[Chris1964]

Media Create Apr 26-May 2

01. / 00. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 (Square Enix) - 623.643 / NEW
02. / 00. [PSP] Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Konami) - 434.366 / NEW
03. / 00. [PS3] Super Street Fighter 4 (Capcom) - 80.882 / NEW
04. / 02. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) - 44.593 / 3.760.089 (+55%)
05. / 00. [360] Super Street Fighter 4 (Capcom) - 28.454 / NEW
06. / 08. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) - 28.152 / 2.739.000 (+106%)
07. / 04. [NDS] Friend Collection (Nintendo) - 26.787 / 3.157.452 (+36%)
08. / 00. [NDS] Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! DS Fate of Heat III - Yuki no Shugosha Raishuu! (Takara Tomy) - 24.050 / NEW
09. / 01. [PS3] NieR Replicant (Square Enix) - 20.889 / 81.063 (-65%)
10. / 07. [WII] Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) - 19.690 / 1.867.447 (+29%)

11. / 06. [PSP] Pro Baseball Spirits 2010 (Konami)
12. / 10. [NDS] Pokemon Ranger: Tracks of Light (Pokemon Co.)
13. / 00. [360] Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (Ubisoft)
14. / 00. [PSP] Ikki Tousen: Xross Impact (Marvelous Entertainment)
15. / 00. [PSP] Marriage Royale: Prism Story (ASCII Media Works)
16. / 16. [WII] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
17. / 13. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom Unite [PSP the Best Reprint] (Capcom)
18. / 12. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2010 (Konami)
19. / 21. [NDS] The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo)
20. / 14. [PS3] Fist of the North Star: Warriors (Koei)
21. / 22. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
22. / 17. [WII] One Piece: Unlimited Cruise 2 - Awakening of the Hero [Everyone's Recommendation Selection] (Namco Bandai)
23. / 00. [PSP] Zettai Meikyuu Grimm: Nanatsu no Kagi to Rakuen no Otome (Karin Entertainment)
24. / 18. [PS3] Yakuza 4: Heir to the Legend (Sega)
25. / 23. [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 2010 (Konami)
26. / 30. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver (Pokemon Co.)
27. / 05. [PSP] Ys: Oath of Felghana (Falcom)
28. / 28. [NDS] Crayon Shin-Chan: Obaka Daininden - Susume! Kasukabe Ninja Tai! (Namco Bandai)
29. / 24. [NDS] Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies [Ultimate Hits] (Square Enix)
30. / 11. [360] NieR Gestalt (Square Enix)
31. / 00. [PS2] ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two (Comfort)
32. / 09. [PS3] The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition (Bethesda Softworks)
33. / 37. [WII] Momotaro Railway 16: Trip to Hokkaido [Everyone's Recommendation Selection] (Hudson)
34. / 20. [NDS] Etrian Odyssey III: Caller of the Starry Seas (Atlus Co.)
35. / 36. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 2: Threat of the Invaders - Fire / Blizzard (Level 5)
36. / 03. [PSP] Tokyo Mono Harashi: Karasu no Mori Gakuen Kitan (Atlus Co.)
37. / 33. [PS3] God of War III (SCE)
38. / 00. [PSP] Otome wa Oanesama Boku ni Koi Shiteru Portable (Alchemist)
39. / 00. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
40. / 00. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
41. / 41. [NDS] Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reviere (Square Enix)
42. / 50. [WII] Taiko Drum Master Wii 2 (Namco Bandai)
43. / 31. [NDS] Pro Baseball Family Stadium DS 2010 (Namco Bandai)
44. / 00. [NDS] Rooms: The Main Building (Hudson)
45. / 35. [PSP] God Eater (Namco Bandai)
46. / 43. [PS3] Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition (Capcom)
47. / 27. [NDS] Naruto Shippuden: Ninjutsu Zenkai! Cha-Crash! (Takara Tomy)
48. / 39. [PS3] Nobunaga's Ambition: Way of Heaven (Koei)
49. / 00. [WII] One Piece: Unlimited Cruise 1 - The Treasure Beneath the Waves [Everyone's Recommendation Selection] (Namco Bandai)
50. / 49. [PS3] Demon's Souls [PlayStation 3 the Best] (SCE)

00. / 00. [ALL] Weekly Software Sales (All Publishers) - 1.916.602 / 19.709.311 (+190%)



NDS - 16
PSP - 10
PS3 - 10
WII - 9
360 - 3
PS2 - 2


HARDWARE

__________________________________________________________________
|System |  This Week  |  Last Week  |        YTD  |         LTD  |
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|  PSP  |     61.205  |     30.302  |    871.453  |  14.614.541  |
|  NDS  |     45.265  |     30.105  |    830.464  |  30.109.544  |
|  PS3  |     32.874  |     25.629  |    576.158  |   5.077.525  |
|  WII  |     30.757  |     23.691  |    631.505  |  10.236.704  |
|  360  |      4.943  |      2.214  |     55.903  |   1.265.575  |
|  PS2  |      1.577  |      1.490  |     32.651  |  21.642.828  |
------------------------------------------------------------------
| DSiLL |     25.569  |     16.676  |    428.734  |     935.641  |
|  DSi  |     15.628  |     10.640  |    317.792  |   4.656.738  |
|  DSL  |      4.068  |      2.789  |     83.938  |  17.931.694  |
------------------------------------------------------------------
|  PSP  |     59.315  |     28.758  |    842.560  |  14.509.893  |
| PSPgo |      1.890  |      1.544  |     28.893  |     104.648  |
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[Celine]

So Joker 2 did as good as the first one. Great.
Also good performance for PW and SSF4.

EDIT:
Impressive legs for Nintendo games but that shouldn't be a new.

[vicissitudes]

Numbers a little low based on 1st day, aren't they?

[Cygnus X-1]

Mario Kart Wii up 105%. Why?

[I NEED SCISSORS]

So did Peace Walker beat MGS4's first week sales?

[Laguna]

MGS first weeks :

MGS1 (PS1) - 316.833
MGS2 (PS2) - 456.747
MGS3 (PS2) - 487.156
MGS4 (PS3) - 476.334
MGSPW (PSP) - 434.000

[Chris1964]

Next week releases (13/05/10)

[NDS] Trick DS-han: Kakushi Kami no Sumukan (Konami)

[PSP] 2010 FIFA World Cup: South Africa (Electronic Arts)
[PSP] Hakuouki: Yuugi Roku (Idea Factory)
[PSP] Pachinka Mania P: CR Tekken Tafu (Dorart)

[WII] 2010 FIFA World Cup: South Africa (Electronic Arts)

[PS3] 2010 FIFA World Cup: South Africa (Electronic Arts)

[360] 2010 FIFA World Cup: South Africa (Electronic Arts)
[360] Metro 2033 (Spike)

[PS2] Daisenryaku: Dai Toua Kouboushi - Rise and Fall of East Asia [System Soft Selection] (System Soft Alpha)

[nextgeneration]

Golden week, right?

[timetokill]

Will PW break 1.5 million worldwide? Seems doubtful from here.

[Chris1964]

MGS first weeks : MGS1 (PS1) - 316.833 MGS2 (PS2) - 456.747 MGS3 (PS2) - 487.156 MGS4 (PS3) - 476.334 MGSPW (PSP) - 434.000

MGS 1-4 are from Famitsu, Peace Walker is from Media Create.

Media Create has
[PS2] Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Konami) - 548.186
[PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Konami) - 464.926

[bernardobri]

Will PW break 1.5 million worldwide? Seems doubtful from here.

I think it's most capable to break 1 million on Japan, but I dunno about the rest of the world.

[Tmac]

NSMB and Mario Kart on the top 10... WTF :lol

[Sadist]

Wow Mario Kart Wii. Just wow.

NSMB and Mario Kart on the top 10... WTF :lol

It's just like the DS situation :lol

[Vamphuntr]

PW :(

Man this will so bomb in the US. Come on Japan there is MH stuff in it! Buy it!

[NeoUltima]

How did SSF4 do compare to vanilla 4?
edit:
[PS3] Street Fighter IV (Capcom) 86,000 / NEW
[360] Street Fighter IV (Capcom) 38,000 / NEW

vs.

[PS3] Super Street Fighter 4 (Capcom) - 81.000 / NEW
[360] Super Street Fighter 4 (Capcom) - 28.000 / NEW

Pretty damn good I'd say. Hopefully something similar everywhere else in the world.

[Mt Heart Attack]

I think it's most capable to break 1 million on Japan

Seems rather unlikely to me, but considering its online focus, who knows?, maybe it will pull a MHP (well, kind of).

Also, wow at Mario Kart's +105%:lol

[Elios83]

I think that Konami might be a little bit disappointed by Peace Walker performance.
PSP is way more successful than the PS3 was in mid 2008 when MGS4 came out ( 2m installed base?:lol) and yet the game failed to beat MGS4 opening week.
Not that PW has done bad numbers but the whole purpose was to try to make money with the PSP in Japan like Capcom has done with Monster Hunter franchise otherwise I don't think that Kojima would have bothered so much with the platform in first place.
And in this case Japan will be the biggest market for the game so I really doubt that PW will sell the 4-5m units that MGS4 has sold WW, maybe 2m.
So I get the impression that it would have been better for Konami and Kojima to stick on to the PS3 which is a healthy platform in the western markets unlike the PSP.

[Celine]

I think it's most capable to break 1 million on Japan, but I dunno about the rest of the world.

Nah the only chance is if it has good legs and I doubt it will have considering MGS history ( although I'm not sure about the multiplayer aspect ).
Worldwide I believe it will sell over 1.5 million although not by far.

[Mt Heart Attack]

I think that Konami might be a little bit disappointed by Peace Walker performance. PSP is way more successful than the PS3 was in mid 2008 when MGS4 came out ( 2m installed base?:lol) and yet the game failed to beat MGS4 opening week. Not that PW has done bad numbers but the whole purpose was to try to make money with the PSP like Capcom has done with Monster Hunter franchise otherwise I don't think that Kojima would have bothered so much with the platform in first place. And in this case Japan will be the biggest market for the game so I really doubt that PW will sell the 4-5m units that MGS4 has sold WW, maybe 2m. So I get the impression that it would have been better for Konami and Kojima to stick on to the PS3 which is a healthy platform in the western markets unlike the PSP.

Reminds a bit of what happened with Sega and Valkyria Chronicles.. Of course we're talking about different numbers:P

[turnbuckle]

EOIII got knocked out? :(

I didn't realize there was a newer thread so I'll ask again here - has there been an announcement for Etrian Odyssey III to be released in North America? I haven't found anything saying it's going to be :(

[TheThunder]

Glad to see SSF4 doing good.

Do you think PW will break top 10 in NPD June ?

I think it will since it looks like a slow month (as far as I know)

[KittyKittyBangBang]

PW :( Man this will so bomb in the US. Come on Japan there is MH stuff in it! Buy it!

I doubt PW breaks the NPD top 10 :(

[Y2Kev]

Kojima :(

[Baki]

Glad to see SSF4 doing good. Do you think PW will break top 10 in NPD June ? I think it will since it looks like a slow month (as far as I know)

Yes.

[TheThunder]

HW bundle sales for PW won't be counted in the NPD so it will be interesting to see how will it do.

I think it will come out between 8-10 but definitely in the top 20.

[DiscoJer]

So I get the impression that it would have been better for Konami and Kojima to stick on to the PS3 which is a healthy platform in the western markets unlike the PSP.

Maybe. But at the same time, if it were on the PS3, we'd be having this discussion 2 years from now. (MGS4 took what, 3 years, PW took 1)

Beyond that, it would be a whole different game. PW came about because he wanted to do something his son would play (on the PSP).

This is kind of like saying Lucas shouldn't have done the Clone Wars TV show, because it didn't make the hundreds of millions his theatrical releases do.

[DMeisterJ]

I doubt PW breaks the NPD top 10 :(

PW comes in June right? It'll break top 10. That's a terribly slow month for releases (I think).

[Cosmo Clock 21]

Mario Kart Wii up 105%. Why?

From last week:

They started a new TV and web campaign for it last week, guiding the New Super Mario Players to Mario Kart. Seems it pays to advertise your games.

[d[-_-]b]

From last week:

So advertising works? See third parties....

[ZoddGutts]

So advertising works? See third parties....

It really helps when Arashi is in the advertising but I doubt they come cheap.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rmcj/index.html

concert of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzZdv...eature=related

[Takao]

If there ever was a Metal Gear game to have legs, Peace Walker would be it.

[C.T.]

EOIII got knocked out? :( I didn't realize there was a newer thread so I'll ask again here - has there been an announcement for Etrian Odyssey III to be released in North America? I haven't found anything saying it's going to be :(

You normaly wouldn't hear an announcement so soon after the japanese release. Just have some patience, in Atlus we trust.

[Jaruru]

oh, DQ J2 beat PW, so it's as good as the 1st one?

nice numbers SSF4 :D will it stay on chart...

[Zen]

Aside:

PW comes in June right? It'll break top 10. That's a terribly slow month for releases (I think).

For Context the last PSP game to appear in the top 10 was Final Fantasy Dissidia

"In the United States, Dissidia debuted at the 7th place of the August 2009 charts with 130,000 copies, despite only four days of availability" (Was apparently the top selling PSP game in the US for the Year of 2009)

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6217140.html

So I think that Peace Walker could make a Top 10 appearance.

[Loudninja]

Its weird to see NieR Replicant and SSF4 both at 81,000.

[sprsk]

Nintendo actually relaunched Mario Kart Wii with whole new advertising, commercials train ads and everything.

[Nemo]

Nintendo actually relaunched Mario Kart Wii with whole new advertising, commercials train ads and everything.

Again? Wow. They're like the first game company to do that aren't they?

I bet they even get moms to buy the same game twice.

[Cosmo Clock 21]

Again? Wow. They're like the first game company to do that aren't they? I bet they even get moms to buy the same game twice.

Well, MSFT relaunched the 360 in Japan, then there's the whole thing with Professor Layton in the US...

[mutsu]

Again? Wow. They're like the first game company to do that aren't they? I bet they even get moms to buy the same game twice.

It's not like the Wii is lacking new audience. I am sure there are tons of people who bought Wii for NSMBWii and didn't know Mario Kart Wii existed.

[KTallguy]

I think that Peace Walker is getting good word of mouth, at least.

[Sohter.Nura]

I think Peace Walker could have longer legs than MGS 4 due to being on the PSP, which is a system with a lot more vitality in Japan than the PS3 / Wii (I think!)

I hope I am right. I know there's other games in the franchise on the system, but I think this is the first full blown Metal Gear Solid on a portable, isn't it?

Anyway, good first week for DQMJ2 and MGS PW.

Mario Kart Wii @ top 10 = :lol :lol :lol

[AFreak]

What did portable ops do in Japan?

[archnemesis]

What did portable ops do in Japan?

Week	Weekly	LTD
1	194,423	194,423
2	53,476	247,899
3	20,525	268,424
4	20,843	289,267
5	18,489	307,756
6	11,964	319,720
-	0	357,161
-	0	358,277

http://garaph.info/softwareindividual.php//gid/408

[A Link to the Snitch]

Totally can't wait for Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 to come to the US.

[bttb]

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[Mael]

Nintendo actually relaunched Mario Kart Wii with whole new advertising, commercials train ads and everything.

you mean like they did in Europe with the whole "Now you can find it in stores AND buy it, promise we'll make theses 'out of stock' signs go away"?

[M.I.S.]

Media Create Apr 26-May 2 19. / 21. [NDS] The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo)

ALL ABOARD the Zelda train!

CHHHHHOOOOOOOOOO CHHHHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[TheThunder]

Wait so Tekken 6 numbers for PS3/360 are missing US/NA ?

[Zen]

Week Weekly LTD 1 194,423 194,423 2 53,476 247,899 3 20,525 268,424 4 20,843 289,267 5 18,489 307,756 6 11,964 319,720 - 0 357,161 - 0 358,277 http://garaph.info/softwareindividual.php//gid/408

Also of note (look at how much the cheaper multiplayer 'expansion pack' re-release edition sold. Not including the bundle edition.

Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops Plus

1  	  88,940 	88,940
2 	  40,933 	129,873
3 	  22,795 	152,668
4 	  16,205 	168,873
5	  9,022 	177,895
- 	  0 	        206,365
- 	  0 	        299,896

http://garaph.info/softwareindividual.php//gid/409

Considering that Portable Ops+ was basically a multiplayer only expansion pack, it sold really well (the Portable Op/Portable Ops+ bundle sold around 38k according to the site). Hopefully the fanbase is similarly enthusiastic about all the multiplayer in Peace Walker.

I guess the big (and sad) distinction is that Portable Ops actually had infrastructure mode while Peace Walker doesn't. I know Japan is big on local play, but not having infrastructure could hurt the longevity of the multiplayer. While MGS in Japan is popular, it's no Monster Hunter.

[onken]

hw

PSP 59,315
PS3 32,874
Wii 30,757
DSi LL 25,569
DSi 15,628
Xbox 360 4,943
DS Lite 4,068
PSP go 1,890
PS2 1,577

e~ probably worth mentioning that MGO+ was really cheap, which will have helped its sales