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Media Create software sales (4/12 - 4/18)

Media Create has published the latest software sales figures from Japan. First week data for No More Heroes (PS3 and 360) has been revealed.

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ClownBelt5913d ago

There are a lot of the 360 users who bought the game. Only 1000 difference wow.

FarEastOrient5913d ago

HD Consoles for the Win!! Good job PS3 and Xbox 360, show Wii where the hardcore gamers are...

16,000 PS3 1st Week
15,000 Xbox 360 1st Week

Wii 40,000 after 10 weeks in Japan. (11,000 in 1st Week)

I know VGChartz... (not the most accurate thing in the world)

http://www.vgchartz.com/gam...

Gago5913d ago

I dont know why it sells so poorly

its a fantastic game

SpoonyRedMage5913d ago (Edited 5913d ago )

@FarEastOrient:

No More Heroes on the Wii sold 11K on it's first day going more reliable sources and apparently had first week sales over 20K.

Any why is the Wii is being pitted against both the PS3 and 360? It outsold both's indivual numbers and when it was released on the Wii the userbase was 5 million whilst the PS3 and 360 have a userbase of over 6 million.

So if anything this proves that at least in Japan there's as many hardcore gamers on the Wii as on the other systems... you just have a lot of other gamers as well.

I think it's pathetic that people have to put both PS3 and 360 together to challenge the Wii because the justification is that developers have to choose whether to develop for the Wii or both the PS3/360 but surely this game proves that a game can be on all three.

In the same way I could say: PS3 has no hardcore gamers, the Wii and 360 versions sold over 30K when the PS3's only did 16K.

Bring on the disagrees.

EDIT: Here's the source saying 10K first day. http://ameblo.jp/sinobi/ent...

Can't find one for first week.

It sold 40K as of Feb 15, 2008 in Japan and they intended to sell 50K in the long run, which it potentially has. http://www.famitsu.com/game...

FarEastOrient5913d ago

@Spoony

I agree VGChartz is not the best source in the world, in general I find it sad that some great games do not see great sales.

Some examples:
PC: Indigo Prophecy
PS2: Beyond Good and Evil
PS3: Heavenly Sword
Xbox 360: Lost Odyssey
Wii: Madworld

I played them all and they all got pretty good reviews and yet they are all examples of games that didn't for some reason sell big.

PS Note: Anybody else doing the Starcraft II Beta with me?

iforgotmylogin5913d ago

-No more heroes 2 had no such articles like this.
- you can only like get vg charts numbers for part 2
- part 1 on wii was a new ip fresh out of the water no fan base no nothing sold at least 400k
- xbox 360 and ps3 sees what the game looks like gets a wii port that they all claim will never happen...
- 360 made a fan base and so did ps3 looking at this game on the wii
yearning for it and begging for a wii game
- basically took the wiis hard work to sell games

its like final fantasy 13 on the 360.

raztad5913d ago

"So if anything this proves that at least in Japan there's as many hardcore gamers on the Wii as on the other systems... you just have a lot of other gamers as well."

Not necesarily true. You can read those sales in several wyas:

1) Wii owners that bought NMH also have a PS3/Xbox

2) NMH is a very old game and people that really wanted it got a Wii.

3) NMH is not a popular game regardless the platform

or

4) Wii hardcore userbase is similar to 5m (number of PS3s sold in Japan)

Considering game sold more or less the same in all platform, I would say (2) and (3)

Mahr5912d ago

"3) NMH is not a popular game regardless the platform"

Given that Suda's released games on the PS2, the DS, the Wii, the 360, the PS3, and the Gamecube -- some of the most popular systems ever -- to more or less the same commercial results, this seems to be the most likely scenario.

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Valay5913d ago

Software sales in Japan has been down the past few weeks.

Ziriux5913d ago

Of course mario is on top.

Servbot5913d ago

The Xbox 360 version of No More Heroes Paradise is uncensored, so I can see why the sales are so close.

ClownBelt5913d ago

So the PS3 is censored then? I don't really follow this game since it looks rubbish and uninteresting.

Cheeseknight285913d ago

Not enough guns and space marines for you, then?

DarkBlood5913d ago (Edited 5913d ago )

in what way is the ps3 version of no more heroes censored?

qface645913d ago

a lot less blood in the ps3 version a lot less

Mahr5913d ago (Edited 5913d ago )

When you decapitate an enemy in the original and 360 versions, there's a fountain of blood that sprays from their bodies.

When you do the same in the Euro and PS3 versions, the enemy explodes into black ash.

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Final Fantasy X 25th Anniversary Website Launches With New Nomura Artwork and Merchandise

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.

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-Foxtrot62d ago

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.

solideagle62d ago

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

Relientk7762d ago

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

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Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Let Jango Fett Loose

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.

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Relientk7767d ago

I remember playing this back in the day on PS2. What a sick game!

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Why the Wii is Such a Nostalgic System in 2026

The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.

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ActualWhiteMan69d ago (Edited 69d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg68d ago

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.

Smellsforfree68d ago

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.

Loktai68d ago

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.