01.PS3 Grand Theft Auto IV (Capcom) 122000 new
02.DS Valkyrie Profile: the Acused One (Square Enix) 74000 new
03.PS3 LittleBigPlanet (SCE) 47000 new
04.360 Grand Theft Auto IV (Capcom) 38000 new
05.DS Girl's Mode (Nintendo) 38000 / 125000
06.DS Pokemon Platinum (Nintendo) 37000 / 1831000
07.PS3 Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III (SCE) 34000 new
08.DS Rhythm Paradise Gold (Nintendo) 33000 / 1001000
09.DS Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon DS Plus (Square Enix) 28000 new
10.Wii Wii Music (Nintendo) 23000 / 164000
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Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better sales figures. We can all sleep well tonight. Hopefully those sales kick on through the xmas period and through until the new year.
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Great hardware sales beating the wii which seems to have been slipping for a while. Expected a bit more from LBP but I imagine it could be a slow burn, hopefully will stay in the top 30 for some time.
01.PS3 Grand Theft Auto IV (Capcom) 122000 new
02.DS Valkyrie Profile: the Acused One (Square Enix) 74000 new
03.PS3 LittleBigPlanet (SCE) 47000 new
04.360 Grand Theft Auto IV (Capcom) 38000 new
05.DS Girl's Mode (Nintendo) 38000 / 125000
06.DS Pokemon Platinum (Nintendo) 37000 / 1831000
07.PS3 Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III (SCE) 34000 new
08.DS Rhythm Paradise Gold (Nintendo) 33000 / 1001000
09.DS Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon DS Plus (Square Enix) 28000 new
10.Wii Wii Music (Nintendo) 23000 / 164000
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1200% increase for the PS3 due to LBP bundles and such. interesting that the game had such....lackluster sales.
900% increase for DS sales due to the DSi Launch.
360 projected to be back on the bottom for the first time in 8 weeks.
The PS3 REALLY took out some of the gains the 360 made this week.
also, highest PS3 sales since MGS4.
PSP only had about a 15% drop this week. will make it very hard for DS to catch it if it stays around 50k.
BUT! assuming DS sold 190k this week, it only lost a net 30k to the PSP in the last 3 weeks, which is the first 3 weeks of the PSP3000 launch. the rest of the year might be interesting indeed to see who comes away the overall top seller.
for all those of you who were pissed off that i was reporting bad things about the PS3 the last few weeks, here i still am, reporting the sales when the PS3 stomped the 360 with 6x the sales
urgh, i really hope MC doesnt start reporting numbers for the DSL and DSi separately, im going to have to go in and redo all my marcos...
As the Statistics poster here
how many times has the PS3 beaten the Wii in sales in Japan since launch..
Just wondered if you had that info...
LBP sales are actually very good.. and helped out the PS3 sales alot.
cheers
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36,000 in Japan is actually impressive for only 6 days.
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Wow, ps3 back from the dead after those awful few weeks. in one week, it almost made up from all those dismal sales compared to the 360. Great news ! It sold more than 360 + Wii. Wow, thanks LBP bundles effect :P I am hoping to see more LBP sales next week though, that game deserve more sales than that.
As for the dsi, seriously, nintendo knows how to sell consoles.
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Anyway, where did this DSi come from? is this Nintendo 's response to how good the PSP has been doing lately?
something like "hey that PSP is outselling us a little too offen, lets make a DS with new features so ppl will rebuy the DS again!"
thou, thats probley not too far from the truth
Good sales all round thou.
the DSi was announced perhaps a month or so ago at either TGS or whatever fall Conference Nintendo attends/hosts in Japan.
it is commonly held that the primary reason for this move was to stop the R4 piracy chip that seems to becoming all-too-common
and seriously, you dont want to drag the PSP into this and call it slapping on new features just to release a new version. the first revision to the NDS, the DS Lite, released in June 06. its now been 2.5 years since the last hardware revision and now we are getting another one. in contrast, the PSP2000 released September 2007.....and the PSP3000 released October 2008 thats a fecking quick turn around for a new revision. in light of that, its not surprising that the DSi is making more of an impact in the market than the PSP3000.
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FF13 demo will probably sell more consoles in japan than any full game, sad but true
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You guys forget the little spike that HOME will make.
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You guys forget the little spike that HOME will make.
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lol @ the people saying LBP flopped , top 3 is something to be proud of
great numbers, glad to see ps3 outselling the other consoles.
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let's see LittleBigPlanet came out on the 30th in Japan so 47,000 copies sold in 4 days is excellent.
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ok, first off, im going to go out on a limb and predict a big spike in ALL consoles the last week of december...
second. how much of an effect do you really expect Killzone to have in JAPAN? somehow i just dont see it being a megahit over there.
and why is it everyone assumes GoW3 is coming out next spring? all we have seen is a single CGi teaser. if sonys past record is anything to go by here, thats a Winter 09 release at the EARLIEST.
Yeah big spike on all consoles but an even bigger spike on an rpg like White Knight Story (i'm getting this game i'm never had the pleasure of playing an rpg, well i did play okami but that was more of an action adventure)
Yeah killzone 2 will be pretty popular on the western front, but nowadays anything can happen just look at how good another western game Grand theft Auto 4 is doing in japan, maybe thats going give them a taste of more western style games.
If Sony has the right people working on this project it could happen. i just wished Sony would have more colaboration developers working together by that i mean having the people who worked on having Resistance online work so smoothly helping the other 1st and 2nd party games (ahem Socom) would greatly benefit them. And having some Insomniac developers showing some of the other how they work so efficiently on the ps3.
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always enjoy reading your comments. thx for the info. ^^
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Dam that was a huge boost thats good to see
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I PREDICT Sony is gonna have a big spike of sold ps3 December 25, whenever White Knight Story comes out, sony is building alot of momentum month after month.
Everyone else already showed theyre cards theyre holding now its time for Sony to show theyres, December is going to be good for them, and its going to carry out until Feburary, Followed by the big blockbuster hit Killzone 2, when that dies out a little bit we get another hit GOD OF WAR 3, yup its all smooth sailing from here on out for Sony.
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I PREDICT Sony is gonna have a big spike of sold ps3 December 25, whenever White Knight Story comes out, sony is building alot of momentum month after month.
Everyone else already showed theyre cards theyre holding now its time for Sony to show theyres, December is going to be good for them, and its going to carry out until Feburary, Followed by the big blockbuster hit Killzone 2, when that dies out a little bit we get another hit GOD OF WAR 3, yup its all smooth sailing from here on out for Sony.
ok, first off, im going to go out on a limb and predict a big spike in ALL consoles the last week of december...
second. how much of an effect do you really expect Killzone to have in JAPAN? somehow i just dont see it being a megahit over there.
and why is it everyone assumes GoW3 is coming out next spring? all we have seen is a single CGi teaser. if sonys past record is anything to go by here, thats a Winter 09 release at the EARLIEST.
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The title for the thread really should be Famitsu numbers not MC. I know you are just setting it up so that you can be sure and be the first to post MC numbers tomorrow but it's inaccurate.
dammit. you got me. that was a typo. i mean to just put "Japan Hardware Sales [date]" each week, then edit in the MC later. sorry for the confusion.
am editing it now.
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HAHAHA. That is uncanny. Great minds think alike they say.
And to tell the truth I prefer MC numbers over famitsu.
If this is true though that means that the PS3 outsold the 360 by 20,000 this month. It is not entirely even as the 360 outsold the PS3 by 23,000 the month before. But if this is a return to business as usual then there would be no point in counting the numbers.
Interesting though because if I am not mistaken Last remenant comes out first on 360 and that should give a big boost only to be countered by WKS the following month. I wonder if there are going to be anymore surprises.
Yes I prefer MC over Famitsu as well it's just the OP appears to have put MC in the title just so they could try and make sure they were the first to post numbers, sort of like how Loudninja used to be pretty obsessed to try and post them first.
History has pretty much shown steep declines and then back down to sub 10K after big releases. PS3 sales maybe able to stay above 10K through the end of the year due to the increase in holiday sales but I think it's pretty safe to say it will be back below 10K by mid January.
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Interesting set of figures. Good to see the PS3 sales up again after all the moaning about how the PS3 was failing in Japan and it was the end of the Playstation brand just because people were waiting for the new 80GB bundle!
I'm taken aback a little with the number od DSi sales but shouldn't really have been surprised. Maybe those numbers will come down once everyone in Japan has 3 DSi's to go alongside their 3 DSlites!
As for LBP: I don't think that the first weeks sales will be the be all and end all of LBP; it will sell and sell at a nice rate for ages in my opinion.
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Wow I'm impressed that PS3 outsold the Wii. DS is still a monster but PSP sales are looking good too.
EDIT- I just saw your post Staticneuron. Ironic you were saying nobody mentioning PS3 outselling Wii while I was typing it. lol
HAHAHA. That is uncanny. Great minds think alike they say.
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The title for the thread really should be Famitsu numbers not MC. I know you are just setting it up so that you can be sure and be the first to post MC numbers tomorrow but it's inaccurate.
And to tell the truth I prefer MC numbers over famitsu.
If this is true though that means that the PS3 outsold the 360 by 20,000 this month. It is not entirely even as the 360 outsold the PS3 by 23,000 the month before. But if this is a return to business as usual then there would be no point in counting the numbers.
Interesting though because if I am not mistaken Last remenant comes out first on 360 and that should give a big boost only to be countered by WKS the following month. I wonder if there are going to be anymore surprises.
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How come no one is mentioning the PS3 outselling the Wii in Japan
If I am not mistaken, even during good sales the PS3 hasn't always topped the Wii.
Cause we all know it's only going to last for a few weeks. Just like the 360.
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good sales for all hardware.... its nice to see the PS3 go back up in sales
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Game sales are frontloaded to the EXTREME. Look no further than MGS4 for proof (it accounted for more than 85% of it LTD sales in the first couple of weeks). With that said, LBP is pretty much a flop. Even Infinite Undiscovery for the X360 had a much more impressive start. A game like this will probably (hopefully) sell much better in the western markets. The industry needs games like LBP to sell well.
Most game sales in Japan normally top out in sales within the first week. But there are a few games that do have legs and it is way to early to tell if this game will be it or not.
My thinking is that this game, aside from being cute, offers nothing to the typical crowd. Apparently its not storybased/ or has a weak story and its a sandbox platformer.
There isn't much that screams storm japan there. I am also surprised at GTA4 sales there. I thought GTA were banned in japan.
Anyways I think we will see big numbers when we see WKS (like the only big selling 360 games in japan, WKS is a jrpg).
EDIT: How come no one is mentioning the PS3 outselling the Wii in Japan
If I am not mistaken, even during good sales the PS3 hasn't always topped the Wii.
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Famitsu Hardware 10/27 - 11/2
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The title for the thread really should be Famitsu numbers not MC. I know you are just setting it up so that you can be sure and be the first to post MC numbers tomorrow but it's inaccurate.
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Wow I'm impressed that PS3 outsold the Wii. DS is still a monster but PSP sales are looking good too.
EDIT- I just saw your post Staticneuron. Ironic you were saying nobody mentioning PS3 outselling Wii while I was typing it. lol
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Finally, the PS3 got out of it's slump and damn.... the DSi number is ****ing insane! But.... I'm a bit disappointed in LBP numbers, next week will show if it has legs. If it drops bad then over the next few weeks it may be a flop in Japan. Nice to see three PS3 games in the top 10.
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Why do you guys always have names like "The Truth" TrueGamer" "MatureGamer" "Real Gamer" "Nonebias" etc
Same thing crossed my mind as well
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Anyway, where did this DSi come from? is this Nintendo 's response to how good the PSP has been doing lately?
something like "hey that PSP is outselling us a little too offen, lets make a DS with new features so ppl will rebuy the DS again!"
thou, thats probley not too far from the truth
Good sales all round thou.
In addition to the wheel, the lightbulb, electricity, oxygen, happy and the word innovative, Nintendo also invented the tweaked-handheld-boost-sales business model.
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Game sales are frontloaded to the EXTREME. Look no further than MGS4 for proof (it accounted for more than 85% of it LTD sales in the first couple of weeks). With that said, LBP is pretty much a flop. Even Infinite Undiscovery for the X360 had a much more impressive start. A game like this will probably (hopefully) sell much better in the western markets. The industry needs games like LBP to sell well.
Why do you guys always have names like "The Truth" TrueGamer" "MatureGamer" "Real Gamer" "Nonebias" etc
Anyway, where did this DSi come from? is this Nintendo 's response to how good the PSP has been doing lately?
something like "hey that PSP is outselling us a little too offen, lets make a DS with new features so ppl will rebuy the DS again!"
thou, thats probley not too far from the truth
Good sales all round thou.
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Originally Posted by FinalEvangelion
GTA is one of the only Western games that most Japanese people on the streets know about. I have to explain to most people what Halo is. But, in America, I usually have to explain Dragon Quest since most have not heard of it.
Resistance 2 has a chance to do pretty good, since the first Resistance sold over 100k in Japan.
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1) Announcing either a PC or Bundle early, and then
2) Not do a thing to move current stock for like a month or longer
That would have been a terrible move by SCEJ. Yes there would have been a spike in sales if they lowered the price of the 40GB, but then they would have run into the following problems:
-People would then expect PS3 had a real price cut, not discontinuing an old SKU clearance.
-When SCEJ runs out of 40GB consoles, they could run into an issue of having a hard time selling the 80GB because the 40GB was cheaper (but gone). When SCEA did that to the 60GB last year, they were pretty much forced to drop the 80GB earlier than expected. Same for MS with the 360 when switching to 60GB. Sony does NOT plan to cut the price anywhere, and cutting the price of the 40GB goes against this (even if it's phasing it out).
SCEJ knew that once they release the 80GB, they'd instantly sell back all the consoles 360 leaded PS3 during all this time.
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I was trying to tell people that PS3 was having supply constraints the last few weeks and it would spike when the 80 GB came out. Unfortunately, Western media wants people to pay more attention to the fact that the 360 was beating the PS3, even if they had to leave out a few facts.
LBP is a new IP/Western game. I was hoping a little better, but it could have been worse. Hopefully, people here will warm up to it in the next few weeks. The Japanese girls I have shown the game to think it's the cutest thing ever, lol.
GTA is one of the only Western games that most Japanese people on the streets know about. I have to explain to most people what Halo is. But, in America, I usually have to explain Dragon Quest since most have not heard of it.
Kinda like how many on here that dismissed the 360's supply constraints? Yeah....I know what you mean.
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Well, order has been restored back to the Japanese gaming universe. Though, I'm not particularly surprised by Little Big Planet's numbers, I honestly wasn't expecting the Japanese to bite to any great degree, just because it's a Western developed title. And I also agree with Skulpt in thinking the PS3 will fall back to around shifting 15,000 units a week, until White Knight Chronicles comes out.
I strongly disagree. LBP isn't a proven game or concept, so it wasn't like people were waiting for it.
Let that nitroglycerin just float around for a bit, and then let's see what happens when the sun comes by.
Maybe it'll slowly disappear from the radar, but I highly doubt it.
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Maybe those 120k dissapointed GTA buyers will get LBP next week.
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Solid numbers nothing amazing but solid indeed
I'm thinking LBP might gain in popularity
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I was trying to tell people that PS3 was having supply constraints the last few weeks and it would spike when the 80 GB came out. Unfortunately, Western media wants people to pay more attention to the fact that the 360 was beating the PS3, even if they had to leave out a few facts.
LBP is a new IP/Western game. I was hoping a little better, but it could have been worse. Hopefully, people here will warm up to it in the next few weeks. The Japanese girls I have shown the game to think it's the cutest thing ever, lol.
GTA is one of the only Western games that most Japanese people on the streets know about. I have to explain to most people what Halo is. But, in America, I usually have to explain Dragon Quest since most have not heard of it.
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Well, order has been restored back to the Japanese gaming universe. Though, I'm not particularly surprised by Little Big Planet's numbers, I honestly wasn't expecting the Japanese to bite to any great degree, just because it's a Western developed title. And I also agree with Skulpt in thinking the PS3 will fall back to around shifting 15,000 units a week, until White Knight Chronicles comes out.
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It gets confusing sometimes with who distributes, who publishes, etc... that's why I don't even nitpick it LOL
Someone could tell me Konami published Gears of War, I wouldn't care LOL
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Not bad numbers. But these JPN translations are not easy to make sense.
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Thank god that's over!
Either way good run for both systems! Ms def showed how Rpgs are what will move any system over there. (As if we didn't know this already) Oddly enough is seems like Both these systems can't sell a buttload at the same time, odd.
Nice to see the ps3 has 3 games in the top 10.
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See, this is what I was talking about. Sony has shot themselves in the face a few times by first...
1) Announcing either a PC or Bundle early, and then
2) Not do a thing to move current stock for like a month or longer
There was no way the PS3 was selling so low just because of low demand of PS3 in general. With the bundle announced a month or so earlier + the 80gb addition, there was low demand for the old SKU, especially with Sony not lowering the prices. I would expect the PS3 to sell around 15k next week and then go down again probably to 9k or so to stay until White Knight Chronicles.
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Capcom has been the distributor for GTA in Japan before.
Ah, didn't know that. Thanks Naxi.
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i would have liked to have seen the ps3 sell better but at least it is back up around 30,000 mark and the ps2 outsold the 360 again
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Originally Posted by the-truth
Game sales are frontloaded to the EXTREME. Look no further than MGS4 for proof (it accounted for more than 85% of it LTD sales in the first couple of weeks). With that said, LBP is pretty much a flop. Even Infinite Undiscovery for the X360 had a much more impressive start. A game like this will probably (hopefully) sell much better in the western markets. The industry needs games like LBP to sell well.
about LBP being a flop...i dont think so, alot of people "follow" when needed on something like this Ex: when my kids tell ur kids how fun it is, thats when ur kids ask you to buy it.
if i dont follow gaming news...(pft lol yea right) i wouldn't buy it or even know its out until i see my friend playing, and to be honest, its a pretty catchy game. Catchy enough to give someone a quick "should i buy it? everyones got it" thought...Japan is huge on RPG's so no wonder Infinite undiscovery was huge, they were WAITING for JRPG's...kinda explains why it was a much better start...but what about sales of the following months.
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What will be a real telling factor is if the PS3 sales remain strong once the allure of the bundles is gone. This is really a good bump in sales for sure, but I don't know about its staying power.
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That's more like I expect it to sell in Japan.
LBP will have good legs too; it's one of those word of mouth sellers.
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I kind of told people, once the new PS3 SKU was released (the 80GB finally bundled with the game GT5P Spec III) and so on would cause a boost.
The entire reason PS3 sales went down was because there was ONLY a 40GB being offered and everyone knew an 80GB w/DS3 (+ game) was coming (so why buy a 40GB?).
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Don't worry about LBP.. it will stay around the charts for a long time.. I got it and after I had talked it to death..some of my friends played it at my house.. then they preordered it and this is how it will spread.. never heard anything but terms like cool... nice.. great .. amazing and so forth... right now the neighbours kids have abandoned their Wii and have been playing LBP at my house along with my kids for the last couple of days.. and guess what they will buy a PS3 next week due to LBP.
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Game sales are frontloaded to the EXTREME. Look no further than MGS4 for proof (it accounted for more than 85% of it LTD sales in the first couple of weeks). With that said, LBP is pretty much a flop. Even Infinite Undiscovery for the X360 had a much more impressive start. A game like this will probably (hopefully) sell much better in the western markets. The industry needs games like LBP to sell well.
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Wow thats not a boost its a super boost lol Its way past Wii too.
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Since when does Capcom make GTAIV?
Capcom has been the distributor for GTA in Japan before.
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Since when does Capcom make GTAIV?
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Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better sales figures. We can all sleep well tonight. Hopefully those sales kick on through the xmas period and through until the new year.
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Go lbp, go go go...
On a side note, "Oooh! PS3 is doing good again!"
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Pls drop the price Sony, the PS3 is going nowhere this way /sarcasm
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As the Statistics poster here
how many times has the PS3 beaten the Wii in sales in Japan since launch..
Just wondered if you had that info...
LBP sales are actually very good.. and helped out the PS3 sales alot.
cheers
3 times:
Nov 11, 2007
Nov 18, 2007
June15, 2008
first 2 were from the initial spike from lowering the PS3 to $400, the last was MGS4 effect. this would be the 4th time ever.
by contrast, the 360 has beaten the PS3 9 times since the PS3 released, and depending on whether you go by famitsu or MC, they have beaten the wii once.
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Looks like the MC numbers are up.
DSi 171,925
PSP 50,358
PS3 39,587
Wii 23,123
DS Lite 16,369
PS2 6,714
Xbox 360 6,119
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I know I'm going to sound like a PS3 hater now, but let me first say that yes the PS3 had a decent increase in sales. But after reading through some of the posts in this thread I've come to the conslusion that a few of you have a really limited knowledge when it comes to game sales in general and especially Japanese game sales.
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Don't worry about LBP.. it will stay around the charts for a long time.. I got it and after I had talked it to death..some of my friends played it at my house.. then they preordered it and this is how it will spread.. never heard anything but terms like cool... nice.. great .. amazing and so forth... right now the neighbours kids have abandoned their Wii and have been playing LBP at my house along with my kids for the last couple of days.. and guess what they will buy a PS3 next week due to LBP.
The problem is that game realeses are very frontloaded, especially in Japan, except if you are a casual game made by Nintendo. There has not been a singel PS3 title with relatively decent legs in Japan. They usually drops out of the top 10 either the week after or two weeks later and then very fast out of the top 30. Yes LBP could potentially break that, but I seriously doubt it. I expect it to remain in the top 10 next week, but I think it will drop down to somewhere between 20k-25k. And then fall even faster the weeks after.
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What will be a real telling factor is if the PS3 sales remain strong once the allure of the bundles is gone. This is really a good bump in sales for sure, but I don't know about its staying power.
The problem is that the PS3 has nothing this week to keep the momentum going. As a result of that, expect the PS3 to go down to sub 20k, if not next week, the week after that.
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I PREDICT Sony is gonna have a big spike of sold ps3 December 25, whenever White Knight Story comes out, sony is building alot of momentum month after month.
Everyone else already showed theyre cards theyre holding now its time for Sony to show theyres, December is going to be good for them, and its going to carry out until Feburary, Followed by the big blockbuster hit Killzone 2, when that dies out a little bit we get another hit GOD OF WAR 3, yup its all smooth sailing from here on out for Sony.
The PS3 will undoubtly get a boost with WKC, but you have to remember that the game hits in the biggest Japanese shopping week. The last week of December is by far the biggest week, sales wise. For example, the DS sold 597k during the last week in December back in 2005. So the bump will be a combination of holiday sales and WKC.
About yoyr second pharagraph. Killzone is a VERY small franshise in Japan, mostly because it's an FPS and a western made game. The first sold only 15k for the PS2, and the PSP version sold only 10k.
God of War is a bigger franshise in Japan, but still not big enough that PS3 sales will take off significantly. + Ireally doubt we'll see GoW3 next spring. I predict it to either be a late 09 or 10 title.
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let's see LittleBigPlanet came out on the 30th in Japan so 47,000 copies sold in 4 days is excellent.
Depends on how much you predicted. SONY personal hopes it will sell atleast 250k in Japan. The only way it can reach that is if the title can establish some REALLY good legs, otherwise it will fall hard next week, and struggle to even hit 150k.
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36,000 in Japan is actually impressive for only 6 days.
Compared to other PS3 weeks, yes. Compared to other consoles, no. Selling 36k isn't exactly something to celebrate. The PS2 was selling 70k-80k per week in its prime time. + the PS3 has, again, nothing to keep the momentum going for the next few weeks.
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Looks like the MC numbers are up.
DSi 171,925
PSP 50,358
PS3 39,587
Wii 23,123
DS Lite 16,369
PS2 6,714
Xbox 360 6,119
wow, thats again that the numbers were released like 12 hours earlier than usual.....very strange
grpahs and analysis coming post haste
*5 minutes later*
yeah....on second thought. MC is reporting DSi as a separate category, and it pretty much wreaked havoc on my automated archive. im going to have to redo a bunch of code and reformat some things. i will get the graphs out sometime tonight...im supposed to be going into work right now.
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Lckluster sales for LBP? Was it even out all week? I was expecting better though i must say. Certainly expecting it to do better than GTAIV, which deserves to sell none at all...
Anyways...PS3 sold fairlyt well for the week, DS did good but not as well as i was expecting. Looks like PSP may yet get the highest sales this year. Maybe.
Also, an amazing amountof PS3 games in the top 10. Wow. Don't see that every week.
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I believe LBP was release on the 30th, which gives it 4 days of sales.
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PS3 selling more than Wii? Thats a very strong week
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just posted this in the OP. the comments are different now too.
Spoiler:
comments:
1007% increase for PS3
360 back on the bottom for the first time in 8 weeks.
PS3 more than outsold the 360's ENTIRE sales for the month of October this week
highest PS3 sales since MGS4.
820% increase for DS
Yearly Totals:
DS - 2,898,633
PSP - 3,265,187
Difference: 366,554
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PS3: If only the PS3 was about 50$ cheaper it would bring about 30k more sales or something.. PS3 seriously needs some sort of price drop but non the less good numbers on the PS3 side.
PS2: Looks like it still has plenty of life left..nothing else to say.
PSP: Looking good for the PSP. With some more rpgs im sure it will pop up over 100k again!
360: Not to shabby.. but it looks like it reached its price cut sales limit!
DSi: I hear those numbers are only for 2 days so..wooooow. Props to Nintendo even though I don't like DS or Wii!!
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Great news that the PS3 isnt dead in japan (was worried for a bit there) but why did LBP do so poorly?
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Originally Posted by Jaffray
I know I'm going to sound like a PS3 hater now, but let me first say that yes the PS3 had a decent increase in sales. But after reading through some of the posts in this thread I've come to the conslusion that a few of you have a really limited knowledge when it comes to game sales in general and especially Japanese game sales.
The problem is that game realeses are very frontloaded, especially in Japan, except if you are a casual game made by Nintendo. There has not been a singel PS3 title with relatively decent legs in Japan. They usually drops out of the top 10 either the week after or two weeks later and then very fast out of the top 30. Yes LBP could potentially break that, but I seriously doubt it. I expect it to remain in the top 10 next week, but I think it will drop down to somewhere between 20k-25k. And then fall even faster the weeks after.
The problem is that the PS3 has nothing this week to keep the momentum going. As a result of that, expect the PS3 to go down to sub 20k, if not next week, the week after that.
The PS3 will undoubtly get a boost with WKC, but you have to remember that the game hits in the biggest Japanese shopping week. The last week of December is by far the biggest week, sales wise. For example, the DS sold 597k during the last week in December back in 2005. So the bump will be a combination of holiday sales and WKC.
About yoyr second pharagraph. Killzone is a VERY small franshise in Japan, mostly because it's an FPS and a western made game. The first sold only 15k for the PS2, and the PSP version sold only 10k.
God of War is a bigger franshise in Japan, but still not big enough that PS3 sales will take off significantly. + Ireally doubt we'll see GoW3 next spring. I predict it to either be a late 09 or 10 title.
Depends on how much you predicted. SONY personal hopes it will sell atleast 250k in Japan. The only way it can reach that is if the title can establish some REALLY good legs, otherwise it will fall hard next week, and struggle to even hit 150k.
Compared to other PS3 weeks, yes. Compared to other consoles, no. Selling 36k isn't exactly something to celebrate. The PS2 was selling 70k-80k per week in its prime time. + the PS3 has, again, nothing to keep the momentum going for the next few weeks.
Little harsh there man. You ok? Need a drink? And even though you can say 38k isn't impressive, that unimpressive number just outsold the wii.
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Originally Posted by webshark
just posted this in the OP. the comments are different now too.
Spoiler:
comments:
1007% increase for PS3
360 back on the bottom for the first time in 8 weeks.
PS3 more than outsold the 360's ENTIRE sales for the month of October this week
highest PS3 sales since MGS4.
820% increase for DS
Yearly Totals:
DS - 2,898,633
PSP - 3,265,187
Difference: 366,554
I kina had a feeling this would happen. Do me a favor, can you check (if you have the data) how of famitsu normally is in comparison to MC and if the short or pad certain consoles?
I wonfer why thier data is not on point with MC's.
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Originally Posted by sergeriver
Pls drop the price Sony, the PS3 is going nowhere this way /sarcasm
with out price cut, SONY is doomed! Doooooooooooomed!
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Originally Posted by Carl
Lckluster sales for LBP? Was it even out all week? I was expecting better though i must say. Certainly expecting it to do better than GTAIV, which deserves to sell none at all...
Anyways...PS3 sold fairlyt well for the week, DS did good but not as well as i was expecting. Looks like PSP may yet get the highest sales this year. Maybe.
Also, an amazing amountof PS3 games in the top 10. Wow. Don't see that every week.
Correction, it sold better than fairly well, it sold great! It outsold all off the other consoles and pretty much whiped Microsofts 8 week lead right off the board.
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Originally Posted by mickice
with out price cut, SONY is doomed! Doooooooooooomed!
It would be great as a consumer for this to happen but in no way do I see Sony pursuing this anytime soon. If anything make a bundle including a game and a blu ray film. Or a game with extra controller? Idk, but they aren't going to get more systems in households with a $399 price tag.
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Originally Posted by Jrod
It would be great as a consumer for this to happen but in no way do I see Sony pursuing this anytime soon. If anything make a bundle including a game and a blu ray film. Or a game with extra controller? Idk, but they aren't going to get more systems in households with a $399 price tag.
With Nintendo leading with the Wii there really is no point fighting for the lowest price just to gain a lead. Nintendo will sell great regardless of what price MS and SONY have on their console!
This time round SONY took the bigger move and kept the higher price. MS rushed their only good hand and lowered the price and for what? Sales will soon settle back to where they were before or perhaps a little higher with each system now $50 - $100 cheaper.
With Nintendo pulling these numbers theres no reason for SONY to try and fight price wise. People will buy SONY's system for what it is not what it costs. Microsoft has already proven this.
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Originally Posted by mickice
People will buy SONY's system for what it is not what it costs.
A glorified dvd player? A blu ray player with an additional feature to play games?
^^ Thats what I hear from customers.
People still come in buying a PS3 just to complete their home theater set up with a blu ray player.
Damn it peons! It's a great system!!!
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Originally Posted by Staticneuron
Little harsh there man. You ok? Need a drink? And even though you can say 38k isn't impressive, that unimpressive number just outsold the wii.
I kina had a feeling this would happen. Do me a favor, can you check (if you have the data) how of famitsu normally is in comparison to MC and if the short or pad certain consoles?
I wonfer why thier data is not on point with MC's.
i dont actually record the famitsu numbers, but i can pretty confidently say that they are legit. i know there are some people on neogaf that record both and can give you a graph of them side by siade for either console, but really the differences are minute. no one console is treated better than others. the difference comes from the fact that both companies only track about 50% of Japanese retailers and extrapolate the rest, and those 50%'s are not necessarily the same.
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Can I just ask what the hell is the cause of the DS sales increase? 188k? That's friggin insane.
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Can I just ask what the hell is the cause of the DS sales incread? 188k? That's fcking insane.
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Originally Posted by kopkiwi
Can I just ask what the hell is the cause of the DS sales incread? 188k? That's fcking insane.
The new DSI, was expected.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jrod
A glorified dvd player? A blu ray player with an additional feature to play games?
^^ Thats what I hear from customers.
People still come in buying a PS3 just to complete their home theater set up with a blu ray player.
Damn it peons! It's a great system!!!
If thats what the PS3 is i'd hate to think what you call the Wii or the 360
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Lol Ps2 is still beating the living **** out of 360. How embarrasing.
Good sales for Ps3, and I am expecting a boost when WKC comes out.
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Originally Posted by girlgamer1984
Lol Ps2 is still beating the living **** out of 360. How embarrasing.
Good sales for Ps3, and I am expecting a boost when WKC comes out.
You do realize that the 360 was beating the PS2 the last couple weeks without a major game release right? Not to mention the fact the PS3 was even lower than the PS2.
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Originally Posted by mickice
Correction, it sold better than fairly well, it sold great! It outsold all off the other consoles and pretty much whiped Microsofts 8 week lead right off the board.
Fair point it outsold the Wii and 360, but the wii is doing crap compared to what it used to.
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Originally Posted by girlgamer1984
Lol Ps2 is still beating the living **** out of 360. How embarrasing.
Good sales for Ps3, and I am expecting a boost when WKC comes out.
sales for previous 4 weeks:
360 - 31,734
PS2 - 29,823
PS3 - 21,622
who was getting the sh** beat out of them by the PS2 again?
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Quote:
sales for previous 4 weeks:
360 - 31,734
PS2 - 29,823
PS3 - 21,622
who was getting the sh** beat out of them by the PS2 again?
Ps2 has been beating 360 in sales as long as I can remember. If there was a shift in th sales, then it is not in my knowladge. The fact that a last gen console, which was released before xbox, and GC is still beating it in sales is quite overwhelming.
Oh, and I can see the sales, thank you very much. You overlooked the point I was trying to make.
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Originally Posted by girlgamer1984
Ps2 has been beating 360 in sales as long as I can remember. If there was a shift in th sales, then it is not in my knowladge. The fact that a last gen console, which was released before xbox, and GC is still beating it in sales is quite overwhelming.
Oh, and I can see the sales, thank you very much. You overlooked the point I was trying to make.
Yes, but if you look at sales trends for a good while the PS2 (a last gen console) was even beating the PS3 so your point doesn't really matter.
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Soon, the PS3 will conquer all.
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Will the PS2 ever die in Japan???
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Good thread Sharky..
Well the PS3 beat a months sales of the Xbox360 in just one week...impressive.
Dsi is really doing it for Nintendo, but not for long I suppose.
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Originally Posted by the-truth
Game sales are frontloaded to the EXTREME. Look no further than MGS4 for proof (it accounted for more than 85% of it LTD sales in the first couple of weeks). With that said, LBP is pretty much a flop. Even Infinite Undiscovery for the X360 had a much more impressive start. A game like this will probably (hopefully) sell much better in the western markets. The industry needs games like LBP to sell well.
As a few others have hinted one. LBP is a "viral" game. The more people that get it the more people that are going to want it. Especially with the Japanese gaming market having a trend towards local co-op play.
... ps3 this sales remind me of DBZ. Where the 360 was Freeza, and the PS3 was Goku on Namek. /nerd momment.
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Whooo MC numbers!! Webby lives for these!!
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Yes, but if you look at sales trends for a good while the PS2 (a last gen console) was even beating the PS3 so your point doesn't really matter.
Ps2 and Ps3 are Sony's products, thence your point is completely irrelevant.
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Originally Posted by girlgamer1984
Ps2 and Ps3 are Sony's products, thence your point is completely irrelevant.
I think my point is still relevant. Just because the PS2 dominated Japan that doesn't mean that the PS3 will. In fact the PS3 has woefully underperformed in Japan since launch. Just like the N64 didn't replicate the Super NES' numbers in Japan or even worldwide.
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Go lbp, go go go...
On a side note, "Oooh! PS3 is doing good again!"
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Pls drop the price Sony, the PS3 is going nowhere this way /sarcasm
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Originally Posted by Yip-Man
As the Statistics poster here
how many times has the PS3 beaten the Wii in sales in Japan since launch..
Just wondered if you had that info...
LBP sales are actually very good.. and helped out the PS3 sales alot.
cheers
3 times:
Nov 11, 2007
Nov 18, 2007
June15, 2008
first 2 were from the initial spike from lowering the PS3 to $400, the last was MGS4 effect. this would be the 4th time ever.
by contrast, the 360 has beaten the PS3 9 times since the PS3 released, and depending on whether you go by famitsu or MC, they have beaten the wii once.
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Looks like the MC numbers are up.
DSi 171,925
PSP 50,358
PS3 39,587
Wii 23,123
DS Lite 16,369
PS2 6,714
Xbox 360 6,119
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I know I'm going to sound like a PS3 hater now, but let me first say that yes the PS3 had a decent increase in sales. But after reading through some of the posts in this thread I've come to the conslusion that a few of you have a really limited knowledge when it comes to game sales in general and especially Japanese game sales.
Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleB69
Don't worry about LBP.. it will stay around the charts for a long time.. I got it and after I had talked it to death..some of my friends played it at my house.. then they preordered it and this is how it will spread.. never heard anything but terms like cool... nice.. great .. amazing and so forth... right now the neighbours kids have abandoned their Wii and have been playing LBP at my house along with my kids for the last couple of days.. and guess what they will buy a PS3 next week due to LBP.
The problem is that game realeses are very frontloaded, especially in Japan, except if you are a casual game made by Nintendo. There has not been a singel PS3 title with relatively decent legs in Japan. They usually drops out of the top 10 either the week after or two weeks later and then very fast out of the top 30. Yes LBP could potentially break that, but I seriously doubt it. I expect it to remain in the top 10 next week, but I think it will drop down to somewhere between 20k-25k. And then fall even faster the weeks after.
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Originally Posted by cuguy
What will be a real telling factor is if the PS3 sales remain strong once the allure of the bundles is gone. This is really a good bump in sales for sure, but I don't know about its staying power.
The problem is that the PS3 has nothing this week to keep the momentum going. As a result of that, expect the PS3 to go down to sub 20k, if not next week, the week after that.
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Originally Posted by cpitt
I PREDICT Sony is gonna have a big spike of sold ps3 December 25, whenever White Knight Story comes out, sony is building alot of momentum month after month.
Everyone else already showed theyre cards theyre holding now its time for Sony to show theyres, December is going to be good for them, and its going to carry out until Feburary, Followed by the big blockbuster hit Killzone 2, when that dies out a little bit we get another hit GOD OF WAR 3, yup its all smooth sailing from here on out for Sony.
The PS3 will undoubtly get a boost with WKC, but you have to remember that the game hits in the biggest Japanese shopping week. The last week of December is by far the biggest week, sales wise. For example, the DS sold 597k during the last week in December back in 2005. So the bump will be a combination of holiday sales and WKC.
About yoyr second pharagraph. Killzone is a VERY small franshise in Japan, mostly because it's an FPS and a western made game. The first sold only 15k for the PS2, and the PSP version sold only 10k.
God of War is a bigger franshise in Japan, but still not big enough that PS3 sales will take off significantly. + Ireally doubt we'll see GoW3 next spring. I predict it to either be a late 09 or 10 title.
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Originally Posted by snowhawk
let's see LittleBigPlanet came out on the 30th in Japan so 47,000 copies sold in 4 days is excellent.
Depends on how much you predicted. SONY personal hopes it will sell atleast 250k in Japan. The only way it can reach that is if the title can establish some REALLY good legs, otherwise it will fall hard next week, and struggle to even hit 150k.
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Originally Posted by Rekmon
36,000 in Japan is actually impressive for only 6 days.
Compared to other PS3 weeks, yes. Compared to other consoles, no. Selling 36k isn't exactly something to celebrate. The PS2 was selling 70k-80k per week in its prime time. + the PS3 has, again, nothing to keep the momentum going for the next few weeks.
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Originally Posted by Lirion
Looks like the MC numbers are up.
DSi 171,925
PSP 50,358
PS3 39,587
Wii 23,123
DS Lite 16,369
PS2 6,714
Xbox 360 6,119
wow, thats again that the numbers were released like 12 hours earlier than usual.....very strange
grpahs and analysis coming post haste
*5 minutes later*
yeah....on second thought. MC is reporting DSi as a separate category, and it pretty much wreaked havoc on my automated archive. im going to have to redo a bunch of code and reformat some things. i will get the graphs out sometime tonight...im supposed to be going into work right now.
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Lckluster sales for LBP? Was it even out all week? I was expecting better though i must say. Certainly expecting it to do better than GTAIV, which deserves to sell none at all...
Anyways...PS3 sold fairlyt well for the week, DS did good but not as well as i was expecting. Looks like PSP may yet get the highest sales this year. Maybe.
Also, an amazing amountof PS3 games in the top 10. Wow. Don't see that every week.
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I believe LBP was release on the 30th, which gives it 4 days of sales.
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PS3 selling more than Wii? Thats a very strong week
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just posted this in the OP. the comments are different now too.
Spoiler:
comments:
1007% increase for PS3
360 back on the bottom for the first time in 8 weeks.
PS3 more than outsold the 360's ENTIRE sales for the month of October this week
highest PS3 sales since MGS4.
820% increase for DS
Yearly Totals:
DS - 2,898,633
PSP - 3,265,187
Difference: 366,554
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PS3: If only the PS3 was about 50$ cheaper it would bring about 30k more sales or something.. PS3 seriously needs some sort of price drop but non the less good numbers on the PS3 side.
PS2: Looks like it still has plenty of life left..nothing else to say.
PSP: Looking good for the PSP. With some more rpgs im sure it will pop up over 100k again!
360: Not to shabby.. but it looks like it reached its price cut sales limit!
DSi: I hear those numbers are only for 2 days so..wooooow. Props to Nintendo even though I don't like DS or Wii!!
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Great news that the PS3 isnt dead in japan (was worried for a bit there) but why did LBP do so poorly?
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Originally Posted by Jaffray
I know I'm going to sound like a PS3 hater now, but let me first say that yes the PS3 had a decent increase in sales. But after reading through some of the posts in this thread I've come to the conslusion that a few of you have a really limited knowledge when it comes to game sales in general and especially Japanese game sales.
The problem is that game realeses are very frontloaded, especially in Japan, except if you are a casual game made by Nintendo. There has not been a singel PS3 title with relatively decent legs in Japan. They usually drops out of the top 10 either the week after or two weeks later and then very fast out of the top 30. Yes LBP could potentially break that, but I seriously doubt it. I expect it to remain in the top 10 next week, but I think it will drop down to somewhere between 20k-25k. And then fall even faster the weeks after.
The problem is that the PS3 has nothing this week to keep the momentum going. As a result of that, expect the PS3 to go down to sub 20k, if not next week, the week after that.
The PS3 will undoubtly get a boost with WKC, but you have to remember that the game hits in the biggest Japanese shopping week. The last week of December is by far the biggest week, sales wise. For example, the DS sold 597k during the last week in December back in 2005. So the bump will be a combination of holiday sales and WKC.
About yoyr second pharagraph. Killzone is a VERY small franshise in Japan, mostly because it's an FPS and a western made game. The first sold only 15k for the PS2, and the PSP version sold only 10k.
God of War is a bigger franshise in Japan, but still not big enough that PS3 sales will take off significantly. + Ireally doubt we'll see GoW3 next spring. I predict it to either be a late 09 or 10 title.
Depends on how much you predicted. SONY personal hopes it will sell atleast 250k in Japan. The only way it can reach that is if the title can establish some REALLY good legs, otherwise it will fall hard next week, and struggle to even hit 150k.
Compared to other PS3 weeks, yes. Compared to other consoles, no. Selling 36k isn't exactly something to celebrate. The PS2 was selling 70k-80k per week in its prime time. + the PS3 has, again, nothing to keep the momentum going for the next few weeks.
Little harsh there man. You ok? Need a drink? And even though you can say 38k isn't impressive, that unimpressive number just outsold the wii.
Quote:
Originally Posted by webshark
just posted this in the OP. the comments are different now too.
Spoiler:
comments:
1007% increase for PS3
360 back on the bottom for the first time in 8 weeks.
PS3 more than outsold the 360's ENTIRE sales for the month of October this week
highest PS3 sales since MGS4.
820% increase for DS
Yearly Totals:
DS - 2,898,633
PSP - 3,265,187
Difference: 366,554
I kina had a feeling this would happen. Do me a favor, can you check (if you have the data) how of famitsu normally is in comparison to MC and if the short or pad certain consoles?
I wonfer why thier data is not on point with MC's.
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Originally Posted by sergeriver
Pls drop the price Sony, the PS3 is going nowhere this way /sarcasm
with out price cut, SONY is doomed! Doooooooooooomed!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Carl
Lckluster sales for LBP? Was it even out all week? I was expecting better though i must say. Certainly expecting it to do better than GTAIV, which deserves to sell none at all...
Anyways...PS3 sold fairlyt well for the week, DS did good but not as well as i was expecting. Looks like PSP may yet get the highest sales this year. Maybe.
Also, an amazing amountof PS3 games in the top 10. Wow. Don't see that every week.
Correction, it sold better than fairly well, it sold great! It outsold all off the other consoles and pretty much whiped Microsofts 8 week lead right off the board.
