Oh dear. Early reports are suggesting that gorgeous adventure Another Code: R has sold very poorly in Japan. The talky adventure sold a paltry 10,000 copies according to data from Famitsu. Meanwhile, Wii’s fortunes seem to have taken a turn for the worse, too - the console struggling to 21,000 units in the week ending 8th February, outselling PS3 by just 5,000 units.

It seems that home consoles in general are struggling, but Wii has always bucked that particular trend and it must be worrying for Nintendo to see that PS3 is starting to catch up. You could argue that Nintendo hasn’t released any brand new first-party titles since the disappointing Animal Crossing - the Wii de Asobu range barely having any noticeable effect on hardware sales - but it’s sad to see games like Another Code: R perform so poorly. Perhaps that kind of adventure is better suited to DS, but whichever way you slice it, 10,000 sales for a new first-party title is pretty bad.

My import copy of Another Code: R arrives tomorrow, and I’ll bring you some brief impressions of the game’s early stages shortly afterwards. In the meantime just keep your fingers crossed that this doesn’t affect its chances of reaching Europe, though surely the localisation effort is at the stage where it wouldn’t make sense to abandon the project.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 at 9:17 pm by Chris Schilling
Disappointment, Japan, Rivals, Wii, sadness.