Japan charts, week 26 2009, Wii Sport resort debut

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johnsobas on 30 June 2009

wii sports was a revolutionary game though, this is just taking it to the next level. You can't have expectations that WSR is gonna sell as much as wii sports, that's would be like expecting a sequel to mario 64 to sell as much as mario 64, or mario 2 on NES to outsell mario 1, or tetris 2 to outsell tetris 1. Of course it's still gonna sell really well, but it won't sell 5 million, perhaps about half that.

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samus aran rules on 30 June 2009

kamil said:

saicho said:

kamil said:

Rhonin the wizard said:

First week sales for the Wii series games in Japan, according to VGChartz(I'm too lazy to look for Famitsu numbers):
Wii Fit - 252,510
Wii Sports - 181,902
Wii Play - 178,367
Wii Music - 106,910

Wii Sports Resort has higher week one sales than all of them, impressive.

I'm not sure what's so impressive in beating those games.

1. Wii Music is considered to be a faillure by most people.
2. Wii Sports and Wii Play were both lanuch titles. Thus they couldn't really break any record.
3. Wii Fit was supply constrained during its launch and was released on Saturday (had only 2 days of sales in its first week compared to 4 days for WiiSports).

350k is quite a good improvement compared to 155k for first day but for a sequal to 3.5 million seller 350k for first week isn't really that impressive.

but it's selling almost 100% first shipment. How big first week sale is big enough for a lifetime 3.5 million seller?

Also, the lifetime sale is not decided by first week. SMBB opened bigger than MK Wii but WK Wii is the better selling game in Japan right now.

One milion wouldn't be much.

Do you have a link saying it sold almost 100% of its shipment?

I think you have totally unrealistic expectations for the first week sales on Wii Sports Resort. 353 k is a GREAT result, even more so these days in Japan.

You have to realize that the crowd that are into "Wii Sports/Fit type of games" are not likely to rush out and buy the game on the first day of release. Watch this game become an evergreen just like Wii Fit/Sports and become a multimillionseller in Japan before the year is over.

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Arius Dion on 30 June 2009

Wow. Some folks are trying to spin this into a negative? Unreal.

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Kenology on 30 June 2009

Arius Dion said:
Wow. Some folks are trying to spin this into a negative? Unreal.

From the usual suspects no less. You think they'd try and switch it up every now and again for the sake of not being so redundant.

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Maynard_Tool on 30 June 2009

So... can we officially call it a flop???

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Spankey on 01 July 2009

Fantastic sales IMO.

Now to see how much it jumps hardware by...

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samus aran rules on 01 July 2009

Spankey said:
Fantastic sales IMO.

Now to see how much it jumps hardware by...

Yes it will be exciting. But I wish people do not have too big expectations on a hardwarebump from this. I think there will be a small bump only this week. 30 k for the week would be great. The reason I think the rise in hardware will not be so big as many think is because I see Wii Sports Resort being more of a longterm seller, boosting hardware small and steady for a long time. Also I think the big hardwarerise will be with Monster Hunter 3 and the new color.

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BKK2 on 01 July 2009

Famitsu:

01 [WII] Wii Sports Resort - 353,627 / NEW
02 [NDS] Tomodachi Collection - 70,000 / 100,000
03 [PS3] Atelier Rorona: Arland no Renkinjutsushi - 47,000 / NEW
04 [PSP] Ken to Mahou to Gakuen Mono 2 - 45,000 / NEW
05 [PS3] Blazblue - 36,000 / NEW
06 [360] Blazblue - 23,000 / NEW
07 [NDS] Kingdom Hearts 358 / 2
08 [PS3] Agarest Senki Zero - 14,000 / NEW
09 [PSP] Valhalla Knights 2: Battle Stance - 14,000 / NEW
10 [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best)

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