Topic: Official Sales Thread

[Chozo Ghost]

License free? *pfffft* Check out Ogg Vorbis or FLAC formats. They are not only license free, but patent free also!

[Stogi]

I love FLAC format. Over half of my 7500 song collection is FLAC.

[Kenology]

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Originally posted by: 31 Flavas

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Originally posted by: Kenology

They sure did, but I knew that couldn't be right.  I just listened to their Wii-k in Review (that's in friggin' ACC format) and Matt confirms that ZDub sold 135k LTD.  Those are great numbers.

"friggin' ACC"? You mean, AAC right? If you've never heard of AAC, you'd best get used to it. It's the successor to MP3. Lots of companies are using it (Apple iTunes is the largest) because no licenses or payments are required to be able to stream or distribute content in AAC format.

Yeah, that's what I've been hearing.  I wasn't too upset about it after I figured out I could open it with quicktime (as opposed to wmp, which I usually listen to MP3s on).

[Chozo Ghost]

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Originally posted by: KashogiStogi
I love FLAC format. Over half of my 7500 song collection is FLAC.

I would do that, but FLAC does eat up a lot of space. It is, however, the best sounding format there is because the information stays exactly the same when you rip it from a CD, unlike with MP3 or even AAC. I have been thinking I should probably have my absolute favorite albums be in FLAC format, though.

Anyways, back on topic... I don't think it would be a good format for Wii considering the large file size. But it would be great if Nintendo offered more options than just AAC (or MP3 with the old revision). Not everyone has their music collection in either of these formats...

[Stogi]

"but FLAC does eat up a lot of space"


Hell yes it does. It's nothing a terabyte external can't fix though.  

[ShyGuy]

Wait, Z&W is 135k LTD? I could of sworn they said 35k LTD.  Hmm, well, the sometimes suspect Videogamechartz.com has it a 120k World Wid LTD. so maybe that's right. http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=12367

[GoldenPhoenix]

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Originally posted by: ShyGuy
Wait, Z&W is 135k LTD? I could of sworn they said 35k LTD.  Hmm, well, the sometimes suspect Videogamechartz.com has it a 120k World Wid LTD. so maybe that's right. http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=12367

I think you took that out of context in the latest Wiik in review, Matt and Mark say it is 35k for the month and 135k LD which I don't think is bad at all for that game. Should merit at least a sequel considering it probably payed for the budget.

[Mario]

135k would be amazing, but I don't believe it.

[Kenology]

Prelim Famitsu charts shows Wii kickin' some major ass this week.

[Kairon]

Media-Create Sales show that Mario Galaxy sold more than the week before! Awesome!

[SalesBot]

Media Create Dec. 10th - Dec. 16th

01./02. [DS] Mario Party DS (Nintendo) - 180,042 / 826,000
02./01. [Wii] Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 124,238 / 535,000
03./00. [PS3] Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (Sony) - 115,748 / New!
04./05. [DS] Prof. Layton and Pandora's Box (Level 5) - 74,378 / 444,000
05./09. [Wii] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) - 74,113 / 550,000
06./06. [DS] Dragon Quest IV (Square-Enix) - 73,061 / 868,000
07./10. [Wii] Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo) - 64,228 / 212,000
08./14. [Wii] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 55,102 / 2,341,000
09./15. [Wii] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 54,696 / 1,921,000
10./00. [Wii] Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon: the Labyrinth of Forgotten Time (Square-Enix) - 40,580 / New!


11./12. [PS2] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2008 (Konami)
12./20. [Wii] Mario Party 8 (Nintendo)
13./08. [DS] Powerful Pro-kun Pocket 10 (Konami)
14./00. [DS] Kirarin Revolution: Make and Show at the Kime-Kira Stage (Konami)New!
15./22. [DS] Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Time Expedition Party (Pokémon)
16./23. [DS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
17./39. [DS] Taiko Drum Master DS (Bandai-Namco)
18./28. [DS] Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Shadow Expedition Party (Pokémon)
19./04. [PSP] Hot Shots Golf Portable 2 (Sony)
20./11. [PS2] SD Gundam G Generation Spirits (Bandai-Namco)

21./27. [DS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
22./35. [Wii] Wario Ware Smooth Moves (Nintendo)
23./03. [DS] Tales of Innocence (Bandai-Namco)
24./00. [360] Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom (Microsoft)New!
25./21. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2008 (Konami)
26./16. [PS2] Sengoku Basara 2: Heroes (Capcom)
27./00. [Wii] Nights: Journey of Dreams (Sega)New!
28./47. [DS] Tamagotchi no Puchi-Puchi Omisecchi: Thanks Everybody! (Bandai-Namco)
29./18. [DS] Nep League DS (Jaleco)
30./31. [DS] Prof. Layton and the Curious Village (Level 5)

31./46. [DS] Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo)
32./34. [DS] My Housekeeping Diary (Nintendo)
33./45. [DS] Dinosaur King: The Seven Fragments (Sega)
34./25. [DS] MySims (EA)
35./00. [DS] Big Pitch: I Think I Can Become an Ace (Marvelous Entertainment)New!
36./43. [DS] Kanji Brain Test 2.5M (IE Institute)
37./42. [DS] Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day (Nintendo)
38./37. [PS3] Shin Sangoku Musou 5 (Koei)
39./50. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom)
40./48. [DS] Won!tertainment: Music Channel (Capcom)

41./32. [DS] Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters World Championship 2008 (Konami)
42./40. [Wii] Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (Capcom)
43./26. [PS2] Yakuza 2 (Sega)
44./41. [DS] Mega Man Star Force 2: Berserk × Dinosaur (Capcom)
45./17. [PSP] Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaiki da (Sony)
46./49. [DS] More Brain Age (Nintendo)
47./44. [DS] Mega Man Star Force 2: Berserk × Shinobi (Capcom)
48./00. [DS] Cooking Mama 2 (Taito)New!
49./00. [DS] Yes! Precure 5 (Bandai-Namco)New!
50./07. [360] Lost Odyssey (Microsoft)


Hardware - This Week | Last Week | YTD | LTD
1. NDS - 222,144 | 168,267 | 6,668,915 | 20,674,594
2. PSP - 184,610 | 91,481 | 2,736,291 | 7,268,420
3. WII - 170,558 | 115,057 | 3,311,401 | 4,231,044
4. PS3 - 63,720 | 38,123 | 1,073,245 | 1,530,803
5. PS2 - 18,025 | 11,987 | 726,218 | 20,881,077
6. 360 - 8,561 | 8,876 | 226,427 | 491,129
7. GBA - 140 | 114 | 50,534 | 15,348,613
8. NGC - 32 | 46 | 10,495 | 4,179,963

GBA = 9 GBA + 103 SP + 28 Micro
NDS = 12 DS + 222,132 Lite
# of Games Sold by System (Currently in no order):
Wii- 10 games
DS- 28 games
PS3- 3 games
PS2- 4 games
PSP- 3 games
XBox 360- 2 games

Number of New Games: 8 games

# First Party Games Split by Company:
Nintendo: 16
Sony: 3
Microsoft: 2

First to Third Party Number and Ratios by Company:
22 out of 38 or 57% of games Published for a Nintendo System were 3rd Party.
7 out of 10 or 70% of games Published for a Sony System were 3rd Party.
0 out of 2 or 0% of games Published for a Microsoft System were 3rd Party.
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.

[Kairon]

This is awesome. Go go Mario Galaxy!!! It just might have what it takes to outdo Sunshine's sales!

[Caterkiller]

So what happend? Did the people just not trust reviews and didn't start to buy Galaxy until they herd how great it was from friends?

Its amazing how much butt Nintendo has been kicking!

[Louieturkey]

Has the Wii every had 6 games in the top ten before in one week?  It's starting to reach into DS territory there.

Here's a question: Will Mario Party 8 or Wii Fit be the next million selling Wii game in Japan?  Famitsu puts MP8 at about 948K sold as of last week.

[vudu]

Poor entrance for NiGHTS.  

[Chozo Ghost]

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Originally posted by: vudu
Poor entrance for NiGHTS.  

Hopefully this is just because the game was released on the last day of that week....

Well, we can at least hope that's how it was, anyway... But maybe next week's will be higher....

[Chozo Ghost]

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Originally posted by: Louieturkey
Has the Wii every had 6 games in the top ten before in one week?  It's starting to reach into DS territory there.

I don't think it has. It is only now finally getting a good library of great games, so I think we'll see the Wii dominating the top 10 regularly from now on. There are probably going to be some weeks in the near future where all the top 10 are on Nintendo platforms. It almost happened this week, except for that one stupid PS3 game befouling the list.

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Originally posted by: Louieturkey
Here's a question: Will Mario Party 8 or Wii Fit be the next million selling Wii game in Japan?  Famitsu puts MP8 at about 948K sold as of last week.

Definitely MP8. If it is already at 948k then it only needs to sell 52k, which it can probably do in one more week.

[Kenology]

Man, SMG has legs!  I think it may just break a million... let's hope!

[GoldenPhoenix]

Well Nights is a solid game, so I see it selling decently, at least here.

[IceCold]

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Originally posted by: Caterkiller
So what happend? Did the people just not trust reviews and didn't start to buy Galaxy until they herd how great it was from friends?

Its amazing how much butt Nintendo has been kicking!

Well, the thing with Galaxy is that a good percentage of all new Wii owners every week will be buying it, because it's THE game to own. So it'll have really long legs.

So for the time being it basically correlates with the number of Wiis sold. Which means the hardware sales will be pretty high this week.  

EDIT: Oh yes, and also...

This, once again, proves that "non-games" are HELPING Nintendo's traditional games. Remember when Brain Age and Nintendogs sparked huge hardware sales, which set the plate for NSMB and other traditional games to sell really well?

Well, the same thing's happening here. WiiFit is boosting the demand for Wii, and Galaxy is benefiting.

[IceCold]

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Hardware:
DSL : 249k
Wii : 168k
PSP : 158k
PS3 : 53k
PS2 : 21k
360 : 8.7k

Whoa! Is it Golden Week or something?

[Luigi Dude]

Actually the week before Christmas is when games and hardware have their biggest sales in Japan.  Which means Media Creates charts that come out next week will be even HIGHER then the ones you see now.

It should be interesting to see how Wii sales will be when Smash Bros comes out in Japan.  It's obvious that Mario Galaxy is getting a lot of traditional gamers to finally buy a Wii over there, so with the combination of Smash Bros in a month, Wii sales should remain very strong.

Plus with Wii Fit continuing to bring in the non gamers, Japan will remain Nintendo Land for a long time.

[GoldenPhoenix]

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Originally posted by: IceCold

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Hardware:
DSL : 249k
Wii : 168k
PSP : 158k
PS3 : 53k
PS2 : 21k
360 : 8.7k

Whoa! Is it Golden Week or something?

::laughs at the horrid PS3 sales for a Christmas week::

[IceCold]

Smash Bros Melee sold almost 1.5 million in Japan (compared to Sunshine's less than 1 million) and with the much bigger installed base for the Wii, I expect Brawl to do really well there.

[Mario]

Sigh. THERE IS NO CHRISTMAS IN JAPAN. I recall sales being higher the last week of December and the first week of January than this week traditionally.

Wii Love Golf was an ABSOLUTE DISASTER. It does say a LOT about the Wii userbase though. It still only consists of Nintards and non-gamers. It's very clear the REAL hardcore gamers who actually have half a brain are still stuck on the Sony side waiting for PS3 to be cheaper, then again if they really were smart they would HAVE A Wii. The game IS the new Mario Golf but BETTER, but Wii owners are too ignorant to know. On one side of the userbase you have the Nintendo fans who only buy Nintendo games, on the other side you have the new gamers who don't know what to buy and just buy what's advertised. That leaves NO room for third parties and it's no wonder they all want Wii to fail. If Mario was in Wii Love Golf it'd sell half a million. Come on Nintendo, release game training already.

NiGHTS did heaps better than I expected, at least it made the top thirty and almost sold 20,000.