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y-koron on 20 July 2007

This week is calm before the storm.

 

Powerful Pro Baseball 14 (PS2) : about 80k

Powerful Pro Baseball Wii (Wii) : about 20k

Detective JinguJi Saburou DS (DS) : about 10k

 

Source : http://ameblo.jp/sinobi



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student on 20 July 2007

Is that touch detective 2?



koffieboon on 20 July 2007

I'm a bit surprised the PS2 version sells that much better than the Wii version, baseball is one of those games which seem to be a perfect fit for the Wiimote. But then again, the installed base of PS2 to Wii is somewhere around 7 to 1, so selling 4 to 1 might not be that bad. Is baseball a popular sport in Japan and do baseball games sell well there?



Emmitt2222 on 20 July 2007

Is the storm HSG? and no numbers for DQ:S? Guess its only new releases.



MrPennybags on 20 July 2007

I can't answer most of those questions but I know this:

Baseball is popular in Japan. VERY popular.



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Sqrl on 20 July 2007
MrPennybags said:
I can't answer most of those questions but I know this:

Baseball is popular in Japan. VERY popular.

 QFT
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y-koron on 20 July 2007
koffieboon said:
I'm a bit surprised the PS2 version sells that much better than the Wii version, baseball is one of those games which seem to be a perfect fit for the Wiimote. But then again, the installed base of PS2 to Wii is somewhere around 7 to 1, so selling 4 to 1 might not be that bad. Is baseball a popular sport in Japan and do baseball games sell well there?

 For Japese gamer, it isn't suprise results. Even between the funs of these series, it isn't anticipated to play baseball.

 For them, what is most important is to make player in a game-mode called "success". So, when players speak about this game, they speak about only this mode.

 So, they have less interests for playing devices. 



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y-koron on 20 July 2007
student said:
Is that touch detective 2?

 No. That is new game of very very old series. (The series of Detective JinguJi Saburou is continuing 20 years!)



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TheSource on 20 July 2007

Any word on how Dragon Quest Swords is holding up in week two?  Did Square-Enix have another shipment ready?



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Phalanx on 20 July 2007
koffieboon said:
I'm a bit surprised the PS2 version sells that much better than the Wii version, baseball is one of those games which seem to be a perfect fit for the Wiimote. But then again, the installed base of PS2 to Wii is somewhere around 7 to 1, so selling 4 to 1 might not be that bad. Is baseball a popular sport in Japan and do baseball games sell well there?

It's probably just a userbase issue.