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Media Create Charts: 17 - 23 July
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Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Thomper said:
While I'll agree with the black DSL, I think FF3 might hurt it more than help. The brain games I could see because they're impulse buys, but that's 2 full price DS games at the same time. Which might not matter much, but I still don't think FF3 will help it.
What do you guys think the DS Lite will do next week? Raise or lower itself? A lot of big games are coming out, Tamagotchi, Mushi King 2, Mario Basketball and Power Pro (online). BUT, almost all of these are sequels, so most people interested might already have a DS. Hm...
It'll be sure to be a great 3rd party week for DS, though.
It'll be sure to be a great 3rd party week for DS, though.
Mithos Yggdrasill
Banned
ioi said:
Great Job.
What are now your predictions for new Super Mario bros. in the long term ? Will it reach Super Mario Land ?
I'd guess AC will see a boost in the coming weeks due to a new advert:
http://touch-ds.jp/mediagallery/st47.html
http://touch-ds.jp/mediagallery/st47.html
Mr. Pointy
Member
I waiting for the bit where a CG Tom Nook runs on screen and kneecaps them both with an oar. It didn't happenShiggy said:
Nazgul_Hunter
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Pureauthor
Member
Nice Kirby and Pac-charts.
wonderfuldays
Member
Since Loco Roco bombed, it's price in japan also dropped from 4800yen to 1980yen.
And even DS has Loco Roco!!!:lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klt0ZrXl_4U
And even DS has Loco Roco!!!:lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klt0ZrXl_4U
LanceStern
Banned
I can't complain about 3rd Party DS sales this time because they've all managed to keep onto the chart for a nice 2nd-3rd week jog.
What I would like to know is what is Children of Mana's LTD in Japan? Magic box used to have the Top 30 famitsu chart posted everyweek with the numbers, but the 3 weeks CoM popped it's head back into the Top 30, they didn't put the chart up
What I would like to know is what is Children of Mana's LTD in Japan? Magic box used to have the Top 30 famitsu chart posted everyweek with the numbers, but the 3 weeks CoM popped it's head back into the Top 30, they didn't put the chart up
LanceStern said:I can't complain about 3rd Party DS sales this time because they've all managed to keep onto the chart for a nice 2nd-3rd week jog.
What I would like to know is what is Children of Mana's LTD in Japan? Magic box used to have the Top 30 famitsu chart posted everyweek with the numbers, but the 3 weeks CoM popped it's head back into the Top 30, they didn't put the chart up
its over 260,000 at 2006/06/25 (klick)... so it's about 280,000 at the end of july!
elektrotal
Member
damn it, i totally paid full price for loco. i should have waited a week.
Pureauthor
Member
C'mon, CoM! Break 300,000!
Netrunner2k2
Member
wonderfuldays said:
Ouch!
Pureauthor said:
According to vgcharts, which is a good estimate, it will - next week.
EDIT: But then, according to that, ACWW broke 3M 8 weeks ago. I'm sure CoM will break 300k, though
LanceStern said:I can't complain about 3rd Party DS sales this time because they've all managed to keep onto the chart for a nice 2nd-3rd week jog.
What I would like to know is what is Children of Mana's LTD in Japan? Magic box used to have the Top 30 famitsu chart posted everyweek with the numbers, but the 3 weeks CoM popped it's head back into the Top 30, they didn't put the chart up
verplant said:
That is not correct. Famitsu had it at 280,377 as of June. So it's even higher now that we're nearing the end of July.
I'd say 300k (if it's not there yet) is guaranteed.
Barf_the_Mog
powerless or are they? o_O
Wasn't CoM rated so-so? Why should we want it to pass 300,000? It would only encourage more mediocrity.
Pureauthor
Member
We're being optimistic in hoping that game devs will be smart enough to think 'Wow, if a mediocre game like CoM breaks 300,000, think about what our quality titles would do!'
Barf_the_Mog said:
CoM has not, largely, been considered mediocre at all. It's been considered to be an entirely different sort of game than its predecessors in the Mana series -- but given that it's a spinoff, not a sequel, that's to be expected. For what it is (a loot-collecting dungeon crawler), it's excellent.
And I want it to sell extremely well to help establish a stronger RPG market on the DS. I want the DS to be considered an extremely viable platform for developers on which to put their RPGs (particularly if they're 2D sprite-based like Children of Mana) and I want consumers to accept those to continue the cycle.
Pureauthor
Member
Wouldn't work. We all know 3rd party doesn't sell on Nintendo.
Barf_the_Mog
powerless or are they? o_O
third party games EXCEPT tomagachi (sp?)
Pureauthor
Member
I dare you to say that in 7 days exactly and still mean it
Don't mean it now, why would I mean it a week later? :lol
NintendosBooger
Member
Bo130 said:I dare you to say that in 7 days exactly and still mean it
What comes out in 7 days?
Pureauthor said:
...I dunno
Still, the 3rd party next week is gonna be SO interesting and important for the DS Hope it does well. It's really the only part lacking of the japanese sale.EDIT: They're out today, on the list next week
The next Tamagotchi DS - the first one is the only 3rd party title to pass the million
The next Mushi King DS - the GBA one sold amazingly, the DS didn't. The DS-version was a remake, though - this is all new.
The next Power Pro Baseball for DS - this time with online.
I expect all three to sell well. Besides, then there's the new Crash Game, Jensei-Game, Mario Basketball and the new Bit Generations. Don't expect them to do that well, though. Perhaps Mario Basketball
Viewtiful Darkness
Member
wonderfuldays said:Since Loco Roco bombed, it's price in japan also dropped from 4800yen to 1980yen.
And even DS has Loco Roco!!!:lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klt0ZrXl_4U
Not surprising. LocoRoco was never going to be a big seller. It is one of those games that just want appeal to the mainstream market no matter how much Sony tries to advertise it. It's a great game, just not a game that has a lot of mainstream appeal. It's another great game that never had a chance to sell well.
Barf_the_Mog
powerless or are they? o_O
Viewtiful Darkness said:
Okay, people say that the PSP needs more pick-up-and-play games like Loco Roco to capture the Japanese audience. Now that it bombed, it's easy to say "It never had a chance." What does the PSP need to have to survive and thrive?
NintendosBooger
Member
Barf_the_Mog said:
Copy Nintendo. That's not a fanboyish remark, either, but it seems that whenever a competitor (Sega, Atari, and now Sony) tries to carve out a fresh market, somewhat mutually exclusive from that of Nintendo, they end up at the bottom. Granted, the PSP is the most successful handheld to ever compete against Nintendo's monopoly, but I think it's a product that is simply riding off the success of the Playstation brand. Had a small company released the PSP, with all the games and features of the current PSP, it would have bombed big time.
Magicpaint
Member
jett said:
Except it's the fastest selling Playstation product according to Sony and is actually profitable.
Barf_the_Mog
powerless or are they? o_O
But they have been copying Nintendo to some degree. Sega released Brain Training. Lumines was a better puzzle game than Meteos and now its sequal will soon be unleashed. Loco Roco was supposed to fill the quirky Japanese-style quick-play game. They've had RPGs, FPS, online games, sports games, racing games....what does the DS do different?
Grampa Simpson
Banned
Bad decision period. If not for the PSP, Nintendo would have never have released the DS to combat it.jett said:
The DS would never have had a chance to prove that the Playstation name did not equate to instant and complete financial success.
Chris Michael
Banned
Barf_the_Mog said:
Or another, real Mana game. Or just more support in general.
I don't understand how DS could sell so well yet PSP gets all the third parties' biggest games. I think its great PSP getting such good support, as I plan on buying one some day, but I'd like to see games that the PSP is getting all the time on the DS too once in a while. I know I said this before in another thread but I'm repetetive like that.
GreenNight
Member
One of the rumors Ive heard is that if you develop for the PSP you get reduced rates on PS3 costs. That would explain alot of this with 3rd parties.
Mama Smurf
My penis is still intact.
bmf said:
I don't think that's true, they just wouldn't have released the DS quite so early.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Sure, but PSP just isn't built to do something like Brain Training as well. DS has Ridge Racer, but sitting next to the PSP version noone cares.Barf_the_Mog said:
Not like either of those games have been a major deal.
To call back moku's DS game chart, it seems to be a combination of Nintendo as developer, and the touch screen allowing for new types of interaction; neither of which is possible on PSP.
Baron Doggystyle von Woof
Member
Saoh said:
one word: TOUCHSCREEN