Looking this over it probably explains why Namco shipped so few. Gaming in general appears to have taken a financal hit in Jap, but it hasn't been appeared YET in America.

I agree. But reading Gamerace post, and NoName2200, I understand somewhat the low shipment from Namco.

@Tretres - Yup it's based off a movie, but I have no club when it is out in Japan. =p

Actually, I'd disagree with that statement. Gaming in Japan isn't dead, it's just transferred to the handhelds (especially the DS) and to non-traditional titles. For the Wii, six titles went platinum in Japan alone, including Mario Party 8, Wii Fit, Wii Sports, and Wii Play. Six more titles went over 500k, including Mario & Sonic and Wario Ware. Four more are over 250k, and 31 games total are over 100k.

The thing is, Nintendo is dominating the list, because it's the one offering non-traditional titles. Namco and Konami are also benefitting primarily on the strength of such titles. Capcom's there too, but on the lower end, and just with traditional titles.

Long story short: gaming in Japan isn't dead, it's just evolved to the changing environment.

Doesn't look like PSP3k did well.

We shall see in this week's number.

But I think DS one this year yet again.

They just need their pr team to rebadge the game and should do well: something like "Attack on the USA: the Independence Wars".

This is so... corny. Lol.

LOL WUT? Konami? Squeenix and Konami they are all the same just like Ubi shoveling software on the Wii. Except for Elebits and Dewy's adventure I think theres no Konami titles that I could say quality or making the publisher profited. I think you should make example on SEGA instead with their Lets tap game and other titles on the Wii like Madworld, Mario and Sonic, SEGA superstar tennis and Sonic Dark Knight, but Konami? Naah... and yeah, Im posting here in the casual japanese perspective.

I'm afraid I can't, Yushire. I'm not speaking of the quality of the games at all; I'm merely passing along the data for the sales in Japan, and Konami has actually had some good-selling games in Japan. Deca Sports, Power Pro Baseball, and PES 2008 have all done alright for themselves in Japan alone, most especially Deca Sports. Sega's making a killing off the Wii too, but more in the West than in Japan. Whether we like that or not sales are sales.

But while the last post was about sales, I'll reserve the rest of this one for your quality argument.

I actually hadn't thought about this before you posted, but I'm actually okay with Konami's Wii output so far. Pro Evolution Soccer is the first soccer game since Mega Man Soccer that I actually enjoyed playing (the fact that it's revolutionary doesn't hurt), and Power Pro was a fun game (even if it needs motion controls. Get on that Konami!) Elebits was flawed, but enjoyable, and the same can be said for Dewy's Adventure. The fact that the latter two are dirt cheap didn't hurt.

Mind you, there are plenty of other publishers who are ahead of them in my mind. Sega's definitely up there (never thought I'd say that after their post-Dreamcast days...), I've enjoyed most of Capcom's games, and Marvelous is looking just that. But you won't find me dumping on Konami anytime soon.

 But most of the profit gained by Konami came from Hudson anyway, since theyre sharing profits with each other. Deca Sports was huge example of it, thats why even Konami brings shovelware Konami still profiting on the Wii because of Hudson. But Power pro baseball and Pro Evolution soccer I give you that, but those 2 games alone isnt enough to have huge profits on the Wii thats why Namco, SEGA, and Marvelous still pumping games on the Wii its just that Hudson backing them up... And yeah, Elebits and Dewy bombed in Japan.

I think someday Hudson will be the next Konami and make games that they can published without outside help  but I think we will never seen it till 2010

See, here's the problem: The X360, PS2 and PS3, despite their userbases, manage to sell core titles. Not as much as they used to, but despite the userbases, there have been some successes, again despite the user bases.

You have to realize something is wrong with your userbases' buying habits (the Wii's) when Metal Gear Solid 4 on PS3 can nearly outsell your top 2, 3rd party games on another system with well over twice the userbase.

Here's the damning list against the Wii of Top 3rd Party Console Games. All next-gen systems, with games above 100,000 units sold:

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As it stands, The Playstation 3 is the best seller of 3rd party software over 100k (and most likely entirely). Period. Maybe that's me, but if console has almost 1/3rd the hardware units in the wild, yet are outselling your competition, there's a massive problem. I'm not going to comment further than this, because I think the numbers speak for themselves.