Finding the job of your dreams is very much a process of finding just the right balance. Much like a tightrope walker carefully inching his way across a length of cord, the employee-to-be is trying to stay on his feet through a job that is rewarding both personally and financially. In fact, this is precisely why actual tightrope walkers often end up falling to their extremely painful deaths. Circus pay sucks.Admittedly, the millions and occasionally billions of dollars afforded to me by tracking and commenting on the Japanese sales charts made my decision to explore other careers all the more difficult. Just last week, I embarked on a job-finding quest, hoping to discover something new and more spirtually enriching. After the break, you'll learn just how spendidly my job interview went.
- DS Lite: 201,177
55,104 (37.72%)- Wii: 78,550
12,810 (19.49%)- PSP: 32,175
959 (3.07%)- PS3: 23,431
4,704 (25.12%)- PS2: 16,033
1,507 (8.59%) - Xbox 360: 4,811
1,319 (21.52%)- GBA SP: 980
256 (35.36%)- Game Boy Micro: 884
166 (15.81%)- Gamecube: 383
77 (25.16%)- DS Phat: 121
2 (1.68%)- GBA: 36
8 (28.57%)[Source: Media Create]
See also: Previous Japanese hardware sales charts
"Ah, Mister ... Kiteman, is it?"
"No, I think that's probably a Mega Man villain. It's Kietzmann."
"Oh dear. Please accept my apology."
"Okay, but I'm not returning it."
"You're not returning what?"
"My apology."
"Why would you apologize?"
"No, I mean you gave me your apology and now it's mine. It's sort of a joke, a play on words?"
"Ah. You're a funny one."
"Yeah. I mean, no. Not in that way. Or whatever you were thinking. Right."
"Which position are you interested in?"
"Uh, the Finnish Sales Chart Tracker. "
"Do you have any prior experience?"
"Yes, I followed and wrote about the Japanese sales charts for Joystiq. I did it for round about 8 months, I'd say."
"Any computer skills?"
"Absolutely, the internet is practically like a second language to me! I have lots and lots of skill-sores."
"I'm sorry, what?"
"Skill-sores. I have them."
"I'm so sorry to hear that."
"But, isn't it a good thing?"
"Well, I'm not sure, really. Are they contagious? It sounds like they would be."
"No, I ... I don't believe so. At least not in my line of work, I'm-a-ho."
"You're a what!?!"
"In my honest opinion, you know?"
"I don't think that's the sort of thing you can have an opinion on, son. Either you are or you aren't... and I'm not even sure how you manage to be one."
"Well, I've had years of experience and, if I can speak frankly, I find it's easy once you know who your audience is. You just need to use the right words, a-fake."
"You use a fake one? Is that how you manage to fool your, ahem, audience?"
"No no, as far as I know."
"You're not even sure anymore? That's just sick!"
".............................."
"I'll tell you what. You get your sore-covered body of filth and trickery out of my office and I'll pretend this never happened."
"I see. I guess that's goodbye then."
"Goodbye!"
"Also, since you're pretending this never happened, can I get a do-over?"
"LEAVE!!"
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Yes, because nobody ever has fun with high definition games. Ridiculous fanboys..
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But were said games fun -because- of HD? I'd consider that highly unlikely.
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Funny, that's the exact reason I lack faith in humanity.
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Some games are fun because they have excellent graphics that enhance (or even make) the gaming experience; especially in HD. A game as fun as gears of war would be impossible to make on the Wii. All horror games are more fun with better graphics, since realism makes the actual experience.
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It's mainly because Japan is one of the only places that complies all this data every week and gives that data out freely. In NA the NPD only does it once a month and they hold onto that data and sell it to interested parties.
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If the graphics -make- a game, then doesn't it follow that its staying power as a quality game will decrease very quickly?
(Also, I wouldn't consider anything marketed as "horror" as being fun, but this is just a personal thing. I hate horror movies, too.)
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"Some games are fun because they have excellent graphics that enhance (or even make) the gaming experience."
Any game that can be described by the above statement sucks my ass and my balls, and not in the nice way. Thank you.
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Dude Gears is JUST as much fun in SD as HD...it only looks a hellllllll of a lot nicer in HD...basically by your logic, if Gears were in 1080p it'd be even more fun? yeah ok dude
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It's called "Valentine's Day". There's always a mini-bump in sales. It'll drop next week.
That's also why the DS did disproportionately better than any other system; portable games make fairly cheap and easy gifts for significant others.
(btw, in Japan, girls buy stuff for guys on Valentine's Day. The whole country's a bizarro world!)
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That has got to be some of the best market share I have ever seen. Nintendo rules at business when it comes to knowing how to sell a system. Wonder if we could get some game sales info with that.
And just so you know by looking at these figures, it really does print money.
And craps gold bricks.
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I just cant go back to nintendo. My brother has a wii (he bought one for some reason to play twilight princess when I told him to just buy it for his gamecube. Well low and behold, his wii is not even connected and its sitting about 10 feet away from me under a pile of dirty clothes. Its basically been sitting turned off for 3 months and it will remain off until mario galaxy comes out according to him. That just a bunch of BS. My 360 cant go more then a day without being turned on. Now theres a fun system, one I can boot up and play with my firends online.
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It's not like the PS3 has a wealth of games either. I know one thing that is for certain, more people have fun with a Wii than a PS3.
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Screw the numbers, they're basically the same every week.
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Whoever says it enhances their gaming experience is not a true gamer, they are a videophile.
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Unless you live in both North America AND Europe then yes, that was a pretty ethnocentric comment. As it is, the sales figures probably matter just about as much in Japan as North America (we're a bit more populous), and not nearly as much in Europe.
Oh, and I love the comment about how much Wii sucks. Because this fellow reputedly has a brother who doesn't like it very much (and we're really not sure why), I guess I should throw my system in the trash. Ah, to be 14 again...
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According to my gamertag, I havent been on the 360 in 28 days.
I however play my Wii almost daily. The games on Wii have lasted longer, mainly due to multiplayer and the virtual console.
I have friends and a brothers to play the Wii with. the 360 hardly features any splitscreen action for us, an quite frankly playing online bores me.
Its much more fun to play with people in the same room.
I can only hope the Wii sells as well in the states as it has in japan.
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You've had the wii for more than 3 months under a pile of clothes. So that mean that you bought it days before launch. You must be like an insider or something.
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Hi Mike, if your brother doesn't need the Wii, can I take it off his hands? I've got a friend who has been looking for one and he just can't seem to find one anywhere. It's like they're sold-out or something. Go figure.
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Somebody needs to the the Japanese people that you can recharge the battery on the DS. You don't have to go out and buy a new one everytime the power runs out.
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It's unfortunate that Nintendo gave up a history of being on the forefront of both gameplay innovation AND graphics innovation.
Let's not forget that at the time of its release, the SNES was a graphics POWERHOUSE. Then with each successive console they lost more and more interest in graphical innovation.
It's not a sin to have great gameplay AND great graphics.
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How else am I supposed to see countless
"Graphics don't matter! Wii is all about fun!"
"Any game that can be described by the above statement sucks my ass and my balls, and not in the nice way. Thank you."
"I now have faith in humanity as the systems that are all about fun beat the systems that are all about graphics and killer next-gen HD technology."
"High Definition doesn't matter.
Whoever says it enhances their gaming experience is not a true gamer, they are a videophile."
comments. The point is that good graphics make a game more enjoyable, and its ridiculous to automatically assume that motion sensing + last generation graphics = fun.
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Japanese likes to play with them selfs.
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Yes, games like Tetris would be soooo much better in 1080p.
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Note the fanboy and their not-so-loveable ability to try and blame things on fanboys of another sort. After all, only another fanboy could possibly not be enamoured with what they love. And, of course, anyone who doesn't think that what THEY love is the central focus of gaming have a "hatred of (insert thing here)". Wonderful way to justify an "us vs. them" scenario, I guess...
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It's ridiculous of you to assume that -advanced- graphics make a game more enjoyable. What you are referring to are -not- good graphics. Good graphics are good because they're quality, and quality graphics can be had at pretty much any level. What you're referring to are technically advanced graphics, which do not inherently improve a game at all. A game can have very advanced graphics while at the same time having poor quality graphics.
Advanced Graphics =/= Good Graphics
So while you're complaining about other people assuming that "motion controls + last gen graphics = fun", you're at the same time making the exact same error they are. That is, that "advanced graphics = fun". If you're not saying this, then you should greatly alter the way you come across as your words are very easily interpreted as such.
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Also the axis is wrong. Sometimes the new number is on the left, then again on the right. Alternatively the arrows are falsified. As are the percentages (which don't make any sense anyway, since they should show the rise/fall in relative numbers compared to the week before. Well, usually they are wrong anyway (this time correctly calculated in an incorrect way tho).
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Now, I can't believe no one has talked about the ACTUAL blog post. Ludwig, I'm impressed. Week after week you manage to impress me adding spice to the sales chart. Thanks a lot for all the good laughs. You should write funny stories or something.
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What the fuck is "scientifical"?
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So graphics enchance or actually make the game?
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*blleehh* I threw up a bit in my mouth...
ugh...
Well I guess it can't be helped, especially with these 5-7th generation gamers. I wouldn't expect a real gamer to think of games in such a blantly stupid manner.
Also, if you didn't know that we are currently in the 7th generation of consoles then you probably are in the 5-7th. I suggest reading a book on the matter or trying to get an older more mature gamer to tell you exactly why your viewpoints on gaming are horrible.
Or you could just you know... stop playing all together. The culture of gaming will be much better off without you.
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