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Media Create 12/29/08 - 01/04/09 Japanese Sales: The Holiday Season Ends With a Bang

January 09, 2009 in Industry News comments 7

Japanese sales tracker Media Create has released their sales numbers for the final week of the Japanese holiday season, for the week of December 28, 2008 to January 4, 2009.

As you already know, Square Enix's Dissidia: Final Fantasy has topped the sales charts, selling 104k units. Coming in second is Nintendo's rhythm sensation Rhythm Tengoku Gold for the Nintendo DS, selling 89k units. Rounding out the top five are Kirby Super Star Ultra (NDS - 77k), Wii Fit (WII - 74k), and Animal Crossing: City Folk (WII - 73k).

As for the hardware numbers, the handhelds reigned surpreme, with both the DSi and PSP selling over 150,000 units this week. The total for the Nintendo DS comes out to 230,678 units, as compared to 245,150 total units last week.
Hardware Numbers:
Platform: This Week - Last Week: +/-
DSi: 182,518 - 188,697: -6,179
PSP: 157,088 - 118,765: +38,323
WII: 119,965 - 134,958: -14,993
PS3: 60,654 - 45,989: +14,665
DSL: 48,160 - 50,308: -2,148
360: 19,694 - 13,011: +6,953
PS2: 12,548 - 10,404: +2,144

As this is the final week of the year, the year-to-date and lifetime-to-date totals are as follows.
Platform: Year-to-Date / Lifetime-to-date
NDS: 4,177,267 / 23,350,321
PSP: 3,850,175 / 11,515,252
WII: 2,982,727 / 7,598,866
DSL: 2,715,226 / 17,350,965
PS3: 1,041,406 / 2,683,082
DSi: 838,570 / 838,570
PS2: 485,032 / 21,412,072
360: 341,789 / 850,234

For software, Dissidia (is about to top fellow Final Fantasy game Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII's sales total, with its 770k total approaching Crisis Core's last known low-800k mark. Nintendo's Rhythm Tengoku Gold continues to be on fire, breaking the 1.5 million mark, and could quite possibly hit the 2 million mark within the next couple of months. Both Kirby Super Star Ultra and Animal Crossing: City Folk are poised to hit the one million mark with the next couple of weeks to become both respective system's next million seller. Sony and Level-5's White Knight Chronicles (PS3) followed up a good first week with a 71k second week that puts the game a little under 300k sold. Nintendo's Wagamama Fashion: Girls Mode (NDS) continues to sell, and could possibly end up a million seller.

For the hardware breakdown, 24 games in the top fifty are for the Nintendo DS, while 14 are for the Wii, 7 for the PSP, 4 for the PS3, 1 for the PS2, and none for the 360.

Check the quote for the full top fifty.

Thanks to PantherLotus at NeoGAF for the translation and compilation.
Check GPara for the Media Create Top 30, and links to the product sites.
Check Media Create for the original list in all its Japanese untranslated glory.

[Last Week's Japanese Sales Numbers (12/22/08 - 12/28/08)]

01. [PSP] Dissidia Final Fantasy (Square Enix) 104,000 / 770,000
02. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 89,000 / 1,535,000
03. [NDS] Kirby Super Star Ultra (Nintendo) 77,000 / 998,000
04. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 74,000 / 3,125,000
05. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) 73,000 / 949,000
06. [PS3] White Knight Chronicles (SCE) 71,000 / 278,000
07. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode (Nintendo) 68,000 / 615,000
08. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 67,000 / 2,133,000
09. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Best) (Capcom) 62,000 / 271,000
10. [NDS] Momotaro Dentetsu 20th Anniversary (Hudson) 57,000 / 204,000

11. [PS3] Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III (SCE)
12. [NDS] Pokémon Platinum (Pokémon)
13. [WII] Karaoke Joysound Wii (Hudson)
14. [WII] Play on Wii: Pikmin (Nintendo)
15. [NDS] Phantasy Star Zero (SEGA)
16. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo)
17. [NDS] Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel (Level 5)
18. [NDS] Power Pro Kun Pocket 11 (Konami)
19. [PS2] Gundam Musou 2 (Limted Edition) (Namco Bandai)
20. [PS3] Gundam Musou 2 (Limted Edition) (Namco Bandai)
21. [NDS] Taiko Drum Master 2: The Seven Island Adventure (Namco Bandai)
22. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo)
23. [PS3] Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami)
24. [PSP] Musou Orochi: Maou Sairin (KOEI)
25. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Namco Bandai)
26. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
27. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
28. [NDS] Tales of Hearts: Anime Movie Edition (Namco Bandai)
29. [WII] Wii Music (Nintendo)
30. [NDS] Penguin no Mondai: Saikyou Penguin Densetsu! (Konami)

31. [NDS] Genso Suikoden Tierkreis (Konami)
32. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven (Level 5)
33. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
34. [NDS] Tongariboushi and the 365 Days of Magic (Konami)
35. [NDS] Harvest Moon: Welcome to the Wind Bazaar (Marvelous)
36. [WII] Super Smash Brothers Brawl (Nintendo)
37. [PSP] Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam (Namco Bandai)
38. [PSP] Kenka Banchou 3: Conquer the Entire Nation (Spike)
39. [NDS] Chrono Trigger DS (Square Enix)
40. [PSP] Yu-Gi-Oh: Tag Force 3 (Konami)
41. [WII] Mario Party 8 (Nintendo)
42. [NDS] Mario Party DS (Nintendo)
43. [WII] Resident Evil (Capcom)
44. [WII] Play on Wii: Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat (Nintendo)
45. [PSP] Patapon Domchaka 2 (SCE)
46. [WII] Family Ski World Ski & Snowboard (Namco Bandai)
47. [NDS] Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (Nintendo)
48. [NDS] Minna de Jibun no Setsumeisho: Blood Type A, AB, B, and O (GungHo Works)
49. [NDS] Tamagotchi Kira Kira Omisecchi (Namco Bandai)
50. [NDS] Mega Man Star Force 3: Black Ace (Capcom)
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  • 0
    Dance Floor Killah Jan 10, 09
    Nice to see that the PS3 got a healthy increase on sales.
  • 1
    Spurs_Rule_And_Rock Jan 10, 09
    By the looks of things the playstation isn't going out. People are buying them because the price is going down and they need more money. If you take a sneaky peak at the nintendo consoles it looks like this

    DSi: 182,518 - 188,697: -6,179
    WII: 119,965 - 134,958: -14,993
    DSL: 48,160 - 50,308: -2,148


    It looks like nintendo are going out. This isn't true however, because Playstation has the number one spot. Which is over 15,00 more than the second game.


    But when you look at the top 5 games, you get this

    02. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 89,000 / 1,535,000
    03. [NDS] Kirby Super Star Ultra (Nintendo) 77,000 / 998,000
    04. [WII]Wii Fit (Nintendo) 74,000 / 3,125,000
    05. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) 73,000 / 949,000


    Well, that information completely contradicts the other. The fact that when you put the Nintendo's profits together it should be making more that the playstation, but its not. Look at it in another aspect,

    Even though the 360 went up, it doesn't prove the fact that i can't find any 360 games on the list in the quote. This means the company have an extra fund for this, or the actual console has redced in price and has more buyers.

    Not much of this makes sence - becuase it all contradicts itself, i choose not to rely on this information, altough i may be completely and utterly wrong. Or right.
    • 1
      Akira_EX* Jan 10, 09
      This reply makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
  • 1
    Spurs_Rule_And_Rock Jan 10, 09
    My dad works in the city. He tells me about this stuff -_- I'm not too bothered about it. In context, this article contradicts itself. Thats all i'm saying, but honestly, i know what i'm talking about.
    • 2
      Akira_EX* Jan 10, 09
      Uh, no, you don't know what you're talking about, and there's nothing contradictory about the article.
      • 0
        Spurs_Rule_And_Rock Jan 11, 09
        I think i do. I know you inparticular don't like me but there's no need to try and make me look bad ok?
        • 0
          Akira_EX* Jan 11, 09
          Try following sales for once, instead of putting up a bullshit and misinformed opinion.

          One of your largest misconceptions is that you think any decrease in week-to-week hardware numbers is automatically bad and they are losing money. The last two weeks mainly constituted the holiday season in Japan, and are the two of the more spend-happy weeks during the year in the country. In other words, the slight/moderate increases/decreases in this single week (and in all other weeks) are only fluctuations. The more important number is the 'this week's number, which is still pretty high for most systems. That is more important than the amount changed from the previous week.

          What will you say next week when all the hardware numbers will go down because the holiday season is over? That it contradicts itself again because software ranks high while there's no hardware being sold? I'm pretty sure that in order to buy a new game that you don't need to buy another console. If you look at the software LTDs, they are nowhere near their respective hardware's LTD, meaning that there are still people who do not own said software. What you are insituating, the fact that if the hardware sales decrease then the software has to drop is completely untrue. Games do not always sell systems, and they usually never do.

          Software does not always correlate to hardware; and yet, the four games you highlighted have been charting for weeks in the top ten through the week-to-week up and downs for each particular system. Remember, they can still sell to existing owners of the hardware.

          Also, there was no price drop in the past two weeks for hardware, contrary to what you might think.

          What you are trying to do is take one single week of sales in one region and try to apply it to the industry at large, when this is nearly not enough data and wholly incomplete to make such an assumption.

          Media Create is a legitimate sales tracker that tracks both hardware and software sales. The top fifty is a ranking, and is not indicative of every game that is being sold that week in Japan. Just because some software does not show up on the list doesn't mean it wasn't sold.

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