Media Create Sales: 09/01 - 09/07

[donny2112]

1. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 55,276 / 668,000
2. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 31,970 / 2,609,000
3. [NDS] Blue Dragon Plus (AQ Interactive) 21,174 / NEW
4. [PS3] Afrika (SCEI) 18,567 / 57,000
5. [PS2] J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship (Konami) 18,342 / 136,000
6. [NDS] Fire Emblem: New Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light (Nintendo) 17,349 / 222,000
7. [NDS] Dragon Quest V (Square Enix) 15,454 / 1,164,000
8. [NDS] Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (Nintendo) 14,688 / 326,000
9. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 14,207 / 1,748,000
10. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven (Level 5) 13,803 / 85,000

11. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable (SEGA)
12. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2 G (Capcom)
13. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo)
14. [NDS] Taiko Drum Master 2: The Seven Island Adventure (Namco Bandai)
15. [PS3] Battlefield: Bad Company (Electronic Arts Victor)
16. [PSP] Fate/Tiger Colosseum Upper (Capcom)
17. [NDS] Beautiful Letter Training DS (Nintendo)
18. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
19. [360] Musou Orochi: Maou Sairin (Koei)
20. [PS2] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 15 (Konami)
21. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
22. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
23. [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 3 (Konami)
24. [NDS] Zettai Karen Children DS: Dai-4 no Children (Konami)
25. [NDS] Chi's Sweet Home: Chi ga Ouchi ni Yatte Kita! (Chi Has Come to your Home!) (Interchannel)
26. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo)
27. [WII] Wario Land: Shake It! (Nintendo)
28. [WII] Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (Nintendo)
29. [NDS] Sigma Harmonics (Square Enix)
30. [PS2] Persona 4 (Atlus Co.)

31. [NDS] Bokura wa Kaseki Holder (We are Fossil Diggers) (Nintendo)
32. [PSP] Gundam Battle Universe (Namco Bandai)
33. [360] Tales of Vesperia (Namco Bandai)
34. [NDS] Shinseiki Evangelion Ayanami Ikusei Keikaku DS with Asuka Hokan Keikaku (Broccoli)
35. [NDS] Mame Goma 2: Uchi no Ko ga Ichiban! (My Kid is Number One!) (TDK Core)
36. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
37. [WII] Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball (Nintendo)
38. [NDS] Puyo Puyo! (BEST) (SEGA)
39. [NDS] Densetsu no Stafi: Taiketsu! Dire Kaizokudan (Nintendo)
40. [NDS] Brain Training 2 (Nintendo)
41. [PSP] Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida (BEST) (SCEI)
42. [PS3] Soul Calibur IV (Namco Bandai)
43. [NDS] Kanji Brain 2 + Dictionary (IE Institute)
44. [NDS] Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! DS Flame Rumble Hyper - Moeyo Mirai (Takara Tomy)
45. [NDS] Mario Party DS (Nintendo)
46. [NDS] Pokemon Diamond (Pokemon Co.)
47. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot (Konami)
48. [NDS] San-X Character Channel: All-Star Daishuugou! (MTO)
49. [NDS] Tottadoo! Yoiko's Deserted Island Life (Namco Bandai)
50. [WII] Captain Rainbow (Nintendo)

NDS - 26
WII - 9
PSP - 6
PS3 - 4
PS2 - 3
360 - 2




DS Lite - 51,412
PSP - 34,462
Wii - 33,128
PS3 - 8,317
PS2 - 7,948
Xbox 360 - 1,044

[PantherLotus]

Hardware  | This Week | Last Week | Last Month |     YTD    |    LTD     
DS        |   51,412  |   56,439  |    242,512 |  2,181,458 | 23,354,062
PSP       |   34,462  |   41,664  |    188,143 |  2,698,699 | 10,300,299
WII       |   33,128  |   35,755  |    157,092 |  2,104,237 |  6,720,397
PS3       |    8,317  |    9,775  |     38,505 |    657,496 |  2,299,172
PS2       |    7,948  |    8,810  |     50,044 |    271,032 | 21,198,069
360       |    1,044  |    3,124  |     15,077 |    135,675 |    643,016 

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• Software numbers are typically posted on Wednesday nights at about midnight Eastern.
• Hardware numbers are typically posted Thursday nights at about 9:20 PM Eastern.
• Historic Famitsu Data Compiled by Garaph.
• All charts belong to LotusCharts and will be linked accordingly.

[Blablurn]

afrika \o/

[DMPrince]

Battlefield and Afrika is suprising.

[donny2112]

:(

If you PM formatting for the charts, I'll add them to the original post.

[Eteric Rice]

Did the DS revive itself like Gandalf or something?

I mean wtf.

And holy shit at RTG.

[SPEA]

840?!

[Hive]

Rhythm Tengoku Gold is still #1, and that bodes well for a sequel!

[Rapping Granny]

Hang on there Africa.

[Crumpet Trumpet]

Hell yeah for Rhythm Tengoku.

When does it come to America, again?

[Nif]

840 Did they restock at all yet?

[Kuramu]

is there a mariokart wii legs vs mariokart DS legs chart lying around anywhere?

[Warren Ellis]

wtf at africa.. i think it is one of the best 2nd week for a ps3 game ever

release it in europee

[M3wThr33]

Did BD+ beat out BD?

[PantherLotus]

If you PM formatting for the charts, I'll add them to the original post.

I guess you're doing it for now?

[Case]

go FE!

[Scottlarock]

840 Did they restock at all yet?

nope.

[xero273]

Did BD+ beat out BD?

No. First week, BD sold about 82k.

http://garaph.info/softwareindividual.php?gameid=2640

[sprsk]

1. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 55,000 / 668,000

kou iu no ga koi na no

doki doki dokiiiiiiiiiin

hai hai hai hai!

Shikamo ne

KAAAAAAAAAAMONE HAI!

IRL: http://nicozon.blog64.fc2.com/?video_id=sm4403789

[Tenbatsu]

Fatal Frame and Wario still hanging there!!

[rpgfan16k]

Yikes @ BD+ :(

[Jonnyram]

360s were restocked today, alongside the new prices.

[xero273]

360s were restocked today, alongside the new prices.

and Infinite Undiscovery was released today?

[Jonnyram]

Yep.

[OldJadedGamer]

Afrika has been in the top 10 half the amount of time that MGS4 was!!! Hopefully it sells enough for them to consider an English version.

[donny2112]

I guess you're doing it for now?

I've done it the last two weeks. I don't really have a preference going forward, though. I'll do it when I'm around on Wednesday nights, unless the translation and thread gets posted earlier.

[PROOP]

and Infinite Undiscovery was unreleased today?

fixed

[MorisUkunRasik]

Afrika has been in the top 10 half the amount of time that MGS4 was!!! Hopefully it sells enough for them to consider an English version.

!

[Mr. Pointy]

Fatal Frame 4 goes up a few places.

[Tiktaalik]

God damn Rhythm Tengoku is a monster.

Blue Dragon Plus... Yikes.. that's gotta be dissapointing for Mistwalker.

[donny2112]

is there a mariokart wii legs vs mariokart DS legs chart lying around anywhere?

[jimbo]

and Infinite Undiscovery was released today?

price drop also goes in effect today.

Edit: Beaten.

[PantherLotus]

I've done it the last two weeks. I don't really have a preference going forward, though. I'll do it when I'm around on Wednesday nights, unless the translation and thread gets posted earlier.

I'd really like to do it if you don't care that much, unless anybody objects.

[Cirekiller]

Wow the Blue Dragon cover art looks like crap.

[Jonnyram]

Blue Dragon Plus... Yikes.. that's gotta be dissapointing for Mistwalker.

That's what happens when you split your userbase. Should have left it on 360.
/joke

[jimbo]

I'd really like to do it if you don't care that much, unless anybody objects.

You both do a great job, so you two can decide, but Panther you normally do the charts right?

I just have one request. Whoever does the OP, to add the monthly totals as well, and update them once a month matched up to NPD.

Here's August 2008 monthly MC hardware numbers. Covers Aug 4 - Aug 31:

DS - 251,534
PSP - 212,182
Wii - 162,470
PS3 - 39,861
360 - 38,995
PS2 - 35,901


If we can get those added as a column with the hardware in the OP, it would be great.

Edit: They should be accurate, but feel free to double check me.

[A Link to the Snitch]

Can we get some comparisons for LTDs on some games pluz?

[Tenbatsu]

Next week number 1 will be an easy guess.

[TunaLover]

Fatal Frame and Wario still hanging there!!

heh, i was surprised for fatal frame hanging there so fiercely

[viciouskillersquirrel]

Blue Dragon didn't do as well as I thought it would. Wasn't this really popular with the 360 audience?

[jimbo]

Blue Dragon didn't do as well as I thought it would. Wasn't this really popular with the 360 audience?

It only sold 200k, and it WAS on the 360, so it doesn't necessarily mean it crosses over with the DS audience. I'm also wonderin if the DS game is any good.


PS: I think posting the Famitsu hardware numbers in the OP to be swapped out later is confusing for any newcomers that join the MC threads.

[Mr Killemgood]

Any anecdotal information about X360 sales in Japan with the price drop? I know it'll be about 33-34hrs before we get numbers, but a heads up is always nice :)

[viciouskillersquirrel]

It only sold 200k, and it WAS on the 360, so it doesn't necessarily mean it crosses over with the DS audience. I'm also wonderin if the DS game is any good. PS: I think posting the Famitsu hardware numbers in the OP to be swapped out later is confusing for any newcomers that join the MC threads.

200k for the 360 was impressive, especially for the userbase. The DS audience is so huge, I thought there'd be more crossover is all.

[jimbo]

Any anecdotal information about X360 sales in Japan with the price drop? I know it'll be about 33-34hrs before we get numbers, but a heads up is always nice :)

I am also curious. It's only 2.25pm over there, so I wouldn't expect anything from the media until Friday, but maybe someone who lives in a big city could let us know if there's activity.

One thing not worth noting is that ToV dropped almost off the Amazon.jp top 25 a week ago and it's moved back up a few spots over the past couple of days. The same thing could be happening in real retail, and there may be leftover demand for the game.

[seattle6418]

I still think its funny that people are marveled at Afrika's performance. At least here and in other forums, the game was huge ever since the first teaser. Everybody wanted to know what the game was about and stuff.

Just looked like a bigger game, a game that would at least do Heavelnly Sword/Ratchet numers.

I don't know, maybe it's just me, but i thought the game was going to be much more popular. Now we don't even have release dates for Europe and America... it's like they (Sony) gave up in the middle of the development process.

57k now means it's gonna struggle like hell to end up with 100k LTD.

[jimbo]

200k for the 360 was impressive, especially for the userbase. The DS audience is so huge, I thought there'd be more crossover is all.

Blue Dragon Plus (NDS, AQ Interactive): 8 / 7 / 7 / 8 - (30/40)

That probably didn't help either. It should have come out a lot stronger for a DS entry as more or less a new IP.

For the record, the original on the 360: - Blue Dragon (Mistwalker): 9 / 9 / 9 / 10 - (37/40)

[Hive]

Blue Dragon didn't do as well as I thought it would. Wasn't this really popular with the 360 audience?

you have to scratch the screen as fast as you can to win a "Shadow Fight"~
That's kinda what tipped me off that this game would be mediocre.

I'm still picking it up as long as it's better than Heroes of Mana

[donny2112]

I'd really like to do it if you don't care that much, unless anybody objects.

Since you've already put your stuff in the second post, I'll just update the original post as normal. Next week, I'll try to go to sleep early. :P

P.S. I like that you're not doing the columns for 11-30, since that keeps the title intact. :)

[Fafalada]

Just looked like a bigger game, a game that would at least do Heavelnly Sword/Ratchet numers.

I could be wrong, but from what I remember neither HS nor Ratchet PS3 broke 40k in week one in Japan. Afrika may actually be tracking higher then either one, right now.

[jeremy1456]

Next week number 1 will be an easy guess.

What will it be?