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Forums - Sales - Japan Charts Week 17 (04/20/09 - 04/26/09)

Lafiel on 29 April 2009

@ Kenology )

yea, you're right, the Wii fans before said "Wii will beat PS3 in Japan next week" and they still say that

but well, kidding aside these hw numbers are pretty sad :/



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Gilgamesh on 29 April 2009

Damn I was off by 5k on the PS3, I predicted Wii: 20K PS3: 26K



kopstudent89 on 29 April 2009

wow guys why all the hate?? the only thing to see here is yeah the PS3 has had a good boost, but still its not great numbers, Wii is not doin so good... Both in general are doin bad...

And secondly nobody's perfect, even the market can toy around a bit, wait for next week to see who has the bigger boost and stop these fan boy chants



FilaBrasileiro on 29 April 2009
TheSource said:

Bigger drop off than expected for PS3 (i figured it would hold to about ~23k) and smaller rise than expected for Wii. Its pretty much official that the systems will be tied in 2009 until Wii Sports Resort releases sometime in June. Since Wii is trending positively into Golden Week through (up 33%) while PS3 is not (down 66%) Wii is probably going to outsell PS3 over Golden Week.

 

 

1) I don't see WSR selling that many Wiis, certainly most everyone that wants WSR should already have a Wii and Wii Sports? Sure it'll get a bump, but probably not as much as some people might expect.

2) Poor logic on wii trending positively and PS3 not, we already knew that the Wii would get a bump and the PS3 would drop this week, the difference is the bump the Wii got is a lot lower than people expect. I'll give you that the PS3 drop is a lot higher than people expected too. Point is, I don't think either has a clear advantage going into golden week. I'll predict the Wii doing better though.

 

Ail said:
Lol go Wii !

So over the last few months we heard :
- Muramasa, then Deca Sports 2, then Monster Hunter G will boost sales.

What is the next savior now ?
And you guys were laughing your ass at PS3 fanboys mentioning a new PS3 savior every 6 months...

And yeah the Japanese preview is so unreliable, I'm not even sure why we still run that...

Amen, that thing has been way off so many times and is so unreliable, I don't even look at it anymore.

 

CrazzyMan said:
So.. can we expect, that Golden week will equally increase PS3 and Wii sales, with PS3 still outselling Wii?

For last 9 weeks PS3 was more popular, than Wii, why this trend can`t continue? =)

 

I think the Wii will outsell the PS3 during golden week.


 

 



Lostplanet22 on 29 April 2009

For selling 142k software I expected a bigger boost for the Wii.... Strange;



 

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NanakiXI on 29 April 2009
alfredofroylan said:
Rei said:

   This either means that Monster Hunter is still nowhere near as popular as Final Fantasy in Japan and people do not wish to buy a home console for it, or that Nintendo didnt really bother to make many hardware bundles with it like Sony did with ACC.

   Edit: There is a bundle with the classic controller, however, so ...

The bundle only includes the Classic Control, not the console and it's sold pretty well. I'm not sure about the number but Final Fantasy, Drafon Quest and Pokemon are more popular than Monster HUnter. (Now I'm wondering why Nintendo doesn't make a MMO type version of Pokemnon for consoles)

 

Since you asked lol.

3 Monster Hunter Freedom Unite Capcom 18,277 N/A 3.11m 20th Jan 09

This is the data for the newest games released to date that VGChartz has data for. Looking at the top 25 all time Japan it seems like Monster Hunter is hunting it's way to the top. Taking down one game at a time.

7 Final Fantasy XII Square Enix 17,944 N/A 2.42m 25th Nov 07
1 Dragon Quest VII: Eden no Senshi-tachi Enix 3,920 N/A 4.12m 01st Jan 09
3 Pocket Monsters Platina Nintendo 9,589 N/A 2.43m 12th Apr 09


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Issun on 29 April 2009
TheSource said:

Um Ail

No one ever claimed Wii would

a) be saved in Japan. You can't be saved when your 5m ahead

b) get a long term boost from these titles

You think you are over-reacting much?

Second, Deca Sports 2 wasn't just my expectation as a big title. Hudson shipped 80,000 copies the first week. With those figures you have to figure Nintendo and Hudson both expected at least a bit of a bump. Finally, Monster Hunter G did boost sales for Wii this week. I'll give you Muramasa - that should never have been pitched as a boost. But the other two titles were sound expectations.

Alot of you were ready to massacre me for calling for a 40k PS3 drop this week, even though thats exactly what happened. If your going to knock me for missing Wii by 5k, at least recognize I got the harder prediction, the scale of the PS3 drop - correct.

Your prediction from other thread:

PS3 could sell 40k the next three weeks with the demo drop off offset by Golden Week, and I figure Wii will get its MHG lift and then lift 30-50% above that level the next two weeks on Golden Week.

57k/40k/40k/40k

14k/32k/42k/40k

 

Why is it so hard to tell the truth on an internet forum?

 



Lostplanet22 on 29 April 2009

Auch for the Source -_-.



 

jonop on 29 April 2009
Issun said:
TheSource said:

Um Ail

No one ever claimed Wii would

a) be saved in Japan. You can't be saved when your 5m ahead

b) get a long term boost from these titles

You think you are over-reacting much?

Second, Deca Sports 2 wasn't just my expectation as a big title. Hudson shipped 80,000 copies the first week. With those figures you have to figure Nintendo and Hudson both expected at least a bit of a bump. Finally, Monster Hunter G did boost sales for Wii this week. I'll give you Muramasa - that should never have been pitched as a boost. But the other two titles were sound expectations.

Alot of you were ready to massacre me for calling for a 40k PS3 drop this week, even though thats exactly what happened. If your going to knock me for missing Wii by 5k, at least recognize I got the harder prediction, the scale of the PS3 drop - correct.

Your prediction from other thread:

PS3 could sell 40k the next three weeks with the demo drop off offset by Golden Week, and I figure Wii will get its MHG lift and then lift 30-50% above that level the next two weeks on Golden Week.

57k/40k/40k/40k

14k/32k/42k/40k

 

Why is it so hard to tell the truth on an internet forum?

 

 

he was talking about his prediction in the japanese preview.



kylohk on 29 April 2009

Pity, Nintendo better make some kind of MH3 bundle or WSR special edition bundle when they come out, or even slash the price.



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