Joe Molotov
Member
It's on the DS. All S-E has to do is run a few TV ads for it, and it'll be right back up to the Top 10.
"Final Fantasy III, wise from your gwave!"
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PhoenixDark
Banned
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
There was a short news segment tonight (CBS?) about how the Japanese population is aging way too fast and the toy stores are filled with adults buying toys for themselves. Arcade machines in convalescent homes, etc. They said one of the huge sectors was handheld videogame systems...and then they showed 2 PSP games :lol Still, that must explain these crappy brain games and such.
Dragona Akehi
Retired
Chris Michael said:ATTN ETHELRED: I think it's safe to say now that you've lost our little bet! I get my tag now.
edit: the bet was that FFIII wouldn't sell a million.
You're crazy to think FFIII won't make it to a million.
Chris Michael said:ATTN ETHELRED: I think it's safe to say now that you've lost our little bet! I get my tag now.
edit: the bet was that FFIII wouldn't sell a million.
Wow, you're delusional.
I said it'd sell a million by the end of the year right after the game first game out. Last week I reiterated that I'm still pretty sure it'll sell a million by the end of the year, and if it doesn't, that it'll do so within a week or so's timespan.
We'll wait until the timeframe is up to see where the game stands.
cartman414
Member
donny2112 said:
So there are probably some copies laying around at this point. That said, the failure to restock early quite possibly nerfed the game's retail momentum.
13　DS　Gyakuten Saiban 2　24000　24000　45
16　DS　Custom Robo　20000　54000　60
19　DS　Final Fantasy III　14000　832000　81
20　PS2　Minna no Tennis　14000　470000　95
27　DS　Pinky Street　9500　9500　38
30　DS　Lode Runner　7500　7500　47
34　DS　Tingle　5900　167000　87
35　PSP　Gundam Battle Royale　5800　94000　82
37　PSP　Monster Hunter Best　4600　89000　87
44　PSP　Planetarium Creator Ohira Takayuki Kanshuu: Home Star Portable 3500　10000　42
51　PSP　Shinobido Homura　2900　2900　27
53　DS　Shin Bokujou Monogatari　2700　95000　86
59　DS　Kawaii Koinu　2300　15000　55
66　DS　Yu Yu Hakusho　1800　91000　95
71　DS　Digimon Story　1600　212000　94
70　PSP　Eiyuu Densetsu: Sora no Kiseki FC 1600　24000　80
75　PSP　Tales of Phantasia Full Voice Edition　1600　103000　80
77　PSP　Ridge Racers 2　1500　50000　67
80　DS　Chou Soujuu Mecha MG 1400　44000　70
92　DS　Mushiking 2　1200　96000　68
圏外　Heaven's Will
圏外　God Hand　1400　67000（先週）
16　DS　Custom Robo　20000　54000　60
19　DS　Final Fantasy III　14000　832000　81
20　PS2　Minna no Tennis　14000　470000　95
27　DS　Pinky Street　9500　9500　38
30　DS　Lode Runner　7500　7500　47
34　DS　Tingle　5900　167000　87
35　PSP　Gundam Battle Royale　5800　94000　82
37　PSP　Monster Hunter Best　4600　89000　87
44　PSP　Planetarium Creator Ohira Takayuki Kanshuu: Home Star Portable 3500　10000　42
51　PSP　Shinobido Homura　2900　2900　27
53　DS　Shin Bokujou Monogatari　2700　95000　86
59　DS　Kawaii Koinu　2300　15000　55
66　DS　Yu Yu Hakusho　1800　91000　95
71　DS　Digimon Story　1600　212000　94
70　PSP　Eiyuu Densetsu: Sora no Kiseki FC 1600　24000　80
75　PSP　Tales of Phantasia Full Voice Edition　1600　103000　80
77　PSP　Ridge Racers 2　1500　50000　67
80　DS　Chou Soujuu Mecha MG 1400　44000　70
92　DS　Mushiking 2　1200　96000　68
圏外　Heaven's Will
圏外　God Hand　1400　67000（先週）
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
Those who see Tempest sales being good or something like that, just a remainder, first day sales were Training 75k and Tempest 60k...3 days more the totals are 190k and 90k. And that is I suppose thanks to heavy pricedrops on Tempest. Tempest beated ToP and ToE ports starts yeah, but its not going to beat ToE LTD (240k), actually its going to be hard to reach its first shipment (~185k)....
Not to say beat any other main entry in Tales series...its the black sheep. Its numbers are near the spinoffs and ports...
We'll see if Tales of Destiny Remake for PS2 changes the situation now.....wow, waiting for a PS1 remake on PS2 to change the bad image a new main entry on DS did.
20　PS2　Minna no Tennis　14000　470000　95
Go Minna no Tennis
Not bad, its going to reach 500k, half what a Golf does, but quite late into PS2 life, I wonder if Golf would have done better. Time to pump Minna no series Sony, basket, footbal, baseball...PS3 and PSP please.
35　PSP　Gundam Battle Royale　5800　94000　82
37　PSP　Monster Hunter Best　4600　89000　87
53　DS　Shin Bokujou Monogatari　2700　95000　86
75　PSP　Tales of Phantasia Full Voice Edition　1600　103000　80
77　PSP　Ridge Racers 2　1500　50000　67
92　DS　Mushiking 2　1200　96000　68
Nice 100k sellers there, gundam, rune factory, monster hunter best edition! does amazing, ToP really amazing, I can't help but laugh at 4th Phantasia vs Ridge Racers 2. Ouch, ouch indeed.
Not to say beat any other main entry in Tales series...its the black sheep. Its numbers are near the spinoffs and ports...
We'll see if Tales of Destiny Remake for PS2 changes the situation now.....wow, waiting for a PS1 remake on PS2 to change the bad image a new main entry on DS did.
20　PS2　Minna no Tennis　14000　470000　95
Go Minna no Tennis
Not bad, its going to reach 500k, half what a Golf does, but quite late into PS2 life, I wonder if Golf would have done better. Time to pump Minna no series Sony, basket, footbal, baseball...PS3 and PSP please.35　PSP　Gundam Battle Royale　5800　94000　82
37　PSP　Monster Hunter Best　4600　89000　87
53　DS　Shin Bokujou Monogatari　2700　95000　86
75　PSP　Tales of Phantasia Full Voice Edition　1600　103000　80
77　PSP　Ridge Racers 2　1500　50000　67
92　DS　Mushiking 2　1200　96000　68
Nice 100k sellers there, gundam, rune factory, monster hunter best edition! does amazing, ToP really amazing, I can't help but laugh at 4th Phantasia vs Ridge Racers 2. Ouch, ouch indeed.
Magicpaint
Member
jj984jj said:
Yep, a 10hr abortion with very few Tales features could hardly have cost them anything. The sales are good in proportion to the game's quality and budget... and that sucks.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
Can we really consider Tales of the Tempest a main Tales entry? I mean how many of the other ones were outsourced for everything except music? I think even the ports are made in house. Namco couldn't even be bothered to make TotT, why should people even buy it?
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
Yeah but then, every tales does amazing...I mean, Legendia sold 350k, sure Namco had a nice profit on it but it was a weak entry sales-wise, weak entry quality-wise, plus not good image for the series and such. Tempest is even worse sales-wise, image-wise...even if Namco sees a profit on it.jj984jj said:
Tempest as the first full fledged main entry on a handheld, and on DS no less...is a failure that damages tales image.
I'm a tales fanboy anyway, my opinion should not reflect reality easily so don't take it very seriously xd
Magicpaint
Member
Tales of the Tempest is hardly a "fully-fledged" main entry, it's crap. Outsourced and bastardized. Namco didn't even promote the damn game, it can't really be compared to any other main Tales entry.
Compare how ToDr has been promoted and compare with Tempest. It's not going to damage the series' just like how Legendia didn't necessarily damage Abyss wehich came out 4 months later. People know the real deal.
Compare how ToDr has been promoted and compare with Tempest. It's not going to damage the series' just like how Legendia didn't necessarily damage Abyss wehich came out 4 months later. People know the real deal.
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
To Namco, it seems its a main entry imo. To me, it seems like a half-assed effort to try to ride on DS and Tales sucess, labeled as a normal tales..GreenGlowingGoo said:
Taking Namco Tales Studio as in house, then Legendia is totally outsourced (to a Namco internal team that is...) since NTS was only credited as special thanks in Legendia.
Well, sure I wasn't the one laughing at PSP getting ports and spinoffs while DS got the real full fledged new Tales.Magicpaint said:
Before we knew it was Dimps, everyone was calling it a normal tales with suspicious delays and weak promotion. Also called real 3rd party effort that other developers should take note, 3rd party game with sales potential, rival to FF3/DQMJ...
Sure that upon seeing all this, 90k sound like undeserved sales, but what I try to say is that Namco expected quite more, we also expected quite more (sales and quality wise) and in the end, its a Namco mess with very low sales for what it was meant to be, huge shipment not sold, pricedrops to sell the stock and a unique lost opportunity for Namco to catch some success on DS.
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
Btw, just read on gamefront that Jump Ultimate Stars (DS) is scheduled for 11/23, a day later than all this stuff too: Tales of Destiny, Jeanne D'Arc, Riviera, Sonic PS3, Boktai DS, Oshare Majo Love and Berry (Sega DS girl title), J-League Winning Eleven, Culdcept Saga and Dead or Alive Extreme 2.
Quite a battle that week...
Quite a battle that week...
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
Well I'd rank an internal team within namco higher than Dimps. I don't get it really. Namco-Bandai has two of the highest third party selling titles, you'd think they'd put a little effort. They already have a million seller on the DS. I really thought they were going to put some effort into it, and I thought the Town Environments were great, but, after hearing about it, and 12 hours for a tales game?
(Of course I don't now how sparated Namco is from Bandai, really. Both parts might have totally different stategies.)
Mr. Pointy
Member
Week of death.Kurosaki Ichigo said:
[monorojo] Well, so now all you Nintendo fanboys will shut up now about PSP not selling games in Japan? It is has the same number of titles in the top 30 as the GBA, the most popular handled in history, and only half of the PS2 ones, by far the console with the biggest installed base (yeah, more than your precious DS).[/monorojo]
Now talking seriously, I really wonder if the charts will be as DSowned as this one when the next gen comes in...
the thoroughbred
Member
Whats NSMB at now worldwide. I was kinda hoping it'd do better numbers than this. I know holidays in NA and Europe LOVE anyting Mario, and Japland will also do a bit, but nothing will come close to Europe and NA. I reckon a 3 week total of 200k in Japan. If its lucky, cos there is lots of new consoles and games.
Mithos Yggdrasill
Banned
Ikael said:
Nice imitation.
the thoroughbred
Member
How do I do spoiler tags? ie black out the text.
MrSardonic
The nerdiest nerd of all the nerds in nerdland
is pokemon still sold out?
I guess Tales of Phantasia PSP is the closest to an outsourced Tales Studio work as Mineloader Software seems to have done most of the programming/porting. Still doesn't compare to Tempest obviously.GreenGlowingGoo said:
Chris Michael
Banned
Dragona Akehi said:
Worldwide, I'm sure it'll make it to a million, maybe 2 mil. In Japan alone? Don't think so.
ethelred said:
>:\
speculawyer
Member
Have Japanese homes become so small that they can no longer fit a console inside?
What is with this portable obsession?
What is with this portable obsession?
charlequin
Banned
Chris Michael said:
You realize it would only have to sell about 16k average a week to hit one million by the end of the year, right? And that chances are extremely high that its current ~15k a week will go up during the holiday shopping season, not down (especially if Nintendo really are going to dump extra DSes on the market)?
Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
PhoenixDark said:
what the hell :lol