SouthernDragon
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You guys sold me on Zack and Wiki. Here's to good sales to good games.
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Media Create Sales 10/8 - 10/14 2007
- Thread starter Cheesemeister
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its only 39k in 1 wek brain age did 5 million. non-gaming is dying in japan look at ds and wii sales. psps sales go ape shit when game releses look at crisis core. it shows the gaming community in japan r jus waiting for the big games on ps3 and are buyin ps2 games for now.Frillen said:
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Compared to the previous week's early Famitsu numbers, this is a PS3 increase of 43%.Frankfurter said:
PSP started off better than PS3 has. If they give up on PS3 now, later it will be in a much shittier position than PSP was pre-Crisis Core/Slim.Smiles and Cries said:
On the other side, it seems to be really easy to find this piece of hardware, and after that, it's easy/cheap to pirate games. And you don't take a single risk by flashing firmware.Kildace said:
(and besides this, I think to remember reading you can pirate the DS using just some WiFi routers, but don't quote me on that)
The white PS3 could be what it needs to get out of its stagnant position. While price has rarely helped a losing console gain the upper hand in Japan, the arrival of the holiday season as well as a few higher profile titles should help. Whether Sony can sustain higher sales post-new year like they did with the PSP remains to be seen, though.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Sometimes I think Nintendo exists solely to spite drinky.
acuul said:
Wii Fit preorders started ... and subsequently sold out.
At least it was that way on Amazon. :lol
Lupin3 said:
Just like all those PS3 buyers in the U.K. snapped up the 40GB the week it was released, right?
Potential PS3 buyers are waiting, right now, for sure, but for what is another question.
Aeris130 said:
I know! It's just so unusual for the PSP to see good hardware sales but then sell nothing in software. That's never happened before.
test_account
XP-39C²
Stumpokapow said:
lol, Beard Training! :lol
Lupin3 said:
The 60 GB price drop accounted for most of the sales. If that translated to Japan, then the 40 GB introduction will mean and even lower sales increase. I think the colour of it will help though. But last week's sales rise shows that not many people are actually waiting for new prices (or at least the latest new price).
I have a feeling Wii sales are going to spike quite a bit this week (Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure + Ghost Squad + Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party) and especially from next week (Mario Galaxy) and the following weeks on (Nights, no more heroes, Wii Fit, Battalion Wars 2,...).
Wii might be sold out well into Spring 2008.
Wii might be sold out well into Spring 2008.
AnimeTheme
Member
Wii rises a little bit because there is a new "bundle" sold (remote jacket).
Mithos Yggdrasill
Banned
The increase of the Wii is too small (to say that it is accurate). It is better to wait for Media Create numbers. Otherwise, I thought that the PS3 has had a price cut.....or not ?
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
Stumpokapow said:
Oh shit, I would buy if there was a USA release.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Hcoregamer00 said:
Obviously depends on the books provided and how well the font/interface translate, but if it has a good bookmark system, at least 50-100 books, and a good selection including classics (preferably some of the underappreciated Twain like The Gilded Age) and modern books (scoring a King book or ever a Koontz would sell this like hotcakes)... then it'll be awesome.
BTW a US release is somewhat likely given that the first announcement of this app as "DS Novel" came from the same Leipzig NOE release list as "Advance Wars DS 2".
slaughterking
Member
Why? Release-wise nothing has happend, so the bump is just the result of the anticipation of upcoming releases. If at all.Mithos Yggdrasill said:
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
Stumpokapow said:
As long as they don't have books like "Great Expectations" I would be okay with it.
God I hate that book.
Mithos Yggdrasill
Banned
slaughterking said:
No, I meant that it is too small to be sure it has really happened. Famitsu-MC differences are often huge.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
jarrod said:
Probably because Seaman was a better game than either of the Dreamcast Sonic offerings?
A 30% increase for Wii (50% over two weeks) should be well outside the margin of error, regardless of how the Media-Create numbers turn out. Wii sales are definitively going up again now, and I'm again amazed that when it finally happened it was during two weeks with NO new releases.
D.Lo
Member
Media Create isn't 'real' and Famitsu/Enterbrain 'fake', they're just differently tracked (reasonably accurate) estimates.Mithos Yggdrasill said:
If anything Famitsu has been proven to be more accurate for hardware since MC tracked the GameCube higher then Nintendo claimed they had shipped.
AnimeTheme
Member
No one seems to care, but let me mention one more time that the slight increase of Wii has something to do with the new bundle sold (Wiimote jacket). This is not just my own thought. Shinobi also mentions that in his blog, and the rise of this new bundle on Amazon also proves something.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
A PS3 price drop and Wii sales go up...Japan is really trying to send a message.
plagiarize
Banned
that drop last week was because people knew the price drop was coming. this weeks sales are the range it had been getting before news of the price drop came out. it's not really fair to compare the sales of the system after news of the price drop was out, but before the price drop to justify that there's been an increase in sales as a result of the price drop.JoshuaJSlone said:
test_account
XP-39C²
Frillen said:
Famitsu had PS3 at 8400, MC had it at 12,365. That is a difference of 3965 to be exact, which is pretty big considering the numbers are fairly low.
Phife Dawg
Member
So people are really afraid they might damage their TV-sets? :lol Oh well I ordered 4, they're free after all. Maybe I'll even use them for my more sweaty handed friends.AnimeTheme said:
If PS3 indeed failed to pass Wii, they pretty much missed their chance this year. I do think that the Ceramic White will do better things for PS3 sales than the price drop (as opposed to Europe, but we didn't get no Ceramic White and don't care that much about colour revisions). But with SMG just being released at the time of the 40G launch and WiiFit release imminent right after I don't see PS3 beating Wii that week, even with DW5.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
I don't have evidence to the contrary... but wow that the inclusion of a wiimote jacket that you can even request free from Nintendo would lead to thousands of extra sales.AnimeTheme said:
True. To make an analogy, it's like PS3 sales took a deep breath, but then didn't exhale any more powerfully than normal.plagiarize said:
Pureauthor
Member
Jiggy37 said:
Just what I need - a way to burn my eyes out even faster.
OliveJuice
Member
I agree with this, good advertisement can do a lot for products. I also believe that people are getting Wii's now for future releases such as Zack and Wiki, but more so for SMG. I know that's not how things usually work but seeing the Wii sold out for around 10 months people would get the idea that it will be sold out pretty soon, so I gotta go buy it.Kurosaki Ichigo said:
ComputerNerd
Banned
Pureauthor said:
lol. Want the ultimate way to kill your eyes?
Get a Virtual Boy.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Ehn, that's only harmful to developing eyes. If you're older than about 6, the VB won't do anything to you that watching TV won't.ComputerNerd said: