The Japan Preview: 5/17 Edition (All HW down, SW quiet) - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 17 May 2009 / 4,684 Views
Jacob Mazel
Summary:
Golden Week is over now. Not surprisingly, hardware and software sales have dipped. With little to boost hardware sales significantly over the next few weeks for the consoles, the story to watch is whether all four consoles can dip below 10,000 units per week. Wii has Takt of Magic next week to try to maintain its post-Golden Week sales until whenever Wii Sports Resort releases in June. PS3 and Xbox 360 have Shin Sangoku Musou Empires 5. But otherwise, there isn’t much to stop Wii and PS3 from edging toward sub 10k figures in the next few weeks. DS and PSP are completely different, with a steadier diet of moderate to big hits and cheaper price points to maintain sales. Kingdom Hearts DS for instance has a decent chance to become the first million selling title in Japan in 2009 shortly after it releases on May 30.
Trends to Watch:
- Level off points. PS2, Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii should generally see dropping hardware sales over the next several weeks until sufficiently large releases (~100k+) or games drawing in a new audience release. DS and PSP will both be down this week, but have enough key software not to drop off continually.
- Software releases for the second half of the year. E3 will probably see some release dates of formerly secret games unveiled for Japan. Monster Hunter 3 is the only “big” title after Dragon Quest IX with a definite release date in Japan at the moment.
- The Wii Sports Resort release data. If the game releases June 3 it’s a lot different than if it releases June 28 since there is not much content being released for Wii between Monster Hunter G and Wii Sports Resort.
Understanding the Japanese Preview:
Rather than saying x game for y platform sold between 20,000 and 28,000 units as in the past, the preliminary data will be broken down into charts by platform. Within these charts, there will two additional categories besides the rounded sales figure under ‘sales’. On the left will be ‘low end’ depicting the lowest amount the title likely sold for the week, while to the right will be ‘high end’ depicting the highest amount the title likely sold for the week. As always, this data is preliminary, and therefore, not final, but it is based on a sample . The varying platform market share the sample represents is why consistent sellers like Wii Fit do not always appear in the preliminary data. Sales for this report are for the week ending May 17, 2009.
Software by Platform:
Wii Software – Four Wii games charted in the preliminary data. Wii Fit sold another 12,000 units for the week. Winning Eleven Playmaker 2009 debuted to sales of 14,000 units for the week. Taiko Wii dipped to 6,000 units for the week. The Monster Hunter G single version dipped to 5,000 units. Expect Wii hardware sales to drop into the 11,000 to 15,000 unit range for the week on the post Golden Week-fall.
|
Preliminary Top Twenty Wii Software |
Sales |
Low End |
High End |
|
Winning Eleven Playmaker 2009 |
14,000 |
12,000 |
16,000 |
|
Wii Fit |
12,000 |
10,000 |
14,000 |
|
Taiko no Tatsujin Wii |
6,000 |
4,000 |
8,000 |
|
Monster Hunter G Single Version |
5,000 |
3,000 |
7,000 |
PS3 Software – Only two PS3 titles charted in the preliminary data. Killzone 2 sold another 5,000 units. The cheaper edition of Valkyrie Chronicles sold 6,000 units. Also notable for the week is that the Final Fantasy XIII demo did not chart. Expect PS3 hardware sales to drop into the 7,000 to 11,000 units this week.
|
Preliminary Top Twenty PS3 Software |
Sales |
Low End |
High End |
|
Valkyrie Chronicles The Best |
6,000 |
4,000 |
8,000 |
|
Killzone 2 |
5,000 |
3,000 |
7,000 |
Xbox 360 Software – No Xbox 360 titles charted in the preliminary data. Expect Xbox 360 hardware sales to drop into the 2,000 to 4,000 unit range for the week.
PS2 Software – Only one PS2 game charted in the preliminary data this week. The new Pachislot game sold 13,000 units for the week. Expect PS2 hardware sales to dip into the 3,000 to 5,000 unit range this week.
|
Preliminary Top Twenty PS2 Software |
Sales |
Low End |
High End |
|
Rakushou! Pachislot Sengen 6: Rio 2 C.V. |
13,000 |
11,000 |
15,000 |
PSP Software – Eight PSP games charted in the preliminary data. The top seller for the week was Bleach: Heat the Soul 6 with sales of 45,000 units. Growlanser came in second with sales of 31,000 units. Monster Hunter 2G, at 18,000 was the only other PSP game to top 10,000 units for the week. Among the four-digit sellers, Persona was the highest with sales of 7,000 units. Expect PSP hardware sales to drop into the 25,000 to 33,000 unit range this week.
|
Preliminary Top Twenty PSP Software |
Sales |
Low End |
High End |
|
Bleach: Heat the Soul 6 |
45,000 |
40,000 |
50,000 |
|
Growlanser |
31,000 |
28,000 |
34,000 |
|
Monster Hunter Portable 2G |
18,000 |
16,000 |
20,000 |
|
Persona PSP |
7,000 |
5,000 |
9,000 |
|
Sengoku Basara: Battle Heroes |
6,000 |
4,000 |
8,000 |
|
Disaster Report 3 |
5,000 |
3,000 |
7,000 |
|
Mobile Suit Gundam: Senjou no Kizuna Portable |
4,000 |
2,000 |
6,000 |
|
Hayate no Gotaku (Special Edition) |
3,000 |
1,000 |
5,000 |
DS Software – Five DS games charted in the preliminary data. Pokemon Dungeon, Made in Ore and Dragon Ball Kai sold 22,000, 20,000 and 15,000 units respectively as the top three DS titles. Famitsa DS and Mario & Luigi 3 also charted this week, with sales in the high four digit range. Expect DS hardware sales to drop into the 33,000 to 43,000 unit range this week.
|
Preliminary Top Twenty DS Software |
Sales |
Low End |
High End |
|
Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Sora no Tankentai |
22,000 |
20,000 |
24,000 |
|
Made in Ore |
20,000 |
18,000 |
22,000 |
|
Dragon Ball Kai: Saiyajin Raishuu |
15,000 |
13,000 |
17,000 |
|
Mario & Luigi 3 |
8,000 |
6,000 |
10,000 |
|
Famitsa DS |
7,000 |
5,000 |
9,000 |
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@outlawron
"you can play the game without the classic controller."
Do you even know wth you are talking about? MHG cannot (I repeat cannot) be played without the classic controller. The game will boot up and lock to a black screen if you do not have a classic controller attacked to your wiimote. I should know I imported it from ncsx and have it right in front of me.
The MH3 demo that is included CAN be used with a classic controller or a wiimote/nunchuck. MHG CANNOT. Capcom did not want to spend the money to retrofit the PS2 port with wiimote and nunchuck controls.
So there is a valid reason why the single sku is low selling and retarded, it only works with added peripherals where as the Starter Pak works out of the box.
@ markatisu
You can play the game without the classic controller.
@ Soriku
The amount sold by the controller bundle is going to be ever increasing. I'd be surprised to see if it adds 2k by the end of the month.
Japan is completely deflated, it seems. Horrible numbers imo.
Wow, Uhhh... This is worse than I thought :O
I think it's safe to say we won't have anyone jumping into the industry anytime soon like MS did last gen. Only nintendo's 100% profitable strategy is doing any shareholder ANY good.
Glad to see that VC continue with great legs. Its one game that i will buy when im buying a ps3 again. Thats for sure!
@outlawauron
You realize you cannot play MHG without the classic controller (unlike MH3 or the MH3 demo) so if these are viewed as low sales its Capcoms fault for not making the CC bundle standard
japanese should quit gaming completely and save us this cringe-inducing sales data.
@ Soriku
While both versions combined is more than 5k, you do realize that the bundle with the controller is a limited thing.
@hunter_alien : well, you should ad both versions of MH WIii first, which is a remake of a PS2 game already remade for PSP ! Count how many people already had this one and STILL bought it on Wii ! Fabulous sales.
PS / As anyone compared this decline to the decline last years in Japan or to the decline in other countries ? That's not a market's end, it s just normal fluctuation and back to normal sales...
Nintendo should cut the price!
wii isn't doing very good
Price cut + MH3 or WSR
This is when the long, slow decline of sales in Japan begins... and lasts usually until Xmas.
Get ready for very weak sales figures...
@ source
how do you expect takt of magic and arc rise fantasia to perform?
@Rath: The difference is that now the Wii is selling bad as well, along with PS3 and 360 which already had low numbers last year. The Wii sold 41k same week last year.
The Japanese console market needs a boost, let's see if the upcoming software does the trick.
Looking at these numbers, it makes me wonder why a western developer would even bother to bring a game to the Japanese market.
Everybody bitches about how bad the week is, yet the week after golden week is like this every year.
If this turns out to be true, the PS3 will be lower than 100k worldwide. Crazy.
Bring a pricecut and BC and I fully believe PS3 will rule Japan's dying market :-)
Well there goes MHG for the Wii... after the numbers this game pushed I doubt that MH3 will get anywhere close to the PSP MH games ;)
ugh, depressingly low
go valkyria¡¡¡¡¡.
@MANUELF : Why ? Pretty normal, last years were really outstanding compared to what the market is usually up to !
w00t @ Valkyria Chronicles
And at long last, Mario & Luigi starts to drop off. It sure had a good run.
@Zlejedi
Thank the anime
I wasn't expecting Valkyria Chronicles in top 20 :)
sounds like this makes for a good possibility ps3 is under 100k WW this week
@Simulacrum
This's the week after Golden week in Japan ,It effect similar to January in all regions.(All sales boost while Christmas Eve and New year event ,and then all sales drop in January.)
Plus with economic crisis in Japan too.
Hmh...i dont see real reason why Wii and Ps3 can't keep above 20k..Well Wii is most of times above 20k but still...
Xbox 360 doesn't have Jprg:s this year to boost?
The picture was screwing up the format of the front page.
although Made in Ore didn't open with big number first week, it looks like it's developing into a moderate hit now... Also,Mario & Luigi 3 is selling much longer than I expected
why has the picture been changed back?
If KZ2 gets its 5K sales as predicted that's pretty good, less than 50% drop from previous week. Sales may well level off at a thousand or 2 per week for a while. It'll be interesting to see how long it stays ahead of the RFOM curve in Japan.
Aggg
The debuts for PSP and Valkyria Chronicles legs are the only good things about this week.
Made in Ore and M&L3 are also doing pretty well.
I hate this time of the year :(
Sales should hopefully pick up a little in the summer.
2-4k for the 360? O-O
7k for the PS3? O-O
11k for the Wii? O-O
25 k for PSP and 33k for DS? O-O
if I see numbers like that from famitsu..
It's like the hangover after Golden week
Its not terrible...
May 30 - Aug 1 as big games we get Wii Sports Resort, Monster Hunter 3, Shin Sangoku Musou Empire 5, Kingdom Hearts DS, Dragon Quest IX, Project Diva, Fate/Unlimited Codes, Memories Off 6. So multiple hardware pushes for DS/PSP. Probably 2 for Wii. One for 360/PS3 at the moment.
this is the saddest numbers so far, ps3 below 10k, wii not too far behind, 360, its going to be a long summer.
8 PSP games in top 20? That's a superb performance...
The industry is in serious problems.
