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

[Diomedes1976]

Darc Requiem said: There are 38 3rd party games not from Square Enix that have sold at least 100,000 copies*. There are five more games not from Square Enix within 5,000 copies of crossing the 100k barrier. By Comparison, 22 3rd party games not from Square Enix have sold at least 100,00 copies on PSP. With one game within 5,000 units of crossing the 100k mark. *Using Hanafuda's assertion that anything over 100,000 is a hit. Diomedes have you seen the sales of Capcom's games besides Monster Hunter on PSP? The only thing your point about Monster Hunter proves is that they need to make one for DS. The three other Capcom titles on PSP have sold less than 100,000 combined. Actually looking at the charts for DS, a lot of minor third parties such as Rocket Company, IE Institute, Tomy, Hudson, Spike, Marvelus, and MTO are having success on DS. Enterbrain is the only minor 3rd party with game of over 100k in sales on PSP. Konami, Square Enix, Bandai, Namco, and Sega are the only third parties having success on PSP and they are having success on DS as well despite putting their more recognizable franchises on PSP.

Japan is the worst market for PSP,in any case 38 vs 22 isnt troucing the competition as it would seem looking at the total number of games sold .But look at NA and without the Nintendo and Sony games for DS and PSP respectively the PSP would have more games sold.The same for Europe ,where no one third party DS game has ever pointed its nose in the Top 20 .Its quite easy to see ,and that explains why the PSP is receiving game after game .The DS success is putting companies in the bandwagon trying to cash in with DS version in multiplattform games and some are succeding as THQ but for the others i think time will prove them this is a cow they wont milk .For example Ubi and Ea ,both have put a lot of effort after the DS and their numbers are horrible in that plattform ....now EA says it wants to push the DS developement but when you see EA DS games selling big numbers (as some are in the PSP ) you tell me . We better wait two weeks to see the first 10 days of VF5 at stores ,we are arguing over pure speculation and without having in count some data (as the faulty Virtua Stick ) .