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Media Create Sales 5/28 - 6/3

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Innotech

Banned
Eteric Rice said:
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But she's so cute! And a clutz!... Like me! :D
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having magical fairies of death is an awesome thing, not a bad thing :)

Although I prefer Tsukino from Yakitate! Japan.
 
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Vinnk

Member
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"Vinnk's Village" Anecdotal Report

Here again is a report from my town.

This week I was asked to look for: Wii, DS lite, Harvest Moon Wii, RE4 and Ouendan 2. I went Thursday June 8th, 2007:

Jusco
Wii: 1
DS lite: 2
Harvest Moon: 2
RE4: 1
Ouendan 2: 2

Youme Town
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 3
Harvest Moon: 3
RE4: 2
Ouendan 2: 1

Mr. Max
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 1
Harvest Moon: 2
RE4: 1
Ouendan 2: Sold out

Book-Net
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 3
Harvest Moon: 1
RE4: 1
Ouendan 2: Sold out

Goody
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 2
Harvest Moon: none
RE4: 1
Ouendan 2: Never had it?

Best Denki
Wii: 1
DS lite: 1
Harvest Moon: 2
RE4: 3
Ouendan 2: 1

Wanpaku
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 5
Harvest Moon: 2
RE4: 2
Ouendan 2: 1

Famicom Dojo
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 1
Harvest Moon: 1
RE4: 1
Ouendan 2: Sold out

Yamada Denki
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 3
Harvest Moon: 4
RE4: 3
Ouendan 2: 1


TOTALS:
Wii: 3
DS lite: 18
Harvest Moon: 17
RE4: 15
Ouendan 2: 6

NOTES:

1. Wii is still very supply constrained. Any store that does have them doesn’t have them for long.

2. DS lite is not hard to find this week. Most stores have them. This is the third week that I have seen the system readily available. The numbers are a bit lower than last week but that is probably just normal fluctuation. In general, it is too soon to tell, but for this week specifically, it is not supply constrained.

3. I did not count PS3 this week, but as a general observation there are more than enough systems available.

4. Biohazard 4 was available at every store but there were significantly fewer copies indicating that while not selling out, it is selling well.

5. Observation: Hardcore (otaku) gamers in my city LOVE the Xbox 360. When I go to game shops there are always people playing with the 360. Because dedicated game shops are for gamers. However at a large department store, no one gives the 360 a second look. Casual and occasional gamers couldn’t care less about the 360, but among my gaming friends it has a very good reputation, MUCH better than the first Xbox.

6. Ouendan 2 was almost as hard to find this week as last week. But I would not go as far as to call it supply constrained as all the large retailers have it in stock. It is defiantly selling well though.

7. Harvest Moon is not supply constrained but it seems pretty popular. Yesterday some of my students were talking about it (when they should have been paying attention to their lessons).

Previous Reports:

May 30th, 2007
May 24th, 2007
May 17th, 2007
May 10th, 2007
 
O

Owzers

Member
most likely been done before cuz it's the first thing that comes to mind, but i thought i'd make my own.

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noob ms paint yay!
 
L

LanceStern

Banned
That's actually a pretty good showing for Wii software considering the hardware sales.

DSLite sales are still as amazing as ever, which is excellent. It's a LITTLE bit heating up the back of my head, because I'd hate to see that ramped up Nintendo production go to waste: I see plenty of DSLites stocked at my Walmarts and Targets as well.

But then NPD comes and sales are as brisk and jaw-dropping as normal.

Good time to be a Nintendo fan.
 
V

Vinnk

Member
Pureauthor said:
Nice report, Vinnk.

But in point 6, shouldn't it be 'definitely', not 'defiantly'?
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It should be, but now reading it and thinking about how a lot of people thought it would sell badly, I like defiantly' better.
 
E

Evlar

Banned
Comments on the report:
Vinnk said:
5. Observation: Hardcore (otaku) gamers in my city LOVE the Xbox 360. When I go to game shops there are always people playing with the 360. Because dedicated game shops are for gamers. However at a large department store, no one gives the 360 a second look. Casual and occasional gamers couldn’t care less about the 360, but among my gaming friends it has a very good reputation, MUCH better than the first Xbox.
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That's very interesting. Were they so positive about it before the PS3 began to tank? I'm wondering if the failure of the Sony's system provides some motivation for the Japanese hardcore to take a harder look at the competition. It undeniably has a good lineup of games. This is the first positive news I've heard about the 360 in Japan in a long time.

6. Ouendan 2 was almost as hard to find this week as last week. But I would not go as far as to call it supply constrained as all the large retailers have it in stock. It is defiantly selling well though.
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What I find interesting here is that last week's report indicated some retailers weren't expecting any more shipments, but there it is. Seems retailers are willing to give this one more chances.
 
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donny2112

Member
The 360 passes 100K YTD! :D

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I think the severe shortages are over as evidenced by Vinnk's Village report and that Next-Gen article. It's still hard to find but no long always sold out.
 
A

AniHawk

Member
Vinnk said:
vinnksvillagemed.jpg


"Vinnk's Village" Anecdotal Report

Here again is a report from my town.

This week I was asked to look for: Wii, DS lite, Harvest Moon Wii, RE4 and Ouendan 2. I went Thursday June 8th, 2007:

Jusco
Wii: 1
DS lite: 2
Harvest Moon: 2
RE4: 1
Ouendan 2: 2

Youme Town
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 3
Harvest Moon: 3
RE4: 2
Ouendan 2: 1

Mr. Max
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 1
Harvest Moon: 2
RE4: 1
Ouendan 2: Sold out

Book-Net
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 3
Harvest Moon: 1
RE4: 1
Ouendan 2: Sold out

Goody
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 2
Harvest Moon: none
RE4: 1
Ouendan 2: Never had it?

Best Denki
Wii: 1
DS lite: 1
Harvest Moon: 2
RE4: 3
Ouendan 2: 1

Wanpaku
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 5
Harvest Moon: 2
RE4: 2
Ouendan 2: 1

Famicom Dojo
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 1
Harvest Moon: 1
RE4: 1
Ouendan 2: Sold out

Yamada Denki
Wii: Sold out
DS lite: 3
Harvest Moon: 4
RE4: 3
Ouendan 2: 1


TOTALS:
Wii: 3
DS lite: 18
Harvest Moon: 17
RE4: 15
Ouendan 2: 6

NOTES:

1. Wii is still very supply constrained. Any store that does have them doesn’t have them for long.

2. DS lite is not hard to find this week. Most stores have them. This is the third week that I have seen the system readily available. The numbers are a bit lower than last week but that is probably just normal fluctuation. In general, it is too soon to tell, but for this week specifically, it is not supply constrained.

3. I did not count PS3 this week, but as a general observation there are more than enough systems available.

4. Biohazard 4 was available at every store but there were significantly fewer copies indicating that while not selling out, it is selling well.

5. Observation: Hardcore (otaku) gamers in my city LOVE the Xbox 360. When I go to game shops there are always people playing with the 360. Because dedicated game shops are for gamers. However at a large department store, no one gives the 360 a second look. Casual and occasional gamers couldn’t care less about the 360, but among my gaming friends it has a very good reputation, MUCH better than the first Xbox.

6. Ouendan 2 was almost as hard to find this week as last week. But I would not go as far as to call it supply constrained as all the large retailers have it in stock. It is defiantly selling well though.

7. Harvest Moon is not supply constrained but it seems pretty popular. Yesterday some of my students were talking about it (when they should have been paying attention to their lessons).

Previous Reports:

May 30th, 2007
May 24th, 2007
May 17th, 2007
May 10th, 2007
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Congratulations Vinnk!
 
B

BrendenLee

Member
Vinnk said:
5. Observation: Hardcore (otaku) gamers in my city LOVE the Xbox 360. When I go to game shops there are always people playing with the 360. Because dedicated game shops are for gamers. However at a large department store, no one gives the 360 a second look. Casual and occasional gamers couldn’t care less about the 360, but among my gaming friends it has a very good reputation, MUCH better than the first Xbox.
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Verrrrryy interesting.
 
V

Vinnk

Member
Eteric Rice said:
Thanks Vink!

Just curious, what's the opinion of the Wii thus far amongst friends and gamers?
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My gamer friends love Fire Emblem and Zelda they think it is a good system. However it's my friends, who haven’t played games since the famicom days, that are going wild about it. Hardcore gamers I expect to be into it, but now people I would never expect to pick up a game are raving about it.
 
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JoshuaJSlone

Member
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Wii comparisons: At 27 weeks, Wii is where GCN was at 115.5 weeks (November 26, 2003), where DS was at 31.9 weeks (July 9, 2005), where PS2 was at 26.1 weeks (August 27, 2000), and where PSP was at 55.3 weeks (December 27, 2005).

PS3 comparisons: At 30 weeks, PS3 is where PS2 was at 3.5 weeks (March 22, 2000), where PSP was at 11.7 weeks (February 24, 2005), where GCN was at 15.9 weeks (December 29, 2001), and where Wii was at 4.9 weeks (December 30, 2006).

PS3 vs Wii: Weekly shares are 11.4 / 88.6, bringing total shares to 25.9 / 74.1. If Wii stopped selling and PS3 continued at this week's rate, it would catch up in 188.3 weeks (January 11, 2011).

PS2 vs DS: At this week's rates, PS2 and DS meet up in 27.9 weeks (December 15, 2007) at ~20.85 million apiece.


On week 22, total hardware sales for the year have passed 7 million. Last year this happened on week 32. The year before that, week 48.

Nintendo hardware sales for the year have reached 5 million. Last year this happened on week 32. The year before that, week 51.

Microsoft hardware sales for the year have reached 100K. Last year this happened on week 47. In 2005 and 2004 it wasn't reached, while in 2003 it happened on week 52.

Xeke said:
How long has the Micro been outselling the SP? I just really noticed that last week.
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Consistently since the week of April 23, but it's been back and forth with them this year with GBM in the lead more. They're both going down, though.
Vic said:
Why the DSL is still selling more than 100k/week?
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After a year and a half of it, why would you expect it to stop now?
sphinx said:
We shouldn't forget the PSP was selling steadily at 18k -20k at one point and in the last months it has been around 30k. If PS3 can find it's "Monster hunter portable 1 and 2", it will be alright.
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Not really. Here are the weeks PSP has had under 20K.
2005-07-18
2006-11-06
2006-11-13
Other than Monster Hunter 2 Portable bump, PSP is very much flat year over year over year.
 
Eteric Rice

Eteric Rice

Member
Vinnk said:
My gamer friends love Fire Emblem and Zelda they think it is a good system. However it's my friends, who haven’t played games since the famicom days, that are going wild about it. Hardcore gamers I expect to be into it, but now people I would never expect to pick up a game are raving about it.
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Good to hear. I was afraid the Japanese hardcore were like some of the people on Neogaf. :D

One other thing. I'm pretty sure your Japanese friends (the otaku ones) own X-Box 360s. Have any of them had them break down yet?

I'm wondering, because in the US they're currently ticking time bombs. I was wondering if the Japanese releases were any different.

Thanks. :)
 
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Galactic Fork

A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Hmm. With the DSL still selling 100k+ a week while not being supply constrained, this could mean enough backstock in december for a 600 to 800k week. I wonder if it'll keep up through the whole summer though. When it's available, people will be less inclined to buy it as soon as they see it.
 
Eteric Rice

Eteric Rice

Member
GreenGlowingGoo said:
Hmm. With the DSL still selling 100k+ a week while not being supply constrained, this could mean enough backstock in december for a 600 to 800k week. I wonder if it'll keep up through the whole summer though. When it's available, people will be less inclined to buy it as soon as they see it.
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Indeed.

At least... Until Dragon Quest IX comes out.
 
G

gimz

Member
schuelma said:
I believe its next Thursday.

Should be fun
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i agree, next thursday should be fun

today when i went shopping, before i would only see a few PS3 in some stores, but today i saw PS3 are actually everywhere now, but still no sight of wii.

and my friend picked up a wii yesterday from best buy, he told me when he went to best buy, he saw 15 wiis in stock, and he left the store for a smoke before buying it, by the time he went back, 14 of them were gone, and he picked up the last one in the store
 
H

Hcoregamer00

The 'H' stands for hentai.
GreenGlowingGoo said:
Hmm. With the DSL still selling 100k+ a week while not being supply constrained, this could mean enough backstock in december for a 600 to 800k week. I wonder if it'll keep up through the whole summer though. When it's available, people will be less inclined to buy it as soon as they see it.
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Its perfect, stocking up for the huge franchises in fall.
 
M

mollipen

Member
the thoroughbred said:
See this is the one time that the masses have done what is right, and dictated the future of trends. By this I am talking about the rushed current gen. There was no reason to kill of PS2 era, it was going strong and perfectly fine.
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Personally, I couldn't wait for last-gen to go away, and I would rather have had machines like the PS3 and Xbox 360 sooner. Plus, some of us actually want our games to look nice on high-def TVs, you know.
 
Eteric Rice

Eteric Rice

Member
shidoshi said:
Personally, I couldn't wait for last-gen to go away, and I would rather have had machines like the PS3 and Xbox 360 sooner. Plus, some of us actually want our games to look nice on high-def TVs, you know.
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:D
 
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alejob

Member
Code: 
Hardware - This Week | Last Week |       YTD |        LTD
1. NDS   -   123,140 |   127,542 | 3,414,137 | 17,419,816
2. WII   -    69,748 |    58,644 | 1,685,301 |  2,604,944
3. PSP   -    26,358 |    26,097 |   953,788 |  5,485,917
4. PS2   -    11,814 |    11,311 |   369,024 | 20,523,883
5. PS3   -     8,998 |     9,627 |   453,179 |    910,737
6. 360   -     2,219 |     2,044 |   101,944 |    366,646
7. GBA   -       573 |       712 |    38,152 | 15,336,231
8. NGC   -       226 |       256 |     7,836 |  4,177,304

If you trust my math. Can I steal code tags from last week?
 
D

donny2112

Member
Famitsu May 21-27

1. NDS Kekkaishi: Tale of the Raven Forest 40465 / NEW
2. PSP Bleach: Heat the Soul 4 35943 / NEW
3. PSP Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War 25355 / 241904
4. WII Wii Sports 24735 / 1534508
5. NDS Shin Lucky * Star Moe Drill: Tabidachi 24473 / NEW
6. NDS More English Training 23185 / 253981
7. NDS New Super Mario Bros. 21315 / 4512151
8. NDS Brain Training 2 20426 / 4373132
9. NDS Kurikin: Nano Island Story 17961 / NEW
10. NDS Momotarou Dentetsu DS: Tokyo & Japan 17917 / 196048
11. PS2 Shining Wind 17888 / 101138
12. PS2 Pachitte Chonmage Tatsujin 12: Pachinko Ultraman 17677 / NEW
13. WII Super Paper Mario 17278 / 396145
14. WII Wii Play 15639 / 1221671
15. NDS Mario Kart DS 15574 / 2173211
16. NDS Brain Training 15426 / 3317608
17. NDS Animal Crossing: Wild World 14945 / 4115102
18. NDS Pokemon Diamond/Pearl 14740 / 5137044
19. WII Gentle Brain Training Wii 14630 / 156154
20. NDS English Training 14422 / 1799939
21. PS2 Odin Sphere 14171 / 74991
22. NDS Yoshi's Island DS 13637 / 736901
23. NDS Ace Attorney 4 12411 / 418925
24. NDS FFXII: Revenant Wings 10576 / 469585
25. 360 Forza Motorsport 2 9870 / NEW
26. PS2 Medal of Honor: Vanguard 9748 / NEW
27. NDS Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis 9679 / 239555
28. NDS Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village 9559 / 537549
29. NDS Ouendan 2 9179 / 72115
30. NDS General Knowledge Training 8676 / 1411953


I know that hardware-wise, PS3 >>> 360, but software-wise, I'm thinking that the 360 is really holding its own. I'd be very curious to hear what Square-Enix thought of the 360 software sales. ;)
 
C

Cheesemeister

Member
Just got back from seeing Blue Man Group. :D

31./30. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom)
32./28. [NDS] Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Nintendo)
33./00. [PS2] Metal Slug Anthology (SNK Playmore)
34./36. [NDS] Pokémon Diamond (Pokemon)
35./00. [WII] Wario Ware Smooth Moves (Nintendo)
36./38. [NDS] Kanji Test (Rocket Co.)
37./00. [PSP] Hot Shots Golf Course, Vol. 1 (Sony)
38./32. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (Square-Enix)
39./34. [NDS] Word Puzzle Mojipittan DS (Bandai-Namco)
40./40. [NDS] Pokémon Pearl (Pokemon)
41./03. [NDS] Lucky Star Moé Drill: Travel (Kadokawa Shoten)
42./33. [WII] One Piece: Unlimited Adventure (Bandai-Namco)
43./23. [PS2] Odin Sphere (Atlus)
44./35. [NDS] Panel de Pon DS (Nintendo)
45./42. [NDS] Tetris DS (Nintendo)
46./47. [NDS] Big Brain Academy (Nintendo)
47./00. [PS2] Love Drops (Dimple)
48./41. [NDS] TOEIC Test Training DS (IE Institute)
49./29. [PS2] Medal of Honor: Vanguard (EA)
50./00. [NDS] Simple DS Series, Vol. 14: THE Driver's Training Institute DS (D3 Publisher)

NDS - 32
PS2 - 7
WII - 7
PSP - 4

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Code: 
Hardware - This Week | Last Week |       YTD |        LTD
1. NDS   -   123,211 |   127,542 | 3,414,208 | 17,419,887
2. WII   -    69,748 |    58,644 | 1,685,301 |  2,604,944
3. PSP   -    26,358 |    26,097 |   953,788 |  5,485,917
4. PS2   -    11,814 |    11,311 |   369,024 | 20,523,883
5. PS3   -     8,998 |     9,627 |   453,179 |    910,737
6. 360   -     2,219 |     2,044 |   101,944 |    366,646
7. GBA   -       573 |       712 |    38,152 | 15,336,231
8. NGC   -       226 |       256 |     7,836 |  4,177,304
GBA = 16 GBA + 247 SP + 310 Micro
NDS = 71 DS + 123,140 Lite

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