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Good week for Wii/NSMB

Nov 30 - Dec 6

Hardware

Wii - 106,555

PSP - 67,880

PS3 - 57,782

DSi LL - 53,791

DSi - 51,635

DSL - 8,367

360 - 5,314

PSPgo - 3,412

PS2 - 2,277

Software

1. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 934.739 (NEW)

2. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable 2 - 286.896 (NEW)

3. [PSP] Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Gundam Next - 222.985 (NEW)

4. [WII] Samurai Warriors 3 - 121.182 (NEW)

5. [NDS] Professor Layton and the Flute of Malevolent Destiny - 85.034

6. [NDS] Friend Collection - 74.951

7. [WII] PokePark Wii: Picachu's Great Adventure - 63.760 (NEW)

8. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver - 63.026

9. [WII] Wii Fit Plus - 51.849

10. [PS3] Assassin's Creed II - 48.748 (NEW)

December 7 - 13

Hardware

Wii - 135,898

PS3 - 75,086

PSP - 71,885

DSi - 68,184

DSi LL - 58,006

DSL - 11,376

360 - 10,646

PSPgo - 3,077

PS2 - 2,463

Software

1. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 431.000 / 1.366.000

2. [WII] Tales of Graces - 143.000 / NEW

3. [NDS] Friend Collection - 102.000 / 1.924.000

4. [PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 93.000 / NEW

5. [PSP] Naruto: Shippuden Narutimate Accelerator 3 - 76.000 / NEW

6. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver - 75.000 / 3.228.000

7. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable 2 - 74.000 / 361.000

8. [WII] Wii Fit Plus - 64.000 / 1.109.000

9. [WII] PokePark Wii: Picachu's Great Adventure - 57.000 / 121.000

10. [PSP] Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Gundam Next Plus - 56.000 / 279.000

Next week...FFXIII

December 14 - 20

Hardware

PS3 - 237,086

Wii - 191,915

DSi - 95,227

PSP - 79,194

DSi LL - 75,241

DSL - 12,879

360 - 8,965

PSPgo - 3,260

PS2 - 2,982

Software

1. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII - 1,501,964 / NEW

2. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 567,890 / 1,933,827

3. [NDS] Friend Collection - 165,575 / 2,089,946

4. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver - 111,454 / 3,339,872

5. [WII] Wii Fit Plus - 92,561 / 1,201,258

6. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 2: Threat of the Invaders - Fire / Blizzard - 71,085 / 808,000

7. [WII] PokePark Wii: Picachu's Great Adventure - 70,750 / 191,920

8. [NDS] Professor Layton and the Flute of Malevolent Destiny - 54,128 / 496,000

9. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable 2 - 50,466 / 411,565

10. [PSP] Queen's Blade: Spiral Chaos - 49,728 / NEW

  • 2 weeks later...

December 21 - 27

Hardware

Wii - 215,129

DSi - 113,984

PS3 - 110,519

PSP - 105,801

DSi LL - 81,430

DSL - 17,695

360 - 6,489

PSPgo - 4,192

PS2 - 3,747

Software

1. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 506,000 / 2,440,000

2. [NDS] The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks - 291,000 / NEW

3. [NDS] Friend Collection - 227,000 / 2,317,000

4. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII - 189,000 / 1,690,000

5. [NDS] Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver - 125,000 / 3,465,000

6. [WII] Wii Fit Plus - 114,000 / 1,315,000

7. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 2 Fire/Blizzard - 99,000 / 908,000

8. [WII] Wii Sports Resort - 72,000 / 1,568,000

9. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii 2 - 64,000 / 200,000

10. [NDS] Professor Layton and the Flute of Malevolent Spirits - 64,000 / 559,000

And the FF13 sales nosedive, as expected though.

Same percentage drop as the PS2 titles from first to second week. FF games are going to be more front loaded of course, though it seems like it'll make it to 2 million in Japan which is still a great number.

Yeah, but that was expected, I figure it'll top out at 3mil unless the negative review press it's getting now make a hit. I mean most of this is coming from the japanese players who are knocking it.

Even the PS2 Final Fantasys never reached 3 million (or even 2.5) though, and that was with a larger userbase. Anyhow, this week's numbers:

Dec 28 2009 - Jan 3 2010

Hardware

Wii - 163,855

PSP - 132,911

PS3 - 114,368

DSi - 92,461

DSi LL - 70,643

DSL - 17,388

360 - 6,878

PS2 - 4,023

PSPgo - 3,903

Software

1. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 268,212 / 2,708,000

2. [NDS] Tomodachi Collection - 185,502 / 2,502,000

3. [NDS] The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks - 126,303 / 418,000

4. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII - 111,705 / 1,802,000

5. [WII] Wii Fit Plus - 105,427 / 1,421,000

6. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver - 74,658 / 3,539,000

7. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 2: Threat of the Invaders - Fire/Blizzard - 68,769 / 976,000

8. [WII] Wii Sports Resort - 67,867 / 1,636,000

9. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable 2 - 44,334 / 506,000

10. [NDS] Prof. Layton and the Devil's Flute - 43,254 / 602,000

You know when your latest and greatest handheld (PSP Go) doesn't even make 10k over the 2 busiest weeks of the year (dec 21 - jan 3), and barely reaches 13k over the entire month of December, you had better start drawing out recovery plans or scrappage plans. The people of Japan have spoken with their wallets - and they're simply not that interested. Even the 360 is beating it for pete's sake.

You know when your latest and greatest handheld (PSP Go) doesn't even make 10k over the 2 busiest weeks of the year (dec 21 - jan 3), and barely reaches 13k over the entire month of December, you had better start drawing out recovery plans or scrappage plans. The people of Japan have spoken with their wallets - and they're simply not that interested. Even the 360 is beating it for pete's sake.

They were put in place before the thing even came out - High price. Don't take a loss on the device then if it flops, or makes a meagre profit, not much harm done.

That's the reason it launched so expensively, it was such a gamble, with it being digital only, and the fact it's going on to prove people want hacked PSPs for free games. Sony were even giving away 4 free full PSP gamers to Go buyers.

man the Wii is smoking. Its funny to because we traded in our Wii for an Xbox 360 because my kids said they didn't want the Wii. (this was when the Wii first came out too so we had no problems getting a great trade in value) but just yesterday we were at GameStop buying NFS:Shift for my son and my wife said "You know we really need to get a Wii again. They have some really good games for it now" :sigh:

January 4 - 10, 2010

Hardware

PSP - 145,682

Wii - 76,772

PS3 - 61,591

DSi - 50,178

DSi LL - 45,221

DSL - 10,067

360 - 5,461

PS2 - 3,092

PSPgo - 2,841

Software

1. [PSP] Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep - 446,000 / NEW

2. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 159,000 / 2,867,000

3. [NDS] Friend Collection - 94,000 / 2,956,000

4. [WII] Wii Fit Plus - 54,000 / 1,484,000

5. [NDS] The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks - 48,000 / 466,000

6. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII - 42,000 / 1,844,000

7. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver - 37,000 / 3,576,000

8. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 2: Threat of the Invaders - Fire / Blizzard - 37,000 / 1,013,000

9. [WII] Wii Sports Resort - 33,000 / 1,668,000

10. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable 2 - 27,000 / 532,000

January 11 - 17, 2010

Hardware

PSP - 71,186

Wii - 57,349

PS3 - 35,156

DSi LL - 30,418

DSi - 27,292

DSL - 6,574

360 - 4,622

PS2 - 2,580

PSPgo - 2,027

Software

1. [PSP] Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep - 177,405 / 623,367

2. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 138,683 / 3,006,169

3. [WII] Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles - 72,804 / NEW

4. [NDS] Friend Collection - 54,764 / 2,651,045

5. [WII] Wii Fit Plus - 42,359 / 1,516,522

6. [PSP] Tekken 6 - 25,131 / NEW

7. [NDS] Last Window: Mayonaka no Yakusoku - 24,668 / NEW

8. [NDS] The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks - 22,414 / 488,731

9. [WII] Wii Sports Resort - 22,328 / 1,691,000

10. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 2: Threat of the Invaders - Fire / Blizzard - 20,370 / 1,033,000

And FF13 is off the top 10 list. Guess it'll be hard to pull 2.5mil. I find it kinda odd that each FF posted above has sold in that 2-2.5Mil range in Japan. It's like the same 2m FF fans are the ones who buy the new game every time. The number doesn't grow or really shrink that much. Kinda odd.

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