Best selling Japanese games...how?!?

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Here are the Top 30 Console Games for the Year of 2003 in Japan:

Final Fantasy X-2 (PS2, Square Enix) - 1,901,126
Pocket Monster Ruby / Sapphire (GBA, Nintendo) - 1,458,689
Shin Sangoku Musou 3 (PS2, Koei) - 1,173,102
World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 (PS2, Konami) - 1,074,274
Everybody’s Golf 4 (PS2, Sony) - 810,641
Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounter in Space (PS2, Bandai) - 568,172
Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart (GBA, Square Enix) - 566,201
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai (PS2, Bandai) - 538,734
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (PS2, Square Enix) - 520,899
The 2nd Super Robot Taisen Alpha (PS2, Banpresto) - 499,430
Let’s Make a J. League Pro Soccer Club 3 (PS2, Sega) - 498.214
Made in Wario (GBA, Nintendo) - 492,581
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (GC, Nintendo) - 461,289
Shin Sangoku Musou 3 Moushouden (PS2, Koei) - 455,009
Devil May Cry 2 (PS2, Capcom) - 442.059
Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 10 (PS2, Konami) - 430,461
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (GBA, Square Enix) - 420,540
Super Mario Advance 4 (GBA, Nintendo) - 411,546
Mobile Suit Gundam Z: AEUG Vs Titan (PS2, Bandai) - 411,389
Rockman EXE 4 Tournament Red Sun / Blue Moon (GBA, Capcom) - 384,593
Gran Turismo 4 Prologue (PS2, Sony) - 382,471
Taikou no Tetsujin (PS2, Namco) - 374,354
Pokemon Colosseum (GC, Pokemon) - 358,237
Biohazard Outbreak (PS2, Capcom) - 322,379
Taikou no Tetsujin: New Songs of Spring Festival (PS2, Namco) - 321,922
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (GC, Square Enix) - 310,674
Mario Party 5 (GC, Nintendo) - 302,532
Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (GBA, Nintendo) - 268,957
Nechu Professional Baseball 2003 (PS2, Namco) - 266,947
Kirby’s Air Ride (GC, Nintendo) - 265,083

-The Magic Box

big question marks floating above Sin’s head

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I don’t get it. Is there a game missing off the list that you think should be there?

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POCKETO MONSTA

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…What’s so bad about FFX-2 being number 1? :stuck_out_tongue:
(Holy shit Kero, where’d you find that picture? That’s of my broken BW disc :P)

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HAHAHAHHAHAHAAH! KERO IS NOT THE STAR CRAFT DESTROYER!!! GACKT IS!!!

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Steve: you sent it to me, after I refused to believe that your CD really did break up after I predicted it would.

(BTW, I love your avvie, Charl.)

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/me blushes

thanks

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They have very different tastes in games.
They like games with lots of sexual intennuo and nudeness and RPGs, hence RPGs and Dating systems sell there well.

Over here we got those damn Soccor mom’s who prevent us from reciving some hot dating sim games!

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Originally posted by Gizamaluke

Over here we got those damn Soccor mom’s who prevent us from reciving some hot dating sim games!

TokiMeki *drool

T_T SVC chaos isnt on that list.

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Originally posted by Gizamaluke
[b]They have very different tastes in games.
They like games with lots of sexual intennuo and nudeness and RPGs, hence RPGs and Dating systems sell there well.

Over here we got those damn Soccor mom’s who prevent us from reciving some hot dating sim games! [/b]

…wow, if that wasn’t horribly generalized and completely un-thought-about, I’d agree with you.

Edit: Lemme explain. It’s not that they like the games (although I’m sure that’s a small reason why some games are purchased) because of sexual innuendo, It’s because they’re so lax with a lot of the “protect our children” stuff.

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So many games I have no clue as to what are. Sad really. But at least there’s quite a few good games that has gotten on the list, compared to Norway that’s pretty unusual.

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And 2004 will probably have Dragon Quest VIII at the top… what is it with those games anyway? I tried playing Dragon Warrior VII but I couldn’t get into it. I still have it so I’ll probably try it again eventually.

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Originally posted by Gackt
[b]…wow, if that wasn’t horribly generalized and completely un-thought-about, I’d agree with you.

Edit: Lemme explain. It’s not that they like the games (although I’m sure that’s a small reason why some games are purchased) because of sexual innuendo, It’s because they’re so lax with a lot of the “protect our children” stuff. [/b]

Well Dating Sims are extreamly popular there.
I’d know. I’ve been there.

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When I visited the land of the molemen, I found out that hex-based strategy games are really popular down there. I don’t get why, personally…

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Originally posted by Jecca-neko
And 2004 will probably have Dragon Quest VIII at the top… what is it with those games anyway? I tried playing Dragon Warrior VII but I couldn’t get into it. I still have it so I’ll probably try it again eventually.

Dragon quest is so huge over there that there is a law banning its release on a weekday.

EDIT-In akihabara at least, i dont know about the rest of japan

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Originally posted by Sinistral
[b]Here are the Top 30 Console Games for the Year of 2003 in Japan:

Final Fantasy X-2 (PS2, Square Enix) - 1,901,126
Pocket Monster Ruby / Sapphire (GBA, Nintendo) - 1,458,689
Shin Sangoku Musou 3 (PS2, Koei) - 1,173,102
World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 (PS2, Konami) - 1,074,274
Everybody’s Golf 4 (PS2, Sony) - 810,641
Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounter in Space (PS2, Bandai) - 568,172
Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart (GBA, Square Enix) - 566,201
<i>Dragon Ball Z: Budokai (PS2, Bandai) - 538,734</i>[/b]

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Originally posted by Jecca-neko
And 2004 will probably have Dragon Quest VIII at the top… what is it with those games anyway? I tried playing Dragon Warrior VII but I couldn’t get into it. I still have it so I’ll probably try it again eventually.

I dunno. I liked DW7 (even though I’m not done with it yet >.>;;…) It’s just HUGE. And in general, I think it’s kinda old school… and getting new classes can be a pain… But the music is awesome and some of the storylines are memorable. And the monsters are so cute. <.<

And I think the stuff on the list (well, most of it) was foreseeable, so… shrugs

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Kirby’s Air Ride? Wha???

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Originally posted by Jecca-neko
And 2004 will probably have Dragon Quest VIII at the top… what is it with those games anyway?

Partially, I think it’s one of those “You had to be there” things. If your video gaming experience in youth was Atari, then Mario and Link, then wandering the lonely terrain of Alefgaard next could leave quite an impression of you. There was nothing quite like finally running into that last Goldman you needed to kill to get your hands on the Shield of Strength, which you thought might make you strong enough to finally take down that wretched knight enemy guarding Erdrick’s Armor. Back then we didn’t have any of these newfangled job systems with fake hot babes changing clothes in mid-battle or popping up out of the ground as a pseudo-Freudian sex symbol of a flower.

Damn kids and their music…

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… no one has comments on why a golf game is the 5th best selling game in 2003 in Japan?