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papflesje on 31 December 2008
dolemit3 said:
Very good software numbers but meh hardware numbers. PS3 couldn't even cross the 50k mark with the third biggest opener and the biggest holiday week.

 

Biggest week is the first week of January I thought?



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wwmli on 31 December 2008
Star Scream said:
OH snap, just read SEGA shipped 200,000 copies of Phantasy Star Zero. I predict a price drop...and soon.

 

Wow 200k? that's a bit of disappointment... not even 50% sold..

And thx for the data :D



dolemit3 on 31 December 2008
papflesje said:
dolemit3 said:
Very good software numbers but meh hardware numbers. PS3 couldn't even cross the 50k mark with the third biggest opener and the biggest holiday week.

 

Biggest week is the first week of January I thought?

You are correct, still weak hardware across the board.

 



Currently playing on PS3: God of War III

Currently playing on Xbox360: Final Fantasy XIII

Currently playing on NDS: Chrono Trigger

Star Scream on 31 December 2008
wwmli said:
Star Scream said:
OH snap, just read SEGA shipped 200,000 copies of Phantasy Star Zero. I predict a price drop...and soon.

 

Wow 200k? that's a bit of disappointment... not even 50% sold..

And thx for the data :D

 

You're welcome. I get it mostly from 2ch. Speaking of 2ch, they made a Phantasy Star Zero/Portable comparison:

 

初日　　　　　初動
ファンタシースターポータブル　21.7万本　　　33万
ファンタシースター ZERO　　　　6.3万本　　　8.6万

 

* first day and first week sales, 万 = 10,000

 



dolemit3 on 31 December 2008
Star Scream said:
wwmli said:
Star Scream said:
OH snap, just read SEGA shipped 200,000 copies of Phantasy Star Zero. I predict a price drop...and soon.

 

Wow 200k? that's a bit of disappointment... not even 50% sold..

And thx for the data :D

 

You're welcome. I get it mostly from 2ch. Speaking of 2ch, they made a Phantasy Star Zero/Portable comparison:

 

初日　　　　　初動
ファンタシースターポータブル　21.7万本　　　33万
ファンタシースター ZERO　　　　6.3万本　　　8.6万

 

* first day and first week sales, 万 = 10,000

 

Yeah, not even close.

 



Currently playing on PS3: God of War III

Currently playing on Xbox360: Final Fantasy XIII

Currently playing on NDS: Chrono Trigger

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Tbone on 31 December 2008

WKC did good nothing special but good.



 

Star Scream on 31 December 2008
dolemit3 said:
Star Scream said:
wwmli said:
Star Scream said:
OH snap, just read SEGA shipped 200,000 copies of Phantasy Star Zero. I predict a price drop...and soon.

 

Wow 200k? that's a bit of disappointment... not even 50% sold..

And thx for the data :D

 

You're welcome. I get it mostly from 2ch. Speaking of 2ch, they made a Phantasy Star Zero/Portable comparison:

 

初日　　　　　初動
ファンタシースターポータブル　21.7万本　　　33万
ファンタシースター ZERO　　　　6.3万本　　　8.6万

 

* first day and first week sales, 万 = 10,000

 

Yeah, not even close.

 

What's even more interesting is that Phantasy Star Portable sold more than 90% of its first shipment on day one, while PSZ struggles to sell 50% of its first shipment after week one.

 



dolemit3 on 31 December 2008

Complete Famitsu:

Famitsu Sales: 12/22 - 12/28

01. [PS3] White Knight Chronicles (SCE) - 203,000 / NEW
02. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) - 168,000 / 895,000
03. [NDS] Kirby Super Star Ultra (Nintendo) - 159,000 / 855,000
04. [PSP] Dissidia Final Fantasy (Square Enix) - 157,000 / 660,000
05. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode (Nintendo) - 120,000 / 549,000
06. [NDS] Pokemon Platinum (Pokemon) - 94,000 / 2,187,000
07. [NDS] Rhythm Heaven (Nintendo) - 93,000 / 1,351,000
08. [NDS] Phantasy Star Zero (Sega) - 86,000 / NEW
09. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 80,000 / 2,967,000
10. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) - 74,000 / 2,003,000

11. [NDS] Momotarou Dentetsu: 20th Anniversary (Hudson) - 58,000 / 122,000
12. [NDS] Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel (Level 5) - 57,000 / 628,000
13. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, PSP the Best (Capcom) - 54,000 / 199,000
14. [NDS] Little Magicians Magic Adventure (Konami) - 53,000 / 233,000
15. [WII] Wii Music (Nintendo) - 53,000 / 324,000
16. [WII] Karaoke Joysound Wii (Hudson) - 52,000 / 115,000
17. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 52,000 / 3,306,000
18. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Bandai Namco) - 51,000 / 251,000
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20. [WII] Wii de Asobu: Pikmin (Nintendo) - 48,000 / NEW
21. [NDS] Power Pro-Kun Pocket 11 (Konami) - 45,000 / 99,000
22. [PS3] Gundam Musou 2 (Bandai Namco) - 45,000 / 206,000
23. [PS3] Gran Turismo 5 Prologue: Spec III (SCE) - 41,000 / 224,000
24. [PS2] Gundam Musou 2 (Bandai Namco) - 41,000 / 132,000
25. [NDS] Tales of Hearts: Anime Movie & CG Movie (Bandai Namco) - 35,000 / 177,000
26. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo) - 34,000 / 4,852,000
27. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 30,000 / 2,593,000
28. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven (Level 5) - 29,000 / 229,000
29. [NDS] Penguin no Mondai: Saikyou Penguin Densetsu! (Konami) - 28,000 / 155,000
30. [NDS] Gensou Suikoden Tierkreis (Konami) - 27,000 / 90,000

__. [PS2] Pachitte Chonmage Tatsujin 15: Pachinko Fuyu no Sonata 2 (Hack Berry) - 27,000 / NEW
__. [WII] BioHazard (Capcom) - 24,000 / NEW
__. [NDS] Akaiito DS (Alchemist) - 9,300 / NEW
__. [NDS] Uchi no 3 Shimai DS (Culture Brain) - 6,900 / NEW
__. [PS3] Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution (CyberFront) - 6,300 / NEW
__. [PSP] Oretachi no Survival Game Portable (Best Media) - 4,800 / NEW
__. [PS3] Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft) - 4,600 / NEW
__. [NDS] BioHazard: Deadly Silence, New Best Price! 2000 (Capcom) - 3,500 / NEW
__. [360] Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution (CyberFront) - 3,000 / NEW
__. [NDS] RIZ-ZOAWD (D3) - 2,500 / NEW
__. [PS3] Alone in the Dark (EA) - 2,200 / NEW
__. [NDS] Magical Zunou Power!! (D3) - 1,600 / NEW
__. [PS3] BioShock (Spike) - 1,500 / NEW
__. [NDS] Team Batista no Eikou: Shinjitsu o Tsumugu 4-tsu no Karte (Hudson) - 970 / NEW
__. [360] Alone in the Dark (EA) - 850 / NEW
__. [NDS] Happy My Sweets (Global A) - 600 / NEW

DSL　58000
DSi　218000
PSP　120000
Wii　162000
PS3　48000
PS2　13000
360　13000

360 gets beaten by PS2, that's terrible.



Currently playing on PS3: God of War III

Currently playing on Xbox360: Final Fantasy XIII

Currently playing on NDS: Chrono Trigger

samus aran rules on 31 December 2008

This is how I see this important week with holiday sales in Japan:

Sony: Positive WKC had a very good first week sales reaching 200k+

Negative PS3 hardwaresales not even reaching 50k in a huge sales week with a new big game is nothing to be proud of. PSP very nice but clearly beaten by WII.

Nintendo: Positive Most everything. Fantastic hardwaresales for DS and very good for WII as well since it saw the biggest increase since last week compared with PS3 and 360 and this without a big new software release.

Software, huge sales all over for both WII/DS. Lots of huge legs all around for games like WII Fit/Sports/Music, Mario Kart Wii, Animal Crossing for both WII and DS, Pokemon, Wagamama, Kirby the list goes on.

Negative: Almost nothing. Hardware sales for WII down from last year but then again most other hardware except DS is down year over year as well.

Microsoft: Postive nothing
Negative, they haven´t been able to keep the momentum going they had this autumn. They haven´t seen hardware boosts during the holidaysales and software is horrible.



wwmli on 31 December 2008

thanks for the complete chart, I'll replace the top with the Famitsu one.

Hmm so MHP2G's 54,000 is from The Best and the original edition?

And GT5P still holding up pretty well (thx to bundle)?