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XBox getting raped in Japan
Top 50 Games Chart (Sales) for latest week in Japan:
http://www.dengekionline.com/soft/ranking/ranking.htm Translated: Rank/Title/System/Units Sold During Week/Total Sold 1: Kingdom Hearts – PS2 – 415,910/415,910 2: Super Robot Wars Impact – PS2 – 394,508/394,508 3: Tekken 4 - PS2 – 181,528/181,528 4: Fire Emblem – GBA – 101,800/101,800 5: From TV Animation: One Piece Grand Battle 2 – PSX – 41,573/287,651 6: Soccer Tsuku 2002 J-League – PS2 – 38,874/404,495 7: Power Pro Ken Pocket 4 – GBA – 33,575/115,350 8: Onimusha 2 – PS2 – 30,905/883,271 9: Biohazard - GC – 30,300/134,444 10: Sister Princess Premium Edition – DC – 26,661/26,661 11: Midnight – PS2 – 25,821/25,821 12: Japan Pro Baseball 2002 – PS2 – 23,382/23,382 13: Sakura Wars 4 - DC – 22,333/238,439 14: Shining Soul – GBA – 20,500/20,500 15: Black Matrix 2 – PS2 – 18,661/18,661 16: Final Fantasy IV – WS – 18,590/18,590 17: Teitoku IV – PS2 – 15,875/15,875 18: Doshin the Giant - GC – 15,190/77,690 19: Battle Fushin – GC – 15,125/15,125 20: Rockman EXE 2 - GBA – 14,646/304,060 21 PS2 Wild AMUZU Advance DOSADO (ŒÀ’è”ÅŠÜ) SCE 14601 190,306 22 PS On-the-spot powerful professional baseball 2002 spring KONAMI 13931 43,175 23 PS2 PROJECT ARMS BANDAI 13742 24 PS2 Rubbish masterpiece theater RAKUGAKI kingdom TAITO 13594 58,397 25 PS2 It is a jet and is GO! 2 TAITO 12188 26 PS Mr. Oji of tennis KONAMI 10270 124,961 27 GC Striking-how woods + Nintendo 9908 408,840 28 GBA Super MARIO advance 2 Nintendo 8917 508,568 29 GC GROOVE ADVENTURE RAVE - fighting live - KONAMI 7822 24,889 30 GBA GROOVE ADVENTURE RAVE - large decisive battle of light and darkness - KONAMI 7430 18,980 31 PS2 ZENOSAGA Episode I Will to power (ŒÀ’è”ÅŠÜ) NAMCO 7038 393,000 32 PS2 EX life game TAKARA 6833 39,899 33 PS truth and a goddess -- Transmigration II Atlas 6725 26,134 34 GC an animal -- a school gang leader Nintendo 6564 109,353 35 DC Card OBU DESUTINI - integrated person of light and darkness - Abel 6366 36 PS MINIMONI. Dice de ‚Ò‚å‚ñ! KONAMI 6267 22,114 37 GBA It is a puzzle constantly. Happy PANETCHU! Nintendo 6200 33,910 38 GC Large confused fighting Smash bra ZAZU DX Nintendo 6150 1,053,532 39 PS2 It obtains and is a street 3. It is made the billionaire! - with a private teacher - ENIX 5915 126,289 40 PS2 On-the-spot GI SUTEIBURU 2 KONAMI 5727 41 GB Biohazard GAIDEN Capcom 5606 42 PS2 ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 KONAMI 5600 43 PS2 Rescue helicopter Air ranger 2 Ask 5465 44 PS2 WRC - world rally champion cypripedium - Spike 5167 40,730 45 PS -THE from which all are set to F PERFECT INSIDER- Kid 5099 46 PS2 Final Fantasy X International Square 5060 204,650 47 PS2 U.S. crossing ultra quiz Digicube 5019 48 PS SIMPLE1500 series Vol.88 A THE gal mah-jongg LoveSongs idol is Haile - TO. D3 pub RISSHA 4888 49 GBA a river -- ‚Ê(ing) -- fishing 5- - from wonderful woods Victor interactive software 4775 10,113 50 PS truth and a goddess -- transmigration -- devil children Black chapter Red chapter Atlas 4688 No XBox games :unsure: Before anyone acuses me of being happy about this, I'm NOT. I want to see the system do well in Japan (I already know it's doing great in NA) so that maybe more Japenese developers will support it over time, which would then warrant a purchase from me (when I get the money) Anyways, use this topic to just look over the top 50 sellers in Japan or comment on the lack of XBox titles... |
Most of the article I'm quoting here is opinions, anecdotes and analyst quotes. But there are some solid numbers as well which is what I quote below.
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I'm not sure who these Media Create people are, but their numbers don't surprise me. I'll be more sure when IGN Japan updates with Famitsu's numbers. I can also add that sales of Xbox software total 0.5% of total software sales. We all knew it would be a tough sell, but believe it or not, Xbox is doing better than I thought it would. By the way, this has to be the funniest mangling of Super Smash Bros. name I've seen yet. Quote:
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i think the japanese market likes to have a discription of the game in the title. lol. That's a hilarious name.
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Can someone tell me when XenoSaga was released in Japan? I'll give you 500 doubloons...
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Is anyone getting the feeling that this is not a real chart?
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the date is mentioned... http://www.famitsu.com/game/coming/2...,3570,0,0.html there, if you can find it... and it mentions... http://ps2.ign.com/articles/101/101206p1.html there that the game was on track to ship february 28th :> |
Thankoos :>
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If Xbox's user base is the smallest (out of three consoles), it doesn't really make sense for the games to be high on the charts.
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I don't think that list isn't real.
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Or vice versa, I guess. :) |
Well, I think Justin brings up a valid point that Xbox's user base in Japan is the smallest and that the Xbox has been there for not nearly as long as both the GameCube and Playstation 2. But there are also other reasons the Xbox isn't selling so well in Japan right now.
First of all we all know that the Japanese hate American products. I know that may sound like a bad excuse, but it's the truth. Also Microsoft currently has under development around 50 Japanese exclusive titles for the Xbox console. Right now really the only game geared toward the Japanese market is Dead or Alive 3. So I would wait until Microsoft does release some of those Japan exclusive titles and see how they do. Remember that the Xbox could have games in the 50-60 range which wouldn't be that bad. |
If MS wants the Xbox to do well all they have to is get companies do to sate slims and the Xbox will sell millions over there.
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