Post by: WindyMan on April 27, 2007, 10:03:27 AM
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=13376
In addition to releasing its financial report this week, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata held a press conference for his company's investors. The presentation highlighted Nintendo's reasons for success over the past year, most of which was due to the Nintendo DS. Predictably, Iwata focused his attention on the handheld for the bulk of his speech.
Here are some of the highlights of the press event, which you can watch here.
- The 23.56 million DS systems Nintendo shipped out in the past year is the biggest single-year shipment total in Nintendo's history.
- Collectively, the Brain Age games have sold more than 12 million copies, with no sign of slowing down. Talking about the longevity of the series, Iwata proclaimed that Brain Age has "destroyed the industry standard that software can only be sold for a couple of weeks after launch."
- Nintendo's internal research has found that first-time DS owners that started with Brain Age have gone on to buy other Nintendo games, the top three being New Super Mario Bros, Big Brain Academy and Nintendogs.
- 13.6 million copies of Nintendogs have been sold worldwide.
- In Japan, 15 of Nintendo's DS games have sold over a million. Of those, three have sold over four million: New Super Mario Bros., Brain Training 2 and Animal Crossing DS.
- Four third party Japanese DS games have also sold over a million, although Iwata didn't mention which ones.
- Iwata remarked that the Nintendo DS is the fastest-selling game hardware in Japanese history.
- In talking about the trends in the Japanese market, Iwata pointed out how in years past, the console market has traditionally been larger than the handheld market. However, this past year that trend flipped, and the portable market was 1.6 times larger than the console market in 2006. Iwata said that this turn of events is "historically unbelievable."
- Moving to worldwide charts, Iwata showed the top 20 games of previous years from various countries. In 2005, Very few to no Nintendo games were on the charts. In 2006, more games on Nintendo systems started to show up. Using Q1 2007 and recent weekly figures to drive the point home, Nintendo games dominate the charts. After showing that 18 out of 20 games on the German top sellers list were for Nintendo hardware, Iwata remarked, "I have never seen anything like this."
- Approximately 40% of Wii consoles are connected to the Internet.
- Worldwide, 3.3 million Virtual Console games have been paid for and downloaded.
- In the past year, Nintendo sold about 150 million games across all its systems. Iwata stated that Nintendo's goal for this year is to double that number and sell 300 million games worldwide.
In related news, Bloomberg learned that Nintendo currently has 45 Wii games and 79 DS games under development. However, it wasn't made clear if all of these games are actually being developed by Nintendo, or if they include third party titles.
Post by: ShyGuy on April 27, 2007, 11:46:03 AM
1. The amount of casual Wii users who aren't technology minded
2. The requirement of broadband
3. The requirement of Wifi*
(*excluding lan adapters)
I wonder what the stats are for 480p and Widescreen usage.
Post by: UncleBob on April 27, 2007, 12:34:20 PM
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Post by: Kairon on April 27, 2007, 03:36:25 PM
... Maybe... maybe 75% of thsoe are tech demos? Yeah, 75% of those are probably demonstration or testing projects that have the potential to turn into real games, but probably won't.
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Post by: trip1eX on April 27, 2007, 04:37:44 PM
They are making stuff like Brain Academy for the Wii too which have much smaller budgets and development times. Hopefully a smaller list price too.
Post by: IceCold on April 27, 2007, 07:51:35 PM
QuoteSo, KDR.. how come the Wii isn't sold out if this is happening?
After showing that 18 out of 20 games on the German top sellers list were for Nintendo hardware, Iwata remarked, "I have never seen anything like this."
Post by: BigJim on April 28, 2007, 01:46:23 AM
40% online penetration is pretty solid considering there aren't even any premiere online games yet. That'll bump when the content comes.
Post by: Galford on April 28, 2007, 05:48:05 AM
Miyamoto has stated more then once Nintendo makes games that are just concept titles.
I feel really weird reading these numbers.
Does NOA or NOE have there own financial report or is this all regions wrapped into one?
This seems like a very Japan centric report.
Post by: Nephilim on April 28, 2007, 06:50:34 AM
nowonder why they are in no rush to release diamond and pearl, despite upset ppl ranting online about NOE
Post by: stevey on April 28, 2007, 08:19:26 AM
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45 Wii games, 79 DS games being developed by Nintendo, first info on these games at end of Summer
Many of these games are “real gamer games” such as Super Mario Galaxy
Damn, If only E3 was still next week and not 74 days more away
Post by: that Baby guy on April 28, 2007, 02:26:17 PM
Post by: KDR_11k on April 28, 2007, 09:58:10 PM
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Originally posted by: IceColdQuoteSo, KDR.. how come the Wii isn't sold out if this is happening?
After showing that 18 out of 20 games on the German top sellers list were for Nintendo hardware, Iwata remarked, "I have never seen anything like this."
DS? Not selling out still meaning more sales than other software? Norton finally got dropped from the sales charts?
