Virtua Fighter 5 bombs in Japan - first day sales!!

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hanafuda said: Erik Aston said: VF5 was one of the games that was supposed to help PS3 begin to catch up to Wii week-to-week sales. It was the first of several PS3 games coming out in Feb/March that will be looked at in the context of Wii vs. PS3. It depends how you define the word "hit" I suppose, but 100,000 sales is a pretty mild hit in Japan. There's been well over 1,000 games to reach that mark. Maybe it would be an okay number for the developer all things considered, but in the context of "console wars", it is far from encouraging. That isn't my definition of the word, 'hit'. It is the general rule of thumb in Japan, but like I said, there are other factors that need to be taken into account. You mean PS3 catch up to Wii in terms of hardware sales? Let's see what the actual sales figures come to then, rather than speculate on rumour, which is what this entire thread is based on. Wii is selling more than PS3 hardware wise, but the software tells a different story. Wii Sports, Hajimete no Wii, and Zelda (to a lesser extent) are the big sellers, and pretty much everything else has done poorly. Even the Pokemon game has severly underperformed (200,000 maybe, but that has to be the poorest selling Pokemon game to date). Excite Truck just tanked in Japan, and pretty much all third party titles have sold really poorly. This week it is Cooking Mama Vs VF5. Let's see what happens...

The Wii software numbers in Japan are looking pretty good actually. Wii Sports and Play are going to be million Sellers, Zelda and Wario Ware are both 300,000 plus, and you've got to remember that Pokemon Battle Revolution isn't a full fledged pokemon game, and it's actually doing quite well compared to similar games on Gamecube. 209 thousand in 8 weeks for a launch title sounds pretty good to me (it is 80 thousand ahead of the highest selling PS3 game). I think its safe to assume that Nintendo didn't make Exite truck for Japan. Yes, Japan's Wii growth is mostly Nintendo right now, but that's how the DS started over there, and Third parties have found quite a bit of a success since then. As for VF5, considering that it's a port of an Arcade game and only a timed exclusive on home consoles (with the dev's stating that the 360 version will be the better of the two), I'm not sure why people are expecting it to be the saviour of the system. I'm sure that there will be many, many titles on the PS3 in the next few months that will sell quite a bit more than VF5