Author Topic: Official DS Sales Thread (Read 708553 times)

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #1750 on:** April 26, 2006, 09:12:21 PM »

I still don't understand what happened to FFXII. I'm sure there's a logical explanation, maybe a shortage or industrial sabotage or another Godzilla attack or something.

Mario · « **Reply #1751 on:** April 26, 2006, 10:19:33 PM »

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Monster Hunter Portable, at around 610,000. There's a few other PSP games at around 400,000 (Everybodys Golf, Ridge Racer, Sega Brain Training) and the rest are flops.

Those are JPN only numbers, right? Last I saw, both Lumines and GTA: LCS were in a million-range.

Japan numbers... and Lumines is nowhere near a million. About 200k in Japan, don't know about the US, a bit higher I think. GTA is over a million worldwide.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #1752 on:** April 27, 2006, 03:52:35 AM »

Paladin: Maybe they just delivered enough to satisfy all the fanboys on day one and the rest stopped caring somewhere around 8 or 9?

Louieturkey · « **Reply #1753 on:** April 27, 2006, 06:08:52 AM »

Lumines is 700,000 worldwide based on the Disney and Q partnership press release.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #1754 on:** April 27, 2006, 07:06:35 AM »

With Mother 3 on top, Nintendo is clearly betting on the wrong horse. DS should be tossed in the garbage and Nintendo should release a new version of the GBA, pronto.

Toad0787 · « **Reply #1755 on:** April 27, 2006, 12:20:57 PM »

Good thing Ds people can play GBA games isnt it?

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #1756 on:** April 27, 2006, 07:29:46 PM »

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1. GBA Mother 3 205,914
2. PS2 DQ Yangus 127,502
3. PS2 FFXI Aht Urhgan expansion 75,983
4. DS More Brain Training 70,831 (1,957,633)
5. PSP Dragonball Z 70,559
6. PS2 Okami 60,161
7. DS Brain Training 48,493 (1,977,999)
8. DS Animal Crossing 42,994 (2,505,056)
9. DS Eigo zuke 39,757 (886,471)
10. DS Pokemon Ranger 31,640 (390,641)

DSL 168,809
PSP 32,323
PS2 25,763
GBM 18,390
GBASP 11,044
DS 8,051
Xbox360 3,990
GC 1,106
GBA 58
Xbox 16

31 Flavas · « **Reply #1757 on:** April 27, 2006, 10:16:32 PM »

wow... xbox is headed for single digit sales... Will we see it hit 0 maybe?

Hocotate · « **Reply #1758 on:** April 28, 2006, 12:46:31 AM »

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DS 8,051

Wow.... regular DS sales fell waaaay down

Artimus · « **Reply #1759 on:** April 28, 2006, 03:19:24 AM »

That DS number makes no sense. But apparantly it's right!

Avinash_Tyagi · « **Reply #1760 on:** April 28, 2006, 04:02:48 AM »

maybe its just that the consumers have decided they like the lite better, and its in greater supply.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #1761 on:** April 28, 2006, 06:56:53 AM »

Seriously, why would anyone buy a regular DS now? I guess it may be a little cheaper, but the Lite seems to be superior in almost every way.

Athrun Zala · « **Reply #1762 on:** April 28, 2006, 07:10:17 AM »

still, it's a pretty big drop considering previous sales were around 40k....

jasonditz · « **Reply #1763 on:** April 28, 2006, 08:01:05 AM »

It's possible some smaller places have stopped carrying original DS altogether in favor of the Lite. Like how after the SP came out it wasn't too long before a lot of places stopped having original model GBAs.

Louieturkey · « **Reply #1764 on:** April 28, 2006, 08:14:29 AM »

Or the Lite is now in greater supply that they don't need to substitute the original DS when out buying.

Mario · « **Reply #1765 on:** April 28, 2006, 08:14:59 AM »

Also GBA SP and GBM sales went up almost as much as DS went down, thanks to Mother 3.

mantidor · « **Reply #1766 on:** April 28, 2006, 08:26:02 AM »

wasnt Nintendo's plan to make the DS discontinued eventually and make the Lite the official version?

Hocotate · « **Reply #1767 on:** April 28, 2006, 01:59:44 PM »

I thought they were going to keep both versions alive... Maybe they are putting their focus on manufacturing DS Lites and are just trying to meet demand... Once the sales start to slow down (if ever) they will have more DS'.

Arbok · « **Reply #1768 on:** April 28, 2006, 10:50:45 PM »

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wasnt Nintendo's plan to make the DS discontinued eventually and make the Lite the official version?

I doubt it, considering we are still seeing GBAs sell at this stage in the game after the GBA SP being on the market for such a long time.

wandering · « **Reply #1769 on:** April 28, 2006, 11:30:22 PM »

I think they've said the DS Phat will be gone by next year, though I could be mistaken.

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #1770 on:** April 29, 2006, 04:00:03 PM »

GBA should have been done away with a year ago.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #1771 on:** April 29, 2006, 07:12:20 PM »

There's no point to keep making both the DS and the DS Lite. My guess is as soon as the US version launches (or Euro), then production of the standard DS will completely end.

wandering · « **Reply #1772 on:** April 30, 2006, 05:16:55 AM »

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GBA should have been done away with a year ago.

Seeing as how they're the only way you can play GB and Color games, and the GBASP is still the all-around best portable ever, I'll have to disagree.

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #1773 on:** April 30, 2006, 07:00:48 AM »

If Nintendo made the DS right, you would be able to play all GameBoy games on it, and not just GBA games.

lol

The GBA may be the best current way to play old GB & GBC games, the GBA in the US is competing with the DS, not complimenting it.

UncleBob · « **Reply #1774 on:** April 30, 2006, 07:05:27 AM »

Err... if the DS didn't play GBA games, then wouldn't it be directly competing with the GBA/SP? The fact that they both play GBA games makes the GBA/SP the basic model and the DS the delxue model... Some people will look for a GBA, find the DS and get it because it plays GBA games. Others will get the GBA, then decide later to get a DS because they already have a collection of games that'll play on it.

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