Dogs and Cats Living together? Halo 3 no. 1 in Japan.

Abooie · 4 Oct 2007 at 08:25

The Japanese Media Create Sales 9/24 - 9/30 are out and a 360 game has found itself on top.

01./--. [360] Halo 3 - 59,000 / NEW
02./03. [DS] Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Toki - 55,000 / 440,000
03./01. [PSP] Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII - 54,000 / 649,000
04./--. [DS] Tamagotchi Petit Petit Omisecchi Minasankyu! - 54,000 / NEW
05./04. [DS] Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Yami - 46,000 / 389,000
06./--. [PS2] Bleach Blade Battlers 2nd - 31,000 / NEW
07./--. [DS] English Test 2 - 28,000 / NEW
08./--. [PSP] Yugioh Duel Monsters GX - 28,000 / NEW
09./--. [PS3] Oblivion - 27,000 / NEW
10./02. [PSP] Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops+ - 25,000 / 119,000

Not only has it done the impossible and got to no.1 but reports are flooding in that it's widely sold out so may even do quite well next week.

The hardware numbers are out tonight and will make for an interesting read. (Last week saw the 360 sell 1,687 compared to 10,732 PS3s and 24,992 Wiis).

msmalls74 · 4 Oct 2007 at 08:48

Not bad for Halo 3 at all, some places have it third behind FF crisis core and the 2 new pokemon games (counted as one), looks like the 360 sales went up 198% to 5000+ which is great for the 360. If you compare this to the Blue dragon launch though its no where near as good, Blue dragon sold 83K and was third top was Gundam with 330K sales ( compared with 50-65K for the number 1 spot this week), but most impressive was the 748% increase :eek:

in 360 sales to nearly 38 K!!! This shows why Microsoft want good JRPGs in Japan they push software and hardware more than any other Genre (well apart from looking after dogs, little creatures and brain training).

KNiVES · 4 Oct 2007 at 10:31

It's pretty funny, sales more than tripled for the 360, but it's still only like 1000 extra

Kreeeee · 4 Oct 2007 at 10:36

MS will never truly break Japan, things will be back to normal after 2 weeks.

KNiVES · 4 Oct 2007 at 10:40

The sad thing is, MS spent far more money on distantly third place Japan than close second place Europe. They have their priorities totally screwed up.

Kreeeee · 4 Oct 2007 at 10:43

KNiVES said:
The sad thing is, MS spent far more money on distantly third place Japan than close second place Europe. They have their priorities totally screwed up.

Show me a games company that doesn't?

Abooie · 4 Oct 2007 at 10:50

KNiVES said:
The sad thing is, MS spent far more money on distantly third place Japan than close second place Europe. They have their priorities totally screwed up.

Totally agree. MS are supposably putting more effort into Europe but as far as I can see it's business as usual. I watched the Man Utd Roma game on ITV on Tuesday. As well as a lot of Playstation adverts around the ground there was a Fifa 08 advert for PS2/PS3 and a Heavenly Sword advert in the first break. No Halo 3, no Fifa 08 for the 360.

t@xman · 4 Oct 2007 at 10:59

That must be almost every single 360 owner in Japan buying this game, which is kinda comedy gold in it's own way!

NokkonWud · 4 Oct 2007 at 11:53

smcshaw said:
Totally agree. MS are supposably putting more effort into Europe but as far as I can see it's business as usual. I watched the Man Utd Roma game on ITV on Tuesday. As well as a lot of Playstation adverts around the ground there was a Fifa 08 advert for PS2/PS3 and a Heavenly Sword advert in the first break. No Halo 3, no Fifa 08 for the 360.

But just you wait for Christmas adverts. I'd hazard you'll get at least one 360 advert every other break.

KNiVES · 4 Oct 2007 at 11:54

Kreeeee said:
Show me a games company that doesn't?

Nintendo

NokkonWud · 4 Oct 2007 at 11:57

KNiVES said:
Nintendo

Quite true. They give us nothing

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I'm still sore on the whole Paper Mario thing.

rp2000 · 4 Oct 2007 at 12:16

NokkonWud said:
But just you wait for Christmas adverts. I'd hazard you'll get at least one 360 advert every other break.

Plus there are a lot of 360/ps3 and especially Halo adverts at cinemas now in the trailers section (I saw a film last week and got a Heavenly Sword advert and 3 Halo 3adverts!!). By xmas it will be fever pitch and I will hear that stupid 360 swishy sound at the end of the advert (it's almost as annoying as those intel inside jingles!!!).

rp2000

Mr Men · 4 Oct 2007 at 12:36

Pretty impressive considering the Japanese really don't do FPS

SiD the Turtle · 4 Oct 2007 at 12:48

MS went nuts on advertising last year at Christmas. I remember every page of the metro having an ad once.

Drukk · 4 Oct 2007 at 12:51

NokkonWud said:
Quite true. They give us nothing .
I'm still sore on the whole Paper Mario thing.

What was the paper mario incident?

Nismo · 4 Oct 2007 at 12:53

Drukk said:
What was the paper mario incident?

Probably the fact we got it several months after the US did, for no apparent reason.

TheNumber42 · 4 Oct 2007 at 13:05

Japan, while still a very important market, is nowhere near as important as it used to be. Arguably a bigger and more lucrative market at the moment is Europe.

MS don't need to break Japan to make money... would be nice for them though

mmj_uk · 4 Oct 2007 at 18:46

TheNumber42 said:
Japan, while still a very important market, is nowhere near as important as it used to be. Arguably a bigger and more lucrative market at the moment is Europe.

MS don't need to break Japan to make money... would be nice for them though

Are you sure?

2005: $485 million loss
2006: $1.26 billion loss
2007: $1.89 billion loss

Looks like they need to break into neighbouring galaxies.

Do you know many other companies who would still be in the market today after making a $3-4b loss?

TheNumber42 · 4 Oct 2007 at 19:28

Hehe exactly, MS certainly don't need the cash

They're definitely playing the 'long game' on this one. I'm not saying that they shouldn't or don't want to break into the Japanese market, I'm merely saying it's not as important as it used to be.

Smit · 4 Oct 2007 at 20:43

I imagine that quite a few Xbox 360s will be sold in the christmas rush in Japan, ONLY if Lost Odyssey is released on time (I still think it's due early December)