Topic: Official Sales Thread

[BlackNMild2k1]

Anyway, new feature added over at NeoGAF

Media Create March  26th - April 1st (almost complete)
This Week/Last Week [System] Title (Publisher) - This Week / LTD

01./00. [PS2] Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ (Square-Enix) - 173,212 / NEW
02./01. [PS2] Musou Orochi (Koei) - 73,387 / 479,635
03./00. [DS] More English Training (Nintendo) - 49,712 / NEW
04./00. [DS] Digimon Story: Sunburst (Bandai-Namco) - 48,192 / NEW
05./02. [DS] Yoshi's Island DS (Nintendo) - 46,123 / 581,893
06./00. [DS] Tamagotchi's Splendid Rainbow-venture (Bandai-Namco) - 44,250 / NEW
07./00. [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 4 (Konami) - 41,161 / NEW
08./04. [DS] Word Puzzle Mojipittan DS (Bandai-Namco) - 40,788 / 176,494
09./06. [Wii] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 34,527 / 1,285,124
10./05. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom) - 33,217 / 1,085,767

11./00. [DS] Digimon Story: Moonlight (Bandai-Namco)
12./08. [DS] Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village (Level 5)
13./09. [Wii] Wii Play (Nintendo)
14./00. [DS] D. Gray-man: The Followers of God (Konami)
15./00. [PS2] Fist of the North Star: Shinban no Futazousei - Kengou Retsuden (Sega)
16./00. [DS] Home Teacher Hitman Reborn! DS (Takara-Tomy)
17./10. [DS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
18./03. [DS] Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Goku Legend (Bandai-Namco)
19./11. [DS] Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (Square-Enix)
20./00. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 4 (Konami)
21./00. [Wii] Mezase!! Fishing Master (Hudson)
22./14. [DS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
23./12. [DS] More Brain Age (Nintendo)
24./13. [DS] Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo)
25./07. [DS] Crayon Shin-chan DS: Arashi wo Sakebunutte Crayon Daisakusen! (Banpresto)
26./00. [360] Call of Duty 3 (Spike)
27./17. [DS] Common Knowledge Training (Nintendo)
28./00. [DS] TOEIC Test Training DS (IE Institute)
29./15. [DS] Super Robot Wars W (Banpresto)
30./20. [DS] English Training (Nintendo)

31./23. [DS] Pokémon Diamond (Pokemon)
32./00. [PS2] Winning Post 7: Maximum 2007 (Koei)
33./21. [DS] Brain Age (Nintendo)
34./00. [DS] SimCity DS (EA)
35./29. [DS] Doraemon's New Magic World Adventure DS (Sega)
36./27. [DS] Pokémon Pearl (Pokemon)
37./00. [PS3] Winning Post 7: Maximum 2007 (Koei)
38./25. [Wii] Wario Ware Smooth Moves (Nintendo)
39./22. [PS3] Gundam Musou (Bandai-Namco)
40./28. [DS] Harvest Moon: The Island I Grew Up On (Marvelous Interactive)
41./39. [DS] Kanji Test (Rocket Co.)
42./41. [DS] Wario: Master of Disguise (Nintendo)
43./44. [DS] Kirby Squeek Squad (Nintendo)
44./33. [DS] Picross DS (Nintendo)
45./36. [DS] IQ Supply (Spike)
46./30. [DS] Love+Berry (Sega)
47./00. [PS2] VitaminX (D3 Publisher)
48./38. [DS] Kanji Brain Test 2M (IE Institute)
49./26. [DS] Iron Left Brain: Mistake Museum 2 (Bandai-Namco)
50./37. [DS] Puyo-Puyo! (Sega)

DS - 35
PS2 - 6
Wii - 4
PS3 - 3
PSP - 1
360 - 1

First Party Publsihed (All Platforms) highlighted - N=17  S=0 M=0
Third Parties on Nintendo Platforms bolded - 22 of 39
Third Parties on Non-Nintendo Platforms italicized - 11 of 11

Hardware - This Week | Last Week |       YTD |        LTD
1. DS   -    80,012 |   130,684 | 1,930,291 | 15,935,970
2. Wii   -    51,365 |    75,571 | 1,042,075 |  1,961,718
3. PSP   -    39,077 |    41,546 |   684,551 |  5,216,680
4. PS2   -    17,787 |    16,961 |   258,701 | 20,413,560
5. PS3   -    16,889 |    20,459 |   353,823 |    811,381
6. 360   -     3,889 |     3,492 |    79,013 |    343,715
7. GBA   -     1,206 |     1,394 |    29,511 | 15,327,590
8. GC   -       205 |       270 |     5,514 |  4,174,982

GBA = 9 GBA + 609 SP + 588 Micro
DS = 115 DS + 79,897 Lite


I hope that helps  

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Dude, take a vacation.  You don't have to satisfy these yahoos.

[Kairon]

Yes he does! more More MORE!!!

Until he gets a bar owner to buy a Wii and hold weekly Wii Sports events, the rabid fanbois will never be satisfied!

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

[BlackNMild2k1]

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Originally posted by: Professional 666
Dude, take a vacation.  You don't have to satisfy these yahoos.

The forums are on life support, there's nothing on TV, my plans for the night got postponed and I don't feel like moving my Wii to back to my bedroom.... so I did it just to fill my own void really.  

[Arbok]

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Originally posted by: BlackNMild2k1

Hardware - This Week | Last Week |       YTD |        LTD
1. DS   -    80,012 |   130,684 | 1,930,291 | 15,935,970
2. Wii   -    51,365 |    75,571 | 1,042,075 |  1,961,718
3. PSP   -    39,077 |    41,546 |   684,551 |  5,216,680
4. PS2   -    17,787 |    16,961 |   258,701 | 20,413,560
5. PS3   -    16,889 |    20,459 |   353,823 |    811,381
6. 360   -     3,889 |     3,492 |    79,013 |    343,715
7. GBA   -     1,206 |     1,394 |    29,511 | 15,327,590
8. GC   -       205 |       270 |     5,514 |  4,174,982

And the PS2 has now overtaken the PS3 in weekly sales in Japan. The system goes further on life support everyday.

In other news, it will be nice to see the Wii crack 2 mil in next week's data.

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Originally posted by: Professional 666
Dude, take a vacation.  You don't have to satisfy these yahoos.

BlackNMild2k1's reports are like 50% of the reason to still check the NWR forums...

[IceCold]

It's definitely true that lately the forums have been pretty boring..

[Ceric]

I think the forums are best when we have things to speculate about.  Especially new hardware.

[Smash_Brother]

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Originally posted by: IceCold
It's definitely true that lately the forums have been pretty boring..

This is the silence before the storm, if I have anything to say about it...

[The Omen]

Do we have any numbers for The Godfather yet?  

[BlackNMild2k1]

March NPD isn't for about another week or so.

[NWR_pap64]

Quote
Originally posted by: The Omen
Do we have any numbers for The Godfather yet?

Nope, all that we know is that the UK is EATING the game up while in the US Secret Rings is doing good.

[Kairon]

Darn, my Godfather purchase won't be in March where it'll be most visible, but in April... curse my lateness!

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

[Smash_Brother]

That's right, folks: M games, and ultimately the Wii itself, failed because of Kairon.

Please select from this pile of rocks. Stoning starts in 15 minutes.

[Kairon]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

[31 Flavas]

I'm WARNING YOU, if you say Jehovah one more time! *stone thumps the priest on the head*

[Smash_Brother]

I did it.

I sold the Wii to the nightclub owner. Tomorrow, I'll be hosting the first open Wii Sports night.

Hoo-rah!

[NWR_pap64]

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
I did it.

I sold the Wii to the nightclub owner. Tomorrow, I'll be hosting the first open Wii Sports night.

Hoo-rah!

Congratulations!

Just remember, have fun and don't get TOO involved in the tournaments.

Hopefully, the Wii Sports tournaments will be around come summer .

[BlackNMild2k1]

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Originally posted by: pap64

Quote
Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
I did it.

I sold the Wii to the nightclub owner. Tomorrow, I'll be hosting the first open Wii Sports night.

Hoo-rah!

Congratulations!

Just remember, have fun and don't get TOO involved in the tournaments.

Hopefully, the Wii Sports tournaments will be around come summer .

But most importatntly, don't forget to get paid. You'll thank yourself later.

[NWR_pap64]

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Originally posted by: BlackNMild2k1

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Originally posted by: pap64

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
I did it.

I sold the Wii to the nightclub owner. Tomorrow, I'll be hosting the first open Wii Sports night.

Hoo-rah!

Congratulations!

Just remember, have fun and don't get TOO involved in the tournaments.

Hopefully, the Wii Sports tournaments will be around come summer .

But most importatntly, don't forget to get paid. You'll thank yourself later.

I honestly doubt that SB and crew will demand a payment of some sort, since its mostly for THEIR personal gain.

I'm sure they will ask for a fee if the owners start demanding too much (like they demand that the crew set up the tournaments every week and want a lot of effort put into it).

But at the moment, it looks like they are doing this to help a local haunt out, not to seek any monetary reward from it.

BTW, you mentioned earlier that you are giving SB this advice because of past experience. What did you do?  

[BlackNMild2k1]

I tried to help a semi-local bar where a friend worked by helping to get the place filled. It had been open for months, yet the place always stayed relatively empty and I wanted my friend to keep his job. So I helped promote by getting all of my friends to go there and pass out flyers at the other more local bars. Eventually, a few weeks later, the place was consistantly packed 2 of 3 nights out of the week. Once I realized that promoting was taking up quite a but of my time, and not to mention my gas, I asked to get some compensation for my time and efforts(he was doing a lot business now that I <and others> helped out). He paid me once, gave me hook-ups on drinks twice, and then pretty much pretended like I didn't help him get to the successful thurs-sat. nights that he still enjoys to this day.

[rant] It got so bad that once when I was there, someone stole my drink and he wouldn't even replace it, he just said "what am I supposed to babysit your drink?".  Just so you know we couldn't take our drinks outside to the smoking area, so I had to leave it on a table infront of the bouncer, when I came back 2-3 minutes later it was gone, hardly my fault. I pleaded with the bartender who then gave me a replacement drink, which was then knocked out of my hand by some drunk chick, and the bar owner still wouldn't replace my drink. So I stopped going there and made sure all of my friends that frequented the spot(which was about 15-20% of the crowd on any of those 3 days), stopped going there too. That move coincedentally coincided with the pull of support from the guy who helped pull in all the people from the very local college in that same city(I lived a couple of cities over, where I did my flyering). His friends were about 50-70% of who was there on any given night, which meant that now the club was dead again. It eventually picked back up a couple of months later when things with the college kids worked themselves back out, but only just recently got back up to the levels of success that they enjoyed way back when things were good.[/rant]

Moral of the story:
Helping out may help you get laid,
but looking back, you'll be glad you got paid.    

[NWR_pap64]

Quote
Originally posted by: BlackNMild2k1
I tried to help a semi-local bar where a friend worked by helping to get the place filled. It had been open for months, yet the place always stayed relatively empty and I wanted my friend to keep his job. So I helped promote by getting all of my friends to go there and pass out flyers at the other more local bars. Eventually, a few weeks later, the place was consistantly packed 2 of 3 nights out of the week. Once I realized that promoting was taking up quite a but of my time, and not to mention my gas, I asked to get some compensation for my time and efforts(he was doing a lot business now that I <and others> helped out). He paid me once, gave me hook-ups on drinks twice, and then pretty much pretended like I didn't help him get to the successful thurs-sat. nights that he still enjoys to this day.

[rant] It got so bad that once when I was there, someone stole my drink and he wouldn't even replace it, he just said "what am I supposed to babysit your drink?".  Just so you know we couldn't take our drinks outside to the smoking area, so I had to leave it on a table infront of the bouncer, when I came back 2-3 minutes later it was gone, hardly my fault. I pleaded with the bartender who then gave me a replacement drink, which was then knocked out of my hand by some drunk chick, and the bar owner still wouldn't replace my drink. So I stopped going there and made sure all of my friends that frequented the spot(which was about 15-20% of the crowd on any of those 3 days), stopped going there too. That move coincedentally coincided with the pull of support from the guy who helped pull in all the people from the very local college in that same city(I lived a couple of cities over, where I did my flyering). His friends were about 50-70% of who was there on any given night, which meant that now the club was dead again. It eventually picked back up a couple of months later when things with the college kids worked themselves back out, but only just recently got back up to the levels of success that they enjoyed way back when things were good.[/rant]

Moral of the story:
Helping out may help you get laid,
but looking back, you'll be glad you got paid.

I see. So you fear that SB and crew's favor will explode in their faces and the owner will ignore the fact that they went through the trouble of getting the Wii, setting it up, creating and promoting tournaments and eventually helping the bar get even more people in.

Well like I said, the guys know the owner a bit, and I'm sure that if they are spending way too much time on this they will either drop it or demand compensation.

[ShyGuy]

If a favor is done without request, no reward should be expected.  

[BlackNMild2k1]

I may have left out a few details, just to shorten the story.

Well I Kinda knwe the owner too, and he needed help getting people in there, I offered to do it for very little compensation at first, but once it started takig up a good chunk of my time, I asked for more compensation to which he agreed to. But then once it came time to pay, he tried to make up excuses why he shouldn't have to, even though it was clear that most of the people in there were the direct result of mainly two people, and he wasn't paying the other guy, the one that went to the local college.

The point is, that I got stiffed once things took off and they were able to maintain w/o me, the other guy got beat up by the bouncers one night for being way too drunk and not leaving voluntarily, but the difference is that I atleast got paid for my efforts before everything went south for the winter.

and for the summary:

Bar is empty, needs help getting people in.
Local college guy with lots of friends help by bringing friends and passing out flyers for free
Not as local me brings my fiends and passes out flyers for small compensation (free/discounted drinks)
Bar gets busier, starting to gain popularity
promoting took more effort than I previously thought, asked for more compensation, which was agreed upon
bar gets really busy, Owner attempts to stiff me on compensation

3 months later the other guy get thrown out of bar and then beat up for not staying out
I get tired of getting jerked around by the owner, we both pull our support, bar attendence takes a nose dive.
several months later they repair communications with the other guy, some people come back.
my friend asked me a favor, so I came back temporarily, brought a few friends.
remembered why I quit going there, haven't been back since.
But atleast I got paid.  

[Smash_Brother]

I'll definitely be keeping my eye on the situation, BNM, and I'm sorry it went so badly for you.

The one other thing I have going for me is that I'm the one who will be organizing/hosting the tournaments so they will continue to need me. Plus, I only plan to really "promote" the bar once via fliers. After that, I'll still show up to host tournaments but that could be done by them if I decide to opt out of it.

[Artimus]

The moral of the story is not to smoke. Then you wouldn't need your drink replaced.