First day sales in Japan (11/19)

First day sales from 11/19 were conspicuously absent last week. However, the numbers have finally been reported and show sell-through rates. We’ve posted the figures below./

Left 4 Dead 2 (360) – 18,000 (65%)
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (PS3) – 10,000 (32%)
Taiko no Tatsujin Wii 2 (Wii) – SA 9,800 (8%) / BE 4,200 (3%)
Dorabase 2 (DS) – 8,000 (12%)
Armored Core Silent Line Portable (PSP) – 7,900 (26%)
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (DS) – 7,400 (6%)
Metal Fight Beyblade (DS) – 2,400 (9%)
Calling (Wii) – 1,100 (23%)
Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier (PSP) – 1,100 (14%)

Low sales all around. Except for L4D2 with a high sell through.

L4D2 doing good business in Japan?!?!

Who doesn't like zombie killin! :D

Kind of unnecessary since we already have the full week sales here...

01. [NDS] Tomodachi Collection (Nintendo) - 59,000 / 1,641,000
02. [WII] Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) - 42,000 / 894,000
03. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver (Pokemon) - 40,000 / 2,985,000
04. [WII] Taiko no Tatusjin Wii: Dodoon to 2 Yome! (Bandai Namco Games) - 29,000
05. [360] Left 4 Dead 2 (Electronic Arts) - 28,000
06. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 2: Kyoui no Shinryakusha - Fire / Blizzard (Level 5) - ?
07. [NDS] Mario & Sonic at the Vancouver Olympics　(Nintendo) - 26,000
08. [PSP] J-League Pro Soccer Club wo Tsukurou! 6: Pride of J (Sega) - ?
09. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 (Konami) - ?
10. [NDS] Dorabase 2: Nettou Ultra Stadium (Bandai Namco Games) - 19,000


** [PS3] Ratchet & Clank: Future 2 (SCE) - 15,000
** [WII] The Calling: Kuroki Chakushin (Hudson) - 2,300
** [PSP] Jack & Daxter: Elf to Itachi no Daibouken (SCE) - 1,100



HW :

DSiLL 103,524
DSi 32,000
DSL 2,700
PSP 33,000
PSP go 4,800
PS3 29,000
WII 29,000

Yeah I should have posted theses # in the full week thread since they were so late.

Taiko shipped 200k, yet the sell through was sooo low :S lets see if it has legs, but that definitely is very low

If it's "legs" are consistent with the last 3 Taiko releases, it'll break 300k.  Taiko Wii 1 sold a lot more upfront (100k iirc), but then it also released closer to the holidays.

^^yeah i know, but still a 10-15percent sell through rate is pretty low even for taiko. Hopefully like u said it will break 300k with legs, but i'm sure Namco arent very happy abt first week sales

I'm SURE Namco's not happy given they expected 500k total, and that's pretty obviously out of the question.  Honestly, I think they should consider western DS/Wii releases, I think Taiko might have a chance to take off over here given the audience, even though the music game bubble's burst.