Super-Happy Bumper Japanese Sales - FFXIII/PS3 Edition

Media Create Sales: Dec 14-20, 2009

01. / 00. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII (Square Enix) - 1.501.964 / NEW
02. / 01. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) - 567.890 / 1.933.827 (+32%)
03. / 03. [NDS] Friend Collection (Nintendo) - 165.575 / 2.089.946 (+62%)
04. / 06. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver (Pokemon Co.) - 111.454 / 3.339.872 (+49%)
05. / 08. [WII] Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) - 92.561 / 1.201.258 (+44%)
06. / 13. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 2: Threat of the Invaders - Fire / Blizzard (Level 5) - 71.085 / 808.000
07. / 09. [WII] PokePark Wii: Picachu's Great Adventure (Pokemon Co.) - 70.750 / 191.920 (+23%)
08. / 11. [NDS] Professor Layton and the Flute of Malevolent Destiny (Level 5) - 54.128 / 496.000
09. / 07. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable 2 (Sega) - 50.466 / 411.565 (-32%)
10. / 00. [PSP] Queen's Blade: Spiral Chaos (Namco Bandai) - 49.728 / NEW

11-50.

HW.

DSi - 95,700
DSi LL - 75,500
DSL - 12,400
Wii - 194,000
PS3 - 240,500
PS2 - 2,900
PSP - 80,900
PSP go - 3,100
X360 - 8,500

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Craziness.

- FFXIII carries PS3 to a historic week.
- NSMBW looks set to sell 4m
- Friend Collection joins the big boys. Another massive franchise for Nintendo.
- The rise-and-rise of Level 5. Inazuma 11 joins Layton as a tentpole series for them.

All good news, isn't it? Wii hardware had a surprisingly good week, too. No surprise to see PS3 on top, though. Be interesting to see just how front-loaded FFXIII is.

Pretty surprising to see DS hardware come in behind the PS3 and Wii, even given the FFXIII and NSMBW factors.

But I guess Nintendo don't really need to stimulate HW sales with new DS games when they have two multi-million sellers lodged in the top ten. And two Level 5 games keeping pace.

But still, Spirit Tracks on the nexr charts. Probably comes in behind Mario and FF, but good for about 250k.

Level-5 needs to bring Inazuma Eleven west. I could see it doing reasonable numbers - it'd just depend how much the localisation cost.

rudolphless wrote:All good news, isn't it?

By "all good news" do you mean "Japan continues to buy mostly bad games"?

At ease, soldier.

Just read about Friends Collections a few mins ago - aside from it's awful title, sounds pretty interesting. I wouldn't mind seeing Hitler and Betty Boop Mii's hook up

Not entirely related, but anyone know how mushihimesama futari on 360 sold? Just wondering if imports had much of an impact on sales.

Ass Creed and MW2 made it into the top 40, wow, tha's a turn up for the books

Holy gooseberry fool, that's impressive for PS3. And Wii. Final Fantasy still has it, evidently.

Elfhours wrote:Holy gooseberry fool, that's impressive for PS3. And Wii. Final Fantasy still has it, evidently.

Apart from the fact that it will probably be the worst-selling mainline game in 15 years, yeah.

more silent than night wrote:Not entirely related, but anyone know how mushihimesama futari on 360 sold? Just wondering if imports had much of an impact on sales.

15k first week is all I can find at the moment.

http://www.vgchartz.com/ehweekly.php

For rest of Europe.

I would still love to see the worldwide sales.

Something Fishy

DeadFish wrote:http://www.vgchartz.com/ehweekly.php

For rest of Europe.

I would still love to see the worldwide sales.

pure guess work as always I fear as these figures don't seem to be considered reliable.

I wish we had proper figures for Europe as we do japan and the US.

Anyway, enough of the serious stuff. Merry Christmas Deadfish.

DeadFish wrote:http://www.vgchartz.com/ehweekly.php

For rest of Europe.

I would still love to see the worldwide sales.

Isn't this the worldwide sales?

http://vgchartz.com/weekly.php

Trebell wrote:
DeadFish wrote:http://www.vgchartz.com/ehweekly.php

For rest of Europe.

I would still love to see the worldwide sales.

pure guess work as always I fear as these figures don't seem to be considered reliable.

I wish we had proper figures for Europe as we do japan and the US.

Why are these unreliable? I've seen people say they are for a while now but I don't know why.

Well, the guy that set up the site was notorious for taking data from legitimate trackers (NPD, ChartTrack, Media Create etc) and applying his own special formula to make it his own. And he would just make up stuff based on his own formulas and then change it when actual data came out. This was all true before he was banned from Gaf many years ago. It seems like he has attempted to legitimise his operation since then, but who knows what kind of methodology he uses.

I certainly wouldn't trust an independent website to know how many copies of Spirit Tracks were sold worldwide last week when companies like NPD and ChartTrack pretty much have a monopoly on their respective markets. Clearly all sales data requires a degree of extrapolation and sampling, but I still see no reason why their numbers should mean anything.

Twinkle Winckle Christmas Star wrote:
rudolphless wrote:All good news, isn't it?

By "all good news" do you mean "Japan continues to buy mostly bad games"?

Well, at least seven of that top ten are apparently pretty great. So no. And I was talking more about hardware and software sales having a noticeable boost.

Oxxing Day wrote:Well, the guy that set up the site was notorious for taking data from legitimate trackers (NPD, ChartTrack, Media Create etc) and applying his own special formula to make it his own. And he would just make up stuff based on his own formulas and then change it when actual data came out. This was all true before he was banned from Gaf many years ago. It seems like he has attempted to legitimise his operation since then, but who knows what kind of methodology he uses.

I certainly wouldn't trust an independent website to know how many copies of Spirit Tracks were sold worldwide last week when companies like NPD and ChartTrack pretty much have a monopoly on their respective markets. Clearly all sales data requires a degree of extrapolation and sampling, but I still see no reason why their numbers should mean anything.

- it sounds like a joke...I certainly wonder what formula he came up with. It's like the data came in as fact and went out as fiction.

So what's the closest thing to NPD we have for the UK/Europe then? ChartTrack don't go in to much detail in regards to hardware, it seems.

I'm still waiting for NPD to get there ass together and release WW data. They said they would but I haven't the faintest idea of when it's supposed to be happening.

For Europe as a whole, the best numbers we get come straight from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

Oxxing Day wrote:
Elfhours wrote:Holy gooseberry fool, that's impressive for PS3. And Wii. Final Fantasy still has it, evidently.

Apart from the fact that it will probably be the worst-selling mainline game in 15 years, yeah.

1.5 million copies in a week can't be sniffed at, fella.

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