New MediaCreate Console Numbers from Japan (April 2nd)

Originally posted by cloud345
Im a little confused...on chrono\'s list GCN is 42000....but on iron fist\'s list GCN is 34448.....wjo\'s is right?

Most likely Chrono\'s Nintendo numbers are more accurate.  Some sales trackers get information from more stores than other sales trackers, which is the case here.  Famitsu (my sales numbers) probably leaves some stores out of their tracking, while Chrono\'s numbers probably leaves less stores out.

bloomburg of course had to make a released...
who knows which is more accurate

In the week ended Sunday, Microsoft sold a little more than 4,300 Xboxes in Japan, while Sony\'s PlayStation 2 sales topped 100,000 and Nintendo\'s GameCube sales reached almost 25,000, according to Media Create Co., a Japanese research company

http://search.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=marketsquote99_news.ht&s=APKu3LRZVTWljcm9z

updated chart from famitsu



Click Here for my Chart

Bare in mind this data is 1 week before all the new data, bloomberg most closely releates to the famitsu data, so i\'ll create a 2nd chart incorporating that data.. it will be tempory until the famitsu data next week

check out the new japan chart.. the last week of data is from bloomberg which most closely relates to the famitsu data..

Click Here for the Newest Estimated Chart

ohh, and btw
at the request of a friend
I will be creating one post per month where I will summarize sales
the April post will start next week

Originally posted by Samwise
Not to put fuel on the fire, but Ironfist... I can\'t believe PS1 sold more than Xbox... but on the other hand it\'s dirt cheap so I guess that would be the reason.

Yeah it seems kind of stupid that consoles like the PS1 and handhelds like the GBA are viewed as being in direct competition with the PS2, X-box and GC. It\'s pretty obvious that these consoles are simply not in the same demographic, and that no one who wants a console is going to be satisfied with a GBA(not that there\'s anything wrong with it ); they\'re going to go buy a PS2 or Xbox or GC sooner or later.

Yeah it seems kind of stupid that consoles like the PS1 and handhelds like the GBA are viewed as being in direct competition with the PS2, X-box and GC.

you completly missed the point.

the xbox is selling so bad, that the psx, a console released 7+ years ago is beating the xbox.. the xbox to the japaneese does not even exist, there are no games in the top 50. Quite frankly it does not exisit.

I hate Famitsu charts... they\'re not real... I\'ve made another one in excel... download it, simple but better.

You are right about the Xbox not existing to the Japanese.  As many posts have pointed out earlier, the Japanese taste in regards to games is a bit screwy.  The Xbox doesn\'t even have a decent lineup here in the states at this time.  

Once again I went to a video game retailer hoping to add to my very small Xbox library and I ended up walking out with Twisted Metal Black ($19.99 new) and a PS2 memory card (I finally found another one!).  After pacing back and forth over the 10 foot section of Xbox games I didn\'t see one that caught my eye.  I thought to myself "Halo - check, PGR - check, Bloodwake - check and Blood Omen 2... damn I have all these!"  

I almost bought Ico, but I don\'t know much about it and besides I have been adding to my Turbo Duo/PCEngine collection - its sad, but I would rather buy old Duo games than a mediocre Xbox game.

Every system has its\' drought right after launch...and right now I\'d say they are all having one.  Looks to change this summer-fall...

I ended up purchasing a PS1 game yesterday...

Every system has its\' drought right after launch...and right now I\'d say they are all having one. Looks to change this summer-fall...

I\'m not having a problem right now,
I recently rented HSG3, that game was very good

and i\'m still catching up on last fall\'s titles, such as DMC
and now with the cheap 20 dollar best sellers, I might pick up one or two of them i\'ve yet to play also

giga, i would buy ICO over any other xbox game out there

i know about the turbo-duo fix tho, ive been playing book of y\'s and slaughterhouse 3 alot lately  

What\'s HSG3?

DMC was so good...

This little drought is actually good for me...I never owned a PS so I missed out on thoroughly(not just at a friends\' house) enjoying some older classics.

I recently bought PS2, so far I\'ve gone through Jak and Daxter, ICO, FFX, and Devil May Cry.  I tried SoE, MGS2, and GTA3...didn\'t appeal to me.

I bought FFIX yesterday and after that I will buy Chrono Cross.  Hopefully by the time I\'m done with those Evil Twin, Sega GT 2002, and Enclave will be out and I can start enjoying some next generation goodness...

HSG3 == Hot Shots Golf 3.  It sold over a million copies in Japan, but I don\'t think it\'s doing nearly that good here in America.

That\'s cause we have enough room on our countries to make and play on real golf courses, relatively inexpensively.  Japanese golf courses cost and arm and a leg (after dusk).