Virtual idol Hatsune Miku’s first game, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva, has proven a runaway hit, with sales figures for the first week of its release showing it managed to sell 100,000 copies, only being beaten by Wii casual game “Wii Sports Resort”…
The sales figures are impressive in their own right, but for a character game focused on Vocaloid antics they can only be taken as a sign of runaway success for the innovatively marketed vocal synthesisers.
Doubtless Miku will be receiving more games in short order, with a full scale home console version an interesting possibility…
The rest of the sales figures for the period; total sales are shown last:
| 1. Wii Sports Resort | 153,000 | 507,000 |
| 2. Hatsune Miku | 101,000 | — |
| 3. Boku no Natsu 4 | 57,000 | — |
| 4. Tomodachi Collection | 51,000 | 221,000 |
| 5. Kingdom Hearts 358 | 14,000 | 477,000 |
| 6. Monster Hunter Portable 2G | 12,000 | 807,000 |
| 7. Ken to Mahou to Gakuen Mono 2 | 12,000 | 58,000 |
| 8. Rorona’s Atelier | 11,000 | 59,000 |
| 9. Wii Fit | 11,000 | 3,444,000 |
| 10. Sloan to Michael | 9,900 | 149,000 |
Sadly, even Miku’s shimapan cannot prevail against the pleasures of pretend sports…
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The power of shimapan? (´∀`)
If someone spreads the word of the free camera angle cheat (CWCheat), the world would tremble.
That cheat is AWESOME.
I have so many screen shots right out of my dir^H^H^Hecchi mind.
Shimipan bathing suit FTW!
"Sadly, even Miku’s shimapan cannot prevail against the pleasures of pretend sports" - O RLY? Just wait for one more week... *gendou pose*
wii sports just needs some shimpan too.
Only if they replace Miis with Loliis.
If you replace miis with lolis then sells will triple in a week.
The power of lolis!!
YES! i'll buy three if they do so
Your very own Mii's shimapan? No thanks!
Haha, indeed.
Congratz, this prove the game is good, i will dl it now =]
i doubt that
Never lose hope!!! Shimapan is the only way!!!
*all hopes shatters* You bastard. TT_TT
all hail Shimapan xD
We can only hope some brave soul will attempt a english version :D
"Sadly, even Miku’s shimapan cannot prevail against the pleasures of pretend sports…"
Well, I'm not sure which one sucks more donkey dick, so it isn't that tragic.
Can someone translate the wording in this story's pic?
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-images-xxvi/mikumiku-handstand.jpg
because that is one awesome handstand
Thanks in advance!
"Owner who forgot the purposed usage of the Vocaloid."
Ironic isn't it?
hahahaha, that's great. Thanks Anonymous!
Dusted off the psp and haven't stopped playing since it arrived. The Miku nendroid is incredibly cute.
Pretend diva loses out to pretend sports. How is that a sad thing?
On a sadder note, figures that Sega needed Miku to break a 100,000 sales because THAT guy keeps slipping further and further...
My copy came in the other day. So far, the game is rather underwhelming with it's incredibly easy down game play. Maybe it's just that I played too much DJ Max and expected a game with at least a slight bit of challenge. Oh well, at least Miku bouncing around in the background is nice.
"Sadly, even Miku’s shimapan cannot prevail against the pleasures of pretend sports…"
I LOL'D HARD!!! XD
Sad that most people got it for the moe and not the gameplay.
well, the gameplay is not exactly great, so what could you expect?
A lot of people have been saying this but after playing it for a few hours today, I can't find myself hating the gameplay.
At least it only uses one hand. Taiko no Tatsujin is great but the PSP has a tendency to rattle out of your hands on some songs... Project Diva doesn't have this problem as your free hand can properly hold onto the thing.
damn wii taking miku's spotlight (,,#ﾟДﾟ)
The power of the shimapan is what compelled otakus to buy it lolz.
I'd help if I have PSP in the first place.
Sloane to MacHale
Artefact loves trolling the xbox whenever he can and promote all the shit sony make.
Yet Nintendo is still shitting in full force on Sony in Japan and worldwide.
Stupid sony fanboys.
a perfect statement from a complete fanboy failure unheard of.
It's you who fail in comment as retard Nintendo fan boy
i cant find the words "xbox", "sony", "shit" in the whole article. sir, you are hallucinating, have some shimapan and it may just calm you down and clean your mind.
Hurr, butthurt console fanboys. Stop clicking on the obvious troll articles and giving them page views if you don't want to see them. It's painfully obvious why this isn't a gaming website, so I don't know why you take the console opinions of this place seriously. I got a PS3, but I have no qualms with the 360 or Wii. The Wii I used to have got good use, and I play some 360 games with my little cousins when I visit. If you don't want to see this shit go to a respected video game site instead of someplace that uses the words oppai and panchira every chance it gets.
This made me lol so hard almost pissed myself :D and agreed.
this is as expected, considering ppl's reaction a long time ago when this game is just news
now thats some sexy pantsu
And thus Miku's reign continues to soar high.
And it's only been 2 years so far.
Project Diva is an amazing game and deservese all the praise it can get. I really hope they make more games. The only problem is there is 0% this game will be translated and sold outside of Japan, but that can be said for a lot of good Japanese games so I'm not worried.
Personally, I wouldn't have any complaints if, say, NIS America were to slap some English lyrics on it and toss it on the Playstation Network. Maybe if we ask them nicely?
I don't understand popularity of vocaloid. Can someone enlighten me.
The success of Miku Hatsune pretty much solely based on the character design. On the other end of the spectrum, if you have a vocaloid looks and sings like Susan Boyle, it's probably not going to sell at all. And that lady is one hell of a singer.
Helps that Miku's "voice" has that cute charm too. Meiko doesn't have anywhere near the popularity of Miku, and it's not only because of the inferior technology, her voice bank is typically too deep for most anime-esque songs.
I DEMAND RIN
So... Wiisports + Miku = win.
indeed
it'll be better if Project Diva has wiisports-like gameplay
so what's the meaning of the text in the pic above?