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…
Via New Akiba.
“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.
The power of the shimapan is what compelled otakus to buy it lolz.
damn wii taking miku’s spotlight (,,#ﾟДﾟ)
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.