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Media Create Sales: 1/1 - 1/7
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LanceStern said:
i love tp, it's the best game i've ever played, but i think it's selling what it should in japan at the moment. the japanese market has shifted into a much more casual, fun place, and games like zelda just don't have the draw they once did, especially not this early in a console's life with such a small userbase.Magicpaint said:
tp is a really difficult game to play, in the sense it requires loads of time to get the most out of it. wii sports serves a much bigger group of people because it's a much easier game to play and it has a huge social aspect.
i thought that, but it's the famitsu chart for jan 8-14:starship said:
http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/2007/01/17/103,1169031876,65746,0,0.html
nintendo really is having incredible success in japan!
Graphics Horse
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Best translation of Common Sense Training I've seen so far.
JoshuaJSlone
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Wouldn't it be the opposite? Since the top 100 lists only the most popular titles, the most successful systems and publishers should be overrepresented, not underrepresented.ioi said:
JoshuaJSlone
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Yes, but as a percent. I probably should have left the rest of what ioi said, about how while Nintendo had 47% of the top 100 sales, if the rest were included...Rock_Man said:
ioi said:
Mithos Yggdrasill
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Zelda will sell in the long term. I predict something between 500k and 600k for it. Sot wonderful, but not so bad either.
Square2005
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ioi said:
ioi, why haven't you sent the Famitsu spreadsheet? It's been months now,
and after all that data I sent you...
Mithos Yggdrasill
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cw_sasuke said:
As long as they exist, I suppose.
PhoenixDark
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Nintendo's dominance of the charts isn't going away anytime soon. It looks to me like the DS is going to surpass the PS2's LTP in Japan and possibly set much bigger records than any console/handheld there.
Magicpaint
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Square2005 said:
Erm, guys. Not this again. Please.
PhoenixDark said:
I honestly don't think the console/handheld terminology applies for the DS in Japan at this point. I've suggested for some months that the DS is essentially a dominant platform, whether it is a handheld or a cardboard box is irrelevant. As a dominant platform, its sales and software trends will be radically different than all the rest of the platforms on the market.
Mithos Yggdrasill
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This is Patcher, isn't it ?
Christopher
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Mithos Yggdrasill said:
No wonder your not an analyst - it won't.
andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
Yamauchi said:
Gamecube was coming in as a loser. PS2 had been out for awhile. Now, Wii is the first next-gen console for Japan. Well, PS3 beat it out but $599 doesn't translate well into Japanese. The Japanese leave the stores wondering why the clerk is asking for their social security number.
Cosmonaut X
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AniHawk said:
Aye - doing an extra 200,000 over the lifetime of the console, especially considering it's still doing a rough 30-40,000 a week at the moment, is hardly a ludicrous proposition. TBH, I wouldn't be that surprised if it came out closer to Wind Waker's lifetime Japanese sales when all is said and done.
Grampa Simpson
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A one-liner from lapsed? Color me shocked.Lapsed said:Do not mock my shoebox.
gamergirly
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Taurus said:
Non-game charts or I-dont-care-about-those-games charts?
JoshuaJSlone
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And Wii's first week was twice as big as any week GameCube ever had. The situations are pretty incomparable.Yamauchi said:
PhoenixDark
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Taurus said:
Hey buddy, watch yourself
Grampa Simpson
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Same here. It's allergies.Taurus said:
PhoenixDark
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bmf said:
Or the clap
Cosmonaut X said:
I think Zelda may go the way of Mario Kart DS: not impressive number every week but stay in top 30 for a long period to give satisfying LTD.
The next "big" thing for Wii in Japan may be Naruto (Not that big though) in March. It has at least 2-month time for Zelda to gain decent sales.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Sorry to bring this back up, but dammit, I was going to respond last night right when they were going to start the maintenance, and I had to go to bed. Anyway!
What about Bust a Move? Each level has absolutely no bearing on the next puzzle. The whole board resets. Or Tetris? Is Tetris at all a game? Even the first tetris had two different games with different gameplay. And Tetris DS has all sorts of different games.
I will just say I dislike your definition of a non game because it's counter productive and well, incorrect. Somehow, according to you, collections of games are now non-games too, which to me, pretty much proves it wrong. Not just collections, but some puzzle games too, which is one of the oldest game genres. And to you, a collection of sudo ku is a non game, but if somebody released a DS cart with a single su doku puzzle, you'd say it was a game. In case you deny that, here
But then again... maybe I should embrace it, if such an old genre like puzzle games become nongames, that means non-games predate many game genres. Non games were around since the beginning of the industry so can't possibly be destroying it!
And what's really funny, Brain Age and BBA STILL fits your silly little definition of a game.
justchris said:
What about Bust a Move? Each level has absolutely no bearing on the next puzzle. The whole board resets. Or Tetris? Is Tetris at all a game? Even the first tetris had two different games with different gameplay. And Tetris DS has all sorts of different games.
justchris said:
I will just say I dislike your definition of a non game because it's counter productive and well, incorrect. Somehow, according to you, collections of games are now non-games too, which to me, pretty much proves it wrong. Not just collections, but some puzzle games too, which is one of the oldest game genres. And to you, a collection of sudo ku is a non game, but if somebody released a DS cart with a single su doku puzzle, you'd say it was a game. In case you deny that, here
justchris said:
But then again... maybe I should embrace it, if such an old genre like puzzle games become nongames, that means non-games predate many game genres. Non games were around since the beginning of the industry so can't possibly be destroying it!
And what's really funny, Brain Age and BBA STILL fits your silly little definition of a game.
GreenGlowingGoo said:
I've actually never played a single Bust-A-Move games, so I couldn't say.
And I've already stated having different game modes, variations on a theme, doesn't invalidate the game. Tetris as a game is progressive. Sure, you can start at level 5 instead of level 1, but it's very different from working up to level 5 from level 1. It has a very definite progression as well as a goal.
GreenGlowingGoo said:
Yes, that is exactly what I said. It is a collection of games, but not in itself, a game. Contrast that with, for instance, a book of crossword puzzles, where the clues for the second puzzle were incomplete, and you needed words from the first puzzle to complete the clues for the second puzzle, so that you could then complete that puzzle, which would provide you with the clues for the third puzzle and so on. That would be a game, not just a book filled with games.
GreenGlowingGoo said:
I never claimed non-games are destroying the industry, although I know that's a common perception. The term 'non-game' is specious anyway. I'm just providing a consistent definition from my own observations. Because so far in my experience, every so called 'non-game' while it may not be a game in its entirety, contains things which have been recognized as games for centuries. Most just lack a definite progression. I don't see how a collection of things can somehow damage the validity of the things it is collecting.
GreenGlowingGoo said:
Brain Age has a goal, but not definite progression. I haven't actually played Big Brain Academy, so I'm not qualified to comment.
Bungalow Bob
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Mithos Yggdrasill said:
There´s no way TP will end up selling less than 600k. WW´s attach rate on GC was about 20%. TP´s will probably end up being a little less on Wii, but Wii will sell at least 3x as much as GC (i.e. over 13 million). So basically, your guess would only be logical if you expect Wii to only sell as well as GC.