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Media Create Sales: July 6-12, 2009 - Dragon Quest IX - 2.3 million
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future_pinoy
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dabra said:
fck at DQ9 sales but fck more at DSi sales, it even gets scarier if Pokemans invade the the DSi on their next release
I aim to please.AniHawk said:
...all the way to oblivion, sales are horribly low again. Although i will make a prediction that by the years end ps3 hardware will be above wii fit in japan.manueldelalas said:
Now, now don't be bitter just because i beat you to the number one spot in last years npd predictions league.starship said:
Good question, haven't really thought about it myself. :lol Erm, i'll get back to you on that one.Busaiku said:
I'll see what i can do.schuelma said:
I think people will be pleasantly surprised with how well tales of vesperia is going to sell on the ps3.vicissitudes said:
test_account
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I see that cvxfreak mentioned that it was about 600.000 units that the DS sold one week in December in 2005 in Japan, but even that it isnt 800.000, 600.000 is still a very high numberGCX said:
Thanks for the answer I checked Garaph.info, and the bump before the 600k DS week, the sales were about 409k the week before. So the bump was about 190k. That is a pretty big bump indeed, and probably the highest week to week bump that i have seen
I am sorry for the late reply here by the way :\
Rocksteady33
Junior Member
birdchili said:
While not an entirely different game it does have added features. Think Pokemon Yellow to Pokemon Red/Blue.
the thoroughbred
Member
So i one already has Wii Fit plus, is there a need to have the orignal, or is everything in the original in the Plus version too?
Busaiku said:
That's what I was comparing them to. I don't think he stated that he was predicting for a particular tracking firm, though.
doicare said:
Nah. Maybe next year, though, with Wii Fit Plus fazing out Wii Fit.
doicare said:
In the response to Stumpokapow last week, you didn't seem to be particular about tracking firms.
test_account said:I checked Garaph.info, and the bump before the 600k DS week, the sales were about 409k the week before. So the bump was about 190k. That is a pretty big bump indeed, and probably the highest week to week bump that i have seen
It was less a bump and more a brick wall. NCL was apologizing for the shortages the next week.
the thoroughbred said:
There are some unique activities in Wii Fit apparently not in Wii Fit Plus, but it may not be worth it to buy both at the same time. If you're really interested, there'll probably be a ton of used copies of Wii Fit available after Wii Fit Plus's release.
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
As of day 9 its above FFVIII day 11, and also above day 9 of previous DQ but DQ7 closes the gap:
DQIX - 2.946m (9 days)
DQVII - 2.934m (9 days)
DQVIII - 2.796m (9 days)
FFVIII - 2.775m (11 days)
Moving to the PS3, basically last year edition reversed:
[PS3] Pro Yakyuu Spirits 5 (Konami) - 50,000
[PS2] Pro Yakyuu Spirits 5 (Konami) - 80,000
While PYS6 is lower, its the typical 4-day first week while PYS5 was a Tuesday release so its first week numbers are a 6-day total.
In terms of Falcom self published titles, its 3rd biggest on PSP after Legend of Heroes 3 (48k) and Legend of Heroes 2 (26k). That is, above LoH 1, Vantage, Brandish, Zwei...
In terms of Ys (that I could find), its shockingly similar to Ys I & II on PS2 (Digicube - 20,767), way better than Taito Ys IV PS2 7k and bit lower than Konami Ys Box of Napishtim PS2 23k.
Cygnus X-1
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dabra said:
Impressive 2nd week performance of both DQIX and the DS. Almost no drop for the latter.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Awww. I was hoping we'd see the first instance of 3 million by the end of the second week.
I don't know. It's early to see long-term trends, sure, but from the first two weeks it seems to be behaving like DQVIII + a few percent. It will take better than that to match VII, let alone beat it by a half million.AniHawk said:
test_account
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Hehe, well, 200 units above is a momentum indeed as you saymanueldelalas said:
I knew about the hardware-free SKU, but are they replacing the old Wii Fit software with Wii Fit Plus in the Wii Balance Board SKU? I didnt know about this before now. If this is the case, i guess that Wii Fit Plus will be tracked as 1 "unit" (or what i shall say), so we wont see seperately how many hardware-free and Wii Balance Board SKUs that are sold?birdchili said:
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
How was the second week drop for Dragon Quest VIII?
slaughterking
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ComputerNerd
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I wonder what the stock situation is like on DQ IX. Is it out of stock?
i *think* i read that, but perhaps this was just mental extrapolation on my part based on what i perceive plus to be.test_account said:
my understanding is that plus is a superset of the functionality of fit, so i can't imagine there's really any market for the original once plus is out (they could charge more for plus, i suppose).
i think it's a good move to replace the original sku, frankly: helps keep the momentum of wii fit in general, and you get to sell a marginally improved software product to folk who already shelled out for the original.
test_account
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Amazon.co.jp says (at least when i am writing this post right now) that DQ IX is in stock the 24th of July (if the english translation is correct). I am not sure how good of an indicator this is for the japanese gaming market in general though.ComputerNerd said:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B000LXD7HO/
Ah ok, thanks for the infobirdchili said:
I havnt really followed too much around what Wii Fit Plus actually is (all that i pretty much knew about Wii Fit Plus was that it is new software for the Wii Balance Board), but if Wii Fit Plus is pretty much an enhanced version of the first Wii Fit software, then i think it might be a good move to replace the first Wii Fit software with Wii Fit Plus indeed as you say, i agree Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
slaughterking said:
Hopefully DQIX doesn't flatline so quickly. :/
I reckon 5 mil is doable too. The summer holiday season will keep sales pretty high, and I expect a healthy bump at the end of the year too. I don't expect this to follow DQVIII trends as it is one-user-per-unit. Also, the amount of post-game content in this is sure to reduce the amount of second-hand sales - more than 1,000,000 copies of DQVIII were sold on the used market in its first year.AniHawk said:
test_account
XP-39C²
I would guess that he maybe ment the recession instead of the depressionVilix said:
vicissitudes
Banned
I just had a random thought...if both GT5 and FFXIII are releasing in December 2009 in Japan...how the hell is Sony gonna space that out? Having them come out within a week of each other would just NOT be a good idea.
vicissitudes said:
Actually, back in 1997, Gran Turismo came out the same day as Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon, Tales of Destiny and Momotarou Dentetsu. All of them were huge sellers their first week.
GT3 was unrivaled for a few weeks, though.
I think GT5 and FFXIII can be released within the same month myself, but definitely not a week apart.
shykyoichi
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Nothing similar happened in the PS2 era?cvxfreak said:
JoshuaJSlone
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This isn't quite as complicated since I'm not taking launch dates into account, but it should be pretty easy to make an SQL query that finds weeks where the most games from system X each sold more than Y copies.shykyoichi said:
Arbitrarily going with 200,000, it looks like PS2 only had 11 weeks where two games hit 200K; none with three. Though I'll repeat the usual caveat; where there's only data from two weeks smooshed together the database doesn't include the "WeeklySales" value, so some big (especially holiday) weeks might be missing.
Lowering standards a bit to 150K, the week of 2004-02-16 PS2 had Winning Eleven 7 International, SD Gundam G Generation Seed, Samurai Warriors (second week) and FF X-2 International.
EDIT: It's worth noting that tinkering around with the above queries and trying the other popular platforms of the era Garaph covers, none of GBA/DS/PSP/Wii have higher numbers for simultaneous 150+K or 200+K games than PS2. Pretty rare thing in general.
David H Wong
Banned
Jokeropia said:
Actually, no. A recession has a definition in terms of length, but "depression" doesn't, it's just slang. But the moment we exceed the length of recession we don't immediately head into "depression" territory.
It's like the difference between saying an answer is "wrong" and an answer is "retarded." The first one has a definition, the second is just a word people throw around.
So before we get into some huge discussion over whether or not it's a depression, it's just a matter of opinion.
Then what is it? Unless you can find a better word and support it with a dictionary, I'll consider depression to be the proper term in this case. It doesn't normally have a specified length (of X amount of months or whatever) but is generally considered to be an economic downturn longer than a recession.David H Wong said:
test_account
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Isnt the finance crisis pretty much over now in general by the way? I havnt heard much talk about it lately at least. But ye, if the finance crisis is still active, maybe it can be correct to define it as a depression instead of a recession. I didnt know the difference before now actually
EDIT: Wikipedia says that a recession can last 3-4 years if i understand it correctly?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession#Global_recessions
Wikipedia isnt always correct though, but this is what is written. It doesnt seem to be a "true" (or what i shall say) definition on how long a recession is lasting, but i am just wondering about this mostly to boost my own knowledge about this subject This is on a global scale though, or was it only talk about the japanese economic?
EDIT: Wikipedia says that a recession can last 3-4 years if i understand it correctly?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession#Global_recessions
Wikipedia isnt always correct though, but this is what is written. It doesnt seem to be a "true" (or what i shall say) definition on how long a recession is lasting, but i am just wondering about this mostly to boost my own knowledge about this subject
This is on a global scale though, or was it only talk about the japanese economic?Well most people say we've had the worst part. But the damage has already been done, alot of people lost their jobs, companies went bust and the economy hasn't recovered fully yet untill all those people find new jobs again and companies start to expand instead of shrink.test_account said:Isnt the finance crisis pretty much over now in general by the way? I havnt heard much talk about it lately at least. But ye, if the finance crisis is still active, maybe it can be correct to define it as a depression instead of a recession. I didnt know the difference before now actually
test_account
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Ye, that is true as you say, that the damage has already been done :\ And the fiances crisis is also "old news", maybe that is why i havnt heard too much about it lately, at least in the media (TV, newspaper etc.).[Nintex] said:
EDIT: I added some text.