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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan charts, week 26 2009, Wii Sport resort debut

megaman79 on 30 June 2009

This is going to ultimately prove that Wii Sports sold irrelivent of its pack in status.



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samus aran rules on 30 June 2009

BIG first week sales! I was wrong in my prediction and I´m happy for it. Already showing signs of great legs as well.



kopstudent89 on 30 June 2009

wow didnt expect that, but maybe the lack of wii games hyped up this game even more. Awesome sales, already 2nd best wii seller this yr just behnd wii fit. Now it's important how the second week will be, thats what decides how strong the momentum of wii hardware will be. Hopefully it can sustain above the 150k level which i think is very possible



Me on 30 June 2009

with the choice of bundles for WM+ and the popularity of WSR then it's safe to assume that WM+ will have a decent userbase and will get plenty of support.

I predict a star wars game with WM+ by the end of this year - probably holiday season.



 


kamil on 30 June 2009
Rhonin the wizard said:

First week sales for the Wii series games in Japan, according to VGChartz(I'm too lazy to look for Famitsu numbers):
Wii Fit - 252,510
Wii Sports - 181,902
Wii Play - 178,367
Wii Music - 106,910

Wii Sports Resort has higher week one sales than all of them, impressive.

I'm not sure what's so impressive in beating those games.

1. Wii Music is considered to be a faillure by most people.
2. Wii Sports and Wii Play were both lanuch titles. Thus they couldn't really break any record.
3. Wii Fit was supply constrained during its launch and was released on Saturday (had only 2 days of sales in its first week compared to 4 days for WiiSports).

 

350k is quite a good improvement compared to 155k for first day but for a sequal to 3.5  million seller 350k for first week isn't really that impressive. 



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Legend11 on 30 June 2009
Rhonin the wizard said:

First week sales for the Wii series games in Japan, according to VGChartz(I'm too lazy to look for Famitsu numbers):
Wii Fit - 252,510
Wii Sports - 181,902
Wii Play - 178,367
Wii Music - 106,910

Wii Sports Resort has higher week one sales than all of them, impressive.


Wasn't Wii Fit supply constrained in Japan?  As for Wii Sports and Wii Play they were launch titles, the Wii itself sold ~362,000 units and was supply constrained at launch, so I don't see how it's impressive that Wii Sports Resort outsold them given that.



kopstudent89 on 30 June 2009

^^ Could we just celebrate for a while :P



MANUELF on 30 June 2009

Pretty good first week if we compare it to its first day of 155k



FreeTalkLive on 30 June 2009
megaman79 said:
This is going to ultimately prove that Wii Sports sold irrelivent of its pack in status.

It wasn't packed in.



 

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trestres on 30 June 2009

Could have sold more but someone there fucked it up because it sold almost 100% of the initial shipment. Was it Nintendo not sending enough or retailers trembling with fear expecting another underperforming game? This is one of the worst news I've read all year, retailers or Nintendo doubting the sequel of a 3.5 million game, terrible.



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