a sh*t about it.

The way I see it if Wii Fit doesn't move consoles then forget it, the Wii is history in Japan.

SixthAngel · « **Reply #2172 on:** November 03, 2007, 08:05:05 AM »

To expect the same sales as NSMB is kind of ridiculous because of how many more DS's were sold at the time. I expect SMG to have a good constant sale rate, it seems to be a habit with a lot of Nintendo games recently.

Luigi Dude · « **Reply #2173 on:** November 03, 2007, 09:01:38 AM »

Yeah, Nintendo games have great legs in Japan. Everyone has to remember that the majority of NSMB sales came from the months after it's launch, where it averaged about 20,000 - 30,000 every week. Even though it easily sold over 1 million in it's first month, the other 3.5 million copies came from the next year's worth of sales.

Even the article says the 130,000 it's first day is better then Mario Party 8 first day sales. The last time I checked Mario Party 8 had sold over 800,000 copies in Japan. So if Galaxy is already off to a better start then Party was, I'd imagine it should be able to sell around the same amount if not more.

Oh it should also be stated that Super Paper Mario sold over 400,000 copies in Japan, and since the Mario RPG's are less popular then the main Platforming one, Galaxy will do a lot better then that. Hell even Twilight Princess was able to pass the 500,000 mark in Japan and we all know that Mario is more popular then Zelda over there so Galaxy will at the very least be over 600,000.

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #2174 on:** November 03, 2007, 09:30:34 AM »

Isn't it also true that this is a really slow time of year in Japan for gaming with school going on or something?

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Will Nintendo pull off another 30 for 30 in Japan sales this year and, if so, how many times?

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