Famitsu First Day Sales in Japan (10/30) - News

by VGChartz Staff , posted on 30 October 2009 / 6,578 Views

Here we have the first day of sales for games released on October 29th in Japan

[PS3] Bayonetta (Sega) - 93,000
[360] Bayonetta (Sega) - 45,000
[PS3] Tekken 6 (Bandai Namco Games) - 79,000
[360] Tekken 6 (Bandai Namco Games) - 22,000
[NDS] Hikaru no 4 Senshi: Final Fantasy Gaiden (Square Enix) - 85,000
[WII] Super Robot Taisen Neo (Bandai Namco Games) - 27,000
[WII] Sin and Punishment 2 (Nintendo) - 5,600
[NDS] Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (CyberFront) - 5,100
[NDS] Umihara Kawase Shun: Second Edition Kanzenhan (Genterprise) - 4,200
[PSP] Elminage II: Sousei no Megami to Unmei no Daichi (Starfish SD) - 5,100
[PSP] Kenka Banchou Portable (Spike) - 2,200

We'll add sellthrough percentage when it becomes available

Source: NintendoEverything

34 Comments

Untamoi (on 01 November 2009)

"Surprisingly low for Tekken (a large series in Japan) and Bayonetta (in all of its 40/40 from Famitsu glory- I told you it wouldn't affect sales)."

Bayonettas sales are excellent for hack 'n slash genre in Japan. Hack 'n slash just isn't very popular there. This is still one of the biggest hack 'n slash game in Japan this generation (Bayonetta is probably going to sell around as much copies as DMC4). For example GoW III won't probably even sell 50k lifetime in Japan.

And Tekken isn't large series in Japan anymore. Tekken 5 on PS2 sold only 320k lifetime.

code.samurai (on 01 November 2009)

I can't believe the unimaginative DMC ripoff, Bayonetta, sold more than Tekken. Does it have nudity? Although this could partially be due to the bad comments made on Tekken6, laggy matches, poor offline customization support, mediocre Scenario Compaign mode, sub-par graphics.

Kantor (on 01 November 2009)

Surprisingly low for Tekken (a large series in Japan) and Bayonetta (in all of its 40/40 from Famitsu glory- I told you it wouldn't affect sales).

tenma501 (on 01 November 2009)

Woah
Super Robot Taisen Neo BOMBED HARD!!!
SRT aka Super Robot Wars is a huge series in Japan every new console entry usually sells 500,000+ copies.The handheld ones not as well the console main series is the bigger seller.
I think Banpresto thought well the Wii has a lot of consoles sold so it gets a SRT instead of PS3.
I bet Banpresto will try to port Neo to PS2 now and the next SRT will on PS3.

More proof that core games DON'T sell on Wii.

SRT for those that don't know is a tactical RPG or strategy RPG think Fire Emblem it goes into battle animation like that series.
They are the best SRPGs games unfortunately they don't come out of Japan due to all the anime mecha series involved licensing issues.

Tayne (on 31 October 2009)

Poor Sin and Punishment 2...

XiaoMay (on 31 October 2009)

Bravo to Nintendo for killing another of their best ip...

FED up with their strategy

ps3_jrpg_gamer (on 31 October 2009)

bayonetta will sell 120 k first week on ps3
and tekken 6 105k

haxxiy (on 31 October 2009)

PS3 should be around 40k this week, since it was ALREADY at ~30k last week.

Ratix240sx (on 30 October 2009)

Good start for Bayonetta. A shame about Sin and Punishment but honestly I didn't really think it would sell all that well to begin with.

Lord_Yggdrassil (on 30 October 2009)

"Bayonetta did surprisingly well on the 360 lol"

Surprisingly? Most multiplat owners in Japan obviously went for the supeior 360 version. that's why it sold abotu half of what PS3 did...even with 3x smaller userbase. Tekken did 4x more on PS3.

DOLBYdigital (on 30 October 2009)

Sin and Punishment 2!!!
U lucky bastards, considering an import but maybe I can wait.

Also glad to see Bayonetta getting a good response, absolutely love Platinum Games and everything they touch :)

Gilgamesh (on 30 October 2009)

Wow gonna be a good week for PS3 and X360

hanafuda (on 30 October 2009)

Wow at Bayonetta on both consoles. Very good day 1 sales.

Wii titles? Oh dear. Presumably Wacky World of Sports wasn't even worth reporting on?

ckmlb (on 30 October 2009)

I'm surprised Bayonetta surpassed Tekken, I guess its popularity in JPN is lower than I thought (Tekken's).

forest-spirit (on 30 October 2009)

A big horray for Bayonetta!

leo-j (on 30 October 2009)

Its famitsu

Tbone (on 30 October 2009)

Bayonetta did pretty well on both consoles, think it will do good in west.

bardicverse (on 30 October 2009)

Leo - Not sure on those numbers, as VG Japan numbers have been updated to reflect:

Wii - 26k
DS -52k
PS3-24k
PSP- 33K
360 - 4k

Your numbers seem out of alignment with how VGC averages MC and Famitsu together. Got links?

routsounmanman (on 30 October 2009)

Japanese are becoming weirder by the day.

leo-j (on 30 October 2009)

last week's sales:

PSP:40000
DSi:44000
ps3: 31000
wii:25000
ps2:2100
360:2600

Simulacrum (on 30 October 2009)

Long time since saw Xbox 360 game doing good in Japan.

AnthonyW86 (on 30 October 2009)

Why would you say that Tekken 6 sales are low? As said Tekken 5 did 200k first week and Tekken 6 does 100K in it's first DAY.

hunter_alien (on 30 October 2009)

Tekken 6 seems a bit to low IMO.
Bayonetta does great... unfortunatly...
Sin & Punishment and CTW show poor first day numbers... maybe they will pick a bit up later on, but I doubt it...

Globox (on 30 October 2009)

this crap sells more on Day1 than uncharted 2? Biased Japanese.

sep85dd (on 30 October 2009)

Great for Platinum Games an Sega, hope Bayonetta can do well in others and Amerikas to.

Munkeh111 (on 30 October 2009)

Disappointing from Tekken? T 5 did 200k week one, so this release is some way off that

Sapphire (on 30 October 2009)

really good Bayonetta

outlawauron (on 30 October 2009)

Holy! Bayonetta is going to do much better than I thought it would.

I'd like to see the sellthrough, but both Wii releases seem very low.

kazuyamishima (on 30 October 2009)

@AE101:
That is because bayonetta did receive a 40/40 in famitsu (the 360 version) and it was development by platinum games, and the ps3 version by sega.

trestres (on 30 October 2009)

I don't know why some1 where predicting 100k+ first week for Super Robot Taisen. These kinds of games don't stand a chance on the Wii in Japan. Just look at how atrocious S&P2 numbers are. I think the secrecy is what kills these games. I'm speechless right now.

Great job for the 360 and PS3, Looks like Namco and Sega both have hits in their hands. SE on the other hand needs to stop porting and remaking games.