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New releases Fallout 3 and Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm have helped the PS3 narrow the sales gap with Wii across Japan.
Nintendo counted 32,333 console sales for the week ending 18th January, while Sony's flagship machine notched up 20,690 sales, according to Media Create data (recreated by NeoGAF).
The increased competition echoes in the software chart, where both platforms count two top 10 entries. The Wii representatives are new entry New Control Play! Mario Power Tennis at one and Wii Fit at nine. The PlayStation 3 candidates are newcomers Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm at three and Fallout 3 at seven.
Nintendo sees 11 entries for Wii across the top 50, while Sony fills eight places with titles on PS3.
Both consoles are streets ahead of Xbox 360 and PS2, which record 9576 and 5760 sales, respectively. The Microsoft console only has one top 50 game entry (Race Driver: GRID at 44), and the PS2 has two.
Unsurprisingly, though, DS sales remain dominant for the region, and nearly double those of rival handheld, PSP.
The DS occupies 23 - just under half - of the top 50 software slots, while PSP games fill just five.
| This Week | Last Week | Title | Platform | Weekly Sales | Lifetime Sales |
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| 1 | New Entry | New Control Play! Mario Power Tennis | Wii | 56,509 | 56,509 |
| 2 | New Entry | Megami Ibunroku: Devil Survivor | DS | 55,466 | 55,466 |
| 3 | New Entry | Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm | PS3 | 44,065 | 44,065 |
| 4 | 1 | Dissidia: Final Fantasy | PSP | 29,355 | 848,000 |
| 5 | 2 | Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) | PSP | 27,032 | 332,000 |
| 6 | 3 | Rhythm Tengoku Gold | DS | 25,488 | 1,594,000 |
| 7 | New Entry | Fallout 3 | PS3 | 24,488 | 24,488 |
| 8 | 5 | Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode | DS | 22,628 | 667,000 |
| 9 | 4 | Wii Fit | Wii | 21,847 | 3,177,000 |
| 10 | New Entry | DS Uranai Seikatsu | DS | 19,881 | 19,881 |
| Platform | This Week | Last Week | This Year | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo DS | 81,334 | 101,630 | 413,642 | 25,451,951 |
| PlayStation Portable | 42,559 | 60,495 | 314,142 | 11,618,033 |
| Nintendo Wii | 32,333 | 41,243 | 193,541 | 7,672,442 |
| PlayStation 3 | 20,690 | 28,144 | 109,488 | 2,731,916 |
| Xbox 360 | 9576 | 10,554 | 39,824 | 870,364 |
| PlayStation 2 | 5760 | 6628 | 24,936 | 21,424,460 |
| Platform | This Week | Last Week | This Year | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo DSi | 62,525 | 78,201 | 140,726 | 979,296 |
| Nintendo DS Lite | 18,809 | 23,429 | 42,238 | 17,416,632 |
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muscleblade
23/01/09 @ 09:54
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Naruto 2 Broken bond on the 360 was fantastic imo. Is Ultimate Ninja Storm on the PS3 as good? Have EG reviewed any of the two? I dont think so.
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Closed the gap..? Erm...no. The gap in sales between the Wii and PS3 has still widened, just not widened quite as much as other weeks. The gap will only close when the PS3 actually sells more units than the Wii, which as far as I remember has only happened once when MGS4 was released...although I will stand to be corrected.
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GamesConnoisseur
23/01/09 @ 10:01
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'closing in' indicated to me that the sales are not widening the gap ie the difference of almost 12k more consoles just add to the Wii lifetime total and increasing the effort Sony need to actually close in and then overtake!
Naruto on X360 is great and I got the Storm for PS3 but not yet got the chance to unwrap the wrapper and hoping it a good game too, I never watched the TV series but for some reason the game franchise just appealed to me! |
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Slightly related news: Sony posts $ 2.9 billion loss for the year, twice as much as predicted.
http://www.dailytech.com/Sony+to+Report+... |
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Norfolk'n'Clue
23/01/09 @ 10:14
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Who cares about the semantics of the analysis, it's just nice to have the figures!
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Dizzy, according metacritic, there isn't much between them. i played the demo on PSN and thought the presentation and intuitive combat very good. visually broken bond looks well broken to me. the visuals look like a western dev trying to do manga in a moving medium. it's a disconnect that sits uncomfortably with me. probably is a good game, but the authenticity of UNS's presentation (with full jap dialogue and subtitles) makes it the more appealing game.
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MoGamer2006
23/01/09 @ 10:19
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It's not about semantics, it's about spin - of creating a falsely positive take on information that is nothing of the sort.
If people actually read these stats and thoughts about them then it might not matter so much, but most won't and will just take the headline at face value. You'd expect better from a supposedly professional gaming site. |
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IronCladChicken
23/01/09 @ 10:24
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Good to see Fallout3 in the top 10 (even if I never 'got' the game myself)
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muscleblade
23/01/09 @ 10:35
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@Rash
If you say Broken Bond visually looks broken im afraid your opinion isnt to be taken seriously. The game looks amazing. Reviewers agree on the fact that its absolutely gorgeous. It really is. One of the best looking games in 2008. The sharpness is just incredible. edit: and its in japanese btw. The cutscenes is taken from actual episodes too and they look good. But the actual gameplay graphics looks even better. You actually feel like you are watching (or participating) the anime when playing ranked matches online.
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Triggerhappytel
23/01/09 @ 10:48
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snowdog - "Closed the gap..? Erm...no. The gap in sales between the Wii and PS3 has still widened, just not widened quite as much as other weeks. The gap will only close when the PS3 actually sells more units than the Wii, which as far as I remember has only happened once when MGS4 was released...although I will stand to be corrected."
Well, they obviously mean the gap in weekly sales, rather than the lifetime total. Dizzy - "Very mediocre. Mostly 7s. Well it is Naruto" Stop now. Bad Dizzy; 7/10 is a very respectable score and probably indicates a purchase if someone is a fan of the genre or franchise. |
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muscleblade
23/01/09 @ 10:49
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@Dizzy
Thanks. I take it you have actually played both games and actually have a valid opinion. Waiting for the third Naruto from Ubisoft then. |
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Dizzy, ... :)
When the western dev produces this: http://www.gamersyde.com/pop_image.html?... And the Jap dev produces this: http://www.gamersyde.com/pop_image.html?... When the reference point is this: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ouC92wvILSw/SK... I know which I consider to be more authentic, but please let me illustrate better: Ultimate Ninja Storm: http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_9219_en.... Broken Bond: http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_9471_en.... It this case, yes the Jap dev is more authethic to the source material than the western dev. ;o) |
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"Stop now. Bad Dizzy; 7/10 is a very respectable score and probably indicates a purchase if someone is a fan of the genre or franchise. "
Indeed... I just replied to the question if it was as good as Broken Bond. It is the weakest of the Naruto games on next gen systems. So if you are a fan 7.5 is still rather good yes, but there are better ;) |
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bigbadbeasty
23/01/09 @ 10:57
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"Well, they obviously mean the gap in weekly sales, rather than the lifetime total"
A bit tenuous considering the Wii still sold a third more units. No gap closing there. |
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muscle, it's just about authenticity for me. Ninja storm looks incredible as a anime adaptation. Where as Broken Bond's aesthetic appears to be from manga which isn't at all like the anime series which is the closest reference point for both games. The backdrops are a fine example in Broken Bond. Highly textured affairs that sit uncomfortably with the cel-shaded characters, when the watercolour effect of the Namco game would've served better.
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@Triggerhappytel
Well, they obviously mean the gap in weekly sales, rather than the lifetime total. Yes, it's obvious when you read the article and realise that they in fact haven't closed the gap at all and have instead sold almost 12,000 consoles less. Then you look for other, reasonable, interpretations of their poorly-worded statement (because you're reasonable) and you come to the conclusion you did. :) It's wrong though as both the Wii's and the PS3's sales are down on last week. In terms of raw numbers the Wii is down more, selling 8910 consoles less than last week compared to the PS3 selling 7454 less than last week, however if you look at it as a percentage of last week's sales then the Wii's 32,333 is 78.39% of the previous weeks sales while the PS3's 20,690 is 73.51% of the previous weeks sales. So in fact the gap in sales is widening. There is no way that they are "closing in on Wii". |
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PlugMonkey
23/01/09 @ 11:21
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I'm quite surprised at how well Fallout 3 is doing. The Japanese market doesn't generally go crazy for western devloped, non-turn-based RPGs. Progress?
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>I'm quite surprised at how well Fallout 3 is doing
The numbers are quite low TBH. It needs a few weeks to do "well". That being said Oblivion did some ok numbers as well. Maybe some Japanese have an obsession for anything Western probably claiming on forums as we speak that "Only US/European companies can make good WRPGs". |
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Eighthours
23/01/09 @ 11:29
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Closing the gap? PS3's sales are 8k down on last week, and still far less than the Wii's!
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Doctor_What
23/01/09 @ 11:52
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That's a fairly reasonable week of sales for the 360, yes, it's still 50% of the PS3, but that's still excellent compared to last-gen.
It's good to see the Japanese picking up more PS3s too: roll on the bonkers Japanese 'not a game' 'interactive screensaver' titles! I really enjoy that sort of creative nonsense :) |
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MoGamer2006
23/01/09 @ 11:58
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LOL. There's always at least one 'Hey, the XB360 is doing quite well.... er... when you think about it... um... compared to the XB's performance.... and, ah... the GBC sales...."
Yeah, with the XB360 selling like this, the XB720 is all primed to take over Japan... ;) |
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muscleblade
23/01/09 @ 12:06
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"Yeah, with the XB360 selling like this, the XB720 is all primed to take over Japan... ;) "
Even the Japanese are starting to aknowledge that the 360 is better than the competition. Its almost unpatriotic for them to buy an American console, but for those who dear to do it never look back. Next generation console wars should be exiting. I really hope Sony make a PS4 but i think they might throw in the towel. |
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muscleblade
23/01/09 @ 12:15
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"Neither game is brilliant, and about as good as each other."
Broken Bond made me a Naruto fan and i thouth it was brilliant. One of my favourite games. |
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muscleblade
23/01/09 @ 12:19
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@Rash'
"you sure are delusional" You wish! Being a owner of both HD consoles (traded in my PS3 though) i understand why the Japanese suddenly buy the evil breakable noisy American console. You just dont get it. You are delusional my friend. |
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muscleblade
23/01/09 @ 12:38
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@Rash'
"If you say so..." Well you said it first. Still friends i hope. |
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