Author Topic: Official DS Sales Thread (Read 869865 times)

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #2325 on:** August 29, 2006, 05:57:00 PM »

I think the shortages are on purpose, there are only so many DS' to be had, and they would rather keep the game burning up the charts for weeks to come than to have one big explosion and then fizzle out.

Well, atleast thats what I think they are doing...

IceCold · « **Reply #2326 on:** August 29, 2006, 07:21:59 PM »

I would think they would much rather recoup their losses with instant gratification in terms of profit than purposely keep it in low supply.. Besides, people who want the game are going to be pretty upset if they can't get it soon, and might just skip on it altogether if they do that.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #2327 on:** August 30, 2006, 01:40:35 AM »

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Originally posted by: IceCold
I would think they would much rather recoup their losses with instant gratification in terms of profit than purposely keep it in low supply.. Besides, people who want the game are going to be pretty upset if they can't get it soon, and might just skip on it altogether if they do that.

The DS has been in short supply and because of it people just keep wanting more and more of it. That is what I think SE is trying to acheive, and I hope thier gamble pays off in the long run.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #2328 on:** August 30, 2006, 05:38:00 AM »

I thought the DS was in short supply because Nintendo couldn't make enough!

Actually, this is an interesting point: if Nintendo is truly having problems meeting demand, then the sales shouldn't really go up much during the holiday season. Of course, you could argue Nintendo is stockpiling units for that time because it knows demand is going to be even higher, but either way, that would suggest that Nintendo is artificially creating demand.

Oh yeah, and half a million? Nice.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #2329 on:** August 30, 2006, 07:14:20 AM »

Shareholders will demand an increase over Decemberween so that may even be a plausible course of action

Mario · « **Reply #2330 on:** August 30, 2006, 05:41:09 PM »

01 NDS FF3 - 503.051 / NEW
02 NDS NEW SMB - 65.556 / 2.901.264
03 NDS Rune Factory - 42.210 / NEW
04 NDS Brain Age 2 - 41.784 / 3.073.195
05 NDS Cooking Navi - 37.326 / 384.045
06 NDS Tamagotchi 2 - 30.504 /430.933
07 NDS Mario Basketball 3on3 - 30.355
08 NDS Animal Crossing WW - 30.023 / 3.149.131
09 NDS Brain Age - 22.866 / 2.736.150
10 NDS English Training - 17.465

1. Nintendo DS Lite ?163.274
2. PlayStation Portable ?29.945
3. PlayStation 2 ?21.829
4. GameBoy Advance SP ?2.719
5. GameBoy Micro? 1819
6. Xbox 360 ?1197
7. Nintendo GameCube? 837
8. Nintendo DS? 410
9. GameBoy Advance ?14
10. Xbox? 12

Man, the DS software tie ratio has to be absolutely huge. Too bad FF3 didn't sell any more DS's than usual. Looks like nobody will buy a Nintendo system for third party games, that has to be massively worrying for any company who has announced DS games without Mario in them. No wonder PSP is getting all the most fantastic support, third parties have been thinking ahead.

Kairon · « **Reply #2331 on:** August 30, 2006, 05:42:01 PM »

Japan's Media Create Numbers for Aug. 21-27:

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01 NDS FF3 - 503.051 / NEW
02 NDS NEW SMB - 65.556 / 2.901.264
03 NDS Rune Factory - 42.210 / NEW
04 NDS Brain Age 2 - 41.784 / 3.073.195
05 NDS Cooking Navi - 37.326 / 384.045
06 NDS Tamagotchi 2 - 30.504 /430.933
07 NDS Mario Basketball 3on3 - 30.355
08 NDS Animal Crossing WW - 30.023 / 3.149.131
09 NDS Brain Age - 22.866 / 2.736.150
10 NDS English Training - 17.465

1. Nintendo DS Lite ?163.274
2. PlayStation Portable ?29.945
3. PlayStation 2 ?21.829
4. GameBoy Advance SP ?2.719
5. GameBoy Micro? 1819
6. Xbox 360 ?1197
7. Nintendo GameCube? 837
8. Nintendo DS? 410
9. GameBoy Advance ?14
10. Xbox? 12

It's bad enough that it's been ages since we've seen a GC game in the top 10. But it only adds insult to injury that the GBA is all but dead as well, with Bit Generations and Rhythm Tengoku the FLOPS we all knew them to be.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

wandering · « **Reply #2332 on:** August 30, 2006, 05:50:52 PM »

Not a single non-DS game in the top ten? Seriously?

Kairon · « **Reply #2333 on:** August 30, 2006, 05:56:27 PM »

Wandering, are you blind? Look at the numbers for NSMB! Obviously the game's run out of steam. Rhythm Tengoku for the GBA is nowhere to be scene, can you say DEAD HANDHELD? Also, next week we could see the XBox outsellf the original GBA. Nintendo is obviously losing ground, and should go third-party before it's too late. Nothing is more pathetic than someone who just doesn't know when their time is up.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Mario · « **Reply #2334 on:** August 30, 2006, 06:19:41 PM »

Yep, it's the first top 10 clean sweep OF ALL TIME! PS2 didn't even manage that.

wandering · « **Reply #2335 on:** August 30, 2006, 06:30:12 PM »

Wait, so now you're being sarcastic to make the DS look bad, instead of good? WHO'S SIDE ARE YOU ON?

Or is it really the first top ten clean sweep of all time? I can't really tell.

Artimus · « **Reply #2336 on:** August 30, 2006, 06:34:14 PM »

I was wondering if it could ever sweep, and it DID! Yay!

I am curious, though. Are the bundle sales included in that DSLite number? Those bundles sold out and there were supposedly 200,000 of them.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #2337 on:** August 30, 2006, 06:37:56 PM »

this has never been more appropriate

O.O at sweeping up the whole Top 10. Unf#ckin believeable!!!

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Originally posted by: Mario

Software:
01 NDS FF3 - 503.051 / NEW
02 NDS NEW SMB - 65.556 / 2.901.264
03 NDS Rune Factory - 42.210 / NEW
04 NDS Brain Age 2 - 41.784 / 3.073.195
05 NDS Cooking Navi - 37.326 / 384.045
06 NDS Tamagotchi 2 - 30.504 /430.933
07 NDS Mario Basketball 3on3 - 30.355
08 NDS Animal Crossing WW - 30.023 / 3.149.131
09 NDS Brain Age - 22.866 / 2.736.150
10 NDS English Training - 17.465
~
11. Daito Giken Pachislot Hihouden
12. Tetris DS
13. Mario Kart DS
14. Jissen Pachislot Hokuto no Ken SE (PS2)
15. Melty Blood Act Cadenza
16. Wrestle Angels Survivor
17. SD Gundam G Generation Portable
18. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 13
19. Sengoku BASARA 2
20. Guilty Gear Judgment (PSP)
21. Digimon Story
22. Monster Hunter Portable (PSP The Best)
23. summer##
24. Kirarin Star Revolution Kirakira Idol Audition
25. Atsumare! Power Pro Kun no DS Koushien
26. Rhythm Tengoku
27. Minna no DS Seminar Kanpeki Kanji
28. Battle Stadium DON (PS2)
29. Mushiking Greatest Champion e-no Michi 2
30. Pokemon Ranger Diamond and Pearl e-no Michi

Hardware:
1. Nintendo DS Lite ?163.274
2. PlayStation Portable ?29.945
3. PlayStation 2 ?21.829
4. GameBoy Advance SP ?2.719
5. GameBoy Micro? 1819
6. Xbox 360 ?1197
7. Nintendo GameCube? 837
8. Nintendo DS? 410
9. GameBoy Advance ?14
10. Xbox? 12

NDS:18
PS2:8
PSP:3
GBA:1

quoted and updated

31 Flavas · « **Reply #2338 on:** August 30, 2006, 08:03:44 PM »

Too bad there is that PS2 title at #11. I would have been further awesome to have had a clean sweep of the Top 12!

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #2339 on:** August 30, 2006, 08:09:05 PM »

Sony: Japan doesn't matter...

IceCold · « **Reply #2340 on:** August 30, 2006, 08:19:45 PM »

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Man, the DS software tie ratio has to be absolutely huge. Too bad FF3 didn't sell any more DS's than usual.

Heh. I find it funny that Nintendo can artificially cause a spike in DS sales just by shipping more units that week. Then they can say it was caused by a certain game. So when "Touch DIC 2" comes out, Nintendo will be like, "Yep. That game sure sold tonnes of DSes. New audience. Nongamer strategy in the works, people.."

Kairon · « **Reply #2341 on:** August 30, 2006, 08:34:00 PM »

Wait...if Touch DIC 2 didn't sell DS', then what did?!?!?!?!?!

OMG! Nintendo has no real system sellers! DS Software is teh pits! It's all smoke and mirrors! PSP is actually winning japan!

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Mario · « **Reply #2342 on:** August 30, 2006, 08:48:13 PM »

PSP sales actually dropped by less than the DS sales rose, that means when DS sales drop after this brief one week "moment" for Nintendo, DS sales will start dropping more than PSPs. So at this rate the PSP will continue on steady and by 2017 PSP will have caught up to DS in weekly sales. There's just no point Nintendo carrying on when this is inevitable.

Kairon · « **Reply #2343 on:** August 30, 2006, 08:57:16 PM »

Good point Mario.

*places hands together at the finger tips ominously*

It's only a matter of time.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Artimus · « **Reply #2344 on:** August 31, 2006, 02:17:56 AM »

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Originally posted by: Kairon
Wait...if Touch DIC 2 didn't sell DS', then what did?!?!?!?!?!

Touch VAG 1.

Aussiedude · « **Reply #2345 on:** August 31, 2006, 03:48:10 AM »

Selected Sony qoutes from the past

(stolen from gaf)

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"The idea of a handheld rivalry with Nintendo is an irrelevance, those formats don't appear in our planning. It's not a fair comparison; not fair on them, I should stress. That sounds arrogant, maybe, but it's the truth."

"With the DS, it's fair to say that Nintendo stepped out of the technical race and went for a feature differentiation with the touch screen, but I fear that it won't have a lasting impact beyond that of a sparkling innovation - so the long-lasting appeal of the platform is at peril as a direct result of that."

"Nintendo knows its target audience, because it has really narrowed that down; and it's pretty much defined by a boy or girl's ability to admire Pokemon."

"PSP will elevate portable entertainment out of the handheld gaming ghetto, and Sony is the only company that can do it,"

Sound similar to Sony's rants about the PS3 being the only true Next Gen System?

KDR_11k · « **Reply #2346 on:** August 31, 2006, 05:19:51 AM »

The idea of a handheld rivalry with Nintendo is an irrelevance, those formats don't appear in our planning. It's not a fair comparison; not fair on them, I should stress. That sounds arrogant, maybe, but it's the truth.

Yes, it'd be pretty damn insulting to Nintendo to compare any of their handhelds to the PSP mroe liek NGage

PSP will elevate portable entertainment out of the handheld gaming ghetto, and Sony is the only company that can do it

Translation: With the PSP you won't be playing games anymore!

31 Flavas · « **Reply #2347 on:** August 31, 2006, 06:14:14 AM »

Heh... my favorite quote (from the website owner no less!) was "The DS doesn't have any features, at all, anyone would want in a system" He has since, uh..., recognized the error of his statement. But he still calls "us" sheep for buying it.

The other "good" quote from this 'gamer' news website, was "I dig the PSP. I like it because the game library actually has real games. Not tarted up Flash games with delusions of grandeur." KTHXBY

Hocotate · « **Reply #2348 on:** August 31, 2006, 06:41:19 AM »

It's funny to see Sony fanboys flop around like that. It's the first time they've had to support the 'minority' system... Most of them don't know how to react.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #2349 on:** August 31, 2006, 07:28:42 AM »

You know, I expect at lot of Sony Fanboys are not going to be gamers at all in a few years. "Whut? games are for teh kiddies and fairies, I'm into fad ____ now"

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