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davygee on 17 April 2007

With the release of the Famitsu Most Wanter March 23rd to March 29th Poll featuring the 20 most wanted games as voted by its readers.

01.  (PS3, Square Enix) Final Fantasy XIII
02.  (NDS, Square Enix) Dragon Quest IX
03.  (PS3, Capcom) Biohazard 5
04.  (PS3, Konami) Metal Gear Solid 4
05.  (PS2, Atlus) Persona 3: Fes
06.  (NDS, Capcom) Gyakuten Saiban 4
07.  (PS3, Capcom) Monster Hunter 3
08.  (NDS, Nintendo) The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
09.  (PS2, Banpresto) Super Robot Taisen: Original Generations
10.  (Wii, Square Enix) Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
11.  (PS3, SCEJ) Minna no Golf 5
12.  (PS2, Atlus) Odin Sphere
13.  (Wii, Nintendo) Super Smash Bros. Brawl (PSP, Square Enix) Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
14.  (Xbox 360, Microsoft) Lost Odyssey
15.  (Wii, Nintendo) Doubutsu no Mori
16.  (NDS, Square Enix) Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings
17.  (PS3, Capcom) Devil May Cry 4
18.  (PS2, Sega) Shining Wind
19.  (PSP, Square Enix) Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War
20.  (PS2, Square Enix) Final Fantasy Versus XIII
As you can see there are 6 PS3 titles included in the top 20 taking 1st, 3rd, 4th, 7th 11th and 17th.  A Wii title doesn't appear until 10th and the only 360 title appears in at 14th.Also games for Sony consoles take up 13 of the 21 slots (there was a double in place 13).So maybe not all doom and gloom, all they need to do is release the games and sell some units. 

Prediction (June 12th 2017)

Permanent pricedrop for both PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro in October.

PS4 Slim $249 (October 2017)

PS4 Pro $349 (October 2017)

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HappySqurriel on 17 April 2007

Having games hit the most wanted list is a good thing, but these games have to actually generate sales when they're released. If I remember correctly Gundam Musou was pretty highly ranked on the most wanted chart and Koei thought the game could sell 2 Million units; so far it has sold 250,000.

 



kber81 on 17 April 2007

No need to talk about hope or hopeless situation. No drama here. PS3 will gain momentum. I think new NPD data will give us some hint about present situation. I think gap between PS3 and X would be much smaller than last month. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony sold more units.

Edit:

On the other hand  you've been talking only about situation in Japan... khem... hope most welcome



davygee on 17 April 2007

Considering there are only 800k PS3 owners, 260k units in 6 weeks is okay is it not.



Prediction (June 12th 2017)

Permanent pricedrop for both PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro in October.

PS4 Slim $249 (October 2017)

PS4 Pro $349 (October 2017)

Yojimbo on 17 April 2007

I would like to see the NPD sales too if the PS3 have not gained little momentum during mars it dont know what would help it till Q3 when the big titles come. There is no good releases in April/May. I am pretty sure that games like MGS4,RE5 and FFXIII will move alot of hardware you cant compare those with Gundam masou title :D



 
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staticneuron on 17 April 2007

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=24218

 

I would have expected this to start later but I believe all companies will start to follow this trend. And this is just to keep the core users in mind. Evry platform seems to have specific tastes thaat goes along with its best selling titles. The PS3 isn't done for at all... this only the beginning. 



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Diomedes1976 on 17 April 2007
davygee said:
With the release of the Famitsu Most Wanter March 23rd to March 29th Poll featuring the 20 most wanted games as voted by its readers.
01. (PS3, Square Enix) Final Fantasy XIII
02. (NDS, Square Enix) Dragon Quest IX
03. (PS3, Capcom) Biohazard 5
04. (PS3, Konami) Metal Gear Solid 4
05. (PS2, Atlus) Persona 3: Fes
06. (NDS, Capcom) Gyakuten Saiban 4
07. (PS3, Capcom) Monster Hunter 3
08. (NDS, Nintendo) The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
09. (PS2, Banpresto) Super Robot Taisen: Original Generations
10. (Wii, Square Enix) Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
11. (PS3, SCEJ) Minna no Golf 5
12. (PS2, Atlus) Odin Sphere
13. (Wii, Nintendo) Super Smash Bros. Brawl (PSP, Square Enix) Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
14. (Xbox 360, Microsoft) Lost Odyssey
15. (Wii, Nintendo) Doubutsu no Mori
16. (NDS, Square Enix) Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings
17. (PS3, Capcom) Devil May Cry 4
18. (PS2, Sega) Shining Wind
19. (PSP, Square Enix) Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War
20. (PS2, Square Enix) Final Fantasy Versus XIII
As you can see there are 6 PS3 titles included in the top 20 taking 1st, 3rd, 4th, 7th 11th and 17th.  A Wii title doesn't appear until 10th and the only 360 title appears in at 14th.Also games for Sony consoles take up 13 of the 21 slots (there was a double in place 13).So maybe not all doom and gloom, all they need to do is release the games and sell some units. 

 

 

In fact there are 7 games out of the top twenty  ,as FFXIII Versus is a PS3 game and in the list is incorrectly put as a PS2 game .



shams on 17 April 2007
staticneuron said:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=24218

 

I would have expected this to start later but I believe all companies will start to follow this trend. And this is just to keep the core users in mind. Evry platform seems to have specific tastes thaat goes along with its best selling titles. The PS3 isn't done for at all... this only the beginning.

Saw that article before, its quite interesting. What I believe it really means is:

 - the Wii / PS2 will get our big selling, license franchises (current-gen)

 - the PS3/360 will get our big budget, risky, next-gen titles

If anything, it may be a blow to the PS3/360 - as games they would normally expect to get - they are not getting (whereas games the Wii wouldn't expect to get - isn't getting anyway :>) 

 



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Nate on 17 April 2007

Sorry, but it's barely relevant. Famitsu did a poll of the best games of 2006 and it didn't even come close to matching the sales charts. It reflect only a small demographic's opinion in the JPN game market.



johnsobas on 17 April 2007

Gundam Musou was #1 on the list too.  It may have sold 250k out of 800k PS3 owners, but the hardware sales were not very impressive. 



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