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Media Create Software Sales 2/5 - 2/11

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adelante

Member
Square2005 said:
Wow, the great Virtua Fighter series has fallen...

Virtua Fighter series First Week Sales: (Famitsu)
11/21/1994: SAT Virtua Fighter - 64,718 (Saturn Launch title)
11/27/1995: SAT Virtua Fighter 2 - 540,539
11/23/1998: DC Virtua Fighter 3tb - 97,659 (DreamCast Launch title)
1/28/2002: PS2 Virtua Fighter 4 - 356,897

2/5/2007: PS3 Virtua Fighter 5 - 48,346
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So you're saying titles that debut at a system's launch sell less in the initial week? Who woulda thunk it?
 
T

TTP

Have a fun! Enjoy!
MightyHedgehog said:
So, you're saying it's just like the Star Trek movie number curse? ...that the odd-numbered ones are terrible and even-numbered ones are great? Interesting...
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J

jamesinclair

Banned
11. (NDS, Nintendo) Animal Crossing Wild World
12. (NDS, Nintendo) Picross DS
13. (NDS, Nintendo) Common Knowledge Training
14. (NDS, Nintendo) Mario Kart DS
15. (NDS, Nintendo) Brain Age
16. (NDS, Pokemon) Pokémon Diamond
17. (NDS, Nintendo) English Training
18. (NDS, IE Institute) Kanji Brain Test 2M
19. (NDS, Pokemon) Pokémon Pearl
20. (NDS, Sega) Sangokushi Taisen DS
21. (NDS, Sega) Love+Berry
22. (PSP, Capcom) Monster Hunter Portable
23. (NDS, Square-Enix) Dragon Quest Monsters Joker
24. (NDS, Nintendo) Hotel Dusk: Room 215
25. (NDS, Rocket Co.) Kanji Test
26. (NDS, Bandai-Namco) Heisei Board of Education DS
27. (WII, Nintendo) Wario Ware Smooth Moves
28. (NDS, Nintendo) 1000 Recipes
29. (NDS, Nintendo) Kirby Squeek Squad
30. (NDS, Sega) Puyo-Puyo!


Holy crap
 
Eteric Rice

Eteric Rice

Member
Am I the only one not surprised now adays when we see sales charts with almost all Nintendo games?

It's kind of normal, now.
 
C

Cheesemeister

Member
I'll be most shocked if NSMB surpasses the original SMB in sales.

BTW, could a benevolent mod please remove the word "Software" from the thread title? Typo/bug. It's not meant to imply there'll be another thread for hardware... or should it?
No.
 
J

Jokeropia

Member
MrSardonic said:
Wow, that's incredible. The game has crazy legs. In the next 2 weeks the DS will have yet another 4m seller already. What is the Japanese record for total 4m sellers on a console?
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4, which the original Gameboy has. (Pokemon R/B/G, Pokemon G/S, Tetris and Super Mario Land.)
vectorman06 said:
It's getting closed to bet Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
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No. Pokemon D/P combined actually outsold it this week. (Famitsu has them at #3.)
 
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J-Rzez

Member
Glad to see a PS3 title finally take top ranks... even if it did by the skin of it's teeth, it's still at the top, even though the game was in arcades there for ages it seems, hehe... Maybe just maybe it'll help create a spark for things to come... the new Gundam should make the list, not top ranks, but should do decent... when does that hit? Not for a while correct?

The sales could be there it shows, just needs a quality app (a larger userbase would help too)... So bring on some AAA stuff Sony, get off your arses...
 
C

cank stoochie

Banned
J-Rzez said:
Glad to see a PS3 title finally take top ranks... even if it did by the skin of it's teeth, it's still at the top, even though the game was in arcades there for ages it seems, hehe... Maybe just maybe it'll help create a spark for things to come... the new Gundam should make the list, not top ranks, but should do decent... when does that hit? Not for a while correct?

The sales could be there it shows, just needs a quality app (a larger userbase would help too)... So bring on some AAA stuff Sony, get off your arses...
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gundam musou will definetely make number one. thats a guarantee
 
V

Vinnk

Member
Busaiku said:
Wow, that's pretty surprising.
Especially considering the Saturn came from a system that didn't peform all that well in JPN (right?).
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Actually Saturn performed better in Japan than any other territory it was released in. That can be seen from the sales of VF2, which is so far the only SEGA title to sell over a million in Japan (Though Love and Berry might get there soon). Still lost to the PlayStation in the end but the Saturn was by far the most popular SEGA system in Japan.
 
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Sho_Nuff82

Member
Let me preface this by saying that I don't think Sony is "doomed" worldwide at all.. I'm strictly talking about Japan...

So does Sony officially go into panic mode if Gundam sells <100k first week?

I mean, there has to be a point, some breaking point, where alarm bells start going off right?

Before 2007 is over...right? Some kind of price drop, SKU reshuffle, purchased exclusive...or is it going to be like the PSP where they just don't give a ****? As of right now that first million is looking really far away.

I just find it hard to believe that they would spot Nintendo a several million unit lead in one year with the hope that 2008 will magically turn it all around. If they have any big secret announcements, now would be a good time to drop one.
 
J

Jammy

Banned
cank stoochie said:
unconfirmed sales
DS - 167,500 (15,197,750)
Wii - 71,750 (1,587,000)
PSP - 31,500 (5,067,750)
PS3 - 28,750 (672,250)
360 - 5,250 (345,500)
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PS3 sales went up ~9,000! :lol
I don't need to say anything about DSL sales...
Wii... if it maintains these ~70,000 in sales through the month it will be amazing. Naruto and Fire Emblem are coming out soon, too.
 
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Busaiku

Member
Vinnk said:
Actually Saturn performed better in Japan than any other territory it was released in. That can be seen from the sales of VF2, which is so far the only SEGA title to sell over a million in Japan (Though Love and Berry might get there soon). Still lost to the PlayStation in the end but the Saturn was by far the most popular SEGA system in Japan.
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What I meant to say is that the Megadrive didn't perform all too well (right?), but the Saturn's launch title still performed rather well in such situation.
 
C

cank stoochie

Banned
anihawk seems to have like his own army of dickriders whose job here is mainly cosign him with this annoying :lol , even the post isnt remotely funny. whats that all about
 
Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station

Member
cank stoochie said:
anihawk seems to have like his own army of dickriders whose job here is mainly cosign him with this annoying :lol , even the post isnt remotely funny. whats that all about
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Mostly I think it's about you being a PS3 "dickrider."
 
V

Vinnk

Member
Busaiku said:
What I meant to say is that the Megadrive didn't perform all too well (right?), but the Saturn's launch title still performed rather well in such situation.
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Ok, I see what you are saying. Actually I am surprised that the first VF sold even that many. The title was already pretty old by the time the Saturn launched.
 
M

mutsu

Member
Eteric Rice said:
*cough*neitherhadthedreamcast*cough*

Anyway, whats coming out next week across all platforms? Anyone really know?
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People who buy Dreamcast are hardcore SEGA fans... which makes it an exception. SEGA games sells on SEGA systems...!
 
S

Square2005

Banned
Eteric Rice said:
Am I the only one not surprised now adays when we see sales charts with almost all Nintendo games?

It's kind of normal, now.
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Heh check out Nintendo's near total chart dominance 15 years ago:
Famitsu 3/9/1992:
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    [U]SYS      TITLE                                      PUBLISHER  RAW     SCALED-UP *17[/U]
1  FC        Fire Emblem Gaiden	               Nintendo	4131	 70,227 NEW
2  SFC	Romancing SaGa	               Square	2541	 43,197 	
3  SFC	Exhaust Heat	               Seta	2139	 36,363 	
4  SFC	Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiyan      Bandai	1727	 29,359 	
5  SFC	Otogirisou	                               Chunsoft	1653	 28,101 	
6  SFC	Super Mario World	               Nintendo	1613	 27,421 	
7  SFC	Contra Spirits	               Konami	1225	 20,825 	
8  SFC	Legend of Zelda: Triforce Gods  Nintendo	1211	 20,587 	
9  FC	Yoshi's Egg	               Nintendo	1038	 17,646 	
10 GB	Adventure Island II	               Hudson	849	 14,433 	
11 SFC	Adventure Island	               Hudson	669	 11,373 
12 SFC	Harukuanaru Augusta	               T & E Soft	632	 10,744 
13 GB	Super Mario Land	               Nintendo	524	 8,908 
14 GB	Tetris	                               Nintendo	491	 8,347 
15 SFC	Super Wagyan Land	               Namco	481	 8,177 
16 SFC	Final Fantasy IV Easy Type        Square	472	 8,024 
17 FC	Techno's Ice Hockey&#12288;         Technos Jp 	455	 7,735 
18 SFC	Dragon Slayer                          Epoch	431	 7,327 
19 GB	Mystical Warrior Sa.Ga 3&#12288;     Square	430	 7,310 
20 GB	Yoshi's Egg	              Nintendo	412	 7,004 
21 SFC	Battle Dodgeball	              Banpresto	407	 6,919 
22 GB	Metroid II	                              Nintendo	394	 6,698 
23 SFC	Super Nobunaga's Ambition       Koei	370	 6,290 
24 SFC	Final Fight	                              Capcom	366	 6,222 
25 SFC	SimEarth	                              Imagineer	327	 5,559 
26 PCE	Parodius	                              Konami	306	 5,202 
27 FC	Super Mario Brothers 3             Nintendo	298	 5,066 	
28 SFC	SimCity	                              Nintendo	291	 4,947 	
29 FC	Namco Classic II	              Namco	288	 4,896 NEW
30 SFC	Pro Football	              Imagineer	285	 4,845
One non-NIntendo title made it in the Top30, can you find it?
 
A

antipode

Member
Square2005 said:
Heh check out Nintendo's near total chart dominance 15 years ago:
Famitsu 3/9/1992:
One non-NIntendo title made it in the Top30, can you find it?
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Dear god. I wonder if that title will make more money as a Virtual Console game 15-16 years later.
 
C

Cheesemeister

Member
Square2005 said:
5 SFC &#24351;&#20999;&#33609; Chunsoft 1653 28,101
17 FC &#12356;&#12369;&#12356;&#12369;&#65281;&#12288;&#29105;&#34880;&#12507;&#12483;&#12465;&#12540;&#37096;&#12288; Technos Jp 455 7,735
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Otogirisou and Technos Ice Hockey.

technos.jpg
 
A

Agent Icebeezy

Welcome beautful toddler, Madison Elizabeth, to the horde!
Square2005 said:
Wow, the great Virtua Fighter series has fallen...

Virtua Fighter series First Week Sales: (Famitsu)
11/21/1994: SAT Virtua Fighter - 64,718 (Saturn Launch title)
11/27/1995: SAT Virtua Fighter 2 - 540,539
11/23/1998: DC Virtua Fighter 3tb - 97,659 (DreamCast Launch title)
1/28/2002: PS2 Virtua Fighter 4 - 356,897

2/5/2007: PS3 Virtua Fighter 5 - 48,346
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I kept telling people don't expect much from this game in regards to sales.
 
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Square2005

Banned
Wow, the great Virtua Fighter series has fallen...

Virtua Fighter series First Week Sales: (Famitsu)
11/21/1994: SAT Virtua Fighter - 64,718 (Saturn Launch title)
7/10/1995: SAT Virtua Fighter Remix - 160,213
11/27/1995: SAT Virtua Fighter 2 - 540,539
7/22/1996: SAT Virtua Fighter Kids - 116,510
11/23/1998: DC Virtua Fighter 3tb - 97,659 (DreamCast Launch title)
01/28/2002: PS2 Virtua Fighter 4 - 356,897

2/5/2007: PS3 Virtua Fighter 5 - 48,346


Updated: Added VF Remix & VF Kids.
 
S

sphinx

the piano man
I noticed how the PSP has regained stability in the japanese market.

Before the christmas period, it looked like it was going to crash and disappear into xbox levels. Now it's sony's best performing platform, and is steady around 30k.
 
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Agent Icebeezy

Welcome beautful toddler, Madison Elizabeth, to the horde!
Square2005 said:
Wow, the great Virtua Fighter series has fallen...

Virtua Fighter series First Week Sales: (Famitsu)
11/21/1994: SAT Virtua Fighter - 64,718 (Saturn Launch title)
7/10/1995: SAT Virtua Fighter Remix - 160,213
11/27/1995: SAT Virtua Fighter 2 - 540,539
7/22/1996: SAT Virtua Fighter Kids - 116,510
11/23/1998: DC Virtua Fighter 3tb - 97,659 (DreamCast Launch title)
01/28/2002: PS2 Virtua Fighter 4 - 356,897

2/5/2007: PS3 Virtua Fighter 5 - 48,346


Updated: Added VF Remix & VF Kids.
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This is like kicking a man while he is down or pouring salt into the wound. I'm getting the game next week but it was foolhardy to think that this was going to move systems. This isn't the 90's
 
B

Brak

Member
sphinx said:
I noticed how the PSP has regained stability in the japanese market.

Before the christmas period, it looked like it was going to crash and disappear into xbox levels. Now it's sony's best performing platform, and is steady around 30k.
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Yeah but the software's arguably doing worse. Looks like Sony really has made the 21st century walkman, and nobody knows that it ACTUALLY PLAYS GAMES!
 
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sphinx

the piano man
Brak said:
Yeah but the software's arguably doing worse. Looks like Sony really has made the 21st century walkman, and nobody knows that it ACTUALLY PLAYS GAMES!
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I remember when the PSP brain training was there threatening to steal the market.
 
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Brak

Member
sphinx said:
I remember when the PSP brain training was there threatening to steal the market.
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Don't forget Sony's fake nintendogs and fake Animal Crossing (Mr. Resetti included).
 
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meltpotato

Member
cank stoochie is downright creeeeepy

i hope VF5 gets the sales it deserves in the U.S., but i expect it to get fairly well ignored here as well.
 
S

sphinx

the piano man
Brak said:
Don't forget Sony's fake nintendogs and fake Animal Crossing (Mr. Resetti included).
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man, I don't know which were worse days, if these or the later.

but Monster Hunter Portable 2 will put the PSP on the map ( somehow?) again, I think. Japanese really seem to like that and it has really good legs.

It will pair up with MHP 1 on the top 30 charts
 
C

Cheesemeister

Member
meltpotato said:
i hope VF5 gets the sales it deserves in the U.S., but i expect it to get fairly well ignored here as well.
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I dunno, I'm actually thinking of making it my first PS3 game... Though it'll likely still do underwhelming sales.
 
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