VGChartz reports that their estimated numbers for Japanese hardware and software chart for week ending March 22nd, 2008 was as follows:
Total Hardware: [Last Week #]
PSP: 64,175 (+2%) [63,062]
DSL: 62,343 (+21%) [51,637]
Wii: 56,483 (+5%) [53,690]
PS3: 14,726 (-12%) [16,796]
PS2: 9,685 (-1%) [9,756]
360: 2,064 (-6%) [2,186]
Top 10 Software:
1 Pokémon Ranger: Batonnage (DS) 242,108 242,108 [NEW]
2 Deca Sporta (Wii) 65,577 65,577 [NEW]
3 Armored Core for Answer (PS3) 51,908 51,908 [NEW]
4 Sim City DS 2: From the Past to the Future (DS) 47,671 47,671 [NEW]
5 Tales of Rebirth (PSP) 46,043 46,043 [NEW]
6 Wii Fit (Wii) 1,752,707
7 Dairantou Smash Brothers X (Wii) 39,515 1,579,075
8 DS Bimoji Training (DS) 36,539 100,408
9 Dramatic Dungeon: Sakura Wars (DS) 32,539 32,539 [NEW]
10 Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi wo Yobu Cinema Land (DS) 31,984 31,984 [NEW]
Other New Releases:
11 Time Hollow: Seeking the Lost Past (DS) 0,228 30,228 [NEW]
12 Echochrome (PSP) 25,536 25,536 [NEW]
13 Armored Core for Answer (360) 24,277 24,277 [NEW]
17 Super Dodge Ball (DS) 14,784 14,784 [NEW]
18 House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return (Wii) 13,235 13,235 [NEW]
21 Army of Two (PS3) 10,658 10,658 [NEW]
22 Army of Two (360) 10,137 10,137 [NEW]
23 Kekkaishi: Kubourou Shuurai (DS) 9,441 9,441 [NEW]
30 Rosario and the Vampire: Miss Youkai Gakuen of the Star Festival
(DS) 7,514 7,514 [NEW]
35 Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword (DS) 6,375 6,375 [NEW]
Software Totals: (Last week #)
DSL: 682,295 (317,665)
Wii: 253,478 (168,144)
PSP: 116,653 (46,011)
PS3: 114,051 (78,611)
PS2: 74,431 (113,635)
360: 47,324 (12,691)
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
LucasArts gave Jango Fett his own game in 2002, and it pulled Star Wars into a much dirtier, rougher, and more interesting corner of the galaxy.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
looks sales for the PS3 in Japan are slowing down
and Yakuza 3 isnt even there anymore.
And miss again...
Pokemon >_>
Why I'm not surprised?
nothing like a bit of WKS to bump up the PS3 sales back to 30k
and Japs with their bloody Pokemon eh