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Media Create Sales 2/25 - 3/2
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DeathWasHere
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Frillen said:
Why doesn't everyone in Japan buy a 2nd copy to boost sales?
i guess Galaxy was too overyhyped as the "Mario Metal Gear Solid Platformer"...
yankeeforever2
Member
Hmm this make me wonder, who has more colors in Japan now the DS or the PSP?
Cheesemeister
Member
Odysseus said:
Idolbump = 281 units, a 14% increase over last week.
DeaconKnowledge
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Odysseus said:
The thought that people were actually arguing this not even a few months ago is hilarious.
DeathWasHere
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yankeeforever2 said:
I believe its the DS if you add DS PHAT and DS LITE colors together.
yankeeforever2
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10k is insanity!!!! Whens the last time the 360 has made it to the 5 digits?donny2112 said:
DeathWasHere
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mabuza said:
innovation is Nintendo's job.
titiklabingapat
Member
Jesus Christ, the Wii is 80% of the console market this week. When was the last time it's weekly market share was that damn near unstoppable?
viciouskillersquirrel
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Hey there titiklabingapat. Haven't seen you around lately. Um... what happened to your avatar?titiklabingapat said:
Hey, the PS3 keeps on falling. If this keeps up, we'll be up to our necks in bad Vegeta jokes by next month. Is there anything coming up that can give it a boost?
Die Squirrel Die
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Frillen said:
I think it's more interesting how close the YTDs of the Wii, DS and PSP all are. It's only about 25k between them.
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
Nice username.Die Squirrel Die said:
*wrinkles nose and narrows eyes*
Also, did the PSP get a new colour?
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
I didn't so much forget as much as overlooked it. That's this week?donny2112 said:
kassatsu said:Yes Green.
Mmmm... mintay!
Souldriver
Member
DS - the "usual 200k per week" is definitely over.
PSP - amazed by it's continuing success (new color only did about 20k, but it's a fugly color anyway)
Wii - holding steady and healthy numbers
PS3 - keeps falling. When will it break the magical 10k barrier (new color next week?)
PS2 - Won't die
360 - ...uhm..
PSP - amazed by it's continuing success (new color only did about 20k, but it's a fugly color anyway)
Wii - holding steady and healthy numbers
PS3 - keeps falling. When will it break the magical 10k barrier (new color next week?)
PS2 - Won't die
360 - ...uhm..
Agent Icebeezy
Welcome beautful toddler, Madison Elizabeth, to the horde!
Wii has over 80% of the marketshare this week in home consoles. THey are owning shit right now.
perfectchaos007
Member
PSP might pass DS' YTD next week.
perfectchaos007
Member
Redd said:
Yes I know they are both good handhelds, I own both. But I'd like to see the DS stay ahead of PSP in sales especially since the PSP is the more expensive handheld of the two.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
perfectchaos007 said:
:lol
okay buddy
Why?donny2112 said:
The game is very obviously the same thing they've been developing for PS2 for past 8 years,
including the art being still very much "optimized for" SDTV.
My guess is they either hired one extra person to recompile PS2 codebase for PS3 with zero changes(or maybe Sony sent one of their engineers to do it), or Sony actually gave them one of the internal PS2 emulator builds to run the game in as is. (And I'm not joking about the latter - I'm sure such thing has already happened before - eg. Harvest Moon BTN "port" to PSP).
IMO if they do rerelease this on other platforms, they'd serve themselves well to also have it on PSN. Actually, they should do the latter anyway.
S
Shepherd
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How is the PS3 doing compared to last year in Japan?
As I say every week, The DS has mostly saturated it's traditional market. This is to say, kids. It is very rare for me to find one of my students who doesn't own a DS. When i asked what kids wanted for Christmas 2 years ago, everyone wanted a DS. This yeah when I asked the kids wanted Wii or PSP or more commonly just DS games. Very few kids wanted a DS, the reason for this is that they already have one (or two in some cases). The kids market is tapped. All that's left is to keep making them for the few holdouts or to replace broken units.
But, it is still selling 50k a week (numbers all systems other than Wii and DS can only dream of). The reason for this is that it is doing a good job of hitting markets that are not Nintendo strongholds. They are selling to older people, office ladies, hardcore gamers who have shunned portables in the past and people in their late twenties/early thirties who loved games in the famicom days but havn't played them since they "grew up". And there is still plenty of room for growth in these areas.
PSP is popular for high school age kids (mostly boys, some girls). They want to appear cool and they get the more hardcore looking system. Some of these kids pirate games (there are TONS of magazines that teach them how) others are buying New copies of Monster Hunter 2 (used ones are only slightly cheaper) and maybe a used copy of FFVIII:CC (used ones are way cheaper, because they are so many of them). As the little kids grow up, they will probably buy a PSP as well. There is still tremendous room for PSP growth in the school age market. I think PSP will continue to sell well for quite a while.
I personally don't see the PSP being used as a media player very much but it seems people are buying it for that as well.
50k seems small compared to the numbers DS used to sell, but when you consider that many of them are probably first time game buyers or people who haven't bought games in decades, then that number looks a bit brighter.
But, it is still selling 50k a week (numbers all systems other than Wii and DS can only dream of). The reason for this is that it is doing a good job of hitting markets that are not Nintendo strongholds. They are selling to older people, office ladies, hardcore gamers who have shunned portables in the past and people in their late twenties/early thirties who loved games in the famicom days but havn't played them since they "grew up". And there is still plenty of room for growth in these areas.
PSP is popular for high school age kids (mostly boys, some girls). They want to appear cool and they get the more hardcore looking system. Some of these kids pirate games (there are TONS of magazines that teach them how) others are buying New copies of Monster Hunter 2 (used ones are only slightly cheaper) and maybe a used copy of FFVIII:CC (used ones are way cheaper, because they are so many of them). As the little kids grow up, they will probably buy a PSP as well. There is still tremendous room for PSP growth in the school age market. I think PSP will continue to sell well for quite a while.
I personally don't see the PSP being used as a media player very much but it seems people are buying it for that as well.
50k seems small compared to the numbers DS used to sell, but when you consider that many of them are probably first time game buyers or people who haven't bought games in decades, then that number looks a bit brighter.
Shepherd said:
If you look at the console graph posted earlier, you could answer this question yourself ...
DiddyBop said:
Considering that MGS2/3 were outsold on the PS2 by a lot of franchises that have already launched on the PS3 and those franchise games sold << 500K, I'd say banking on MGS4 being a big mover in Japan is setting yourself up for disappointment.
osuwari said:
Metroid Prime 3 and General Knowledge Training Wii launch this week to go against Yakuza 3. Yakuza 3 should easily trounce them, though. House of the Dead 2 & 3 launches in a couple of weeks.
