GT5: Prologue sells 50k first day; NIGHTS bombs with 7k

Listed below are the first day sales in Japan for December 13.

GT5 Prologue (PS3) : about 50k

Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon (Wii) : about 30k

Kingdom Under Fire (360) : about 8k

NiGHTS (Wii) : about 7k

Soul Calibur Legends (Wii) : about 5k

Kirarin Revolution (DS) : about 5k

Okiku Furikabutte (DS) : about 5k

We Love Golf! (Wii) : about 4k

Shikigami no Shiro 3 (360) : about 1.5k

Shikigami no Shiro 3 (Wii) : about 0.5k

[TANOD]

so 50k first day sales for 1/10 as ps2 userbase isnt bad

I expect around 100k for the week

NOTE :- 50k doesnt take into accounts the PSN downloads so add another 20k to the total

70k for the FIRST day isnt bad

wow at NIGHTS,Legends and Golf?

what happened?

[ddldave]

Gran Turismo 5 has better physics, graphics, and gameplay.

Gran Turismo is made by Japanese company. Forza is made by American company. Japanese people know their cars and they make better cars than Americans.

Gran Turismo sold over 10.5 million copies world wide.
Gran Turismo 2 sold over 9.37 million copies world wide.
Gran Turismo 3 sold over 14.87 million copies world wide.

In just 1 week after it's release, Gran Turismo 4 sold over 1 million copies alone in Japan.

Forza sold 1 million copies world wide.
Forza 2 has not reached 1 million copies sold world wide yet.

Gran Turismo has always been the better franchise and will remain the better franchise. Its realism and gameplay is just too superior to be compared to Forza, Need For Speed, or Project Gotham Racing.

Forza is made by American company, Gran Turismo is made by Japanese Company. Therefore Gran Turismo is JDM like Honda, Toyota, and Nissan. You can stick to Forza just like Ford, Chevy, and Pontiac. But no thanks, I'd rather stick to JDM.

[sonarus]

actually forza 2 has sold about 1.7mill worldwide stil pitiful when compared to GT sales though. GT really should sell about 200k 1st week anything else is a dissapointment

[actas123]

So u saying that you can buy a downloadable version of the game instead of buying it from the store. Since when? man, thats actually a great idea. But, if its on the internet why can't we just log in and buy the game online now?

[barom]

u can log in and buy the game. you need however a japanese account and I don't know how credit cards would work.

People at the neogaf forums has already bought it.

[PS3PCFTW]

anybody remember when i specifically told the bots that "they better get used to the xrod getting upstaged from now on" earlier this week?

remember my logic? "ps1 and ps2 killed the competition in its second year after a very slow launch year"

See what i did there?

of course ALL my bubbles were stolen by bots........but like i SAID: it doesnt stop the ps3 from beating the sh1t out of a much inferior system.

Sony
Owns
Next
Year.

[WilliamRLBaker]

last I checked GT had sucky gameplay and physics and vehicle damage.

GT is a half assed Car simulator, Forza and PGR are arcade racers where gameplay is paramount.

GT became popular because of pretty graphics and puting together your own cars from literally the ground up....and thats it, GT's gameplay is no where near as good as forza or PGR.

[Robotz Rule]

nuff said.

I can't wait for Prolouge to hit the states so I can pick up my copy:)

[TANOD]

here is the info

http://www.vgchartz.com/new...

good for PSP and SONY

[Irving]

Prologue must've sold more copies on PSN than hard copies, 1. because it is cheaper and 2. it isn't restrictive like PSN copy of Warhawk. I suppose it has sold more than 100k in its first day.

[TANOD]

considering GT4 P sold 140k in a 14million ps2 user base

PLUS it is a fact that it a demo of a full game

[perseus]

It's actually cheaper to get the game in stores, even if the MSRP is higher. The cheapest I've seen it so far is 4280 yen, but I'm sure there're cheaper versions.

[MK_Red]

While I'm happy to see GT5 sell, I'm more than angry and sad about NiGHTs. WTF is wrong with J gamers? They buy piece of garbage like Wii Fit but when a real classic like NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams arrives, it bombs? Same happened to No More Heroes and this shows the ugly side of Wii which is it only sells casual and gimmicky games and real gems like Zack & Wiki, NMH and NiGHTS don't sell much :(

[perseus]

Many people who have a Wii, have it FOR the party games, I think.

I haven't been interested in anything else that has been offered for the Wii yet. And since I'm a slave to eye candy, I'll always buy a beautiful PS3 game before I buy a good-looking Wii game (I'll probably change when Civilization comes out though).

(I have to admit that I only have 2 PS3 games and 5 Wii games. I'm not exactly what you'd call a hard-core gamer anymore.)

[MK_Red]

Good point about most of Wii Audience but still, with those huge sales of Wii hardware, one would expect more sales for real games like NiGHTS and NMHs IMHO.

[bOOmStiCK]

I think a lot of those Wii owners have no clue what good or bad games are. We'll most likely gonna see that games wich got a popular brand name or movie adaptations are gonna sell immensely while as you said those real classics like Zack And Wiki will disappear forever. Resulting in an even more horrendous game line up with just cheap ripoffs. It's sad really. Because I had high hopes for Wii. Escpecially when you see how many consoles are being sold, yet the truly great games are only the ones that Nintendo (and Capcom) has to offer.

[ItsDubC]

Unfortunately, great titles aren't always best-sellers. Okami for PS2 technically "bombed" in my opinion.

EDIT @MK below:

Bubbles man. So very true unfortunately. I myself am gonna try to pick up Zack and Wiki today at Circuit City since it's on sale this week. Hopefully they have some copies left.

[sonarus]

thats why 3rd parties fear the wiii. their games simply dnt sell. Nintendo could care less who buys their consoles in about a yr or 2 nintendo will go bck to their strategy of only 1st party games cus no other game sells on wii

[MK_Red]

ItsDubC, Good point on great games and Okami. I really REALLY hope that the Wii remake sells.
Now that I think about it (and thanks to your example), it's not just about Wii's audience that shined from great games such as NiGHTS and GT5, Heck, PS2 was the most hardcore console of it's time and yet games like Okami, Psychonauts and Indigo Prophecy bombed on it (The last two being multi).

EDIT: @ ItsDubC
Thanks and hope you find and enjoy Zack & Wiki :)

It's a sad proof that people just care for the hype and not the artsy hype but OMG, that's big game with 10000s TV ads and site commercials.

[Kholinar]

Meh, Nights and the others may still do alright.

You do have to take other sales into account. There are only so many dollars out there, so if they spent $80 or whatever on WiiFit last week, it may take a bit for the cash reserves to build up for the next game...

I also wonder what Nights' promotion is like over there. Seems like, at least here, that a lot of the good third party Wii games are not being promoted well. I don't know if it's a function of wanting to combine cheaper wii development with cheaper promotion, but everyone seems to be seriously botching things...

[gaffyh]

I totally agree with you, the Japanese have a strange taste. WiiFit is not a game, Nights is also aimed at younger children (which is what you expect of the Wii install base). Would like to see how it does in US/EU

[ThaGeNeCySt]

VGchartz is now gospel on N4G

SMH!!

anyways, in the context of this news post, great numbers for GT5P on opening day

[wiizy]

it looks to me like all software sales are low for the week...so i dont think night bomb...i'll wait next week and see..

[HarryEtTubMan]

Your annoying. This is 50,000 in one day.. hardcopies not downloads...GT5 Prolougue is gonna sell more in its first week than Mario:weird plumber still doing weird things... this time floats around a galaxy haha... Get PWND, Maestro...notice you have disappered since the PS3 Destroyed your Wii wee for a month straight. Get owned. This is only the begnning

[Buubar]

I'd say many more non Japanese people have bought GT5P over PSN than in store as you can get it from anywhere in the world via PSN if you buy a JP store ticket, which MANY people have.. You can get it a lot cheaper via PSN because its a download and quicker because you don't have to import it.

I guess we will find out when we get the 'official' figures back how many its actually sold.

[prowiew]

Is there a way to block all news posts that referred to numbers that came from vgchartz???. im starting to hate this unreal chartz.

[TheMART]

Well, Lost Odyssey did 60k in a day in Japan on the 360 with one third of the userbase of the PS3.

In that view... It's pretty much correct even in Japan PS3 users don't really buy much games. Attach rate was about 2 games for the PS3 and 4 games for the 360 in Japan. What do they buy? BluRay movies also?

[krackchap]

litsen up douche head, last gen odyssey sold 40k first day and less than 60 in the whole week,GT5p sold 50k first day and not counting the PSN downloads.so the first day sales are already over LO.

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

they`ll buy GT5, just like you will one day.

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

if you want compare Lost Oddessy to anything compare it to FF13 when it comes out.

it`ll be about the same time (launch wise) that Lost Oddessy comes out.

ps.

(my advice)

i wouldn`t talk to much sh!t about the ps3 in these next coming months, cause like e3 it`ll make you look REALLY dumb. (ex. MGS4)

remember.

@honeal

Yes, i know what i said.

the ps3 was out a year after the 360, remember?

so YES, LO will be coming out around the same time (in the ps3s life span) as FF13.

so YES, compare those 2.

LO did well for a 360 game, but FF13 is going to sell like HALO3.

and NO LO doesn`t look like a Ps2 game, but it also won`t look like FF.

FF13 is the NEW FF7 (in a way) you, know.

[TUFFnNYC]

Your like a roach that never goes away. GT5p is basically a demo thats expensive. It aint the real game. Comparing a demo to a real game like Lost Oddesey makes you look like a retard. And the demo sold 50 thousand while LO (an actual finished game) sold 60 thousand. Stop trolling.

[Honeal2g]

wats this i here about ff13 and a release date? did u say around the same time as LO? did u mean next year december in japan ...or feb in america... either way how the hell do u know? honestly that is the only game that is forcing me to pick up a ps3 too good to resist although i thought ff12 was trash but still other than taht X-2,FFVIII, the rest of the series rocked. But yea i highly doubt that game is coming out next year to begin with ..especially when square anounced that they are having difficulties with the white engine..soo 09 is probably when its comin who knows? as for lost odyysey that game in no way shape or form looks like a ps2 game unless ofcourse ur compare the gameplay graphics to like FF-X cutscenes in which case i agree but thats a good thing.

and 40 or 60k for a 360 game in japan is amazing considering its poor user base. only a fanboy would disagree. and why would u compare it to ff13? seriously thats like the 20th installment of the game they are well established ff13 could be the worste in the franchise and still outsell the competition just cause of its name! hopefully its on par with FF7 ...wishfull thinkin (i kno) lol

[Cyrus365]

Mart,

I believe Lost Odyssey sold 60 K in 1 week, not 1 day. And Appearently according to VG chartz GT Prologue sold 50 K in 1 day.

So it's likely that when the week is done, GT Prologue will atleast sell 75K or more.

[Filanime03]

LMAO of u are stupid. Ur comparing lost odysey to GTA Prologue. Are u forgetting that prologue is just a demo of the real GTA and Lost odyseyy is a game that is done. By the way in Japan most gamers like RPG much more than they like racing games. What i meant is that Lost oddysey bomb bcoz it supposed to sold more than 60k. Lost oddysey is expected to be the system seller in Japan but it didn't manage to do so. Mart wait till GT Prologue is release here in the US and Europe were there is a lot of car enthusiast in comparison with Japan. GT series in japan has an average sale of 1 to 2 million but in NA and Europe its sales is 5 times as large. Oh ya prologue is a downloadable content also. U wouldn't know that bcoz ur too poor to own a ps3.

[spandexxking]

^^^GTA prologue? wtf is that:P

[Lord_Mike]

It's a Demo, get over it already. 50k people shelling money for a demo...you have to be amazed. I'm sure many people are holding back for the full game.

[navig8or]

I want to know what your preference is? Personally, I'm buying the download, I think it's better for me (No Disc, Can load at anytime etc...) but what about you? Download or Disc?

[killer_trap]

i always like a hard copy of my games that's why I'll get the blue ray version. but when will it available in Europe?

[Dark_Overlord]

Hate digital downloads, will always take a hard copy

[Bolts]

Why the hell would I want to buy the hardcopy? Its a pain in the ass to have to get up and take whatever game I'm playing out then insert a new disk. Maybe this is the reason why I only play CoD 4 and Warhawk. Even when I want to play Assasin Creed its too much trouble to switch disk.

[lsr]

Here in brazil is a lot cheaper buy any game by the PSN, no taxes, with all the taxes I would pay twice the price

[Capt CHAOS]

Is it school holiday?

[navig8or]

Kids...I'm 29...I've been playing games for as long as I can remember...Don't just assume every one will have the same opinion as you even if we are grown up!!!

[killer_trap]

what about hardware. did gt5 prologue get ps3's numbers up again?

the system has been declining in sales after the surge from the price drop. and GT is considered one of the strongest franchises sony has. it'll be disappointing of ps3 sales don't go back to the +50,000 this week .

[rofldings]

Or people know prologue is not the full game and are waiting for GT5 to come out.

[navig8or]

It's been less than a week, I can assure you that GT5 prologue will sell. You know this too, It might not be a system seller, but it will move some systems.

[navig8or]

There has been so much importance put on GT5 that it has to be a hit, if not, Sony and Polyphony suffers. It won't dissapoint.

[Maddens Raiders]

Stop bickering people. Gran Turismo is the greatest console racing series of all time, the world over. Period end of story. Love it or hate it - nothing will change that fact. It's up to Polyphony Digital to change that and failure/mediocrity is just not in their DNA. So grow up and stop throwing out a bunch of BS trying to deny the undeniable.

45 Million strong and counting.

[ItsDubC]

and realize that the "greatest ____ of all time" is totally subjective. Not everyone measures greatness by the same criteria.

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

Yes, Maddens.

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

your right people need to grow up and realize PS3 is the only console you`ll need. j/k (kinda)

[cmrbe]

GT series is the greatest car racing franchise because it is what the majority of gamers and critics/reviewers believe. The sales also proves this.

[Kholinar]

"because it is what the majority of gamers and critics/reviewers believe. The sales also proves this."

1. Belief is subjective.

2. Sales don't mean much. By that standard Britney and Justin are TEH GREATESTEST MUSICS EVAR!!!!1!!!1

:) You're free to believe it. You're also free to state your opinion. But we're all free to not accept anyone's statements/beliefs/opinion as fact.

[athlon770]

I would say that n4g has grown up a lot. There are only a handfull of "kids" that continue the pissing match, and they are put in their place right after they post. This whole "well my system sold X# of copies while yours only sold X# of copies" is very gradeschoolish. My problem is I no longer think they are still acting like that just to start a flamewar, or if they truely beleive in what they type.

[cmrbe]

Yes its subjective and not everyone will think the GT series is the greatest. My point is the majority thinks so and such 80% of the time people will say it is the greatest which is more than any other racing franchise and therefore should be consider the greatest.BTW Britney and Justin are not the greatest selling music artist.

[Afterburn]

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah attach rate blah blah blah blah blah 360 is God blah blah blah blah blah PS3 is losing console war blah blah blah blah blah blah not as good as Forza blah blah.

STFU and go away Marty.

[Jamaicangmr]

No amount of bad mouthing will change the fact that GT5:P or "Just a demo" (as most nay sayers call it.)Has sold 50K in it's first day of availability at retail. Now lets see how the months sales look shall we?

I CAN NOT WAIT for the western release of the prologue.

[Leathersoup]

Sony's selling demos, eh? I can see where they're making the money they're losing by lowering the price of the console.

Next thing you know they're going to be charging for each button press.

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

well if you have an 360, you pay for all your DEMOs.

that are actually DEMOs.

@honeal

Please don`t start me up on the Silver Account.

(in-short)

compare the Silver Account to the PSN and thats my point.
cause that essentially what i`m talking about.

my turn.

I love SONY.(because their the only game co. that has quit on gamers a some point and their software is diverse)

MS needs to make a WORKING SYSTEM. (i used to have a 360)

and Nintendo needs to get back to who brought them up....ME and YOU.

i`m NO fanboy, i love games.

[Honeal2g]

if ur implieing that u pay for Live therefore u pay for demo's ...sorry to break it to you but ur wrong....i have many friends that dont play online nor do they pay for xbox-live ...u can download demo;s with a silver account...if you openly admit ur a fanboy thats first step to realising u have a problem. for example i love sony and Microsoft.. but Nintendo should go the Way of Sega. there now u try it.

[ngg12345]

and people are saying it bombed

[sleepbox]

And THIS is why Japan doesn't matter...50k is merely pocket change compared to the likes of what something like Halo 3 did in 1st day sales.

[ravinash]

To be honest, quite a few...but the fact remains that if this game sells this well just for the demo, then its a sure sign that the ful game will do so much better.

[Skerj]

Hah they paid to play a demo of Halo 3, it was called Crackdown. But Prologue is good and Halo 3 shouldn't even be brought up in this topic.

[Kholinar]

"And THIS is why Japan doesn't matter"

Yep, and every market that has much smaller first day sales on occasion than Halo 3's first day sales doesn't matter.

Seriously, I hope you're joking. If not, then let's see if FF13 is pocket change.

(Just FYI, FFVIII sold 2.21 million copies, certainly short of Halo 3's 2.83 million copies, but much less hyped and in a much, much smaller market. So your comment is just patently ridiculous. Final Fantasy X 2.7mil, Final Fantasy X-2 2.1mil, Final Fantasy XII 2.3mil, Dragon Quest VIII 3.6mil (more units and gross than Halo 3), Dragon Quest V (remake) 1.6mil, Kingdom Hearts 950k, Kingdom Hearts II 1.1...)

[Skerj]

Man I can't believe Nights is selling like that, it's one of the games I actually want to get a Wii for. Maybe I'm different than the Wii target audience or something because No More Heroes and Zack and Wiki haven't been selling that well either. Oh yeah and Sin and Punishment being on VC too, which was my favorite N64 game ever. Let's see how Monster Hunter 3 does, personally I think that's going to be the best selling Wii game in Japan at least.

[mrguru]

actually at that rate it may sell 350,000 is first week which would be amazing. if sony bundles this with the ps3 say game over on japanese shores

[Brainiac 8]

Nights should sell much more than that, while it's nice that GT 5's sales seem to be on a great start.

@MK_red:

We were talking a few days ago about certain franchises that sell well in Japan, even if they are more geared toward casual anymore. Look at Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon on the Wii. Final Fantasy titles always sell well in Japan, and sometimes it doesn't matter the content.

It is sad, but I surely know I will be buying Nights next week when it comes out. I also agree, I hope Okami sells well on the Wii, since the PS2 sales were abysmal when it was released.

[lodossrage]

I expected nights to do EXTREMELY well. No more heroes I was uncertain of. But NIGHTS should have been a smash hit.

As for gran turismo, that number is decent for a first day. But what's the REAL number for gran turismo sales. In other words, they need to add in the many people that downloaded the game from psn as well.

[ISA_Scum]

Interesting to see Chocobo not tear up the charts. FF fan base is huge and unless this game turned out to be crap, FF gamers, teenage girls and young children ALL should have been buying the game for the Wii.

Oh, great for GT5 Prologue. I'll be picking it up first day here in Canada, eh?

[Rice]

holy cow thats amazing!

[jackdoe]

GT Prologue are pretty impressive sales, especially considering the kind of game it is, not quite a demo, but nut exactly a full game either. The bad Nights sales, along with the bad No More Heroes sales, just reinforce the idea that the majority of Japanese Wii owners are moms or retired citizens who have no interest in these kinds of games.

[KakashiDX]

I wonder if PS3 will experience a sales jump in Japan due to this.

[Doppy]

I wonder what features they're going to add when the actual game comes out later next year or 2009 (GT5). I heard a rumor they were going to have like 900 or 9000 cars. While a variety of cars is nice I hope they add more interesting features to the final product.

[bootsielon]

Sold 2 million in 2 days, so it's not that impressive.

[FirstknighT]

Must be sad in the ps3s gaming library when a demo outsells games like Uncharted, R&C, and Heavenly Sword. That's pretty pathetic.

[vaan]

FirstShite keep trying to put negative spin on any ps3 news.
It doesn't work though, in the end the PS3 will still be top of the game consoles.
And you, Icewake, PowerOfPenis, and all the other losers can't change that and you know it. No matter how far up M$cums 4ss you climb.

[lowlight]

What I don't understand is why anyone would pay 4500 Yen for a demo?

[SabreMan]

because in the context of what you actually get in GT5P in reality it's not really a demo it's a game within itself with full online support and multiple cars and tracks, it may be an insight of the full GT5 but as it stands Prologue can easily be regarded as a game within itself

[season007]

thats 100k people bought a demo....which leads to maybe 500k GT5 on first day ( and imagine the consoles it move...)

[Wii60_FTW]

stupid PS3 n00bs don't even buy games. Halo 3 sold 3 million on day one LOL. damn, sony droids. yet another flop on their hands! HAHAHAH

EDIT:

What did you say? Oh, what? Sorry, you mother f*cking piece of dog sh1t, I can't hear you over the sound of me playing just soooo many GotY exclusives on my 360 while you watch Planet Earth for the 50th time on Blew Ray. BTW, how is it?

[vaan]

Another sad loser 360 teenager fighting for his cheaply made, loud, ugly menu system, pay to play, pile of watered down PC sh1t.
YOU LOSE.