Japan Charts Week 16 (04/13/09 - 04/19/09)

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Gamerace said:

edjevink said:
@Gamerace: That doesn't change the fact that Deca Sporta 1 sold around 65.000 copies in it's first week in Japan. If Deca Sporta 2 is lucky, it sold 10.000 copies. I know that it probably will have long legs, but still, compared to it's predecessor it doesn't look good. But time will tell.

 

 Good point.  As Mike pointed out, I think the perception was that DS was Wii Sports 2 (unofficially) and that perception is clearly gone now.  I have no expectations of DS2 selling as well as DS unless it's a truly superior game, and even in that case it'll only be over the long haul.

Secondly the whole Japanese market is down, so softer sales aren't that surprising either.

But in the end it'll take months to truly gage DS2 sales not 1 day or 1 week.

True, at least for hardware sales. At the same time last year, when Deca Sporta 1 was released, the Wii sold around 56.000 units. Now the Wii is around 15.000 units. But like you said, it'll probably take weeks/months to see where DS2 sales are going.