Dreamcast game sells 10,000 in Japan-- takes #5 spot (for one day)

[Friend of Sonic]

Courtsey of Dreamcast-Scene.com
2007-02-23
Trigger Heart Exelica: First Day Sales

Enterbrain (Famitsu) has published sales figures for the games that were released on February the 22nd in Japan. Please notice #5!


Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (incl. Bundle) (PSP, Capcom): over 500,000 pcs.
Fire Emblem: Akatsuki no Megami (Wii, Nintendo): approx. 50,000 pcs.
Naruto Shippuuden: Gekitou Ninja Taisen EX WII (Wii, Takara Tomy): approx. 20,000 pcs.
Sim City DS (NDS, EA): approx. 20,000 pcs.
Trigger Heart Exelica (DC, Warashi): approx. 10,000 pcs.
Riot Act [Crackdown] (Xbox 360, Microsoft): approx. 10,000 pcs.
Metal Slug Complete (PSP, SNK Playmore): under 10,000 pcs.

(source: Enterbrain, via GameFront.de)

 

[whoknows]

Wow, Monster Hunter destroyed the competition.

Impressive for a Dreamcast game to make the top 5 though.

 

[Squall835]

That blows my mind!

 

[Friend of Sonic]

Yeah, Monster Hunter had.. .well... MONSTER sales.

 

[whoknows]

:lol: A DC game outsold Crackdown.

Even though it's Japan, I still find it funny.

 

[Friend of Sonic]

[quote name='whoknows']:lol: A DC game outsold Crackdown.

Even though it's Japan, I still find it funny.[/QUOTE]
I took pleasure in it. I mean, it was barely outsold and Microsoft doesn't have a huge prescence in Japan, but the fact is a game for a system made in 1998 outsold a current gen game (for opening day sales). It's a small, tiny achievement.

 

[62t]

I am also guessing Trigger Heart Exelica is a lot cheaper to produce than Crackdown.

 

[Chacrana]

Probably better too

(Ooohh... no he di-int.)

 

[Photomotoz]

So ing awesome. I love the Dreamcast. I really hope to get some money so I can buy that game.

 

[Friend of Sonic]

[quote name='62t']I am also guessing Trigger Heart Exelica is a lot cheaper to produce than Crackdown.[/QUOTE]
It is. The teams that develop these shumps are small. Smaller are the teams that effortlessly port the Naomi games to the Dreamcast. That's a big reason why we're seeing new titles on Dreamcast.
Also, it doesn't hurt when you beat a game on opening sales that took millions to make.

 

[zer0-cool]

The Dreamcast will live forever.

 

[coltyhuxx]

[quote name='Friend of Sonic']I took pleasure in it. I mean, it was barely outsold and Microsoft doesn't have a huge prescence in Japan, but the fact is a game for a system made in 1998 outsold a current gen game (for opening day sales). It's a small, tiny achievement.[/quote]

Holy crap - it's almost 10 years old already?

 

[JimmieMac]

US release date 9/9/99

 

[dastly75]

All Hail the Dreamcast

 

[Friend of Sonic]

[quote name='JimmieMac']US release date 9/9/99[/QUOTE]
It was out in Japan nearly a year before--release date November 27th, 1998.

 

[Puffa469]

GO GO Dreamcast!

 

[guyver2077]

awesome

 

[BLarR]

Hmmm, could this lead to a 32X sales spike

 

[Friend of Sonic]

[quote name='BLarR']Hmmm, could this lead to a 32X sales spike[/QUOTE]
We can only hope. I heard that THPS Project 8 was going to be on the 32X, but they canned it.

In other news, Karous hit store shelves as you may know. However, sales figures posted were a bit smaller-- 2,000 units. Hopefully it outsold the Mary Kate and Ashley games for GBC.