whats up with okami's sales.

[Mad55]

Yakuzaice said:

All we know about Okami PS2 sales are what it did in Japan and first month in the US.  Posted this a couple years ago when Okami Wii came out, was in reference to some Capcom guy saying Okami PS2 had done 270k.

"Ok, I did a little looking around, and it seems that 270k number for Okami (PS2) is probably not worldwide.

In the Media Create top 500 2006, Okami sold 142,676.
In the 2007 list the "PS2 the Best" release sold 50,890.
For the US, NPD had it at 86,676 in September.

So that already brings us to 280k. Also considering the quote was "That 270,000 figure is a very organic figure. Okami's day-one figure was nowhere near that," It would seem unlikely that he is talking about worldwide figures if the first day was nowhere near that.
Even if the trackers are off it seems impossible that they would be so off that they would end up with a greater amount from one country one month in another country."

And here are some links
Media Create Top 500 2006
Media Create Top 500 2007
NPD September

 

EDIT:  Actually it seems Okami kept on trucking in Japan.  Doing 38,541 in 2008 and 37,290 in 2009.  There may have been some adjustments though, 2007 to 08 total doesn't match, but 08 to 09 does.  That brings the best release to 140,580 and the total Japan plus first month US to 367,932.  Throw in continued American sales as well as European ones and the PS2 version has probably put up some respectable numbers.  Especially if the legs were like Japan, the PS2 version actually outperformed the Wii version in 2009 in Japan (though of course it had the whole year to sell).

Media Create 2008
Media Create 2009

Oh wow so it did do pretty well for itself.