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Exactly how pervasive is Nintendo's iron grip on the Japanese game industry? Very, according to 2009 sales figures released by Weekly Famitsu publisher Enterbrain this week. According to Enterbrain's tabulations, Nintendo sold a total of 15.4 million games in Japan during 2009; out of the top 100 best-selling games in the region last year, Nintendo published 25 of them. (These number doesn't include Pokemon titles, which are published directly by Nintendo affiliate The Pokemon Company in Asia; 4.73 million Pokemon SKUs were sold in Japan last year.)
The good news continued on the hardware front, with 4.02 million Nintendo DSes and 1.98 million Wii systems sold in Japan last year. Overall, titles released for the DS accounted for 43.5% of all Japanese console game sales in 2009; Wii games took 20.3% of the pie, while the PSP was next with 15.3% of sales.
Enterbrain reported that the Japanese video game industry shifted a total of 542 billion yen in sales in 2009, about 7% off from 2008 -- this despite a 10.4% rise in year-over-year game sales for the second half of the year, buoyed by big-name releases like Final Fantasy XIII and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Here's a list of the top 20 games saleswise in Japan last year:
1. Dragon Quest IX (Square Enix, DS) -- 4,100,968
2. Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver (The Pokemon Company, DS) -- 3,382,597
3. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo, DS) -- 2,485,150
4. Tomodachi Collection (Nintendo, DS) -- 2,311,948
5. Final Fantasy XIII (Square Enix, PS3) -- 1,698,256
6. Wii Sports Resport (Nintendo, Wii) -- 1,542,806
7. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo, Wii) -- 1,298,533
8. Monster Hunter Tri (Capcom, WIi) -- 968,033
9. Inazuma Eleven 2 (Level-5, DS) -- 943,615
10, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (budget rerelease) (Capcom, PSP) -- 911,497
11. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Nintendo, DS) -- 717,940
12. Wii Fit (Nintendo, Wii) -- 588,258
13. Professor Layton and the Spectre's Flute (Level-5, DS) -- 552,085
14. Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Square Enix, DS) -- 522,260
15. Resident Evil 5 (Capcomm, PS3) -- 508,959
16. Yakuza 3 (Sega, PS3) -- 509,223
17. Rhythm Heaven (Nintendo, DS) -- 480,326
18. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii) -- 446,447
19. Phantasy Star Portable 2 (Sega, DS) -- 443,216
20. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (The Pokemon Company, DS) -- 417,226
here's the online market research results:
zavvi: pre-order = £39.95
play.com pre-order = £29.99
shopto.net pre-order = £26.85
amazon.co.uk pre-order = £30.99
asda pre-order = £39.91
ones i searched but didn't have it at all: blahdvd.com, gameplay.co.uk, game.co.uk, gamestation.co.uk, hmv.com
...game is definitely not a "niceprice" title like the first one. i thought that may have helped the original and it would have been a good idea for this one too. it's not most people's idea of a full price purchase
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Yeah I'm having a hard time finding both this game and NMH 2 even listed on some sites.
Cheapest I've seen is £25 on cdwow.
I wont use this because wii + streaming on an HDTV will look bad. But on an SDTV it will probably look okay if the iPlayer is anything to go by.
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Only bad Wii games sell badly - Bloober
Capcom's "bitching" (and subsequent back-track) about poor sales of Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles was ill-aimed, WiiWare developer Bloober Team has told Eurogamer.
"With such a strong install base it's hard to believe that there's not enough people to appreciate mature, core content," said executive producer Marcin Kawa. "It's all about games and quality. I'm not surprised that another shooter on rails doesn't sell well. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that people expect something more than that..
"I bet No More Heroes 2 will do pretty good, as well as the new Metroid and Capcom's Monster Hunter. I hope that Last Flight will be successful and that's because we're making a game that was thought out as a Wii game.
"Instead of bitching," he added, "we'd rather create something that has value and doesn't feel like a third-rate port put together to make a quick buck."
Bloober's making Last Flight, a visually simple but striking action-horror game inspired by Golden Axe, although we've yet to see the similarities. Importantly, this is a WiiWare game aimed at a mature audience that Marcin Kawa is adamant exists on Wii, despite the public lethargy for critically acclaimed games like MadWorld and No More Heroes.
"Was it the right decision to develop a game on Wii? Should we make it less violent? Are we gonna sell enough copies to pay our bills? You know, typical questions, nothing unusual here," Kawa said. "And while we love and respect Capcom and Pachter, we wouldn't go that far and say that mature stuff doesn't sell or that it's the platform holder's fault.
"Our logic is far simpler: if the game doesn't sell, we did something wrong."
The first episode of Last Flight, of which there are four, will be released on WiiWare "really soon".
Wow, look at that. Someone that understands the basic rules of economics. Never ever blame your customer or competitor.
That's terrible... I hope you heal up well.
That's about it. The hang up used to be the lack of games and the price, and both of those have been corrected.
Yes. Do be careful. We don't want to have to refer to you as bugsthroughglass...
Seriously though, glad you are OK.
thank you bro, really appreciate it. i hope so too. right now i can't eat and it hurts a bit to talk and i got a bit of a lisp as well.
thank you buddy. you know i would have been just that had i not been wearing the seat belt. i got away with it pretty lightly all things considered. right now it hurts like hell to laugh though, so leave the crane jokes for a little while
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Woah. Sorry to hear about your accident Bugs. Get better soon.
That's a decent view to take. NMH is considered a success for Suda and Marvelous at like 350k, if it sells more than the first it's a success. I think it will do as its been around for a while and no doubt some people picked it up used or whatever in the intervening years.
Why am I now thinking about Mr Miyagi?
Ooops. Don't laugh.
Seriously, all the best.
*damn Jaime failed me, time for plan B*
But how will pay for Fedor?!. You need a plan C to get enough to pay for Plan B.
Really? Me too! Awesome~!
PS: Your Get-Well present is on it's way!
Thank you so much. i have a week off work so hopefully i'll be fully mended by then
thank you buddy. i feel the love already *group hug*. plan B for banderas? i stand no chance
LOL they must have put like two bottles of fake tan on that kid
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What a good day for news, great updates today guys. The game budget stuff is freaky.
Wow, good you came out fine and no one else was hurt. Bad about the money side of things.
I think falling asleep has been responsible for many of my screwups as well, like flooding a downstairs apartment.
Yeah, you'd think people would be a little cautious about underrating nintendo lately.
I think PS3 will do better and better, but I don't expect amazing sales.
Has anyone had trouble with their drives? Mine is getting louder - I'm hoping I won't have to send it in soon.
Huh - it's $30 on amazon canada which is what the first one was priced at. If they do a we ski and price the second one higher it is not going to sell at all.
Now that you mention it, mine has been a little louder than it once was. God knows this console has gotten more use out of it than any other in recent years, but it would really suck having to send this in for repairs. Actually, even with my soft mod I think I'm just as well off buying a new Wii and asking Nintendo to transfer my downloads to the new account.