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Media Create Sales 6/4 - 6/10

ziran

Member
CANLI said:
Yes, that it's in Japanese and fairly easy to figure out the menus.

The game is made by Bandai Namco but it has the same menus style than English Training or BT.
There's a Eye Stretching exercice too to relax them.
Yeah, it can be a big seller outside Japan too.
Thanks, sounds good.


titiklabingapat said:
Actually, scratch that. 28k for Sigma and 45k for Trusty Bell.
Yeah, those numbers seem reasonable.

Trusty Bell is a niche hardcore RPG and as such is performing as expected, ~50K for the week, or a little less. It looks good, and seems to have positive buzz so should break 100K. If Observation Training is sufficiently restocked I think it will struggle to make number 1 though.

NGS sales are low, but again this is expected for the franchise, it should manage ~30K for the week, I'd guess 60-70K LTD.
 

jarrod

Banned
legend166 said:
Can someone tell me what Folks Soul actually is, and why people think it's going to sell well?

I'm not trolling, I have no idea about anything to do with that game other than it's called Folks Soul.
ARPG made by Game Republic, loosely related to Gaia's Monster Kingdom (which flopped on PSP). I doubt it breaks 100k honestly.
 

phez

Banned
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
First day estimates are here guys :)

X360 Trusty Bell - 30k
PS3 Ninja Gaiden Sigma - 20k
PS3 Call of Duty 3 - 8k

Good word of mouth for Trusty Bell, 4th best first day ever for a X360 title (behind Blue Dragon and both DOA titles)...

8K for cod3? isn't that a bit extreme? :)
 
It's kind of scary (or funny) that the 10k difference between Trusty Bell and NG Sigma could signal the 360 overtaking the PS3 over a 7 day span.

Un-freaking-believeable.
 
Sho_Nuff82 said:
It's kind of scary (or funny) that the 10k difference between Trusty Bell and NG Sigma could signal the 360 overtaking the PS3 over a 7 day span.

Un-freaking-believeable.

Its partly because the userbase for 360 is much smaller, and so a new game selling the same amount would push the 360 hardware further upwards.
 
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
First day estimates are here guys :)

X360 Trusty Bell - 30k
PS3 Ninja Gaiden Sigma - 20k
PS3 Call of Duty 3 - 8k

Good word of mouth for Trusty Bell, 4th best first day ever for a X360 title (behind Blue Dragon and both DOA titles)...

I assume that doesn't include bundles just like Blue Dragon's First day numbers didnt include bundles.
 

donny2112

Member
cvxfreak said:
Did anyone take a peek at Dengeki's numbers for the previous week? I forgot to see what they had for Biohazard 4 Wii Edition. >_<

Google cache to the rescue!

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Hammerhai said:
When Classic Games selling well, are they on the (Full price)Charts(MC/Famitsu) or not?

There's no Full Price/All Price silliness in Japanese charts.
 

nli10

Member
The Innocent X said:
If it doesn`t then that makes it even more likely the streams will cross.

Are there copies of Blue Dragon still around? Enough to re-enter the chart if people are out picking up X360s?
 
cvxfreak said:
Did anyone take a peek at Dengeki's numbers for the previous week? I forgot to see what they had for Biohazard 4 Wii Edition. >_<

For its second week they have it at #10 though.
I did, but the Dengeki listings also show what a game did the previous week, so that's not really necessary. 2nd last week.
Ynos Yrros said:
PS3 sales won't go up when games start rolling in, you heard it here FIRST!
GameCube's didn't.
 

cvxfreak

Member
Thank you donny! :D

Joshua, I was interested in having Dengeki's chart for the previous week because their summary always has the numbers for the top 5 or so games.

So now we know. Biohazard 4 Wii Edition, according to Dengeki, sold 51,000 in its launch week with a shipment of ~78,500 units.
 
nli10 said:
Are there copies of Blue Dragon still around? Enough to re-enter the chart if people are out picking up X360s?


Yeah there are. The bundles have all been sold but its been slowly sellling if you look at famitsu 360 sells. BD ltd as of the most recent Famitsu 360 is 187,000. I wouldn't be suprised if some who were hesitant on 360 over that will pick it up with trusty bell. Maybe an outside chance it'll show up at like #50 or something, They should have released platinum blue dragon along side Trusty Bell. That would have done great, albiet a little soon to release that. Blue Dragon is, if there is a bit of a sustained TrustyBell, bump top 200,000 by the end of the summer. Considering the last famitsu 360 had it doing 4,000ish In 3 months wit a new rpg crowd coming to 360 it could easily reach MS goal of 200,000.
 

QVT

Fair-weather, with pride!
kisakiproject said:
Yeah there are. The bundles have all been sold but its been slowly sellling if you look at famitsu 360 sells. BD ltd as of the most recent Famitsu 360 is 187,000. I wouldn't be suprised if some who were hesitant on 360 over that will pick it up with trusty bell. Maybe an outside chance it'll show up at like #50 or something, They should have released platinum blue dragon along side Trusty Bell. That would have done great, albiet a little soon to release that. Blue Dragon is, if there is a bit of a sustained TrustyBell, bump top 200,000 by the end of the summer. Considering the last famitsu 360 had it doing 4,000ish In 3 months wit a new rpg crowd coming to 360 it could easily reach MS goal of 200,000.

Interesting. Hopefully Trusty Bell debuts at number one :) It'll be nice, although I'm 99% sure NGS is a better game, its the third release and that shouldn't warrant the same sales as the prettiest game I've ever seen which apparently is really fun according to john TV. Also, it'd be nice to see Blue Dragon sneak back up there somewhere.

Why does it always seem next weeks will be more interesting? :lol
 

jesusraz

Member
cvxfreak said:
Thank you donny! :D

Joshua, I was interested in having Dengeki's chart for the previous week because their summary always has the numbers for the top 5 or so games.

So now we know. Biohazard 4 Wii Edition, according to Dengeki, sold 51,000 in its launch week with a shipment of ~78,500 units.

And if it sold ~18,000-19,000 this week at No.11 on the MC chart, that ties in just about. Hopefully more stock is being pumped into stores asap...(seems to be the case from what Vinnk saw).
 
I hope to find one this summer :)

But except Vinnk, who else said retailers have few stocks left ?
I know it's just a little part of the big market, but on Amazon.jp i saw RE4Wii going down days after days, if stocks were low price for used and new should have been high (check Kekkaishi for DS, probably it's out of stock cause it dropped fast after first week at #1 and on Amazon people is selling the game at 6-7000yen...)
 

nli10

Member
kisakiproject said:
Yeah there are. The bundles have all been sold but its been slowly sellling if you look at famitsu 360 sells. BD ltd as of the most recent Famitsu 360 is 187,000. I wouldn't be suprised if some who were hesitant on 360 over that will pick it up with trusty bell. Maybe an outside chance it'll show up at like #50 or something, They should have released platinum blue dragon along side Trusty Bell. That would have done great, albiet a little soon to release that. Blue Dragon is, if there is a bit of a sustained TrustyBell, bump top 200,000 by the end of the summer. Considering the last famitsu 360 had it doing 4,000ish In 3 months wit a new rpg crowd coming to 360 it could easily reach MS goal of 200,000.

I figure that a system purchase isn't based on a single title (certainly not for me) and that when I picked up my cheap Xbox crystal a couple of years back I got it with all those exclusive games that i'd been keeping my eyes on over the past few years.

I'm pretty sure that RPG fans will think similarly and pick up a couple of similar style titles at the same time, keeping Blue Dragon at full price means they see it as getting the system for two top titles.

I'm not sure that this combo will shift systems to the extent of the BD release (no where near a peak season), but I can see it hitting 10k, 20 might be a stretch. Can't see this lasting more than 2 weeks though.

It's not a stretch to see PS3 'bump' from its own game sales (it's no coincidence that Sony chose this week to actually release something) and should see 1 week of 15k sales before settling to that magical 10k rate again.

Should be an interesting race for 3rd place next week.
 

Mrbob

Member
Why does Japan hate Ninja Gaiden? :(

They let the game on Xbox bomb too.

Hopefully the DS version sells at least 100K.
 

ethelred

Member
Mrbob said:
Why does Japan hate Ninja Gaiden? :(

They let the game on Xbox bomb too.

Hopefully the DS version sells at least 100K.

I imagine the PS3 version will outsell the DS version. That's what's so laughable about the way Nintendo console software performs sometimes.

It's pretty amazing that a tri-Crescendo game on the 360 outsold in its first day the lifetime sales of their most recent game on the GameCube.
 

carlos

Member
hey now, was that a troll on baten kaitos origins?
you sir, are a very bad man....

but you speak the truth, sadly...
 

jj984jj

He's a pretty swell guy in my books anyway.
ethelred said:
I imagine the PS3 version will outsell the DS version. That's what's so laughable about the way Nintendo console software performs sometimes.
Tecmo should pay S-E to put their name on the box, maybe it'll help a bit. :lol

ethelred said:
It's pretty amazing that a tri-Crescendo game on the 360 outsold in its first day the lifetime sales of their most recent game on the GameCube.
With >10% of the user base.
 

Vinnk

Member
Moor-Angol said:
I hope to find one this summer :)

But except Vinnk, who else said retailers have few stocks left ?
I know it's just a little part of the big market, but on Amazon.jp i saw RE4Wii going down days after days, if stocks were low price for used and new should have been high (check Kekkaishi for DS, probably it's out of stock cause it dropped fast after first week at #1 and on Amazon people is selling the game at 6-7000yen...)

My info is mearly observations from my town. I don't even pretend that is has a huge bearing on the rest of Jpaan. But another Japan gaffer who lives in a big city (Tokyo? Osaka?) said that sever game retailers were sold out of it as well. But as I sa in my report is is FAR from sold out. Go to any department store in Japan and you can find a copy. But some specialized game stores apparently had them sell faster than they anticipated.
 

donny2112

Member
kpop100 said:
that's because the games never rolled in on the Gamecube

Why is it that you expect games to "roll in" on a pathetically selling system (third parties won't be coming in droves) that is extremely complex/advanced (games, in general, take a long time/big budget to develop)? GameCube was cheap for ports and had more established first-party hits. Frankly, GameCube was in a much better position, overall games-wise, than the PS3 is in right now. The PS3's only hope for right now is the fact that it happens to be the successor to the PS2, so a lot of developers were already in a mindset to develop for it. There is no chance in heck of that continuing to be perpetuated with the current sales levels, though.

It's possible the PS3 won't even see a GameCube-level number of games (500) in the next five years and almost definite that it won't sniff the PS2 level of number of games (1500). Games gonna come "rolling in?" Uh, no.
 

Brofist

Member
donny2112 said:
Why is it that you expect games to "roll in" on a pathetically selling system (third parties won't be coming in droves) that is extremely complex/advanced (games, in general, take a long time/big budget to develop)? GameCube was cheap for ports and had more established first-party hits. Frankly, GameCube was in a much better position, overall games-wise, than the PS3 is in right now. The PS3's only hope for right now is the fact that it happens to be the successor to the PS2, so a lot of developers were already in a mindset to develop for it. There is no chance in heck of that continuing to be perpetuated with the current sales levels, though.

It's possible the PS3 won't even see a GameCube-level number of games (500) in the next five years and almost definite that it won't sniff the PS2 level of number of games (1500). Games gonna come "rolling in?" Uh, no.

WTF are you talking about. There are already more high profile games announced for the PS3 than there were for the entire GC generation. Your post is entirely laughable. It's as if you wrote is only basing it on MC and NPD numbers, but disregarding actual info we know about games coming out.&#12288;Less than the number of GC games? You are ****ing high.
 

AniHawk

Member
kpop100 said:
WTF are you talking about. There are already more high profile games announced for the PS3 than there were for the entire GC generation. Your post is entirely laughable. It's as if you wrote is only basing it on MC and NPD numbers, but disregarding actual info we know about games coming out.&#12288;Less than the number of GC games? You are ****ing high.

I know what you're thinking, but nothing from Naughty Dog post 2002 should ever count as "high profile."

Unless you want to start including the Mario Party games as high profile titles too or something.

Luckily, anything from Insomniac counts as two or three titles. Their games are just that awesome.
 

ziran

Member
Generally, I have noticed Sony fans are exhibiting incredibly selective recollections of what actually happened in previous generations. They can't even remember the consistency of the console making the most mistakes early on always finishing last with a limited installed base.
 

Brofist

Member
AniHawk said:
I know what you're thinking, but nothing from Naughty Dog post 2002 should ever count as "high profile."

Unless you want to start including the Mario Party games as high profile titles or something.

I know your feeling on Jak 2 and on :D To be honest I never really got into them myself.

Mostly 3rd party is where I'm coming from. Pick any major 3rd party, and most likely they have already shown a wider selection of games already announced than for all of the GC generation (except arguably Capcom)

Pureauthor said:
*claps hands*

Yay, list wars! Nerd fight!


not going there..nuh uh nope ;)
 

AniHawk

Member
kpop100 said:
I know your feeling on Jak 2 and on :D To be honest I never really got into them myself.

Mostly 3rd party is where I'm coming from. Pick any major 3rd party, and most likely they have already shown a wider selection of games already announced than for all of the GC generation (except arguably Capcom)

Capcom and Namco (WTF was that all about?). And maybe Sega too, I guess.

EDIT: No, seriously. Nintendo and Namco were on really bad terms after the whole Tengen ordeal during the NES era. Namco leads the charge away from Nintendo by putting Ridge Racer, Tekken, and other high profile titles on the Playstation. 8 years after that, they're making all kinds of games for the thing. I'd like to hear the story behind all that.
 

ethelred

Member
I'm not exactly the biggest fan of the GameCube, but to suggest that the PS3 right now has more high profile announced games than the GameCube had during its entire lifespan is just ridiculous.

That being said...

donny2112 said:
In five years? Almost guaranteed. The fact you won't see that makes it all the more hilarious. :lol

Edit:
For the number of games, I'm talking about games in stores and, thus, not including PSN titles.

The PS3 will almost surely have more games total than the GameCube had. There's almost no question here. The nature of the multiplatform environment we're operating in now assures that.
 

donny2112

Member
kpop100 said:
There are already more high profile games announced for the PS3 than there were for the entire GC generation.

:lol :lol :lol

kpop100 said:
Less than the number of GC games?

In five years? Almost guaranteed. The fact you won't see that makes it all the more hilarious. :lol

Edit:
For the number of games, I'm talking about games in stores and, thus, not including PSN titles.
 
kpop100 said:
I know your feeling on Jak 2 and on :D To be honest I never really got into them myself.

Mostly 3rd party is where I'm coming from. Pick any major 3rd party, and most likely they have already shown a wider selection of games already announced than for all of the GC generation (except arguably Capcom)




not going there..nuh uh nope ;)

You're assuming third parties are still essential to the Wii's success.
 

donny2112

Member
titiklabingapat said:
You're assuming third parties are still essential to the Wii's success.

I would say they're essential to the WII getting PS2-like numbers for total hardware and software, but they're not essential for the WII to simply "win" over the next five years. Helpful? Yes. Essential like they were for the PS1 and PS2? No.
 
donny2112 said:
I would say they're essential to the WII getting PS2-like numbers for total hardware and software, but they're not essential for the WII to simply "win" over the next five years. Helpful? Yes. Essential like they were for the PS1 and PS2? No.

Exactly. It's probably the reason why Nintendo is still not forsaking them and taking them for granted. Not yet anyway:

In my view in light of new numbers and the current situation, Nintendo can sit comfortably without courting the third parties anymore. It's the third party's turn to make an offer.
 

donny2112

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titiklabingapat said:
In my view in light of new numbers and the current situation, Nintendo can sit comfortably without courting the third parties anymore. It's the third party's turn to make an offer.

Nintendo can do that, but they shouldn't. They shouldn't be happy with simply "winning" this generation. They should continue to court third-party developers, which is something that Iwata has shown great initiative with. Also, Nintendo's goal of bringing video games to everyone means that they need third-parties to help them do that. For the sheer quantity of games, if nothing else.
 
donny2112 said:
Nintendo can do that, but they shouldn't. They shouldn't be happy with simply "winning" this generation. They should continue to court third-party developers, which is something that Iwata has shown great initiative with. Also, Nintendo's goal of bringing video games to everyone means that they need third-parties to help them do that. For the sheer quantity of games, if nothing else.

I'm sure they won't, they're smarter than that. I was just saying just in case, however unlikely, things turn for the worse(that is, third parties completely ignoring the Wii altogether for whatever reason). And that third parties can no longer afford to snub Wii because Nintendo don't need them anymore but they definitely want them.

Phife Dawg said:
As ethel has pointed out with third party games mostly going the way of multiplat I don't think it's possible for PS3 to have fewer games than GC when everything is said and done. They will mostly get ported from the 360 as the lead plattform I guess (at least for western games) but in no way will publishers shun the PS3 out of their business. Not when neither have a large worldwide userbase anyways.

But how long can they sustain that? It's starting to look like the Wii will surpass the combined totals of the 360/PS3 sooner than expected(and then some), probably within a year. PC ports are more or less inconsequential for a variety of reasons.
 
donny2112 said:
Why is it that you expect games to "roll in" on a pathetically selling system (third parties won't be coming in droves) that is extremely complex/advanced (games, in general, take a long time/big budget to develop)? GameCube was cheap for ports and had more established first-party hits. Frankly, GameCube was in a much better position, overall games-wise, than the PS3 is in right now. The PS3's only hope for right now is the fact that it happens to be the successor to the PS2, so a lot of developers were already in a mindset to develop for it. There is no chance in heck of that continuing to be perpetuated with the current sales levels, though.

It's possible the PS3 won't even see a GameCube-level number of games (500) in the next five years and almost definite that it won't sniff the PS2 level of number of games (1500). Games gonna come "rolling in?" Uh, no.
As ethel has pointed out with third party games mostly going the way of multiplat I don't think it's possible for PS3 to have fewer games than GC when everything is said and done. They will mostly get ported from the 360 as the lead plattform I guess (at least for western games) but in no way will publishers shun the PS3 out of their business. Not when neither have a large worldwide userbase anyways.

kpop100 said:
WTF are you talking about. There are already more high profile games announced for the PS3 than there were for the entire GC generation. Your post is entirely laughable. It's as if you wrote is only basing it on MC and NPD numbers, but disregarding actual info we know about games coming out.&#12288;Less than the number of GC games? You are ****ing high.
That's equally laughable though.
 
Vinnk said:
My info is mearly observations from my town. I don't even pretend that is has a huge bearing on the rest of Jpaan. But another Japan gaffer who lives in a big city (Tokyo? Osaka?) said that sever game retailers were sold out of it as well. But as I sa in my report is is FAR from sold out. Go to any department store in Japan and you can find a copy. But some specialized game stores apparently had them sell faster than they anticipated.

Ok, thanks for explanation, it was not my intention to discuss your efforts, i just wanted to know the situation and only remember about your post, MC topics are always huge and i miss some replies sometimes :)
 

quetz67

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Who thinks software support will just all leave PS3 and go to Nintendo is stupid past believe. Game support will split up between PS3/360 and Wii (to say it the hard way, most low profile games will go to the Wii, most ambitious teams trying to push boundaries will develop for 360/PS3).

Games will sell on Wii, no question, but the fight for 3rd party game sales will be a tough one against overshadowing first party games and the load of crap games from other 3rd parties. Quality 3rd party games will in many cases be overlooked or just be crushed by some stupid mini game collections.

PS3 (and 360) will of course loose exclusives as the high development costs wont be returned from one platform alone (probably we will see some watered down ports to Wii to make some quick money, which will in most cases probably be totally different games by different teams) but as much as a PS3 exclusive makes no sense any longer it is the same for 360 exclusives (besides huge money hats).

Add to that PC games that are of course developed for the latest in hardware (they dont care about a last gen video game console), those who will be ported will be either ported to PS3/360 alone or to Wii in addition to that (besides a bunch of Point&Click adventures that will grace the Wii)

Anyway, even if the Wii gets the majority of games this time, I can see which teams the talented and ambitious programmers and artist will go to. Actually I think the Sega quote about games looking dated is probably not that much targeted at gamers, but a problem to find enough developers willing to code for last gen hardware any longer.

But who wants to go the quantity instead of quality road will probably be quite happy with the Wii only, it is nice to join the masses and I am sure some of the Nintendo 1st party games will really shine (even a lot if you include the rehashes like Mario Party)

and to join the dicussion a little more on point. I think Sony's studios alone can and will put out more high profile games than the GC had last gen (I loved my GC and its 'high profile games', but were there more than a dozen or so?)
 
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