Shining Wind drops out of top 10
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, Sony PlayStation 2. Tagged with Sales Chart, Shining Force.
I said last week, the big test for Sega’s Shining Wind would be how well it could sustain its sales in its second week of release. Unfortunately, the newest addition to the Shining series couldn’t even stay in the top 10, dropping down to the 12th spot.
Since Media Create only publishes sales numbers for games in the top 10, we don’t know exactly how big the drop was, but Wii Play sold only 18,000 copies at the 10th spot, so that should give you an idea.
Compare less than 18,000 sales against Shining Wind’s first-week sales of more than 78,000, and that’s a pretty far fall. However, Sega’s RPG was the highest-sold PS2 game for the week, so considering it’s a last-generation RPG, it’s not as bad as it looks at face value.
[Original - Media Create, via NeoGAF]
Comments on this article
There have been 7 responses to this article.
I can’t understand why shit like Wii Sports and Wii Play sells so good and good Sega games never reach high numbers…. Really bad
tropicali
Posted May 31st, 2007 at 7:29 am.
Shining Wind looks interesting, I really hope SOA would bring over Shining Wind and Yakuza 2 for Sept release :(
Silverslug
Posted May 31st, 2007 at 9:56 am.
I want Shining Wind, and I want it hard. I mean, have you seen the character art? It’s like playable porn.
Bryan
Posted May 31st, 2007 at 1:02 pm.
Weird, but my numbers have it at 19,000 and tenth place. Of course VG Charts and MagicBox aren’t that accurate.
Either way, the results are corresponding to thos of the other shining releases so I’m not particuarly suprised or disappointed.
Jon
Posted June 2nd, 2007 at 10:01 am.
Actually Magicbox and VGCharts could be right, see there are three chart tracking organizations in Japan, and all of them give various amounts of units sold in Japan. so in fact Shining Wind could still be in the top ten, its just a matter of who you decide to follow.
Fun Fact, Shining Wind managed to sell more copies in 2 weeks then Shining Force EXA did in 17 weeks.
Aki-at
Posted June 3rd, 2007 at 9:19 am.
yeah I forgot that one. but its still not the best selling in the series in japan.
Jon
Posted June 6th, 2007 at 12:57 pm.
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tip
Posted May 20th, 2009 at 6:04 am.