Games Released in 2009 Sales

[ResEvilWii]

This is a running list I will keep going of the sales numbers of the top core games released in 2009. All numbers are rounded to the nearest 10,000.

Numbers are from http://www.vgchartz.com/

EA Sports Active - 1,270,000
NPC! Mario Power Tennis - 820,000
Punch Out!! - 380,000
NPC! Pikmin - 350,000
Guitar Hero: Metallica - 350,000
House of the Dead: Overkill - 310,000
Sonic and the Black Knight - 310,000
Tiger Woods 10- 250,000
MadWorld - 240,000
NPC! DK Jungle Beat - 200,000220,000
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 - 210,000
Grand Slam Tennis - 180,000
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop - 160,000
The Conduit - 160,000
NPC! Pikmin 2 - 150,000
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronciles: Echoes of Time - 120,000
Ghostbusters - 110,000
Resident Evil - 90,000
Rune Factory Frontier - 90,000
Deadly Creatures - 90,000
Tenchu Shadow Assassins - 80,000
Boom Blox Bash Party - 80,000
Klonoa - 70,000
Virtua Tennis 09 - 70,000
Indiana Jones and The Staff of Kings - 70,000
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templar - 60,000
Fragile- 50,000*
Muramasa: The Demon Blade - 50,000
ExciteBots: Trick Racing - 50,000
Arc Rise Fantasia - 40,000
Let's Tap - 30,000
Little King Story - 20,000*
Munchables - 20,000

* denotes not out in North America yet

 

[ResEvilWii]

So my impressions:

Nintendo is doing very well with those NPC! numbers. Consumers are eating up Mario Power Tennis despite a good tennis game being included with Wii Sports.

Overkill is also doing quite well for a vulgar rail shooter at $50 and should eventually sell over 500,000.

Deadly Creatures is a flop at 50,000. I think that game would've done much better had it been released as a holiday title. It'll eventually sell pretty good I think with a price drop, but I'm surprised to see the game not getting bought more by younger boys. Then again I guess younger boys don't have $50.

Tenchu and DR:CTYD are both doing ok.

 

[Caliko]

Deadly Creatures is a flop at 50,000. I think that game would've done much better had it been released as a holiday title. It'll eventually sell pretty good I think with a price drop, but I'm surprised to see the game not getting bought more by younger boys. Then again I guess younger boys don't have $50.

Sad part is, thew developers said they were "testing the waters" with this tittle. What is it with developers and "testing the waters" with quirky games on the Wii?? This is where High Voltage has it right and all others have it wrong.

That's like me developing a Mario Kart style racer where you race through the sky as a fly. Then turning around and saying "well since my fly-racer didn't sell well on Wii I guess I won't be developing that kick ass survival horror adventure..."

 

[RivalDestiny]

The list is actually quite depressing. 3-5 year old games re-released with minimal control changes reaching the top is a bit on the "wha?" side. Wishing Madworld or another stand out title would show up and shine, but it doesn't look that way. Many of these games probably won't peak the 500-750k mark.

 

[Nihilism]

If MadWorld were released in '07 or '08 it would've sold so much better. Wii's hardcore audience is dying, however, while the casuals flock in. Those that would've purchased this are already playing Killzone 2 and Street Fighter IV and whatever else on the other consoles.

 

[Groves]

Mario Tennis is only at the top because it's being advertised all over TV, which then means the idiots watching TV will be like, oh I'll buy that for my child for Easter or their birthday etc.. The advert doesn't appeal to me one bit, as I'd rather play Wii Sports Tennis in my opinion.

 

[Dzapper]

I believe Madworld, Tenchu, and HOTD are doing very well. As someone said above it seems the Wii "Hardcore"(that word is still very loosely defined) audience is dying. So to but up 100k in sales is very good. Keep up the good work and all those "Hardcore" players may come back.

 

[ResEvilWii]

Update, everything in bold is new:

NPC! Mario Power Tennis - 460,000-->520,000
NPC! Pikmin - 280,000-->290,000
House of the Dead: Overkill - 190,000-->200,000
Sonic and the Black Knight - 130,000-->150,000
Guitar Hero: Metallica - 140,000
MadWorld - 90,000-->130,000
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop - 100,000
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronciles: Echoes of Time - 60,000-->80,000
Tenchu Shadow Assassins - 70,000
Rune Factory Frontier - 60,000
Deadly Creatures - 50,000
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 - 20,000-->40,000
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templar - 10,000-->20,000

 

[1337endo]

Shame that Deadly Creatures didn't sell all that well, it really isn't all that bad of a game. Guitar Hero Metallica is selling nicely. Good to see MadWorld and House Of The Dead Overkill are getting some good numbers.

 

[ResEvilWii]

Update. Everything in bold is new:

NPC! Mario Power Tennis - 520,000-->580,000
NPC! Pikmin - 290,000-->310,000
House of the Dead: Overkill - 200,000-->230,000
Sonic and the Black Knight - 150,000-->160,000
Guitar Hero: Metallica - 140,000-->190,000
MadWorld - 130,000-->160,000
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop - 100,000
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronciles: Echoes of Time - 80,000
Tenchu Shadow Assassins - 70,000
Rune Factory Frontier - 60,000
Deadly Creatures - 50,000
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 - 40,000-->60,000
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templar - 20,000-->30,000

 

[ResEvilWii]

No update here in a while, here you go:

NPC! Mario Power Tennis - 580,000-->730,000
NPC! Pikmin - 310,000-->330,000
House of the Dead: Overkill - 230,000-->280,000
Sonic and the Black Knight - 160,000-->260,000
Guitar Hero: Metallica - 190,000-->230,000
MadWorld - 160,000-->210,000
EA Sports Active - 210,000
NPC! DK Jungle Beat - 160,000
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 - 60,000-->150,000
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop - 100,000-->140,000
NPC! Pikmin 2 - 120,000
Punch Out!! - 120,000
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronciles: Echoes of Time - 80,000-->110,000
Rune Factory Frontier - 60,000-->80,000
Tenchu Shadow Assassins - 70,000
Deadly Creatures - 50,000-->70,000
Klonoa - 60,000
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templar - 30,000 -->50,000
ExciteBots: Trick Racing - 30,000
Boom Blox Bash Party - 30,000
Little King Story - 20,000

 

[ResEvilWii]

Well, Mario Power Tennis looks to be well on it's way to being the Wii's first 1,000,000 seller of '09.

Sonic has been given a strong boost by its drop to $30.

EA Active and Punch Out numbers are just after 1 week, so they're doing both very good.

Bash Party is doing pretty poorly, surprising becasue the original sold over 930,000 copies.

Those Little King Story numbers are just for Europe so far, but that's a bit disappointing as well.

 

[ResEvilWii]

EA Sports Active - 210,000-->960,000
NPC! Mario Power Tennis - 730,000-->780,000
NPC! Pikmin - 330,000-->340,000
Guitar Hero: Metallica - 230,000-->310,000
Punch Out!! - 120,000-->300,000
House of the Dead: Overkill - 280,000-->290,000
Sonic and the Black Knight - 260,000-->290,000
MadWorld - 210,000-->220,000
NPC! DK Jungle Beat - 160,000-->200,000
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 - 150,000-->180,000
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop - 140,000-->150,000
NPC! Pikmin 2 - 120,000-->130,000
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronciles: Echoes of Time - 110,000-->120,000
Tiger Woods 10- 90,000
Rune Factory Frontier - 80,000
Deadly Creatures - 70,000-->80,000
Tenchu Shadow Assassins - 70,000
Klonoa - 60,000-->70,000
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templar - 50,000-->60,000
Boom Blox Bash Party - 30,000-->60,000
Fragile- 50,000
Grand Slam Tennis - 40,000
Muramasa: The Demon Blade - 40,000
ExciteBots: Trick Racing - 30,000-->40,000
Arc Rise Fantasia - 30,000
Indiana Jones and The Staff of Kings - 30,000
Little King Story - 20,000
Munchables - 20,000
Virtua Tennis 09 - 10,000
Let's Tap - 10,000

 

[Skorp]

I hope little king's story does well. I can't wait for that. You should note that it's only been released in Australia right now.

 

[ResEvilWii]

EA Sports Active is a huge seller.

Punch Out is seeing solid sales.

Tiger 10 had a pretty good debut. The Wii version outsold all other verisons.