Japanese hardware sales, Sept. 17 - Sept. 23: Crisis edition

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Sep 29th 2007 at 10:35AM }

It is with trembling hands and an overwhelming sense of insecurity (more so than usual) that we bring you this week's Japanese sales charts. It's as if someone flipped our world upside down, yanked the carpet off our heads and welcomed us to a zone where doors float in space and wild fantasies become startling truth.

What hath Square Enix and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII wrought?

- PSP: 277,794

182,307 (190.92%)
- DS Lite: 70,523

9,451 (11.82%)
- Wii: 24,992

1,189 (4.54%)
- PS2: 11,373

1,755 (13.37%)
- PS3: 10,732

2,369 (18.08%)
- Xbox 360: 1,687

444 (35.72%)
- Game Boy Micro: 243

471 (65.97%)
- GBA SP: 106

16 (13.11%)
- Gamecube: 68

29 (29.90%)
- GBA: 33

33 (N/A)
- DS Phat: 15 -- 0 (0.00%)

[Source: Media Create]

See: Previous Japanese hardware sales charts

Japanese hardware sales for Sept. 10 - Sept. 16

- PSP: 95,487

79,923 (513.51%)
- DS Lite: 79,974

2,486 (3.21%)
- Wii: 26,181

2,907 (9.99%)
- PS2: 13,128

232 (1.74%)
- PS3: 13,101

147 (1.11%)
- Xbox 360: 1,243

43 (3.34%)
- Game Boy Micro: 714

286 (66.28%)
- GBA SP: 122 -- 0 (0.00%)
- Gamecube: 97

15 (18.29%)
- DS Phat: 15

15 (N/A)
- GBA: 0 -- 0 (NA)

Tags: Crisis-Core, Final-Fantasy, Japanesehardwaresales

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)

Donald @ Sep 29th 2007 10:39AM

Status of jaw: THROUGH THE GODDAMN FLOOR

red_cobra @ Sep 29th 2007 11:34AM

Watch the language!

blooh (CDF - Ass Ring) @ Sep 29th 2007 3:44PM

what a fucking pussy

Fernando Rocker (NDF - Water Ring) @ Sep 29th 2007 10:40AM

Nintendo is relocating the Wii and DS from Japan to USA...

Nintendo said that this Christmas, here in USA, they are going to sell a lot of Wii, thanks to the relocation.

Thats why Nintendo is selling less systems in Japan.

danny. @ Sep 29th 2007 10:46AM

I'd agree if not for the post over at wiifanboy about the amount of stock in the Japanese stores...

Fernando Rocker (NDF - Water Ring) @ Sep 29th 2007 10:50AM

Wii's in America have been selling 30-40,000 more than normal the past few weeks. This number is 30-40,000 less than normal for Japan. Nintendo's making a push to close the gap on the 360 in America (particularly given Halo 3's launch), and will probably be within a million units or so by Christmas.

Nintendo is trying to stockpile for the Christmas season in America.

sheppy2.0 @ Sep 29th 2007 11:06AM

Dude, seriously. How do you get 30-40K a week in the US when no one else has that data. NPD data hasn't even dropped yet. I mean, if you're going to make shit up, at least make it feasible.

A. There is no possible way whatsoever that there is only 30,000 Wiis to be bought in the entire of Japan. Even CheapyD of the CAG, a man living in Tokyo, has said the Wii's are much easier to find now right along with the DS's. AKA, demand has been met.

B. Wii's are common in the US as well. Seriously, when I was shopping thursday for Halloween, Best Buy had em, Target had em, Meijers had em... in other words, they are findable in the states. For the time being anyway.

Just admit it, it's been a "not quite so stellar week" but still a far cry from failure. Fucks sake, billy, this will still be an over 100K month for Wii in Japan.

LaughingTarget @ Sep 29th 2007 12:26PM

You could attribute the DS's slowing sales to the fact that almost everyone in Japan has one at this point.

As for the Wii, there just isn't any software available right now making it worth buying (same goes for the rest of the units, thus them being lower). The PSP just happens to have something worth playing (finally).

Fernando Rocker (NDF - Water Ring) @ Sep 29th 2007 11:12AM

Well sheppy, killjebus and curmeo

Im going to save this thread on my favorites, and wait the time (by november, december) when I can use your post so you can eat your words. And believe, you three will eat your words.

plyx @ Sep 29th 2007 11:13AM

The wiik is going down, just face it.

Brandon @ Sep 29th 2007 11:18AM

I seriously don't buy that. The DS hasnt had shaky supply in japan for over a year, and even if the wii and DS were selling their past awesome numbers, they still would be number 2 and 3 this week due to PSP sales.

bm @ Sep 29th 2007 11:29AM

Yeah, Wii supplies have nothing to do with PSP sales numbers.

sheppy2.0 @ Sep 29th 2007 11:30AM

Dude, save it. Print it. Rub it against your genitals. Put it on your favorites and somehow make it show up on my devart account. I don't care. Because you lack the ability to UNDERSTAND what you read. Where exactly did I say this system is failing or somehow demand won't increase as we get closer the christmas? Where did I say there's no way Mario won't move systems? And more importantly, where did you get your numbers when no even video game analysts, who pay more money than you make in a month, for a single report, are still in the dark on any sales figures since September 1st? If you're going to bring this thread back to life to somehow make us eat our words, certainly you must admit that you'd be exposing lies of your own. So I am amused for the future.

Now, given that Wii hasn't had any big drops in Japan recently and the thing you failed to notice is, despite FFVII and MGSPO+ being top tops in software sales charts, majority of the list is still dominated by Nintendo. This isn't a sign of system failure but rather a sign of the PSP regaining some momentum in Japan, their weakest region. Wii demand, and Nintendo DS demand, for right now, has been largely met. They're common now, which is a good thing because people who have been waiting on the system until they could commonly find the fuckers will no longer wait and that's more userbase.

ill trooper @ Sep 29th 2007 12:31PM

Fernando declares: "SAVE THE THREAD!"

Ok, we will, I guess. That can cut both ways though, Fernando. Should be an action-packed holidy season, both for the companies involved as well as these comments sections...

Flying Spaghetti Monster @ Sep 29th 2007 1:18PM

What will you prove even if your right? Do you own stock in Nintendo?
Stop being such an assclown.
And stop preaching about your false God.
Your preaching about your false God offends me.

Praise be the FSM
Praise be the Beer Volcano
Praise be the Stripper Factory

Kye (NDF - Earth Ring) @ Sep 29th 2007 7:14PM

I literally recoiled when I saw what was at the top of the list.

I need to go lay down.

NDF: PANIC!

J-Spot @ Sep 29th 2007 10:47AM

Damn, the Japanese love them some Final Fantasy, even if it is a crappy spin-off game. Sony needs to lean on Square to get XIII out for PS3 ASAP.

KiraXD @ Sep 29th 2007 11:47AM

apparently that crappy spin-off isnt crappy at all...
so says sales and reviewers

Egster @ Sep 29th 2007 12:37PM

Crysis Core crappy? And rushing them to get FF13 out on PS3 faster will make the game so much better.

Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Sep 29th 2007 4:13PM

Sales numbers and review scores a gamer trusts not.

Spiza @ Sep 30th 2007 12:02AM

Just look at Halo.

Killjebus @ Sep 29th 2007 10:53AM

Well, well, well. Could it be that the Japanese still like Sony?
This all but confirms that once MGS4, and GT5, and oh....that other little game...something about a fantasy or something final maybe...I dunno I cannot seem to remember at the moment. Oh wait...I got it, Final Fantasy.

The sales of the PS3 WILL go thru the roof when these games come out, AND the price will be cheaper.

Patience, that's what Sony has. This console "War" is far from over. Sony has been thru it's Fredericksburg and sometime during 2008, Sony will have it's Gettysburg.

blooh (CDF - Ass Ring) @ Sep 29th 2007 1:57PM

i can't wait for sony's "picket's charge"

cmon microsoft, defend little big horn!

jsn @ Sep 29th 2007 4:06PM

price is key. A game will sell hardware when it costs $169. A game, or a couple of games, don't sell hardware when it's $499+.

NintendoFanbot @ Sep 29th 2007 10:54AM

FINAL FANTASY VII WHY WONT YOU DIE

I keed

maybe

Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Sep 30th 2007 7:34AM

FFVII was just an FFVI and an FFI duct-taped to... sorry... or am I?

Mr. P @ Sep 29th 2007 10:56AM

Holy shit @ PSP sales after the new FF. I see this happening with PS3 at the following releases: GT5, MGS4, and FF13. By that time, the only thing to look forward to on 360 will be... wait, the Halo trilogy is over! Hmm...

Leo @ Sep 29th 2007 5:50PM

That's what I've been thinking for months.

Wii, what you got?

josh @ Sep 29th 2007 6:02PM

mass effect is the 360 game im most interested in, more than halo

sheppy2.0 @ Sep 29th 2007 10:56AM

Umm, this is also thanks to the PSP-2000s as well. And Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops Plus. Basically, it's new breath in PSPs weakest region.

Killjebus @ Sep 29th 2007 10:58AM

Fernando, pull your 80's Rock Band hair from your eyes and read what danny said.

The Wii has been in ample supply in Japan for over a month. It has NOTHING to do with Nintendo allocating product to America. First of all, the systems are different, second....LOOK at the pictures of Wii systems on store shelves all over Japan.

The Wii craze is dying down, the Japanese people who want the Wii HAVE the Wii. Sure, sales will spike when the Mario games come out....but really, what is left for them on the Wii when Sony has it's biggest guns yet to deploy on the battlefield.

Fredricksburg Fredricksburg!!!! Sony chants as Nintendo runs away. (coming sometime in 2008)

Fernando Rocker (NDF - Water Ring) @ Sep 29th 2007 11:03AM

I dont trust in atheist words.

NintendoFanbot @ Sep 29th 2007 11:10AM

"but really, what is left for them on the Wii when Sony has it's biggest guns yet to deploy on the battlefield."

Hey Nintendo you're boned,
Sony's got Kill-zone.

sheppy2.0 @ Sep 29th 2007 11:13AM

Wow, that's a scummish bastard thing to say. Someone present facts and your insult their religion. Granted, this is likely Godisamyth and thus turnabout can be fair play, but you pretty much called all atheists untrustworthy. It's like me calling all catholics little boy fuckers. Not very nice, is it?

So let's debate the facts and not the religion. Let's keep the republican angle out of this.

Fernando Rocker (NDF - Water Ring) @ Sep 29th 2007 11:18AM

Well sheppy

If he can have an avatar that insult the Bible, which is God's direct words, then I can say that I dont trust in atheists.

Killjebus @ Sep 29th 2007 11:20AM

Thank you Sheppy for pointing out his hypocracy. The double standard never ceases to amaze me. And the funny thing is...they do not even realize they are doing it.

bm @ Sep 29th 2007 11:32AM

Godisamyth, you are just as bad as Fernando. You two deserve each other. ;)

mr nimblewick (SegaDF - Jogurt Ring) @ Sep 29th 2007 11:34AM

So, you are denying nintendo's big guns and saying only sony has good stuff to release?

Come on. The Wii is consistently outselling the PS3, and while the PS3 will have weeks just like the PSP is having, it's not going to be a new trend.

sheppy2.0 @ Sep 29th 2007 11:43AM

Actually, KillJebus, it's people like you that has kept me from joining your side as well. Let's put it this way and for all so that my apparent taking of sides is not misunderstood.

The one never represents the whole. What does this mean? Not all atheists are like KillJebus (and incidently, I noticed you, Fernando, conveniently ignored the fact that he was attacking the muslim faith as well with that avatar. It's okay, slap on those blinders. Only christians are attacked by him. What do I expect from someone who thinks the Bible is a Diary from god). In fact, some are quite pleasant. It's just that HE'S an asshat majority of the time. So he does NOT represent the whole of that faith.

Just as the Klu Klux Klan, a Christian Organization, does not represent the entire faith of christians. How could they? So when someone comes up to me and says "I'm Christian," I'm not going to tell them to go back to David Duke and lick the german mud off of his Nazi antique boots. KKK does not represent the whole of the christian faith.

But truth be told, for every asshat like KillJebus in one side, there's someone just as bad in the other. And then people wonder why I just stay out of the entire affair. I'll let you idiots go to war, and I'll loot the bodies.

BPM (FDF - Hypno-Toad) @ Sep 29th 2007 12:05PM

Although I hate discussing religion (because I personally believe that noone is right and noone is wrong), I will say this: Assholes like Killjebus are NOT like what all Atheists are like. A couple of my online and offline friends and Atheists. And you know what? They're bad enough dudes to rescue the president!

It doesn't matter how "right" you think you are, or how "wrong" you think everyone else is. The only truth is we do not know what is beyond this mortal realm. Is there an afterlife, or nothingness? Reincarnation? God? Satan? Heaven? Hell? Purgatory? We don't know, and we can't know.
That's why religion is called FAITH and not FACTS. It's what we BELIEVE in, not what we KNOW.

And the important thing is tolerance and acceptable of the beliefs of others.

Sheppy, you shouldn't let the assholes of the world determine which faith you believe in. You should believe in what you want, and not be afraid of association to the idiots (extremists) of that belief. When I speak with my Atheists friends, I don't think of people like Killjebus. Just because I'm Catholic, I don't associate myself with intolerant punks like Fernando, either.
Just because you may be "part" of a "group," doesn't mean you have to be exactly like the rest.

And... um.... My train of thought derailed. Dang.

melloncollie @ Sep 29th 2007 2:22PM

I mean no organized religion. No -ist at all. No thought of the supernatural. More so empirical. All judgment, gauge, thought would be based on the physical. Of course this is all impossible as humans, for some reason, feel the absolute need to create or follow the supernatural. Humans feel that there must exist something that is entirely inexplainable.

Brad Lee @ Sep 29th 2007 3:42PM

@ Sheppy

Ahh yes, but even if you try to stay out of it, there's no guarentee you won't get killed in the crossfire.

@ Fernando

I thought the teachings of Jesus say you're supposed to accept others and turn the other cheek.

Or are you one of those "condemn the nonbelievers!" religions nutsos.

@ Killjeebus

You're really not doing much more than the religious extremists. You're on one side screaming "THERE IS NO GOD" and he's on the other side screaming "YES THERE IS." And nobody really gets anything out of it. Why waste the energy?

@ melloncholie

Maybe that's because we're not robots. No amount of empirical evidence is going to tell me the meaning of life. For something so abstract as that, you really have to turn to art, philosophy, and, unfortunately for many, religion.

Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Sep 30th 2007 7:54AM

Damn I missed a good old-fashioned religious battle here. Anyway, don't worry about KillJebus. I think his avatar's a little cute and funny, but very offensive to many, which is part of why it's cute and funny, but don't let him be your advertisement for atheism. I'm the baddest atheist there is. I don't need to attack religious folks on the internet 'cuz I ALREADY rescued the president and had pizza with him. And I don't even like the president. Or pizza. I'm just that bad of a dude. Besides, my NDF allegiance overrides my allied atheist allegiance. I'd rather play Nintendo with a Catholic boy-fucker than troll internet forums with a jackass atheist.

It's very easy to not believe in G-d and still be a good person. For example, I believe in David Bowie and Nintendo instead. They are the wind beneath my zings.

Hey Fernando, I heard you might be in the market for a new NDF weapon? I've been working on a new one and it needs a home. It's made out of 10 Game Boy Micros, duct tape, and a Zolan lazer (borrowed from the Zolan Defense Force). I call it the Game Boy Macross.

BPM (FDF - Hypno-Toad) @ Oct 1st 2007 1:05AM

Rubang, I'd like to buy you a drink. For referencing my Bad Dudes reference, AND making a South Park reference. You're cool in my books.

Curmeo @ Sep 29th 2007 11:02AM

PSP outsells DS for the second week in a row now. something tells me its gonna remain like this for quite a while: the redesign plus the new awesome games that are coming out.

Phoenixxx1974 @ Sep 29th 2007 11:30AM

just wait until Dragon Quest 9 comes out on the DS. It makes final fantasy look like the xbox over there hehe. FF is huge but DQ destroys everything there was even that story, it may be urban legand or a joke but that tells you how big it is, the goverment asked S-E not to release DQ during the week because everyone takes off work haha. Kinda like halo was here.

Plus the DQ is so far ahead i am thought this was cool to give it some competitions which we haven't seen since it's release.

The Wii will explode again when Galaxy and Brawl come out.