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chrono_kazumi on 17 October 2008
senortaco said:
you guys kill me with your over reaction to FIRST DAY SALES! First day sales...Really? It's like no one pays attention to how Wii games sale. =/

32/40 (aka 8/10), which is a good score.

 

Hope Sky Crawlers will have legs for the rest of the week... but if it sold already 25% of the shipment, then there's no way it could have great sales...!! @___@

 

And 54k day one for Wii Music is actually good, 'cause a game's sales like this one can't be jugded by what it sold in its first day/week/(or even) month, since they have huge legs, like Wii Fit, which was already released a year ago and it's still in Top 10, week after week. ;P

 

regards,

kazumi



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yushire on 17 October 2008

Wii Music and Ace Combat bombed... OH NOES :( I hope its only on its first day though



end of core gaming days prediction:

 

E3 2006-The beginning of the end. Wii introduced

 

E3 2008- Armageddon. Wii motion plus introduced. Wii Music. Reggie says Animal crossing was a core game. Massive disappointment. many Wii core gamers selling their Wii.

 

E3 2010- Tape runs out

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2009/ICG_Tape_runs_out.jpg

trestres on 17 October 2008

WTF is wrong, how can a game like SkyCrawlers bomb that bad??

I honestly find no explanation for that.



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tag - "I wouldn't trust gamespot, even if it was a live comparison."

Bets with Conegamer:

Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.

Fullfilled Prophecies

noname2200 on 17 October 2008
--OkeyDokey-- said:

 

[WII] Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces (Bandai Namco) - 3k

Sky Crawlers tanked.

 

Booooooooo!!!!



DMeisterJ on 17 October 2008

wow.

Wii Fit didn't open that great.



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Gamerace on 17 October 2008

No surprise there. All 'normal' games seem to bomb on Wii. Japanese developers are best served continuing to make them for the PS2 and maybe due a Wii port.

Wii Music sells about what I expected. I expect it to drop off before it finds a nice steady weekly sales amount. WiiFit or MarioKart it isn't but it will be successful in it's own right.



 

yushire on 17 October 2008
trestres said:
WTF is wrong, how can a game like SkyCrawlers bomb that bad??

I honestly find no explanation for that.

 

 I think its too late for japanese third parties to fix the problem that 3rd parties had done in the first place. :( The console industry is falling and replaced by the handhelds... *sigh* if only japanese 3rd parties invest more on the Wii before



end of core gaming days prediction:

 

E3 2006-The beginning of the end. Wii introduced

 

E3 2008- Armageddon. Wii motion plus introduced. Wii Music. Reggie says Animal crossing was a core game. Massive disappointment. many Wii core gamers selling their Wii.

 

E3 2010- Tape runs out

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2009/ICG_Tape_runs_out.jpg

yushire on 17 October 2008
Gamerace said:
No surprise there. All 'normal' games seem to bomb on Wii. Japanese developers are best served continuing to make them for the PS2 and maybe due a Wii port.

Wii Music sells about what I expected. I expect it to drop off before it finds a nice steady weekly sales amount. WiiFit or MarioKart it isn't but it will be successful in it's own right.

 

 What about Fragile? OH GOD NO... D:

 



end of core gaming days prediction:

 

E3 2006-The beginning of the end. Wii introduced

 

E3 2008- Armageddon. Wii motion plus introduced. Wii Music. Reggie says Animal crossing was a core game. Massive disappointment. many Wii core gamers selling their Wii.

 

E3 2010- Tape runs out

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2009/ICG_Tape_runs_out.jpg

trestres on 17 October 2008

@Gamerace: Nah, not all of them. Not even most of them. This is just strange IMO.
Was it advertised at all? At least we know the dev wasnt expecting too much from it. Or maybe retailers.



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tag - "I wouldn't trust gamespot, even if it was a live comparison."

Bets with Conegamer:

Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.

Fullfilled Prophecies

Gamerace on 17 October 2008
trestres said:
@Gamerace: Nah, not all of them. Not even most of them. This is just strange IMO.
Was it advertised at all? At least we know the dev wasnt expecting too much from it. Or maybe retailers.

Quick check of L-T-D Japan Wii games sales reveal:

Out of traditional 3rd party games for Wii in Japan:

1 has sold more than 500,000 (Dragon Quest) and that was almost entirely week 1 sales.

2 have sold more than 250,00 (DQ above and RE:UC)

4 have sold more than 150,000

a total of 12 have managed greater than 100,000.  Only 12.

All other traditional type 3rd party games have failed to even reach a measly 100,000 and you have to wonder if they can even cover costs of a cheaply made game with such low sales.  

Games like Namco 'Family' series or Wii Sport-type mini games series are exceptions but we're taking what normally would have sold well on PS2 to the 'core' gamer.   Those games just generally don't sell on Wii.   Even RE:UC & DQ are not traditional PS2 -type games.  One's a rail shooter (a formerly dead genre) and the other a wiimote wagglefest. 

 Even Nintendo struggles - Warioland, FF4 and Disaster all have weak sales and even the greats - Mario & Link have underwhelmed with sales of SMG and LoZ:TP in Japan.