MCVUK have released the chart positions for the top 50 multiformat titles in the month of May for the United Kingdom. And SEGA was not short of having a significant presence in the charts. Compared to most other third party publishers, SEGA did relatively well but there might be some not too welcoming news on one particular new IP, hit the jump to read on and find out which titles did the best.
It’s quite a dubious honour, but Yakuza 3 has become the fourth best selling used game in the whole of Japan for 2009, earning a staggering 230,000 sales used for Japanese retailers. SEGA will feel somewhat uncomfortable with such a high figure, such number is almost 50% of Yakuza 3’s first hand sales which came to around 500,000. The full list is below
2009 Top 25 Used Game Sales (Famitsu/Enterbrain; 2008-12-28~2009-12-27):
01 [NDS] Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Sky – 378,000 / NEW
02 [PSP] Dissidia: Final Fantasy – 293,000 / 303,000
03 [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G – 267,000 / 650,000
04 [PS3] Yakuza 3 – 230,000 / NEW
05 [PS3] Resident Evil 5 – 229,000 / NEW
06 [NDS] Pokemon Diamond/Pearl – 222,000 / 1,086,000
07 [NDS] Pokemon Platinum – 189,000 / 274,000
08 [PS3] White Knight Chronicles – 186,000 / NEW
09 [NDS] Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride – 173,000 / 354,000
10 [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable – 166,000 / 322,000
11 [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd – 156,000 / 1,161,000
12 [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. – 154,000 / 917,000
13 [PSP] Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce – 153,000 / NEW
14 [PS3] Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 – 143,000 / 147,000
15 [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World – 143,000 / 876,000
16 [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots – 141,000 / 274,000
17 [PS2] Super Robot Wars Z – 140,000 / 204,000
18 [PS2] Final Fantasy XII – 133,000 / 1,016,000
19 [NDS] Dragon Quest IV: The Chapters of the Chosen – 125,000 / 639,000
20 [NDS] Chrono Trigger – 123,000 / 176,000
21 [PS2] Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King – 123,000 / 1,769,000
22 [PSP] Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 – 122,000 / NEW
23 [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker – 120,000 / 739,000
24 [PSP] Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Gundam – 120,000 / 178,000
25 [PS3] Grand Theft Auto IV – 117,000 / 143,000
[Source: NeoGAF]
It’s somewhat a slow week for SEGA, the only major release being that of Hatsune Miku: Project Diva re-release. I think the original sales caught a few people off by surprise and from the current preorders, it does seem the sequel will also post some impressive numbers, but just how much did the re-release do? Read on to find out!
Welcome to the 6th SEGAbits Swingin’ Report Show. This is our Post E3 Special, where we talk about all things that happen at E3, including new SEGA news and rumors.
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I know I promised I would get the iTunes feed up again, I have decided to submit a new one. I will update this post when I get the OK e-mail from iTunes.
Nuckles87 had a one on one interview with weapons programmer Jeremiah Cauthorn on The Conduit 2.
What can you tell us about the changes in multiplayer?
We’ve added all new levels. We’ve also added six new weapons with an alt-fire mode on each weapon such as the TCP launcher. You can also lay out proxy mines so when people walk by them, they explode. You can also tag people with them. We support 12 player online multiplayer and local splitscreen with 2-4 player multiplayer. We’ve been working closely with Nintendo so we have this new rival system. So if you meet someone in a match you can click their name and add them to your rivals list.
Father’s day usually has me picturing Football and beer, but today we will talk about SEGA dads, which is your favorite? My vote goes to Iwao Hazuki. First of all he was voiced in Japan by Hiroshi Fujioka, the man that played Segata Sanshiro. Already awesome.
In the game Shenmue, there is also flash backs to Ryo and his dad as kids, like where he convinces him to eat carrots, even though he dislikes them. If you know kids, you know you have to be pretty good to convince them do what they don’t want to. Especially me, I was a fucking brat.
Not to mention he gave the location of the Dragon Mirror to Lan Di so he wouldn’t hurt his son. Even though we know its very important object, so much so that he would fight and risk his own life to protect it.
Who is your favorite SEGA dad?
Aside from Shenmue and, perhaps, Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi is the most iconic franchise the Dreamcast every produced. So it comes as no surprise that the original game has joined Sonic Adventure as one of the first games in the Dreamcast revival SEGA is now pushing. Everyone here knows how the game plays: you play a taxi driver who drives people to far away locations in ridiculously short amounts of times, throwing every traffic law to the wind in the hopes of getting the largest fair possible from the customer.
I got to get some solid hands on time with Tournament of Legends today, and to my surprise, I like what I saw. Tournament of Legends hasn’t exactly had the best advertising campaign behind it. The trailers we’ve seen have, at least in my opinion, made the game look like some mediocre budget title. But in ToL’s case, initial impressions can be deceiving.
Alright, so I had a nice chat with Jeremiah Cauthorn, the weapons designer for the Conduit 2. I was asking him about how the Wii Motion Plus will be used. Apparently, aside from tracking your movements off screen, it’s also going to be used for melee weapons! He couldn’t give me an further details, but regardless, it looks like that’s going to be part of the Conduit 2 experience.
We will have a preview of the Conduit 2, as well a video interview with Cauthorn, up tomorrow.
Alpha Protocol promises to be a ‘Espionage RPG’ and deliver a spy adventure like no other. Does it deliver?
I have been on a mission lately to watch all the Takashi Miike films, so recently I sat down and watched his film Crows Zero, who has a lead character that seems to be ripped off by SEGA’s upcoming Black Panther: New Yakuza Chapter game. I’ll admit, I’m not a Japanese expert, but I have not seen many characters that look like both the leads.
Some fun facts, Takashi Miike, director for Crows Zero also directed the mini series of Yakuza short films and the full featured film based on the games. I guess if they want to make a movie based on Black Panther, they already found a director and Shun Oguri can play Tatsuya Ukyou in the film.
Even though SEGA released their own racing game, Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing, doesn’t mean SEGA characters can’t crash Sony’s Modnation Racers party. Since the game features some pretty deep create a character tools, it was expected that a SEGA fan would create their favorite characters in the game.
Our forum member Monkeroony has done just that. Creating Sonic, Shadow, Beat, Aiai, and even Ryo Hazuki. If you own the game, search for his creations or you can check them out here.
So we have been hearing a ton of rumors around the web for the past few weeks about games that SEGA might or might not have at E3, we will now give you a list of those games and the percentage chance that they will show up at this year’s E3.
