This Week In Sales: Zangeki no Reginleiv Is In For A Dynamic Price Slash

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Last week was interesting in Japan, although, not in a positive way. None of the week’s new releases debuted particularly well, Zangeki no Reginleiv barely debuting in the top ten at the #9 position. Zangeki no Reginleiv is Nintendo’s first CERO D game in Japan, and was a relatively low-profile release, considering a rather limited number of copies appear to have been shipped.

 

Reginleiv debuted with 21,956 units sold. For comparison, Sin & Punishment 2 sold around 10,000 in its opening week and dropped off the charts soon after. The online multiplayer mode and the promise of MotionPlus probably helped give Zangeki no Reginleiv a bit of a heavier push, although, perhaps the gushing blood and flying torsos weren’t for everyone. Still, the fact that the game sold in the same range as Sacred 2 is rather disturbing.

 

God Eater held firm at the #1 spot for the second week in a row. The top-ten for the week of Feb 8 – 14 is as follows. More tidbits following below it:

 

LW TW Title Tw sales Tot. sales Sys. Publisher
01. 01. God Eater 110,235 405,640 PSP Namco Bandai
02. 02. Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie 79,462 1,175,722 DS Square Enix
04. 03. New Super Mario Bros. Wii 58,590 3,321,881 Wii Nintendo
New 04. Prince of Tennis -More Sweet Edition- 44,353 New DS Konami
05. 05. Tomodachi Collection 37,682 1,647,836 DS Nintendo
New 06. Quiz Magic Academy DS 31,813 New DS Konami
06. 07. Wii Fit Plus 28,720 1667594 Wii Nintendo
03. 08. Star Ocean: The Last Hope International 25,873 97,899 PS3 Square Enix
New 09. Zangeki no Reginleiv 21,956 New Wii Nintendo
New 10. Sacred 2 21,600 New PS3 Spike

 

MadWorld also saw its Japanese debut last week. It, however, fared far worse than any other notable release and debuted at the #33 position selling somewhere in the range of 3,000 units — around the same as Love Plus, which was probably on more than a few Valentine’s Day shopping lists.

 

Love Plus’s situation is extremely interesting. For all the media hype and promotion the brand has received, the actual game itself has only sold somewhere in the range of 200,000 units to date. Konami have already announced an updated release, titled Love Plus +, indicating that they intend to take an iterative approach to expanding the franchise.

 

In my opinion, a development pattern similar to Pokémon — new release followed by updated release, followed by the next game — would make sense, given the effort that would be required for each new game. We’d also like to point out that "love" is about as universal a concept as one could come up with. The possibilities for different games targeted at different age groups and demographics are vast, and we’re confident Konami plan to demonstrate this in the years ahead.

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Ishaan Sahdev
Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.