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Japanese Sales 12/24 - 12/31
- Thread starter cvxfreak
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Being able to build an all-new, more robust security/anti-piracy scheme will probably compel them to switch generations early. OTOH they are probably making money on the hardware and on overall software at this point, even despite the piracy problems, and they could just wait it out until they have a good idea what the next Nintendo handheld will look like.DeaconKnowledge said:
Souldriver
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So when will we see the first PSP>DS week?
(I mean a regular week, no big releases for PSP or redesign, before some smartpants comes explaining "the PSP has already been above the DS!!")
(I mean a regular week, no big releases for PSP or redesign, before some smartpants comes explaining "the PSP has already been above the DS!!")
~Devil Trigger~
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PSP2....OLED.... Oh God
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Souldriver said:
Is there any reason to believe we WILL see such a week?
Son.Ralph.Funk
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Raw64life said:
No, it will make it easily.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Souldriver said:
So it doesn't count as outselling the DS if it has a big release that week? Guess the DS hasn't outsold anything for the last year.
It's doing very well. I for one am surprised at that, and I think Sony's counting their blessings right now that it's not at the bottom of the list.
Starchasing
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Saitou said:
He probably means compared to those of NGAGE software
natureman3
Banned
PSP sales are really strong in Japan. It's a hot product since the S&L model.
Ps3 sales are kind of crap, but it was expected as the lienup was not the Holy combo.
If ps3 goes back to 15k/week, this will be depressing for SCE Japan.
Ps3 sales are kind of crap, but it was expected as the lienup was not the Holy combo.
If ps3 goes back to 15k/week, this will be depressing for SCE Japan.
The Faceless Master
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17. God of War 2cvxfreak said:
28. Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
So has No More Heroes officially topped 200k yet?
DeaconKnowledge
Member
iidesuyo said:
My eyes bugged out of my head when I read this.
Galaxy will break a million in Japan. It's about 250,000 away right now. If it averages only 5,000 a week, it'll hit a million in a year.
As long as Wii hardware sales remain high, there's no reason to assume Galaxy sales (or that of any good game) will drop below the 5,000 mark. Even if it did, residual sales over the Wii's life span (at LEAST 2 more years even for the most loyal XDF / SDF members) would continue to push it forward.
Galaxy sold (according to this) 68,000. The next few weeks will be significantly lower.
68,000 (748,000) 12/24 - 12/31
30,000 (778,000) 01/01 - 01/08
20,000 (798,000) 01/09 - 01/16
15,000 (813,000) 01/17 - 01/24
25,000 (838,000) 1/25 - 2/01 <- First full week after Brawl
15,000 (853,000) 2/02 - 2/09
Add in 5,000 per week after that, for 30 weeks, and you break 1 million.
I predict Galaxy LTD in Japan to be 1.4 million. We'll know in about 2 years I guess.
Edit - I shifted everything by 1 week by accident.
Fixed.
As long as Wii hardware sales remain high, there's no reason to assume Galaxy sales (or that of any good game) will drop below the 5,000 mark. Even if it did, residual sales over the Wii's life span (at LEAST 2 more years even for the most loyal XDF / SDF members) would continue to push it forward.
Galaxy sold (according to this) 68,000. The next few weeks will be significantly lower.
68,000 (748,000) 12/24 - 12/31
30,000 (778,000) 01/01 - 01/08
20,000 (798,000) 01/09 - 01/16
15,000 (813,000) 01/17 - 01/24
25,000 (838,000) 1/25 - 2/01 <- First full week after Brawl
15,000 (853,000) 2/02 - 2/09
Add in 5,000 per week after that, for 30 weeks, and you break 1 million.
I predict Galaxy LTD in Japan to be 1.4 million. We'll know in about 2 years I guess.
Edit - I shifted everything by 1 week by accident.
Fixed.
The Faceless Master
Member
yeah, maybe i should have changed the ??? to N/A so more people get the jokeJokeropia said:
DeaconKnowledge
Member
That doesn't make what you said any less stupid.iidesuyo said:
BishopLamont
Banned
Bad luck for third parties then, better luck next gen!iidesuyo said:
pun intended
Everything hardware-wise went down except for PS2 & 360, but they should all be up next week for the New Year's buying spree.
- Star Ocean's debut is decent, but not amazing. Hopefully it'll get a boost next week before it starts dropping, sales seem pretty frontloaded.
- DQIV is doing remarkably, already a million seller.
- FFIV is holding up pretty well. We'll have to see how it does after the holidays, but it should manage ~700k with no problem, maybe even better. It's unlikely it'll go platinum though.
- SMG still amazes. I think it will have long legs, as well as getting a boost whenever any other major games come out. I think it'll definitely hit a million by the end of January.
- Layton is still doing amazingly. The 2nd games release has boosted the sales of the first game, and there's still a 3rd game that should boost the sales of both. The real question is whether the 2nd game will ever outsell the first game, it doesn't seem likely.
- How is Card Hero doing in comparison to the first game?
- NSMB is ridiculous. It may end up being the best selling Mario game ever by the time the DS' successor is released.
- Star Ocean's debut is decent, but not amazing. Hopefully it'll get a boost next week before it starts dropping, sales seem pretty frontloaded.
- DQIV is doing remarkably, already a million seller.
- FFIV is holding up pretty well. We'll have to see how it does after the holidays, but it should manage ~700k with no problem, maybe even better. It's unlikely it'll go platinum though.
- SMG still amazes. I think it will have long legs, as well as getting a boost whenever any other major games come out. I think it'll definitely hit a million by the end of January.
- Layton is still doing amazingly. The 2nd games release has boosted the sales of the first game, and there's still a 3rd game that should boost the sales of both. The real question is whether the 2nd game will ever outsell the first game, it doesn't seem likely.
- How is Card Hero doing in comparison to the first game?
- NSMB is ridiculous. It may end up being the best selling Mario game ever by the time the DS' successor is released.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
John Harker said:
yeah,Famitsu say will reach 200k
Jokeropia said:
Yeah - fixed that.
I'm not betting on next week being bigger.
Holidays are over, and while there will be more new Wii owners than usual, you've got to think that some of them received SMG along with the Wii as gifts.
I'd love to be wrong though.
My numbers are just there to shut up the damned Mario sales trolls that always seem to pop up. They're meant to be conservative.
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
So basically, between a remake and an anime game in 4 days, 3rd parties have sold more games on a system with extremely bad software sales than any 3rd party Wii game not named Dragon Quest.
In Japan, the first week of January is included in the holidays and is historically the second (and sometimes the) biggest week of the season, only beaten by the week before Christmas.SexConker said:
You combine two games in an unusually good week for PSP and they still can't match the first week sales of DQ:S.Kurosaki Ichigo said:
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Yes, but that doesn't make either state of affairs particularly palatable.Kurosaki Ichigo said: