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Media Create Sales 12/31 - 1/6 2008
- Thread starter Cheesemeister
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Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Mario Party DS is the best selling Mario Party ever.
Mario Party 8 is the second best selling Mario Party ever.
Galaxy will pass Sunshine's life total with one more week of this week's sales... so realistically by the end of January.
Dragon Quest IV DS will pass Dragon Quest IV PSX next week or the week after.
Mario Party 8 is the second best selling Mario Party ever.
Galaxy will pass Sunshine's life total with one more week of this week's sales... so realistically by the end of January.
Dragon Quest IV DS will pass Dragon Quest IV PSX next week or the week after.
It's not like this is the first time Nintendo has done really well for itself and 3rd parties are simply reluctant to get on board the money train. The know better than anyone else that it's never been easy to recreate Nintendo's software successes. They make it look easy. Most 3rd parties just throw stuff out there and hope it sticks. And when it doesn't--two or three times in a row--they give.beef3483 said:
Jasoncheng said:
Let's see.
Dengeki provides the 2007 top 5 for their numbers (obviously excluding 2006 numbers):
1. Wii Sports: 1,911,000
2. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd: 1,570,000
3. Wii Play: 1,559,000
4. Mario Party DS: 1,323,000
5. Mario Party 8: 1,107,000
12/31 - 1/7
FFIV at 531K with Dengeki.
Rune Factory 2 at 59K.
Nutter said:
Nintendo has the Wii success in 2008 in Japan secured. I expect the Wii to sell around 60k - 100k weekly on the strength of Wii fit/sports and Smash bros./Galaxy.
This time both fronts, non-gamers and hardcores, are being addressed and nintendomination will be total and irreversible, if there ever was a slight chance of anything else taking the crown.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Soule said:Go Rune Factory! Go like there is no tomorrow!!!
I really hope they make at least 150k LTD. 200k+ would be awesometastic, but I'm afraid that might not be realistic
Rune Factory opened at 39k for 125k lifetime which is leggier than average. A 50k opening for any game would suggest 100k-200k lifetime, realistically around 135-165k.
Dragona Akehi
Retired
Bishman said:
You mean Wii. DS has great 3rd party support by the truckload.
battleMAUS
Member
third parties are afraid their title will be lost among all the marios, wii sports/fit/play games, Pokemon, and zeldas. i mean just look @ that list, who would blame them.
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
there's no PS3 games in the top 30...
What's holding Square-Enix back from doing a Dragon Quest VII remake on Wii?
DS third party came and is still there. Harvest Moon games are getting sales like never before, as is the Taiko Drum Master series. It's also really good to see a developer such as Level 5 starting a brand new series on the handheld and get such amazing sales as it has. FF and DQ still top the charts on the DS.
We need Wii equivalents soon.
Who cares if X game gets lost in a sea of Nintendo games if said game performs better than it would elsewhere anyhow?
You can put a good third party effort on the PSP, PS3, or 360 and yeah, it'll be that system's best-selling game for a couple weeks or so, whereas maybe it'll be the DS or Wii's fifth or so best-selling game, but that company will still get more sales on the Nintendo system a large majority of the time.
This just reminds me of athletes who leave a perfectly competitive and championship-calibur team to be top dog on some shitty "developing" team.
DS third party came and is still there. Harvest Moon games are getting sales like never before, as is the Taiko Drum Master series. It's also really good to see a developer such as Level 5 starting a brand new series on the handheld and get such amazing sales as it has. FF and DQ still top the charts on the DS.
We need Wii equivalents soon.
battleMAUS said:
Who cares if X game gets lost in a sea of Nintendo games if said game performs better than it would elsewhere anyhow?
You can put a good third party effort on the PSP, PS3, or 360 and yeah, it'll be that system's best-selling game for a couple weeks or so, whereas maybe it'll be the DS or Wii's fifth or so best-selling game, but that company will still get more sales on the Nintendo system a large majority of the time.
This just reminds me of athletes who leave a perfectly competitive and championship-calibur team to be top dog on some shitty "developing" team.
The DS Support really started to pick up after the whole Animal Crossing / More Brain Training / Mario Kart Combo caused the Hardware to spike. (Dec 2005)(1 year after)Jammy said:
The Wii Support, im thinking will do exactly that. *Wii Fit/SMS/ Smash* Combo to help things along.
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Sharp said:
Likewise. I thought it was going to get lost in the shuffle. I'm also happy to be wrong. ike someone said though, look at that sea of 'Nintendo' in the top 30, that is intimidating as fuck.
Nutter said:
For hardware to spike, doesn't that require Nintendo to make more?
WinFonda said:
Except that now Japanese third parties are left with no choice. Either spend lots of money producing next gen games with a very little userbase, or less money on a large userbase with which you have to compete with Nintendo.
And with each month that Nintendo keeps outselling the competitors the harder it is too ignore. This is less important for games that have Western appeal, but even then Nintendo is killing in every territory and Japanese third parties aren't having as good of success in western markets as western developers have.
_Alkaline_
Member
WOW at Galaxy!!
Mr. Pointy
Member
You cannot kill what isn't dead.Cheesemeister said:
Also...
I thought this thing sank without a trace.
jesusraz
Member
Good to see Tales of Innocence hanging around. Should be what, around 200,000 now? Would be great if it can keep chugging along like Taiko and make its way to 300,000+ sales.
I thought it might have been an error in the listing and should actually be WarioWare: Smooth Moves, which has indeed been floating higher recently. Seeing BBA just magically re-appear like this seems very strange, but More Brain Training shot back up, so perhaps there was a general 'brain' spurt for New Year!
cvxfreak said:
I thought it might have been an error in the listing and should actually be WarioWare: Smooth Moves, which has indeed been floating higher recently. Seeing BBA just magically re-appear like this seems very strange, but More Brain Training shot back up, so perhaps there was a general 'brain' spurt for New Year!
beef3483 said:
Square Enix Yoichi Wada has turned around, so we should just wait for other (sane) third parties to follow.
Yoichi Wada said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=226627
Link
The Autumn Wind
Since that thread was locked, I'll repost my reply here.apujanata said:
I personally think this is just lip service. He doesn't want to piss off Nintendo by brushing off the Wii. Not while SE is milking their catalog for all its worth on the DS. I'll believe they plan to give the Wii any kind of serious support when I see some announcements made. I don't expect anything.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
All this is freaking crazy to look at. I can't believe no one bought that Gran Turismo demo.
BishopLamont
Banned
This is just plain sad for Sony now, at this point Nintendo doesn't even need third parties.
And abandon Japan? Makes no sense.WinFonda said:
