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Famitsu: Japan's 21st Century Top 100 Selling Games
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1st Course
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100 917,000 WII Super Mario All-Stars: Limited Edition Nintendo 2010-10-21Crazy to think a collection of 3 NES games can sell that much 20 years later after their release.
Japan really loves their 2D Mario fix I guess.
Magicpaint
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I remember the GBA port of SMB also selling over a million copies. That and Super Mario 64 DS crossing a million (and even outselling the Galaxy games) are really surprising to me.
Edit: yeah it's on the chart.
Sanctuary
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The better to make bad translations of anime with!
killatopak
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Damn Nintendo.
Sammy Samusu
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And that was a limited print, it could have sold more.
Dragon Quest Collection (Wii) - 387,114
Kirby Collection (Wii) - 225,772
Should be known DQ is a bigger series than FF.
not worldwide, and that's why I keep forgetting how fond Japan is of DQ
casablanca
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Nintendomination.
I'm amazed by PSP hardware sales
I'm amazed by PSP hardware sales
toddhunter
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Did:
Strike anybody as odd? How did they get to the same amount over that span of years? Did Microsoft just buy up 200k of each?
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209,000 360 Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope Square Enix 2009-02-19
204,000 360 Tales of Vesperia Bandai Namco 2008-08-07
204,000 360 Blue Dragon Microsoft 2006-12-07Strike anybody as odd? How did they get to the same amount over that span of years? Did Microsoft just buy up 200k of each?
Konami ;o;
slaughterking
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During PS2 times we had a much, much healthier market for lower- and mid-tier games than we have today. PS2 isn't well represented next to the Nintendo 3+ million juggernauts, but below that there's a big variety of great selling games.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
in Japan yes.
I would rank the best selling franchises like this:
SMB
Pokemon
DQ
AC
MH
FF
It's the purest example of a small but dedicated fanbase, haha. Exactly 200k of those guys.
3 years ago, yeah, but recently it looks like even Japan is getting tired of 2D Mario:
Psycho_Mantis
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Looks at WiiU. We do wonder.
Poetic.Injustice
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Only 1 PS3 game selling more than a million. That's just sad.
Devilgunman
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This data just tell the same old story of Nintendo that we all have known already
- Nintendo handhelds are always great success in Japan.
- Wii is the only successful console in the last decade. The other are disaster.
- Nintendo handhelds are always great success in Japan.
- Wii is the only successful console in the last decade. The other are disaster.
Devilgunman
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Or It could be F2P game on iPhone.
sixteen-bit
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Didn't Saturn only have 1 million seller too?
well, GTA V sales are a different indication.
I'm european and the overwhelming majority of the boxed games I buy end up being japanese - and I don't even buy otakuish stuff - go figure.
Add the fact that the dedicated handheld games development in the west is almost non-existant...
Can't really blame them...
SpaceDrake
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It's been said, but god damn, that gap. If you want an illustration that HD gaming has struggled in Japan all generation, look no further.
Meanwhile, the NDS had thirty-six million sellers. The 3DS has eight on the list, and we know there's a ninth courtesy of Pokemon X/Y. This is frankly not the best picture for the PS4, never mind the Bone, as it suggests that anything for a set-top console in Japan is going to have to budget to sell under a million units, and that could affect what developers can do in terms of resources. And it's never easy porting a portable game to a set-top or the PC for overseas release, either.
1st Course
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The most impressive thing about DQ is not how well it sell, but the fact that its sales remained very stable over the years despite the series age. DQIX is not only the best selling DQ in Japan, but in the west too (1m+ oversea sales).
That's not true. There's a lot of western games that do ery well, they just don't do as well as the biggest japanese franchises, which is exactly what it also happens in the west, with a few exceptions.
The list is a little sad to me. You can see console gaming turn into a niche on it. Lots of games that made huge bucks that now struggle to sell 300k copies. A damn shame.
Dv8thwonder
Banned
One game was released to an already well established userbase and another was a launch title.
4,568,000 WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii Nintendo 2009-12-03/ 3 years into Wii lifecycle
553,000 WIU New Super Mario Bros. U Nintendo 2012-12-08/ Wii U launch title
Starwolf_UK
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Is there any reason for Famitsu to mention the 1300th game or is that just the get the 2ch equivalent of sales-age excited (with that info you might be able to deduce things)?
SpaceDrake
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It's pretty much meant as a signpost, I imagine; give you an idea of where the "average", 100k-selling game places at this point.
The list was for the celebration of the edition no. 1300 of Famitsu.
As curiosity, the sales of GTA and COD in Japan.
This was not in the magazine, it's based on the other rankings. I've combined all multiplatform releases
to make their sales look better
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612.000 PS2 XBX Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
573.000 PS3 360 WIU Call of Duty: Black Ops II
526.000 PS3 360 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
525.000 PS3 360 Call of Duty: Black Ops
497.000 PS3 360 Grand Theft Auto V
485.000 PS2 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
466.000 PS2 XBX Grand Theft Auto III
464.000 PS3 360 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
448.000 PS3 360 Grand Theft Auto IV
443.000 PS3 360 NDS Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
412.000 PSP PS2 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
316.000 PSP PS2 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
221.000 PS3 360 Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
58.000 NDS PSP Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
47.000 PS3 360 Call of Duty 3
44.000 PSV Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified
27.000 PS1 Grand Theft Auto
10.000 PS2 Call of Duty: Finest Hour
9.000 360 Call of Duty 2BurritoBushido
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Nintendo going third party confirmed.
bleachrude
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THIS...so much THIS.
I wondered earlier in the thread as to what the hell the japanese were doing with the PS2 during lulls when DQ/FF/DW was not released and someone mentioned :using it as a DVD player" and the more I think of it, the more I agree with that. The PS2 did such huge numbers partly because it was many person's 1st or 2nd DVD player. Similarly, the PS3 is many people's main blu0ray player. The Ps4 has nothing like that going for it.
Here's a prediction. The Ps4 in 1 year will NOT match the WiiU one year total...crazy prediction - the PS4 in one year will only have an install base of around 500k. With no Final fantasy and no Dragon quest and only Dynsaty warrior on the console? It's screwed. And that says nothing about how badly the Xbox one will get pummeled.
angelcage87
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I saw the Ps3 numbers and said :"that is just sad"; then I saw the Psvita's...damn,son.
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The sales for CoD isn't that bad at all. Considering consoles games rarely hitting even the 400K or 500K mark this gen.
Yes and so did Gamecube.
BizzyBum
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The Wii U will be fine in the long run.
Super Mario 3D World, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, Mario Kart 8, Super Smash Bros. 4, Zelda Wii U, Bayonetta 2, X are all releasing in the next year (minus Zelda, probably 2015) and will sell a lot of systems.
Iwata keeping his 9 million figure for the end of the fiscal year is pure insanity, though.