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Media Create Numbers: 2 - 8 Oct

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verplant

Member
donny2112 said:
Famitsu Sept 18-24
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26. PSP [baunteihaunzu] (?) (Bandai-Namco) 6701 / NEW
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30. PSP 太鼓の達人 ぽ～たぶる2 (drum game 2?) (Bandai-Namco) 6043 / 28466
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Famitsu chart: klick
 
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cvxfreak

Member
donny2112 said:
I only specifically keep track of a few Japanese DS titles. Sorry. Also, not to slight cvxfreak or Link to the Past, but I consider Dalthien to be the go-to guy for Japanese PSP and NDS software sales. If you need something right now, though, your best bet is probably to just use last week's Famitsu's Top 30 sales.
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None taken. I'm actually not a sales archivist. :)
 
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Cosmonaut X

Member
Pokemans chart updated - corrections welcome!

pokemanschartweek2.jpg
 
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Earthstrike

Member
Na Launch + Europe launch = 4 million more units.

Diamond and pearl may pass original. I think it can.

Edit nm maybe both launches = 2 million units.
 
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JavyOO7

Member
I wonder if any Pokemon game or any other game for that matter will top that 10 million # that Pokemon Red/Green did.
 
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ksamedi

Member
FF3 is going for the million, its interesting how its selling to non-gamers, but since its so difficult, i dont think they will like it :)
 
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JavyOO7

Member
Maybe the non-gamers will like difficult games? /flex

Quick question, is Mario Kart DS still in the top 50? And how much has it sold to date?
 
apotema

apotema

Member
DS is on its way to catch PS2 in million sellers, and even PSone, where the DS really has a disadvantage is in the medium hits camp, lets say in the 300,000 sellers range, I want to see this situation improved
 
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Clever Pun

Member
apotema said:
DS is on its way to catch PS2 in million sellers, and even PSone, where the DS really has a disadvantage is in the medium hits camp, lets say in the 300,000 sellers range, I want to see this situation improved
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right, so it has too many million sellers and not enough 300k sellers?

I wouldn't worry to much about the DS not getting enough of those kinds of successes in its lifetime.
 
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jamesinclair

Banned
dabra said:
DSL 124,137
PS2 28,264
PSP 21,050
Xbox360 2,101
GBASP 1,532
GBM 1,273
GC 488
DS 260
GBA 12
Xbox 8
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360 held on well enough.

PSP on the other hand...doing worse than in the US.

(Well, so is the PS2, but thats different)
 
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miguel_c_hammer

Member
Ugh, PSP is slowly fading near its all-time low(which I believe is ~18,500).

DS looks to be coming back to earth as well, though it has a long ways.
 
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Clever Pun

Member
miguel_c_hammer said:
Ugh, PSP is slowly fading near its all-time low(which I believe is ~18,500).

DS looks to be coming back to earth as well, though it has a long ways.
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if by coming back to earth you mean, continuing to sell out every week, then yes, it is.
 
B

Barf_the_Mog

powerless or are they? o_O
Right before Pokemon was released I was expecting some +400k weeks...stepping back for a second, I have to remind myself that the DSL has consistantly sold over 100k units since its launch.
 
apotema

apotema

Member
The problem is, some games sold better on GBA than on DS:

Kirby (the new Kirby DS will sell better)
Mushiking
Starfi
Yu-Gi-Oh
Hamtaro
Yoshi
Power Pro Kun
Magical Vacation
Prince of Tennis
Rockman Zero
Sonic Advance
Gundam
Metroid

Although the DS has some incredible hits GBA never had, so maybe I'm still understimating it
 
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FitzOfRage

Member
ksamedi said:
FF3 is going for the million, its interesting how its selling to non-gamers, but since its so difficult, i dont think they will like it :)
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I guess that raises 2 questions for me.

1) How can you tell they're selling to non-gamers as opposed to gamers?

2) At what point during the course of them buying actual games do you have to start calling them "gamers" instead of "non-gamers"
 
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donny2112

Member
Famitsu Sept 25-Oct 1

1. NDS Pokemon Diamond/Pearl 1586360 / NEW
2. PS2 .hack//G.U. Vol.2 101156 / NEW
3. NDS Kanji Quiz DS 67153 / NEW
4. PS2 Minna no Tennis 61342 / 363750
5. NDS New Super Mario Bros. 51541 / 3150716
6. NDS Final Fantasy III 40235 / 771925
7. NDS Brain Training 2 36950 / 3266720
8. PS2 Sangokushi 11 34620 / NEW
9. 360 Dead Rising 22240 / NEW
10. NDS Tingle RPG 20502 / 136670
11. NDS Animal Crossing: Wild World 19713 / 3239037
12. NDS Cooking Navi 18241 / 523268
13. NDS Brain Training 16768 / 2774993
14. NDS Tamagotchi 2 15239 / 519127
15. PSP Eiyuu Densetsu Sora no Kiseki FC 14610 / NEW
16. GBA Rhythm Tengoku 13891 / 172710
17. NDS English Training 13500 / 1346405
18. PS2 Poppin' Music 13 (?) 13476 / NEW
19. PS2 Kuryuu Youma Gakuenki Recharge 12745 / NEW
20. PS2 Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Kenkyaku Rouman Tan'enjou! Kyoto Rinne 12726 / 107187
21. NDS Brain Stress: Head Scan 10591 / 54780
22. NDS Gintama DS: Banji Ousoudou! 10241 / 36883
23. NDS Mario Hoops 3-on-3 10140 / 318871
24. NDS Mario Kart DS 9977 / 1576826
25. NDS Tetris DS 9001 / 851924
26. PS2 Aria The Natural 7969 / NEW
27. 360 Project Sylpheed 6542 / NEW
28. PS2 Minna no Golf 4 (BEST) 6422 / 156241
29. PS2 Chaos Wars 6211 / 25139
30. PS2 God Hand 6206 / 47450
 
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Dalthien

Member
donny2112 said:
5. NDS New Super Mario Bros. 51541 / 315716 (typo on Famitsu's page, I think)
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The number is 3,150,716, and the number is correct on Famitsu. They report numbers in the tens of thousands. So the number is 315 ten thousand and 716.

or 3,150,716
 
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donny2112

Member
Dalthien said:
The number is 3,150,716, and the number is correct on Famitsu. They report numbers in the tens of thousands. So the number is 315 ten thousand and 716.

or 3,150,716
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The other million+ sellers all have "<three numbers> <Japanese symbol> <four numbers>." NSMB didn't. I'm fine with the number, but is it customary for the leading zero on the last four digits to be dropped?

Edit: Updated the list. Thanks, cvxfreak and Dalthien. :)
 
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Dalthien

Member
donny2112 said:
The other million+ sellers all have "<three numbers> <Japanese symbol> <four numbers>." NSMB didn't. I'm fine with the number, but is it customary for the leading zero on the last four digits to be dropped?
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Yeah - it's strange for us, but it is customary. As I said, they report numbers in the tens of thousands. So the numbers after the symbol are what is left after the tens of thousands are counted. So if the number is 2,651,255, it will say 265<symbol>1255. If the number is 2,650,003, then the number will be 265<symbol>3.
 
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cvxfreak

Member
That symbol is the Sino-Japanese character "MAN" which means 10,000. You take the number to the left of it, multiply it by 10,000 and then add the numbers to the right.

So if a game sells 345[MAN]567 units, then it sold 345 units x 10,000 + 567, or 3,450,567.

315[MAN]716 = 315 x 10000 + 716 = 3,150,716

Only six digits appear for a game that's supposed to have seven when the thousands-digit is zero, thus only three numbers will appear on the right side instead of four since all numbers below 1000 are 3 digits.

The Sino-Japanese counting system has the English equivalent of ones, tens, hundreds and thousands (ichi, juu, hyaku, sen) but Japanese goes to "man" which is 10,000 while English retains the "thousand" counter until we reach a million. So one million in Japanese is 100 x 10,000 (hyaku-man).
 
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kisakiproject

Member
donny2112 said:
Famitsu Sept 25-Oct 1

1. NDS Pokemon Diamond/Pearl 1586360 / NEW
2. PS2 .hack//G.U. Vol.2 101156 / NEW
3. NDS Kanji Quiz DS 67153 / NEW
4. PS2 Minna no Tennis 61342 / 363750
5. NDS New Super Mario Bros. 51541 / 3150716
6. NDS Final Fantasy III 40235 / 771925
7. NDS Brain Training 2 36950 / 3266720
8. PS2 Sangokushi 11 34620 / NEW
9. 360 Dead Rising 22240 / NEW
10. NDS Tingle RPG 20502 / 136670
11. NDS Animal Crossing: Wild World 19713 / 3239037
12. NDS Cooking Navi 18241 / 523268
13. NDS Brain Training 16768 / 2774993
14. NDS Tamagotchi 2 15239 / 519127
15. PSP Eiyuu Densetsu Sora no Kiseki FC 14610 / NEW
16. GBA Rhythm Tengoku 13891 / 172710
17. NDS English Training 13500 / 1346405
18. PS2 Poppin' Music 13 (?) 13476 / NEW
19. PS2 Kuryuu Youma Gakuenki Recharge 12745 / NEW
20. PS2 Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Kenkyaku Rouman Tan'enjou! Kyoto Rinne 12726 / 107187
21. NDS Brain Stress: Head Scan 10591 / 54780
22. NDS Gintama DS: Banji Ousoudou! 10241 / 36883
23. NDS Mario Hoops 3-on-3 10140 / 318871
24. NDS Mario Kart DS 9977 / 1576826
25. NDS Tetris DS 9001 / 851924
26. PS2 Aria The Natural 7969 / NEW
27. 360 Project Sylpheed 6542 / NEW
28. PS2 Minna no Golf 4 (BEST) 6422 / 156241
29. PS2 Chaos Wars 6211 / 25139
30. PS2 God Hand 6206 / 47450
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Sylsphseed #s lower than expected. Yay for dead rising.
 
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cvxfreak

Member
Rock_Man said:
Pokemon Emerald is currently at #33 two years after release. :)
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Yep, and that's thanks to it and the other GBA games being crucial to catching all the Pokemon. It's probable that FireRed and LeafGreen are still within the top 100 after all these years.
 
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ethelred

Member
cvxfreak said:
Yep, and that's thanks to it and the other GBA games being crucial to catching all the Pokemon. It's probable that FireRed and LeafGreen are still within the top 100 after all these years.
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Does Famitsu provide numbers for the games below the top 30?
 
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ethelred

Member
cvxfreak said:
Of course, that's what the Japan Top 100 is/was. :)

Too bad I don't have them anymore.
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I was only familiar with the top 100 for the biannual and annual tracking. Didn't realize they were doing it on a monthly basis, too.

Shame we can't get that, too. That'd be really useful for keeping up on a lot of the games that are still selling decently but not exceptionally week on week.
 
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LanceStern

Banned
apotema said:
The problem is, some games sold better on GBA than on DS:

Kirby (the new Kirby DS will sell better)
Mushiking
Starfi
Yu-Gi-Oh
Hamtaro
Yoshi
Power Pro Kun
Magical Vacation
Prince of Tennis
Rockman Zero
Sonic Advance
Gundam
Metroid

Although the DS has some incredible hits GBA never had, so maybe I'm still understimating it
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Let's not forget

Advance Wars
MegaMan Battle Network
Licnesed games

It's very upsetting to see the drop from GBA to DS especially in Japan and some cases US (like Sonic, Metroid, Kirby etc). I really wish gamers would wisen up
 
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joeposh

Member
donny2112 said:
25. NDS Tetris DS 9001 / 851924
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I've been amazed at how this title has managed to hang in there. Tetris has always been a staple of handheld gaming, but I didn't imagine it would have the staying power it has put forth thus far. I wouldn't put 1 million in lifetime sales past it with a possible holiday boost on the horizon.
 
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