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Kantor on 08 June 2009
BengaBenga said:
Carl2291 said:
Sad, sad day for gaming if it does happen.

lol, IIRC Taiko PS2 outsold MGS on the PS2. Your "sad day for gaming" in fact has already passed.

Best selling PS2 Taiko sold 760k in Japan.

Best selling PS2 MGS sold 870k in Japan.

MGS also (obviously) sold more in the West- was Taiko not released in NA/EU? Or do we just not have numbers?



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samus aran rules on 08 June 2009
Kantor said:
BengaBenga said:
Carl2291 said:
Sad, sad day for gaming if it does happen.

lol, IIRC Taiko PS2 outsold MGS on the PS2. Your "sad day for gaming" in fact has already passed.

Best selling PS2 Taiko sold 760k in Japan.

Best selling PS2 MGS sold 870k in Japan.

MGS also (obviously) sold more in the West- was Taiko not released in NA/EU? Or do we just not have numbers?


Yes MGS for PS2 outsold Taiko for PS2 in Japan but not by very much. If you consider Wii has a larger userbase than PS3 then perhaps it wouldn´t be so strange if it outsold MGS 4? And I might add it won´t be a sad day for gaming if that happened since both games sold very well. People just have different taste.



peachbuggy on 11 June 2009

I take it Mario & Sonic at the olympic games is published in Japan by Nintendo then? Otherwise wouldn't it have a shot at being best selling console game in Japan this gen?



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peachbuggy on 11 June 2009

EDIT: I meant 3rd party game.



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Carl on 11 June 2009
BengaBenga said:
Carl2291 said:
Sad, sad day for gaming if it does happen.

lol, IIRC Taiko PS2 outsold MGS on the PS2. Your "sad day for gaming" in fact has already passed.

In that case, this would be a much sadder day



                            

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SaviorX on 11 June 2009

Taiko is getting up there.


It may pass MGS4, but I doubt it will touch 730k. VGChartz has MGS4 at like 680,000 in Japan.



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kylohk on 11 June 2009

Well, chances are that a new edition may be released for Taiko which takes away from the original one's sales.



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kamil on 12 June 2009
peachbuggy said:
I take it Mario & Sonic at the olympic games is published in Japan by Nintendo then? Otherwise wouldn't it have a shot at being best selling console game in Japan this gen?

Not really. M&S was at 594k at the end of 2009 compared to 686k for MGS4 at the same time (numbers from Famitsu Top 500 for year 2008). M&S isn't selling much right now. For the latter half of 2008 it sold only 33k. So MGS4 is probably out of its reach. Unless so cheap re-release would come out. But it still would be hard - MGS4 is getting cheap re-release next week.



jarrod on 16 February 2010

*bump*

Taiko 1's getting a standalone rerelease for those new Taiko 2 buyers. Last chance!



jarrod on 16 February 2010

For those keeping score...

 

Famitsu

  • [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4 (Konami) 686,254
  • [Wii] Taiko no Tasujin Wii (Namco) 641,599
  • [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3 the BEST) 84,193

 

VGC

  • [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4 (Konami + PS3 the BEST) 740,000
  • [Wii] Taiko no Tasujin Wii (Namco) 660,000