Post by: TheYoungerPlumber on November 12, 2004, 11:47:35 AM
Nintendo NCL has announced Japanese Nintendo DS preorders of over two million—double the company’s target of one million units. In response to the impressive demand, Nintendo is scrambling to produce more units.
Since Nintendo does not have the capacity to produce more than one million Nintendo DS systems, it is currently preparing a third production site in China so that it may ship more to Japanese retailers by the end of the year.
Investors responded favorably to the news: Nintendo’s stock rose 3.97 percent today. Nintendo aims to ship 4 million DS units worldwide by the end of March.
Post by: Hostile Creation on November 12, 2004, 11:59:05 AM
Post by: nitsu niflheim on November 12, 2004, 12:04:16 PM
Post by: Chongman on November 12, 2004, 12:09:44 PM
PSP production is weak. I hear that they'll only ship about half a million in japan this year. Not saying the demand isn't there, the product just isn't.
Post by: Polemistis on November 12, 2004, 12:21:48 PM
Post by: - NintendoFan - on November 12, 2004, 12:23:37 PM
To say the least.
Post by: Mumei on November 12, 2004, 01:03:24 PM
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Michael "TYP" says: Maybe there is something to this third pillar after all, eh?
To be honest, I believe that depends on whether people continue to buy the GBA. If they don't, then Nintendo may as well be having 2 pillars as it does now...
Post by: LandStalkerRyle on November 12, 2004, 01:25:39 PM
Your damn right thats impressive. But holy crap, 2 million?? o.O Maybe what microsoft claimed about Nintendo having the upper hand isnt far off from the truth.
Post by: nolimit19 on November 12, 2004, 01:36:02 PM
Post by: TheYoungerPlumber on November 12, 2004, 01:55:11 PM
Post by: Darc Requiem on November 12, 2004, 02:17:02 PM
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Post by: Aussie Ben PGC on November 12, 2004, 02:34:16 PM
Post by: EricEnder on November 12, 2004, 04:21:55 PM
Post by: Gamefreak on November 12, 2004, 06:01:18 PM
Halo = around 3.5 to 4 million sold worldwide; Halo 2 = 1.5 million pre-orders
Game Boy - around 150 million sold worldwide; DS = 2 million so far in Japan. And most of the public doesn't really know much about the DS anyway. I'm guess once it is out for a while in the US at least it will just sell like crazy. The average dude is going to throw his GBASP in his bed and run out and buy one of "those new ones that go online and and you can touch it and stuff."
Post by: odifiend on November 12, 2004, 06:04:16 PM
Post by: Darc Requiem on November 12, 2004, 06:10:36 PM
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Originally posted by: odifiend
I was thinking the same thing Eric. Japan is just different... Yamauchi also was kind of saying this product was designed for Japan. Not to say there won't be a demand in the US, but there is not a huge desire to jump on to the touch screen bandwagon in the US at least not without seeing them in action. Therefore until there is lots of DS exposure, maybe lots of kiosks (i'm not seeing them where I live), I don't predict overwhelming DS preorders in America.
Well Gamespot had to stop taking pre-orders and told some people that they would'n't be able to fill their orders. Isn't EB about cut off their preorders as well?
Darc Requiem
Post by: odifiend on November 12, 2004, 07:17:08 PM
Post by: Squiggles the Chao on November 12, 2004, 07:45:44 PM
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What's so awe about 2 million? If this was a game sure. But most people just figure it's the next gameboy.
Halo = around 3.5 to 4 million sold worldwide; Halo 2 = 1.5 million pre-orders
Game Boy - around 150 million sold worldwide; DS = 2 million so far in Japan. And most of the public doesn't really know much about the DS anyway. I'm guess once it is out for a while in the US at least it will just sell like crazy. The average dude is going to throw his GBASP in his bed and run out and buy one of "those new ones that go online and and you can touch it and stuff."
Yeah, but Halo's a game distributed on optical media. The DS is a highly advanced and expensive piece of hardware. As soon as the final product is finalized, they can press the optical media in almost no time. Hell, Bungie could considerably crank out ten times the number of copies and flood the market if they wanted to. After a game is finished, the most time consuming steps are packaging and distribution.
The DS assembly process on the other hand, takes more time and, generally, you don't want to overshoot your sales and end up with a bog bill for making, packaging and distributing a bunch of systems that didn't sell. With the North American Launch, that's somewhere near three-million units worldwide, in about one month. Pretty impressive for a handheld.
Post by: Knoxxville on November 13, 2004, 06:34:00 AM
GO NINTY!! DADDY NEEDS A NEW PAIR OF SHOES!!
Post by: MattVDB on November 13, 2004, 12:52:31 PM
2 million pre orders rocks. When comparing to the 150 million Gameboys, that is hardly fair, because that is over a 15 year period, with multiple versions, with mulitple countries. 2 million pre orders is a very good comparison to those nubmers actually.
Honestly, I'm a bit surprised by the numbers, but also encouraged. It feels good to know that Nintendo doesn't plan on giving up the handheld market, and will make necessary steps not to. I wonder how long this momentum will keep up though. If it's anything like the gameboy has/had then there should be no problem in sight.
Post by: KnowsNothing on November 13, 2004, 02:44:33 PM
Sorry, just with all this talk of Nintendo not giving up the handheld market, and comparing DS preorders to GBA sales, it's hard to forget that there will be a GBA2. I wonder how that will fair? I mean, people WILL consider the DS the successor to the gameboy throne.....will they buy a GBA2? Will the next gameboy top the DS, or will it basically be Nintendo's PSP?
Post by: Bill Aurion on November 13, 2004, 03:02:35 PM
Post by: King of Twitch on November 13, 2004, 04:56:18 PM
Post by: PaLaDiN on November 13, 2004, 06:51:59 PM
No, I'm pretty sure that's the whole point of this "third pillar" thing. The GBA2 is most likely going to be GC/PS2 quality graphics in a normal 1-screen handheld.
Post by: Hostile Creation on November 13, 2004, 07:28:10 PM
Post by: Ian Sane on November 13, 2004, 07:58:43 PM
Nintendo really thinks the DS and GBA will co-exist and the DS is the third pillar. It's not going to be accepted as such and the GBA will be dead by this time next year. But they truly think this is something else so I imagine that someday they'll release a new Gameboy.
Post by: Caillan on November 13, 2004, 08:33:15 PM
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It's not going to be accepted as such and the GBA will be dead by this time next year.
I disagree: the GBA will still be the system with the largest userbase that can do pretty much anything in 2D. It might begin to wind-down, but I suspect the GBA will linger longer than even the original PS did.
Post by: KnowsNothing on November 14, 2004, 06:24:26 AM
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but I suspect the GBA will linger longer than even the original PS is.
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