If you live in Japan, chances are you eat a lot of sushi, drink a lot of sake, and play a helluva lot of Nintendo DS and Wii games. According to the latest sales numbers, Nintendo is just printing Yen by the boatloads. Take a look at the chart:
- Gyakuten Saiban 4 (Phoenix Wright) (Capcom, DS) - 250,186 (New)
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Nintendo, DS) - 92,017 (New)
- Wii Sports (Nintendo, Wii) - 41,035 (1,356,966)
- Yoshi's Island DS (Nintendo, DS) - 40,974 (670,432)
- Wii Play (Nintendo, Wii) - 28,394 (1,147,811)
- Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village (Level 5, DS) - 25,548 (417,682)
- More English Training (Nintendo, DS) - 25,264 (109,909)
- Musou Orochi (Koei, PS2) - 23,067 (538,869)
- Pro Yakyuu Spirits 4 (baseball) (Konami, PS2) - 19,816 (101,868)
- Watashi no Relaxuma (Rocket Co, DS) - 18,734 (New)
Is the fact that Wii Sports and Wii Play are the only two Wii titles in the top 10 a concern or red flag to anyone else?
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12:53 PM on 04.19.2007
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*RAISES HAND*
is the pack-in just so awsome that people feel the need to have multiple copies?
or is it that wiimotes and wii consoles are still sellin like hotcakes that gets these guys on the charts..
I'm wondering if anyone's getting sick of reading about the weekly japanese hardware sales. No matter how hard I try, I just can't make myself give a shit about them.
The real question should be why no other games are selling. But then we would have to examine flaws in other companies other than Nintendo, and where is the fun in that amirite!
Because the way I am looking at it right now, no console is doing very hot. So if people want to keep things in perspective you might want to check out the industry in a whole and wonder why many places just aren't giving a damn.
1.) Waaaaaaaaay more people have DSes than Wiis, so it's only natural that DS software sells better.
2.) Super paper mario wasn't released over there until today.
Either better reasoning or less spin, please.
STFU.jpg
This might be the beginning of the end of the "fantasy" game (meaning games for teenage boys' power fantasies) being the industry standard.
Games used to be cool in the Atari era. Everyone played them. Then as graphics got better and controls got more complex, games got nerdier. Adults became ashamed to play them. Girls started to see them as excluding and stupid. Only teenage boys remained.
Imagine how much that would have sucked if it happend to the film industry, if the only kinds of movie that made money and won any acclaim were made for the Sci-Fi channel. That would suck. And that is what I have seen happen to gaming over the years. It has been sad to witness.
The Wii is taking things back to the old school, the not just for nerds school, and it is awesome.
I freaking love it!
And if you don't own Elebits yet, you're cheating yourself.
For those that lack the cognitive capacity to understand even the most basic of concepts; these sales figures are good news for Nintendo, and bad news for Sony and Microsoft. The fact that anyone could put negative spin on it regarding Nintendo is laughable.
Like others have said, why should this raise a red flag? Shouldn't the fact that there's not a SINGLE PS3 or 360 title within the top THIRTY raise a much greater flag?
Summa, are you "in character" whenever you bash Nintendo like this? Are you like the Steven Colbert of gaming blogs? I find it hard to believe you could be this stupid.
I'm as big a Nintendo fanboy as anyone here. I'm also a gamer. Being both is becoming increasingly difficult.
As fun as those games were for a week I want some 'real' games now.
Did I just see a little 'wii praise' from summa? or is it soo late and after many hours of studying my eyes are playing tricks?
Can't get enough of N. When is Smash Brawl coming?