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Media Create Sales: 09/15 - 09/21

harSon

Banned
Nolan. said:
Handheld ones anyway, BD and LO had a lot more concrete info by now before their release. Cry-on it's... an action rpg where a girl rides a colossus like thing called bogle. Thats about all we know, if it's even alive is my other wonder.

Microsoft isn't publishing Cry-On though.
 

Nolan.

Member
harSon said:
Microsoft isn't publishing Cry-On though.

Ugh... where did I say they were? or are you just randomly spouting that since it seems to come up everytime the game is mentioned.
 

jimbo

Banned
FateBreaker said:
Not necessarily. We didn't know much of anything about BD until it's pre-TGS stuff, me thinks.

The Last Remnant is just as weird too. There hasn't been much on that one either and it's coming out this November.

It's possible there is a deal going on between SquareEnix, Mystwalker, MS to allow certain games to come out before talking about others. Cy-On would probably overshadow everything hat has come out thus far this year, including The Last Remnant. Cry-On really sounded interesting and I absolutely loved the art direction from the concept work.
 

donny2112

Member
Famitsu Sep 8-14

1. NDS Pokemon Platinum 967675 / NEW
2. NDS Quiz Magic Academy DS 103632 / NEW
3. 360 Infinite Undiscovery 86708 / NEW
4. WII One Piece Unlimited Cruise: Episode 1 57158 / NEW
5. NDS Rhythm Tengoku Gold 38811 / 710358
6. WII Wii Fit 20718 / 2563283
7. NDS Daigasso! Band Brothers DX 13320 / 327900
8. WII Mario Kart Wii 12986 / 1719388
9. PS2 J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship 11474 / 140843
10. PS2 D.Gray-man: Sousha no Shikaku 11245 / NEW
11. NDS Blue Dragon Plus 9446 / 34942
12. NDS Fire Emblem: New Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light 9375 / 229177
13. NDS Dragon Quest V 8821 / 1140199
14. PSP Phantasy Star Portable 8638 / 594517
15. NDS Taiko Drum Master 2: The Seven Island Adventure 8299 / 335772
16. NDS Inazuma Eleven 8160 / 87604
17. PS3 Afrika 7211 / 56973
18. PS2 Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 33: Fantasy Zone Complete Collection 7196 / NEW
19. WII Wii Sports 6107 / 3127443
20. NDS Mario Kart DS 5671 / 3200579
21. PSP Monster Hunter Portable 2 G 5522 / 2416695
22. NDS Hoshizora no Comic Garden (Starry Sky Comic Garden) 5063 / NEW
23. 360 Tales of Vesperia 4648 / 140342
24. NDS Sigma Harmonics 3921 / 42552
25. NDS New Super Mario Bros. 3788 / 5278053
26. NDS Animal Crossing: Wild World 3614 / 4730152
27. NDS Pokemon Diamond/Pearl 3558 / 5575014
28. NDS Derby Stallion DS 3534 / 261087
29. PS2 Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 15 3513 / 199206
30. NDS Bokura wa Kaseki Holder (We are Fossil Diggers) 3490 / 210487

*. PS3 Conflict: Denied Ops 2700 / NEW
*. 360 Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise 2000 / NEW
*. PS3 Stranglehold 1900 / NEW
*. NDS Theresia: Dear Emile 1500 / NEW
*. 360 Conflict: Denied Ops 970 / NEW
*. NDS Spore Creatures 610 / NEW


Bar Chart Sep 8-14 (thanks to JoshuaJSlone/garaph.info)

2008-09-08

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Recent Famitsu Top 30s

Aug 4-17, 2008
Aug 18-24, 2008
Aug 25-31, 2008
Sep 1-7, 2008
 

harSon

Banned
Nolan. said:
Ugh... where did I say they were? or are you just randomly spouting that since it seems to come up everytime the game is mentioned.

I'm saying trends of Mistwalker games published by Microsoft do not pertain to those published by Nintendo or AQ Interactive.
 

AniHawk

Member
Psychotext said:
DS is an unstoppable monster. Where will it end? :lol

At least 30 million (which is another 3-4 years).

For the PS2 during its prime, this was considered an above-average week. I remember the PS2 hitting 80k in a week and that was huge. When the PS2 was 4 years old, it was doing about 40k-50k a week.
 

schuelma

Wastes hours checking old Famitsu software data, but that's why we love him.
Looks like we can officially say Wii is holding better this year compared to last.
 
schuelma said:
Looks like we can officially say Wii is holding better this year compared to last.

It's still down substantially year over year (nearly 19%), but over the past 3 weeks, it's been up year over year in the same time period. Let's see how Wii Music does. If Wii Music sells well and pushes Wii hardware, Nintendo can definitely make up a lot of ground and fast.
 
V

Vilix

Unconfirmed Member
donny2112 said:
DS Lite 61,242
Wii 29,921
PSP 28,674
Xbox 360 13,777
PS3 8,156

PS2 7,720

Wow. Takashi Sensui is gonna have a hot meal tonight. DS is in typical form: unstoppable.
 

donny2112

Member
1. [NDS] Pokemon Platinum (Pokemon Co.) 314,796 / 1,278,000
2. [NDS] Dragon Ball: Origins (Namco Bandai) 72,330 / NEW
3. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 63,446 / 787,000
4. [PS3] Trusty Bell: Chopin's Dream - Reprise (Namco Bandai) 34,067 / NEW
5. [NDS] Quiz Magic Academy DS (Konami) 29,305 / 148,000
6. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 28,466 / 2,663,000
7. [PSP] Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! Battle Arena (Marvelous) 24,812 / NEW
8. [PSP] Way of the Samurai Portable (Spike) 17,228 / NEW
9. [WII] One Piece Unlimited Cruise: Episode 1 (Namco Bandai) 15,258 / 76,000
10. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 13,892 / 1,776,000

31. [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 3 (Konami)
32. [NDS] Pokemon Diamond (Pokemon Co.)
33. [NDS] Kanji Brain 2 + Dictionary (IE Institute)
34. [360] Unreal Tournament 3 (Electronic Arts Victor)
35. [PSP] Neo Angelique Special (Koei)
36. [PS2] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 15 (Konami)
37. [NDS] Bokura wa Kaseki Holder (We are Fossil Diggers) (Nintendo)
38. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
39. [PS3] G1 Jockey 4 2008 (Koei)
40. [NDS] Mame Goma 2: Uchi no Ko ga Ichiban! (My Kid is Number One!) (TDK Core)
41. [WII] Wario Land: Shake It! (Nintendo)
42. [PS2] G1 Jockey 4 2008 (Koei)
43. [NDS] Puyo Puyo! (BEST) (SEGA)
44. [NDS] Mario Party DS (Nintendo)
45. [NDS] Pokemon Pearl (Pokemon Co.)
46. [WII] Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball (Nintendo)
47. [PS2] D.Gray-man: Sousha no Shikaku (Konami)
48. [NDS] Observation Training (Nintendo)
49. [WII] Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (BEST) (Capcom)
50. [PSP] Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida (BEST) (SCEI)

schuelma said:
Looks like we can officially say Wii is holding better this year compared to last.

I think I've seen that somewhere before. :)

Vilix said:
Takashi Sensui is gonna have a hot meal tonight.

:lol
 

jimbo

Banned
OldJadedGamer said:
Is this the third time the 360 has outsold the PS3 for the week since they launched or has it been more?

4th.

Ace Combat 6 Week, last year
Tales of Vesperia Week
Last Week
This Week

But this is the first time the combined sales of the 360 has outsold the PS3 for span of over a month . If you match it up to NPD it came within 900 units for the month of August(39.9k vs 39k), and September should be the first month the 360 outsells the PS3 by a distinctive amount. The weekly thing is no longer as impressive, now we are moving on to monthly.
 

jimbo

Banned
Slurmer said:
4 weeks out of almost 2 years and it is now no longer as impressive?

I'm just saying it's happened 3 times over the past month and a half. I doubt we will be seeing any more shock and awe threads or headlines over this. Don't get me wrong, I am saying that in of itself is GREAT for the 360.

What's really impressive about all of this is the growth potential that the 360 is showing, and is obviously there and probably has been there all along.

And in all honesty, the most glaring fact is that after 3 years on the market, it STILL hasn't had ONE killer app in Japan(although you could make a case for BD). Not one. SO4 looks to be its best offering so far, but previous Star Ocean games were never considered in the killer app category nevermind system movers. It still hasn't had a Metal Gear or Gran Turismo level game. If MS could ONLY come up with ONE big hit over there, along with all of these other good but not reall must-have games, it will certainly help its chances. It needs something on the level of those games, and it needs to be exclusive.

The 360 went from dead to outselling the PS3 on the back of basically 2 pretty average role playing games and a price drop. Just imagine if it had something like FFXIII, or Dragon Quest, MGS or anything on that level as an exclusive over there. Especially if it was coming out this fall, it could actually give the PS3 a run for its money over the holidays. Too bad there's nothing.......but who knows maybe it will get lucky and all of a sudden the Japanese will develop a taste for Gears of War.
 

Nicktals

Banned
jimbo said:
I'm just saying it's happened 3 times over the past month and a half. I doubt we will be seeing any more shock and awe threads or headlines over this. Don't get me wrong, I am saying that in of itself is GREAT for the 360.

What's really impressive about all of this is the growth potential that the 360 is showing, and is obviously there and probably has been there all along.

And in all honesty, the most glaring fact is that after 3 years on the market, it STILL hasn't had ONE killer app in Japan(although you could make a case for BD). Not one. SO4 looks to be its best offering so far, but previous Star Ocean games were never considered in the killer app category nevermind system movers. It still hasn't had a Metal Gear or Gran Turismo level game. If MS could ONLY come up with ONE big hit over there, along with all of these other good but not reall must-have games, it will certainly help its chances. It needs something on the level of those games, and it needs to be exclusive.

The 360 went from dead to outselling the PS3 on the back of basically 2 pretty average role playing games and a price drop. Just imagine if it had something like FFXIII, or Dragon Quest, MGS or anything on that level as an exclusive over there. Especially if it was coming out this fall, it could actually give the PS3 a run for its money. Too bad there's nothing.......but who knows maybe it will get lucky and all of a sudden the Japanese will develop a taste for Gears of War.

I don't agree with anything you've said. The 360 was, is, and will always be, a complete joke and a failure in Japan. It's getting bought for big Japan releases, and typically being sold back the following week, is my understanding.

That said, didn't the first Gears actually do surprisingly well in Japan?
 

donny2112

Member
jimbo said:
And in all honesty, the most glaring fact is that after 3 years on the market, it STILL hasn't had ONE killer app in Japan(although you could make a case for BD). Not one.

Blue Dragon's LTD (Famitsu) is 29.7% of the 360's LTD (Media-Create). You don't get attach rates like that with non-system sellers. Tales of Vesperia is 20.5% of the 360's LTD.

How many PS2 games sold to a fifth of the Japanese PS2 owners? Hint: It begins with "no" and ends with "ne."

Nicktals said:
It's getting bought for big Japan releases, and typically being sold back the following week, is my understanding.

Blue Dragon? Yes. Tales of Vesperia? No. Others? I don't know.

Nicktals said:
didn't the first Gears actually do surprisingly well in Japan?

It made the Media-Create Top 10 but sold just decent for a 360 game.
 

AtreyU

Neo Member
Jimbo,

Maybe you should ask the developers who chose xbox 360 in japan how happy they are with their ROV so far for their games. spend 15 million get 14 million back. great business model.
 
AtreyU said:
Jimbo,

Maybe you should ask the developers who chose xbox 360 in japan how happy they are with their ROV so far for their games. spend 15 million get 14 million back. great business model.

Gotta respect those "visions".
 

Firestorm

Member
How come jimbo makes no sense in any of the sales threads?
AtreyU said:
Jimbo,

Maybe you should ask the developers who chose xbox 360 in japan how happy they are with their ROV so far for their games. spend 15 million get 14 million back. great business model.
Yeah. Capcom must be pretty pissed off with banking on 360 for Dead Rising. Resident Evil 5's gonna bomb too :(
 

Lightning

Banned
Slurmer said:
4 weeks out of almost 2 years and it is now no longer as impressive?
To me it just highlights how bad the PS3 is doing, partly because there is just a total lack of Japanese orientated games available for the system and not that many coming in the near future.

As for the 360, it's impressive for the 360, but it's just that a 360, and in Japan totally irrelevant. The numbers as impressive as they are based on the Xbox's brand over there are still so low they don't matter.
 

jimbo

Banned
Nicktals said:
I don't agree with anything you've said. The 360 was, is, and will always be, a complete joke and a failure in Japan. It's getting bought for big Japan releases, and typically being sold back the following week, is my understanding.

That said, didn't the first Gears actually do surprisingly well in Japan?


So what does that make the PS3 who is getting beat by the joke and failure that the 360 is?

And you don't agree that the 360 has not had a killer app in Japan, and that if it did it would help it a lot more than the offerings its had so far?

That's fine, everyone's got their opinion, but that doesn't make you right.
 

PantherLotus

Professional Schmuck
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(click to enlarge)

Code:
[B][U]Hardware | This Week | Last Week | Last 4 Weeks |    YTD    |    LTD       [/b][/u]
DS       |    61,242 |    63,859 |      232,952 | 2,306,559 | 23,479,163
PSP      |    28,674 |    30,156 |      134,956 | 2,698,699 | 10,359,129
WII      |    29,921 |    29,686 |      128,490 | 2,163,844 |  6,780,004
PS3      |     8,156 |     8,053 |       34,301 |   639,404 |  2,158,981
360      |    13,777 |    28,188 |       46,133 |   177,640 |    684,981
 

jimbo

Banned
AtreyU said:
Jimbo,

Maybe you should ask the developers who chose xbox 360 in japan how happy they are with their ROV so far for their games. spend 15 million get 14 million back. great business model.

Beaten already. But yeah, ask Mystwalker and Capcom.

Besides, OBVIOUSLY they like something about their business model since their support continues. Maybe they don't just look at Japan, and maybe they see a little more than MC weekly sales numbers.

And what's their alternative? Bank on the PS3 with no incentive from Sony? The PS3 is also shitty in Japan at the moment AND behind everywhere else. What kind of security is that? So to me, no matter what you think, it looks like they would rather bank on the 360, take their MS moneyhat and keep on rolling. And they ALWAYS have the option of also releasing these games on the PS3.

Besides, name me one great Japanese 360 exclusive has done so horrible world wide?

The fact is they don't believe the PS3 can offer them enough sales potential in Japan alone and they would STILL have to depend on the rest of the world for sales. So in that case, why not the 360? It worked for Capcom. It worked for Mystwalker. It will continue to work for future games as well.
 

Gaborn

Member
Nicktals said:
I don't agree with anything you've said. The 360 was, is, and will always be, a complete joke and a failure in Japan.

Right and wrong. The 360, compared to the Wii or the PS3 will never be even remotely in the same league. However I've always maintained companies at least somewhat have to take into account past consoles performance. We consider a PS3 a relative failure for example because it hasn't shown signs of living up to the sales performance of the PS2 yet, even though it's sales are respectable they're not comparable to what Sony would expect.

Similarly, Nintendo has had immense success with the Wii and the DS, and in fact the DS's sales are essentially unprecedented in the time frame it's taken it, with the Wii still slightly ahead of the PS2 at this point in it's lifecycle (and almost through the PS2's holiday while coming up on the Wii's own holiday).

By contrast the 360 has been consistently more successful than the original xbox and is in fact in the midst of Microsoft's best hardware year ever in Japan. It doesn't matter to the rest of the market but Microsoft execs are probably a LOT happier with it's performance than they were with the original xbox's, and that's something that shouldn't be overrated.
 

iceatcs

Junior Member
jimbo said:
So what does that make the PS3 who is getting beat by the joke and failure that the 360 is?

And you don't agree that the 360 has not had a killer app in Japan, and that if it did it would help it a lot more than the offerings its had so far?

That's fine, everyone's got their opinion, but that doesn't make you right.
The problem is Xbox360 still 1.5millions behind. And it will more likely getting bigger.

Gaborn said:
Right and wrong. The 360, compared to the Wii or the PS3 will never be even remotely in the same league. However I've always maintained companies at least somewhat have to take into account past consoles performance. We consider a PS3 a relative failure for example because it hasn't shown signs of living up to the sales performance of the PS2 yet, even though it's sales are respectable they're not comparable to what Sony would expect.

Similarly, Nintendo has had immense success with the Wii and the DS, and in fact the DS's sales are essentially unprecedented in the time frame it's taken it, with the Wii still slightly ahead of the PS2 at this point in it's lifecycle (and almost through the PS2's holiday while coming up on the Wii's own holiday).

By contrast the 360 has been consistently more successful than the original xbox and is in fact in the midst of Microsoft's best hardware year ever in Japan. It doesn't matter to the rest of the market but Microsoft execs are probably a LOT happier with it's performance than they were with the original xbox's, and that's something that shouldn't be overrated.
Yes, PS3 is failing for whole Playstation but it is just bad 2nd in market.
 

909er

Member
Gaborn said:
Right and wrong. The 360, compared to the Wii or the PS3 will never be even remotely in the same league. However I've always maintained companies at least somewhat have to take into account past consoles performance. We consider a PS3 a relative failure for example because it hasn't shown signs of living up to the sales performance of the PS2 yet, even though it's sales are respectable they're not comparable to what Sony would expect.

Similarly, Nintendo has had immense success with the Wii and the DS, and in fact the DS's sales are essentially unprecedented in the time frame it's taken it, with the Wii still slightly ahead of the PS2 at this point in it's lifecycle (and almost through the PS2's holiday while coming up on the Wii's own holiday).

By contrast the 360 has been consistently more successful than the original xbox and is in fact in the midst of Microsoft's best hardware year ever in Japan. It doesn't matter to the rest of the market but Microsoft execs are probably a LOT happier with it's performance than they were with the original xbox's, and that's something that shouldn't be overrated.

Are the sales for PS3 in Japan really respectable?
 

Firestorm

Member
909er said:
Are the sales for PS3 in Japan really respectable?
Hell no. Unless you found GCN sales in Japan respectable. IMO, the only reason PS3 isn't looked at as a complete disaster is probably because the Wii is not really in the same league as a PS3 or 360 and probably won't receive the high budget games. It's like what would happened with the GCN if the PS2 was using PSX tech.
 

jimbo

Banned
You want to know what I am so sick of hearing about in these threads? The POOR Japanese developers. Oh how they have been duped by MS and the 360. Oh noeees.

Give me a freaking break. What a wonderful sob story.

Here's a fact.

A NO NAME company, mad a NO NAME game, with OUTSOURCED development, for the 360 which went on to sell 200k over 2 YEARS AGO, on a ~350k user base, on the biggest failure of a console in Japan outside of the original Xbox. That game was Blue Dragon. Seriously, these companies can't make a game better than Blue Dragon?

This same company, showed how to make another game that went on to sell over 800k world wide when it's designed with the west in mind. They showed them how to do it BOTH WAYS.

You mean to tell me Namco, SquareEnix, Tecmo, Konami, and all the others can't freaking do better than Mystwalker if they REALLY TRIED?

It's their OWN damn fault for taking so long to rally behind the 360 from the get go and when they did offer something, they either offered HALF ASS tries, or sequels to declining series that people have gotten tired of. So I don't think leftovers deserve anything better than what they have gotten.
 

909er

Member
jimbo said:
You want to know what I am so sick of hearing about in these threads? The POOR Japanese developers. Oh how they have been duped by MS and the 360. Oh noeees.

Give me a freaking break. What a wonderful sob story.

Here's a fact.

A NO NAME company, mad a NO NAME game, with OUTSOURCED development, for the 360 which went on to sell 200k over 2 YEARS AGO, on a ~350k user base, on the biggest failure of a console in Japan outside of the original Xbox. That game was Blue Dragon. Seriously, these companies can't make a game better than Blue Dragon?

This same company, showed how to make another game that went on to sell over 800k world wide when it's designed with the west in mind. They showed them how to do it BOTH WAYS.

You mean to tell me Namco, SquareEnix, Tecmo, Konami, and all the others can't freaking do better than Mystwalker if they REALLY TRIED?

It's their OWN damn fault for taking so long to rally behind the 360 from the get go and when they did offer something, they either offered HALF ASS tries, or sequels to declining series that people have gotten tired of. So I don't think leftovers deserve anything better than what they have gotten.

I'm curious, is there a source for Lost Odyssey selling 800k? With LTD in Japan and first month in the US, I only know 300k has been sold for sure.
 

jimbo

Banned
iceatcs said:
The problem is Xbox360 still 1.5millions behind. And it will more likely getting bigger.

Spun around, I think the problem is the PS3 is still ONLY 1.5 million ahead of a sub 700k 360.

2.3 million after 2 years for the leading HD console in Japan? At least the 360 is doing a hell of a lot better as the leading HD console everywhere else, especially in its home country. And yes it will more likely get bigger,
although lately it has actually gotten smaller
, and the question is when will it start to significantly put up some sales, how much, and will it be too little too late? FFXIII is still a year away and it doesn't look like Sony is dropping the price this holiday season, which is a big mistake IMO for Japan anyway. MGS4 was its big hit and that only lasted a month.

It's the equivalent of MS not dropping the price if the 360 got down to 80k a month sales in the US.
 

donny2112

Member
jimbo said:
A NO NAME company,

with Squaresoft pedigree and tons of backing from Microsoft

jimbo said:
mad a NO NAME game,

that was only pushed by Microsoft harder than any Microsoft game before and launched with initial release of the 360 core pack in Japan.

This is not some noob developer just trying to break into the industry and getting lucky on their first shot. This was a studio set up by Microsoft to be their Japanese ace-in-the-hole. It was backed with millions by Microsoft to setup the studio and develop 360 games for Japan. Your sob story rings outrageously hollow, jimbo.

Lightning said:
Any predictions for next week?

360 is in near-sellout territory again, so probably 5K or so for the week.
 

jimbo

Banned
909er said:
I'm curious, is there a source for Lost Odyssey selling 800k? With LTD in Japan and first month in the US, I only know 300k has been sold for sure.

I don't know and I never cared to look it up since it had never been contested in here when used by others.
 

gtj1092

Member
jimbo said:
You want to know what I am so sick of hearing about in these threads? The POOR Japanese developers. Oh how they have been duped by MS and the 360. Oh noeees.

Give me a freaking break. What a wonderful sob story.

Here's a fact.

A NO NAME company, mad a NO NAME game, with OUTSOURCED development, for the 360 which went on to sell 200k over 2 YEARS AGO, on a ~350k user base, on the biggest failure of a console in Japan outside of the original Xbox. That game was Blue Dragon. Seriously, these companies can't make a game better than Blue Dragon?

This same company, showed how to make another game that went on to sell over 800k world wide when it's designed with the west in mind. They showed them how to do it BOTH WAYS.

You mean to tell me Namco, SquareEnix, Tecmo, Konami, and all the others can't freaking do better than Mystwalker if they REALLY TRIED?

It's their OWN damn fault for taking so long to rally behind the 360 from the get go and when they did offer something, they either offered HALF ASS tries, or sequels to declining series that people have gotten tired of. So I don't think leftovers deserve anything better than what they have gotten.

No name huh. Thats a stretch. I guess this same no name company published their own games and paid for their own marketing and paid the extra royalty fee for having a game more than two discs. Poor little mistwalker.


edit beaten:/ what donny said
 
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