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Channel Surfing: WiiWare/Virtual Console Sales Chart: July 2009 - News

by VGChartz Staff , posted on 13 August 2009 / 7,225 Views

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Today we present to you the worldwide sales for WiiWare and Virtual Console for July 2009 (covering the four weeks through August 2nd). Titles in bold italic were released during the tracking period in that region (or, in the worldwide chart, in any region).

 

TM LM Worldwide WiiWare Games Platform Publisher Monthly Total Monthly Rev. LTD Revenue
1 19 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord WW Square Enix 28,500 36,500 $328,000 $413,000
2 2 Final Fantasy IV: The After Years WW Square Enix 27,900 61,400 $243,000 $543,000
3 1 Melee! Pokémon Scramble WW Nintendo 25,100 63,100 $399,000 $1,005,000
4 NR Reel Fishing Challenge WW Natsume 23,700 28,500 $121,000 $145,000
5 3 My Aquarium WW Hudson 21,500 471,900 $126,000 $2,769,000
6 5 My Pokemon Ranch WW Nintendo 19,300 682,900 $218,000 $7,555,000
7 4 Texas Hold'Em Tournament WW Digital Leisure 18,200 75,700 $106,000 $473,000
8 6 World of Goo WW 2D Boy 17,000 310,300 $293,000 $5,224,000
9 10 Water Warfare WW Hudson 15,400 30,300 $142,000 $276,000
10 8 Tetris Party WW Hudson 12,200 287,400 $162,000 $3,851,000

 

TM LM Americas WiiWare Games Platform Publisher Monthly Total Monthly Rev. LTD Revenue
1 14 Reel Fishing Challenge WW Natsume 13,000 17,800 $65,000 $89,000
2 1 Final Fantasy IV: The After Years WW Square Enix 10,800 34,300 $86,400 $274,400
3 2 Texas Hold'Em Tournament WW Digital Leisure 10,600 29,300 $53,000 $146,500
4 3 My Aquarium WW Hudson 10,300 214,200 $51,500 $1,071,000
5 NE Bust-a-Move Plus! WW Taito 9,700 9,700 $58,200 $58,200

 

TM LM PAL WiiWare Games Platform Publisher Monthly Total Monthly Rev. LTD Revenue
1 NE FFCC: My Life as a Darklord WW Square Enix 9,000 9,000 90,000 € 90,000 €
2 1 My Aquarium WW Hudson 8,900 189,900 44,500 € 949,500 €
3 3 Texas Hold'Em Tournament WW Digital Leisure 7,600 46,400 38,000 € 232,000 €
4 4 World of Goo WW 2D Boy 6,000 90,100 90,000 € 1,351,500 €
5 13 Water Warfare WW Hudson soft 5,600 9,300 44,800 € 74,400 €

 

TM LM Japan WiiWare Games Platform Publisher Monthly Total Monthly Rev. LTD Revenue
1 1 Melee! Pokémon Scramble WW Nintendo 25,100 63,100 37,650,000 ¥ 94,650,000 ¥
2 NE Final Fantasy IV The After Years WW Square Enix 13,000 13,000 10,400,000 ¥ 10,400,000 ¥
3 NE Fish Eyes Challenge WW Natsume 10,700 10,700 5,350,000 ¥ 5,350,000 ¥
4 5 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord WW Square Enix 10,500 18,500 10,500,000 ¥ 18,500,000 ¥
5 3 Asobu! Made in Ore WW Nintendo 9,300 62,100 7,440,000 ¥ 49,680,000 ¥

 

July was a slower month for new releases on WiiWare, with two big Final Fantasy titles and a fishing game from Natsume the only new releases to break into the worldwide chart - Bust-a-Move Plus! also charted in the Americas.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord debuted 7th in the Americas and 1st in PAL, with a continued 4th place showing in Japan in its second month - enough combined sales to claim the top spot worldwide. Likewise, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years rode a 2nd place debut in Japan and a continued 2nd place showing in the Americas (it slipped to 9th in PAL) to its second straight 2nd place worldwide placing.

Reel Fishing Challenge shot up to 1st place in the Americas with its first full month of sales (it released in the last week of June), and debuted in 3rd place in Japan (where the game is known as Fish Eyes Challenge) - good enough for 4th place worldwide despite no PAL release. The only other new release to chart was Bust-a-Move Plus! in the Americas (known as Puzzle Bobble Plus! elsewhere) - it did not chart outside the Americas but still managed 12th place worldwide.

Outside Water Warfare, which made it into the PAL top 5 in its first full month on sale, the rest of the charts also showed up in June, with some minor reshuffling.

The rest of the new releases for July, numbering nearly 20:

  • Heracles Chariot Racing (Neko Entertainment, 800 points) (Americas: July 6th, PAL: July 24th): Did not chart in any region, with less than 1,000 sales in the Americas and about 1,500 sales in PAL.
  • BIT.TRIP CORE (Aksys Games, 600 points) (Americas: July 6th): Placed 14th in the Americas and 29th worldwide, with close to 5,000 sales.
  • Ant Nation (Konami, 700 points) (Americas: July 13th): Placed 16th in the Americas and did not chart worldwide, with just over 4,000 sales.
  • Bit Boy!! (BPlus, 600 points) (Americas: July 13th, PAL: July 3rd): Did not chart in any region, with less than 1,000 sales in the Americas and about 1,500 sales in PAL.
  • Incoming! (JV Games, 500 points) (Americas: July 13th): Did not chart (less than 1,000 sales).
  • Battle Poker (Left Field Productions, 800 points) (Americas: July 20th): Did not chart (less than 1,000 sales).
  • 5 Spots Party (Cosmonaut Games, 500 points) (Americas: July 20th, PAL: July 10th): Placed 16th in PAL with about 3,000 sales, and did not chart in the Americas with about 2,500 sales - good enough for 26th place worldwide.
  • Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 1 (Telltale Games, 1000 points) (Americas: July 27th, PAL: July 31st): Placed 12th in the Americas with about 5,500 sales in its first week, and took 7th place in PAL with about 5,000 sales in just a few days - good enough for 13th place worldwide.
  • The Three Musketeers: One for All! (Legendo Entertainment, 900 points) (Americas: July 27th, PAL: July 31st): Did not chart in any region (less than 1,500 combined sales), though it was only on sale for a week or less.
  • HB Arcade Cards (HB Studios, 500 points) (Americas: July 27th): Did not chart with less than 1,000 sales in its first week.
  • ColorZ (Exkee, 700 points) (PAL: July 24th): Did not chart with less than 500 sales.
  • Driift Mania (Konami, 800 points) (PAL: July 31st): Placed 18th in PAL with just less than 3,000 sales in its first few days on sale, but did not chart worldwide.
  • Kentei! TV Wii (Kosaido Co. Ltd., 1000 points) (Japan: July 14th): Did not chart in Japan or worldwide with close to 2,000 sales.
  • Hirameki Card Battle: Mekuruka (Tom Create, 1000 points) (Japan: July 14th): Did not chart in Japan or worldwide with less than 500 sales.
  • Mobius Drive (Jordan Co. Ltd., 800 points) (Japan: July 14th): Did not chart in Japan or worldwide with less than 500 sales.
  • Raku Raku Kinen Appli Wii (Silver Star, 1000 points) (Japan: July 14th): Did not chart in Japan or worldwide with less than 500 sales. This is actually a stop-smoking "game".
  • Family Tennis (Arc System Works, 500 points) (Japan: July 28th): The seventh game in the casual sports WiiWare series, this one placed 11th in Japan with over 4,000 sales, but did not chart worldwide.
  • Karaoke Joysound Wii (Hudson, 1000 points) (Japan: July 28th): A WiiWare version of the retail game by Hudson, this title placed 10th in Japan with about 4,500 sales, but did not chart worldwide.
  • Tomy Car Driver (Takara Tomy, 1000 points) (Japan: July 28th): Placed 16th in Japan with about 3,000 sales, and did not chart worldwide.

 

 

TM LM Worldwide Virtual Console Games Platform Publisher Monthly Total Monthly Rev. LTD Revenue
1 1 Super Mario Bros. 3 NES Nintendo 58,400 2,092,500 $317,000 $11,626,000
2 2 Super Mario Bros. NES Nintendo 44,300 2,069,100 $242,000 $11,413,000
3 4 Super Mario World SNES Nintendo 24,200 1,379,400 $216,000 $12,389,000
4 3 Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the N64 Nintendo 21,300 120,300 $248,000 $1,473,000
5 5 Super Mario 64 N64 Nintendo 17,200 1,166,600 $195,000 $13,255,000
6 6 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the N64 Nintendo 15,200 941,800 $176,000 $11,050,000
7 7 Super Mario Bros. 2 NES Nintendo 13,700 776,500 $75,000 $4,350,000
8 8 Mario Kart 64 N64 Nintendo 13,300 1,306,700 $147,000 $14,711,000
9 11 Legend of Zelda, the NES Nintendo 11,300 726,300 $60,000 $3,899,000
10 13 Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars SNES Nintendo 9,500 263,060 $88,000 $2,571,000

 

TM LM Americas Virtual Console Games Platform Publisher Monthly Total Monthly Rev. LTD Revenue
1 1 Super Mario Bros. 3 NES Nintendo 39,200 1,334,600 $196,000 $6,673,000
2 2 Super Mario Bros. NES Nintendo 22,800 1,166,900 $114,000 $5,834,500
3 4 Super Mario World SNES Nintendo 13,200 779,700 $105,600 $6,237,600
4 3 Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the N64 Nintendo 11,300 45,000 $113,000 $450,000
5 6 Super Mario Bros. 2 NES Nintendo 9,500 531,000 $47,500 $2,655,000

 

TM LM PAL Virtual Console Games Platform Publisher Monthly Total Monthly Rev. LTD Revenue
1 1 Super Mario Bros. 3 NES Nintendo 11,200 535,200 56,000 € 2,676,000 €
2 3 Super Mario Bros. NES Nintendo 8,200 453,800 41,000 € 2,269,000 €
3 5 Super Mario World SNES Nintendo 6,400 380,100 51,200 € 3,040,800 €
4 4 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask N64 Nintendo 6,300 47,300 63,000 € 473,000 €
5 7 Super Mario 64 N64 Nintendo 5,400 361,600 54,000 € 3,616,000 €

 

TM LM Japan Virtual Console Games Platform Publisher Monthly Total Monthly Rev. LTD Revenue
1 1 Super Mario Bros NES Nintendo 13,300 448,400 6,650,000 ¥ 224,200,000 ¥
2 NE Final Fantasy III NES Square Enix 9,500 9,500 4,750,000 ¥ 4,750,000 ¥
3 2 Super Mario Bros 3 NES Nintendo 8,000 222,700 4,000,000 ¥ 111,350,000 ¥
4 3 Downtown Special: Its Kunio's Period Piece, Assemble Everyone! NES Technos 5,600 18,600 2,800,000 ¥ 9,300,000 ¥
5 4 Super Mario Kart SNES Nintendo 5,100 9,900 4,080,000 ¥ 7,920,000 ¥

 

Every game in the worldwide, Americas, and PAL charts have either "Mario" or "Zelda" in the title - only Japan breaks up the clean sweep. Japan is also the only region with a new release in the charts, though the appearance of Final Fantasy III there is hardly a surprise - it actually just missed out on the worldwide chart, placing 11th there. With no other new releases making it into these charts, the games haven't moved around much, but a few games did move up into the charts as prior new releases fell out.

While the Americas have seen a drought of Virtual Console releases in July (only three total), Japan has seen a flood of Virtual Arcade games released (seven in June, six in July, and two already in August). Most of those Arcade games, however, have not seen much success, as you'll see below. With nothing but well-established brand names and popular games seeing much success on the Virtual Console - as opposed to the several new releases on WiiWare that make the charts regularly - is there some substance to the idea of phasing out the Virtual Console releases in favor of more WiiWare games?

The rest of the new releases for July:

  • California Games (Commodore 64, Commodore Gaming, 500 points) (Americas: July 6th, PAL: April 11th, 2008): Placed 19th in the Americas, with about 3,500 sales, but did not chart worldwide - it hasn't charted in PAL in over a year.
  • Secret Command (Master System, Sega, 600 points) (Americas: July 13th, PAL: April 17th): Did not chart in any region (less than 1,500 sales).
  • Pulseman (Genesis, Game Freak, 900 points) (Americas: July 13th, PAL: July 3rd): Did not chart in any region (less than 1,500 sales).
  • Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (NES, Nintendo, 600 points) (Americas: December 29th, 2008, PAL: July 10th): Did not chart in any region (less than 1,000 sales).
  • Bomberman '94 (TurboGrafx16, Hudson, 700 points in Americas/PAL, 600 points in Japan) (Americas: March 23rd, PAL: July 10th, Japan: December 2nd, 2006): Placed 10th in PAL with about 3,500 sales, and when combined with residual American and Japanese sales placed 30th worldwide.
  • Smash Table Tennis (NES, Nintendo, 600 points in PAL, 500 points in Japan) (PAL: July 17th, Japan: November 25th, 2008): Did not chart in any region, and debuted with about 1,000 sales in PAL.
  • MUSHA (Genesis, Naxat Soft, 900 points in PAL, 800 points in Americas/Japan) (Americas: January 19th, PAL: July 17th, Japan: April 1st, 2008): Did not chart in any region, and debuted with close to 1,000 sales in PAL.
  • Detana TwinBee (TurboGrafx16, Konami, 700 points in Americas/PAL, 600 points in Japan) (Americas: March 23rd, PAL: July 24th, Japan: September 18th, 2007): Did not chart in any region (less than 1,500 sales).
  • Kirby's Dream Land 3 (Super NES, Nintendo, 900 points in PAL, 800 points in Americas/Japan) (Americas: January 5th, PAL: July 24th, Japan: April 28th): Placed 9th in PAL with just over 3,500 sales, and continued to chart in Japan at 18th place with just over 2,000 sales; worldwide it reached 22nd place.
  • Super Punch-Out!! (Super NES, Nintendo, 800 points) (Americas: March 30th, PAL: March 20th, Japan: July 7th): Did not chart in Japan with just under 2,000 sales; however when combined with residual Americas and PAL sales, the game placed 25th worldwide.
  • Sky Kid (Arcade, Namco, 800 points) (Japan: July 7th): Did not chart (less than 1,000 sales).
  • Burning Force (Arcade, Namco, 800 points) (Japan: July 14th): Did not chart (less than 1,000 sales).
  • Shinobi (Arcade, Sega, 800 points) (Japan: July 14th): Did not chart (less than 1,000 sales).
  • Rolling Thunder (Arcade, Namco, 800 points) (Japan: July 21th): Did not chart (less than 1,000 sales).
  • Ninja Gaiden (Arcade, Tecmo, 800 points) (Japan: July 28th): Did not chart (less than 1,000 sales).
  • Phelios (Arcade, Namco, 800 points) (Japan: July 28th): Placed 20th in Japan with about 2,000 sales, but did not chart worldwide.

 

Hope you all enjoyed the charts this month. Thanks to TWRoO, Pimouss, Whacker, and Faxanadu for collecting the PAL data, Manuelf for collecting the Latin America data, and ramuji and DeltaXIII for collecting the Japan data. As always, if you want to help collect Nintendo Channel data, send TWRoO a PM if you have a PAL Wii and myself a PM if you have an American or Japanese Wii - spreading it around more volunteers makes everyone's lives a little easier.

Sneak preview for August - three Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games released on WiiWare in Japan on August 4th, the first day of the tracking period there. If you've been paying attention, Pokemon is pretty big in Japan. So you might not be surprised, when I say, in a single day, all three had already sold between 5,000 and 6,000 - each.

Keith Jackson
kjackson@vgchartz.com

TM LM Worldwide WiiWare Games Platform Publisher Monthly Total Monthly Rev. LTD Revenue
1 19 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord WW Square Enix 28,500 36,500 $328,000 $413,000
2 2 Final Fantasy IV: The After Years WW Square Enix 27,900 61,400 $243,000 $543,000
3 1 Melee! Pokémon Scramble WW Nintendo 25,100 63,100 $399,000 $1,005,000
4 NR Reel Fishing Challenge WW Natsume 23,700 28,500 $121,000 $145,000
5 3 My Aquarium WW Hudson 21,500 471,900 $126,000 $2,769,000
6 5 My Pokemon Ranch WW Nintendo 19,300 682,900 $218,000 $7,555,000
7 4 Texas Hold'Em Tournament WW Digital Leisure 18,200 75,700 $106,000 $473,000
8 6 World of Goo WW 2D Boy 17,000 310,300 $293,000 $5,224,000
9 10 Water Warfare WW Hudson 15,400 30,300 $142,000 $276,000
10 8 Tetris Party WW Hudson 12,200 287,400 $162,000 $3,851,000

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sirroman (on 21 August 2009)

Super Mario Kart, Super Punch Out!, Kirby's Dream Land 3, Bomberman '94. They all are great games that I would like to see charting some day.

Bust-a-move games are always fun to play. ^^ Don't know this WW one though.

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sep85dd (on 15 August 2009)

Japan has Mario kart on SNEs allready, I want it to!!!

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TWRoO (on 14 August 2009)

@Jumpin... the DLC does not appear on the data so no, it is not possible.

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Jumpin (on 13 August 2009)

Is it possible to chart FF4: The Afteryears DLC? Each of those is 300 points a pop and it really would add up if say the average player buys 5 or 6 of them.

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FreeTalkLive (on 13 August 2009)

So next month the top four Japanese WW games may be Pokemon related? And I think Mario, Zelda and Final Fantasy were over reped.

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MANUELF (on 13 August 2009)

Great Work and you only need to wait for the WW pokemon games to come outside of Japan they are gonna be bigger than the storage solution know as My Pokemon Ranch.

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FreeTalkLive (on 13 August 2009)

Thanks folks! This is good info. Of course, Wii Want More...but still.

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MontanaHatchet (on 13 August 2009)

I'm somewhat of a first time reader, but the chart format is hard on the eyes.

Otherwise, great info.

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09tarheel (on 13 August 2009)

Great article, I look forward to these every month. With how high those VC sales are compared to WiiWare sales I wonder why Nintendo hasn't made a virtual hand held yet for the DSi. It seems like a guarantee to bring in a lot of revenue, but maybe Nintendo doesn't want to slow the sales of original titles on DSiWare.

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