Topic: Official DS Sales Thread

[Chozo Ghost]

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Originally posted by: Mario
Where does that leave PS3 with it's even higher pricepoint and even poorer reliability? I can't wait to see the PS2 outsell the PS3 this holiday.

BTW it's been confirmed that PSP outsold DS this month, again. It sold more than GBA is all we know. NPD are so freaking retarded with their numbers, treating them like it's some "exclusive club". They can rot and die, we need a better sales tracker to step up.

I'm not too worried about the PSP selling more than the old school DS. I mean, what is probably happening is people are waiting on buying a DS until the lite comes out.

If the PSP continues selling more than the DS lite when it comes out THEN it is time to start worrying.

[Artimus]

Btw, NSMB was the best selling game of May. Money wise. At half the price of console games. In 3 weeks.

[vudu]

True; but you have to remember the only other new games to make the list were X-Men, Over the Hedge and Table Tennis.  I don't mean to disregard NSMB's victory, but the competition wasn't exactly fierce last month.

[TrueNerd]

I just don't understand why people are still buying PSPs. What does the system offer them that the $120 cheaper PS2 doesn't, other then portability? Apparently, I have grossly underestimated the allure of watered down PS2 games on the go.

[GoldenPhoenix]

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Originally posted by: TrueNerd
I just don't understand why people are still buying PSPs. What does the system offer them that the $120 cheaper PS2 doesn't, other then portability? Apparently, I have grossly underestimated the allure of watered down PS2 games on the go.

It is purty looking and you can be "cool" if you own one even if you buy no games for it.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

GAH, it's pager craze all over again.  Stupid internet generation!

[wandering]

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Originally posted by: vudu
True; but you have to remember the only other new games to make the list were X-Men, Over the Hedge and Table Tennis.  I don't mean to disregard NSMB's victory, but the competition wasn't exactly fierce last month.

That's rockstar's tabble tennis game, right? I wouldn't have been surprised if it outsold NSMB, personally....

[Killer_Man_Jaro]

Sorry if I'm the only one who doesn't see the enjoyment factor of a table tennis game. The only reason it's selling like this is because it's made by Rockstar.

[Artimus]

If it was made by Nintendo we'd be like OMG ITS TEH GENIUS.

LOLZ

[Kairon]

We are "OMG ITS TEH GENIUS." Seen Wii Tennis and the ping pong demo?

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[couchmonkey]

If Nintendo made it it would be teh genius because it'd have Mario instead of boring ordinary people and the ball would be, like, a 40 foot snake.

[Chode2234]

Any DS lite sales numbers yet?

[IceCold]

Heh.. you're going to have to wait a while for those..

[Aussiedude]

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Originally posted by: IceCold
Heh.. you're going to have to wait a while for those..

The wait is over...

Separately, Nintendo said it sold 136,500 of its new DS Lite players in the United States on Sunday and Monday. The game player weighs less than the DS and has a brighter screen. A Nintendo spokesman said DS Lite sales appear to be on pace with those from the launch of the DS, which sold 500,000 units in the first 10 days after its U.S. debut in November 2004.

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[IceCold]

Wow, great news - I want to compare Nintendo's official numbers to the NPD ones..

[BlackNMild2k1]

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Originally posted by: IceCold
Wow, great news - I want to compare Nintendo's official numbers to the NPD ones..

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Originally posted by: IceCold
Heh.. you're going to have to wait a while for those..

[BlackNMild2k1]

Media-Create June 5th - 11th

1. DS New Super Mario Bros. - 244,882 / 1,478,608
2. PS2 Hisshou Pachinko/Pachislot Vol.5 - 100,967 / NEW
3. DS Brain Age 2 - 52,876 / 2,476,775
4. PS2 World Soccer Winning Eleven 10 - 34,880 / 761,407
5. DS Brain Age - 34,760 / 2,357,730
6. DS Animal Crossing - 25,355 / 2,800,004
7. DS English Training - 23,130 / 1,141,623
8. DS Tetris DS - 21,710 / 596,585
9. DS Mario Kart DS - 11,880 / 1,424,882
10. DS Pokemon Ranger - 11,646 / 574,231
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11. PSP Daito Giken Koushiki Pachi-Slot Simulator Yoshimune Portable
12. PS2 Jikkyou Powerful Major League
13. NDS Metroid Prime: Hunters - 9,133 / 41,580
14. PSP Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable 8,547 / 72,556
15. PSP Brain Trainer Portable
16. PS2 .hack//G.U. Vol.1
17. NDS Yawaraka Atamajuku
18. NDS Touch Panic
19. NDS Puzzle Series Vol. 3: Sudoku - 4,823
20. NDS Kanji Easy Dictionary
21. NDS Metal Saga: Hagane no Kisetsu
22. PSP Monster Hunter Portable
23. NDS Right Brain Training: Point Blank Trainer
24. GBA Mother 3
25. NDS Tamagotchi no Puchi Puchi Omisetchi
26. PSP Magna Carta Portable
27. PS2 Kimikiss
28. NDS Seiken Densetsu Children of Mana
29. NDS Daredemo Asobi Taizen
30. PS2 World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 (PS2 The Best)

Unconfirmed Hadware #'s:

DSL - 132,027
PSP - 21,656
PS2 - 18,981
GBASP - 4,116
GBM - 1,654
DS - 1,371
Xbox360 - 1,100
GC - 961  

[IceCold]

I got owned

[Artimus]

18 of 30!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kairon]

5 PSP Games in the top 30! Nintendo is failing!

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[willie1234]

wonder how much #15 sold.  they surely must have been working on that "years" before nintendo

[31 Flavas]

So it's going to take what ... 3 - 4 weeks sell 2 million copies of NSMB? Comon... stick a fork in it already. The DS(lite) is dead.

Speaking of which... No xbox numbers? Or ... no xbox sales... ?

[BlackNMild2k1]

I think they stopped tracking Xbox and GBA sales in japan, the #'s were just too low to bother with it.

[31 Flavas]

about damn time.

[Mario]

Nope!

DSL 132,027
PSP 21,656
PS2 18,981
GBASP 4,116
GBM 1,654
DS 1,371
Xbox360 1,100
GC 961
GBA 36
Xbox 20

I suspect MS tried to cover up the Xbox numbers this week because of the GBA defeat, but the numbers got out eventually. Quite a massive leap for the Xbox this week actually, more than DOUBLING up from 8 last week. GBA had better watch out, if Xbox continues growing at the same rate and overtakes GBA we wont hear the end of it from Microsoft!