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Media Create Sales: November 29, 2010 - December 5, 2010

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Chris1964

Sales-Age Genius
With this number for Monster Hunter, the complete sellout first week and the PR from Capcom I start to wonder...
 
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Frillen

Member
Can someone explain to me why Namco-Bandai never took the success of Tales of Symphonia, outside of Japan, seriously? ToS sold over 700k in the US alone on the Gamecube. Think of all the money they could have earned. Now it's so bad that they don't even release them outside of Japan.
 
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slaughterking

Member
Cosmonaut X said:
Sorry, Chris - I've been up half the night with babies and stuck at work all day so I'm probably a bit slow here. What do you mean about Famitsu?
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The Media Create number is more reasonable than the Famitsu number considering that Capcom says they only shipped 2 million copies.
 
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duckroll

Member
slaughterking said:
The Media Create number is more reasonable than the Famitsu number considering that Capcom says they only shipped 2 million copies.
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They didn't say they only shipped 2 million copies though.
 
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Cosmonaut X

Member
slaughterking said:
The Media Create number is more reasonable than the Famitsu number considering that Capcom says they only shipped 2 million copies.
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Ah, of course - sorry :)

Has there not been a suspicion that Famitsu has "overtracked" a few releases this year, or am I misremembering?
 
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supermackem

Banned
slaughterking said:
It's...uhm...not exactly interesting but still a little remarkable that the 360 is down from last week when everything else is apparently rising in this time of the year (except for the PS3 which is down from its GT bump). It's like Kinect is not only bombing but also completely irrelevant to the point where they might not even bother to promote it for the holiday season.
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lol its xbox in japan dude they could come free with a plate of sushi and kinect sales would be low.:lol
 
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Nuclear Muffin

Banned
How does Graces F compare to Graces Wii? Seems to be about the same as the Wii version from what I remember.

Also, Mario Sports Mix seems to have legs. And Mario VS DK 4 seems to be off to a decent start.
 
ULTROS!

ULTROS!

People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
Nuclear Muffin said:
How does Graces F compare to Graces Wii? Seems to be about the same as the Wii version from what I remember.
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First week?

[WII] Tales of Graces (Bandai Namco) {10/12/09} - 143.309 / 143.309
[PS3] Tales of Graces F (Bandai Namco) {02/12/10} - 215.187 / NEW

In terms of quantity, the game has an extended epilogue or something, makes the game twice as longer or something.
 
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Celine

Member
Laguna said:
It will be interesting to see if the MH series will stay exclusively on a Sony handheld in future or not. At least MHP3G will be a PSP exclusive again.
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Yes, unitl now MH was forcefully exclusive to PSP, because DS couldn't handled it ( still PSP would be the main platform regardless because it where there series exploed ).
With the new portable generation however that's not the case anymore.
 
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Chris1964

Sales-Age Genius
Next week's releases {16/12/10}

[NDS] Inazuma Eleven 3: World Challenge!! The Ogre (Level 5)
[NDS] Dondake Sports 101 (Starfish)
[NDS] Poupee Girl DS 2: Elegant Mint Style / Sweet Pink Style (Alvion)
[NDS] SimCity DS 2: From the Past to the Future [EA Best Hits] (Electronic Arts)
[NDS] Aim!! Fishing Master DS [Hudson the Best] (Hudson)

[PSP] Shining Hearts (Sega)
[PSP] Tears to Tiara Gaiden Portable (Aqua Plus)
[PSP] Kanuchi Futatsu no Tsubasa (Idea Factory)
[PSP] Tantei Opera: Milky Holmes (BushiRoad)
[PSP] Eiyuu Densetsu: Sora no Kiseki FC [PSP the Best] (Nihon Falcom)
[PSP] Eiyuu Densetsu: Sora no Kiseki SC [PSP the Best] (Nihon Falcom)
[PSP] Eiyuu Densetsu: Sora no Kiseki the 3rd [PSP the Best] (Nihon Falcom)
[PSP] Eiyuu Densetsu: Sora no Kiseki Set [Super Price Series] (Nihon Falcom)
[PSP] Zwei!! [Super Price Series] (Nihon Falcom)
[PSP] Vantage Master Portable [Super Price Series] (Nihon Falcom)
[PSP] Brandish: The Dark Revenant [Super Price Series] (Nihon Falcom)
[PSP] Suigetsu Portable [Best Edition] (GN Software)

[WII] Shape Boxing 2: Enjoy the Diet on Wii! (Rocket Company)
[WII] Pac-Man Party (Bandai Namco)
[WII] Boom Blox [EA Best Hits] (Electronic Arts)
[WII] Monopoly [EA Best Hits] (Electronic Arts)

[PS3] Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 (Bandai Namco)
[PS3] Call of Duty: Black Ops (Dubbed Edition) (Square Enix)
[PS3] Castlevania: Lord of Shadow (Konami)
[PS3] Umineko no Naku Koro ni: Majo to Suiri no Rinbukyoku (Alchemist)
[PS3] Sports Champions (Move Value Pack) (SCE)
[PS3] Skate 3 (Electronic Arts)
[PS3] Colin McRae: Dirt 2 [Codemasters the Best] (Codemasters)

[360] Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 (Bandai Namco)
[360] Final Fantasy XIII: International [Ultimate Hits] (Square Enix)
[360] Call of Duty: Black Ops (Dubbed Edition) (Square Enix)
[360] Castlevania: Lord of Shadow (Konami)
[360] Deca Sports Freedom (Hudson)
[360] Skate 3 (Electronic Arts)

[PS2] Crimson Empire (Art Move)
 
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Busaiku

Member
I'm not sure how big Inazuma Eleven The Ogre will be after the lackluster performance of the previous two World Challenge titles.
I can see 300k-400k though.
 
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Hcoregamer00

The 'H' stands for hentai.
WOW!!! Great sales of Tales of Graces F. I guess it shows where all the fans were located.

A new, exclusive PS3 one will do wonders on the system.

Frillen said:
Can someone explain to me why Namco-Bandai never took the success of Tales of Symphonia, outside of Japan, seriously? ToS sold over 700k in the US alone on the Gamecube. Think of all the money they could have earned. Now it's so bad that they don't even release them outside of Japan.
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That is because Namco makes dumb corporate decisions.

Had they done a dual release of Tales of the Abyss on PS2 and Gamecube, and released the Gamecube one in the USA the franchise would be in a different place right now. The most important rule when building a market is continuing to please the market by giving them more of what they want. By abandoning the VERY HUGE fanbase in the USA who all owned gamecubes they killed lots of potential.

They were also very dumb because they never released Tales of Graces Wii in the USA on a console where a quality RPG would be appreciated.
 
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farnham

Banned
Frillen said:
Can someone explain to me why Namco-Bandai never took the success of Tales of Symphonia, outside of Japan, seriously? ToS sold over 700k in the US alone on the Gamecube. Think of all the money they could have earned. Now it's so bad that they don't even release them outside of Japan.
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namco decided to make SC 3 ps2 exclusive when SC2 sold best on gamecube.. so yeah.
 
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DMeisterJ

Banned
Wow :eek:

MH3 opens amazing, even if less so than Famitsu says.

Looks like Wii and PSP could be performing upsets on their competitors in the last few weeks of this year.
 
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Hcoregamer00

The 'H' stands for hentai.
Durante said:
I wonder how Umineko PS3 will do. I have no idea whether to expect 10k or 80k FW.
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Yeah, Umineko PS3 is a huge question mark.

After all, there are lots of die-hard fans of the franchise, but most of them already own the Computer Dojin games. Will those die-hard fans buy another iteration of the game for a high price premium over what they already own?

Find out next week :lol
 
Paracelsus

Paracelsus

Member
ToS sold that much in America during an age in which almost every Jrpg got good results. Hasn't Xenosaga gone from over 3-400k to under 150k in the span of four years? There's also the fact that Abyss succeeded Legendia on PS2 (not a great way to start).
 
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Chris1964

Sales-Age Genius
Next thing under attention is if Monster Hunter makes PSP suffer from Black/White syndrome, overshaddowing everything else coming to the system. The 3rd Birthday is the next big title after 2 weeks.
 
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duckroll

Member
Chris1964 said:
Next thing under attention is if Monster Hunter makes PSP suffer from Black/White syndrome, overshaddowing everything else coming to the system. The 3rd Birthday is the next big title after 2 weeks.
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Wouldn't Shining Hearts be the next immediate example?
 
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Chris1964

Sales-Age Genius
AniHawk said:
Holy fuck at MHP3.
Holy fuck at PSP.
What the fuck at GT5.
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You asked for this.

Second week

Famitsu
{29/12/97 - 04/01/98} 00. [PS1] Gran Turismo (SCE) {23/12/97} - 129.731 / 778.381
{13/12/99 - 19/12/99} 02. [PS1] Gran Turismo 2 (SCE) {11/12/99} - 261.741 / 1.010.321
{30/04/01 - 06/05/01} 01. [PS2] Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (SCE) {28/04/01} - 262.941 / 731.332
{07/01/02 - 13/01/02} 01. [PS2] Gran Turismo: Concept 2001 Tokyo (SCE) {01/01/02} - 50.101 / 248.385
{08/12/03 - 14/12/03} 07. [PS2] Gran Turismo 4: Prologue (SCE) {04/12/03} - 94.289 / 297.589
{03/01/05 - 09/01/05} 01. [PS2] Gran Turismo 4 (SCE) {28/12/04} - 160.573 / 824.116
{17/12/07 - 23/12/07} 26. [PS3] Gran Turismo 5: Prologue (SCE) {13/12/07} - 28.357 / 136.397
{03/11/08 - 09/11/08} 07. [PS3] Gran Turismo 5: Prologue - Spec III (SCE) {30/10/08} - 24.208 / 58.394
{05/10/09 - 11/10/09} 06. [PSP] Gran Turismo (SCE) {01/10/09} - 39.397 / 183.300
{29/11/10 - 05/12/10} 03. [PS3] Gran Turismo 5 (SCE) {25/11/10}

Media Create
{07/01/02 - 13/01/02} 01. [PS2] Gran Turismo: Concept 2001 Tokyo (SCE) {01/01/02} - 42.826 / 250.121
{08/12/03 - 14/12/03} 06. [PS2] Gran Turismo 4: Prologue (SCE) {04/12/03} - 97.000 / 313.500
{03/01/05 - 09/01/05} 01. [PS2] Gran Turismo 4 (SCE) {28/12/04} - 145.027 / 779.796
{17/12/07 - 23/12/07} 28. [PS3] Gran Turismo 5: Prologue (SCE) {13/12/07}
{03/11/08 - 09/11/08} 09. [PS3] Gran Turismo 5: Prologue - Spec III (SCE) {30/10/08} - 16.927 / 51.892
{05/10/09 - 11/10/09} 06. [PSP] Gran Turismo (SCE) {01/10/09} - 39.948 / 174.279
{29/11/10 - 05/12/10} 05. [PS3] Gran Turismo 5 (SCE) {25/11/10} - 55.682 / 486.389
 
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Grimmy

Banned
Nuclear Muffin said:
How does Graces F compare to Graces Wii? Seems to be about the same as the Wii version from what I remember.
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Not even close. the PS3 has pretty much already beaten the Tales of Graces Wii LTD in just one week :lol
 
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Bebpo

Banned
Interesting numbers. The fact Graces sold as much as Vesperia despite being SD upscaled graphics, having less new content than Vesperia PS3, and being $5 more expensive is hmmmmmmm. Tales fanbase will buy anything substantial Namco puts out at any price. Which is kind of scary because Namco will keep raising the price until they won't.

Tales PS3 is going to be 8800yen for sure. No question about it now. fffffuuuu

Fularu said:
I'm thinking that maybe Namco did the right thing by releasing it first on the Wii and then porting/enhancing it on the PS3. That allowed them to net 500k (Grace PC3 will most likely sell more than 300k units) out of a single game in Japan.

would Tales of Grace sell 500k if it had been released on the PS3 only? I somehow doubt it, I guess Xillia will tell us how a PS3 exclusive Tales could perform.

If it stays in the 300-350k range, then it would definitely be smarter to release a "dumbed down" Wii version first and "enhance it" for PS3 9 months down the road and abuse the double dippers.

If it does 500k+ and there's no overlap between Wii and PS3 buyers... well go PS3 only I guess :p

PS Scamco, enough with the bullshit, release Tales of Grace in Canada -_-
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Not really, they'd just do a DC release with this stuff and sell even more.

The last three major Tales games have gotten full price re-releases with ~10 hours of new content a year after release.

Tales of Destiny R -> ToDR Director's Cut
Tales of Vesperia -> ToV PS3
ToG -> ToG-F

It's going to continue for every major Tales release now because why would Namco throw away easy money. 200k+ sales at 7000-8000yen for DLC expansion worth of new content? If you have the patience it's better to just wait for Tales of PS3 DC; unfortunately Tales fans do not have patience! :lol
 
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Chris1964

Sales-Age Genius
The initial shipment was posted at the previous thread but there is more info.

Ni no Kuni Gets 600,000 Orders

Level-5 sent Ni no Kuni off yesterday night in typical fashion, with a premier event that was attended by celebrities and a few lucky fans.

Famitsu.com, in its coverage of the event, reported that Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino greeted the crowd by revealing an initial order number of 600,000 units for the game. This is the highest initial order for any new Level-5 property, said Hino.

He added that the staff hopes to build Ni no Kuni into a title that sells one million or two million copies. "We consider Ni no Kuni to be Level-5's next big title to follow Professor Layton and Inazuma Eleven."

The event consisted of a live gameplay demonstration followed by appearances by the primary voice cast as well as child actress Mana Ashida, who appears in the game's commercials. Songstress Mai closed off the evening with a performance of the game's ending theme, Kokoro no Kakera.

You can see pictures from the event at Famitsu.com.

Level-5 also provided a look at some cross promotions for Ni no Kuni.

Ni no Kuni will be seeing special downloads via the various Nintendo Zone services. Tsutaya and McDonalds will both be offering unique Imagine (Imagine are the monsters you collect and raise in the game) starting today. McDonalds will also offer patrons an image gallery featuring artwork from Studio Ghibli. Viewing this will not require the game.

The DS Ni no Kuni is actually one of two Ni no Kunis that hits later today. The other is the previously announced cell phone version, Ni no Kuni Hotroit Stories, which is being released to Level-5's ROID mobile portal as a series of ¥525 chapters.

The first chapter, "Oliver and Mark," is available today and tells the story of Ni no Kuni main character Oliver and his friend Mark. The two live in Hotroit City, a town with a major car industry. They're out to create their own custom car and end up heading to an abandoned factory outside of town in search of parts.
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http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/12/09/ni_no_kuni_event/
 
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RurouniZel

Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
duckroll said:
Suggestions for next prediction league:

[NDS] Inazuma Eleven 3 - The Ogre
[PS3] Gundam Musou 3
[PS3] Castlevania Lords of Shadow
[PS3] Umineko no Naku Koro ni
[PS3] Call of Duty Black Ops (Dubbed Version)
[PSP] Shining Hearts
[360] Final Fantasy XIII Ultimate Hits International
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Ninokuni's not next week? When does it come out?
 
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duckroll

Member
First week for major Tales games (Media Create) from 2008 to 2010:

[WII] Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (Namco Bandai) - 137,000 / NEW
[360] Tales of Vesperia (Namco Bandai Games) - 108,328 / NEW
[NDS] Tales of Hearts (Namco Bandai) - 140,500 / NEW
[PS3] Tales of Vesperia (Namco Bandai) - 216,593 / NEW
[WII] Tales of Graces (Namco Bandai) - 143.215 / NEW
[PS3] Tales of Graces F (Bandai Namco) - 215.187 / NEW
 
Paracelsus

Paracelsus

Member
It's still baffling to see that Namco ended the current generation (or portable generation or whatever) without releasing a proper mothership Tales on psp.
 
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Rolf NB

Member
Bebpo said:
It's going to continue for every major Tales release now because why would Namco throw away easy money.
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Namco has missed the boat so many times this gen, I'm not even sure you're serious.
 
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Bebpo

Banned
I think Tales PS3 will open around 350k with 400k-500k lifetime & then DC a year later doing 150-250k depending on what's included/packaging.

Rolf NB said:
Namco has missed the boat so many times this gen, I'm not even sure you're serious.
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Not when it comes to ripping off their fanbase in Japan!
 
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