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Toy Story claimed a 3rd week at no 1 on Chart Track’s UK Software Sales chart this week, despite its sales dropping by 17% from last week. Three weeks at no 1 is a new record of success for a Disney published title. Meanwhile, Modern Warfare 2 is just one week away from overtaking Nintendo’s Brain Training and becoming the highest selling game ever in the UK, landing at 8 this week (down from 2 last week).
Nintendo Europe has unveiled an extensive release schedule detailing what games we can expect to see on the Wii and DS in the coming months, up to and including the third quarter of this calendar year (‘July to September’ to its friends).
Highlights of the list include… uh, let’s see here… Metroid: Other M, Dragon Quest IX, Last Window… maybe PES 2011, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock… perhaps Batman: The Brave and the Bold… possibly Def Jam Rapstar… I don’t know. I’m no psychic.
Pick your way through the list of Wii and DS games coming to Europe over the next few months below:
Nintendo has officially revealed European and US release dates for Square Enix’s industry-crushing DS game, Dragon Quest IX, or as it will be known in the West, Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies.
Square Enix has released its full fiscal year financial results for the 12 months ending March 31st, and things are looking good for the Japanese publishing giant, as sales rose 42 percent over the year previous, up to $2.07 billion (¥192 billion) as profits climbed 50 percent to $102.8 million (¥9.5 billion)
This record performance for the company was stewarded by excellent market performance by titles released last year, as five Square Enix games sold over one million units apiece, while Final Fantasy XIII sold over five million copies.
From sales data posted by Japanese Dengeki magazine and its parent firm, ASCII Media Works, it’s been revealed that Square Enix’s Dragon Quest IX on the DS is Japan’s top selling videogame for the period of December 29th 2008 to December 20th 2009, with sales of just over 4 million units.
Nintendo’s console dominance was extremely strong, with eight of the top ten best selling titles for 2009 showing up on the DS or Wii, with Final Fantasy XIII on the PS3 (selling 1.5 million units) and Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G on the PSP (selling 880 000 units) showing up at No. 6 and No. 9 respectively.
The thirty title strong list is likewise dominated by games releases on Nintendo’s consoles, with nineteen titles out of the list released on the Wii or DS.
Read through the full list of 2009’s top selling titles in Japan (with life-to-date sales in brackets) below:
According to joint data released by NPD, GfK Chart-Track and Enterbrain, the top three sales tracking companies with regards to videogames, Dragon Quest IX on the DS was the number one best selling game across the UK, the US and Japan in the third quarter of the year, despite only being available in Japan.
This data is contained in the companies’ joint Top Global Market report, which according to Edge Online, revealed a 15% increase in overall software sales during the third quarter in Japan, compared to a 20% decline during the same period last year.
Overall software sales in the US and UK during the third quarter (from July to September) saw a decline, however, down 19% in the UK and 9% in the US.
The report also detailed the remaining top five game sales for this period, which includes Halo 3: ODST, Wii Sports Resort, Madden NFL 10 and Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver, including sales figures for each title, which are as follows:
After debuting at number 1 on the Media Create Japanese Software Chart with 2.319 million copies last week, Dragon Quest IX has sold an impressive 613 000 copies in its second week on the chart. This brings life-to-date sales of the title to 2.932 million copies.
Konami’s Pro Yakyuu Spirits 6 for the PS3 enters the chart at number 2 with 74 000 copies while the PS2 version of the game debuts at number 5 with 50 000 copies. Wii Sports Resort slips one place to third with 72 000 copies while Tomodachi Collection (Friend Collection) for the DS also drops once spot to number 4 with 61 000 copies.
Dragon Quest IX sold 2.3 million copies in its launch week in Japan. Square Enix shipped 3 million copies at launch to make sure that gamers could get their hands on the latest addition to the hugely popular Dragon Quest franchise.
Since then the publisher’s president Yoichi Wada told Japanese press “We’re look at reaching over 5 million copies of Dragon Quest IX shipped” and that he hopes this will breathe life into the entire Japanese game industry which has been flagging this year.
As expected, the latest addition to the hugely popular Dragon Quest franchise shook some life back into the limp Japanese software sales when it launched across Japan this week. Dragon Quest IX: Defenders of the Starry Sky on the DS sold 2.319 million copies in its launch week. Bear in mind that since the game launched on the 11th of July, this massive total was reached in the just two days on sale.
According to Japan Game Charts, the sales of Dragon Quest IX’s are higher than its predecessor, Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King on the PS2 which was released back in 2004. Dragon Quest VIII sold 2.236 million in its opening week and went on to sell 3.5 million units in Japan alone. Analysts predict that based on these figures Dragon Quest IX could go on to reach 5 million units in Japan.
Citing sales data provided by parent company Enterbrain, popular games magazine (and website) Famitsu has reported that the latest addition to the Dragon Quest franchise, Dragon Quest IX on the Nintendo DS, has sold 2 343 440 units in its first two days on sale.
This figure covers both the launch of the game (Saturday, July 11th) and the following day (Sunday, July 12th), which together constitute the game’s ‘launch week.’
A wonderfully upbeat overview trailer for Dragon Quest IX has been released, and even if you don’t speak Japanese, you can sit back and enjoy seven minutes of in-game footage from the diminutive DS title, revealing an epic cast of enemies and characters from the game.
Also, for those of you living in Japan, expect Dragon Quest IX to release on July 11th in the region, as the producer on the game, Ryutaro Ichimura, recently said:
“The game is currently in production at the factories and on the 11th of July, you will definitely be able to get your hands on the game.”
Good news for Dragon Quest fans! Watch the seven minute overview trailer for Dragon Quest IX on the DS below:
It has been announced that Square Enix will delay the release of the DS-bound Dragon Quest IX, a delay that may affect the release date of their highly, highly anticipated RPG, Final Fantasy XIII.
In an investor call, Square Enix stated that, due to underperformance in some of their divisions, a major game release would be pushed back from March in Japan, until July 11th. That game has been revealed to be Dragon Quest IX for the DS.
While that news is bad enough, it was also revealed that this delay may negatively affect the release of Final Fantasy XIII. Square Enix president Yoichi Wada commented:
“There is a possibility that Dragon Quest IX delay could [affect] Final Fantasy XIII. The next term’s schedule has [not] been fixed yet. Presently, I cannot say what kind of effect we will experience from moving the Dragon Quest IX launch from March to July. I cannot say there won’t be an effect.”
A delay in Japan means a delay around the world. Here’s hoping the effects won’t be too disastrous.
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