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Media Create Sales: Sep 14 - 20, 2009
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juicyfruitas
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and that concludes japan's experiment with going JRPG timed-exclusive on the 360
BlackNMild2k1
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Was this weeks Famitsu Top 30 with numbers ever posted?
It seems we won't get the famitsu leak this week. Since there are no famitsu numbers, according to m-create this is Pokemon's second best week ever.
Pokemon Diamond / Pearl - 254.080 / 212.193 (466.273)
Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver - 220.554 / 222.579 (443.133)
Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire - 174.876 / 173.575 (348.451)
Pokemon Fire Red / Leaf Green - 148.000 / 122.900 (270.900)
The only other Pokemon that can beat HG / SS second week is the original Heart / Gold which, according to famitsu, sold 438.280.
If HG / SS doesn't fall below 250k next week I say from now that 4M are a lock for this year, since there is no other big title for DS to compete it this year (unless Square Enix wants to surprise us all).
Dragon Quest IX is a wild card. It shows very good legs and it will remain in the charts until the new year. But what impact the holidays will have on it remains a question.
I see there are some posters still expecting PS3 to beat Wii this year in Japan. I say it again. No way.
Pokemon Diamond / Pearl - 254.080 / 212.193 (466.273)
Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver - 220.554 / 222.579 (443.133)
Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire - 174.876 / 173.575 (348.451)
Pokemon Fire Red / Leaf Green - 148.000 / 122.900 (270.900)
The only other Pokemon that can beat HG / SS second week is the original Heart / Gold which, according to famitsu, sold 438.280.
If HG / SS doesn't fall below 250k next week I say from now that 4M are a lock for this year, since there is no other big title for DS to compete it this year (unless Square Enix wants to surprise us all).
Dragon Quest IX is a wild card. It shows very good legs and it will remain in the charts until the new year. But what impact the holidays will have on it remains a question.
I see there are some posters still expecting PS3 to beat Wii this year in Japan. I say it again. No way.
Moor-Angol
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Chris1964 said:
i still think PS3 may sell more than wii this year.
the first TGS days gave me a good impression about PS3 line-up for the incoming months (for example, WE 2010 bundle is a good move).
let's see at the end of october which is the difference between PS3 and wii YTD's.
If the difference is still 100k or more, i really doubt PS3 can have bigger YTD
If the difference is 50k or less, well.. it will be interesting to see the holiday season over there
I meant we won't get the famitsu leak of this week, this week.donny2112 said:
EDIT: PS3 simply doesn't have the software to beat Wii this year. I'm pretty sure there was a Winning Eleven bundle last year too. The only hardware driver title is FF XIII, and that isn't coming until the 51st week of 2009 (anyone knows if 2009 has 52 or 53 weeks?). Don't get surprised if you see a big drop in sales after Silver week.
NSMBWii and the new price point would have to produce no effect whatsoever on Wii for the PS3 to beat it on YTD. Even after the last three weeks, it is still roughly 100k behind (MC). Without GT5 coming in December, PS3's chances are even lower now.
That selling more than Wii in Sep, Oct, Nov and Dec bet is more achievable.
Edit:
Since Aug. 31:
PS3 - 258,185
Wii - 55,823
That selling more than Wii in Sep, Oct, Nov and Dec bet is more achievable.
Edit:
Since Aug. 31:
PS3 - 258,185
Wii - 55,823
m-create:
Will the pattern continue?
Code:
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| System | week 1 | week 2 | week 3 | week 4 | week 5 |
|------------------------------------------------------|
|Black WII| 95.357| 47.140| 47.732| 26.972| 25.038|
| Slim PS3| 151.783| 55.344| 51.055| | |
--------------------------------------------------------The same guy who told us we would see a GT5 trailer at E3 with damage, that GT PSP was coming back at E3 for an october launch, gave track/car details which were pretty much spot on etc told us it was coming on Christmas. It's likely the game slipped. Or maybe Square-Enix pushed it.cvxfreak said:
BattleMonkey
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dolemite said:
Yea, Sony
JustAnotherOtaku
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Go go Dearly Stars!
It will at least produce a bump. HahaChris1964 said:
What's up in the air is if the PES buying PS2 crowd that has not yet jumped to the PS3 will decide to do so this year with the cheaper price. On the other hand, the Wii version (I guess) will (finally) come out this year too, which could diminish any positive effect for the PS3.
Dragona Akehi
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It looks like PS3 has really turned itself around. Has there ever been another system (besides PSP, which is still losing technically, but did well for itself) that has done a similar thing?
Nintendo fucked the Wii in Japan.
Nintendo fucked the Wii in Japan.
Interfectum
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zero_suit said:
Not really.
I'm trying to find where Nintendo will put New Super Mario Bros. Wii and I see that there aren't many ''open'' weeks in November. These are the major titles Wii has.
05/11/09: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Nintendo)
12/11/09: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (Square Enix)
19/11/09: Samurai Warriors 3 (Koei)
26/11/09: Naruto: Shippuden Ryujinki (Takara Tomy)
There is only one date: 26/11/09
The fact that Crystal Bearers slipped two weeks earliers from this date almost confirms it. Either way at Kyoto event or October Conference Nintendo will announce when the game will come out.
05/11/09: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Nintendo)
12/11/09: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (Square Enix)
19/11/09: Samurai Warriors 3 (Koei)
26/11/09: Naruto: Shippuden Ryujinki (Takara Tomy)
There is only one date: 26/11/09
The fact that Crystal Bearers slipped two weeks earliers from this date almost confirms it. Either way at Kyoto event or October Conference Nintendo will announce when the game will come out.
Pai Pai Master
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Looks like we've got a couple of old PS3 titles back in the top 50 due to new PS3 sales? Or are those recent re-releases?
charlequin
Banned
Yoboman said:
Well, I think to assume that, you'd also have to assume that Vesperia produced no bump effect this week, which seems pretty unlikely to me given how well it sold.
I honestly expect it to settle out somewhere between 10 and 25k (with where it falls in that spectrum telling us a lot about just how much the price was still holding back the system before) in the period between now and FFXIII, unless there's some major release between now and then that I'm forgetting.
Blablurn said:
It's definitely a strong possibility, but I won't feel safe making any prediction until the Wii pricedrop gets measured.
cvxfreak said:
Insert "every one of zero" joke here.
Interfectum said:
Is it too early to come to the conclusion that PS3 has "really turned itself around"? Yes.
PSP hardware turned around, but the software sales were still "meh." They were just significantly better than before PSP-2000. Therefore if PS3 does something similar, it's still not that great. However, I don't see hardware turning around big without accompanying software turning around big for PS3, which is what happened with PSP.
Is it too early to say that Nintendo screwed the Wii in Japan? No. That was the conclusion two years ago. One important caveat to Dragona's statement that was clarified last week is that she means compared to what could have been for Wii (e.g. PS2-level dominance in the console space). Nintendo is still in a good position to "turn it around," but they can't get to the point now that they could've gotten to with more effort two years ago.
onken said:
Are there *any* biggish releases for the PS3 between now and FF XIII? If not, it'll be interesting to see how long these sales continue (between now and then). I have a feeling HW sales will drop slowly but surely, though we won't see any kind of 'bottoming out' until after the new year.
I'm also curious to see how Wii Fit+ and the Wii HW price drop affect things in the next few weeks. I think there'll definitely be some sort of bump, but how big will it be and how long will it last? I don't think we'll see any major increase until NSMB Wii, though...
Dragona Akehi
Retired
gerg said:
"Fucked the Wii's potential." Is that better?
jman2050 said:
Yeah 15k a week or less is just stunning.
charlequin
Banned
Dragona Akehi said:
What's a "similar thing"? The SNES went from second to first at the end of its generation, and unless Nintendo continues to fuck up the Wii from here on out I still find it quite unlikely that PS3 will pull off an equivalent (i.e. position-shifting) feat.
Right now I think the best-case scenario absent further future increases is a shift from irrelevant to relevant, which is basically exactly the same as what the PSP did.