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Media Create Sales 8/6 - 8/12

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Gahiggidy

My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
mclem said:
Just looking at this, I had a sudden scary realisation:

New Super Mario Bros. has outsold the Gamecube.
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Hmmm.. that would make an interesting chart.. the top 10 best selling things ever. Consoles, games, peripherals, anything that's sold in the games industry. You think it would be dominated by extra controllers?
 
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spwolf

Member
Jokeropia said:
Wii up, PS3 down. What now, spwolf?
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tells a lot when ppl are happy with 65k Wii sales in Japan

:D
 
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Gahiggidy

My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
Lobster said:
Wow. Is it me or are Japan Wii shipments stuck on 65k? It should easily hover around 90k with the right shipments..Nintendos loss I guess..
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No, if they have any more, they should send them to North America... grabbing #1 in the US as soon as possible will go along way to locking up third party support.
 
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Nutter

Member
spwolf said:
tells a lot when ppl are happy with 65k Wii sales in Japan

:D
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Well 65K a week in Japan for Wii is still greater than what PS3 was achieving weekly Worldwide in June and part of July.:lol
 
M

Moor-Angol

Banned
JunoTaksumi said:
Does anyone have any figures for the previous Mario Party games in Japan to compare with number 8?
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N64
Mario Party 1 (18/12/1998) - 153.858 / 714.358
Mario Party 2 (17/12/1999) - 131.155 / 884.249
Mario Party 3 (07/12/2000) - 221.240 / 846.452

GC
Mario Party 4 (08/11/2002) - 177.605 / 902.827
Mario Party 5 (28/11/2003) - 100.565 / 697.462
Mario Party 6 (18/11/2004) - 96.707 / 527.132
Mario Party 7 (10/11/2005) - 81.626 / 454.261

Wii
Mario Party 8 (26/07/2007) - 282.239 / 429.473 (till 05/08/2007)
 
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apujanata

Member
spwolf said:
tells a lot when ppl are happy with 65k Wii sales in Japan

:D
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Was people happy with PS2 sales in Japan ? I believe most people would say : YES.
Lets see, historically PS2 sales in August is :
2002 :
69,100
75,000
90,400
63,500
Average : 74K. Only 15% higher than Wii's 65K

2003 :
11,900
23,822
26,966
15,200
35,600
Average : 22.7K. Much lower than 65K

2004 :
66,887
38,593
47,263
32,291
31,173
Average : 43K. Significantly lower than 65K

2005 :
34,057
37,041
33,292
27,161
Average : 32K. Only 50% of 65K

Anyone have 2000 and 2001 figure ? I don't have it, so I could not analyze it.
 
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apujanata

Member
Moor-Angol said:
N64
Mario Party 1 (18/12/1998) - 153.858 / 714.358
Mario Party 2 (17/12/1999) - 131.155 / 884.249
Mario Party 3 (07/12/2000) - 221.240 / 846.452

GC
Mario Party 4 (08/11/2002) - 177.605 / 902.827
Mario Party 5 (28/11/2003) - 100.565 / 697.462
Mario Party 6 (18/11/2004) - 96.707 / 527.132
Mario Party 7 (10/11/2005) - 81.626 / 454.261

Wii
Mario Party 8 (26/07/2007) - 282.239 / 429.473 (till 05/08/2007)
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I think it is a given that MP8 will reach 1 Million, and became the best selling MP game ever. Will it reach 2 Million ? I doubt it. 1.5 Million is possible, IMO.
 
X

XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
apujanata said:
Was people happy with PS2 sales in Japan ? I believe most people would say : YES.
Lets see, historically PS2 sales in August is :
2002 :
69,100
75,000
90,400
63,500
Average : 74K. Only 15% higher than Wii's 65K

2003 :
11,900
23,822
26,966
15,200
35,600
Average : 22.7K. Much lower than 65K

2004 :
66,887
38,593
47,263
32,291
31,173
Average : 43K. Significantly lower than 65K

2005 :
34,057
37,041
33,292
27,161
Average : 32K. Only 50% of 65K

Anyone have 2000 and 2001 figure ? I don't have it, so I could not analyze it.
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Dude, it's spwolf...
 
F

Fuzzy

I would bang a hot farmer!
Cheesemeister said:
I can't help it if MC posts numbers at an absurd hour!
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Haven't you rigged it so it does all the work for you and posts it automatically yet? What are you waiting for slacker?
 
M

Moor-Angol

Banned
apujanata said:
I think it is a given that MP8 will reach 1 Million, and became the best selling MP game ever. Will it reach 2 Million ? I doubt it. 1.5 Million is possible, IMO.
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considering it's already surpassed half a million sales and considering it will sell well during winter holidays, 1,5mln might be reached :)

Probably japanese people have to wait one year without Mario Party to let it sell good (see MP4 and MP8) :lol
 
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msdstc

Incredibly Naive
go hot shots keep on runnin :D . What's the attach rate on that game? I'm glad to see japan has taken kindly too it, soon to be the best selling ps3 game there.
 
H

Hcoregamer00

The 'H' stands for hentai.
Crow-kun said:
Why are people happy that Mario Party 8 is selling well? The games are trash.
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Maybe because it is a fun game to play with friends?

No it can't be, gamers don't have friends.
 
D

Deku

Banned
MP8 selling well is kind of bleh, it's a bit like Madden selling well. It's not an outright bad game but I scratch my head and wonder why people continue to buy the same damn game.
 
M

msdstc

Incredibly Naive
Deku said:
MP8 selling well is kind of bleh, it's a bit like Madden selling well. It's not an outright bad game but I scratch my head and wonder why people continue to buy the same damn game.
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agreed... with everyone who said a statement like this. I'm kind of dissapointed it's selling so well, the game was terrible, so much potential with the wii.
 
F

Fuzzy

I would bang a hot farmer!
Deku said:
MP8 selling well is kind of bleh, it's a bit like Madden selling well. It's not an outright bad game but I scratch my head and wonder why people continue to buy the same damn game.
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Looking at the GCN sales, half the people smartened up. :lol
 
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Pureauthor

Member
msdstc said:
agreed... with everyone who said a statement like this. I'm kind of dissapointed it's selling so well, the game was terrible, so much potential with the wii.
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You claim to agree with him, and yet a point in your post directly contradicts his. Huh?
 
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JoshuaJSlone

Member
spwolf said:
tells a lot when ppl are happy with 65k Wii sales in Japan
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It tells that... 3.4 million consoles sales in a year without any bumps at all would be pretty good? PS2's best year in Japan was a little over 3.7 million, which if completely flat throughout a year would work to about 72K each week.

Speaking of which, I wondered how Wii was doing this year compared to PS2's best year, 2002. Doing slightly worse, but not by a large amount. Wii 2007 has a chance to best it if the supply is there.

Here's how the comparison looks weekly. PS2 2002 is soon to hit a bit of a dip where it goes under 60K for a full quarter, including a few weeks under 40K, so Wii has chance to make up ground before the big big weeks hit.
 
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cvxfreak

Member
Deku said:
MP8 selling well is kind of bleh, it's a bit like Madden selling well. It's not an outright bad game but I scratch my head and wonder why people continue to buy the same damn game.
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It's a multiplayer Nintendo game that uses the Wiimote. We have 2 of those over 1 Million already.
 
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apujanata

Member
JoshuaJSlone said:
It tells that... 3.4 million consoles sales in a year without any bumps at all would be pretty good? PS2's best year in Japan was a little over 3.7 million, which if completely flat throughout a year would work to about 72K each week.

Speaking of which, I wondered how Wii was doing this year compared to PS2's best year, 2002. Doing slightly worse, but not by a large amount. Wii 2007 has a chance to best it if the supply is there.

Here's how the comparison looks weekly. PS2 2002 is soon to hit a bit of a dip where it goes under 60K for a full quarter, including a few weeks under 40K, so Wii has chance to make up ground before the big big weeks hit.
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I forgot that 2002 is the best year for PS2. And you are right, starting from Sep 15, 2002, there is a 11 consecutive weeks of sub-50K PS2 sales. And in Dec, there is only 120K/week average sales. I believe it is highly probable that Wii 2007 will beat PS2 2002.

Phife Dawg said:
Yep, on the other hand 20k a week is awesomely good. spwolf is just rad like that.
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I honestly think that 20K a week for PS3 is good (not awesomely good, just good). "Lowered expectation" FTL.
 
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oxygenal

Member
What sales will we see for Wii when Wii Fit is released?
And when is Wii Fit released??

Also, interesting to see how sales will turn out after release of each of the three games SMG, MPC and SSBB
 
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JoshuaJSlone

Member
Clever Pun said:
another fun way to look at it is, according to JoshuaJSlone, the Wii is where the GC was at on July 9, 2004. So in over 3 years the GC only sold 700,000 units - an amount that, at this weeks rate, the Wii can do in 10.75 weeks :lol
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Media Create has GameCube ~150K higher than Famitsu does, so taking the current Media Create total and subtracting Famitsu from July 2004 is bound to mess up numbers a little bit. Checking now, from early July 2004 to when they stopped tracking the numbers earlier this year, Famitsu had about 660K GameCubes sold. Due to that difference in LTD, my Media Create Wii in terms of Famitsu GameCube is a bit messy.


MC GameCube LTD - MC Wii at week 37: 828K

Fam GameCube LTD - Fam Wii at week 35: 848K, a few K higher if we imagined they'd continued to report a few hundred sold each week since March.

If we assumed Wii continued on at about 65K each week, Media Create would say Wii passes GameCube at week 50 and Famitsu would say Wii passes GameCube at week 48 or 49. Though, thanks to Media Create numbers appearing a week earlier than Famitsu's, we might see them happen at the same time. :)
 
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Colonel Mustard

Banned
Crow-kun said:
Why are people happy that Mario Party 8 is selling well?
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I love seeing GAF's [over]reaction.

Oh noez, the newest iteration of Mario Party is outselling my favorite game!1!11

More over, why do you care that it is selling?
 
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