lol such predictable downplay attempts by the usual suspects..I swear I knew who they will be even before entering the thread

Anywho Fantastic Soul Sacrifice numbers..over 150k easily first week. Been reading impressions of the game from users and it sounds like such an amazing title. Hope Sony releases a demo soon over here..really want to try it out

When is DQX releasing for the wiiu? It needs it real bad at this point. Can someone remind me again why many were saying WiiU will control the japanese non-handheld market?

And F U Japan..buy more Layton!

Not as if I'm happy about it, though.

Besides, I'll always point it out if I find something like this impressive. If I don't make these comments about Sony/MS often, it's because they're not actually impressive very often, :P.

Yeah they were pretty accurate with Soul Sacrifice as well. It is nowhere to be seen in Media Create and Famitsu data.

BTW you must be pretty interested in Vita. I mean I've never seen a Vita owner commenting about it this much. I mean if Vita can create such emotions it shows that it is a good product. Looking forward to see you in the official thread.

what have you done!?

Lots of Nintendo fans are showing interest in Vita this week. We must welcome them with open arms :p.

sureeeeeeeeeeeeeee ;)

'hides the gun'

1) Mario
2) Monster Hunter
3) Dragon Quest
4) Pokémon
5) Animal Crossing

And it will control that market, but it's pretty irrelevant. Japan represents something like 10% of the global home console market.

I mean, the best-selling PS3 game in Japan was FFXIII... and the Wii had 9 games that outsold that. It had 14 million-sellers in Japan to the PS3's 2. In the long run, Wii U will win out. It will keep those blockbusters that pushed Wii sales, even if the "Wii series" doesn't make such a powerful return.

Very surprised, surpassed my expectations, they were very low and I admit that after all the details I was going to update it, but I felt like that was cheating.

PSV not only went up from last week, but was ahead of the mighty 3DS, quite impressive.

Layton and DQVII falling like rocks. But I reckon they will crawl to decent numbers.

A rather big drop from Animal crossing, I wish Bruno also posts here the comparisons with Wild World.

Seriously, this game, is surreal:

30./23. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.05} (¥5.040) - 3.265 / 437.080 (-15%)

PSV launch, and, ...don't know if there are any others.

I was going to say that this week your pac-man post would actually make sense, but then I see this, and ....sigh. SS fell short of being PSV biggest FW on Japan, you must be dissapointed.

At the end of March, if I'm not wrong. But it won't do much to change the actual situation of WiiU.  Many people expected that a combination of NSMB and MH would create a similar effect as the 3 games 3DS had at the end of 2011. Can't say that they were wrong at the time, that sounded like a pretty good launch titles, applying logic once events have passed it's rather silly, same can be said about 3DS initial performance, and PSV performance. Well that of course applies to rational people, and not to those filled with emotions and huge expectations.

Afaik they have not announced a pokemon for the system ..unless you are talking about some spin off mini game like scenario

It already has Mario

DQ X is coming up for sure...when is the release date? Curious to see how it affects the sales

Animal crossing? Again don't think there's a wiiu title yet...but even if it did I doubt it will have a similar effect to the handheld entries

Monster Hunter: This is the interesting one. Is MH 4 announced for wiiU? Late ports don't do much for home consoles when it comes to MonHun

If you only focus on highest sellers vs Highest sellers you will miss the reality that PS3 had a ton of support in Japan..still does. I do think wii U will outsell other home consoles in Japan but I don't see it dominating the market at all