Author Topic: Official DS Sales Thread (Read 873314 times)

mantidor · « **Reply #1550 on:** March 24, 2006, 05:01:33 AM »

Japan has just a terrible taste, is shocking how they produce the best games in the world, but the highest selling genre is still the outdated turn based rpgs, Ive heard FFXII has some real-time elments though

KDR_11k · « **Reply #1551 on:** March 24, 2006, 06:38:14 AM »

Not just some, it's MMORPG-like realtime combat.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #1552 on:** March 24, 2006, 07:41:05 AM »

They buy the games for the stories, not the outdated combat systems.

Hell, Xenosagas 1&2 might as well have had a system where you press any button to win a battle and continue to the next cutscene.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #1553 on:** March 24, 2006, 07:45:26 AM »

"Japan has just a terrible taste, is shocking how they produce the best games in the world, but the highest selling genre is still the outdated turn based rpgs"

They probably make fun of us for buying the same football game every year.

jasonditz · « **Reply #1554 on:** March 24, 2006, 07:55:52 AM »

I love those turn based RPGs myself. Baten Kaitos, Xenosaga and DQ8 were some of the finest games made this generation.

The stories are important, but then there's games like Star Ocean, which had a story I was really getting into and a battle system that made the game virtually unplayable. I think I'd pay somebody $20 to play through the damned thing start to finish just so I could watch the story unfold.

I think the Rev might be a great system for those turn based RPGs too... if you think about it, a lot of the complex controls are pointless in the genre, you could probably play a lot of these games just with the one-handed Revmote.

I also think a series like Dragon Quest would do well to switch platforms. I know it sells insanely well in Japan, but in the US it seems to get buried under a sea of games with bigger budgets. DQ8 would've been the centerpiece RPG on the Cube, while on the PS2 it was just a way for people to get the FF12 preview.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #1555 on:** March 24, 2006, 08:13:41 AM »

Hell, Xenosagas 1&2 might as well have had a system where you press any button to win a battle and continue to the next cutscene.

Dunno, I found myself on the brink of death in that game much more often than in FFX (non-boss battles, obviously).

Renny · « **Reply #1556 on:** March 24, 2006, 08:18:10 AM »

Shouldn't they be making fun of the Japanese who're buying Winning Eleven twice a year? Japan is just as mainstream as the US, if not more so. But there seems to be a better market for less popular stuff. I guess that can be attributed to the lack of the stereotypical gamer. Anyone is likely to play games there, particularly now with the success of the DS. I hope the Rev will do the same here.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #1557 on:** March 24, 2006, 08:32:23 AM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k

Dunno, I found myself on the brink of death in that game much more often than in FFX (non-boss battles, obviously).

I didn't play either but I did have a friend who used the entire playing of Xenosaga 2 as a screensaver. Thus, I saw it frequently and it always seemed like very small bits of gameplay through very long cutscenes.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #1558 on:** March 24, 2006, 08:04:12 PM »

The cutscenes seem to get shorter once the game gets going but some parts (space combat, for example) should have ben playable instead of cutscenes...

Louieturkey · « **Reply #1559 on:** March 30, 2006, 04:45:44 PM »

Looks like Pokemon Rangers is starting out with 193,000 sales in its first week. Animal Crossing WW is still a juggurnaut with 82,000+ sold and Brain Training 1 & 2 continue to sell well.

Guess it's another week of huge DS and DSL sales in Japan.

Mario · « **Reply #1560 on:** March 30, 2006, 05:15:13 PM »

Media Create Sales: 20 - 26 March

1. Final Fantasy XII (PS2) - 237,678 (2,001,944)
2. Pokémon Rangers (NDS) - 193,337
3. Ace Combat Zero: The Belkin War (PS2) - 109,100
4. Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS) - 82,797 (2,270,601)
5. Brain Training 2 (NDS) - 76911 (1,648,640)
6. Shin Sangoku Musou 4 Empires (PS2) - 54,360
7. English Training (NDS) - 46,411 (703,156)
8. Brain Training (NDS) - 46,223 (1,768,819)
9. Harukanaru Jikuu no Uchi de 3 (PS2) - 45,636
10. Mario Kart DS (NDS) - 21,691 (1,210,800)

DSL 119,986
DS 39,307
PS2 34,169
PSP 31,077
GBASP 5,627
GBM 4,883
GC 1,458
Xbox360 1,415
Xbox 117
GBA 98

Things starting to look a bit more rosy. Keep those DS shipments coming Nintendo.

Arbok · « **Reply #1561 on:** March 30, 2006, 07:22:12 PM »

Still amazes me how bad the 360 is doing there, anyway it's always great to see the number of DS' Nintendo has been able to sell there, hope the steam on the DS and DSL continue.

Also, nice to see the lack of sarcasm Mario.

UncleBob · « **Reply #1562 on:** March 30, 2006, 07:25:37 PM »

What amazes me is that the DSL outsold every other system (including the original DS) combined.

Caterkiller · « **Reply #1563 on:** March 30, 2006, 08:05:34 PM »

Its pretty amazing really. I can't believe how well the DSL and DS are doing. I mean the DS alone is surpasing PSP sales. I could really see the Revolution pulling a DS, I mean it may not be as succesful, but there is no way its going to pull a GCN.

animecyberrat · « **Reply #1564 on:** March 30, 2006, 08:07:51 PM »

so now that UMD sales are falling off and movie studios are dropping support, and Tetris DS is out how much longer before Sony throws int he towel and kills of the PSP?

jasonditz · « **Reply #1565 on:** March 30, 2006, 08:15:09 PM »

For practical purposes I don't see Sony giving up on the PSP for awhile. Anyhow, it's sold well enough that it's probably not losing them any money (the same probably can not be said of the retailers with the huge UMD sections).

I would say the only way the PSP gets EOLed early is if the PS3 gets off to a really poor start and Sony corporate decides to pull the plug on the whole game division.

Avinash_Tyagi · « **Reply #1566 on:** March 30, 2006, 08:19:05 PM »

Sony will probably release the next PSP version with less emphasis on the UMD aspect.

DS has almost a 3.5 million lead on the PSP

KDR_11k · « **Reply #1567 on:** March 31, 2006, 03:14:07 AM »

DS has almost a 3.5 million lead on the PSP

In Japan or worldwide?

vudu · « **Reply #1568 on:** March 31, 2006, 07:59:03 AM »

I'm a little sad that Xbox sales surpassed GBA sales. If I'm not mistaken, that's the first time this has happened in a while.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #1569 on:** March 31, 2006, 09:29:33 AM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
DS has almost a 3.5 million lead on the PSP

In Japan or worldwide?

The dropping of UMD support by major movie studios further fuels the theory that Sony is buying back its own PSP units in an attempt to attract more developers.

It's clearly not working, as people wind up looking at the sales numbers of games and movies and those are terrible.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #1570 on:** March 31, 2006, 10:13:32 AM »

The dropping of UMD support by major movie studios further fuels the theory that Sony is buying back its own PSP units in an attempt to attract more developers.

Not necessarily. UMD movies were a stupid idea in first place. Even if I had a PSP I wouldn't buy any of them. The PSP can be used as a media playback device so you can theoretically use one without any UMDs, others will have one with only one game and no movies, etc.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #1571 on:** March 31, 2006, 10:35:20 AM »

Thing is, with as many PSP sales as Sony would like to boast, you'd think that it would be enough to warrant continuing production of UMD movies.

I'd expect that SOMEONE would be buying PSP movies if they only trail the DS by 3.5 mil units sold, but judging by what the studios are doing, my theory still stands.

Avinash_Tyagi · « **Reply #1572 on:** March 31, 2006, 01:00:37 PM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
DS has almost a 3.5 million lead on the PSP

In Japan or worldwide?

This is just japan, the WW number is probably slightly higher.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #1573 on:** March 31, 2006, 03:57:47 PM »

There's not nearly enough PSPs out there to warrant UMD movie sales if you ask me. UMD movies were just a stupid idea, especially if standalone UMB players come out (actually I think there are some). Why invent a new format greatly inferior to the soon to be obsolete DVD?

Arbok · « **Reply #1574 on:** March 31, 2006, 04:57:06 PM »

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Why invent a new format greatly inferior to the soon to be obsolete DVD?

I don't know about you, but I haven't heard of a lot of people actually ready to accept HD DVDs or Blu-Ray with open arms, even if they are still aways from release.

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