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Forums - Sales Discussion - Famitsu Sales Feb 19/25

Erik Aston on 28 February 2007

Diomedes1976 said: Its curious ...the Wii has more than double the userbase of the PS3 and yet its "hot " games sell 25K and 70K versus the 50K of VF5 and you consider it a success and good sales while you considered the VF5 ones lackluster ....
I think people were looking for Wii to give the Fire Emblem franchise some juice. They were looking for VF5 to give the PS3 some juice.



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fooflexible on 28 February 2007

Yeah Monster hunter kicked butt! it's really shapping up the franchise for it's debut on the ps3. Also shows the PSP is far from dead in Japan. I'm just annoyed we got two Monster Hunters before we got 1 FF title. BTW I just picked up Jewel Summoner on my PSP, it's really good. It's got nice turned based gameplay slick animations, and really nice charachter designs/animation and painted backdrops for story scenes, plus pretty good voice work. It's definitly an underrated game. Fire emblem did as about as good as I expected, Naruto did worse then I thought it would nonetheless it's like the fifth one they blasted out straight from the series on the GC and being that they really haven't mixed it up much I can see interest starting to fade unless they shake it up. With that said I'm dying to mod my Wii so I can import this game, I love Naruto fighters!



kber81 on 28 February 2007

y-koron said: In Japan, 750k of MHP2 is not so surprised sales beacuse of 500k at first day. (But 100k of PSP is unexpected result for most of them.) Instead the sales of next week is in the picture. Because there are three observation about MHP2. One is the sales continuously go well and total will became more than 200k. Next is the total sales will become 120~150k. Last is the sales drastiaclly declines, and the final sales will be below one million. Which is going to become the correct prediction?
Hmm, I'm a moderate person so I vote for option number 2. Today MHP2 dropped to a second place on best selling game list on amazon.jp so there must be some momentum. 100K looks pretty likely.



ranzchic on 28 February 2007

Diomedes1976 said: Its curious ...the Wii has more than double the userbase of the PS3 and yet its "hot " games sell 25K and 70K versus the 50K of VF5 and you consider it a success and good sales while you considered the VF5 ones lackluster ....
There is more than one "hot" game on the Wii. MH2 will move units modestly. Only about 100k units moved vs 700k software units. Most people buying it already own a PSP.



Darc Requiem on 28 February 2007

Diomedes, no one thought Fire Emblem would be a huge seller. The GC version sold 155k lifetime. So how is the the Wii incarnation selling 70k the first week a bad thing? Personally, I thought Fire Emblem would sell 35 to 45k the first week. I said so in a prior thread, you can look it up if you like. So it exceeded my expectations. VF4 sold over 3.5 times as many units as Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance over its life time. VF4 sold over 3.5 times as many units as Path of Radiance did its first week. Goddess of Dawn sold 70% of Path of Radiances sales its first week. VF5 sold about an 1/8th of VF4's first week sales. So Diomedes, does that explain why Fire Emblem sales can be considered a success and VF5 sales can be considered a failure?



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r2007 on 01 March 2007

jeux-france.com has this sales acording to m-create: Voici le nouveau top des ventes software sur le marché japonais pour la période du 19 février 2007 au 25 février 2007 d'après Media Create. Top ventes software 1. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 - PSP - 705.281 - (705.281) 2. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - PS2 - 80.002 - (80.002) 3. Fire Emblem : The Goddess of Dawn - Wii - 75.359 - (75.359) 4. Sim City DS - NDS - 50.826 - (50.826) 5. Professor Layton and the Strange City - NDS - 49.979 - (186.716) 6. Wii Sports - Wii - 47.053 - (1.090.736) 7. Naruto : Clash of Ninja EX - 45.792 - (45.792) 8. Dragon Quest Monsters J - NDS - 40.507 - (1.174.576) 9. Wii Play - Wii - 35.811 - (944.586) 10. Picross DS - NDS - 26.693 - (183.357) there are some differences, who's right?