He he he I know, there was a time when Japanese games we're more expensive then in Europe, not anymore. WII games for instance. I pay maximum 42-45 Euro at times only 32 Euro. Paper Mario only cost me 35 Euro.
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| kber81 said: Wow... I've just spotted X360 bundled with Trusty Bell (￥ 31,290) is cheaper than standard version (￥ 38,200)... who's paying for this?... probably Bill... Japan is a heaven for gamers. Prices are so small compared to EU or even to USA. Less than $270 for an X? Awesome deal. Shit. It's even cheaper than Wii there.... |
That's a great deal if that's the price. where did you get that figure? I ask because so far I've seen 3 sites give three different prices. I don't know why I haven't seen the same price anywhere but I'd like to confirm it. If japan can get a x360 trusty bell and Blue Dragon for about 300 bucks, and they are still passing then things don't look good for MS.
| fooflexible said: That's a great deal if that's the price. where did you get that figure? good for MS. |
amazon.jp
I'm afraid it's not good for MS...
I clicked your link. Did I miss something? I can't read Japanese but it looks like Trusty Bell is ranked number 1 for 360 games.
| Darc Requiem said: I clicked your link. Did I miss something? I can't read Japanese but it looks like Trusty Bell is ranked number 1 for 360 games. |
X360 is on the position number 4.
game is ranked #1, a CORE unit with TB is on at #4. But what relevance is this, really? Haven't Amazon Japan's numbers been notoriously different from Media Create?
I hate trolls.
Systems I currently own: 360, PS3, Wii, DS Lite (2)
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It wasn't about sales rank he linked me the site to quote the price of the Japanese bundle. thanks kber81!
amazon.jp affects the total sales for the week, but to a very small degree.
I would estimate, at most, if a game was #1 for the entire week, it *might* be responsible for 7,500-15,000 units sold.
Forza Motorsports was a good example. It did fairly well on the lists, but ended up selling, atleast vs. retail stores.
Ultimately, Amazon.jp and such is going to only state what 1 mere store is doing, and not to be taken for any sort of law whatsoever.
Even if TB was #2 or whatever, it might end up moving.....8,000 software units if it's lucky. Gamasutra.com always posts the whole speel about what game is doing well in Japan for the week, only to be proven wrong every week.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
fooflexible said:
mr stickball your cracking me up with your intensive analysis of whether Blue Dragon will stop at 190,000 or continue to 225,000. Hardly seems worthy of debate unless your passionate about the 360's success in japan. Which btw I am, I'm probably second behind you for wanting this. I think these three games(TB, BD, and LO) really need to prove something by year end, or alot of Japanese developers will pretty much permenantly make up their mind about 360 development. Although if they manage a silmiliar price cut to what they are talking about here like the 200 dollar core system I don't see how Japan can pass it up. Imagine seeing Blue dragon for 30 bucks with $200 core system, and Lost Odyessy on the shelf. And there is enough other titles I beilieve to tempt the Japanese audience, I really don't see that failing horribly. Or at least I'll be shocked if people continue to ignore it's presence.
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The big reason I care is that I love JRPGs, and have since the early 1990s. Unfortunately, since the SNES golden age, sales have plummeted, or just been lackluster for fanastic series such as Chrono Trigger (sold 200,000 units in the US), or virtually any game in the old Square and Enix catalogues (I could name 25 great SNES RPGs that I beat from memory).
I can and will gladly provide any analysis on any RPG out there, for any system if it comes out. The big reason I care about BD isn't just for BD's sake, but for Mistwaker, which seems to be one of the few new companies that is trying to challenge the SE hegemony on the JRPG market (yes, you have Namco-Bandai, but lately they haven't had any uber-hits to the SE level).
I look at it as I did Sega - when you look through the DC and Sat. sales, you see some brilliant games (Crazy Taxi, Shining Series, Phantasty Star, Sonic, ect), and you saw some incredible, noteworthy spikes. Although the systems were statistically irrelevant compared to the PS1, the X360 is in a similar position as the DC - it has the ultra-fantastic software coming for it, and I just think it's great to see something like Blue Dragon make 360 hardware jump 750% in one week. Could you imagine if Super Mario Galaxy pushed Wii sales from 100,000 a week to 750,000 for a week? Every Nintendo fanboy and analyist would be going crazy. I'm just doing the same for my own console. If we had more fanboys that actually gave a rats behind about their consoles, and amagamated them into a very strong league, we'd have more accuracy that Patcher ever would dream of. If a fanboy can get beyond their wishful thinking and provide relevant analysis, like TheSource has, then it's a great day in gaming history. If anything, the world is short a few video game analyisers.
Not only this, but if you can predict such an utterly small game like BD, you have a knack for doing decent on the larger games....Which is what I attribute my succuess in the prediction league to.
IMO, the battle between Trusty Bell and Folk Soul will be grand, as it'll probably be the largest JRPG battle until we see who Lost Odyssey is up against. Again, I think that intensive analysis of TB and BD is important, because what if LO sells 250k, or 350k, or 500k in Japan? If it ended up around 500k, we'd have a major franchise coming on our hands that no one saw, then the Dreamcast is within the 360s reach, and would be the biggest sales increase in history for any platform. But thats just wishful thinking. Until then, I have to occupy my time 'till I can buy a copy of BD in the USA.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
These are the most popular game items from the past hour, about every single hour the site is being updated.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=pd_ts_vg_ldr/249-9526296-6569164?pf_rd_m=AN1VRQENFRJN5&pf_rd_s=left-1&pf_rd_r=0ZQG5WRBPHNEV1YN8C6J&pf_rd_t=2101&pf_rd_p=50133006&pf_rd_i=15783231
On number 3 is Trusty Bell and check out number 2 and number 7 :D Zelda Phantom Hourglass - Dragon Quest Swords.
By the way.... no Folksoul in the top 50 and Minna no Golf is on spot 34, while that game will be released in the same month as Dragon Quest Swords... :-/.
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