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[donny2112]

This week in Japan for the DS was only 83 units higher than this week last year. The next four weeks in Japan last year for the DS totaled 1,695,907 units. With only 1.5 million allocated for this entire month in Japan, this could get pretty ugly (compared to last year). Hopefully the Wii will ease the Japanese public's separation anxiety.

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[FINALFANTASYDOG]

That should help. If word of mouth is good on BD then the rest of the 100k in bundles could move steadily through Christmas. And if MS manages out outsell the PS3, even if it is for one week ony....l o l

It is scary that Sakaguchi's personal goal is below the amount of bundles they actually produced.

 

[apujanata]

This week in Japan for the DS was only 83 units higher than this week last year. The next four weeks in Japan last year for the DS totaled 1,695,907 units. With only 1.5 million allocated for this entire month in Japan, this could get pretty ugly (compared to last year). Hopefully the Wii will ease the Japanese public's separation anxiety.

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I am not sure that Wii will be available in Japan. It most probably will also be sold out (just like PS3) in 2006.

Yeah, Nintendo really need to up their production capacity for DSL.

 

[Branduil]

Yeah but there's some sweet charts that are hardly getting any play at all! Let's talk about that.

And for no reason in particular:

[IM]http://images.redial.net/wiiartcontrollergirl.jpg[/IMG]

Wii-tan has a strange power about her. She's already gotten 1 thread locked.

 

[GhaleonEB]

It is scary that Sakaguchi's personal goal is below the amount of bundles they actually produced.

What's his personal goal?

 

[Pellham]

It is scary that Sakaguchi's personal goal is below the amount of bundles they actually produced.

he's just being realistic

 

[ziran]

Famitsu 12/4 - 12/10:

1. Gundam Seed vs ZAFT II (PS2 - Bandai/Namco)
2. Yakuza 2 (PS2 - Sega)
3. Pokémon Diamond/Pearl (NDS - Pokémon)
4. Blue Dragon (360 - Microsoft)
5. Wii Sports (Wii - Nintendo)
6. Wii Play (Wii - Nintendo)
7. Momotaro Dentetsu 16 (PS2 - Hudson)
8. Love and Berry DS Collection (NDS - Sega)
9. JUMP ULTIMATE STARS (NDS - Nintendo)
10. Kirby Squeak Squad (NDS - Nintendo)

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sinobi:
Google translated - would be appreciated if somebody who understands Japanese can correct anything I've misunderstood, it looks like it says:

360:
Blue Dragon ~80k (incl. bundle)

PS2:
Yakuza 2 ~300k
Yakuza Best Price ~200k (total)

NDS:
Hardware ~250k
DS 1000 Recipes ~40K
Pokémon Diamond/Pearl ~3.5 million (total)
Cooking Navi ~600k (total)
Kirby Squeak Squad ~400k (total)
Love and Berry DS Collection ~550k (total)
Common Sense Training ~650k (total)
NSMB, Brain Training 2, Animal Crossing ~3.5 million (total)

Wii:
Hardware ~100k (still sold out)
Wii Sports, Wii Play ~70k
Zelda ~35k, ~200k (total)

PS3:
Hardware ~40k (still supply problems) (thanks to enishi)

 

[MrSardonic]

Zelda bomba confirmed

 

[PhoenixDark]

Zelda WTF

 

[fresquito]

If true, :-( for Zelda.

 

[Magicpaint]

Wow, that's bad for Zelda, and a worrying sign that it might not have legs. Selling less than 500K total would be a huge disappointment.

 

[Meier]

It's odd how much Zelda has fallen off in Japan. They're not even releasing the Cube version there, right?

 

[Pureauthor]

Console gaming is dead in Japan. :lol

...

...

No, really. :lol

 

[syllogism]

Zelda's attach rate is still good, I wouldn't worry just yet

 

[Draft]

Zeruda ouch. Next game confirmed to be bomb throwing and fairy bottling minigames.

 

[Shard]

Console gaming is dead in Japan. :lol

...

...

No, really. :lol

Long live portable gaming, all hail Nintendo DS I, Holy Japanese Emperor.

 

[DefectiveReject]

zelda has sold to around 50% of Wii owners so its still good
And 100,000 a week shipments for Wii it seems

 

[duckroll]

I'm hearing 84,322 total for Blue Dragon, with 32,454 being bundled hardware.

 

[Bo130]

Hopefully it's just because of low supply. We'll see in the upcoming weeks, I guess

 

[farnham]

so about 800k till the years end..

 

[Dot50Cal]

Color me shocked, I was under the impression Zelda was more popular in Japan. What a rude awakening.

 

[Mr. Pointy]

I guess there really are a lot of casual gamers buying the Wii. Amir0x will have a shit fit.

 

[Pureauthor]

Long live portable gaming, all hail Nintendo DS I, Holy Japanese Emperor.

QFT.

 

[RaijinFY]

Color me shocked, I was under the impression Zelda was more popular in Japan. What a rude awakening.

What? Never... Zelda has been always way less popular than Mario and other Nintendo franchises.

 

[Matix]

Console gaming is dead in Japan. :lol

...

...

No, really. :lol

Famitsu 12/4 - 12/10:

1. Gundam Seed vs ZAFT II (PS2 - Bandai/Namco)
2. Yakuza 2 (PS2 - Sega)
4. Blue Dragon (360 - Microsoft)
5. Wii Sports (Wii - Nintendo)
6. Wii Play (Wii - Nintendo)
7. Momotaro Dentetsu 16 (PS2 - Hudson)

Probably won't last, but console gaming still has a home.

 

[E-Nature]

oh, how was that again?

OMG NINTENDO IS D00MED!!!1!!

 

[John Harker]

uh oh, the next Zelda's gonna be an anime-styled cell shaded hack-n-slash (comes with 20mini games!) brawler for the DS (multiplayer, but not online) at this rate....

with character art by Toryiama

 

[Mr. Pointy]

The PS2 has about 18 months of life left in it. It'll probably still be selling 20k a week normally throughout 2007.

 

[Mr. Pointy]

uh oh, the next Zelda's gonna be an anime-styled cell shaded hack-n-slash (comes with 20mini games!) brawler for the DS (multiplayer, but not online) at this rate....

with character art by Toryiama

Minus the mini-games and Toriyama, that's what Phantom Hourglass is.

 

[RaijinFY]

300k for Yakuza 2...

 

[Jonnyram]

I'm hearing 84,322 total for Blue Dragon, with 32,454 being bundled hardware.

Sakaguchi's dreams almost came true in 4 days! Hope it passes 100k soon.

 

[Mato]

Yakuza 2 is doing surprisingly well. Sega must be pleased and relieved they finally scored some new fans.

 

[Kurosaki Ichigo]

Didn't they restock Tales of Destiny or what? ><

 

[Furoba]

Warioware and Pokémon will make a killing on Wii...

 

[Rlan]

When Xbox 360 sells more than PS3 this week, it's gonna get crazy in here :lol

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Didn't they restock Tales of Destiny or what? ><

Doesn't look like it.

 

[RaijinFY]

Didn't they restock Tales of Destiny or what? ><

Yeah, that's what I was wondering too...

 

[Draft]

oh, how was that again?

OMG NINTENDO IS D00MED!!!1!!

fyi, the whole ironic "nintendo is doomed" thing really stopped being funny and/or relevant when DS started moving about a million units a month worldwide.

 

[Magicpaint]

Didn't they restock Tales of Destiny or what? ><

I bet it just dropped off. Same thing happened with Tales of the Abyss and other major PS2 RPGs.

 

[RaijinFY]

I bet it just dropped off. Same thing happened with Tales of the Abyss and other major PS2 RPGs.

Uh no, I doubt. Tales of Abyss had some legs...

 

[Magicpaint]

Uh no, I doubt. Tales of Abyss had some legs...

No it didn't have any legs whatsoever. It sold about 440K in its first week and had a total of less than 600K.

 

[DefectiveReject]

yeah one week after launch Zelda is being classed as a Bomb?
Its got 400,000 people to sell to, and its sold to more than half of them.....bomb total i guess!
Nintendogs sold to 10% or so of the Japanese DS market, so bomb total!

 

[John Harker]

Minus the mini-games and Toriyama, that's what Phantom Hourglass is.

I was actually going for Dragon Quest 9, heh

 

[marc^o^]

360:
Blue Dragon ~80k (incl. bundle)

The x360 may have regained its 2nd place in Japan this week.

 

[RaijinFY]

No it didn't have any legs whatsoever. It sold about 440K in its first week and had a total of less than 600K.

Do a search...

EDIT:

Well nevermind.

 

[KINGMOKU]

yeah one week after launch Zelda is being classed as a Bomb?
Its got 400,000 people to sell to, and its sold to more than half of them.....bomb total i guess!
Nintendogs sold to 10% or so of the Japanese DS market, so bomb total!

Yeah I dont understand it either.

My best guess would be that Zelda in Japan ends up at, or around 650,000-800,000 copies In Japan. It a launch title, with a low userbase at the moment, and Zelda isnt as popular in Japan as it is in other countries.

I dont think it really matters to much how Zelda does just in Japan, as it's doing really well in the U.S, and Europe.


Had the title only reached 1million total around the world, then Nintendo would be a little concerned. As it stand I expect no less then 4million globaly.

 

[verplant]

Zelda ~35k, ~200k (total)

Zelda sold ~140k first week...

 

[Barf_the_Mog]

You know, considering the news that the Nintendo DS just sold 500k units in Europe this past week and that the DS will probably average over 450k units per week in North America for the entire month of December, it's getting harder and harder to tell if Japan is still its breadbasket.

 

[starship]

You know, considering the news that the Nintendo DS just sold 500k units in Europe this past week and that the DS will probably average over 450k units per week in North America for the entire month of December, it's getting harder and harder to tell if Japan is still its breadbasket.

I'm under the impression that there is still shortages in Japan so what do you expect? Nintendo will only ship 1.5m units for the entire Dec. in Japan.

 

[GhaleonEB]

I'm hearing 84,322 total for Blue Dragon, with 32,454 being bundled hardware.

not bad, especially the hardware total.