Dante Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 Software 01./00. [PS3] White Knight Chronicles (SCEI) - 206,954 / NEW 02./01. [PSP] Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Square Enix) - 176,385 / 666,000 03./04. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) - 144,179 / 876,000 04./03. [NDS] Kirby Super Star Ultra Deluxe (Nintendo) - 140,934 / 920,000 05./06. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion: Girls Mode (Nintendo) - 105,225 / 547,000 06./13. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) - 84,515 / 1,445,000 07./00. [NDS] Phantasy Star Zero (SEGA) - 84,055 / NEW 08./08. [NDS] Pokemon Platinum (Pokemon Co.) - 78,653 / 2,231,000 09./17. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 71,347 / 3,051,000 10./19. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) - 69,913 / 2,066,000 11./10. [NDS] Momotarou Dentetsu 20th Anniversary (Hudson) 12./18. [NDS] Prof. Layton and the Last Time Travel (Level 5) 13./20. [NDS] Tongari Boushi to Mahou no 365 Nichi (Little Magician's Magic Adventure) (Konami) 14./14. [NDS] Power Pro Kun Pocket 11 (Konami) 15./07. [PS2] Gundam Musou 2 (Namco Bandai) 16./26. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2 G (BEST) (Capcom) 17./11. [WII] Taiko Drum Master Wii (Namco Bandai) 18./00. [WII] Play on Wii: Pikmin (Nintendo) 19./21. [NDS] Tamagotchi Kira Kira Omisecchi (Namco Bandai) 20./02. [PS3] Gundam Musou 2 (Namco Bandai) 21./12. [WII] Karaoke Joysound Wii (Hudson) 22./28. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) 23./27. [WII] Wii Music (Nintendo) 24./30. [PS3] Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III (SCEI) 25./25. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo) 26./32. [NDS] Taiko Drum Master 2: The Seven Island Adventure (Namco Bandai) 27./29. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 12: PES 2009 (Konami) 28./05. [NDS] Tales of Hearts: Anime Movie Edition (Namco Bandai) 29./16. [NDS] Genso Suikoden Tierkreis (Konami) 30./33. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven (Level 5) 31./35. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo) 32./00. [PS2] Pachitte Chonmage Tatsujin 15: Pachinko Fuyu no Sonata 2 (Hack Berry) 33./15. [NDS] Penguin no Mondai: Saikyou Penguin Densetsu! (A Penguin's Troubles: Strongest Penguin Legend) (Konami) 34./36. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) 35./00. [WII] Resident Evil (Capcom) 36./24. [NDS] Harvest Moon: Welcome to the Wind Bazaar (Marvelous) 37./34. [WII] Play on Wii: Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat (Nintendo) 38./38. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) 39./45. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) 40./42. [PSP] Musou Orochi: Maou Sairin (Koei) 41./37. [NDS] Chrono Trigger (Square Enix) 42./47. [PSP] Kenka Banchou 3: Conquer the Entire Nation (Spike) 43./00. [PSP] Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force 3 (Konami) 44./09. [PS2] Fate/Unlimited Codes (Capcom) 45./46. [PSP] Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam (Namco Bandai) 46./00. [WII] Mario Party 8 (Nintendo) 47./40. [PS2] Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World (Namco Bandai) 48./50. [NDS] Mario Party DS (Nintendo) 49./49. [NDS] Mega Man Star Force 3: Black Ace (Capcom) 50./00. [WII] Family Ski & Snowboard (Namco Bandai) NDS - 22 WII - 14 PSP - 6 PS2 - 4 PS3 - 4 Hardware NDS | 245,150 | 254,452 | 3,946,585 | 25,119,635 WII | 134,958 | 131,054 | 2,862,818 | 7,478,977 PSP | 118,765 | 145,957 | 3,693,026 | 11,358,103 PS3 | 45,989 | 39,136 | 980,797 | 2,622,468 360 | 13,011 | 12,914 | 322,097 | 829,437 PS2 | 10,404 | 8,662 | 472,489 | 21,399,529 DSi | 188,697 | 204,144 | 1,231,359 | 1,231,359 DSL | 56,453 | 50,308 | 2,715,226 | 17,302,805
Shino Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 Rhythm Heaven has sold a lot, That's awesome! Lol at Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode
darksnowman Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 Whats number 19? And what sort of expectations have been placed on the Wii de Asobu games?
Dante Posted December 31, 2008 Author Posted December 31, 2008 Whats number 19? And what sort of expectations have been placed on the Wii de Asobu games? Not listed.
Haden Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 [PS3] BioShock (Spike) - 1,500 / NEW Wow what the fuck! Honestly I wonder if they are going to sell enough copies to cover the staff that had to translate the game into japanese those numbers are abysmal! lol alone in the dark is even worse! At least that game kind of deserved it.
khilafah Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 Phantasy Star Zero (Sega) - 86,000 / NEW way lower than expected. That needs to pick up sales over next few weeks.
The Lillster Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 203K for WNC, is tha good or bad? i'd say good.
Sheikah Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 Wow what the fuck! That is insane. It's weird because we embrace both American and Japanese games, but it seems that the Japanese wouldn't know a good foreign game if it smacked them in the face.
Hellfire Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 That is insane. It's weird because we embrace both American and Japanese games, but it seems that the Japanese wouldn't know a good foreign game if it smacked them in the face. The japanese market is very very weird, but let's face it, Bioshock is totally taylored for western audiences, it's not like quirky jap games sell well here either. Although I don't know how White Knight turned out it seems to be a great game, so great to see it on top, not that it's a big surprise. Good numbers all around.
jammy2211 Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 White Knight Chronicle sales are good - most sales then any Xbox 360 RPG in Japan in just the first week. Hopefully it'll hold some legs for a few weeks and get to about 400k-500k lifetime in Japan. Would be awesome if Level 5 'offer' themselves to Sony like they said they would if it was successful, or something. But yeah, not much really to speak about in Japan nowadays. Weird that PSP still sells software over there though.
D_prOdigy Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 Glad to see No. 19 holding on in there. 200k for WKC is predictably respectable. It was never going to blow a hole in the charts, partly because of the lukewarm review in Famitsu, but mostly due to PS3's relatively humble user base. Then again, it's a Level 5 game so it was guaranteed some success. Would be awesome if Level 5 'offer' themselves to Sony like they said they would if it was successful, or something. That ship has well and truly come and gone. Level 5 have really diversified themselves over the past couple of years, creating surprise success stories like Inazuma on DS, not to mention they're probably going to end up with one of the best selling games of 2009 in the form of Dragon Quest IX. Oh, and Prof Layton for Christ's sake. There's really nothing to be gained by going second party in Sony's favour anymore. You can see a similar shift in focus with Nippon Ichi too.
Dante Posted January 1, 2009 Author Posted January 1, 2009 203K for WNC, is tha good or bad? i'd say good. biggest first weeks from SCE titles: 2005 - Rogue Galaxy 213,289 2006 - Minna no Tennis 210,392 2007 - Minna no Golf 5 175,750 2008 - White Knight Chronicles 203,000
Hellfire Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 White Knight Chronicle sales are good - most sales then any Xbox 360 RPG in Japan in just the first week. Hopefully it'll hold some legs for a few weeks and get to about 400k-500k lifetime in Japan. Would be awesome if Level 5 'offer' themselves to Sony like they said they would if it was successful, or something. But yeah, not much really to speak about in Japan nowadays. Weird that PSP still sells software over there though. Well, it's pretty damn normal that a PS3 RPG sells more than a 360 one :P Only big name PSP games sell though, which is a shame. I don't own a PSP nor am I a huge fan, but from what I see, it's still a good platform that has games that deserved to sell more (although I'm pulling this out of my ass cause I don't know the numbers :P).
James McGeachie Posted January 4, 2009 Posted January 4, 2009 Is that really RIZ-ZOAWD's first week sales? Has Japan really fallen to a degree where unique looking new RPG's mean absolutely nothing to them...? Or does the DS really have such a bizzare market that despite half the population of Japan or something having one, barely any hardcore gamers play it. It feels like all that matters over there now is sequels, ports and casual games.
Mundi Posted January 4, 2009 Posted January 4, 2009 Well, it's pretty damn normal that a PS3 RPG sells more than a 360 one :POnly big name PSP games sell though, which is a shame. I don't own a PSP nor am I a huge fan, but from what I see, it's still a good platform that has games that deserved to sell more (although I'm pulling this out of my ass cause I don't know the numbers :P). Well compared to the DS anything in competition with it sales wise will look bad but as of august last year it has sold over 40 million unit so yeah not too shappy in my opinion.
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