Famitsu Japan Game Charts 2008-1-7/ 2008-1-13 and Sales
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New Year Market has end and Sales retuned to normal level.
News :
Super Smash Bros. Brawl delays (1/24 -> 1/31)
First Shipments of Super Smash Bros. Brawl will be a bit smaller than Super Mario Galaxy.
Charts :
http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1213026_1124.html
1. Wii Fit (Wii)
2. Mario Party DS (DS)
3. Wii Sports (Wii)
4. Wii Play (Wii)
5. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)
6. FF4 DS (DS)
7. Monster Hunter Portable 2 (PSP)
8. Mario & Sonic at Beijing Olympics (Wii)
9. Mario Kart DS (DS)
10. Rune Factory 2 (DS)
Sales Data of Shinobi :
http://ameblo.jp/sinobi/
Almost are same as below
Sales Data of Other sources :
Top10
1. Wii Fit (Wii) : about 93k (total about 1.005m)
2. Mario Party DS (DS) : about 52k (total about 1.49m)
3. Wii Sports (Wii) : about 41k (total about 2.63m)
4. Wii Play (Wii) : about 26k (total about 2.12m)
5. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS) : about 23k (total about 697k)
6. FF4 DS (DS) : about 20k (total about 547k)
7. Monster Hunter Portable 2 (PSP) : about 20k (total about 1.55m)
8. Mario & Sonic at Beijing Olympics (Wii) : about 20k (total about 457k)
9. Mario Kart DS (DS) : about 19k (total about 2.78m)
10. Rune Factory 2 (DS) : about 18k (total about 74k)
Other softs (in the Top 30) :
11. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) : about 18k (total about 827k)
12. Mario Party 8 (Wii) : about 16k (total about 1.14m)
13. DQ4 (DS) : about 16k (total about 1.14m)
15. Star Ocean 1 First Departure (PSP) : about 14k (total about 175k)
16. Winning Eleven 2008 (PS2) : about 13k (total about 595k)
17. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) : about 13k (total about 5.05m)
18. Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS) : about 12k (total about 4.55m)
19. Call of Duty 4 (PS3) : about 11k (total about 50k)
20. Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village (DS) : about 11k (total about 803k)
21. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (DS) : about 11k (total about 1.31m)
24. More Brain Training (DS) : about 9.1k (total about 4.82m)
25. Everybody's Golf Portable 2 (PSP) : about 9k (total about 194k)
26. My Household Budget Diary (DS) : about 8.3k (total about 396k)
27. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (Wii) : abuot 8.2k (total about 242k)
28. Pocket Monster Diamond/Pearl (DS) : about 7.9k (total about 5.43m)
30. Yakuza 2 cheaper edition (PS2) : about 7.7k (total about 95k)New releases out of Charts(Top 30) :
Home Tutor Hitman Reborn! Dream Hyper Battle! Wii (Wii) : about 6.9k
Armored Core 4 (Cheaper edition) (360) : about 2k
Armored Core 4 (Cheaper edition) (PS3) : about 1.4k
Rei shiki Kanjo sentoki 2 (PSP) : about 0.6k
Console :
Wii : about 82k
DSL : about 103k
PS3 : about 34k
PS2 : about 15k
PSP : about 84k
360 : about 5.5k
This week Upcomings :
1/17
* Mario & Sonic at Beijing Olympics (DS)
Next week Upcomings :
1/24
Lucky Star: Ryouou Gakuen Outou-Sai (PS2)
Editional : Dual hardships of PSP
Because it was after the Year-End and New Year Market, the sales number returned normal level.
In this situation, Nintendo's dash continues. However the console sales is almost sames as that of same period of last year, Software sales is totally well and dominates the Charts.
On the other hand, for the Sony, it is severe number, especially PS3. Only PSP goes well, but there is a big wall for PSP. It is,
* Not raising of Software market.
After the release of new model, PSP own's sales keeps high. But Software sales hasn't shown the raising at all. This situation causes two problem to PSP.
1. Reduction of sales in the shop
Normally Console is unprofitable articles for the sellers in Japanese game market. For them, software sales is the key of the business. So, Consoles of which the softwares aren't sold aren't important articles. Indeed, there are many sellers enlarge the sell of DS and Wii, but few sellers enlarge the sell of PSP...
2. Reduction of New releases.
In the PSP market there only two softwares sold more than 1 million (MHP, MHP2). For most of others, 300~350k is the higher limit of its sales. When we consider the cost of development, PSP market has no attraction compared with DS market. If SCE can't break the limit, third makers may leave the PSP market and not returned...
As above, in contrast with the good console sales of PSP, the position of PSP in the market is severe. Will SCE do something for PSP software market? If they do something, how does SCE do? It may be the remarkable point of this year's Japanese game market.
