Media Create software sales (1/21 – 1/27)
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This week’s Japanese software sales are as follows:
01./02. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf #
02./01. [PS3] DmC: Devil May Cry
03./00. [PSP] Gintama no Sugoroku
04./00. [PSV] Demon Gaze
05./00. [3DS] Fantasy Life
06./00. [PSV] Genkai Totsuki Monster Monpiece #
07./00. [PS3] Kamisama to Unmei Kakumei no Paradox #
08./00. [PS3] Hitman: Absolution
09./03. [PSP] Digimon Adventure
10./04. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 #
11./05. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!)
12./06. [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go 2: Chrono Stone – Neppuu / Raimei
13./08. [3DS] Paper Mario: Sticker Star
14./12. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na Orb
15./09. [WIU] New Super Mario Bros. U
16./19. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Super Deluxe Edition #
17./07. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire!
18./15. [PS3] Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Dubbed Edition
19./10. [PS3] Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2 #
20./11. [WIU] Nintendo Land
Media Create hardware sales (1/21 – 1/27)
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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
3DS LL – 48,226
3DS – 26,898
PS3 – 18,322
Wii U – 13,746
PSP – 12,897
Vita – 9,748
Wii – 2,093
Xbox 360 – 611
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
3DS LL – 51,015
3DS – 30,840
PS3 – 19,697
Wii U – 16,654
PSP – 15,343
Vita – 9,036
Wii – 2,199
Xbox 360 – 706
Details from Nintendo’s third-quarter financial results
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Nintendo published its latest financial results earlier today. While Big N did return to profitability, it was forced to negatively revise forecasts.
Read on below for a summary of Nintendo’s latest financials. Note that each figure below accounts for sales received between April to December of last year.
– Net income of 14,545 million (around $159m)
– Net sales estimates for the full year revised down by 17.3%
– Wii U has sold 3.06 million units worldwide as of December 2012
– 1.32 million consoles sold in North America
– Another 900,000 units sold in Europe
– 830,000 systems sold in Japan
– Wii sold 3.53 million units from April to December
– Nintendo has previously stated that it aims to sell 5.5 million Wii Us before the end of March, but it has now revised this target to 4 million
– New estimate for game sales: 16 million as opposed to the original 24 million
– 11.69 million games have been sold thus far
– Best-selling Wii U launch game was Nintendo Land
– Nintendo Land sold 2.33 million units
– 3DS sales saw a big increase
– Software sales up 41% year-on-year
– Hardware sales up 11%
Disney still has the Epic Mickey IP
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With today’s Junction Point closure news, the Epic Mickey IP was left in limbo. Junction Point was the main maker of the two Epic Mickey games, but now the team is no more.
Disney has since confirmed that it has retained rights to the franchise. For now, however, the company has no plans the series’ future. This one will likely remain dormant for a very long time, if not forever.
Epic Mickey 2 lifetime sales actually at 529,000 units in the US
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Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two’s US sales have been clarified. Based on information provided by Disney and NPD, the game sold 529,000 units in November and December. We had previously heard that Disney moved just 270,000 copies, though that figure now appears to have been inaccurate.
Sales of Epic Mickey 2 along with Power of Illusion stand at 695,000 units up to the end of December. That should put the 3DS game at around 166,000 units sold in the US.
Lifetime Xbox 360 sales are set to pass lifetime Wii sales in the UK
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The Wii got off to a massive start (err– a four year long “start”) across the globe, but despite the sales lead it managed to procure it seems that sluggish sales of the console in 2011 and 2012 have allowed Microsoft’s competing Xbox to close the gap and prepare to surpass Nintendo in the coming months. According to Chart Track data, the Xbox 360 actually outsold the Wii 4 to 1 in 2012.
“The success of Microsoft and the Xbox 360 during the past two years highlights a radical changing of the guard in the game industry. Much has been made about a steady video game sales decline in the past three years. In reality the decline has mainly been due to the aging console systems and more importantly because of Nintendo’s collapse.” – DFC Intelligence, analysis firm
The real question now is whether the Wii U can perform even half as good as its predecessor.
Video: The Evolution of LEGO character design
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The video below gives another inside look into LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, along with past LEGO games:
GameStop ad (1/27 – 2/2)
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This week’s GameStop deals are as follows:
Note: The offers above are running concurrently with the standard weekly sales.
XSEED on its Wii support, Pandora’s Tower sales expectations, no Retro Game Challenge 2 for the eShop, more
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XSEED VP Ken Berry opened up on a number of interesting topics in an interview with Digital Trends. Berry discussed its support of Wii, its “deal” with Nintendo for The Last Story, the company’s sales expectations for Pandora’s Tower, and Retro Game Challenge 2 localization.
Sadly, XSEED has no plans to localize the DS title – nor will it consider an eShop release. The first game “was an incredibly expensive project”, but it didn’t sell well at all. As a result, XSEED can’t take a similar risk with Retro Game Challenge 2.
Head past the break to read up on all of Berry’s commentary.
No transferring of VC saves from Wii to Wii U
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So you have a bunch of Virtual Console lying on your Wii. Maybe you’ve already transferred them to a Wii U. Now, what happens if you wanted to transfer save data when the Wii U VC service officially launches this spring?
Unfortunately, Nintendo has confirmed that gamers won’t be able to transfer saves from the Wii’s Virtual Console to the Wii U’s Virtual Console. You’ll be able to “upgrade” Wii VC games sitting on your console to the Wii U version at a later date, but you’ll have to start over from the beginning.
