I'm surprised only 3 of the 17 new games in Top30 (Famitsu) have a <50% sell-through. Many titles underperforming but at least they didn't get overshipped.
NDS SRT OG Endless Frontier - 90,248 (LTD 120,556)
NDS SRT OG Endless Frontier EXCEED - 78,700 (85%)
With a fair Fami vs Fami, its not down as much as MC (65k), and it has one of the highest sell-throughs of new titles. Legs not expected though so seems to have been handled pretty well.
PS2 Kenka Banchou - 41,843 (LTD 108,958)
PS2 Kenka Banchou 2 - 43,087 (LTD 85,632)
PSP Kenka Banchou 3 - 48,865 (LTD 139,300)
PSP Kenka Banchou 4 - 72,900 (76%)
Just wow. Last one already did great and had some tremendous legs which seems to have translated into a quite bigger 1st-day-fanbase. Legs will most likely be smaller this time, but it should still outsell KB3 and maybe top 150k.
PSP Minna no Golf Portable - 66,079 (LTD 399,257)
PS2 Minna no Tennis - 210,392 (LTD 535,826)
PSP Minna no Golf Portable 2 - 85,866 (LTD 287,296)
PSP Minna no Tennis Portable - 45,200 (60%)
You could say that Tennis on PS2 was half as popular as Golf ones at best (535k vs 1.2m vs 1.7m), and the PSP one isn't that far off the Golf PSP ones start, but in the end its just underperforming. This should be SCEJ biggest series. As much as I wanted MintenP, it just went under the radar like MingolP2. Maybe they should go back to PS3 now that it seems it hit a slightly bigger mainstream userbase. Worried they could try something stupid with Arc myself :/
NDS Shiren the Wanderer DS - 79,932 (LTD 195,052)
WII Shiren the Wanderer 3 - 58,507 (LTD 97,227)
NDS Shiren the Wanderer DS 2 - 47,429 (LTD 85,790)
NDS Shiren the Wanderer 4 - 41,000 (64%)
New publisher, old were Sega, new one Spike. That's a fair point, but on the other hand it did less than Shiren 1 and Shiren GB2 remakes on DS, and less than Shiren 3 Wii which was a low point too. Franchise seems to need a bit more care from Spike than how it has handled it so far.
Sheesh, this took longer than I thought. Short version for other titles:
- NDS Higurashi 4 - 20,000 (68%)
DS ports going down. 43k -> 30k -> 26k -> 20k.
- PSP Kiniro no Corda 3 - 18,500 (79%)
- PS2 Kiniro no Corda 3 - 7,925 (70%)
PSP version alone is the biggest start for this franchise in garaph. Really good for a series this niche.
- 360 Borderlands - 17,900 (91%)
Undershipped but doesn't seem like 1st-party-publishing made it way bigger than it would have been as a 3rd-party-multiplatform-release.
- PSP Power Pro Success Legends - 15,900 (40%)
Still not sure what's this exactly. There's another weird Pawapuro coming to DS in two weeks. Numbers seem pretty low to be interesting to establish a lesser subseries. But they haven't announced yet whats they are doing with the PS2/Wii ones this year (2009/Next/MLB) either, which are certainly bigger deal than this yet their numbers aren't much better.
- PS3 Demons' Souls (PlayStation 3 the Best) - 15,800 (77%)
Holy fuck. Budget re-releases were hot this week. This one particularly is off the charts, certainly just a very few have their budget re-release do these numbers first week. For reference: MHP2G the best did 20k first week (and its now a million seller), yakuza 2 the best did 17,659 and its now over 200k. Used copies and this must be building a sizable fanbase for a sequel, SCE. Lets remember the original release only moved 36,794 first week. Also, 77% sell-through is bad for this game. Really. Budget re-releases are supposed to be available at any time, not to sell out! :lol
- NDS Estpolis - 14,100 (32%)
Bomba of the week, no doubt.
- PSP BlazBlue Portable - 13,600 (64%)
PS3 debut 35,522; 360 debut 22,841. Not too bad for a HD-to-PSP-port given Tekken 6, but nothing great either.
- 360 Espgaluda II Black Label - 12,300 (70%)
Death Smiles 20k > Mushihimesama 15k > Espgaluda II 12k. So-so?
- PSP Hitman REBORN! Kizuna no Tag Battle - 10,300 (50%)
Battle Arena 24k > Battle Arena II 16k > Tag Battle 10k. So-so?
- WII Budget re-releases
Pretty good. >5k budget re-releases are scarce, nearly three did.
Ahh, I need some rest.