Japanese Sales (6/23-6/29) Software & Hardware

[warnpro]

I got these #'s, and the link to the Viewtiful Joe site from another message board....

Well, here they are:

Media Create Numbers (6/23-6/29)

SOFTWARE:

July 3 (Bloomberg):Week game software selling ranking Model Maker Title Week selling number Total selling number

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1 PS2 Sega Initial D Special Stage 162,400 162,400
2 GC Nintendo Striking-how woods e+ 101,000 101,000
3 PS2 ENIX, Square Half-done hero pair 3D 96,900 96,900
4 GC Capcom Viewtiful Joe 47,000 47,000
5 GBA Nintendo MOTHER 1+2 45,100 205,500
6 PS2 Sega I will build a J.LEAGUE pro soccer club!3 35,600 443,500
7 PS2 GASUTO Atelier of viola-TO ˜B‹à�p 2 ofgramNATO 31,700 31,700
8 PS2 BANDAI Enter The Matrix 22,300 68,200
9 Xbox Capcom Dino Crisis 3 20,500 20,500
10 PS2 KOE The Mikuni mind record of war 2 20,100 20,100
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Tokyo Takemoto Takafumi Yoshifumi Takemoto

HARDWARE:

Last week's numbers in parenthesis

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1 S C E PlayStation 2 46,700 1,566,900 (46,900)
2 Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP 35,700 1,223,300 (39,600)
3 Nintendo GameCube 12,600 320,000 (20,900)
4 Nintendo Game Boy Advance 9,700 917,800 ( 9,600)
5 Microsoft Xbox 4,400 63,800 ( 750)
6 S C E Playstation 910 45,700 ( 900)
7 Bandai Wonderswan Crystal 350 24,300
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Nice to see VJ is not a flop.
Evidently, Capcom didn't make enough copies of VJ in its first print run, thus creating a shortage.

They issued an apology of sorts on the Viewtiful Joe Website.
Good luck with the translation.

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/?w...=JAEN&wb_dis=2

here it is, with the link above.....
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Guidance about the software for game cubes "beautiful Joe"


Thank you very much for patronage-receiving product of our company in everyday life.
Now, about the software for game cubes "beautiful Joe" put on the market on June 26, large popularity is gained luckily and the run out state continues in some stores.
ります which is performing additional production now so that we can send goods to a shop front early, and will not perform re-shipment one by one early in July. (Please ask for details a direct-sales store)
Although I have made trouble very much to the visitor of whom purchase is expected, I ask you to wait for a while now.
In addition, I will carry the comment from a "beautiful Joe" producer below.

Many opinions "it does not sell although he wants Joe" are brought near. As a producer, I borrow this place and do an apology.
although it is sold out and it is a delightful talk that it is store successive occurrence, considering your feeling, be openly pleased with the situation where it does not arrive to a user needed -- it does not become precocious it waits -- making -- very much -- I am sorry, there is confidence which offers only the fun for which ... waited I think that a reproduced part will die together with a shop front soon. I ask you to already wait only for a few.
The fourth development department of ■■■CAPCOM "Viewtiful Joe" producer Atsushi Inaba ■■■

Although I make you trouble and it is not explanation, I need your help well.

July 3, 2003 Capcom, Inc.

[Shin Johnpv]

very cool to see Viewtiful Joe sell out

game deserves really good sales

[Jeremy]

VJ doing well is nice redeption for Strider 2 doing poorly over there.

[Rich]

750 Xboxs sold all week? I knew it was doing bad, but THAT bad? Geez.

[warnpro]

Originally posted by Rich
750 Xboxs sold all week? I knew it was doing bad, but THAT bad? Geez.

Actually the 750 was from last week, it sold 4,400 from 6-23-6-29.
The 4,400 was more than the Xbox had sold in the past 5 weeks combined.
Apparently they released some Dino Crisis/Xbox bundle or something, which surely had alot to do with the rise in sales (relatively speaking).

[Andy]

Damn, Sega is really bringing the pwnage to Japan lately, they've been kicking ass Oh, and great to see VJ sell well. I'm sticking out for the domestic, though I dunno how much that went into the sales.

[warnpro]

Originally posted by Andy
Damn, Sega is really bringing the pwnage to Japan lately, they've been kicking ass Oh, and great to see VJ sell well. I'm sticking out for the domestic, though I dunno how much that went into the sales.

Yeah, I hope VJ importers didn't cannabalize U.S sales to much. I doubt it though. I'm guessing maybe a few thousand of those 47G were imported copies. Many importers are hardcore and might buy the U.S. version anyway this October.

[Shine]

2 GC Nintendo Striking-how woods e+ 101,000 101,000
3 PS2 ENIX, Square Half-done hero pair 3D 96,900 96,900

What are these two titles please?

[Low]

Animal Forest E+ and Square's 2D vs 3D RPG (forget the name).

*-neo

[Kron]

2= Dobutsu no Mori E+, ie Animal Crossing released in Japan now with E-reader compatibility.

3= Hanjuku Hero vs 3D, an update of the Super famicom game which mixes 2D with 3D