Agent of Chaos Rep: 54  Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 39,965 OFFLINE | Now for the Japanese side of things. Second big week of holidays for them. Holiday sales in Japan usually last through the first couple of weeks of January so next week should be the biggest week of them all. But this week still pretty collosal. Check it:
NDS- 319,209(+32%) 21,162,670
Wii- 268,954(+58%) 4,501,760
PSP- 175,346(0%) 7,565,084
PS3- 55,119(-7%) 1,638,791
PS2- 22,732(+14%) 22,268,941
360- 8,580(-3%) 534,559
GBA- 305(+22%) 16,701,455
NGC- 74(+48%) 4,024,252
A few things to note. Nintendo DS is still the monster, but it is noticeable that sales are down from last year at the same time. Explanation? It’s possible that DS may be experiencing some times of diminishing returns. Over the last 2 yrs DS in Japan has sold at rates that are unprecedented in the country, selling what took PS2 6 years in half the time. Being only a country of 150 million, taking it by storm that fast would give a certain time in its life a point of diminishing returns. Now this isn’t something permaneant, it just means that DS has already reached the heighest point it probably could ever reach in one year, which doubled any record before that. DS will still be on top in the Japanese market, it just won’t be able to do what it did before due to that concept. But it’ll still lead easily, as it’s still owning PSP.
With that out of the way, Nintendomination continues, with DS and Wii taking 70% of all hardware sales. If you add PSP into the mix, then that’s 90% of all hardware sales. Meaning PS2, PS3, and 360, are just a smidgeon 10% of the entire market. Now here’s a few scary things. PS3 is the first scary thing. All were saying after the 2 weeks it outsold the Wii that things were changing. But it seems the exact opposite has happened. The 40gb release and pricedrop has offset the holiday season. What does that mean? It means that PS3 holidays have been completely ruined because of the 40gb and pricedrop. Or another explanation for that would be no mainstream appeal. I pick a little bit of 2. PS3 saw a decrease in sales this week, meaning it has apsolutely no mainstream appeal whatsoever, as holiday rises are caused by the mainstream buyers.
The second scarier thing is 360 sales. In the same timeframe its been out, its been completely sold out by the PS2. Not to mention it is drastically down in sales this holiday season than from last. It has apsolutely no mainstream appeal just like the PS3 right now, and it’s apparent that 360 is about dead. 2007 was the last year for the 360 in Japan, as Wii takes over, and PS3 cleans up whatever is rest. MS’s hopes of a better 2008, died this holiday season, as Lost Odyssey proved nothing.
And the scariest thing is that people are still buying the GBA and GC. Seriously people come on.
Anyways now onto software:
1. Mario Party DS- 319,494/1,117,186
2. Final Fantasy IV DS- 312,346/312,346
3. Wii Fit- 216,456/743,136
4. Super Mario Galaxy- 118,987/697,210
5. Dragon Quest IV- 112,152/977,499
6. Wii Sports- 103,544/2,472,525
7. Mario and Sonic at Beijing Olympics- 101,772/314,749
8. Dorabase: Doraemon Super Baseball Gaiden- 99,494/99,494
9. Wii Play- 98,228/2,007,546
10. Naruto: Shippuuden N-Ultimate Accelerator 2- 90,380/90,380
11. Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Yami no Tankentai- 86,582/1,273,558
12. Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box- 68,608/534,222
13. Mario Party 8- 62,532/1,054,567
14. Ryuusei no Rockman- 51,899/201,234
15. Mario Kart DS- 51,646/2,848,227
16. Kousoku Card Battle: Card Hero- 49,114/49,114
17. Power-Pro kun Pocket 10- 45,823/136,890
18. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Matsuri: Kakera Asobi- 44,051/44,051
19. Taiko no Tatsuzin DS- 39,494/307,895
20. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2008(PS2)- 38,734/489,663
21. Kodai Ouja: Kyouryuu King - 7-tsu no Kakera- 36,962/128,911
22. New Super Mario Bros- 36,709/5,135,604
23. Powerful Pro Baseball 14: Final Edition- 35,190/35,190
24. Warioware: Smooth Moves- 34,816/606,731
25. Gran Turismo 5 Prolouge- 30,886/140,242
26. Tamagotchi no Puchi-Puchi Omisetchi Mina Thank You!- 30,588/197,459
27. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd- 29,620/1,465,995
28. Animal Crossing: Wild World- 24,810/4,658,521
29. Pokemon Diamond/Pearl- 23,544/5,552,250
30. Won!tertainment: Music Channel- 23,291/82,430
NDS- 1,810,410/88,213,170
Wii- 895,511/13,296,694
PS2- 302,306/124,317,500
PS3- 129,636/3,315,057
PSP- 121,502/13,985,897
360- 35,770/2,177,292
GBA- 9,053/47,373,551
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  Last edited 26 Dec 2007 11:18 pm by Zucas |
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