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[Sammy Samusu]

One would certainly hope that a big budget premium package RPG being cleared at half price would have legs.

Half price or not, it's still selling and gamers are interested in playing Ninokuni, hopefully these new players will recommend the game to other players and keep the momentum for a while.

 

[onken]

It brings actually intuitive 3D (instead flat 2D "3D") to the masses. The sort of games which relied on a sense for depth without actually offering a 3D image before can now potentially be easily played and enjoyed by more people.

FakeEdit: JJS is back!

Hmm, not convinced. Alas we'll never really know if any success is down to the game line-up/other features or the 3D part.

Half price or not, it's still selling and gamers are interested in playing Ninokuni, hopefully these new players will recommend the game to other players and keep the momentum for a while.

What's stopping those people getting recommended to go buy it used for even cheaper?

 

[JoeFenix]

How likely is it for DKCR to reach a million copies sold? Probably up to 700k by now right?

 

[duckroll]

How likely is it for DKCR to reach a million copies sold? Probably up to 700k by now right?

Odds are pretty good, but it'll take a while. We will probably not get to see it cross the million mark on a weekly chart, unless Famitsu puts out a new article when it does.

 

[Mockingbird]

Square's DS sales are really going into the toilet.

FF3 -> FF4 was a 40% drop.

FF4 -> 4WoL was a 70% drop.

KH358 -> Re:Coded was 60% drop.

SaGa2 -> SaGa3 looks like it's going to be another 50%+ drop.


DQ is the only brand which continues to do well for S-E on the DS, but I wonder if DQMJ2P will see another huge drop.

Yeah, but for a lot of those the games got proportionately shittier
:lol

In any case, DQMJ2P is expected to have a significant drop because it's just a small update to DQMJ2.

 

[Chris1964]

What happened with hardware last week?

Media Create HARDWARE

_____________________________________________________________________________________      
|System | This Week | Last Week | Last Year |        YTD |   Last YTD |         LTD |      
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      
|  PSP  |   108.786 |   183.071 |   109.993 |  2.907.120 |  2.248.171 |  16.650.208 |
|  NDS  |    99.578 |   191.583 |   213.109 |  2.871.618 |  3.978.953 |  32.150.698 |
|  WII  |    77.307 |   131.761 |   215.129 |  1.674.438 |  1.962.367 |  11.279.637 |
|  PS3  |    76.422 |    64.228 |   110.519 |  1.586.123 |  1.764.532 |   6.087.490 |
|  360  |     3.708 |     5.298 |     6.489 |    210.826 |    373.357 |   1.420.498 |
|  PS2  |     2.480 |     2.604 |     3.747 |     85.919 |    206.625 |  21.696.096 |
|  3DS  |         0 |         0 |         0 |          0 |          0 |           0 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      
|  ALL  |   368.281 |   578.545 |   658.986 |  9.336.044 | 10.534.005 |  89.284.627 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      
| DSiLL |    47.798 |    92.329 |    81.430 |  1.440.675 |    436.264 |   1.947.582 |
|  DSi  |    48.039 |    93.464 |   113.984 |  1.204.781 |  3.015.126 |   5.543.727 |
|  DSL  |     3.741 |     5.790 |    17.695 |    226.162 |    527.563 |  18.073.918 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      
|  PSP  |    99.703 |   177.691 |   105.801 |  2.822.451 |  2.176.319 |  16.489.784 |
| PSPgo |     9.083 |     5.380 |     4.192 |     84.669 |     71.852 |     160.424 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Famitsu HARDWARE

_____________________________________________________________________________________      
|System | This Week | Last Week | Last Year |        YTD |   Last YTD |         LTD |      
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      
|  NDS  |   114.793 |   213.751 |   224.280 |    114.793 |    224.280 |  32.239.091 |
|  WII  |    97.117 |   136.275 |   187.913 |     97.117 |    187.913 |  11.327.409 |
|  PSP  |    75.982 |   172.871 |   156.519 |     75.982 |    156.519 |  16.352.913 |
|  PS3  |    69.606 |    60.413 |   137.607 |     69.606 |    137.607 |   6.019.493 |
|  360  |     5.151 |     5.894 |     6.693 |      5.151 |      6.693 |   1.411.814 |
|  PS2  |     2.532 |     2.123 |     5.534 |      2.532 |      5.534 |  21.898.443 |
|  3DS  |         0 |         0 |         0 |          0 |          0 |           0 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      
|  ALL  |   365.181 |   591.327 |   718.546 |    365.181 |    718.546 |  89.249.163 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      
|  DSi  |   111.635 |   210.510 |   209.096 |    111.635 |    209.096 |   7.672.508 |
|  DSL  |     3.158 |     3.241 |    15.184 |      3.158 |     15.184 |  18.117.377 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      
|  PSP  |    69.068 |   168.441 |   151.358 |     69.068 |    151.358 |  16.205.547 |
| PSPgo |     6.914 |     4.430 |     5.161 |      6.914 |      5.161 |     147.366 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

[cvxfreak]

2010 top 100 will be posted this week possibly. Someone, whose name starts with cvx and ends with freak, must buy the magazine.

If it were in the magazine this week, it would have been up hours ago.

 

[Chris1964]

If it were in the magazine this week, it would have been up hours ago.

It was posted at this issue at 2009 and 2010. It's weird there is a delay this year.

{2006.05.22 - 2011.01.02} 0001. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) {2006.05.25} - 865.024 / 6.033.334
{2006.09.25 - 2010.03.28} 0002. [NDS] Pokemon Diamond / Pearl (Pokemon Co.) {2006.09.28} - 1.586.360 / 5.767.283
{2005.11.21 - 2010.03.28} 0003. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo) {2005.11.23} - 335.425 / 5.134.724
{2005.12.26 - 2010.03.28} 0004. [NDS] More Brain Training (Nintendo) {2005.12.29} - 416.124 / 5.050.713
{2010.09.13 - 2011.01.09} 0005. [NDS] Pokemon Black / White (Pokemon Co.) {2010.09.18} - 2.637.285 / 5.036.724
{2009.07.06 - 2010.06.27} 0006. [NDS] Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Square Enix) {2009.07.11} - 2.343.440 / 4.152.985
{2009.09.07 - 2010.09.26} 0007. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver (Pokemon Co.) {2009.09.12} - 1.408.980 / 3.872.679
{2005.05.16 - 2010.03.28} 0008. [NDS] Brain Training (Nintendo) {2005.05.19} - 44.166 / 3.821.387
{2005.12.05 - 2010.12.19} 0009. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo) {2005.12.08} - 224.411 / 3.695.000
{2009.06.15 - 2010.12.26} 0010. [NDS] Friend Collection (Nintendo) {2009.06.18} - 100.371 / 3.508.096

 

[Turrican3]

What happened with hardware last week?

How likely is that one of the two trackers messed up with console labels?

Numbers are suspiciously similar/close for the first four places.
(EDIT: I know there's separate tracking for PSP/DS SKUs and that makes this theory quite unlikely, but still...)

 

[onken]

How likely is that one of the two trackers messed up with console labels?

Numbers are suspiciously similar/close for the first four places.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking too, though a discrepancy of this size isn't completely unheard of.

 

[Yoshi]

Sounds very likely, but considering Media Create's number are one week old, it'd have to be Famitsu messing up the top four.

 

[Turrican3]

Now that Chris1964 posted it, I've noticed there's quite a difference in NDS numbers (20k) too for the week before! :lol

 

[Spiegel]

PS3 59,612
Wii 56,547
DSi LL 44,122
DSi 38,486
PSP 28,757
DS Lite 4,510
PSP go 4,084
Xbox 360 3,859
PS2 2,547

Some numbers:

MHP3 - 133,562 / 3,983,469
DK - 66,551 / 704,856
Pokemon - 45,590 / 5,012,327
Saga 3 - 27,344
The 3rd Birthday - 27,279 / 212,861


Top 20
http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20110112046/

 

[duckroll]

Wow, T3B's 3rd week is the same as SaGa3's first week. Times have really changed.

 

[Elios83]

PS3 59,612
Wii 56,547
DSi LL 44,122
DSi 38,486
PSP 28,757
DS Lite 4,510
PSP go 4,084
Xbox 360 3,859
PS2 2,547

MHP3 - 133,562 / 3,983,469
DK - 66,551 / 704,856
Pokemon - 45,590 / 5,012,327
Saga 3 - 27,344
The 3rd Birthday - 27,279 / 212,861


Top 20
http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20110112046/

Ouch the PSP shortages are real.
But PS3 is doing really fine. A bit weird that it's continuing to get sales similar to its Christmas week.
Nintendo is doing well too. I wonder if DS sales will collapse as we approach the 3DS launch.

 

[Magicpaint]

Shortages ruining PSP's momentum. SaGa 3 is a huge bomb.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

SO HEY GUYS. Software data is still way the hell out of date, but I've just put in the rest of 2010's Famitsu and Media Create hardware data at Garaph.

Also, this is a few months old but new to you because I never told anyone, but along with the existing DS and PSP versions of the site, there's also a Kindle one.