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Media Create Sales 1/29 - 2/4
- Thread starter Cheesemeister
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Barf_the_Mog
powerless or are they? o_O
AniHawk said:
Thanks, Anihawk, for being the first person to mention that in this thread! On the ball, as usual.
bgassassin
Member
AniHawk said:
:lol
argon said:
I'm taking indirect credit as his muse for that chart.
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
I think we're going to see lower HW numbers this week guys, but the complete rejection of consoles > $300 will continue.
Wii - 75-80k
PS3 - 15-19k
360 - 5-7k
Wii - 75-80k
PS3 - 15-19k
360 - 5-7k
BlackNMild2k1
Member
Whatever happened to the Mario Chart? I think now would be a good time for it to resurfaceAniHawk said:
apotema
Member
For the next PS2 game to debut at number 1 (If ever), the ghost should be a colored one, then number 2 should be Pacman being chased by the Ghost of N° 1...........
Wii games should be cherries, and the biggest DS games, and system sellers should be power pellets
Just a suggestion
Edit: Yeah Monster Hunter Portable will debut at N° 1, no matter what..... that game should have a red ghost indicating the "impendig doom" for Nintendo
Wii games should be cherries, and the biggest DS games, and system sellers should be power pellets
Just a suggestion
Edit: Yeah Monster Hunter Portable will debut at N° 1, no matter what..... that game should have a red ghost indicating the "impendig doom" for Nintendo
Sgt. Killjoy
Member
The price on PS3 and 360 need to drop in order to survive. What they are doing doesn't seem to be working at all, especially in what was a Sony dominated market.
360 would probably need to be $200 before they will see an increase. But the stars only know if that will help MS.
360 would probably need to be $200 before they will see an increase. But the stars only know if that will help MS.
_Alkaline_
Member
Wow, apart from Play and Sports, wii games don't seem to be all that popular over in Japan.
Then again, compared to the PS3, it's doing awesome.
Big slip from Pokemon, wow. Dragon Quest doing awesome still, nice to see Hotel Dusk doing ok.
Then again, compared to the PS3, it's doing awesome.
Big slip from Pokemon, wow. Dragon Quest doing awesome still, nice to see Hotel Dusk doing ok.
Alkaliine said:
They are doing really well, actually -- it's just that the much greater success of Wii Play and Wii Sports obscures that. 400k for Zelda, 300k for Wario, 200k for Pokemon, 100k for DBZ... all that on top of two one-million sellers is quite impressive for a system that's just had about ten weeks on the market.
_Alkaline_
Member
ethelred said:
Hmmm, that's okay then.
But am I right in saying that the current sales of 3rd party Wii games in Japan are a bit concerning?
_Alkaline_
Member
fresquito said:
Yeah I guess so, it's just the best sellers are Sports, Play, Zelda, Wario and Pokemon, all which are Nintendo games.
Alkaliine said:
It's a huge concern, yes. I'm sure most of the publishers aren't altogether pleased so far.
However, as far as I can recall, there's only been one notable post-launch third party release so far (DBZ, an up-port of the PS2 game), and it sold decently at ~100k. All the other stuff was released right at launch, which was a total bloodbath. Sixteen games, with a hardware supply problem, along with a bunch of marquee first party titles? Killing field. That stuff should've been spread out more.
The key thing to watch will be how the new third party games, post launch period, sell.
_Alkaline_
Member
Does anyone know how the original Cooking Mama sold? I could see that doing quite well in its first few weeks.
Joe Molotov
Member
Alkaliine said:
But at the moment, what else is there?
_Alkaline_
Member
Joe Molotov said:
True, though I was hoping something like Rayman, Gundam or Elebits would do well but they didn't.
Mr. Pointy
Member
The main Pokeyman games tend to have really huge legs, so you'll probably see both of them in the top 30 for the next 2 years.
the thoroughbred
Member
Mr. Pointy said:
I think so too. It was just after Christmas and New Years that they had that huge drop. I don't know what they are combined, but there are a lot of games in the top 10 with very close numbers, hence the entire top 30 could be well concentrated. The spread of sales of games is unusually evenly distributed. Also another factor is that Nintendo could be giving more proirity to 3rd party publishers in terms of cartridge production.
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
Mmm...so many DS titles that I don't know which ones are doing better or worse than last week, its getting annoying, its really difficult to follow a DS game with all the up-down between them :lol
Cheesemeister
Member
cvxfreak said:
That means a lot coming from you, thanks.
apotema said:
Right now, the rules I'm applying are, in pseudocode:
if(System != "WII" || "NDS" || "NGC" || "GBA") Icon = Ghost;
else if(Title contains "Zelda") Icon = Cherry;
else if((Rank <= 10) && (LTD >= 1,000,000)) Icon = Power Pellet;
else Icon = Pellet;
I could certainly be convinced to put in colored ghosts before the first power pellet, but if all Wii games are cherries, well... we might be seeing more than 3 Wii games on the list in the future. It'd make more sense to assign different fruit icons to other "tasty" series. Of course, not every week will qualify for a Pac-Man list. It wouldn't make sense to have too many ghosts running around, so I've capped it at 7. Maybe I'll have to make up some other themes for non-Pac-Man weeks... Suggestions, anyone?
Mithos Yggdrasill
Banned
Ngeist said:Who said it was the return of the series ?
It's not even @ 5 millions.
Now, I'm a bit less ridiculous, saying maybe it won't even reach 5 millions, or not going really further.
Pokémon sells overall in the long term. Give them time and they'll reach not only 5 millions...
Sgt. Killjoy
Member
Nintendo will get top 30 once PS2 games stop selling.
Earthstrike
Member
Cheesemeister said:
My suggestion would be to make a thread to brainstorm about the best ways to do the weekly pac-chart and acquire suggestions for its improvement and refining.
cank stoochie
Banned
so what games are coming up for microsoft to help it get another sales boost
Cheesemeister said:
I recommend the Pear for Mario.
For weeks when games on non-Nintendo systems reach excessive numbers, I recommend Space Invaders, with a little ship at the bottom, firing up at the invaders next to games on the other consoles.
cank stoochie said:
That's a good question. Eternal Sonata and Lost Odyssey are the only ones I know of, but both of them seem to be pretty far out. I would say Armored Core 4, but considering how badly it did on the PS3, I'd be really surprised to see it do much better on the 360.
Stormbringer
Member
Steroyd said:
It came out today.
Magicpaint
Member
Good to see Hotel Dusk hanging in there.
Yay for Harvest Moon and DQMJ.
Yay for Harvest Moon and DQMJ.
MrSardonic
The nerdiest nerd of all the nerds in nerdland
nubbe said:
D/P combined still makes the top10 with ~40k I think. Given the enormous December sales it isn't that surprising that the sales have dropped off a little but they will probably stick around 30k for a while and have legs like the other big DS games.
Alkaliine said:
The hardware has only just been released...what the **** are you expecting during the early post-launch period? Ask this question in 2008 and the answers will matter
Alkaliine said:
Not really. Look at the budgets and types of games that have come out for it so far. The Wii is a brand new system and hasn't had enough time to get a high install base yet, either. When there's that many games at launch and you have five games selling over 200,000, there's going to be less room for third party sales. NOA handled their launch better, I think, by bundling Wii Sports and only having Zelda: TP and Excite Truck at launch. North American third party sales on the Wii were great.
There just hasn't been as much time or room for that in Japan yet. However, DBZ: BT2 has sold near 100,000, and Naruto Wii should sell great numbers, too.
tanasten
glad to heard people isn't stupid anymore
I'm sure that Cooking Mama and Naruto are going to have good numbers. I can't see the Wii train stopping for a while, with a march with games like these. Fire Emblem it's gona do numbers close to Zelda, and Zelda will be doing a comeback.
I have the feeling that Wii lacks of a hardcore userbase right now. Those who enjoyed PS2 games will be on the bandwagon later or sooner, but they're not in yet. It's a matter of time and good games. Second System for the win.
I have the feeling that Wii lacks of a hardcore userbase right now. Those who enjoyed PS2 games will be on the bandwagon later or sooner, but they're not in yet. It's a matter of time and good games. Second System for the win.
Magicpaint
Member
Taurus said:
Well next week and the week after should be interesting for the Sony camp. Lots of notworthy releases that could possibly effect hardware sales.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
What else besides VF5?Magicpaint said:Well next week and the week after should be interesting for the Sony camp. Lots of notworthy releases that could possibly effect hardware sales.