Topic: Official DS Sales Thread

[ShawnSt3r]

   Good point.

[31 Flavas]

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Originally posted by: Caterkiller

Good news for Nintendo, I really think they will expand they online Market by leaps and bounds.

Now if they could only do something about the pimple faced dorks who on track 4 when i'm about to take the victory just suddenly disconnect... I think i'm given the Win anyway, but its just stupid. I mean is not like they couldn't try to win again in the next set of 4 tracks...

[Grant10k]

When I got the game I didn't even go home first, I walked right back into best buy to the Geek Squad counter and plugged into their WiFi (so to speak)

[Caterkiller]

"Now if they could only do something about the pimple faced dorks who on track 4 when i'm about to take the victory just suddenly disconnect... I think i'm given the Win anyway, but its just stupid. I mean is not like they couldn't try to win again in the next set of 4 tracks..."

Yeah I can't stand that! If I am loosing constantly I still race, If my opponents are winning they deserve it and I continue. You will never see me "Wushu Lv3" disconnect from a race just because im loosing. Though a couple of times I got disconnected while I had huge leads in races and points.  

[Chris1]

I know this is the wrong place to ask, but does anyone know the gta psp sales? im just intrested to see if mario kart sold more in its first week.  it kinda seems like sony is keeping it to itself

[Artimus]

LS sold 158,000 copies in 13 days. It came out the 23, but NPD does sales data to the 5th.

[hudsonhawk]

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Originally posted by: NobleXenon54
45% is huge considering that many people won't be getting the game from their friends and family until Christmas...

Whaaaaa?

That statement makes no sense.  Are you saying the people getting the game for Xmas are more likely to go online with the game than the people who went out and bought it the first week?

Even if 10,000,000 people get the game for Christmas, if the same ratio of them go online that number will still be 45%....

[NobleXenon54]

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Originally posted by: hudsonhawk

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Originally posted by: NobleXenon54
45% is huge considering that many people won't be getting the game from their friends and family until Christmas...

Whaaaaa?

That statement makes no sense.  Are you saying the people getting the game for Xmas are more likely to go online with the game than the people who went out and bought it the first week?

Even if 10,000,000 people get the game for Christmas, if the same ratio of them go online that number will still be 45%....

Uh, no. I'm saying that some people who bought the game for their friends and families will not be able to play that game until Christmas day, when they open their gifts and get to play it...

Here is some math:

112,000 sold in one week.

45% played online, which will be 50,400.

There are 61,600 that didn't play online, but how many of those are wrapped in foil and will not be able to open it to play it until Christmas?  

[Dasmos]

I get it, at first I didn't. Also there are those who have the game yet have no working DS to play it on.

[Mario]

November 14 - 20

01 PS2 Mobile Suit Gundam Seed: Union vs Z.A.F.T. - 298,000 (298,000)
02 NDS Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Ao no Kyuujotai - 124,000 (124,000)
03 GBA Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Aka no Kyuujoutai - 113,000 (113,000)
04 PS2 J.LEAGUE Winning Eleven 9 Asia Championship - 43,000 (43,000)
05 NDS Daredemo Asobi Taisen - 35,000 (131,000)
06 NGC Mario Party 7 - 30,000 (114,000)
07 NDS Nou wo Kitaeru Otona no DS Training - 24,000 (763,000)
08 NDS Yawaraka Atamajuku - 17,000 (660,000)
09 PS2 Shinobido Imashime - 17,000 (65,000)
10 PS2 Daito Giken Koushiki Pachi-Slot Simulator Banchou - 17,000 (142,000)

Nintendo continues to dominate gaming

[Mario]

Reports are coming in saying Animal Crossing DS sold over 300,000 in it's first two days of release in Japan, and DS sales "greatly increased". Of course, we got a report like this when Jump Superstars came out and it turned out to be a bit lower in the actual sales chart, but I think 300,000 for this is believable, we'll see.

[KnowsNothing]

I think 300,000 is a fair estimate for the game that's going to easily surpass Mario Kart DS for best game

EVER

[Artimus]

Several sites reported Animal Crossing had 400,000 preorders.

This week's sales:

DS     65,341
PSP    58,898
PS2    21,102
GBM    9,140
GBASP    6,822
GC    5,661
GBA    249
Xbox    141

What was up in handheld land this week?

1. PS2 - Mobile Suit Gundam: The Federation vs. Z.A.F.T. - 298,364
2. DS - Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon: Blue Rescue Force - 123,556
3. GBA - Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon: Red Rescue Force -112,898
4. PS2 -  J-League Winning Eleven 9: Asia Championship - 42,910
5. DS - Daredemo Asobi Taizen - 34,832
6. GCN - Mario Party 7 - 29,622
7. DS -  DS Training For Adults: Work Your Brain - 23,793
8. DS - Gentle Brain Exercises - 16,839
9. PS2 - Shinobido Imashime - 16,635
10. PS2 - Daito Giken Official Pachinko Slot Simulator: Osu! Bancho - 16,524

[Mario]

PSP Giga Pack released, PSP sales should drop off next week. It's pretty odd that people aren't buying games with their new PSP's.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Probably buying the latest veedee-oh phones with them.  And dying their hair bright orange.

[Mario]

Oh yeah, you guys that thought all these massive DS sales were just in Japan? THINK AGAIN!

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For the last three weeks, sales of Nintendo DS exceeded 100,000 units per week, and last week alone sales topped 120,000 across Europe.

That's even MORE than Japan!

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Hit releases like Nintendogs are also having a massive impact on Nintendo's hand-held popularity, reaching new gamers and creating an overnight phenomenon. Since its launch on October 7th in Europe, over 1 million copies of the game have been sold. Nintendogs has become like gold dust across Europe with stocks flying off shelves as soon as they arrive in store.

Nintendos biggest new franchise since Pokemon!

[blackfootsteps]

Australian 2005 Sales
Source: GfK : published in The Australian (29/11/2005) 29.

DS    120 066
GBA  105 143
PSP    76 288

PS2    200 580
XBOX 111 355
GC       17 380

Lifetime Totals

PS2     1 500 000
XBOX      747 000
GC          144 000

[KDR_11k]

Nintendos biggest new franchise since Pokemon!

To be fair, how many franchises has Nintendo introduced since then?

[Hans Beckert]

To be fair, how many franchises has Nintendo introduced since then?

Quite a few, actually. Smash Bros., Paper Mario, Custom Robo, Wave Race, 1080 Snowboarding, Legend of Stafi, WarioWare, Magical Vacation, Band Brothers, Pikmin, Animal Crossing, and Cubivore--or was that just published by Nintendo? I dunno.

There's also Geist and Eternal Darkness, which were primarily developed by other companies, but which Nintendo had a hand in making, and which they published and now own. Don't know if you'd count them. I think they own Doshin, too, and maybe the Skip games, Chibi Robo and Giftpia... Not sure about their involvement in or ownership of Golden Sun, Another Code, Detect Hacker, or Wish Room, though.  

[IceCold]

Well, you could say that Smash Bros, Paper Mario and Wario Ware are part of existing franchises. But, yeah, you're right...

[31 Flavas]

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Originally posted by: Hans Beckert

Not sure about their involvement in or ownership of Golden Sun, Another Code, Detect Hacker, or Wish Room, though.

And where does Advace Wars and Fire Emblem fit in? I know they are published by Nintendo, but doesn't someone else program/develop them? Or are they kind of like Metroid Prime, Nintendo originals, just programed by someone else.

[Arbok]

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Originally posted by: 31 Flavas

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Originally posted by: Hans Beckert

Not sure about their involvement in or ownership of Golden Sun, Another Code, Detect Hacker, or Wish Room, though.

And where does Advace Wars and Fire Emblem fit in? I know they are published by Nintendo, but doesn't someone else program/develop them? Or are they kind of like Metroid Prime, Nintendo originals, just programed by someone else.

Those two are developed by Intelligent Systems, which is an internal studio inside Nintendo. Those franchises, along with Custom Robo, are only new to the US, though, as there have been incarnations of them in Japan for eons.

[Artimus]

Advance Wars and Fire Emblem were around on the NES/SNES.

[Bill Aurion]

If Ninty publishes a new franchise, I'm fairly sure the fate of it is entirely in their hands...Like with Rare, they had the ability to keep the franchises but went ahead and gave them up...

Since Camelot is so buddy-buddy with Ninty, I'd say that Golden Sun (and any future Camelot franchises) are Ninty's...I'd assume the other games such as Another Code are Ninty's as well...

[odifiend]

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Originally posted by: Bill Aurion
If Ninty publishes a new franchise, I'm fairly sure the fate of it is entirely in their hands...Like with Rare, they had the ability to keep the franchises but went ahead and gave them up...

Since Camelot is so buddy-buddy with Ninty, I'd say that Golden Sun (and any future Camelot franchises) are Ninty's...I'd assume the other games such as Another Code are Ninty's as well...

Did Nintendo have the ability to keep Rare's franchises without a legal fight?  I just don't buy into the fact that Nintendo just let stuff that could be theirs...  Actually I just checked Rareware copyrighted Perfect Dark as well as published it themselves.  So if Nintendo fought all they'd get is Banjo/Conker (maybe don't have those games to check on publication).

Bill, I just don't think the business world works like that...