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Media Create Software Sales 19th-25th Dec
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i think the japanese developed stuff will sell well outside japan especially blue dragon and lost odyssey, so that should secure a decent amount of japanese support.jarrod said:
look at team ninja, they've done well from xbox. being one of a few exclusive japanese developers on 360 could prove more profitable that being one of many on the ps3.
Traumahound
Member
elostyle said:
Awesome. :lol
Frankfurter
Member
Merlin said:
Hmm, where do these numbers come from?
Rock_Man said:
The "EASTER" is a little too much, put it in silently to make it blend with the rest of the chart.
Anyway, according to this chart, DS sold more last week than it did at launch and so did the PSP, impressive.
Fuck that. For all the shit gaming fans have to put up with from Nbots, they shouldn't even get a day to gloat.
And I just bought two fucking Nintendo games today.
I'm sorry but what? Sony fanboys are even bigger hypocrites than Nbots. They always shout "damage control" at nbots whenever Nintendo fails at something, but holy shit at the responses we've been getting now the PSP is getting its ass kicked by the DS in Japan.
PSP fans have never been in "second place" (excluding the PSX first few months) but now that they are, they're whining to hell and back. They either go back to USA revenue sales, 3rd party sales, or software tie-ratios in the US. Like that matters, you can sugarcoat all you want but 600K versus 160K is a pretty big gap. Just be happy that the PSP is successful and is the first handheld to be able to be successful next to a Nintendo one.
As far as I'm concerned, the sony fans have had this coming for a long time with all the shit they've said about Nintendo and how the DS would be the next Virtual Boy.
Frankfurter
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quetz67 said:
Till now ..., they haven't released any of these games.
See above.
Link
The Autumn Wind
I dunno, I think the big reason Team Ninja did ok on the Xbox was because their games appealed toward Western tastes (i.e., tits and violence). Even then, aside from DOA3 at launch, their games haven't done nearly as well as they should have.ziran said:
I also don't think the Mistwalker stuff will do all that well outside of Japan. When has the Xbox userbase shown they buy Japanese games, let alone JRPGs?
The reality is, if you're interested in Japanese games, the Xbox/360 is the last place you should be looking. Similar to Western games and the GC.
That <600k DS total doesn't look nearly as impressive as it did before.
A large part of the original Xbox's success was due to it being brand-new. It had neither a good nor bad reputation. The majority of its sales came in the first few months of its life, before the stigma settled in. Now the 360 has a bad rep from day one. It'll take more than DoA4 and Blue Dragon to reverse that rep.
However, I don't think anyone expected them to do this bad.
How could MS have done better this time?CloudNL said:
A large part of the original Xbox's success was due to it being brand-new. It had neither a good nor bad reputation. The majority of its sales came in the first few months of its life, before the stigma settled in. Now the 360 has a bad rep from day one. It'll take more than DoA4 and Blue Dragon to reverse that rep.
However, I don't think anyone expected them to do this bad.
Hey now! The GC western support is far better then the Xbox's eastern support. At least the GC got the majority of western multiplatform releases. You should be pointing and laughing at MS, not trying to run damage control.
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Well, it's true that the GC has much better Western support than the Xbox/360 have Japanese support, but really, how many Western games are on the GC that you can't get elsewhere?JJConrad said:Hey now! The GC western support is far better then the Xbox's eastern support. At least the GC got the majority of western multiplatform releases. You should be pointing and laughing at MS, not trying to run damage control.
Perhaps I did overspeak, though. I suppose if you only had a GC, you could still get a good amount of Western games.
Link1110
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Western games and Japanese games are good for different things. Western games are mostly designed for (and are more fun with) multiplayer. Sure Tiger Woods is fun one player, but you don't buy sport games for one player, you buy them for when friends come over to play them. Same goes for FPSes and RTS games. GTA and its ilk is the sole exception to this rule, because there is no way to play them 2 player. Maybe next-gen GTA will have the ability to have one player command a SWAT team and try to catch the other player.
Japanese games, such as the REs, Mega Mans, and RPGs are all designed for one player, and don't even OFFER 2 player mode, with few exceptions. (Yeah, a 2nd player can control other party members in Tales games. Imagine how much more fun it would be though to have 2 player vs. mode in Tales games.)
thestopsign
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The only good Gamecube game that are Western developed and exclusives seem to be these. Not to impressive. Some are debatable. The Day of Reckoning games are actually pretty good.
Star Wars Rogue Leader
Star Wars Rebel Strike
WWE Wrestling Day of Reckoning
WWE Wrestiling Day of Reckoning 2
Eternal Darkness
The Xbox does have a few very good Japanese exclusives though.
Ninja Gaiden/Black
Dead or Alive 3
Panzer Dragon Orta
Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance
Steel Battalion
Shenmue 2
Jet Set Radio Future
Still the Gamecube did better in the west than the Xbox did in the East. So I don't think it really matters. Even though it does help a bit.
Star Wars Rogue Leader
Star Wars Rebel Strike
WWE Wrestling Day of Reckoning
WWE Wrestiling Day of Reckoning 2
Eternal Darkness
The Xbox does have a few very good Japanese exclusives though.
Ninja Gaiden/Black
Dead or Alive 3
Panzer Dragon Orta
Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance
Steel Battalion
Shenmue 2
Jet Set Radio Future
Still the Gamecube did better in the west than the Xbox did in the East. So I don't think it really matters. Even though it does help a bit.
No.. I'm serious! Before, the DS was selling over 600,000 in a single week! Now it's not. It lost some of its sparkle.BorkBork said:
Even the Xbox 360 can sell less than 600K a week. BOMBA!!
Does any one have last year's hardware sales (ioi I'm looking at you). I could probably find them if I tried, but why would I do that?
Other than the DS' less than amazing, sub-600k sales, everything else seems really bad. Even the PSP seems to only be doing GCN like numbers. PS2, GCN, and GBA all seem WAY down.
Guns N' Poops
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DS is stomping over the PSP like there's no tomorrow. There is actually no way to avoid it with all those announced games coming to it. Gotta buy one in 2006.
Stopsign said:
"Good," of course, being a relative term and all, but here are some others.
Star Fox Adventures (Does Europe count as "Western"? I'd think so.)
Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Battalion Wars
1080: Avalanche
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (unless it being a remake discounts it)
Mostly Nintendo-published games developed by "Western" developers.
koam said:
QFT.
Not trying to be fanboyish, but seriously, you guys know damn well that Nintendo gets the most flack out of any of the big 3 hardware manufacturers.
And what are people buying the PSP for? I mean, don't get me wrong. At least in Amerikaa people are buying UMD movies, but I thought even UMD movies sold like shit in Japan?
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Fuzzy said:We haven't been told how the UMD porn has been doing.
Probably pretty well, the PSP is geared towards "adults" after all. Hmmm Maybe one of the P's in PSP will stand for porn soon!
norinrad21
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littlewig said:
The funny thing is they are still trying to put the kiddy lable on Nintendo, nice try guys, but the DS is mostly owned by adults, i've never even seen a kid holding a DS