Can video games change your life? Can they make you more active? More fit and more toned? After the Dance Dance Revolution craze showed us a way to get off our butts and burn calories while being entertained, game developers have been searching for the next big thing. Once Wii Fit landed on store shelves and sold millions, that search became all the more tantalizing.
Active Life is Namco Bandai's take on the subject, a series that is dedicated to, not surprisingly, providing gamers with a more active lifestyle. Unbelievably, it does not accomplish this task by banking on the success of the Wii Balance Board. Active Life took another route, instead using a DDR-style mat that features eight points of interactivity. The first Active Life title, Outdoor Challenge, uses the power of mini-games to get players to break a sweat.
Gameplay 5
Graphics 4
Sound 4
Difficulty Medium
Concept 8
Multiplayer 5
Overall 5.0
Namco Bandai today released their Q1 2010 earnings report. And buried amidst the boring money stuff (net sales are down 15.8%) is something a little more interesting: game sales data.
Listed were the publisher's top five-selling games for the quarter ending June 30, 2009 (as in, only those sold during that three-month period, not lifetime sales). Those expecting Nintendo-like numbers will be disappointed, but those who love Afro Samurai - or just numbers in general - will be thrilled!
Poor Namco. Their best selling game isn't even well reviewed or high in sales. The other 4 are just jokes anyways. Hopefully they shuffle up some good game ideas for this next quarter to keep afloat since I like the Tales of series.
this is what they get for unleashing Ace Combat to a foreign audience and abandoning the outright loyalty of the PS horde; otherwise ruining the track record of an excellent franchise.
where in the world is KK and that fkn Cellius...? >_<
The top ten best-selling games for Namco Bandai during the 2008-2009 fiscal year.Tales of Vesperia for the Xbox 360 is surprisingly not on the list.
thats some really interesting no's 600k gundam 2 in japan alone and 650k for ultimate ninja storm if they patch trophies i would buy it great looking game
FLOP! only in 360fixme.
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6. Naruto Ultimate Ninja: Storm
System(s): Playstation 3
Region(s): Europe, Japan and United States
Total Sales: 640,000 units
I do better with Namco exclusive only for ps3 and more than flops been there in 360fixme.
Wow Naruto UN Storm sold rather well! Is anyone really surprised TOV has not sold well on 360.
Danny Cowan from Gamasutra writes:
"Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide.
This week's charts, with data taken from February 5th, 2009, find Halo 3 and Call of Duty: World at War at the top of North America's Xbox 360 software sales charts, while Star Ocean: Second Evolution and Mario Kart DS drive sales on portables.
Data for "Saling The World" comes courtesy of the public sales information on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.co.jp, with sales split out for each platform and territory, and pre-orders disregarded. This results in a true sense of what games are selling worldwide on the real-time updated service, as follows..."
