Japan Charts Week 20 (May 11-May 17 2009)

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trestres on 20 May 2009

This is terrible, worst week ever for the Wii in Japan. My prediction may come true, Wii will see it's worst numbers ever during the important part of its lifetime (not counting dying sales at the end of its lifetime) between Golden Week and WSR launch. Sub 10k doesn't seem unlikely, considering that neither Kizuna nor Tact of Magic will sell more than 10k first week.

Arc Rise Fantasia may sell decently, like 40k first week, but HW will not rise (no pun intended) that week. Then there's two GC ports that no one cares about there in Japan (MP2 and Chibi Robo) and then comes WSR. PS3 will also be seeing terrible numbers and I expect PSP to drop to sub 20k levels soon. DS will be the only one to shine.

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binary solo on 20 May 2009

Ail said:

binary solo said:
Economic news about japan is dire to say the least. The Japanese economy is in its worst decline since WWII. E.g. Toyota alone is normally responsible for 10% of Japan's corporate tax revenue. Toyota has posted a loss for the first time ever, which means the Japan govt takes a 10% revenue hit, just from that one company.

Given that I expect the Japanese games market to be depressed for quite some time. With major software releases generating HW boosts of a lower peak and shorter duration than would normally be expected.

Wii can afford a price drop and remain profitable, which will help with sales to a certain extent. PS3 can barely afford a price drop, and if it doesn't boost sales much because of the general economic conditions of the time then what's the point? Better to make a meagre profit on ~10K of sales than make a slight loss on ~12K of sales. Ride out the storm then cut the price when people get back into a buying mood.

Not sure where you got that toyota/japan tax revenue information but it is blatantly false...

Japan 2008-2009 tax revenue : 54 trillion yen

Toyota all time record net profit : 13.7 billion $ ( in 2007). They payed about 5 billion $ of taxes that year.

5 billion $ = 500 billion yens = 1% of Japan tax revenue....

It was a radio news article about Japan's economic woes (4% drop in GDP in the last Quarter(?) year(?)). Note I said 10% of corporate tax revenue, not total tax revenue. I was only half paying attention but I definitely heard "10%" and "tax" and "Toyota" all in the same sentence, and the statement that the govt coffers are most definitely going to suffer from the fact that this one company will be paying no tax. It's a big deal whatever the %.

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alfredofroylan on 20 May 2009

trestres said:
This is terrible, worst week ever for the Wii in Japan. My prediction may come true, Wii will see it's worst numbers ever during the important part of its lifetime (not counting dying sales at the end of its lifetime) between Golden Week and WSR launch. Sub 10k doesn't seem unlikely, considering that neither Kizuna nor Tact of Magic will sell more than 10k first week.

Arc Rise Fantasia may sell decently, like 40k first week, but HW will not rise (no pun intended) that week. Then there's two GC ports that no one cares about there in Japan (MP2 and Chibi Robo) and then comes WSR. PS3 will also be seeing terrible numbers and I expect PSP to drop to sub 20k levels soon. DS will be the only one to shine.

Oh my...

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trestres on 20 May 2009

@alfredo: What's the point of trolling like that?

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trestres on 21 May 2009

Media Create Top 30

01. [PSP] Bleach: Heat the Soul 6 (SCEI) 41,000 / NEW
02. [PSP] Grow Lancer (Atlus) 23,000 / NEW
03. [NDS] Dragon Ball Kai: Saiyajin Raishuu (Namco Bandai) 20,000 / 136,000
04. [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky (Nintendo) 15,000 / 299,000
05. [NDS] Made in Ore (Wario Ware) (Nintendo) 15,000 / 112,000
06. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2 G (PSP the Best) (Capcom) 15,000 / 678,000
07. [WII] Winning Eleven Playmaker 2009 (Konami) 14,000 / NEW
08. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 11,000 / 3,414,000
09. [NDS] Mario & Luigi RPG 3 (Nintendo) 10,000 / 616,000
10. [PS2] Rack Pachi 6 (Tecmo) 9,000 / NEW

11. [WII] Monster Hunter G (Capcom)
12. [PSP] ToraDora Portable! (Namco Bandai)
13. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
14. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Namco Bandai)
15. [PSP] Persona (Atlus)
16. [PS2] Jikkyou Power Pro Major League 2009 (Konami)
17. [PSP] Sengoku Basara: Battle Heroes (Capcom)
18. [NDS] Pokémon Platinum (Pokémon)
19. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
20. [NDS] Rittai Picross 3D (Nintendo)
21. [PS3] Killzone 2 (SCEI)
22. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo)
23. [PS2] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2009 (Konami)
24. [NDS] A Ressha de Gyoukou DS (Artdink)
25. [NDS] Pro Yakyuu Famista DS 2009 (Konami)
26. [PS3] Valkyria Chronicles (BEST) (SEGA)
27. [WII] Jikkyou Power Pro Major League 2009 (Konami)
28. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo)
29. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo)
30. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven (Level 5)

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