Topic: Official DS Sales Thread

[BranDonk Kong]

Heh...Nintendo sold 107 times as many DS systems as MS sold XBox 360s last week in Japan. That's pretty amazing...I can't believe MS actually sold that many systems!

[Hocotate]

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Originally posted by: MarioI keep hearing about Animal Crossing being sold out over in the US too,

I haven't been able to find the game in any stores.... Been looking around alot too. I guess I'll have to buy it online.

[Renny]

I was told early January for the next AC shipment. Supposebly 15,000 produced.... Let's pretend it was 15,000 shipped to EBGames. That's pretty dire. Whatever the real numbers, it's obvious they produced well below the demand. The holiday season, and the Cube version was fairly popular. 2+2=Why?

[BlkPaladin]

I remember seeing it when it first came out and balked at buying it. Now it is nowhere to be seen in my area.

On a seperate note it seems that most Nintendo products were popular this season, especially in Wal-Mart out of the 4 Wal-Marts in my area only one has any Nintendo accessories and the big titles are sold out. (With the exception of Mario Kart which I think they made too many, relitivly to Animal crossing)

[Darkheart]

Well before I quit Toys R us since its launch, we recieved 3 shipments of Animal Crossing, all 3 sold out.  Same with  the Xbox 360's we actually did get a second shipment of them after launch but was told only to bundle them for 800 dollars by corporate.  As far as Nintendogs go, we had a good supply of all 3 versions.

[animecyberrat]

well i did some shopping aroudn and K-mart still has Nintendogs so tehres till time I guess, but everybody else was sold out and Animal Crossing isnt anywhere but I havent decided if I want it yet ornot, never played teh original so am still debating on this one.  

[kirby_killer_dedede]

It's English-heavy, I'm not sure you'd like it.

EDIT: Haha, read the first page of this thread.  PSP.  Ahead.  Bah!

[jasonditz]

Time to break out the party hats, guys...

Nintendo: DS Sales Top 10 Million

[Karl Castaneda #2]

Eh, that's very strange. According to the Corporate Information at Nintendo of America, the worldwide count is 8.83 as of 12/16/2005. Were 1.17 million units sold since then? That's quite an achievement.

[Mario]

12 Dec - 18 Dec 408,770
19 Dec - 25 Dec 597,628

That's over 1 million in Japan alone, there could easily have been another .17 million sold around the world too , in fact I think it's a bit over 10 million now.

[Mario]

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REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 3, 2006 – Nintendo's 15 years of unsurpassed leadership in portable video gaming continued unabated through the 2005 holiday season. Sales figures show that Nintendo's dual-screened Nintendo DS™, fueled by hit software and new global Wi-Fi capability, has sold approximately 4 million units to date in North America alone. Combined with Game Boy® Advance, the world's most popular portable video game line, Nintendo now enjoys a combined U.S. market share of 78 percent.

Yep, that's 4 million in the US alone. They've sold over 5.5 million in Japan, so that's 9.55 million. That isn't even counting Europe! I'd estimate it's around 12 million. It's at LEAST 1 million, since they announced they'd sold 1 million Nintendogs in Europe, and I highly doubt Nintendogs has more than a 50% tie ratio with the system, so it's probably over 12 million.

For comparison PSP has sold 2.7 million in the US as of December 1, 2.5 million in Japan up til now. That's just over 5 million, and if i'm going to use 2 million for DS in Europe, I'll say PSP has done 1.5 million in Europe. (all I  know about over there is that DS > PSP). Sooo..

DS - 12 million (just over)
PSP - 7 million (just under)

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Nintendo also reports U.S. sales of Mario Kart® DS, released on Nov. 14 and featuring live, global Wi-Fi competition, has topped the 1 million mark in just seven weeks. And Nintendogs™, made for Nintendo DS, has surpassed sales of 1.5 million units since its U.S. launch in August.

That is quite big! Perhaps Nintendo DS is coming back in the US after all, I can't wait for December NPD numbers. That would mean Mario Kart DS sold over 700,000, and Nintendogs over 600,000. They didn't mention Animal Crossing in the press release, probably because they destroyed its sales by not shipping enough.  

[IceCold]

And the legacy lives on... no Mario Kart has ever sold less than 2 million worldwide.

[BranDonk Kong]

This just in, the DS is completely obliterating the PSP all over the world. It's kinda like an "F You" from Nintendo in retaliation to the PS2's dominance.

[Artimus]

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Originally posted by: IceCold
And the legacy lives on... no Mario Kart has ever sold less than 2 million worldwide.

Just what I was about to say! Except it's in North America. Double Dash was within 100,000 by the summer, so it's probably there by now.

[animecyberrat]

Eff You kirby killer!

[Mario]

Did some Math

Nintendo DS

Japan - 5.44 million
USA - 4 million
Europe - 3 million (sauce)
Australia - .16 million

Total = 12.6 million

PSP

Japan - 2.5 million
USA - 2.7 million
Europe 1.5 million (guess)
Australia .10 million

Total - 6.8 million  

[animecyberrat]

so is that  a bigger lead over psp than Ps2 had over GC? If so it shouldnt take long before publishers fins out its not a profitable system to release games on and start dropping it like they did the Cube.

[Toruresu]

People, its time we go outside and play our DS in public! Those who own a DS will follow, and those who own a PSP will show us their SNES roms (lol).

[Avinash_Tyagi]

The end of the PSP is in sight

[Avinash_Tyagi]

Sony is claiming that through mid december its PSP numbers were at 3.2 million, but the fact that its not releasing the full December numbers makes me think that it knows they were not as good as the DS's december sales.  

[BlackNMild2k1]

That would be where Sony makes it next mistake, use PS3 development as PSP leverage.

You want to make games for the unprecidented victor in the "Next-Gen HD Multipurpose Livingroom Console Wars" or in other words the PS3, then you have to support the PSP first and continue to support the PSP during. No PSP support = no PS3 access!!!

thats when 3rd parties start to see the arrogance and jump ship back to Nintendo, then all is at peace again the world of gamesvideo

[KDR_11k]

They'll jump to MS if they want lower restrictions, at least for this gen. Nintendo had a similar "promote our crap if you want to work with us" policy for Square and connectivity.

[kirby_killer_dedede]

Yeah...Square had interest in making Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, so Nintendo let them, under the condition that they develop a game for GameCube.  Which, fair enough.  But Nintendo also forced them to push their connectivity feature, ultimately causing FF:CC to cost near 500 bucks to fully enjoy at the time (link cables, GBAs).

[31 Flavas]

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Originally posted by: kirby_killer_dedede

ultimately causing FF:CC to cost near 500 bucks to fully enjoy at the time (link cables, GBAs).

Honestly, I don't buy it. GBAs are so prevailent its not that hard to find another friend or three with a gba that would like to play or will let you borrow. And, honestly, new and used GBAs are dirt cheap on eBay if you or your family needs them. (Besides, you know, GBAs play games too And you don't have to take my word that it has really good games, ask anyone else! ) You can find cheap used first/third party connector cables at EB/GameStop.

Last I heard we are getting FF:CC for the DS and Revolution so obviously someone besides my friends really liked it and had no problems finding the nessary gear. It's such a fun game and you still have GCN Four Swords ;P

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Yeah, indeed.

FFCC was really a game meant for GBA players w/ GameCubes and GBA-owning friends, not necessarily for GameCube players w/ GBAs.  The GBA audience is clearly bigger than GameCube's, so it's evident which audience would have an easier time taking advantage of the game.