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[Flying_Phoenix]

"112. [WII] Wario Land: Shake It! (Nintendo) 126,261"

Hmm...

 

[Rock_Man]

Top 500 already! Thanks bttb! Shouldn't we have a new thread for this?

142. [NDS] Eigo ga Nigate na Otona no DS Training: Eigo Duke (Nintendo) 96,106

Total is 2,263,599.

 

[AniHawk]

423 .[GBA] Pokemon FireRed (Pokemon) 26,135 / 1,597,803

Amarzing.

196. [WII] Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Nintendo) 69,059
200. [WII] Resident Evil 0 (Capcom) 67,093

:lol

Also, I'm surprised that ToS2 outsold ToV worldwide. Wouldn't have expected that.

 

[Nirolak]

75. [360] Tales of Vesperia (Bandai Namco) 178,557
100. [360] The Last Remnant (Square Enix) 134,949
125. [360] Infinite Undiscovery (Square Enix) 113,029

267. [360] Fable II (Microsoft) 50,019
277. [360] Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks) 47,288

I'm kind of surprised how well the 360 WRPGs do in Japan, especially relative to the sales of the JRPGs.

Of course, people in Japan who own a 360 probably have more interest in Western games altogether, but still I find that impressive.

63. [PS3] White Knight Chronicles (SCE) 206,954

Edit: Nevermind, those are its first week's sales, mystery solved.

 

[cvxfreak]

191. [WII] Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (Capcom) 70,411 / 248,221
200. [WII] Resident Evil 0 (Capcom) 67,093
358. [PS2] Biohazard 4, PlayStation 4 the Best (Capcom) 32,758
400. [PS2] Biohazard 4, PlayStation 2 the Best (Capcom) 28,625 / 135,282
461. [WII] Resident Evil (Capcom) 23,803

32. [PS3] Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom) 310,023
249. [360] Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom) 53,491
252. [PS2] Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition, PlayStation 2 the Best (Capcom) 53,193 / 89,968

162. [NDS] Gyakuten Saiban: Yomigaeru Gyakuten, New Best Price! 2000 (Capcom) 81,026
205. [NDS] Gyakuten Saiban 3, New Best Price! 2000 (Capcom) 65,924
215. [NDS] Gyakuten Saiban 2, New Best Price! 2000 (Capcom) 61,357
222. [NDS] Gyakuten Saiban 4, New Best Price! 2000 (Capcom) 59,967

01. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) 2,425,320
53. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2 (Capcom) 233,285 / 1,671,227
62. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, PSP the Best (Capcom) 208,528
173. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable, PSP the Best Reprint (Capcom) 76,947 / 124,108
187. [PS2] Monster Hunter 2, PlayStation 2 the Best (Capcom) 71,008 / 109,147

35. [PS3] Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! (Sega) 297,790
103. [PS2] Ryu ga Gotoku 2, PlayStation 2 the Best (Sega) 132,616 / 180,319
283. [PS2] Ryu ga Gotoku, PlayStation 2 the Best Repackage (Sega) 46,525 / 52,810


02. [NDS] Pokemon Platinum (Pokemon) 2,230,765
14. [NDS] Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia (Pokemon) 645,778
67. [NDS] Pokemon Diamond (Pokemon) 192,861 / 3,132,266
84. [NDS] Pokemon Pearl (Pokemon) 159,401 / 2,592,405
175. [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time (Pokemon) 74,115 / 792,592
189. [WII] Pokemon Battle Revolution (Pokemon) 70,923 / 409,234 (wow, where did this come from)
193. [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness (Pokemon) 69,880 / 699,360
344. [GBA] Pokemon Emerald (Pokemon) 35,407 / 1,883,975
423 .[GBA] Pokemon FireRed (Pokemon) 26,135 / 1,597,803

04. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 2,065,949
16. [NDS] Mario Party DS (Nintendo) 567,737 / 1,855,469
19. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo) 521,489 / 3,349,205
27. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) 385,584 / 5,395,258
29. [NDS] Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo) 370,608
38. [WII] Mario Party 8 (Nintendo) 269,869 / 1,348,322
46. [WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) 246,627 / 966,817
58. [WII] Mario Super Sluggers (Nintendo) 214,601
65. [WII] Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo) 202,781 / 574,270
140. [WII] Mario Strikers Charged (Nintendo) 97,155 / 201,936
188. [NDS] Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo) 71,001 / 1,061,393
381. [WII] Super Paper Mario (Nintendo) 30,023 / 502,686

225. [NDS] Nintendogs: Shiba & Friends (Nintendo) 59,762 / 748,245
248. [NDS] Nintendogs: Chihuahua and Friends (Nintendo) 53,810 / 586,349
286. [NDS] Nintendogs: Dachs & Friends (Nintendo) 46,166 / 570,710

12. [PSP] Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Square Enix) 665,511
52. [NDS] Final Fantasy IV (Square Enix) 234,777 / 648,907
307. [PSP] Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Square Enix) 41,878 / 784,595
363. [WII] Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon (Square Enix) 40,580
379. [NDS] Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (Square Enix) 30,326 / 296,322

380. [PSP] Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable, Ultimate Hits (Square Enix) 30,106
407. [PS2] Dragon Quest VIII: Sora to Umi to Daichi to Norowareshi Himegimi, Ultimate Hits (Square Enix) 28,057 / 95,415
428. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (Square Enix) 25,742 / 1,486,979

61. [WII] Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (Bandai Namco) 210,042
75. [360] Tales of Vesperia (Bandai Namco) 178,557
78. [PS2] Tales of Destiny: Director's Cut (Bandai Namco) 166,903
86. [NDS] Tales of Hearts: Anime Movie Edition (Bandai Namco) 153,741
156. [PS2] Tales of the Abyss, PlayStation 2 the Best (Bandai Namco) 86,050 / 133,727
166. [PSP] Tales of Rebirth (Bandai Namco) 80,033
202. [NDS] Tales of Innocence (Bandai Namco) 66,697 / 236,129

 

[gantz85]

I'm also quite surprised this stopped so early, especially considering its first week sales.

Those are its first-week sales figures. It was released on 12/25 2008 and it had one week to perform. (http://www.japan-gamecharts.com/ps3.php) puts it at 320,000 copies currently.

 

[Nirolak]

Those are its first-week sales figures. It was released on 12/25 2008 and it had one week to perform. (http://www.japan-gamecharts.com/ps3.php) puts it at 320,000 copies currently.

Well, that would explain a lot.

 

[gantz85]

Well, that would explain a lot.

I faintly remember an updated WKS LTD in one of the recent J-sales thread.. I think it's nearly 350,000 now. Not sure.

 

[sensi97]

I faintly remember an updated WKS LTD in one of the recent J-sales thread.. I think it's nearly 350,000 now. Not sure.

It's 326,239 I think (Famitsu/Enterbrain)

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=15428379&postcount=206

 

[Durante]

88. [PS3] Valkyria Chronicles (Sega) 153,002

Maybe I'm going crazy, but isn't this 10k or so higher than when I saw it in the Top 100? It does, however, finally fit with the numbers in Sega's report.

135. [PS3] Makai Senki Disgaea 3 (Nippon Ichi) 101,186

Yay 100k.

213. [PS3] Eternal Sonata (Bandai Namco) 61,896

This got quite close to the 360 release in the end. Still a bit disappointing but I'm sure it more than paid for the port.

 

[Spiegel]

224. [PSP] Makai Senki Disgaea Portable: Tsuushin Taisen Hajime Mashita (Nippon Ichi) 59,882 / 96,306

Wow

96k + 38 = 144k

The game has sold more than the original release on ps2 (124k)

208. [PSP] Taiko no Tatsujin Portable 2 (Bandai Namco) 63,263 / 150,344

It sold more copies in 2008 than in 2006 or 2007 :lol

111. [PSP] Kenka Banchou 3: Zenkoku Seiha (Spike) 126,456

Best selling game on the franchise

120. [PSP] Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus (Konami) 117,728

117k in 2008 + 206k in 2007 = 323k for a multiplayer-only game. Not bad

149. [PSP] Bleach: Heat the Soul 5 (SCE) 93,151

Best selling game on the franchise.

313. [PSP] Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception, PSP the Best (Bandai Namco) 40,924 / 59,981

406. [PSP] Boku no Watashi no Katamari Damacy, PSP the Best (Bandai Namco) 28,100 / 60,831

Good numbers

 

[Durante]

(My previous post here didn't make any sense so I'll just reply to the one below. Confused yet?)

Offchart growth switches from "decent but definitely not profitable" to "good but definitely not profitable".

Please tell me how you know this so "definitely". As I said often before, the game is certainly well-made but I don't see anything all that costly in it. It should have been as cheap or cheaper to make than an average PS2 JRPG simply because of the content creation advantages of the SRPG genre.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Commentary on 1-200, others to follow later. Sorry for long post.

14. [NDS] Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia (Pokemon) 645,778

Hahaha that's pretty much EXACTLY equal to PR1 LTD.

16. [NDS] Mario Party DS (Nintendo) 567,737 / 1,855,469
38. [WII] Mario Party 8 (Nintendo) 269,869 / 1,348,322

MP8 and MPDS are dominating the other series entries.

31. [PS2] Persona 4 (Atlus) 314,835

Atlus's best-selling modern era game by a long shot. No idea if it beats out their SFC releases, but it beats everything since then.

43. [NDS] Bokura wa Kaseki Holder (Nintendo) 253,836

I'm surprised they didn't push this harder. Nintendo's released a few games that hit the Pokemon demographic over the last few years. This one is much more successful than Kurikin Nano Island Story, but I feel like it could be bigger with a push.

46. [WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) 246,627 / 966,817

allllllmost

52. [NDS] Final Fantasy IV (Square Enix) 234,777 / 648,907

Hmm. Surprising off-chart growth. I think I'd reclassify this from disappointment to milquetoast.

56. [PS3] Grand Theft Auto IV (Capcom) 222,185

Not bad. About 50% of the PS2 entries, which I think is probably about as good as could be expected.

70. [NDS] SimCity DS 2: Kodai kara Mirai e Tsuduku Machi (EA) 188,258

Ties SimCity DS1 exactly.

88. [PS3] Valkyria Chronicles (Sega) 153,002

Offchart growth switches from "decent but definitely not profitable" to "good but definitely not profitable".

101. [NDS] Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard (Atlus) 134,347

7d wins. Good on both companies, though.

103. [PS2] Ryu ga Gotoku 2, PlayStation 2 the Best (Sega) 132,616 / 180,319

IIRC this pushes Yakuza 2 slightly over Yakuza 1.

112. [WII] Wario Land: Shake It! (Nintendo) 126,261

From garbage to meh

114. [NDS] Densetsu no Starfy: Taiketsu! Dire Kaizokudan (Nintendo) 124,200

garbage sales

117. [PS2] Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raidou tai Abaddon Ou (Atlus) 119,468

We won't be seeing much from this until we get 2009H1 sales.

127. [NDS] Tetris DS (Nintendo) 110,247 / 1,362,846

I guess they reprinted it in Japan.

131. [NDS] Soma Bringer (Nintendo) 107,127

No off-chart growth.

152. [NDS] World Destruction: Michibi Kareshi Ishi (Sega) 89,715

No off-chart growth.

157. [PS3] Afrika (SCE) 85,017

Localize this, chumps.

159. [NDS] Phantasy Star Zero (Sega) 84,055

Late release, we'll have to check back in 2009H1 for this.

168. [NDS] Culdcept DS (Sega) 79,358

Tie for best-selling Culdcept.

169. [WII] Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen (Nintendo) 78,635

Best-selling Fatal Frame by far.

175. [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time (Pokemon) 74,115 / 792,592
193. [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness (Pokemon) 69,880 / 699,360

Exactly equal to PMD1.

180. [PS3] Siren: New Translation (SCE) 72,595

Good off-chart growth, almost up to Siren 2's sales.

188. [NDS] Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo) 71,001 / 1,061,393

Well at least that settles that as a million seller, although I thought it passed a million in Famitsu last year.

192. [NDS] Kirby Squeak Squad (Nintendo) 70,282 / 1,135,284

Mediocrity rewarded.

 

[Wollan]

180. [PS3] Siren: New Translation (SCE) 72,595

Good off-chart growth, almost up to Siren 2's sales.

Good.
Combined with PS Store sales and general worldwide numbers, hopefully it managed a few hundred thousand total.
Love this game.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Good.
Combined with PS Store sales and general worldwide numbers, hopefully it managed a few hundred thousand total.
Love this game.

I know it's a popular import (both Asian and Euro-BD imports are popular, in fact) and of the few PS3 owners I know it's been a popular PSN purchase. I suspect it did okay, definitely better than the PS3 Silent Hill Homecoming

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Maybe I'm going crazy, but isn't this 10k or so higher than when I saw it in the Top 100?

Yes, but it's a matter of Media Create vs Famitsu lists rather than a change.

Well at least that settles that as a million seller, although I thought it passed a million in Famitsu last year.

Yeah. Famitsu has it passing 1 million sometime between the end of 2006 and the middle of 2007.

 

[Liabe Brave]

Platform breakdown for Top 500:

NDS   230
PSP    79
Wii    64
PS2    63
PS3    43
360    19
GBA     2

 

[Orgen]

What's this game?

169. [WII] Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen (Nintendo) 78,635

And where is Tales of Hearts: CG Edition? I thought it did > 20K ¿?

 

[schuelma]

What's this game?

169. [WII] Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen (Nintendo) 78,635

And where is Tales of Hearts: CG Edition? I thought it did > 20K ¿?

Fatal Frame IV

 

[Spiegel]

Nvm

 

[Orgen]

Fatal Frame IV

Thanks

 

[kswiston]

Platform breakdown for Top 500:

NDS   230
PSP    79
Wii    64
PS2    63
PS3    43
360    19
GBA     2

For interest's sake, does someone have the platform breakdown from 2007? DS dominates as usual, but 79 for PSP doesn't seem too bad at all.

 

[AranhaHunter]

2007:

NDS - 211
PS2 - 122
WII - 58
PSP - 53
PS3 - 32
360 - 17
GBA - 5
PS1 - 2

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11590701&postcount=62

NDS +19
PSP +26
WII +6
PS2 -59
PS3 +11
360 +2
GBA -3

Goes to show you how good a year 2008 was for PSP, DS still dominates, but PSP passes Wii.

 

[Stumpokapow]

201. [WII] Family Ski: World Ski & Snowboard (Bandai Namco) 66,932

Not a very impressive followup to the first one; but, really, who'd expect any less from a 1.5 cash-in sequel to a pretty big cash-in game as-is?

211. [PS3] Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds (SCE) 62,432 / 461,054

I suspect this will continue to sell 50k a year until they do a sequel.

216. [NDS] Nanashi no Game (Square Enix) 61,190

They never did properly restock this after the first few weeks.

231. [WII] 428: Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de (Sega) 58,062

This ended up really unperforming, even relative the other high profile visual novels.

232. [PS3] Resistance 2 (SCE) 57,947

First game did 70k on a November release until end of December, and I can guarantee you R2 will have fewer offchart sales, so this is a case of a sequel not performing as well as the original.

237. [NDS] Cid to Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon: Toki Wasure no Meikyuu + (Square Enix) 56,672

Duuuud.

268. [NDS] Kousoku Card Battle: Card Hero (Nintendo) 49,895 / 125,745

This is deceptively good; it looks like it's great, because it's 50% extra sales compared to pre-2008 numbers, but then you realize that it was a late 2007 release and this means it really petered out.

281. [NDS] Cooking Mama 2 (Taito) 46,708 / 95,021

Original did about half of this.

285. [NDS] Hercules no Eikou: Tamashii no Shoumei (Nintendo) 46,271
288. [NDS] Sigma Harmonics (Square Enix) 45,529
290. [NDS] Avalon Code (Marvelous) 44,550

dayyyyum...
dayyyyum...
dayyyyum...

triple-bomba!

327. [PS2] Ookami, PlayStation 2 the Best (Capcom) 38,541 / 103,291

Is this Okami or Oookuki? Big difference. I assume it's Okami.

356. [360] Gundam: Operation Troy (Bandai Namco) 33,240

I really had the impression this had good buzz amongst the 360 Otaku. Guess that didnt pan out all that much.

402. [PS3] Time Crisis 4 + GunCon 3 (Bandai Namco) 28,398 / 58,706

This is curious. You would think this would have pretty stunted legs given that no further Guncon games have been announced.

407. [PS2] Dragon Quest VIII: Sora to Umi to Daichi to Norowareshi Himegimi, Ultimate Hits (Square Enix) 28,057 / 95,415

Think SE will do ANOTHER ultimate super duper specular low price hits version when DQ9 comes out?

434. [NDS] The Tower DS (DigiToys) 25,456

(This is Sim Tower on DS)
Ties the GBA version, which was published by Nintendo.

450. [WII] Survival Kids Wii (Konami) 24,546

more than it did in the US

482. [NDS] Facening de Hyoujou Yutaka ni Inshou Up: Otona no DS Kao Training (Nintendo) 21,683 / 129,700

I guess people are still buying Atkins brownies over here.


... and in general, I'll note that this was a really bad year for the Simple Series. Normally SS shows up fairly regularly from 300-500... not every installment, but enough that it makes sense how they manage to profit off the series. Not this year though. Budget kusoge dying?

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

For interest's sake, does someone have the platform breakdown from 2007? DS dominates as usual, but 79 for PSP doesn't seem too bad at all.

Using the Geimin version as source and sorting in a spreadsheet...

DS  215
PS2 112
Wii  58
PSP  57
PS3  33
X360 19
GBA   6

Looks like the big difference from year to year is that the PS2 number plummeted, to the benefit of DS/PSP/Wii/PS3.

 

[Flying_Phoenix]

This ended up really unperforming, even relative the other high profile visual novels.

How so? Wasn't the last visual novel (PS3 game Ikabutonsomethingsomething) under 40k? I remember someone posting the LTD's of their games and this is closer to their successes on the Saturn.

dayyyyum...
dayyyyum...
dayyyyum...

triple-bomba!

The expectations of Avalon Code's LTD is posted on the front or second page of this thread and it surpassed it by 10k.

 

[HK-47]

Mediocrity rewarded.

In a fair world, those sales would be for Canvas Curse

 

[markatisu]

Thats great for Fatal Frame IV, we knew it was going to be the best selling version so its nice to see that its almost at 80k

 

[wrowa]

This ended up really unperforming, even relative the other high profile visual novels.

Well, how often have comparable games sold?

dayyyyum...
dayyyyum...
dayyyyum...

triple-bomba!

According to the latest Famitsu numbers Avalon Code is by now at 66k (MMV expected 56k) and Sigma Harmonics at 62k; that doesn't sound too shabby...

363. [WII] Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon (Square Enix) 31,859 / 100,423

I always thought the game sold much less than that.

 

[donny2112]

First of all, I'd like to pass this weekly thread posting to another willing and capable individual.

While it hasn't always been smooth-sailing, I do appreciate that you took on the mantle to do these threads each week.

JoshuaJSlone, Donny2112, or bttb.

I'm currently unavailable on Thursday nights. I wouldn't be able to post the thread until late Friday night. bttb is about the fastest translator I've seen (as shown by his posting of the MC Top 500 so quickly), but still being a junior member, he can't post threads. JoshuaJSlone definitely has the historical data part covered, and I'm sure others could help out on the translations, if needed (hint: GameFAQs is your friend. ). cvxfreak and Cheesemeister have done it before, as well, if either are available.

 

[AranhaHunter]

I suspect this will continue to sell 50k a year until they do a sequel

They just released a "The Best" version last December, so you might be right, though series is getting a little fatigued so I'm kinda hoping they'll just re release a The ultimate HSG5 with all the DLC, trophies, rumble, custom soundtrack and remove or reduce the mandatory install and at the same time give us Hot Shots Tennis for PS3 or PSP

 

[Spiegel]

Using the Geimin version as source and sorting in a spreadsheet...

DS  215
PS2 112
Wii  58
PSP  57
PS3  33
X360 19
GBA   6

Looks like the big difference from year to year is that the PS2 number plummeted, to the benefit of DS/PSP/Wii/PS3.

Isn't the source of the numbers I've quoted (from donny's post) also geimin's? Why are they different?

EDIT

Okay, I've quoted Famitsu numbers. My bad, I didn't read Media-Create in bttb's post

 

[Liabe Brave]

Platform comparison 2007 to 2008, with total sales (ranked by 2008 number of titles):

        2007 n  2007 units   2008 n  2008 units
NDS        211  37,044,312      230  27,023,044
PSP         53   6,064,528       79   9,492,464
Wii         58  11,265,118       64  13,328,939
PS2        122  11,236,413       63   5,420,194
PS3         32   2,659,962       43   4,771,678
360         17     866,940       19   1,041,764
GBA          5     412,385        2      61,542

Edit: Looks like the 2007 numbers are Famitsu and the 2008 Media-Create. If someone can get the total units for 2007 Media-Create I'll edit.

 

[kswiston]

This is based off of BTTBs data as of about 90 mins ago. If there have been corrections since then these numbers are slightly off.

However:

Media Create Top 500


Total Units by system:

NDS - 27,018,935
WII - 13,328,939
PSP - 9,492,464
PS2 - 5,417,420
PS3 - 4,771,678
360 - 1,041,764


Average Units per title by System:

WII - 208,265
PSP - 120,158
NDS - 117,474
PS3 - 110,969
PS2 - 85,991
360 - 54,830

Total Units by Publisher:

Nintendo - 19,444,579 - 64 titles
Bandai Namco - 7,935,895 - 79 titles
Konami - 5,087,487 - 47 titles
Capcom - 5,086,458 - 39 titles
Square Enix - 4,060,193 - 26 titles
Pokemon - 3,505,265 - 9 titles
Sega - 2,769,205 -29 titles
SCE - 1,724,556 - 25 titles
Level 5 - 1,323,531 - 4 titles
Koei - 1,287,619 - 14 titles

 

[bttb]

.

 

[iidesuyo]

PS3 | 20,362 | 22,825 | 368,472 | 2,990,900
WII | 15,525 | 17,276 | 405,263 | 7,884,164

Again? Wow, I would not have expected that. The PS3 still costs a lot more than the Wii and hasn't had many releases since RE5.

 

[kswiston]

Anyone else find it funny that SCE only managed to out perform Level 5 by a whopping 400k units. When you are the first party Publisher/Developer for three different systems on the market, you should be outperforming a company that has all of four games to its (publishing) name by more than 30%

 

[Liabe Brave]

Anyone else find it funny that SCE only managed to out perform Level 5 by a whopping 400k units. When you are the first party Publisher/Developer for three different systems on the market, you should be outperforming a company that has all of four games to its (publishing) name by more than 30%

It's not surprising at all. The four Level 5 games are all on the most popular gaming system of all time in Japan, and three of them belong to a top-tier franchise. This leads to very long legs; two of the four games are from last year but still sold more than this year's most successful first-party PSP game.

Also, SCE only has two PS2 games on the list--a "The Best" reprint, and a PSP port--so essentially only published for two systems. The remaining games include two more "The Best" reprints, and eight more are split disc/PSN releases. I don't know if the numbers include online purchases or not, so there might be some mild undercounting here.

None of this is meant to explain away the reality that Sony games have done poorly by comparison. It's just to indicate that your "funny" fact is really just a very, very indirect way of saying that DS games in general and Prof. Layton games in particular are hugely popular. (And also that a larger sample size tends to have a wider distribution.)

 

[apujanata]

Anyone else find it funny that SCE only managed to out perform Level 5 by a whopping 400k units. When you are the first party Publisher/Developer for three different systems on the market, you should be outperforming a company that has all of four games to its (publishing) name by more than 30%

You forgot to mention than SCE have 25 games, while Level 5 is only 4 games.

Calculating the average #/title, we got
Nintendo - 19,444,579 - 64 titles - Avg 303,822
Bandai Namco - 7,935,895 - 79 titles - Avg 100,454
Konami - 5,087,487 - 47 titles - Avg 108,244
Capcom - 5,086,458 - 39 titles - Avg 130,422
Square Enix - 4,060,193 - 26 titles - Avg 156,161
Pokemon - 3,505,265 - 9 titles - Avg 389,474
Sega - 2,769,205 -29 titles - Avg 95,490
SCE - 1,724,556 - 25 titles - Avg 68,982
Level 5 - 1,323,531 - 4 titles - Avg 330,883
Koei - 1,287,619 - 14 titles - Avg 91,973

Pokemon is the highest, while SCE is the lowest. Categorising those publisher, we got 2 type :
A. 300K average publisher, like Nintendo, Pokemon and Level 5
B. 100K average publisher, like Bandai Namco, Konami, Capcom, SE, Sega, Koei. Note : Capcom and SE are closer to 150K than 100K.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Is there any pre-order info for the Advent Children PS3 bundle or the BRD itself with the demo?

 

[Busaiku]

Anyone have the publisher breakdown for 2007?

 

[JonnyBrad]

- The last two columns are first week sales + first week sell-through

Noob question here, but what do you mean by first week sell-through?

 

[_Alkaline_]

"112. [WII] Wario Land: Shake It! (Nintendo) 126,261"

Hmm...

Pretty decent considering it sold, what, 15K first week?

Also, as paltry as Corruption's sales may seem, it's nearly equal with the first Prime (according to the chart it's about 8K less but you have to factor in a few months of MC for 2009) and smashing Echoes, so it's not all bad.

 

[donny2112]

Anyone have the publisher breakdown for 2007?

Just looking at publishers > 1m in sales for MC Top 500 2007.

Nintendo - 23,831,204 - 63 titles - 378,273 average
Namco Bandai Games - 7,184,547 - 77 titles - 93,306 average
Square Enix - 6,971,227 - 29 titles - 240,387 average
Capcom - 4,873,615 - 35 titles - 139,246 average
Konami - 4,337,709 - 54 titles - 80,328 average
Nintendo/Pokemon Co. - 2,713,273 - 8 titles - 339,159 average
SEGA - 2,337,301 - 31 titles - 75,397 average
SCEI - 1,788,311 - 27 titles - 66,234 average
Koei - 1,751,825 - 16 titles - 109,489 average
Banpresto - 1,742,107 - 15 titles - 116,140 average
Level 5 - 1,354,993 - 2 titles - 677,496 average

And in case anyone was wondering, here's MC Top 500 for 2006's numbers.

Nintendo - 25,397,797 - 66 titles - 384,815 average
Namco Bandai Games - 7,251,094 - 72 titles - 100,710 average
Square Enix - 7,044,853 - 27 titles - 260,920 average
Nintendo/Pokemon Co. - 5,984,050 - 12 titles - 498,671 average
Konami - 4,440,961 - 54 titles - 82,240 average
SEGA - 3,800,738 - 36 titles - 105,576 average
Capcom - 3,031,485 - 29 titles - 104,534 average
SCEI - 2,546,305 - 37 titles - 68,819 average
Koei - 1,320,304 - 15 titles - 88,020 average

Noob question here, but what do you mean by first week sell-through?

# sold first week/# shipped first week

 

[Oldschool]

So let´s guess Monster Hunter G Wii first day sales!

180k.

 

[BishopLamont]

So you're expecting it to outperform the original's first week on first day? :lol

 

[jeremy1456]

So you're expecting it to outperform the original's first week on first day? :lol

Monster Hunter has grown significantly more popular since the first one's release, and you have to figure in that it has a demo for MH3 included.

Personally I think it'll do about 180k lifetime.

 

[BishopLamont]

Monster Hunter has grown significantly more popular since the first one's release, and you have to figure in that it has a demo for MH3 included.

It's still a port of a 4 year old game, MH3 demo and the series growth will help some what, but I don't think it'll be that significant. Whatever happens, it'll be a good indication for the upcoming game.

 

[jeremy1456]

It's still a port of a 4 year old game, MH3 demo and the series growth will help some what, but I don't think it'll be that significant. Whatever happens, it'll be a good indication for the upcoming game.

I edited in what I think it'll do overall.

Just so you know:

This:

It's still a port of a 4 year old game, MH3 demo and the series growth will help some what, but I don't think it'll be that significant.

Kind of contradicts this:

Whatever happens, it'll be a good indication for the upcoming game.

 

[BishopLamont]

I edited in what I think it'll do overall.

Just so you know:

This:



Kind of contradicts this:

How? If bucket loads of people buy MHG for the demo, it shows MH3 will be huge, if they don't then everything's status quo.