Reporting the top 50 best-selling games in Japan last week, GR says: "My friend assured me that LittleBigPlanet would match the Vita selling power of Hatsune Miku in Japan. I doubted this, and told him as much. I would have loved to see some news proving me wrong -- to see LBP top the sales charts with 200,000 copies sold in its first week. I didn't see that. What I did see in this sales chart for the week of Sept. 17th through Sept. 23rd, was Square Enix making more dough off of ports, and LittleBigPlanet selling less than 6,000 copies. In the great majority of cases, software sees about a 50-70% drop in sales from week on to week two in Japan, so that means that after two weeks on the market, all signs are pointing to this outstanding game shifting less that 10,000 units in Japan. As usual, all results below are via Media Create."
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i prefer buying ps3 games , then after i'm finished with them i will buy vita games just like how i bought the vita.
I think sony really isn't appealing to the Japanese when it comes to the vita. They are going for the western crowd with Assassins Creed and Cod, Killzone, etc, and they really dropped the ball with COD... AC looks amazing though
The vita is capable of great things... I mean if Ubi could bring AnvilNEXT onto vita, other devs can also do great things
Its not really surprising it's not doing well in Japan... but its still a damn shame
Honestly if Capcom supported the vita, as well as they do the 3ds... the vita would sell better in Japan.
Sony needs to bring their A game, and provide games that make people want to buy it.
Nintendo can pretty much have a Mario/Zelda, and their systems will do well due to the sheer strength of their IPs, but they are getting great third party support from Sqaure (KH3d) and really a lot from Capcom.
Sony needs to do more... they need to get the games the Japanese gamers are interested in. Not COD, or Assassins Creed. Monster Hunter, Resident Evil... watch RE6 sell very well in Japan
Sony needs Capcom support for Japan, because how Capcom is treating the vita is abysmal at best
3DS
Street Fighter 4 HD
RE Revelations
Monster Hunter 4
Pheonix Wright 5
Pheonix Wright vs Prof Layton
Vita
UMVC3 remake
Street FighterXTekken remake
Sony needs to stop advertising the vita as something that will compete with the wiiU, and instead focus on bringing more games to the platform. There are lots of new IPs, and they need to advertise those, Soul Sacrifice, keep advertising that in Japan, and make sure everyone knows Keiji Inafune is working on it... bundle it in Japan, and it will do well
It really is a shame... AC: Liberation is the only vita game Im looking forward to this year, (my excitement for PSABR was stunted because of no more new characters)
Its a great handheld, and it deserves sales... sony just has no idea what they are doing with it
They need to take a page from nintendo's book, and bring the games that will attract people to their console
Nintendo knows what they are doing... sony has no clue
And to me.. thats frustrating as hell
Sad :c
But I bought a vita a week ago and brought it to my high school and i convinced 5 people to buy it just from seeing it.If more people got it they would realize its amazing
Agreed for the most part. Super Street Fighter 4 is rather "SD" not HD, and just like the two Vita games, it's also a port.
I do want to make a comment about you mentioning PSASBR, though. They stopped announcing characters, yeah, but how many new fighting game franchises start out with 20 characters or more? Other than Rival Schools and King of Fighters, I don't think there are any.
You have to think. There's always potential to bring out a sequel to a series, especially a fighting game series. If they were to add all first party characters and third party characters everyone is interested in in one go, then there's no future potential to make a sequel, so no more money. Also the more characters, the more time it takes to balance the gameplay.
The only thing I'm pissed off is third party characters at all. The only four third party characters introduced are nothing more than advertising. I would have rather had no third party characters at all, so just 16 characters for the first game, rather than being lied to about how they'll consider getting fan favorite third party characters in the roster and it didn't happen.
I'm still getting thet game though. After playing the beta it sold me on the game.
It's at #17 out of 50. That's not bad at all, considering it is the TOP Western handheld game sold on the list.
And while LBP games in general don't have the highest numbers in JP, I expect to see it do better worldwide.
On another note, while the fanbase in Japan is smaller, they've also made some of the best levels in the LBP community.
Lower the price of the Vita games sony, from the launch, and you'll see them fly from the shelves. Launch games between €15 to €25 and then we can talk.
Seeing games on the PS Store being sold at €40 for the Vita makes me go crazy. It's not just PR's that need lay off's, it's almost the entire structure, the problem comes from way above not under.
I love Sony and the PS3, but the Vita is just a weird console. Not only does it have some odd design choices and stupid proprietary crap all over it. The games choices are 1)way too expensive, even with cross buy announced and 2) seem to have been chosen by somebody who has no idea of the concept of portable gaming.
Did they not even stop to think about WHY games like Temple Run on the iPhone got so popular?
I mean for me, I have a PS3 and TV in my room, so I am never going to want to sit there and play KillZone, Uncharted or even LBP on a small portable screen when I can play them in 3D on a proper TV with proper controls.
It seems to just be a PS3 that you hold in front of your face, it needs games that I can quickly jump into and play on the train journey I take every day, not to mention the whole unit is just bulky.
That is my take on it anyway - I honestly feel like they tried to do too much with the Vita and lost their direction with it in the end. I hope they bring out a redesigned model sooner rather than later...
To be fair I imagine that their new IP on the Vita will be more popular in Japan.
No one questions why Halo doesn't sell well in Japan either. Regardless of marketing they're not interested in heavily-westernised products, typically.
Making changes to the JP version of the game might help, removing Steven Fry and replacing him with someone Japanese people can relate to would be a good start.
It's nothing to do with luck.
Also, you are blatantly trolling. Maybe the mods won't turn a blind eye this time.
Don't own the game myself, but I hear it's good.
That's not bad at all, considering it is the TOP Western handheld game sold on the list.
And while LBP games in general don't have the highest numbers in JP, I expect to see it do better worldwide.
On another note, while the fanbase in Japan is smaller, they've also made some of the best levels in the LBP community.
The first LBP was the only game to well on it first week on sale in Japan.
Of course, don't let that stop you from running a negative headline. You could have just as easily pointed out that the number one game in Japan is Final Fantasy 3 on the PSP, which is pretty incredible when you think about it, or the staying power of Super Mario Bros 2 on the 3DS. But hey, why not run a headline about a game that traditionally does nothing in Japan still doing nothing in Japan. To each his own.
matter of fact here's a clear example:
http://vita.lbp.me/v/qyme
Was LBP a hit in Japan? I mean if it wasn't then I don't see why the Vita version would be too.
So we won't know how it did over here for a while.
And LBP's first games ranked high up, but none following it (Not even the PSP) game ever ranked in.
Sad to see such a great franchise not do well with sales.
No that isn't it at all. Look at how many mario games we've had in the past 3 years and look at how well each one sells. Japan just hates LBP is all.
Once the sugar high worn off you had a mediocre franchise that received high meta score more for daring to be differnt vs the actual game IMO.
That's not fatigue; Japan has just never really been interested.
As for "mediocre," there's no one on this site that would take the opinion of an anti-Sony troll on a Sony-only franchise.
For me i would be happy for sony to drop a few ips to help push the ones like lbp to help people know about the games as belive it or not i would say only around 10% of the console market is core and the rest is just normal people who play games they see pushed at them on the tv ect.
I do hope lbp vita sells well in the usa and Europe though as i got the game yesterday and im really enjoying it so far.
I think you have that confused with Halo Combat Anniversary Evolved. It received a 97 on metacritic when the original first came out yet when it was completely REMADE with a different engine, lighting etc. It got like an 82. lmao. Hell, even when God of War, and ICO/Shadow of the Colossus was re released. (And was barely even touched) They both received a 91 and a 92.
Talk about people realizing that the first Halo: CE was a big total average pile of meh.
Too bad the rest of the Halo's only sell well from hype alone (Similar to Call of Duty) instead of actual quality. That's life I guess. :/
i have to refer you to this site my good sir.
as you can see they have a approxiamte sale of 10 million units. i wouldn't say that's bad at all. Ofcourse if you have a better source with other figures that could show me that i am wrong please point it out to me
No hype was found of this game from Sony.
They need more marketing people.
This pretty much. I've never played a ME game, I don't know the quality of that game, just heard the ending is horrible.
XD
" I honestly believe that this game would sell a lot better on the Xbox 360 just because of the great online infrastructure that is Xbox Live."
1/it would not be the same game (graphisms, etc)
2/ms online infrastructure has nothing more than ps3's one for lbp..
3/XBL =/= USER CONTENT (lbp, impossible)
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Those xenophobic Japanese grrrr!
games like dragon quest and okami might not set the west , and games like shooters wont do well in japan.
it's not that they hate western games, its just most games from the west don't fit their style. it would be like somebody trying to sell me hip hop/rapper clothes. not my style, so i won't buy.
It doesn't have anything to do with the internet structure.
The games that sell best on the 360 are shooters, RPG's and sports games. XBox 360 owners don't care about platformers.
@ Tito08
Actually the 360 sells more RPG's than the PS3. And it sells equally as many adventure games as the PS3.
Since around 2009, there have been just as many PS3 games that outsell the 360 versions.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, L.A. Noire, FFXIII, Star Ocean IV, Batman: Arkham Ayslum and more.
Essentially, most games that aren't shooters sell better on PS3.
Tales of Vesperia released in every region for 360, while the PS3 version released only in Japan, the Japan PS3 version outsold the 360 version, & I would bet anything it would have outsold it if it was released in every other region, even Eternal Sonata PS3 outsold its 360 counterpart. FF13-2 alone outsold both versions of FF13 & 13-2, both Star Ocean & Tales of Vesperia looked like it sold more on 360, but the PS3 versions released a full year after it released on 360, in the case of FF, it didn't equally sold on 360 compared to PS3... The RPG genre is mostly a PS thing, just like Xbox is for shooters. Maybe Western RPGs sell more on 360, while JRPGs on PS3, maybe that.
It might sell Adventure games a bit equally as PS3, but not as more, cause Dante's Inferno, Castlevania, Devil May Cry 4, Resident Evil, Vanquish, Ninja Gaiden 3 that released at the same time on both, & Bayonetta with it's poor PS3 port, have sold more on PS3, I know exactly what I'm talking about.
If this was true, then way is it that the highest selling games in the west, on the 3DS, coming from Japan?
"Japan doesnt like anything westerners release.."
Ummm... they loved Skyrim, and that comes from western developers!
Westerners loved Kingdom Hearts and RE: Revelations!
I will be getting a Vita soon but am still not convinced that it's a must-have handheld. I've played with one for several hours and am constantly being bugged by my cousin to get one. I like all the features and flashy graphics but still don't have that urge that tells me to get up, and go get one now. Guess I'll have to keep waiting until that happens. Till then, happy gaming everyone...
very well said and couldn't agree more
*i wont say xenophobia but more like that japan have very different tastes than the west, and vice versa.
I live in the west and believe or not i prefer Japanese game's 99% of the time over games in the west.
Seriously, this is my favorite LBP title!!! It's definitely a 10/10! I would recommend this and Gravity Rush to any and all potential Vita owners.
Japan doesnt like hardly any Western games or even Japanese games on Western consoles. They rarely buy anything from outside their nation except something trendy like an iphone maybe. Different world over there.
Good thing sales don't matter.
All of the shops still have the older games for the vita though, such as Ninja Gaiden and UMVC. I suppose due to the low sell through of those titles retailers aren't exactly doing their best to bring out new ones to the market. There needs to be more of a push to penetrate the Asian (well, Malaysian) market, but that adds to production costs...
Looks like it's a digital LBP for me if I can't find one..
Off course, Japan have good taste in games... DUH!