Author Topic: Official DS Sales Thread (Read 870527 times)

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #2375 on:** September 04, 2006, 11:10:25 AM »

I think Neo is right I think I heard that the Saturn was in fact more powerful than PSone but it was so hard to program for that it didn't really matter.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #2376 on:** September 04, 2006, 06:38:20 PM »

So hence the hardware was crap. Take a game like Smackdown VS RAW 2007 for PS2 - for a current gen game it looks absolutely incredible - it looks better than probably 95% of Xbox 1 games, but it took THQ 5+ years to acheive that kind of beauty on the system, mainly due to the PS2 being so damn difficult for developrers to get everything they want out of it.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #2377 on:** September 04, 2006, 10:28:45 PM »

Welcome back Noble Feather

KDR_11k · « **Reply #2378 on:** September 05, 2006, 01:05:43 AM »

Tecmo's whateverhisfirstnameis Itagaki, who was an excellent developer, said he himself would program for Saturn over Playstation to this day.

He also said he likes making his team work on difficult consoles and he'd appreciate if the PS3 was more difficult to use than the PS2.

EDIT: oops, I think that was Kojima, not Itagaki. Perhaps his goal is just to make 95% of the games not use the full power of the system so when his games do everyone lauds them for their great graphics.

Aussiedude · « **Reply #2379 on:** September 06, 2006, 06:39:51 AM »

DS still leading in Australia, apart from GTA-PSP.

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couchmonkey · « **Reply #2380 on:** September 06, 2006, 07:11:59 AM »

The fact that DS has conquered backwards world shows that Nintendo is on an unstoppable roll. Sony and Microsoft should just give up now.

Edit: although in all seriousness, I think Nintendo's willingness to follow through on less-popular systems like N64 and GameCube is one of the things that separates it from Sega (i.e. hardware failure): it shows the consumers that they can count on Nintendo's support right to the bitter end, even if the third parties drop out.

Neodymium · « **Reply #2381 on:** September 06, 2006, 09:53:47 AM »

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Originally posted by: couchmonkey

Nintendo's willingness to follow through on less-popular systems like N64 and GameCube is one of the things that separates it from Sega (i.e. hardware failure)

Sega Master System kthx

Although I concede that they did pull the plug on 32X, Saturn, and Dreamcast early.. but that was after supporting multiple "less-popular" consoles for quite a while.

Nintendo will own everyone forever.

Artimus · « **Reply #2382 on:** September 06, 2006, 06:12:12 PM »

1. Phantasy Star Universe - PS2 - 120.202 - (120.202)
2. New Super Mario Bros. - NDS - 72.763 - (2.974.027)
3. More DS Brain Training - NDS - 46.662 - (3.119.857)
4. Final Fantasy III - NDS - 45.949 - (549.001)
5. Tingle RPG - NDS - 45.496 - (45.496)
6. Nintendo DS Talking Cooking Navi - NDS - 35.689 - (419.733)
7. Mario Hoops 3-on-3 - NDS - 34.001 - (267.763)
8. Animal Crossing : Wild World – NDS – 32.605 - (3.181.735)
9. Rhythm Tengoku - GBA - 28.361 - (123.432)
10. Tamagotchi Connexion Corner Shop 2 - NDS - 27.540 - (458.474)

Don't worry about FFIII, there was no new shipment. That's just the left overs from last week.

Almost a perfect 10 again! Also, NSMB passes 3 mil next week!!

IceCold · « **Reply #2383 on:** September 06, 2006, 07:09:56 PM »

Hey, Tingle actually did pretty well.. And Square is acting so dumb - after months of ragging on Nintendo to up their DS shipments in time for FFIII, they themselves undership the game.

Ceric · « **Reply #2384 on:** September 06, 2006, 07:28:09 PM »

Phantasy Star Universe is out... I need to find a review...

Louieturkey · « **Reply #2385 on:** September 06, 2006, 08:51:41 PM »

PSU isn't going to go much farther than that. It will be lucky to hit 200,000 in Japan.

Hocotate · « **Reply #2386 on:** September 06, 2006, 11:14:36 PM »

I am amazed at how much Nintendo is dominating Japan right now. Wii has Japan, especially after how Sony screwed up the launch so badly. Anyway Tingle RPG did pretty good, though I was half expecting it to be the next big sleeper hit that sells 1mil+. Heh, guess I was wrong.

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #2387 on:** September 07, 2006, 04:15:51 AM »

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Originally posted by: Louieturkey
PSU isn't going to go much farther than that. It will be lucky to hit 200,000 in Japan.

especially considering that the online part of the game is so broken that Sega has taken it down and won't put it back up until like early 2007. I don't remember where I read this so sorry, no linkie.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #2388 on:** September 07, 2006, 06:47:26 AM »

Ceric: Famitsu 35 (9/9/8/9) Platinum good enough?

Ages · « **Reply #2389 on:** September 07, 2006, 07:42:05 AM »

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Originally posted by: Neodymium
Quote
Originally posted by: couchmonkey

Nintendo's willingness to follow through on less-popular systems like N64 and GameCube is one of the things that separates it from Sega (i.e. hardware failure)

Sega Master System kthx

Although I concede that they did pull the plug on 32X, Saturn, and Dreamcast early.. but that was after supporting multiple "less-popular" consoles for quite a while.

Nintendo will own everyone forever.

Actually, IIRC, Sega realized Nintendo had dominance over the American market, so they sold marketing rights to teh SMS to Tonka. I agree Sega did pull the plug early on many of their systems. I believe another reason they failed in the long run would be due to their emphasis on hardware. It's easy to point to the Sega CD, and the 32X, but many people don't know many of Sega's other blunders, including: 2 Genesis redesigns, the Nomad (portable Genesis), the X'eye/Wondermega (Genesis/Sega CD hybrid), and the CDX (PORTABLE Genesis/Sega CD hybrid) among others.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #2390 on:** September 07, 2006, 10:22:10 AM »

Pico, anyone?

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #2391 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:06:08 PM »

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Originally posted by: Artimus

Media Create - August 28th - Sept. 3rd

Software:
1. Phantasy Star Universe - PS2 - 120.202 - (120.202)
2. New Super Mario Bros. - NDS - 72.763 - (2.974.027)
3. More DS Brain Training - NDS - 46.662 - (3.119.857)
4. Final Fantasy III - NDS - 45.949 - (549.001)
5. Tingle RPG - NDS - 45.496 - (45.496)
6. Nintendo DS Talking Cooking Navi - NDS - 35.689 - (419.733)
7. Mario Hoops 3-on-3 - NDS - 34.001 - (267.763)
8. Animal Crossing : Wild World – NDS – 32.605 - (3.181.735)
9. Rhythm Tengoku - GBA - 28.361 - (123.432)
10. Tamagotchi Connexion Corner Shop 2 - NDS - 27.540 - (458.474)
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11. Brain Age
12. PSP / VALHALLA KNIGHTS
13. Eve ~new generation~
14. English Training DS
15. Mario Kart DS
16. Kamiwaza
17. Tetris DS
18. DS/ Chousojuu Meka MG
19. GuitarFreaks & DrumMania MASTERPIECE SILVER
20. Rune Factory Shin Bokujou Monogatari
21. Jissen Pachislot! Hokuto no Ken SE
22. Kokoro wo Yasumeru Otona no Nurie DS
23. Daito Pachislot Simulator Hihouden
24. PSP/ SD Gundam G Generation Portable
25. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 13
26. Minna no Seminar Kanpeki Kanji
27. Digimon Story
28. Monster Hunter Portable
29. Big Brain Academy
30. Melty Blood Act Cadenza

Hardware:
Nintendo DS Lite - 228,939
PSP - 27,499
PS2 - 22,703
GBA SP - 2,751
Gameboy Micro - 1,791
Xbox 360 - 1,250
Gamecube - 855
Nintendo DS - 320
GBA - 22
Xbox - 0

quoted & updated

Looks like Xbox is officially dead

Mario · « **Reply #2392 on:** September 07, 2006, 09:45:02 PM »

Wow, lots of DS's sold considering the lack of game sales this week. Wouldn't surprise me if Pokemon fans are making sure they grab their DS while they can.

Louieturkey · « **Reply #2393 on:** September 07, 2006, 09:49:23 PM »

Don't forget FFIII fans wanting their DS ready for when the next shipment comes in.

RiskyChris · « **Reply #2394 on:** September 08, 2006, 12:24:39 AM »

Don't forget FFIII fans wanting their DS for the FFIII they bought last week.

Ceric · « **Reply #2395 on:** September 08, 2006, 04:40:43 AM »

Artimus · « **Reply #2396 on:** September 08, 2006, 04:48:53 AM »

Did the black DSL not come out this week? Indeed it did.

Artimus · « **Reply #2397 on:** September 08, 2006, 01:45:31 PM »

As nice as the DS domination in Japan is, this is even better:

NPD Sale Data, August:

Nintendo DS 278k
PlayStation 2 262k
Xbox 360 204k
Game Boy Advance 156k
PlayStation Portable 146k
GameCube 41k
Xbox 9k

And for happy celebrations:

06 NDS NEW SUPER MARIO BROS - 179,000 / 1,208,000
NDS ANIMAL CROSSING: WILD WORLD 45,000
NDS BIG BRAIN ACADEMY 73,000
NDS BRAIN AGE: TRAIN YOUR BRAIN IN MINUTES A 74,000
NDS METROID PRIME: HUNTERS 24,000
NDS NINTENDOGS: ALL VERSION 85,000

The top PSP game was Madden with 58,000. PS2 and 360 topped things, with madden, at 885,000 and 447,000 respectively.

Market share (software):
Nintendo of America $37m 9.6%
Sony (Corp) $14m 3.5%
Microsoft (Corp) $7m 2.0%

More here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118204

IceCold · « **Reply #2398 on:** September 08, 2006, 08:27:03 PM »

Great news - now hopefully it holds steady and it didn't just spike because of the DS Lite and Mario.. Speaking of Mario, what do you think its worldwide figures are? If it's 3 mil in Japan and 1.2 mil here, it could well be at 5.5 - 6 million worldwide. That's amazing; it's only been out a few months..

Microsoft must be really disappointed with the 360 though - this is its top market and it still isn't really selling much at all.

Louieturkey · « **Reply #2399 on:** September 08, 2006, 10:13:18 PM »

I think DS Lite will pick up the minute the Black and Pink versions are released. I personally think Nintendo will follow the colors of RAZR phones(well, I guess white instead of silver is different, but from now on).

Actually, I'm suprised there isn't a pink ipod nano or video yet.

News:

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