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Media Create 18 - 24 Dec
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BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Does this make it more or less likely to be localized?
kisakiproject
Member
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
OMFG. Massive sales. 3 million seller????
DQ 9 will shut down the japanese economy because its workforce will be in line.
charlequin
Banned
kisakiproject said:
DS Workforce Training with Wifi support confirmed!
AdmiralViscen
Banned
It isn't even guaranteed 2 million.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Usually it's a down week, but I think we all know the sales will depend more on supply than the usual demand curve.jamesinclair said:
:lol OK I think there are some giant expectations for this game. Maybe it will sell multiple millions, but it's a bit early to say that. They're impressive, sure, but as a holiday release that sold "only" a third more than Final Fantasy III did in mid-August on its first day, any predictiosn of it reaching triple FFIII's total sales are a bit premature.kisakiproject said:
I'd agree, as DQ tends to be front loaded moreso... still it's going to clear a million with relative ease and could climb close to the 2m mark before petering out. It's certainly going to outsell all the PS2/GBA DQ spinoffs too.AdmiralViscen said:
Actually, isn't this more in line with DQ5 PS2's 1st day sales?
CountZeroInt
Banned
Videos games, cars, there are certain things in Japan that they seem to have psychological problems with buying non-Japanese products. What's strange is that it is only certain things. It's sad that even Blue Dragon seems to have a very small effect, all I can say is "have fun with that industry as Wii wears off and PS3 takes 3 years to take off".
A Link to the Past
Banned
I think people are expecting way too much from Joker. The first game didn't break 2 mill.
Cosmonaut X
Member
CountZeroInt said:
Not this shit again...
A Link to the Past
Banned
Bo130 said:...Is this true!?:lol
Urban myth.
FitzOfRage
Member
CountZeroInt said:
If they buy some products from foreign companies, and not others, maybe the deciding factor isn't in the country of origin.
For example, 29 out of the top 31 most reliable cars are made by Japanese car makers (Toyota alone makes 15). So is it really a sign of a "psychological problem" when Japanese cars sell better than other cars? I mean Toyota is set to overtake GM as the largest car maker in the world next year, so there has to be a little more than patriotism behind their products, since they perform well globally.
And I think one thing that gets lost of course is the fact that more Japanese companies have failed trying to crack the Japanese video game hardware market than American companies.
I mean has anyone other than Nintendo and Sony had truly huge hits there when it comes to video game hardware?
I'm sure there are plenty of executives at SNK, Sega, Bandai and others that wished the Japanese just blindly bought anything from Japanese makers.
Microsoft has a good console, that by most accounts has been atrociously marketed in Japan. Wouldn't it be more of a sign of psychological problems if people collectively decided to buy into a product line that has been mishandled for the past 5 years just to avoid the appearance of discrimination, regardless of how well it addresses what people are looking for?
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
This thread has taken an interesting direction, from "whoa nice HW sales for the Wii" to OH JESUS ****CAKES LOOK AT FIRST DAY SALES FOR DQM:J, and now on to some xenophobic pseudo-market analysts trying to figure out why BD didn't sell more.
Interesting!
Interesting!
PantherLotus said:
I honestly don't understand why there's such a debate about BD. it's simple. The game didn't sell more because there are not any 360 owners. It sold 110k and there are 240k total 360 owners out there. And about 40k of those owners came aboard THANKS TO BD.
What more do people expect?
For BD to have an FF7 type of effect, the 360 needed to have already been selling at least decent. It wasn't. BD did more than most people expected for a dying system. It brought it back to life. Instead of a coma the 360 is wheeling around in a wheel chair now.
It will take about 3 or 4 Blue Dragons to get the 360 selling good in Japan. Give the Japanese FF13 and Dragon Quest on 360 and I promise you all this talk of racism and nationalism will fly right out the window.
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
A little product placement and sale-point advertising doesn't hurt:
Wyndstryker
Member
Why are all the boxarts for those japanese cases soo much more colourful...Ours tend to look a little on the..bland side.
MrSardonic
The nerdiest nerd of all the nerds in nerdland
CountZeroInt said:
yur stupoid
PantherLotus said:
when is Hamster Training coming to the US/EU?
Chris Michael
Banned
Oh shit, I saw the DQMJ sales and thought "cool, that's a lot in its first week". But then I saw that it was actually FIRST DAY SALES. This is soo going to pass a million.
Why's it under the Playstation section? DS the new PS confirmed! :lol
Why's it under the Playstation section? DS the new PS confirmed! :lol
edwardslane
Member
Wow. Holy #@!$
I thought the 400k+ for Dq was for the week when i first read it.. then i woke up and realised it was for only 1 day worth of sales. that's huge.
my guess is 650k for the week
I thought the 400k+ for Dq was for the week when i first read it.. then i woke up and realised it was for only 1 day worth of sales. that's huge.
my guess is 650k for the week
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
The thing I'm noticing about those pics is their placement in relation to other products. As in, RIGHT SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ****ING PS2 GAMES.
Funny?
Funny?
dirtmonkey37
flinging feces ---->
Chris Remo said:
Very true. I didn't want to use Halo as an example because of the different parameters but I needed to respond quickly...hehehe.
But I agree. People were not going to find another "Halo" on the PS2 or the Gamecube for that matter.
dirtmonkey37
flinging feces ---->
PantherLotus said:
Yeah. Heh, what can I say.
Anyways, Japan has become a pretty predictable country....just like the US.......Europe, in my mind has become the only "taboo" country for me. Don't really know what sells there. Sure, PES and a Fifa here and there, but that's not representative of the genre the country likes as a whole: Soccer games well very well in the east in general.
Hah, right in the middle of hte PS2 section...
flipping_heck
Member
PantherLotus said:
God, those images makes me wish i was in Japan right now..
Chris Michael said:Oh shit, I saw the DQMJ sales and thought "cool, that's a lot in its first week". But then I saw that it was actually FIRST DAY SALES. This is soo going to pass a million.
Why's it under the Playstation section? DS the new PS confirmed! :lol
They probably ran out of room to put all the games. It's not uncommon. That space was probably reserved for PSP games.
Agent Icebeezy
Welcome beautful toddler, Madison Elizabeth, to the horde!
Nintendo can't be stopped. This is beyond absurd now
Brain Training and Nintendogs especially have been doing really well in Europe.dirtmonkey37 said:Yeah. Heh, what can I say.
Anyways, Japan has become a pretty predictable country....just like the US.......Europe, in my mind has become the only "taboo" country for me. Don't really know what sells there. Sure, PES and a Fifa here and there, but that's not representative of the genre the country likes as a whole: Soccer games well very well in the east in general.
Hah, right in the middle of hte PS2 section...
I remember seeing (a while back, like in Q1 or Q2) that Nintendogs had sold 2 million in Europe.
Smiles and Cries
Member
so does Japan have laws against taking photos of people in public spaces?
Busaiku said:
Yeah, Europe has warmed up to Nintendo and especially the DS. Just a couple of weeks ago I think it was reported that 500,000 DS systems were sold in one week alone over there. Also, Nintendogs has sold WAY more than just two million in Europe. It's really astounding how much they fall for these "fads." Brain Age has performed extremely well over there (LEGS) and I believe Chart Track or something just said Brain Age sold more last week than any DS game had before it, even on its launch day, and this was in the UK only!