Author Topic: Official DS Sales Thread (Read 846426 times)

KDR_11k · « **Reply #2025 on:** June 23, 2006, 08:57:52 PM »

If I was the head of a third party publisher and I asked Sony for sales figures and they gave me shipped figures I'd send them a reply asking for USEFUL data.

And Sony would tell you to go elsewhere because they are SONY and they don't need your games because the Playstation sells without games!

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #2026 on:** June 23, 2006, 11:01:51 PM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
If I was the head of a third party publisher and I asked Sony for sales figures and they gave me shipped figures I'd send them a reply asking for USEFUL data.

And Sony would tell you to go elsewhere because they are SONY and they don't need your games because the Playstation sells without games!

Hehe, even when they probaly LOSE money on each system sold. But hey it still is a system sold

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BiLdItUp1 · « **Reply #2027 on:** June 25, 2006, 02:49:47 PM »

And the thing is, when I went to buy my DS Lite at Virgin the other day (cuz Best Buy and Circuit City were sold out, and I don't buy games from vg outlets, and the TRU closed a year ago), the UMD movie section was double the size of the DS game section; no joke. The Sony image is still very powerful, methinks.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #2028 on:** June 25, 2006, 02:56:25 PM »

Were the UMD movies NEW releases? Cause they could just be trying to push out old inventory.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #2029 on:** June 25, 2006, 05:47:37 PM »

As far as I can tell in the Bay Area and Sacramento area, the only Virgin store is in San Francisco. Not a great retail "chain" for market representation.

Wal-Mart howevar...

Myxtika1 Azn · « **Reply #2030 on:** June 25, 2006, 06:05:16 PM »

Actually, there should be a Virgin store next the The Arden Mall. Maybe it has closed down already? I haven't been tere for a while.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #2031 on:** June 25, 2006, 06:13:47 PM »

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As far as I can tell in the Bay Area and Sacramento area, the only Virgin store is in San Francisco. Not a great retail "chain" for market representation.

Wal-Mart howevar...

Yeah, Wally World is the best example to look at here and they announced that they were tossing/liquidating all of their UMD movie section recently because the sales were just so damn poor.

Every wal-mart I go to always has the UMD movies packed to the very edge of the shelf. The DS games are clearly experiencing sales because I can see that the shelves need to be restocked in some cases. UMD movies have ALWAYS been packed to the brim, indicating that either the wal-mart clerks take extra care to stock the UMD section or that the UMD movies aren't selling at all.

Deguello · « **Reply #2032 on:** June 25, 2006, 09:24:05 PM »

My local Walmart here in Georgia has liquidated them wholesale. I cannot find UMD movies in the section that they were in last (behind the Latin albums in the far end) nor can I find any UMDs elsewhere in the store. They are gone. Furthermore, the PSP GAMES are in some sort of side shelf, away from the regular games display. DS games are next to GBA games, and are experiencing the brisk sales Smash Brother describes. some gone, some games with only one copy left.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #2033 on:** June 25, 2006, 10:05:07 PM »

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Originally posted by: Deguello
My local Walmart here in Georgia has liquidated them wholesale. I cannot find UMD movies in the section that they were in last (behind the Latin albums in the far end) nor can I find any UMDs elsewhere in the store. They are gone. Furthermore, the PSP GAMES are in some sort of side shelf, away from the regular games display. DS games are next to GBA games, and are experiencing the brisk sales Smash Brother describes. some gone, some games with only one copy left.

Just imagine what DS sales (both games and systems) would be like if it wasn't crammed in the corner at most stores, while PSP is out in the open with alot of retail space.

Louieturkey · « **Reply #2034 on:** June 26, 2006, 03:35:28 PM »

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Originally posted by: Myxtika1 Azn
Actually, there should be a Virgin store next the The Arden Mall. Maybe it has closed down already? I haven't been tere for a while.

Yeah they closed that store down about a year ago. It's still just empty space though I think they may have started construction on something there now.

Kairon · « **Reply #2035 on:** June 26, 2006, 11:49:27 PM »

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19 out of 30?!

But only 4 or 5 of those are from 3rd parties?

Capcom could be raking in the bucks if they got off their collective arses and pumped out Phoenix Wright sequels every 6-9 months like they SHOULD BE! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHH!

Also, Sprung should get a Japan release...heheheheheheeheeheeheehaaahaaHAAAHAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #2036 on:** June 28, 2006, 09:01:16 AM »

For all the those curious about gaming sales, here is a *work in progress* that will eventually cover everything from NES to PS3 hardware and software

VGCharts.org

edit: errors are to be found and hopefully to be fixed.
#'s are a collaboration of information from the GAF informed and will probably end-up being the most accumulated mass of #'s that we will have access to publicly in simplified form.

IceCold · « **Reply #2037 on:** June 28, 2006, 10:38:10 AM »

Hmm, on that site it says the total PSP hardware sold worldwide is 17 million whereas the DS is 16.93 million, which is way off.. maybe they use Sony's "shipped" numbers.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #2038 on:** June 28, 2006, 11:46:34 AM »

Someone at that site left the "Auto Fail" box checked.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #2039 on:** June 28, 2006, 12:11:40 PM »

Wait, wait wait. I don't even think the PSP had shipped 17 million units by dec 2005.

Ceric · « **Reply #2040 on:** June 28, 2006, 12:39:15 PM »

Now that's interesting. Nintendo Pretty much had May in that. The other list you look at at the top you see a good amount of Sony and the occacional XBox game and some Nintendo. Before you get half way through you start seeing nothing but Nintendo. Dang. No wonder there profitable. That's the American chart too.

Dang. According to the VGCharts.org Pokemon Red/Blue/Green sold 10,224,500 in Japan. Now lets say everyone bought all three so individually thats 3,408,166 copies sold in Japan alone per version. That puts it just below Super Mario World and above Final Fantasy VII.
Also after splitting all those up it reveals that Tetris for the GB at 4,221,500 is the best selling game in Japan of all time. If you think that's inflated just consider that Super Mario Land is right under it. That's not what I expected.

IceCold · « **Reply #2041 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:53:08 PM »

It doesn't count NES games.. Super Mario Bros would probably be the best selling game of all time, followed by Super Mario Bros 3. After all, SMB is the highest selling game ever, and SMB3 is the highest selling standalone game ever (not bundled).

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #2042 on:** June 28, 2006, 07:00:39 PM »

SMB wasn't actually sold to most people, it was included for free for with the NES. I'm sure if you wanted to count the most owned gamed ever that would definately be SMB on NES, but as far as sold, I'm not so sure.

Kairon · « **Reply #2043 on:** June 28, 2006, 07:05:43 PM »

Media Create Numbers June 19-25

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1. Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (PS2) - 281,510
2. New Super Mario Bros. (NDS) - 170,168 (1,848,813)
3. Brain Age 2 (NDS) - 57,752 (2,594,989)
4. Winning Eleven 10 (PS2) - 49,926 (863,457)
5. Brain Age (NDS) - 38,766 (2,437,374)
6. King of Fighters XI (PS2) - 28,015
7. Animal Crossing WW (NDS) - 27,780 (2,857,990)
8. English Training (NDS) - 24,978 (1,193,324)
9. Sony Computer Science Kenkyuusho Kenmogi Kenichirou Hakase Kanshuu - Nou ni Kaikan: Aha Taiken (PSP) - 23,548
10. Digimon Story - 21,520 (62,655)

But..but..what is this?

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1. Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (PS2) - 281,510

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #2044 on:** June 28, 2006, 07:18:10 PM »

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Originally posted by: Kairon
Media Create Numbers June 19-25

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1. Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (PS2) - 281,510
2. New Super Mario Bros. (NDS) - 170,168 (1,848,813)
3. Brain Age 2 (NDS) - 57,752 (2,594,989)
4. Winning Eleven 10 (PS2) - 49,926 (863,457)
5. Brain Age (NDS) - 38,766 (2,437,374)
6. King of Fighters XI (PS2) - 28,015
7. Animal Crossing WW (NDS) - 27,780 (2,857,990)
8. English Training (NDS) - 24,978 (1,193,324)
9. Sony Computer Science Kenkyuusho Kenmogi Kenichirou Hakase Kanshuu - Nou ni Kaikan: Aha Taiken (PSP) - 23,548
10. Digimon Story - 21,520 (62,655)
11 NDS Tetris DS (Nintendo) - 20,412 (640,760)
12 PS2 Galaxy Angel II (Broccoli) - 18,902
13 NDS Magical Vacation: 5-tsu no Hoshi ga Narabu toki (Nintendo) - 13,571
14 PS2 Hisshou Pachi-Slot Kouryoku Series Vol. 5 (D3)
15 NDS Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
16 NDS Pokemon Ranger (Nintendo)
17 NDS Gyakuten Saiban: Yomigaeru Gyakuten (Best Price) (Capcom) - 7,991 (18,738)
18 NDS Metroid Prime Hunters (Nintendo) - 7,485 (59,058)
19 NDS Yawaraka Atama Juku (Nintendo)
20 NDS Puzzle Series Vol. 3: Sudoku (Hudson)
21 PSP World Soccer Winning Eleven 9: Ubiquitous Edition (PSP the Best) (Konami)
22 PSP Nou Ryoku Trainer Portable 2 (Sega)
23 NDS Unou no Tatsujin: Gunbullet Trainer (Namco)
24 PSP Doko Demo Issho: Let's Gakkou! (Sony) - 5,424 (22,276)
25 NDS Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten (Nintendo)
26 PS2 Jikkyou Powerful Major League (Konami)
27 PS2 Final Fantasy XII (Square Enix)
28 NDS Seiken Densetsu DS: Children of Mana (Square Enix)
29 PSP Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable (Square Enix) - 4,707
30 NSD Tamagotchi no Puchi Puchi Omisecchi (Bandai)

31 Flavas · « **Reply #2045 on:** June 28, 2006, 07:44:28 PM »

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Hmm, on that site it says the total PSP hardware sold worldwide is 17 million whereas the DS is 16.93 million, which is way off.. maybe they use Sony's "shipped" numbers.

Number for number they are stolen off of Kaz's E3 PSP Hardware Shipments slide.

Edit: Or at least, they match the video I have of Kaz lecturing us.

Edit2: Also the page does say that it is shippments and not sales. I just noticed that. We certainly know who's stock is selling more though

KDR_11k · « **Reply #2046 on:** June 28, 2006, 08:48:53 PM »

12 PS2 Galaxy Angel II (Broccoli) - 18,902

As I understand it that's a dating sim. No idea how pathologically insane you have to be to try dating any of those girls. Half the time they're destroying the whole universe, the other half of the time they're killing themselves or everyone nearby.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #2047 on:** June 28, 2006, 08:53:03 PM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
12 PS2 Galaxy Angel II (Broccoli) - 18,902

As I understand it that's a dating sim. No idea how pathologically insane you have to be to try dating any of those girls. Half the time they're destroying the whole universe, the other half of the time they're killing themselves or everyone nearby.

So, you've played the game b4? then you should have some idea

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #2048 on:** June 28, 2006, 09:07:06 PM »

Saw this pointed out elsewhere, thought it was interesting

Top 3 DS games
2. New Super Mario Bros. (NDS) - 170,168 (1,848,813)
3. Brain Age 2 (NDS) - 57,752 (2,594,989)
5. Brain Age (NDS) - 38,766 (2,437,374)

Top 3 PSP games
9. Sony Brain Experience (PSP) - 23,548
21 Winning Eleven 9 (PSP)
22 Nou Ryoku (Brain) Trainer Portable 2 (PSP)

IceCold · « **Reply #2049 on:** June 28, 2006, 11:20:46 PM »

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Originally posted by: BlackNMild2k1
SMB wasn't actually sold to most people, it was included for free for with the NES. I'm sure if you wanted to count the most owned gamed ever that would definately be SMB on NES, but as far as sold, I'm not so sure.

That's why I said that SMB3 had the most sales ever for a standalone game

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