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Famitsu Top 30. Week ending October 1, 1995.
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Sales this week were really high due to a lot of new big releases. 20 of the games in the top 30 are new entries! The biggest release was not suprisingly Square´s Seiken Densetsu 3 with sales of 358,423 units, helping Super Famicom to continue dominate the chart. Saturn is not far behind though, also with 11 charting games and a market share of over 30%. Most remarkable is Sim City 2000 entering the chart at #4 selling 106,168. That´s quite a lot for a strategy game competing with several other pretty strong Saturn titles.
Nine new games were released for Playstation this week of which five entered the top 30. Two sports titles namely New Japan Pro Wrestling and J-League Prime Goal EX were even top 5. The latter is the sixth Playstation hit by Namco who has established themselves as the most successful publisher of Playstation games. Sales of Prime Goal are not comparable to Tekken or Ace Combat however.
Neo Geo software sales, arising from one single game, were great as well. The King of Fighters '95 at #2 proves that SNK fighting games still sells over 100k easily, even though the Neo Geo has become overshadowed by Saturn and Playstation.
 
My god, look at those numbers!

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JP Sales were MUCH healthier back in the day. 24k+ for Layer Section in its fourth week on the chart. 60k+ for Daisenryuku 's 2nd week. 120k+ for Twin Bee Collection! ~150K for the KOF! 100K+ for Sim City 2000! Even 30k+ for the Policenouts on the bloody 3DO. My god, those were the charts - the combined sales figures were enormous! And the SHMUPS used to SELL really well.
 
Wow! Where did you get this chart? Are there any more of them? I wish there was a site that kept such a detailed record of the sales, going back to whenever the charts were first truly started.
 
It's pretty clear the market has shrunken considerably since then. Look at KOF sales for examples. Don't think they sell that much anymore.
 
CVXFREAK said:
It's pretty clear the market has shrunken considerably since then. Look at KOF sales for examples. Don't think they sell that much anymore.
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Also note, it's 142,000+ of a NeoGeo game!! Those sucker weren't cheap either!
 
Wow, those sales are so much better than what we get nowadays. And this is when the Snes was in it's twilight years and the Saturn and psx were doing fairly average in their first years. Couple that with the much lower dev costs back in those days and you can see exactly how bad the Japanese market is doing nowadays. Kinda a vicious circle where lower sales lead to lower ability to invest in games leading to lower sales. Also having Seiken Densetsu and KOF 95 topping the charts with Yoshi's Island getting 36K almost 2 months afer release not to mentions the Shmups means I approve wholeheartedly of this chart.
 
MASB said:
Wow! Where did you get this chart? Are there any more of them? I wish there was a site that kept such a detailed record of the sales, going back to whenever the charts were first truly started.
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There are a number of sites covering different periods, but you can´t find everything in one place and nothing is in English. Also, I saved some charts back in the 90´s, but a lot of data is missing, especially hardware numbers. Does anyone have weekly hardware numbers from 1995 by the way?
I´m actually creating an English site collecting all Famitsu sales data, but that´s a lot of work and it will never be finished. :P
 
Those King of Fighters '95 sales are amazing. A $250+ game was number two on the charts! :)
 
Idioteque said:
Wow, Saturn was killing the PS1.
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until a certain game was released, it was the end of sega and Ninetndo some how survived the assault raking in more $$$$ than they did with the super famicom.

The Saturns demise still bothers me when i think about how it all went down. Such a great system.
 
Shinobi said:
Heh, someone needs to show the chart the week after VF2 was released there. Boy have times changed.
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Done!

01 VirtuaFighter 2 (SS) (SEGA) 540,539
02 Ridge Racer Revolution (PS) (Namco) 178,397
03 Super Donkey Kong 2: Dixie & Diddy (SFC) (Nintendo) 124,991 (379,699 total)
04 Fushugino Dungeon II: Furai no Shiren (SFC) (Chunsoft) 99,678
05 Virtua Cop (SS) (SEGA) 90,808 (353,750 total)
06 Rockman X3 (SFC) (Capcom) 85,494
07 Sentou Kokka: Air Land Battle (PS) (SCEI) 50,918
08 Samurai Spirits: Zankuro Musouken (NG) (SNK) 48,757
09 Romancing SaGa 3 (SFC) (Square) 37,533 (520,315 total)
10 Namco Museum Vol. 1 (PS) (Namco) 36,204 (145,649 total)
11 D no Shokutaku (PS) (Acclaim Japan) 29,791
12 Puyo Puyo 2 (SS) (Compile) 20,261 (230,248 total)
13 X-MEN: Children of the Atom (SS) (Capcom) 20,028 (139,036 total)
14 Zero-4 Champ RR-Z (SFC) (MediaRings) 19,363 (60,334 total)
15 Toshinden S (SS) (SEGA) 19,341 (84,231 total)
16 Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You (PS) (Konami) 17,670 (450,953 total)
17 Super Real Mahjong Grafitti (SS) (Seta) 11,822 (42,858 total)
18 Beyond the Beyond (PS) (SCEI) 11,027 (257,078 total)
19 Classmate (PCE) (NEC Avenue) 8,778 (107,594 total)
20 F-1 Live Information (SS) (SEGA) 8,004 (total not given)
21 Touge: King the Sprits (SS) (Atlus) 6,877 (91,586 total)
22 Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (SFC) Quest 6,577 (total not given)
23 Majo Tachi no Nemuri (SFC) Pack-In-Video 5,979 (22,422 total)
24 Perfect Golf (PS) Seta 5,314
25 Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series: Pai Chan (SS) SEGA 5,278 (total not given)
26 Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series: Jacky Bryant (SS) SEGA 5,216 (total not given)
27 Panel de Pon (SFC) Nintendo 5,154 (70,460 total)
28 Mario no Super Picross (SFC) Nintendo 4,986 (total not given)
29 Puzzle Bobble (3DO) Microcabin 4,030
30 Maten Densetsu: Senritsu no Opatsu (SFC) Takara 3,719 (9,771 total)


Top 30 by platform!

Sega Saturn~ 10
Super Famicom~ 10
PlayStation~ 7
NeoGeo~ 1
PC Engine~ 1
3DO~ 1
 
norinrad21 said:
until a certain game was released, it was the end of sega and Ninetndo some how survived the assault raking in more $$$$ than they did with the super famicom.

The Saturns demise still bothers me when i think about how it all went down. Such a great system.
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FF7?
 
koam said:
FF7?
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Well, it was more the announcement of FF7 that established PS1 in early 1996. By the time the actual release came, PS1 was already cemented as the "New Famicom".

Had FF7 gone to Sega's camp instead, we'd likely be playing our Saturn 2's these days. :)
 
Nice charts. Japan charts were sort of a rarity for western gamers back then (aside from the random chart one might find in the import section of a Gameplayers or EGM)

I kinda miss the days before the net made everything passe'.
 
GDGF said:
Nice charts. Japan charts were sort of a rarity for western gamers back then (aside from the random chart one might find in the import section of a Gameplayers or EGM)

I kinda miss the days before the net made everything passe'.
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I do too. Also, the names of Japanese games on the charts back then were identifiable. I don't remember there being very many Princess Hyunyaku Jikkyu Kerploink 3: Echi Echi Super Garden Love type titles on the charts back then.

Edit: Ah wait, looking at #7, #17 and #25, maybe my memory is shot. Or maybe I'm remembering the 80s.
 
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