If anyone here follows soccer, I am so glad that Liverpool wont play in Europe next season 
Was trying to find highest selling/Most popular Visual Novels in Japan, search failed to find anything substantial 
That’s a good start :twisted: , but the ‘Greatest Ever’ evil harem really exists 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kippumjo
…And they have fusion power too :lol: .
It would probably be a non-hentai title. In the ero-side of the industry, selling 150000 copies is considered a super-mega-hit feat. Just shooting from the hip and going off gut instinct, something like Tokimeki Memorial or Sakura Taisen (both of which have sold over a million). Even more so, if you’re willing to include revisions/remakes/alternate platform versions.
Of course this also assuming, you mean “visual novel” encompasses the entire genre itself… TokiMemo and SakuTai aren’t visual novels by definition (TM is a dating simulator; ST is a tactical simulator with dating elements).
Even if you’re considering “purist” visual novel titles… I’d still say it be a non-hentai released on a console. It’s estimated that less than 500K actually buy PC bgames: hence 150K being top selling titles. Of them, only 300K or so are “committed” customers (i.e. buy more than two a year). Console has a much higher demographic.
There’s a good chance that Princess Maker 3 or Princess Maker 4 would rank high on a chart, if you’re willing to count sales outside of Japan into the equation. PM is popular in Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong. IIRC, it outsold Japan in Korea by a large amount. I’m really not sure which of the two (PM3 or PM4) sold better though. Of course PriMak is purely a raising simulator… only the fourth entry really made attempts to incorporate bgame elements. But people like to lump it as visual novel in the West, so…
For the ero-side, YouTube has these (from 2003 to 2006 only):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQKUqDefEvE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XBDZcRsPU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAz44tBrFts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0dbnTxlfU4
http://www.getchu.com/pc/salesranking2003.html
http://www.getchu.com/pc/salesranking2004.html
http://www.getchu.com/pc/salesranking2005.html
http://www.getchu.com/pc/salesranking2006.html
http://www.getchu.com/pc/salesranking2007.html
http://www.getchu.com/pc/salesranking2008.html
http://www.getchu.com/pc/salesranking2009.html
Getchu’s only one retailer, mind. None of the top sellers are even remotely surprising, though.
I wish the eroge companies would release their numbers, like the console market does. Case in point…
However then you compare it with this…
http://zepy.momotato.com/2007/03/01/ero … -year-2006
Rankings shift. If you get another listing, I’m sure the rankings change yet again. And it’s hard to tally the numbers, because the retailers won’t show them. It’s more of a “gestimate thing” than a real survey. Generally the top twenty titles are the same… but everything becomes a turkey shoot past that. It is kinda sad though… best selling eroge for 2006 is somewhere in the 70K range? 
More so when you see that the 2005 entry sold a few thousand over 150K.
Between a motorcycle and a car,truck etc. Which is better to own?
Gundam
Doraemon
http://zepy.momotato.com/2008/04/16/num … 1983-2007/
500+ releases each year is a huge number (over 1 per day in a niche segment, and not to mention saturation of the market).
I wish too, its pretty confusing when you dont have anything substantial to work on.
In the second list I saw a number pf pre existing franchises, and no Unique or breakthrough titles Like FSN some years ago, interesting to see that FSN sold 20K+ copies way after its release.
Thats quite a response dood. I wasnt very specific what II was trying to do. I meant eroge and that include VN’s; Bishoujo games and everything else. the search came out of a curiosity of knowing the top titles of all times.
FSN seems to be the topmost selling title, but Kanon has done so well, and to say nothing of the fact that it opened the floodgates for a lot of nakige like Kana, DC …
Sad to see a few companies dominating the market, new entrants keep the field more “interesting” to say the least.
For some reason, I read this and immediately thought of a nonsense joke my family loves bringing up. It is as follows:
Why aren’t butterfly knives more associated with yandere?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9EhodRQ41c
:o
Better source IMO: http://grev.g.hatena.ne.jp/keyword/HGameSales
And, of course: http://jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi/co … 098155368/
It should be relativized with the genre’s popularity, though. Before the year 2000, selling over 50K copies was just enormous.
Poor Tesla. Labeled a mad scientist for his later theories. Turns out one of his more crazier ones is actually possible (just technologically impossible for now):
http://www.teslaradio.com/pages/li_notes.htm
Basically transmitting electricity across the entire globe as “wireless electricity” - devices literally gain power from energy transmitted through the atmosphere.
Of course it’s totally inefficient - and when we have the tech to pull that off, we probably wouldn’t need it (things probably would run off our own bio-electricity or residual mechanical energy) - but a cool idea nonetheless.
Ohh a really random comment from me. I’m soo tired… yawns And it’s 5++ a.m. now. -__-;; Goodnight(evening/morning?) everyone…
Oyasumi-nasai. ???(or basically that’s what it typed out as).?And if anyone knows who that cute loli in Lancer-x’s ava is, please do tell me. She makes me wanna dress her up in a giant bunny suit and feed her lots of errr… carrots.(I mean the real kind.) :lol:
CEO at work is a moron. I won’t go into specifics, but there was a problem. I’m the resident expert on the kind of problem that happened: that’s why they freaking hired me: been doing it for three freaking years, with outstanding results. So I give him the reason why something is wrong, and how to fix it. Then he actually argues with me, saying that’s not what he herd… probably read it off Wikipedia or some retarded site. I wasn’t pulling any punches (not like I need this job to survive; it still has job growth in the industry), and remain adamant that he was making a huge mistake going against my suggestion. He’s a freaking “leadership” guy… he is NOT a programmer or translator.
So he goes and hires a third party consultant, to examine the situation and give an opinion. Not only it was it the SAME solution I gave, but it offered less and would cost more. So he goes and gets “free estimates” from several other consultants. They either we’re foggy with the solution, or will get back with us in several days, but the basics of what they would reveal, was still EXACTLY what I had told him.
So NOW the boss will do what I said we should have done… after wasting THOUSANDS of dollars and HOURS of time, to prove I was wrong.
Starting to look for a new place to work, because I think the boss doesn’t like me very much. Especially since I’ve “undermined” his “credibility”. :roll:
Foo don’t know I’m Nargrakhan, Dark Lord of Twincest. He needs to sho some respect.
Two years down the line, I’ll be in similar situations. Not like your situation, but like your boss’.
Meh, maybe you hit his ego pretty hard.