Latest Weekly Sales of Japanese Consoles...

[jae_hoon_MOTW]

Media Create, just released the latest weekly sales for Japan. Once again The PS2 is dominating the charts, selling out every system combined. One can only speculate the numbers once heavy-hitters Such as Suikoden 3 and Star Ocean 3 gets released...


PlayStation 2 - 72,100
GameBoy Advance - 43,200
GameCube - 11,700
PlayStation - 5,500
Xbox - 4,700
GameBoy Color - 2,200
WonderSwan Color - 2,100
Dreamcast - 600
Nintendo 64 - 200
WonderSwan - 100
PocketStation - 50
GameBoy - 20

[Andy787]

Lame

[Master]

There is no accounting for Taste.

Japan: Where casual gamers live.

[StriderKyo]

Who are those 20 fools who bought a Gameboy? I think that's the Xbox's best week since the two weeks after launch. All from the power of Halo! And the Dreamcast only sold 600 - I hope KoF 2000 sells well when it finally hits...

[Klonoa]

Originally posted by jae_hoon_MOTW
PlayStation - 5,500
Xbox - 4,700

all I can say is....WOW

[dog$]

Originally posted by Andy787
Lame

Originally posted by Gongos
I wonder if while doshi is over in japan, he will pick up their "homeland of hardcore gamers" status and bring it america, where it belongs

Originally posted by Master
There is no accounting for Taste.

Japan: Where casual gamers live.

OK lesse here...

Of the top 50 software titles in Japan that same week, 20 were PS2 titles.

-- 1 World Soccer Winning Eleven 6 Konami PS2 SPT 405,016 405,016
-- 4 Zettai Zetsumei Irem Soft Eng. PS2 A.AVG 52,134 52,134
1 5 Nechu Professional Baseball 2002 Namco PS2 SPT 38,615 118,745
-- 6 Japan-US Professional Baseball Final League Square PS2 SPT 31,605 31,605
2 7 Kingdom Hearts Square PS2 RPG 31,086 650,287
-- 12 Generation of Chaos Next: Lost Bonds Idea Factory PS2 SRPG 16,370 16,370
4 13 Super Robot Taisen Impact Bandai PS2 SRPG 16,180 525,637
5 15 Tekken 4 Namco PS2 FIG 10,908 279,146
6 17 Armored Core 3 From Software PS2 ACT 10,352 173,248
-- 19 Armored Soldier J-Phoenix: Burst Tactics Takara PS2 ACT 9,987 9,987
-- 22 Galerians: Ash Enterbrain PS2 A.AVG 8,835 8,835
9 24 Nobunaga's Ambition Ranseiki Koei PS2 SLG 8,224 69,317
-- 25 Surveillance Sony PS2 AVG 7,183 7,183
11 28 Let's Make the J. League Pro Soccer Club 2002 Sega PS2 SLG 6,318 447,380
18 29 Garakuta Kingdom Taito PS2 RPG 4,872 82,982
16 30 Onimusha 2 Capcom PS2 ACT 4,712 919,388
-- 37 Super Pachinko Station V3 Sunsoft PS2 TBG 4,058 4,058
-- 43 Armored Squad G-Breaker 3rd Claudia Taisen Sunrise PS2 SRPG 3,278 3,278
19 44 Japan Professional Baseball 2002 Konami PS2 SPT 3,200 55,450
30 46 Xenosaga Episode 1: Der Wille zur Macht Namco PS2 RPG 2,968 405,825

Of the 20, one was a table game, 5 were sports games, 6 were action oriented... and the remaining 8 are RPGs or SRPGs. Sounds pretty evenly distributed among a lot of audiences to me, with quite a few games getting much more support there than they would in other countries... oh and the PS2 is also cheaper there too, nearly forgot to mention that.

And you can't see why it's selling so well?
Oh, wait, it's because they're wrong and you are right.
Heh.

[Andy787]

Yes, they're wrong and I'm right. That's an example of what is called an 'opinion' Mine, specifically.

[kabuki]

Originally posted by jae_hoon_MOTW

PlayStation 2 - 72,100
PlayStation - 5,500

GameBoy Advance - 43,200
GameBoy Color - 2,200
GameBoy - 20

Who are all the punks buying PSone, GBC, and GameBoy systems when their younger brothers are backwards compatible ??

I can see the PSone, but the friggin black and white GameBoy ??
Nintendo can't still be making those things...

- Kabuki

[kabuki]

Originally posted by dog$

Of the 20, one was a table game, 5 were sports games, 6 were action oriented... and the remaining 8 are RPGs or SRPGs. Sounds pretty evenly distributed among a lot of audiences to me, with quite a few games getting much more support there than they would in other countries... oh and the PS2 is also cheaper there too, nearly forgot to mention that.

And you can't see why it's selling so well?
Oh, wait, it's because they're wrong and you are right.
Heh.

A lot of us at TNL, like myself, like to see at least some of the market share going to a system other than PS2. Competition is healthy for the industry !! Except in Sega's case...

And yes Dog$, not only is that a good mix of PS2 games there, but most of them look pretty damn good to me ^_^

- Kabuki

[Despair]

Same here And wow, Onimusha 2 almost got to a million mark. Cant wait to get this game in August. Kingdom Hearts doing well too.