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Nintendo Holds 20 Best Selling Games in Japan
moderatorrater writes "Nintendo's dominance of the Japanese sales charts continues, as Gamasutra reports on the top games for Japan's 'Golden Week' celebration. The top 21 titles sold in the country were all on Nintendo formats; most actually developed by Nintendo itself. FFXII: Revenant Wings topped the list at number one, and along with five other DS or Wii titles was the only sign of third-party competition in the Japanese best-sellers market. 'With the holiday period functioning somewhat like the Christmas period in the West, there were no new entries in the top thirty - although a number of family friendly titles did reappear in the top ten, with Yoshi's Island DS at number four with 58,948 units sold. New Super Mario Bros. on DS re-emerged at number eight with 51,681 units sold, with the second Brain Training game at number ten.'"
Hey! Lets make PS3 games!
It's almost like we're in the eighties again. Nintendo is no longer the snobish monopolist with kiddy games, like they were in the nineties, but back to having the first choice console for families.
MS is a bit like Sega, trying to be hip but falling at it. While Sony is NeoGeo, first choice for the gaming snobs.
The only one missing is Atari: the clueless blundering money-grubbing fools with a few good ideas.
I assume this game is in the process of being localized for North America... definitely one I'm looking forward to. The music is the same as in the PS2 game :)
I wonder if US publishers have ever thought to publish a title in Japan in time for Golden Week (much like they time holiday season releases in the US)...
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Mario Party is coming at the end of the month, so I don't expect this trend to change any time soon.
The other thing I wonder about is with Nintendo's dominance of the Japanese market, I'm wonder how long until we see more 3rd party developers decide that their RPG/fighter/FPS game doesn't *need* 50 GB of storage and 3 billion operations per second. (Personal note: I'd be stoked for a high res FFVII remake for the Wii. I know, I'm weak.)
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Almost all the games I'm looking forward to for my Wii come from Nintendo.
Everyone else keeps doing shitty ports, or inane and uninteresting games like Boogie or EA Playground. I want heavily involved games for the hardcore like Metroid Prime 3, I want simple and fun group games like Wii Sports.
Why is no one but Nintendo able to produce a game worth buying on the Wii right now?
I hear developers/publishers whining about the Wii not having sufficient hardware and it being previous generation and whatever else, but I'm not interested in PS3 or Xbox; just like a lot of other gamers out there. I have money, I want to buy Wii games from more than just Nintendo. Make some!
Every day it seems more and more like publishers and developers are completely missing the point and Nintendo is just eating up the market everyone else wants to pretend isn't there.
So when's the cereal coming back?
Nin-ten-do! It's for breakfast now!
This story would also be a good time to mention that the Wii continues to outsell the PS3 7-or-8 to 1 in Japan, on a week-by-week basis.
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Nintendo's success has come about because of two things.
First, it doesn't just rush shitty games or shitty hardware to market. They treat console design and game-making like the artistic, design-centric crafts they really are.
Second, they strike exactly the right balance between features/price with their hardware, and they revise the hardware appropriatley as time goes on to ensure their offerings continue to strike the right balance at any given time (as technology advances and more/better features can be had for the same price).
In those two regards, Nintendo has been operating very much like Apple -- but doing it even better than Apple does.
It's good to see companies really take pride in what they do, execute well on it, and get rewarded by the market for it. It gives you just a little glimmer of hope that capitalism can still bring about good things.
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I think this just goes to show that Nintendo is teetering on the precipice if insignificance and failure. With this many sales, it's clear that they will quickly saturate the market and everyone will own all the Nintendo games they can possibly buy. Then we'll see the
true market situation as gamers looking to spend their hard earned money have to go out and by products from Microsoft and Sony just to be able to keep playing new games!!!
Actually more than one of the top 21 is third party made. Square enix is easily the biggest supporter of Nintendo consoles and the place on the chart shows.
01./01. [NDS] Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (Square-Enix) - 109,326 / 383,330
09./02. [NDS] Momotarou Dentetsu DS: Tokyo & Japan (Hudson) - 45,662 / 124,642
11./09. [NDS] Phoenix Wright 4 (Capcom)
17./16. [NDS] Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village (Level 5)
19./34. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (Square-Enix)
21./26. [NDS] Word Puzzle Mojipittan DS (Bandai-Namco)
Not to mention no really good games for the PS3 ... wonder if the two are related?
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Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village looks great. I hope that'll come out over here...
Shigeru Miyamoto once again states the obvious:
"A good game's a good game. If you build it, they will buy."
His competition states:
"Meh, just throw a few more clock cycles at the hardware."
The results seem... predictable.
The consensus in the industry was that underpowered, gimmicky little DS strikethrough Wii was going to megaflop. Nintendo's stock price is up something like 40% since last August, and by August you had all the information you needed about the Wii's capabilities to forecast its future success *except* the sales numbers that gave proof of it. 40% was the uncertainty discount, and wow, thats a lot of uncertainty. Heck, I bought my Nintendo stock months after the Wii release and its up ~15% from then. People just keep getting amazed at how much they're owning this round.
Oh, keep buying your Wiis, people. I think I get about a millionth of a penny for every one sold. Whoo-hoo!
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
Can we please stop with this moronic idea that third-party devs can't compete with Nintendo? Good games have always done well one Nintendo's platforms, even during the "dark days" of N64 and Gamecube. The issue isn't that third-party devs can't compete with Nintendo, it's that they often chose not to, instead assigning their third-string teams to create a bunch of shovelware ports.
If the main developer on a platform constantly creates titles of the highest possible quality, obviously, the people who buy into that platform expect good games. So bad ports of games from other platforms won't sell (which is actually the way it should be! I wish all console owner were as discerning as owners of Nintendo consoles, that would improve the quality of games for everyone). That does not imply that good games won't sell.
PSone was a handheld version of the PlayStation with a small LCD screen. It did very well, but it was not the runaway smash you were referring to.
PS/2 is a type of connector for computer peripherals. It perhaps was a runaway smash, but it was not by Sony, and was also not what you were referring to.
You meant simply "PS1" and "PS2". HTH.
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Yes, your argument rather effectively explains why Nintendo are outselling Sony so much.
Oh, wait, no it doesn't.
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You're almost as bad as the troll you respond to.. ok, no, you're not nearly that bad. But that was still bad. You need to tell them why he's wrong - he probably doesn't even know that Sony is also a Japanese company.
Remember, trolls live under bridges. They don't know these things.
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Perhaps the reason it's been tanking compared to the Wii and 360?
You're right, of course. I suspect he (and it's nearly always a 'he') got so obsessed with justifying poor 360 sales he forgot other consoles even exist.
Mind you, Microsoft's is the only one of the latest round of TV-connected machines I own, and I've got PSP as well as my DS, so why I'm so smug I'm not sure.
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DS Lite: 285,123, up 29,152 (11.39%)
Wii: 101,320, up 1,202 (1.17%)
PSP: 35,172, up 1,312 (3.87%)
PS2: 14,815, up 2,231 (17.73%)
PS3: 12,974, up 183 (1.43%)
Xbox 360: 3,205, up 43 (1.36%)
Gamecube: 394, up 227 (135.93%)
Game Boy Micro: 340, up 290 (46.03%)
GBA SP: 302, up 193 (38.99%)
DS Phat: 69, up 23 (25.00%)
GBA: 11, up 11 (N/A)
So if Wii sports comes with every remote back and 85.000 was bought for 100.000 Wiis, then yes.
285.000 DS vs 35.000 PSP, ownage?
Cool that God of War or whatever it's called (the huge titles for PS2) would be released on PSP thought.