Probably thought the Wii was the Wii U.
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Media Create Sales: Week 12, 2013 (Mar 18 - Mar 24)
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Probably thought the Wii was the Wii U.
Amazing if only I could read Japanese
Its crazy how some of the games sold on ps1. I mean parasite eve a million seller crazy.
The Japanese sales landscape for games has totally changed after the PS2 generation. I think just looking at the overview of how many titles are selling extremely well on the platforms over the years shows the changes in the industry as well as the flow consumer interest from consoles to portables. Look at this:
Consoles:
FC - 42 >million titles (incomplete data)
SFC - 29 >million titles (incomplete data)
PS - 70 >500k titles including 18 >million titles
SS - 4 >500k titles including 1 >million title
N64 - 18 >500k titles including 5 >million titles
PS2 - 70 >500k titles including 17 >million titles
GC - 10 >500k titles including 1 >million title
PS3 - 13 >500k titles including 1 >million title
Wii - 27 >500k titles including 14 >million titles
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Handhelds:
GB (1989-1995) - 11 >million titles (incomplete data)
GB/GBC (1996-2002) - 16 >500k titles including 8 >million titles
GBA - 18 >500k titles including 4 >million titles
NDS - 67 >500k titles including 35 >million titles
PSP - 15 >500k titles including 4 >million titles
Uh, I believe its 5 and 6.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Clap Hanz isn't a huge team, and they were throwing PSP pretty strong support simultaneously. Looking at it as PS2 vs PS3 isn't really the whole picture, it's really PS2 vs PSP+PS3.
You are right. Made a mistake here. My bad.
All I can see here is the overall market shrinking, affecting handhelds less than home console on the rise of lower budget games that sell above 500k, or low profit projects.
And reinforcing the assumption that Wii/DS success came out of left field for the industry. It was an amazing thing that will probably never be repeated.
shinra-bansho
Member
Early numbers? Was about to ask whether there were any last minute predictions for the Vita fall/Wii U bump this week.
If those Famitsu numbers pan out, Vita's held surprisingly well. Wii U bump is not much to write home about but at least it got a bump.
If those Famitsu numbers pan out, Vita's held surprisingly well. Wii U bump is not much to write home about but at least it got a bump.
catashtrophe
Member
Never owned a handheld in my life (well other than a free gameboy pocket i got for opening a student account 12+ years ago lol)
So no idea about the PSP games Clap Handz have made, so from the PS3 perspective i was excited with EBG5 then disappointed 3+ years later no follow up was released
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Damn. This is an eye opener. Handhelds are becoming a real problem to the console industry in Japan. It seems the PS3 doing so bad really hurt the space and the DS and introduction of PSP just added fuel to the fire. I pray to the gods that the PS4 or even WiiU succeed and revive the console sector. Having two home consoles doing bad may as well be the tipping point of the console industry.
Famitsu: http://www.famitsu.com/biz/ranking/
Media Create: http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20130403058/
Media Create: http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20130403058/
Thanks for the numbers, they are really interesting.
Am I the only one surprised at how comparatively low the number of PSX and PS2 million sellers is? I honestly expected considerably more, around Super Famicom level.
Bruno MB
Member
Again? What do you mean! :lol
Game & Wario
lol, not too far from reality.
I wonder if its sell-through is closer to 20% rather than 40%.
Magicpaint
Member
I find it funny how N64 had more 500+k and million sellers than PSP.
I think the dramatic shift post-PS2 is a bit too drastic to simply write it off as overall market shrinking though. For portable sales to got from 18 >500k titles in one generation to 82 >500k titles in the next is a huge change. I think it has a lot to do with portable technology catching up to the point where a sizable audience decided that it was good enough for them to skip out on console titles. The lower cost of the games (to consumers, but also as a result of lower development costs as you said) also helped them make that switch as console game prices steadily increased with each generation.
Hero of Legend
Member
Weegee over 400k this week, DQX and G&W did small numbers. 
Dragon Ball has officially passed Shin Budokai after going UP this week (holiday?) and is now at 142k.
Edit: From Famitsu.
Dragon Ball has officially passed Shin Budokai after going UP this week (holiday?) and is now at 142k.Edit: From Famitsu.
RyougaSaotome
Member
Does anybody have numbers for the first Fate/Extra? After so many delays, I was wondering what kind of impact that might have had on CCC, but it looks like it did pretty well for itself.
Canis lupus
Member
Vita still strong.
This is exactly what I was thinking. You see what duckroll, Iwata? Make a handheld with the 'Gameboy philosophy' in mind and you might be in luck.
Where? Hong Kong?
Green means healthy. Red means dying. Game & Wario is doing great, then.
2nd place photo finish:
Mario Kart 7: 2,001,246
NSMN2 1,995,947
I need to check if this is a record for oldest hardware inside the top 30: 15. [PS2] FFXI whatever - 11.5k. (Game Boy must be the only contender.) PS2 last appeared in Jun, 2011, nearly a 2 year gap, btw.
Holy shit.
Vita still at the 30k mark, that's pleasant news, but nothing spectacular.
LOL WOW!
Napalm_Frank
Member
I guess the people saying Vita is going sub 10k need to wait a little bit longer.
Countdown to "wait til next week!" posts, and the fourth week in a row of utter surprise for certain people.
RyougaSaotome
Member
This was a legitimate surprise to me. I figured DQX would pull at least 50,000. Talk about completely abysmal.
Magicpaint
Member
When you put it that way....lul
If we quote some stuff to continue in the next thread, I think we'll be okay. It'll really be a waste to abandon the discussions we're having right now in the new thread!
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Woah, Game & Wario megabombed. Biggest NCL bomb since Wii Play Motion imo. Time to move past the minigames probably...
DQX is low but more understandable with the strong digital incentive. Hopefully SE gives us some figures.
DQX is low but more understandable with the strong digital incentive. Hopefully SE gives us some figures.
Muramasma did near 90k on Wii iirc, though that included the budget reprint.
You're an evil, evil person.
Hero of Legend
Member
I think DQX failed because 1. it's on Wii and 2. People just might have liked it that much, maybe bad word of mouth? What IS the general thought on the game in Japan? I mean it's the largest departure in the series, the game would've done EONS better period if it was like DQ8.
ULTROS!
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It's an MMO on a Nintendo system? Wouldn't that be a recipe for definitely less sales?
Strong is only relative to what it actually did though. Seeing as there's nothing coming up in the next couple of months, I would expect numbers to go down from here.
Father_Brain
Banned
Yeah, drop this week is only slightly smaller than I expected (~28K). Think it'll be below 10K again by the end of the month... four weeks is enough time.
I´d bet that a lot of people were pissed off because it was a MMO. Nobody asked for this.
Exterminieren
Banned
Holy crap, Luigi.
3D Mario legs are a reality.
3D Mario legs are a reality.