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[Jonnyram]

1. PSU 120,202
2. New Super Mario Bros 72,763 - 2,974,027
3. Brain Age 2 46,662 - 3,119,857
4. Final Fantasy III 45,949 - 549,001
5. Tingle 45,496
6. Cooking Navi 35,689 - 419,733
7. Mario Basketball 34,001 - 267,763
8. Animal Crossing 32,605 - 3,181,735
9. Rhythm Tengoku 28,361 - 123,432
10. Tamagotchi 2 27,540 - 458,474

 

[Raw64life]

So version 2 from the other thread was correct. Any idea on what % of FFIII was sold?

 

[lynux3]

System labels + hardware sold = needed.

 

[Square2005]

Alright, where'd you find the data?

 

[Firest0rm]

Wow thats a large drop for FF3. Is there a shortage?

 

[Clever Pun]

Alright, where'd you find the data?

http://eg.nttpub.co.jp/ranking.html

and it looks like 550k copies of FFIII were shipped and 99% sold out.... wow

 

[cvxfreak]

Alright, where'd you find the data?

http://eg.nttpub.co.jp/ranking.html

EDIT: Beaten.

 

[Barf_the_Mog]

Okay, FFIII is having shortages.....Why are all the other DS games going down?

Edit: And by all others I really meant just a couple. Yes....yes I meant that all along and I did read the entire list before posting the first time. You can be sure of that.

 

[Doogdogg]

Nice numbers for NSMB

Wow thats a large drop for FF3. Is there a shortage?

Spoiler

of buyers lolz

 

[jett]

Finaru Bombaru III.

Nah, just kidding. Next week will be more telling of the game's fate.

 

[Jonnyram]

Wow thats a large drop for FF3. Is there a shortage?

Yes, it's sold out everywhere.

Why are all the other DS games going down?

If you compare the numbers to last week, nearly all of them sold more this week

 

[Fuzzy]

Tingle came so close to beating FFIII.

 

[Square2005]

1. PSU 120,202
2. New Super Mario Bros 72,763 - 2,974,027
3. Brain Age 2 46,662 - 3,119,857
4. Final Fantasy III 45,949 - 549,001
5. Tingle 45,496
6. Cooking Navi 35,689 - 419,733
7. Mario Basketball 34,001 - 267,763
8. Animal Crossing 32,605 - 3,181,735
9. Rhythm Tengoku 28,361 - 123,432
10. Tamagotchi 2 27,540 - 458,474

Now Compare:

1. Phantasy Star Universe 137,000
2. New Super Mario Bros. 56,000
3. GuitarFreaks & DrumMania 25,000
4. Brain Training 2 24,000
5. Animal Forest 23,000
6. Tamagotchi 2 21,000
7. Final Fantasy III 20,000
8. Rune Factory 18,000
9. God Industry ?? 17,000
10. EVE New Generation 15,000

Not bad IMO for only receiving 1/300th of Japanse sales estimates.

 

[Link648099]

http://eg.nttpub.co.jp/ranking.html

and it looks like 550k copies of FFIII were shipped and 99% sold out.... wow

:lol

Square, where the hell is our secret of mana multiplayer online remake? hmm? If you remakes in pseudo 3D, monies will print!

 

[AlanHemberger]

DS domination over it seems lolz

 

[John Harker]

uh... isn't PSU broken?

And like, not working till October?

Man, sucks to be those 120k!

 

[Vic]

that rumor of pokemon using all the ds card factories must be true...

 

[Kobun Heat]

What the **** is that PS2 game doing on the DS list?

 

[Barf_the_Mog]

Ha! Us "Like all other FF games, FFIII will have a steep second week dive"-ers were correct by default!

Shortages = default, right?

 

[Rlan]

PSU does have a single played game along with the online though, so not all is lost [yet]. Still a major ****up.

Surprised Rhythm is holding up!

 

[AdmiralViscen]

9/10 DS. Crazy.

Mario Basket is really hanging in there. Are the Japanese even into basketball?

 

[Sgt. Killjoy]

heck yea rhythm tengoku

 

[Clever Pun]

What the **** is that PS2 game doing on the Nintendo list?

Fixed.

 

[Fuzzy]

10. Tamagotchi 2 27,540 - 458,474

I guess it won't come close to the first in sales.

 

[typhonsentra]

It's like I thought. FF3's real test will be whether or not it sees a dramatic dropoff from where it is now next week (Sub-30 or 20 thousand).

 

[Jonnyram]

9/10 DS. Crazy.

Rhythm Tengoku is GBA.

 

[Kobun Heat]

Fixed.

Rhythm Tengoku is an honorary DS game.

 

[polg]

9/10 DS. Crazy.

Mario Basket is really hanging in there. Are the Japanese even into basketball?

8/10... rythm tengoku is a GBA game

 

[Galactic Fork]

So the whole initial shipment of FF3 (well 99%) has sold out? Anybody have any idea how long DS games take to produce? Square Enix was stupid not to have more ready for the Black DS launch.

Mario 3 on 3 keeps its legs. It'll probably break 500k easy.

 

[Link648099]

It's like I thought. FF3's real test will be whether or not it sees a dramatic dropoff from where it is now next week (Sub-30 or 20 thousand).

But do we know that Square can replenish?

 

[AdmiralViscen]

Rhythm Tengoku is GBA.

Well, they're playing it on their DSes...

<_<

 

[Clever Pun]

Rhythm Tengoku is an honorary DS game.

Well, they're playing it on their DSes...

touché

 

[davepoobond]

Well, they're playing it on their DSes...

<_<

so i guess we can attribute all of ps2's sales to ps3 when the ps3 is released because of backwards compatibility!

 

[Galactic Fork]

I guess it won't come close to the first in sales.

Xmas is just around the corner... If it can stay between 25-30 k a week till then, it'll be boosted.

 

[Square2005]

                             media-create  -  comgnet * formula to scale-up to nat'l total:
1. PSU                           120,202  -  508 * 237
2. New Super Mario Bros   72,763  -  100 * 728
3. Brain Age 2                  46,662  -   68 * 686
4. Final Fantasy III           45,949  -  35 * 1313
5. Tingle                          45,496  -  ??
6. Cooking Navi                35,689  -  32 * 1115
7. Mario Basketball           34,001  -  91 * 374
8. Animal Crossing           32,605  -  66 * 494
9. Rhythm Tengoku          28,361  -  ??
10. Tamagotchi 2             27,540  -  60 * 459

i need to remember these numbers for future reference when making projections for the coming week.

 

[AdmiralViscen]

so i guess we can attribute all of ps2's sales to ps3 when the ps3 is released because of backwards compatibility!

<_< is one of the most stern and serious emoticons. You are a clever man.

 

[cvxfreak]

11. Brain Age
12. PSP / VALHALLA KNIGHTS
13. Eve ~new generation~
14. English Training DS
15. Mario Kart DS
16. Kamiwaza
17. Tetris DS
18. DS/ Chousojuu Meka MG
19. GuitarFreaks & DrumMania MASTERPIECE SILVER
20. Rune Factory Shin Bokujou Monogatari
21. Jissen Pachislot! Hokuto no Ken SE
22. Kokoro wo Yasumeru Otona no Nurie DS
23. Daito Pachislot Simulator Hihouden
24. PSP/ SD Gundam G Generation Portable
25. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 13
26. Minna no Seminar Kanpeki Kanji
27. Digimon Story
28. Monster Hunter Portable
29. Big Brain Academy
30. Melty Blood Act Cadenza

I guess it won't come close to the first in sales.

I wouldn't rule it out yet. The holiday could be kind to it.

 

[davepoobond]

<_< is one of the most stern and serious emoticons. You are a clever man.

<.>

 

[Clever Pun]

                             media-create  -  comgnet * formula to scale-up to nat'l total:
1. PSU                           120,202  -  508 * 237
2. New Super Mario Bros   72,763  -  100 * 728
3. Brain Age 2                  46,662  -   68 * 686
4. Final Fantasy III           45,949  -  35 * 1313
5. Tingle                          45,496  -  ??
6. Cooking Navi                35,689  -  32 * 1115
7. Mario Basketball           34,001  -  91 * 374
8. Animal Crossing           32,605  -  66 * 494
9. Rhythm Tengoku          28,361  -  ??
10. Tamagotchi 2             27,540  -  60 * 459

i need to remember these numbers for future reference when making projections for the coming week.

Hmm... but it's so inconsistent, how can you glean anything from it? hard to find titles (FFIII) were hugely underepresented in the Comgnet stores sampled, while PSU was (possibly) over represented by these same stores.

Just seems too difficult to consistently draw any conclusions - at least based on this little bit of data.

 

[tanasten]

FFIII release really did hurt the New Super Mario Bros numbers.

That's a bad sign. A trend wich means that not many best sellers con sell like hotcakes on the same week.

 

[Link648099]

again, so how much did FFIII sell for? Now that we have numbers, revenue time!

 

[Fuzzy]

I wouldn't rule it out yet. The holiday could be kind to it.

I ruled it out, that's final!


OT: :lol @ your new avatar.

 

[Square2005]

Hmm... but it's so inconsistent, how can you glean anything from it? hard to find titles (FFIII) were hugely underepresented in the Comgnet stores sampled, while PSU was (possibly) over represented by these same stores.

Just seems too difficult to consistently draw any conclusions - at least based on this little bit of data.

Observations:
For the NDS multiply by ~750
For PS2 multiply by ~250

Let's see how this works in the future...

 

[davepoobond]

again, so how much did FFIII sell for? Now that we have numbers, revenue time!

2890 yen

 

[cvxfreak]

Sinobi updated and mentioned that DSL sales are over 200K this week.

 

[Calidor]

Any hw unnoficial numbers?

 

[Fuzzy]

2890 yen

You're a little low: 5,980.

 

[Juice]

Something tells me that there has been a flurry of panicked phone calls from SE to Nintendo about fabbing more of those FFIII carts this week.

Whether it was SE under-ordering or manufacturing shortages, nobody wins when a hot game isn't available. Hopefully they can replenish the channel before all the kids beat it and sell it used.

 

[Gahiggidy]

Does anyone have Media-Create sales of 360 for the last 8 weeks?

 

[soundwave05]

Square-Enix screwed themselves with their FF3 shipments .... on both weekends. They easily should be at 650k-700k, but they just sat on their initial shipment.