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[Broshnat]

Or maybe not...

A-ha, yes. It seems that GT4 actually launched today (the 28th) so these numbers were early sales from the day before.

Apparently is sold around 300k on it's first day, so expect something in the region of 600k for the week... so not actually a flop at all

1 Metal Gear Solid 3 PS2
2 Gran Turismo 4 PS2
3 Dragon Quest and FF in Itadaki Street Special PS2
4 Dragon Quest VIII PS2
5 Super Mario 64 DS
6 Kessen 3 PS2
7 Tales Of Rebirth PS2
8 Rockman EXE 5 GBA
9 Sawaru Made In Wario DS
10 Taiko No Tatsjuin 5 PS2
11 Mario Party 6 GC
12 Gundam vs Z Gundam PS2
13 Dynasty Warriors PSP
14 Everybody's Golf Portable PSP
15 Pokemon Dash DS
16 Yoshi: Universal Gravitation GBA
17 Ridge Racers PSP
18 Gold Gashbell 2 GBA
19 Need For Speed 2: Underground PS2
20 Mawaru: Made In Wario GBA

 

[Buggy Loop]

 

[COCKLES]

Gundam vs Z Gundam. Wow that's scraping the barrel.

 

[Guns N' Poops]

According to Gamefront japanese retailers reported about 60-70% of the launch units of GT4 being sold today. Dunno about this ^

 

[Lionheart]

GT4 was released on 28th (today) officially, these must be by retailers breaking street date?

 

[cvxfreak]

Either that or MGS3 is REALLY REALLY successful.

 

[explodet]

GT4 was released on 28th (today) officially, these must be by retailers breaking street date?

That's the most probable explanation.

MGS3 is good, but it's not "beat GT4 at launch" good.

 

[Culex]

Either that or MGS3 is REALLY REALLY successful.

Bingo.

 

[Broshnat]

That's the most probable explanation.

MGS3 is good, but it's not "beat GT4 at launch" good.

Indeed, MGS3 will have done about 25k max, so these are early copies as I've corrected above. GT4 actually did 300k+ in it's first day, which is more as expected...

 

[Elios83]

Media Create numbers 20-26 Dec are released tomorrow?

 

[mashoutposse]

GT4's official release date is 12/28...

 

[Axsider]

Japanese Daily Sales 27th Dec - GT4 a FLOP??

 

[jett]

That's the most probable explanation.

MGS3 is good, but it's not "beat GT4 at launch" good.

MGS3 >>> GT4, sales not withstanding.

Anyway, this thread is good news...for MGS3.

 

[Ruud_Luiten]

It wouldn't be strange since the Japanese already had 5 half versions of GT4 before the real thing. Things like that doesn't make people buy the (most complete) version again...

MGS3 >>>> GT4

 

[Gek54]

It wouldn't be strange since the Japanese already had 5 half versions of GT4 before the real thing. Things like that doesn't make people buy the (most complete) version again...

Damn you and your SCEA reasoning!!!!!!!

 

[Odnetnin]

quite impressed with the MGS3 sales - I already noticed that sale oddity in the other thread and now you guys are catching on. Its more of the OMFG MGS3 in so successful thing than GT4 bomb. You Americans be ashamed.

 

[KiNeSiS]

GO METAL GEAR!!!

I could give a damn about GT4
why, well they took out online. Besides that the no car damage is so, unimmersive in a sim.

 

[Mike Works]

This is like the nicest bandwidth leecher pic I've ever seen

 

[Kiriku]

The Japanese TV commercial for MGS3 must be doing wonders over there.

 

[iapetus]

This is like the nicest bandwidth leecher pic I've ever seen

It's actually better than the picture he was trying to leech, too.

 

[Agent Icebeezy]

quite impressed with the MGS3 sales - I already noticed that sale oddity in the other thread and now you guys are catching on. Its more of the OMFG MGS3 in so successful thing than GT4 bomb. You Americans be ashamed.

I like MGS2, most didn't care for Raiden. Halo 2, Half-Life 2, Metroid Prime 2 and GTA:SA. Not everybody has the disposable income for all of these. I do, so I have them all. I did my part

 

[Kseutron]

GT4's official release date is 12/28...

finally, someone !

 

[duckroll]

Gundam vs Z Gundam. Wow that's scraping the barrel.

Wow that's an ignorant comment without knowing about the product. :lol

Gundam vs Z Gundam is just the name they gave the DX version of AEUG vs Titans, and it's a great game. Nothing bottom of the barrel about it at all. It's really no different from something like MGS2 Substance, which everyone agrees is a great thing.

 

[Kon Tiki]

Shit, I bet a lot of companies wish their games would 'bomb' if it means outselling a Super Mario, Dragon Quest and a DQ FF crossover game.

 

[monkeyrun]

A game is bomb if Sales is less than or equal to insane expectation * 1.5

 

[Broshnat]

erm... I thought I'd cleared up the "bomb" issue.

If GT4 had indeed only managed to hit #2 on it's release day, it would have sold a mere 20k on it's first day, which would have been horrendous considering it's expected to do 600k in it's first week - i.e. a bomb.

As it happens, this chart was for the day before release so the GT4 sales are from stores that broke the release date. In fact, GT4 did around 300k on it's first day, which is about exactly as expected, so not a bomb after all.

MGS3 is doing pretty well, although the charts are up and down on a daily basis at the moment, so it could easily slip to 6th again tomorrow or something. All the big games are doing around 20k or so a day at the moment (being holiday season and all that) which equates to around 100-150k a week for the next week and a half, so expect some good numbers all round.

I'm suprised to see Mario Party 6 dropping off so much the last couple of days though...

 

[solarplexus]

12/28/04

1. Gran Turismo 4 (PS2, Sony) 343.000 St. [47 %]

2. To Heart 2 (First Print Deluxe Edition w/To Heart (PS2, Aquaplus) 41.000 St. [72 %]

3. To Heart 2 Limited Edition (PS2, Aquaplus) 16.000 St. [64 %]

4. Hajime no Ippo: Victorious Boxers The Fighting All*Stars (PS2, ESP) 14.000 St. [24 %]

5. To Heart 2 ~Normal Version~ (PS2, Aquaplus) 9.400 St. [65 %]

6. KOF'94 Re-Bout Limited Edition (PS2, SNK Playmore) 8.500 St. [40 %]

7. KOF'94 Re-Bout (PS2, SNK Playmore) 2.100 St. [15 %]

8. Chu~Kana Janshi Limited Edition (PS2, Cyberfront) 1.000 St. [31 %]

9. Chu~Kana Janshi (PS2, Cyberfront) 900 St. [27 %]

http://www.gamefront.de

 

[StephaneC]

1 PS2 METAL GEAR SOLID 3 SNAKE EATER コナミ 2004/12/16 40683
2 PS2 テイルズ オブ リバース ナムコ 2004/12/16 32552
3 PS2 ドラゴンクエストVIII ～空と海と大地と呪われし姫君～ スクウェア・エニックス 2004/11/27 12326
4 GC マリオパーティ6 任天堂 2004/11/18 6841
5 NDS さわるメイドインワリオ 任天堂 2004/12/2 6654
6 NDS スーパーマリオ64DS 任天堂 2004/12/2 6179
7 PS2 機動戦士ガンダム ガンダムvs．Zガンダム バンダイ 2004/12/9 4728
8 PS2 大都技研公式パチスロシミュレーター ｢吉宗｣ 大都技研 2004/12/9 4658
9 GBA ロックマンエグゼ5 チーム オブ ブルース カプコン 2004/12/9 4623
10 PSP 真・三國無双 コーエー 2004/12/16 4311

decembre 28 sales ? somebody can translate ?

http://www2.oricon.co.jp/ranking/game1.html

 

[evilromero]

decembre 28 sales ? somebody can translate ?

http://www2.oricon.co.jp/ranking/game1.html

1. Metal Gear Solid 3
2. Tales of Rebirth
3. Dragon Quest 8
4. Mario Party 6
5. Wario Wario Touch
6. Super Mario 64 DS
7. Gandam vs. ZGandam
8. Pachi-Slot Simulator Yoshimune
9. Rockman Exe 5 Team of Bruce
10. Shin Sangoku Musou

 

[cvxfreak]

Those are the weekly sales. Multiply the numbers by ten to get the week totals.

I.e. METAL GEAR SOLID 3 SNAKE EATER: 40,683 x 10 = 406,830

 

[jorge13130]

MGS wont do 400000 this week, that impossible

Nice to see the top 10 now has numbers and it is top 20

 

[ManaByte]

Holy shit GT4 is out? I may have to import that and dig out my JP PS2.

 

[StephaneC]

no 28th or 29th daily sales ?