Square2005
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cvxfreak said:
OKAY!!!
...just for the plural form.
edit: How can you not say famitsoo/famitsu (isn't pronounced the same)?
You mean type famitsoo...
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Famitsu charts for 12.25 to 12.31 are out
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OKAY!!!
...just for the plural form.
edit: How can you not say famitsoo/famitsu (isn't pronounced the same)?
You mean type famitsoo...
marvelharvey
Member
Well, today is yet another national holiday.PantherLotus said:
Square2005
Banned
Today is another holiday in Japan...?marvelharvey said:
Edit: I just checked Wikipedia, he's right:
Square2005 said:OKAY!!!
...just for the plural form.
edit: How can you not say famitsoo/famitsu (isn't pronounced the same)?
You mean type famitsoo...
Famitsu = ファミ通
Famitsoo = ファミつぉお/ファミつぉう
marvelharvey said:
Damn, didn't take this into account a few days ago.
cvxfreak said:Famitsu = ファミ通
Famitsoo = ファミつぉお/ファミつぉう
Damn, didn't take this into account a few days ago.
That is more like FAMITSUOHHHHH and FAMITSUOU
Square2005
Banned
We are also still in the New Years holiday in Japan!
Here's an explanation of the events held during the New Years holiday:
Here's an explanation of the events held during the New Years holiday:
Wikipedia said:
Why Animal Crossing stays in the top 10, I will never know. The GCN game is pretty much my favorite title of all time, but by God did I hate the DS version. Whatevs.
These numbers are pretty amazing either way. How the DS does it... *shrugs*. Nintendo has done a complete turn around. I applaud them.
These numbers are pretty amazing either way. How the DS does it... *shrugs*. Nintendo has done a complete turn around. I applaud them.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
so is it pronounced "Famitseww"?
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
The Abominable Snowman said:
Hey SkiFree is awesome.
Square2005
Banned
Maybe this will tied us over until we begin getting some real numbers:
FYI: These nos. are not national figures but from only one chain!
Traditionally THE BIGGEST SALES WEEK IN JAPAN:
Massive fall for DQM: Joker just like FFIII! Square-Enix Underships again...?
But all other DS SW sales surge to compensate...
FYI: These nos. are not national figures but from only one chain!
Traditionally THE BIGGEST SALES WEEK IN JAPAN:
Code:
[b][U]COMGNET raw:[/U] [/B]
[U]Week beginning 1/1/07 vs. Last Week:[/U]
1 New Super Mario Bros. 313 165
2 Animal Forest DS 230 119
3 Kirby Star DS 230 109
4 Mario Kart DS 227 91
5 Wii Sports 195 215
6 Wii Play 179 226
7 Pocket Monster Dimand 170 99
8 Yakuza (TEH BEST) 154 184
9 Pocket Monster Purl 147 81
10 Common Sense for Adults (?) 135 99
11 Love & Berry DS Collection 118 off chart
12 Yakuza 2 111 122
13 Seiken Densetsu 4 95 165
14 One of them Brain Trainers 90 111
15 Tamagotchi のプチプチおみせっ... 88 off chart
16 Mario Basket 3 on 3 (!!!) 85 off chart
17 JUMP Ultimate Stars 83 off chart
[B]18 DraQue Monsters ~ Joker 80 1449[/B]
19 Another one of them Brain Trainers 80 79
20 Made in Wario wii 79 73
TOP20 Total: 2,889 3,656But all other DS SW sales surge to compensate...
donny2112 said:After some cleanup ...
These are the ones that are ~2x higher than last week or more. A convincing argument could be made that all of these are the result of kids using New Year's money to buy games. Very nice.
お年玉 FTW
Crazy to see all those long time selling titles returning to the top positions. :lol
Square2005
Banned
And the Reservation Chart:
Give me a sec and I'll finish translating it...
could use some help...
Well that's the best I can do...
Code:
1. [PSP]Monster Hunter Portable 2nd - 707
2. [PS2]Super Robot War OG ORIGINAL GENERATIONS - 515
3. [PS2]Fate/stay night〔Realta Nua〕(Limited Ed) - 338
4. [PS2].hack//G.U. Vol.3 [I]walking speed [/I]- 323
[B]5. [PS2]GTA San Andreas - 322 [/B]
6. [PS2][I]It doesn't seem like it's the time festival[/I] (LE) [?] - 153
[B]7. [NDS]Dragon Quest IX - 115[/B]
8. [PSP]Tales of Destiny 2 - 109
9. [NDS]Shin SanGoku War DS - 95
10.[PS2]Shining Force Exa - 76
11.[PS2][I]Happiness![/I] でらっくす(Limited Ed) [??] - 67
12.[NDS]Monster Farm Jamboree [??] - 57
13.[PS2][I]It's the winter's Sonata[/I]ってちょんまげ Expert 10 [?] 54
14.[PS2][I]Satoshi Generation[/I] Afterー It's a Wonderful Life CS Ed - 53
15.[PS2]Tennis Prince: Doki Doki Survivor Seashore's Secret - 51
16.[PS2]Let's make a J.LEAGUE Pro Soccer Club! 5 - 49
17.[PS2]Zero's [I]used demon, little demon & spring breeze concerto[/I] (LE) - 45
18.[PS2]Dragon Shadow Spell - 44
19.[PS2]Fate/stay night〔Realta Nua〕(LE) - 40
20.[PS2][I]It doesn't seem like it's the time festival [/I] - 32Give me a sec and I'll finish translating it...
could use some help...
Well that's the best I can do...
Joe Molotov
Member
castle007 said:
Someone should write a Sales Thread Finder extention for Firefox. It could scan GAF and locate any new sales thread and then automatically post "OMG at XXXXX sales!!!!" where-in XXXX is any game or hardware that has sold higher than expected.
Mithos Yggdrasill
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Square2005 said:
Since the Nintendo DS began to sell like crazy in the middle of 2005, I cannot not observe how it is selling like a fool right now and how its software is selling like NEVER before and HOW persistent are the games in the top 10 Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, the Brain games....Just I can't.
It seems yesterday when Nintendo had problems only to keep one game outside Pokémon in the top 10 for more then 2 weeks and now...just in some months (MONTHS !!!, not years) the market has changed so fast and nobody expected it.
What I didn't expect too and what nobody didn't expect it, is that even software of third parties is selling like crazy on Nintendo DS. It required just a little bit more then First party games, but the machine is going now: Square-Enix, the company that just only 2-3 years ago had problems only to have a good relationship with Nintendo, and that now is almost totally switching on Nintendo DS with the development of his MAJOR franchises, is only an example.
I'm surprised guys. If you told me three years ago, I would you say that you were crazy. Just as Nintendo has been proclamed as crazy with his "gimmickly" touch screen and with his "useless" Wiimote.
But we know also that the difference between insanity and genius is very, very small...
Mithos Yggdrasill
Banned
EDIT: Sorry for grammaticals mistakes.
thestopsign
Member
Mithos Yggdrasill said:
Actually, I've noticed that you have been getting better at writing English. Keep on working at it, your almost there.
I suspected that Dragon Quest Monsters would have a shortage. It probably won't even be in the top 10.
MrSardonic
The nerdiest nerd of all the nerds in nerdland
we're looking at a DS software/hardware explosion this week, and shortages of Wii software/hardware and DQJ.
thestopsign
Member
ethelred said:
When is Final Fantasy 12: RW coming out? Isn't Dragon Quest 9 coming out early next year in Japan (April - June)?
Square2005
Banned
Solsc said:
I don't have FFIII's COMGNET debue figures anymore but I have its second week sales: 35. Famitsu reported 52,223 in FFIII's 2nd week from 501,701 at release. If you want to make comparisons w/ Joker...
DeaconKnowledge
Member
Why are we calling DQM:J unavailability undershipment?
Mithos Yggdrasill
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moku said:
One thing is sure: the officails numbers are not out yet. Speculation, statistics, approximations and estimations are the essence of this thread.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Unknown. Late due to holidays, and it was theorized that it might turn up yesterday, but clearly not. At this point maybe we'll get two sets at the regular Wednesday/Thursday time?moku said:
are all your posts like this? I mean I know the DS is selling a lot but c'mon you post like every week you are surprised at the DS success not to mention it's kind of painful to read one of your posts if you could hm change your format or something try to post something different at least once.Mithos Yggdrasill said:
Mithos Yggdrasill
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Error2k4 said:
Perhaps for someone like you now the fact that 8/10 games in the top 10 are on Nintendo DS and that since more then 15 weeks the handheld sells in Japan over 100k is normal, but for me not at all.
This is a Chart-Thread. If we don't speak about sales, why are we discuting about them ?
I know that it is annoying sometimes, but there is nothing else to say here. We have data to analyse, but if the data is always the same (because on Nintendo DS, the games that sells, remains in the top 10 for an eternity and the hardware's charts is flat), it is difficult to change subject.
Surprise is what I can exprime. This is for now what I can say about these numbers. Perhaps we should invite Patcher here to see what a real analysts has to say.....
thestopsign
Member
heavenly said:Well, he's certainly not learning from you.
Nope. As soon as I wrote that I knew that I would have a few mistakes. I've always used your instead of you're, sort of a nasty habit.
Mithos Yggdrasill
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And another thing: I have already said that the market in japan has changed not only completely, switching from console to handheld, from graphics to gameplay, from Sony to Nintendo, but also that it changed really fast, and faster then every analysts thought (if it has supposed that it could change of course).
This is the proof that after a lot of years of linear improvement, with only technologies improvements, people are eager of NEW things. How many times have I said it ? There are tow methods to sells a product: bring to the market something that nodoby has brought to it before and provoke people, or better, stimulate people; make sure that people know what you're doing and be sure that nobody can copy what you have done and this is working for the Wii too.
This is why Nintendo has been really smart: with Gamecube, someone could say that its biggest problem was the Third party Support. Somebody could say the design. Someone else could say the lack of OnLine and so on. I would say that it is a combination fo all factors and, in addition, the fact that the Gamecube was directly comparable to the concurrence.
Wii si apart. Wii is different. What Wii has, Sony and Microsoft haven't and vice-versa. This is the key to succeed: make sure that nobody says that what you propose is onanother machine too. Pure concept of exclusivities, but not in the common sense, i.e. games that are developed only for a console, but in the sense that who develop a game for the Wii have to develop it specifically for it (if we exclude ports and dumb projects, that, unfortunately, are still too many).
And the Nintendo DS has been only a test. And what about ? To verify that the strategy could really work. And what an incredible opportunity ! Sony was gearing up a portable with the name Playstation in a moment where the brand was at his maximum strenght. If they would have succeed, the the road to the Wii would have become less difficult. And what an occasion to stop hounting themself behind the GameBoy's name. It was a big gamble and it was bigger then Wii is right now, because the Wii is surfing really on Nintendo DS's success. Why ?Do you think that the incredible support of the press would have been so big without the Nintendo DS ? Do you think that someone would have consider Nintendo's gamble without the lesson of Nintendo DS ? Perhaps the influence of this fact on the mass market has not been really appreciable, but on the press and on media the influence has been awesome. And what do mass media ? They influence the market. A great idea. That's why Nintendo's commercials have not been so central in Nintendo's strategy: because they choose the indirect way to reach the consumer.
I repeat it: the difference between genius and insanity is very small......
This is the proof that after a lot of years of linear improvement, with only technologies improvements, people are eager of NEW things. How many times have I said it ? There are tow methods to sells a product: bring to the market something that nodoby has brought to it before and provoke people, or better, stimulate people; make sure that people know what you're doing and be sure that nobody can copy what you have done and this is working for the Wii too.
This is why Nintendo has been really smart: with Gamecube, someone could say that its biggest problem was the Third party Support. Somebody could say the design. Someone else could say the lack of OnLine and so on. I would say that it is a combination fo all factors and, in addition, the fact that the Gamecube was directly comparable to the concurrence.
Wii si apart. Wii is different. What Wii has, Sony and Microsoft haven't and vice-versa. This is the key to succeed: make sure that nobody says that what you propose is onanother machine too. Pure concept of exclusivities, but not in the common sense, i.e. games that are developed only for a console, but in the sense that who develop a game for the Wii have to develop it specifically for it (if we exclude ports and dumb projects, that, unfortunately, are still too many).
And the Nintendo DS has been only a test. And what about ? To verify that the strategy could really work. And what an incredible opportunity ! Sony was gearing up a portable with the name Playstation in a moment where the brand was at his maximum strenght. If they would have succeed, the the road to the Wii would have become less difficult. And what an occasion to stop hounting themself behind the GameBoy's name. It was a big gamble and it was bigger then Wii is right now, because the Wii is surfing really on Nintendo DS's success. Why ?Do you think that the incredible support of the press would have been so big without the Nintendo DS ? Do you think that someone would have consider Nintendo's gamble without the lesson of Nintendo DS ? Perhaps the influence of this fact on the mass market has not been really appreciable, but on the press and on media the influence has been awesome. And what do mass media ? They influence the market. A great idea. That's why Nintendo's commercials have not been so central in Nintendo's strategy: because they choose the indirect way to reach the consumer.
I repeat it: the difference between genius and insanity is very small......