Japanese Half Year Sales

RE*AC*TOR

Interesting on the whole DS vs PSP arguement. Looks like japan is going for substance over style - I wonder will Europe?

Also still confirming that the PS2 murders the other two big consoles.

famitsu wrote:

Top 20 Best Selling game titles in Japan for the first half of 2005:

Gran Turismo 4 (PS2, Sony) - 1,051,961 units
Shin Sangoku Musou 4 (PS2, Koei) - 900,689 units
DragonBall Z3 (PS2, Bandai) - 639,950 units
Nintendogs (NDS, Nintendo) - 494,330 units
World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 Livewire Evolution (PS2, Konami) - 458,626 units
Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song (PS2, Square Enix) - 443,005 units
Sawaru Made in Wario (NDS, Nintendo) - 398,380 units
Mobile Suit Gundam: The One Year War (PS2, Bandai) - 384,762 units
Super Mario 64DS (NDS, Nintendo) - 355,013 units
Tekken 5 (PS2, Namco) - 314,845 units
Radiata Stories (PS2, Square Enix) - 293,413 units
Devil May Cry 3 (PS2, Capcom) - 278,649 units
Dragon Quest VIII (PS2, Square Enix) - 276,604 [3,507,892] units
Another Century's Episode (PS2, Banpresto) - 254,527 units
Everybody's Golf Portable (PSP, Sony) - 231,933 [362,921] units
Monster Hunter G (PS2, Capcom) - 229,966 units
Mushiking (GBA, Sega) - 222,199 units
Biohazard 4 (GC, Capcom) - 220,704 units
Pokemon Emerald (GBA, Pokemon) - 218,574 [1,553,595] units
Touch! Kirby: Mahou no Efude (NDS, Nintendo) - 208,405 units

Hardware sales in Japan for the first half of 2005:

PlayStation 2 - 1,286,882 units
Nintendo DS - 1,236,268 units
PlayStation Portable - 1,137,597 units
GameBoy Advance SP - 497,931 units
GameCube - 159,559 units
GameBoy Advance - 16,040 units
Xbox - 9,045 units

monkeyfudge

What are the figures in brackets?

Because I thought Dragon Quest VIII was one of the biggest sellers in Japan this year.

ShiverinEskimo

My god the xbox is not selling at all really is it?? Anything to do with xbox360 in autumn or has it been this dismal in Japan for microsoft all along?

steviec

At a guess I'd say they're probably the total sales including last year for games that came out in december or whatever.


Its always fun to see the Japanese X-Box sales though.

monkeyfudge

steviec wrote:

At a guess I'd say they're probably the total sales including last year for games that came out in december or whatever.

Yes. That makes sense... Well spotted.

weemcd

just over 9k xbox sales in japan?


hahahahahahaha. jesus that is poor.

Retr0gamer

Well it's not surprising. Other than Panzer Dragoon Orta and Ninja Gaiden there is nothing that appeals to the japanese gamer. Microsoft are doing the right thing for the xbox 360 by getting Mistwalker on board.

Nice to see Resi 4 selling well. It's not selling well in Europe because nobody can find any copies of it.

RE*AC*TOR

monkeyfudge wrote:

What are the figures in brackets?

Because I thought Dragon Quest VIII was one of the biggest sellers in Japan this year.

not sure actually - just grabbed them from Spong. Wasn't explained....

RobertFoster

Every time I see Japanese sales figures, I always find it funny that the GBA outsells the Xbox.

flogen

The gap between the PSP and the DS is big enough, I guess. 100,000 units apart.

I'd say we'll see a bigger gap here, just because of the delay in launch (people who really want the PSP have imported, people who kind of wanted it may have gotten a DS instead).

sprinkles

RobertFoster wrote:

Every time I see Japanese sales figures, I always find it funny that the GBA outsells the Xbox.

The dreamcast was outselling the xbox the last time I checked.

The ds and psp are neck and neck. Ninty are making a lot more money on the ds than sony are on the psp though. Clever old Nintendo.

rainbow kirby

They had the figures on GameSpot too... The biggest selling PSone game (a re-release of Valkyrie Profile) sold 24,000 copies compared to Fable (the biggest selling Xbox title)'s 12,000...
They really don't like that console.

Jim

I reckon the DS will be a dismil failure in Europe.
Pity.

lol @ Xbox though.

Retr0gamer

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

I reckon the DS will be a dismil failure in Europe.
Pity.

lol @ Xbox though.

It's doing incredibly well in Europe at the moment.

evad_lhorg

Retr0gamer wrote:

Well it's not surprising. Other than Panzer Dragoon Orta and Ninja Gaiden there is nothing that appeals to the japanese gamer. Microsoft are doing the right thing for the xbox 360 by getting Mistwalker on board.

Nice to see Resi 4 selling well. It's not selling well in Europe because nobody can find any copies of it.

It's ahrd to find resi 4???????? man we have tonnes of it in GAME dawson st. (yes im aware it's close but its always been on the shelf)

1huge1

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

I reckon the DS will be a dismil failure in Europe.
Pity.

lol @ Xbox though.

the ds is doing really good in europe
its the psp thats going to have problems

Retr0gamer

evad_lhorg wrote:

It's ahrd to find resi 4???????? man we have tonnes of it in GAME dawson st. (yes im aware it's close but its always been on the shelf)

Well it's a different story in the rest of Europe. Nintendo really ****ed up distribution.

Ri_Nollaig

anyone have figures for US and European sales? also is PC gaming non existant in japan? also which is more profitable US or Europe or Japan?

weemcd

rainbow kirby wrote:

Fable (the biggest selling Xbox title)'s 12,000...
They really don't like that console.

They sold more copies of fable than they did of the xbox console?!!

flogen

weemcd wrote:

They sold more copies of fable than they did of the xbox console?!!

12,000 is probably total sales, while 9,000 is xbox sales in the first half of this year.

Ciaran500

weemcd wrote:

They sold more copies of fable than they did of the xbox console?!!

12,000 was the Japanese sales figures.

honru

I'm just glad that the DS is gradually getting some good games, seemed to be a drought there for a couple of months.

Electroplankton, new Castlevania and Lunar games, Katamari Darmacy DS, among other games sound promising.

weemcd

Ciaran500 i had gathered that :rolleyes:

RE*AC*TOR

the latest monthlies are out - draw your own conclusions.

July 24th

1 GC Super Mario Miracle Baseball
2 NDS Yawaraka Atama Juku
3 PS2 Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 12
4 NDS Work Your Brain: Brain Training For Adults
5 PS2 Sengoku Basara
6 PS2 Ape Escape 3
7 GBA Beatle Mushi King
8 NDS Yugioh! Nightmare Troubadour
9 GBA Bleach
10 PS2 Full Metal Alchemist 3
11 NDS Rockman 5 DS EXE
12 NDS Naruto RPG 2
13 GC Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 12
14 NDS Nintendogs Shiba and Friends
15 GC Dance Dance Revolution with Mario
16 PS2 Gundam True Odyssey
17 PS2 Pachislot Onimusha 3
18 PS2 Minna Daisukai Katamari!
19 NDS Full Metal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy
20 NDS Nintendogs Chihuahua and Friends


DS 35,827
PS2 29,841
PSP 21,025
GBASP 9,132
GC 2,773
GBA 318
Xbox 22

Retr0gamer

Well I didn't expect that. The DS is storming ahead of not only the PS2 but the PSP as well. I thought it would calm down after the initial burst from Nintendogs, not accelerate.

Anybody know anything about Yawaraka Atama Juku?

thelordofcheese

"Aimed for the pre-school aged child, Yawaraka Atama Juku features tests on memory skills, language recognition, and other cognitive abilities."

Apparently

Some screenshots and the back cover

RE*AC*TOR

thelordofcheese wrote:

"Aimed for the pre-school aged child, Yawaraka Atama Juku features tests on memory skills, language recognition, and other cognitive abilities."

Apparently

Some screenshots and the back cover

ad here

http://www.touch-ds.jp/mediagallery/st18.html

Retr0gamer

Meh, just saw that as well. I was hoping it was another quality game.

22 xboxen sold. Could count that on my toes, fingers and any other extremities I could afford to use.