Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart - Kotaku Comments

Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart

WillSerenity — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:05:40 MST

Damn, and I was fully expecting FFIV to own the chart, but 2007 is the "Year of the Casual Game" in Japan. Personally, I'm on the edge of my seat for the US release. Take my favorite FF, add 75% more content, and it's almost better than sex ^_~.

I dunno who exactly said gameplay is FFs selling point. That's just wrong. Storyline is always the main selling point. Which works for me, personally. A game could play like crap, but if the story is good, I'll play it til the end.

Oh, if anyone's wondering, in the US 2007 was the "Year of the Shooter" xP

WillSerenity

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OT79 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:47:25 MST

@kftgr: @L_K_M: Well,that´s the real and sad trouble of the PSP,If you consult VGChartz this week numbers in Japon,you´re going to notice that the PSP sells very well,in fact just behind the Wii,with 175000 Hardware units,and only 121000 software units!!!Such a disgrace taking the number of hardware sold trough the week above of the software,it´s so sad,Patapon flopped terribly,the piracy and the Multimedia fact are killing the software sales,well,at least the system keep selling astounding.hope this low software sales don´t scare the 3 party producers.

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Krytha — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:38:44 MST

@kftgr: Only now, at the end, do you realize the truth, young jedi... Your precious patapon will sell miserably in Japan...

Krytha

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kftgr — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:09:25 MST

1 PS3
4 PS2 -- 1 in top 10 109K units
7 Wii -- 4 in top 10 517K units
18 DS -- 5 in top 10 880K units

0 360 -- not a surprise.
0 PSP -- WTF?!!

kftgr

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StarStabbedMoon — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:53:38 MST

Glad to see Mario Galaxy staying competitive near the top of the charts in Japan. I remember I was worried after its debut whether it would drop like some of the more traditional franchises over there. I'm personally hoping we can see some NSMB level of success for the game.

StarStabbedMoon

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mizzle — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:43:21 MST

@Jcnet: What exactly makes an "actual video game"?

Is it graphics? Goals? High Scores?

Newsflash, Wii Fit is an actual video game. And you are a moron.

mizzle

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LostToys — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:39:21 MST

@Dliu22:

Most people in Japan have downtime due to transit times. The DS is far more portable, pick up and play, and lasts a lot longer than the PSP.

It is not that surprising that the DS is doing so incredibly well in Japan.

LostToys

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PerswAsian — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:46:35 MST

I've been playing the import of Final Fantasy IV. There were some pretty significant changes to the gameplay. Cecil lost Dark, Rydia lost Titan early on, Yang's kick can now add status effects based on his claws (making Kick far more effective than before) and so forth. There's an automap on the bottom screen that rewards you for completing areas of the map 100%. The most important change, though, is that the game is significantly more difficult than ever before.

There's three things I don't like about the game, though:

1.) You can't skip voice acting. Going from Tales of Innocence to this game was a jarring change. This is only annoying because, well, I don't know Japanese.

2.) The character models aren't nearly as beautiful as the environment.

3.) The transition from 2D to 3D means that the thing I hate most about 3D games is now part of my 2nd favorite FF game. The game is slowed down to its original speed due to the scope of the maps... when you're using the run button.

PerswAsian

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gramblor — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:39:43 MST

@PatMan33: Oh man, I am right there with you PatMan33... Must get FF6 remake...

gramblor

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WasabiJoe — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:39:28 MST

Mario Party DS doesn't have playable DK, that's a kind of blasphemy! I don't care if he is in the game via the own board thing, if you're gonna have playable toad you should have DK as a character. Hmm, I didn't realize FF4 Ds is out as well.

WasabiJoe

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FanDam — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:15:52 MST

Yikes, five titles for non-Nintendo platforms.

@L_K_M, Re: Madden: Zing!

FanDam

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dgonchild — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:50:05 MST

About GT5:P, keep in mind it can also be downloaded via PSN, and those sales numbers arent included.

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Sugarbloodsuckers — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:28:39 MST

Square never remakes the games I'd actually want remade. No, I don't want FF VII remade. Though FFIV is a great game, so I'll probably contribute to their rehashing.

Sugarbloodsuckers

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L_K_M — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:23:36 MST

"The 30 top holiday games and there's only one for the PS3, and none for the 360."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's also no PSP game. What the hell? Hasn't the PSP been selling really well recently? Is everyone buying PSPs to hack them and play Nintendo games on them?

Jcnet angrily yelled: "There is no excuse other than bad taste / poor decision making skills for wii fit outselling [Galaxy[. Quite frankly it makes me lose faith in my planets humanity."

If that made you lose faith in humanity, I dare say you seem to be a bit of a moron. I mean, you could choose any number of reasons for losing faith. Wars, how we treat the environment, starving people in developing countries... But you chose the fact that last week, more people liked to exercise rather than play Mario Galaxy?

altgod claimed: "Japanese gamers are retards. They enjoy generic, cliche stories delivered to them in the form of rediculously monotonous games over and over again."

What, Madden is that big in Japan???

L_K_M

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Captain Fury — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:21:49 MST

I wonder how much downloads the Japanese Gran Turismo 5 P got...it is the cheaper version after all

Captain Fury

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PatMan33 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:21:18 MST

Don't make fun of Square-Enix's remake deal. If they keep it up it means that they'll remake FFVI eventually! And then maybe they'll remake FFVII! Although six VI is the most important one that needs to be remade.

PatMan33

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htd — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:40:40 MST

ps2 has the last bit of its life sucked out by some poor games, ps3 is barely alive and xbox360 is dead for the week.

wii shows how nintendo is the tomb for 3rd party games while ds actually shows, errr, how low the average IQ of human being is?

htd

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FP Bleentastic has cake — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:36:34 MST

@setuzoku: no it's the DS chart, the DS is it's own entity now in Japan

FP Bleentastic has cake

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lharoon — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:32:36 MST

You completely missed Nintendo's vision of making 'video games' more accessible to the mainstream JCNET if you wholeheartedly believe what you say. Nintendo WANT Wii Fit to sell more copies than Galaxy; they don't want to confine the video game medium to how it has been defined over the past thirty odd years. To them and the mainstream it's the follow up to Wii Sports - so I'm sure they're more than pleased with the chart turnout.

lharoon

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Witzbold — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:23:00 MST

@BassForever: Yeah thankfully Japan doesnt usually make bad movie cash-in games. Just bad anime cash-in games lol.

Witzbold

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koji — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:22:42 MST

maybe some Japanese dev needs to complain some more about them falling behind as game publishers, wonder why that is...

koji

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BassForever — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:21:40 MST

Atleast good casual games are selling in Japan, usually in America bad movie cash ins or lame sequels are top sellers.

BassForever

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Witzbold — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:20:09 MST

@Yin: Actually FFX was ok. FFX-2 was an embarassment.

Witzbold

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Yin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:19:04 MST

@altgod: I see your point. But Japan makes good gameplay-clones too. Fighting games and third person-action like Devil May Cry.
And I got more fun out of FFIX than any FPS released since FEAR(haven't played Halo 3 though). I don't know why, I thought it had a good story and good gameplay. FFX was embarassing, and since then I haven't played any FF, so I don't know if they suck now.
I just think all countries make equally boring games right now :/

Yin

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altgod — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:10:44 MST

@altgod:
Sorry. Suck as MANY balls. Balls can be individually counted. Odd time to be a grammer nazi...

altgod

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altgod — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:09:16 MST

@Yin:
Many American/European games do have very generic stories, but at least the stories aren't their main selling points. I refuse to believe that FF's gameplay is what has made it so popular. At times, there is no gameplay at all! Halo's story may suck just as much balls as any JRPG's, but that's not the point. The gameplay is. And it may not be the most original or well excecuted, but at least I can stay awake while I play it, and on occassion, have a little fun.

altgod

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zgnoud — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:59:27 MST

@caseypenk: actually nah case i did mean Final Fantasy 4DS haha, it really was a timeless classic (2D sprite) this one was a full 3D remake with voice acting. but yeah

zgnoud

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Yin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:57:01 MST

@Yin: Whoops, I but sportsgame inside of those arrow-thingies before 2008, but seems it got removed. Confusing.

Yin

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Yin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:56:14 MST

@altgod: American/European games doesn't have cliché stories and generic gameplay? Can't really think of anything innovative coming out around here, so I don't know what you're talking about... All I see is "generic FPS", "generic RTS", " 2008", "guitar game that is identical to old japanese guitar freaks", "boring RPG in generic fantasy world"... I think the whole game industry has gone a bit stale lately, defintely not just Japan.

Yin

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Witzbold — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:49:22 MST

@Kenofthedead: Yeah the new Prof Layton is excellent. Love the music and the art direction as much as the first one. Cept the 2nd is just so much better! Great stuff. Too bad its been snatched away from me by a friend but thats ok, way too many other games to play now anyways. ;D

Witzbold

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Kenofthedead — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:44:42 MST

Right, because the rest of the world buying the same sports games, repeated FPS, clones of others, and movie cash ins (how well did Spider-Man 3 sell again?) shows how much better those outside Japan are.

Got to love stereotypes and insults, it makes any argument that much weaker for it.

Anyroad, hopefully Prof. Layton and Pandora's Box stays up there for quite a while. Such a fun game, and hopefully one that spurs many more like it.

Kenofthedead

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altgod — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:42:49 MST

BTW, I actually like FF more than Dragon Quest. I've never finished a Dragon quest game, and I actually find them more boring than FF games. I do, however, cut them a little slack due to Toriyama being the head artist.

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altgod — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:38:18 MST

@caseypenk:
Because Japanese gamers are retards. They enjoy generic, cliche stories delivered to them in the form of rediculously monotonous games over and over again. Remember VII? Start fight with Emerald Weapon, put down controller for 30 minutes while you do something that's actually fun, come back, and you win! In fact, if you make a game that sells poorly in Japan, then you know that you have made an innovative and enjoyable game. Or you just made a shitty game. That is also a possibility, and in fact, is more likely than the previous scenario. But the fact that some good Japanese developers (Suda, Kojima) have started bashing their own country's games and praising western design philosophy really makes me happy.

altgod

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Jooptang — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:36:44 MST

I'm inventing a foot sink as a permanent fixture for houses. This is my invention. Don't steal it. Don't put your dirty grubs on my Wii fit.

Nintendo success makes me angry.

Jooptang

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Yin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:28:42 MST

@t0yrobo: Havn't Animal Crossing been on Japans list for like forever? I remember I thought it was funny how it was still up in the top 10, but that was like a year ago. It dropped a few spots, but being 25 after 2 years is still astounding. It must have sold an extreme amount of games.

Yin

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badasscat — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:27:26 MST

Other than Naruto, that is.

badasscat

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badasscat — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:26:54 MST

Pre-Christmas chart. I guess a lot of non-gamers buying mass market games that they've heard of as gifts.

Next week will probably be similar. Things will get back to "normal" around the second week in January, by which I mean I expect to see one or two non-Nintendo games in the top ten.

badasscat

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t0yrobo — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:58:13 MST

The number of older games in that list is pretty amazing. Animal Crossing is over 2 years old and it's still selling a lot.

t0yrobo

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Witzbold — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:50:55 MST

@Darthearl: Next week should be interesting since COD4 came out today.

Last week I dont recall anything new came out for the 360.

Witzbold

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tehFluffz — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:35:40 MST

I swear I'm moving to Japan and making a DS title.

tehFluffz

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Torusan — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:30:55 MST

Ha! I remember when everyone freaked out that SMG wasn't in the top ten the week of the release of... what games were they?

Torusan

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tomsamson — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:57:46 MST

hm, i already wonder for quite a while about japanese game development falling behind US/european studios (besides a few exceptions like Capcom most haven´t done that great on the now current gen systems up to now), now i also wonder more and more about what the japanese audience now prefers for a while.
Really seems they become more and more ultra casual or just generally going even more away from the sales figures in US and europe than before, i mean come on, mario party on ds is the best selling game,wtf?!?

tomsamson

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seventarch — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:34:27 MST

@caseypenk: Whoops, the last part is about Mario Galaxy. It's really too late to be doing this.

seventarch

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seventarch — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:33:23 MST

@zgnoud: I think you mean DQ, but nevertheless, I do give credit to Squeenix for remaking it in 3D... I want such a highly-praised and original game to reap the labor put into it.

seventarch

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k3nji — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:30:27 MST

With the amount of DS that are roaming the country. Somehow I wasn't really amazed by this week's chart. Seems like everyone in japan got a Mario Party DS game for christmas.

k3nji

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zgnoud — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:27:48 MST

@caseypenk: Actually this particular FF4 Remake happend to come out last week (20th) and also happens to be one of the better FF games in the franchise where Galaxy has been out since November - granted i really like how Galaxy have been developing legs like New Super Mario Bros

zgnoud

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Draconis — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:23:55 MST

Nintendo continues to own the charts and print money.

Draconis

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seventarch — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:23:19 MST

My heart jumped a little when I saw Dragon Quest IV with so few sales. The key part is IV, not IX. Speaking of which, how in the world does another Squeenix remake sell better than one of the most innovative games of the year, Galaxy?

seventarch

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photoboy — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:13:46 MST

Holy shit that's a lot of Nintendo in the charts. Even in the days of competing with the Megadrive and PC Engine I don't think Nintendo had this much chart dominance.

photoboy

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Jcnet — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:11:50 MST

Fail how? Last time I checked being right was not synonymous with failure.

There is no excuse other than bad taste / poor decision making skills for wii fit outselling an ACTUAL video game. Quite frankly it makes me lose faith in my planets humanity.

Jcnet

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shiwasu — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:08:42 MST

@Jcnet:

I can't tell if you're joking or not, but either way, you fail.

shiwasu

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Spooof — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:05:01 MST

@NitrousO: I`d say its just a game for the real fans of the series. The rest are probably waiting for the "full" game.

Spooof

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setuzoku — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:57:56 MST

CoD4 released for Japan today. I guess 60k for the week.

setuzoku

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Darthearl — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:51:27 MST

poor poor 360

Darthearl

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schtum — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:44:31 MST

@Jcnet: Suck on it, weenie!

schtum

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Jcnet — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:39:14 MST

WOW wii fit is outselling super mario galaxy.

I had no idea so many people in the world had god awful taste and the inability to make basic decisions... god help us all it seems us superior people that can make correct choices are forced to suffer the burden of those people forcing us to take care of them and handle all the things in their life they are too timid to handle.

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NitrousO — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:36:17 MST

@Rabidsquirrel: Either its a bad game (havent seen reviews yet) or they just aren't digging it which is strange since I thought that was one of their favorite franchises.

@Rabidsquirrel: I thought that too at first. I believe that was Gran Turismo 4: Prologue or at least thats the only one I can find on Metacritic.

NitrousO

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Rabidsquirrel — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:25:19 MST

@Rabidsquirrel: Wait! wasn't that also DLable from the PSN store? Wonder how many were DL'ed?

Rabidsquirrel

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Rabidsquirrel — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:24:30 MST

The drop off of GT5:P disturbs me just a tad.

Rabidsquirrel

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ErinIsADrunk — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:21:41 MST

Wii Fit is selling really consistently. It's been within the same unit sold range since it's release.

It is also very good to see Galaxy still charting and creeping towards a million.

ErinIsADrunk

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shiwasu — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:16:51 MST

Go Mario (Galaxy) go.

Looking at those Wii Fit sales make me laugh. I'm sure it has played a part in the sales of other Wii titles.

shiwasu

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Dliu22 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:16:12 MST

I'm convinced Japan is brainwashing their youth somehow with the DS to create some sort of "super army" When we get attacked by giant robots from Japan, they will be controlled by 100s of thousands of unsuspecting little children from Japan on their DS's. haha

Dliu22

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setuzoku — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:15:53 MST

Is this Nintendo's chart?

setuzoku

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BPMο — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:15:40 MST

Wow... GT5P dropped like a brick... Ouch.

On the plus side of things, Mario Galaxy has gone up to over 100k for the week.

I'm surprised Mario & Sonic is still up there... I still doubt Sega will get the 4 million they're hoping for, though.

BPMο

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Actaeus — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:11:53 MST

Rubbish? C'mon, you know you love some Mario Party.

Actaeus

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Kokuryukai — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:11:32 MST

Japan sure loves the DS!!!

Kokuryukai