+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted January 2, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted January 2, 2009 By the way, this is interesting. Top 50 software sales ever in Japan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaPrime Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 Media Create | December 22 - 28 Hardware DSi - 188,697 Wii - 134,958 PSP - 118,765 DSL - 56,453 PS3 - 45,989 360 - 13,011 PS2 - 10,404 Software 01. [PS3] White Knight Chronicles (SCEI) - 206,954 / NEW 02. [PSP] Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Square Enix) - 176,385 / 666,000 03. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) - 144,179 / 876,000 04. [NDS] Kirby Super Star Ultra Deluxe (Nintendo) - 140,934 / 920,000 05. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion: Girls Mode (Nintendo) - 105,225 / 547,000 06. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) - 84,515 / 1,445,000 07. [NDS] Phantasy Star Zero (SEGA) - 84,055 / NEW 08. [NDS] Pokemon Platinum (Pokemon Co.) - 78,653 / 2,231,000 09. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 71,347 / 3,051,000 10. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) - 69,913 / 2,066,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Teej Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Hmm, that's interesting. The top 10 is all handheld titles bar 1 (SMB for Famicom). Anyway, I wonder how the Japanese sales will turn after Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaPrime Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 December 29 - January 4 Hardware DSi - 182,518 PSP - 157,088 Wii - 119,965 PS3 - 60,654 DSL - 48,160 360 - 19,694 PS2 - 12,548 Software 01. [PSP] Dissidia Final Fantasy (Square Enix) 104,000 / 770,000 02. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 89,000 / 1,535,000 03. [NDS] Kirby Super Star Ultra (Nintendo) 77,000 / 998,000 04. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 74,000 / 3,125,000 05. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) 73,000 / 949,000 06. [PS3] White Knight Chronicles (SCE) 71,000 / 278,000 07. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode (Nintendo) 68,000 / 615,000 08. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 67,000 / 2,133,000 09. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Best) (Capcom) 62,000 / 271,000 10. [NDS] Momotaro Dentetsu 20th Anniversary (Hudson) 57,000 / 204,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sting3r Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 WOW! The DSi has really taken off And the PS3 is selling three times the 360, the patterns in Japan are interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 I think it will be, I don't think MS will change the basic arch of the Xbox again, just beef it up. Instead of 3 cores it'll have 6, and probably 2 GPUs like top of the line PC gfx cards do now. And loads of ram etc. This keeps the devs happy since they have more resources to work with but don't have to learn anything new. If you've already coded your game engine to run on 3 cores, and it's multithreaded, then moving it up to a 6 core system or dual GPU setup should be automatic or very very easy.That's how I'd do it anyways. Two graphics cards are not efficient in terms of performance, I think you get like 150% performance over just one card on a good day, so don't expect Microsoft to waste any time with such an idea. Instead, it's better to have one really fast card. Don't forget, Microsoft owns DirectX. The 360 libraries are extremely similar (if not identical) and what do you notice with PC Graphics cards? If it runs DX9, it runs DX8, 7 and 6 (And all the versions in between). DirectX is abstracted from the hardware itself, in other words you don't have to know what hardware you're programming for, you know that if you call a DirectX function, that hardware will (or at least, it's supposed to) perform that function. So for the Next Xbox, microsoft could have a completely different graphics chip, and all it has to do is pass in the same DirectX calls for it to do the same things (probably why the 360 is backwards compatible, at least to a point, with the original Xbox, despite the original Xbox being almost completely different hardware). The processor is another kettle of fish, but it's not easy to scale via number of cores. Just because something is multithreadded, it doesn't mean it can run twice as fast on a 4-core system as a 2-core system. Games in particular are quite difficult to scale via threads (I wrote a big article on this a few months back, try searching for it). There's a reason why Microsoft picked a 3-core system for the 360, it's actually quite a clever decision and probably half the reason why 360 games are still on par with PS3 games, despite the PS3 having a lot more potential processing power. For the next 360, expect probably another 3-core system, maybe even quad core, but much much faster. Not that much faster, though. Since the 360 and PS3 launched, both nVidia and ATI have made great strides in their GPGPU technologies (this is General-Processing-on-a-GPU, stuff like Folding@home) so the GPU could be completely different and much much more useful to games. My Geforce 9800GTX is more powerful than the CELLs in a PS3 AND it's capable of doing stuff like Physics at the same time as rendering graphics, so expect more of that in future consoles. HDD will definitely be as standard and it'll be a Solid State Drive. I know that's a big conclusion to jump to, but it's a stupidly obvious choice - the only reason MS dumped the HDD on the Arcade was because HDDs are difficult to make cheap. Most of the price of most levels of hard drive go on the same components, it's only the platters (where the data is stored) that changes. So the difference in price between the 20Gb and 60Gb drives was only a few cents, hence why Microsoft changed. This is because they're Mechanical. Solid State Drives will not have this issue, as the flash chips on them get smaller, they get cheaper and cheaper. Look at SD cards today, I remember paying ?30 for a 256Mb card only a couple of years ago, now you can get 8Gb and 16Gb ones for 1/3 of that! Oh - and it'll have a Blu-Ray drive. Not because Microsoft made a "Mistake" with the 360's DVD drive or anything, but because today's Blu-ray drives are already faster than DVD drives at slower speeds and prices are dropping quickly (You can have a Blu-ray drive for about ?60-?70 now, this time next year they'll be at least half that, by the time 2012 comes around or whenever the neXtBox comes out, they'll be as cheap as DVD drives today and much faster). Phew! WOW! The DSi has really taken offAnd the PS3 is selling three times the 360, the patterns in Japan are interesting... The PS3 has been consistently outselling the 360 3-1 in Japan for a few weeks now. Hard to believe, but that's a major improvement on the last 12 months (Except for that big blip a few months ago). It's amazing the 360 is currently pulling ahead of the PS3 considering it's basically doing nothing in one of the 3 major territories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sting3r Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 It's amazing the 360 is currently pulling ahead of the PS3 considering it's basically doing nothing in one of the 3 major territories. I see the appeal of the 360 locally (in australia), most of the people seem to take the view that "ps3 has better graphics but 360 has better games" and when they buy a 360 that compels their friends to buy one too to play with them on Xbox Live! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 That's a strange (and incorrect) opinion to have o_0 I get the feeling the 360 is basically selling via word-of-mouth in Japan. Like someone goes around to his "dumb" friend's house who owns a 360 and sees a shelf full of JRPGs and is like "....hey...I want to play some of these!" or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaPrime Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 January 5 - 11 | 2009 Hardware DSi - 78,201 PSP - 60,495 Wii - 41,243 PS3 - 28,144 DSL - 23,429 360 - 10,554 PS2 - 6,628 Software 01. [PSP] Dissidia Final Fantasy (Square Enix) 49,000 / 818,000 02. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (Capcom) 34,000 / 305,000 03. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 33,000 / 1,568,000 04. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 29,000 / 3,155,000 05. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode (Nintendo) 29000 / 644,000 06. [PS3] White Knight Chronicles (SCE) 26000 / 304,000 07. [PS3] Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III (SCE) 25,000 / 292,000 08. [PS2] Gundam Musou 2 (Limted Edition) (Namco Bandai) 25,000 / 225000 09. [NDS] Kirby Super Star Ultra (Nintendo) 23,000 / 1,021,000 10. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 21,000 / 2,155,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted January 18, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted January 18, 2009 PS3 and 360 Nibbling At Console Market ShareJapan - At the beginning of last summer, the Wii almost crossed its 70% console market share barrier with 69.99% on 06/02/08. While the Wii was reaching for historic highs, the 360 had reached its lowest point* and the PS3 was quickly decelerating in one of its lower moments (23.55%). * The 360 bottomed out at 6.39% two weeks later. Shortly thereafter, I went on record predicting that 5% or less was inevitable. Since then, the Wii has lost nearly 2% console market share, not an insignificant number this deep into the generation.* The 360 hasn't been that low again, climbing up to a much more respectable 7.68% and the PS3 looks like it will be locking in around 24% for the generation and currently sits at 24.18%. *2% of all console hardware represents 225 thousand units at this point. Questions for consumption: 1. Are we seeing the plateau of Wii success in Japan? Is 70% the zenith it will never quite reach? 2. What does this mean? Can Microsoft hold its head up a little higher with 7.68% than it could at 6.something %? 3. In the same breath, should Sony be ashamed that it only has 24% market share after dominating so completely for the past ten years? Or, has the market truly split into casuals vs. hardcore, and, as the fanboys put it, "it's doing really well for being so expensive!"? Media Create Sales: 01/05 - 01/11 Source: http://chartget.com/2009/01/ps3-and-360-ni...ole-market.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted January 19, 2009 Global Moderator Share Posted January 19, 2009 Looks like the 360 will break the 1mil mark in Japan in time. Sure they're 3rd in japan and pretty behind, BUT, the fact the market is so big worldwide now, and that the 360 has gotten way more 3rd party support is what MS wanted from Japan anyways. Being in this for the long term is the thing, If they stick to this and keep working at it, in time they'll get the Japanese market to open up enough and be better competition there like in the rest of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted January 22, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted January 22, 2009 Only One Xbox 360 Game Made Top 100 Sellers of 2008Crunching the sales data from game publication Famitsu, we have a breakdown by platform of the 100 biggest selling games of last year in Japan. Here goes: DS: 47 games Wii: 15 games PSP: 15 games PS2: 12 games PS3: 10 games Xbox 360: 1 game And that one Xbox 360 game is Tales of Vesperia, coming in at 82nd place in the top 100. For those interested in how that breaks down by game maker, we have that as well: Nintendo: 29 games Namco Bandai: 20 games Square Enix: 11 games Konami: 10 games Capcom: 6 games Level5: 4 games Sony Computer Entertainment: 3 games The Pok?mon Company: 3 games Koei: 2 games Atlus: 2 games Enterbrain: 1 game IE Institute: 1 game Hudson: 1 game Rocket: 1 game EA: 1 game Marvelous: 1 game Source: http://kotaku.com/5135987/only-one-xbox-36...sellers-of-2008 Thought a couple of the RPGs outside of Vesperia would've done a bit better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted January 23, 2009 Global Moderator Share Posted January 23, 2009 As long as they met their sales targets or better. Not every game sells 1mil or more anyways. I remember LO had a sales target of 200k which is pretty low compared to what other well known big name games sell. In the end of the day though, it's a global market, so it's kinda hard to tell how a single game has actually done if you don't have specific global sales numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaPrime Posted January 23, 2009 Author Share Posted January 23, 2009 January 12 - 18 | 2009 Hardware DSi - 62,525 PSP - 42,559 Wii - 32,333 PS3 - 20,690 DSL - 18,809 360 - 9,576 PS2 - 5,760 Software 01. [WII] Wii Play: Mario Tennis (Nintendo) 56,509 / NEW 02. [NDS] Megami Ibunroku: Devil Survivor (Atlas) 55,466 / NEW 03. [PS3] Naruto: Narutimate Storm (Namco Bandai) 44,065 / NEW 04. [PSP] Dissidia Final Fantasy (Square Enix) 29,355 / 848,000 05. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (Capcom) 27,032 / 332,000 06. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 25,488 / 1,594,000 07. [PS3] Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks) 24,488 / NEW 08. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode (Nintendo) 22,628 / 667,000 09. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 21,847 / 3,177,000 10. [NDS] DS Uranai Seikatsu (Nintendo) 19,881 / NEW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiefloyd_fan Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 dont post the same link a million times dont post the same link a million times dont post the same link a million times dont post the same link a million times dont post the same link a million times dont post the same link a million times dont post the same link a million times dont post the same link a million times dont post the same link a million times dont post the same link a million times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Hmm, interesting, PS3 sales are down, but 360 sales are about the same. For weeks, there's been a 3:1 sales ratio of PS3's to 360's but this time it's only 2:1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaPrime Posted January 23, 2009 Author Share Posted January 23, 2009 dont post the same link a million times You're supposed to look at the lastest posts in this topic, not the first. I wonder if 360 can sustain around the 9k mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted January 26, 2009 Global Moderator Share Posted January 26, 2009 I think it can. It seems to have more or less settled into the 7-10k area. A few more good games in Japan and it could move up higher again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaPrime Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 January 19 - 25 | 2009 Hardware DSi - 51,618 PSP - 38,280 Wii - 26,770 PS3 - 17,708 DSL - 13,686 360 - 7,663 PS2 - 5,077 Software 01. [WII] Wii Play: Mario Tennis (Nintendo) 31,000 / 88,000 02. [WII] Fragile (Namco Bandai) 26,000 / NEW 03. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Namco Bandai) 25,000 / 316,000 04. [PSP] Zill O'll Infinite Plus (KOEI) 25,000 / NEW 05. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (Capcom) 25,000 / 357,000 06. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 20,000 / 1,614,000 07. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 19,000 / 3,196,000 08. [PSP] Dissidia Final Fantasy (Square Enix) 18,000 / 866,000 09. [NDS] Megami Ibunroku: Devil Survivor (Atlus) 18,000 / 74,000 10. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode (Nintendo) 17,000 / 684,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaPrime Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 Jan 26 - Feb 1 Hardware DSi - 55,613 PSP - 44,135 Wii - 23,278 PS3 - 17,405 DSL - 15,147 360 - 8,107 PS2 - 5,334 Software 01. [PSP] Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 (Namco Bandai) 213,000 / NEW 02. [PSP] Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami) 109,000 / NEW 03. [PS2] Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami) 108,000 / NEW 04. [NDS] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Square Enix) 102,000 / NEW 05. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (Capcom) 23,000 / 380,000 06. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Namco Bandai) 22,000 / 339,000 07. [WII] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Square Enix) 22,000 / NEW 08. [WII] Wii Play: Mario Tennis (Nintendo) 20,000 / 108,000 09. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 20,000 / 1,634,000 10. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 19,000 / 3,215,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaPrime Posted February 13, 2009 Author Share Posted February 13, 2009 Feb 2 - 8 Hardware DSi - 49,529 PSP - 34,969 Wii - 20,412 PS3 - 16,082 DSL - 12,484 360 - 8,311 PS2 - 5,089 Software 01. [PSP] Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 (Namco Bandai) 45,000 / 258,000 02. [PS3] Demon's Souls (SCE) 40,000 / NEW 03. [PSP] Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami) 38,000 / 147,000 04. [PS2] Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami) 37,000 / 145,000 05. [NDS] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Square Enix) 34,000 / 136,000 06. [NDS] Detective Conan & Kindachi (Namco Bandai) 20,000 / NEW 07. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (Capcom) 18,000 / 398,000 08. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Namco Bandai) 16,000 / 355,000 09. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 15,500 / 1,650,000 10. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 15,000 / 323,000 Wii numbers getting pretty low, 360 holding steady for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaPrime Posted February 27, 2009 Author Share Posted February 27, 2009 Last week's numbers: Feb 9 - 15 Hardware DSi - 53,483 PSP - 34,256 Wii - 21,016 PS3 - 18,656 DSL - 14,810 360 - 9,833 PS2 - 5,332 Software 01. [NDS] Mario & Luigi RPG 3 (Nintendo) 193,000 / NEW 02. [PS3] Street Fighter IV (Capcom) 86,000 / NEW 03. [PSP] Kidou Senshi Gundam: Giren no Yabou (Namco Bandai) 40,000 / NEW 04. [PS2] Kidou Senshi Gundam: Giren no Yabou (Namco Bandai) 38,000 / NEW 05. [360] Street Fighter IV (Capcom) 38,000 / NEW 06. [PSP] Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami) 27,000 / 174,000 07. [PS2] Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami) 25,000 / 170,000 08. [PS3] Demon's Souls (SCE) 22,000 / 62,000 09. [PSP] Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 (Namco Bandai) 22,000 / 280,000 10. [NDS] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Square Enix) 20,000 / 156,000 This week: Feb 16 - 22 Hardware DSi - 41,839 PSP - 29,552 360 - 25,334 Wii - 16,973 PS3 - 16,149 DSL - 9,975 PS2 - 5,029 Software 01. [360] Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope (Square Enix) 162,000 / NEW 02. [NDS] Mario & Luigi RPG 3 (Nintendo) 62,000 / 255,000 03. [PSP] Idolmaster SP: Perfect Sun (Namco Bandai) 46,000 / NEW 04. [PSP] Idolmaster SP: Missing Moon (Namco Bandai) 39,000 / NEW 05. [PSP] Idolmaster SP: Wandering Star (Namco Bandai) 35,000 / NEW 06. [NDS] Shining Force Feather (SEGA) 30,000 / NEW 07. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (Capcom) 18,000 / 435,000 * 08. [PS2] Sacred Blaze (Flight Plan) 17,000 / NEW 09. [PS3] Street Fighter IV (Capcom) 17,000 / 103,000 10. [PS3] Demon's Souls (SCE) 15,000 / 78,000 First time 360 outsells Wii in Media Create, thanks to Star Ocean 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenser.d Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Damn. Microsoft needs to push out a few more Star Oceans apparently :p -Spenser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted February 27, 2009 Global Moderator Share Posted February 27, 2009 Just shows that a big name game that the Japanese love will help things big. Those are good numbers for SO4, nice start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted March 4, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted March 4, 2009 Hardware PSP - 42,000 DSi - 38,000 PS3 - 35,000 X360 - 13,000 Wii - 12,000 DSL - 8,000 PS2 - 3,800 Software 01 Ryu ga Gotoku 3 [Yakuza 3] (PS3) - 380,000 02 MARUCHIREIDO (PSP) - 200,000 03 Louis Mali (Nintendo DS) - 50,000 04 games CX 9DS) - 45,000 05 One Piece (Wii) - 45,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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