Topic: Official DS Sales Thread

[Neodymium]

LOL NINTENDO IS LOSIN AMIRITE

IT SURE IS KEWL TO PRETEND TO HAE NINTENDO IN A SARKASTIC WAY LOLOLOLOLOL

[Hocotate]

The calm before the stom... Pokemon will pwn Japan

[31 Flavas]

Yea.... I mean geez if NSMB sold a million copies in two days... I'd imagine Pokemon will sell way more.

It's for the DS, its got online though WFC, and tons of new Pokemon to capture. Any one else want to bet we'll see at least 3 million copies sold in the first week?  

[Mario]

I doubt they'll be able to ship enough to sell that many right away, but it will sell every copy they can produce.

[Artimus]

How many DSLs will go? 300,000?

[WuTangTurtle]

lol, i wouldn't be completely surprised if each version sold 3 million in a week.........okay that is pushing it pretty far but heck if Nintendo can produce that many for the 1st week who knows.

[Louieturkey]

I'm guessing at most 200,000.  Pokemon will sell 800,000 of each game and then it will sell at least 500,000 a week per game for the next 2 weeks, then it'll drop to 100,000 total for both games for the next 5 weeks, then 40,000 a week for the next 2 years like Brain Age.

[couchmonkey]

PartyBear: Nah, I don't have a PSP.  I only learned the greatness of Sony quite recently!  In my opinion, PSP is fine, but the game selection is meh...not as bad as people claim, but not good enough to justify the price.  I played a PSP once, for about half an hour. It was fine, but also proof positive that games are what make a good system, not hardware.

Don't listen to that crazy IceCold.  He's just jealous because I'm not going to invite him to my "PSThwii" party!

Edit: the names of the people in this post have been changed to protect my stupidity

[nitsu niflheim]

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl have been unleashed on Japan.  Godzilla has been trampled and feared dead!

[Kairon]

Nintendo seems to have only been able to manufacture 2,000,000 units for launch... a million of each ... all sold out.

Nintendo also seems to have only been able to stockpile around a million DS Lites this week, 500,000 of those the Pokemon P/D Special edition ones ... also probably sold out.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Ceric]

NOOOOOOO.... NOT GODZILLA.... First Steve Irwin and now Godzilla.  Are their no heroes left?

<Somewhere in Orbit>
"Godzilla and Irwin are gone.  Start the invasion"

[Kairon]

Quote
Originally posted by: Ceric
NOOOOOOO.... NOT GODZILLA.... First Steve Irwin and now Godzilla.  Are their no heroes left?

Your theme song, sir.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Louieturkey]

Top 10 for the week of 9/18-9/24

  1.  Everybody's Tennis (PS2, Sony) - 87,814 [314,790] units
  2. Final Fantasy III (NDS, Square Enix) - 56,596 [712,129] units
  3. New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo) - 56,045 [3,136,171] units
  4. Gintama DS: Yorozuya Daisoudou (NDS, Namco Bandai) - 39,737 units
  5. Kahashima Ryuuta Kyouju Kanshuu: Motto Nouo Kitaeru Otona DS Training (NDS, Nintendo) - 34,879 [3,221,750] units
  6. Animal Forest: Wild World (NDS, Nintendo) - 25,617 [3,256,171] units
  7. Rurouni Kenshin: Enjou! Kyoto Rinne (PS2, Banpresto) - 24,712 [99,720] units
  8. Mogitate Tingle no Barairo Rupee Land (NDS, Nintendo) - 23,168 [114,208] units
  9. Shaberu! DS Oryouri Navi (NDS, Nintendo) - 22,540 [488,462] units
 10. Harukanaru Toki no Kade 3: Izayoiki (PS2, Namco Bandai) - 22,100 units

[Hocotate]

If not for the cart shortage, FFIII would be #1 I'm sure. Oh well, this will be the last PS2 game we'll see up at #1 for a while (probably ever lol). Expect Pokemon to be #1 and 2 for at least untill Dec (is my guess )  

[Artimus]

DSL     139,835
PS2    32,673
PSP    23,118
GBASP    2,145
GBM    1,186
Xbox360    1,109
GC    763
DS    316
GBA    20
Xbox    8

[KDR_11k]

OMG!!! 360 outselling Gamecube! This spells DOOM for the Wii! (No, wait, actually DOOM just came out for the 360...)

[Artimus]

Predictions for next week:

Assuming the two Pokemon games ship 750,000 to 1,000,000 copies each (reasonable? unreasonable?), we should see combined sales anywhere from 1.4-1.8 million. Virtually a complete sellout. It could go even closer to the total sellout number of 2,000,000, but I'm going to be conservative. I highly doubt Nintendo ships less than this. The system numbers become tricky, because we're talking about a rather large install base. However, it is perhaps safe to assume with such a high concentration of the 'non-games' doing well, a large part of the Pokemon audience (many kids) haven't gotten a DS yet. So I expect Nintendo will also virtually sellout of DSLs (totally selling out of the Pokemon version). I suspect they'll have 500,000-800,000 available, but this might be highballing it a lot. So I suspect we'll see 3-5 times what we saw this week, anywhere from 400,000-700,000. Should Nintendo ship as many as 1,000,000 systems, however, we could see a virtual sellout of 800,000-900,000. Do not expect that, however. Because the Pokemon game has likely been sold out, or nearly so, since the first day, a lot of new system purchases will be held off until the next shipment of games. If we take the average DSLs per week at about 135,000, then I would say we'll see about 1.6 to 2 million extra sales over the next 6 weeks (aka. 2.4 to 2.8 million DS systems sold in that period).

In summary:
Pokemon combined sales - 1.7 million (1.4-1.8 range with a 1.2 lowball and 1.9 highball depending on shipments)
System sales next week - 600,000 (450-700 range with a 400 lowball and 850 highball depending on shipments)

[MattVDB]

http://www.ngcfrance.com/nds_news.php?operande=0&idx=3489&r=1

According to a translation, 1 million copies of each game was shipped, and close, if not all have sold out.  Nintendo also anticipated this demand and shipped 1 million DS Lites.  Both the 2 million Pokemon copies and 500,000 DS Lites sold within a matter of a couple hours.  HOLY FRICK.  Those are some impressive numbers.

[couchmonkey]

Wait, they shipped a MILLION DS Lites?  If that's true, then 2006 DS pwnership in Japan will go up by, like 10-16% this week!

[IceCold]

Square really screwed themselves over.. first off, they tell Nintendo that they had better have enough DSes for the launch of FFIII. Then, instead of Nintendo taking the publishing duty, they do that themselves and mess it up badly. Now, instead of selling hundreds of thousands more games, because of the shortages they have way less than the potential. And now Pokemon is going to overshadow it for a long, long time..

[WuTangTurtle]

wait what happen to FFIII, are u saying Square is publishing it and they screwed up producing it?

I'm still very curious about this title, i've read pgc's review and some others and i'm still thinking it will be awesome.

[31 Flavas]

Well, SqureEnix expressed the concern to Nintendo that they wanted enough DS hardware to be available on FFIII launch day. There were plenty of DS and ultimately (or so i've heard) they sold through 90% of the FFIII copies shipped for launch day. I don't know how it really could have gone better, aside from selling out 100%.

Honestly, I can't see how Pokemon DS wouldn't totally out shadow FFIII. That game is going to be huge.

[couchmonkey]

Yeah, having more DS hardware available on launch day wouldn't have helped Final Fantasy III's sales at all.  I think this goes to show that Square Enix underestimated demand for the game: not only did it not produce enough copies, it assumed there'd need to be even more DS owners in order to buy all those copies.

Square can't be too disappointed with that, it means that FFIII's sales are way better than the company planned.  The only way Square Enix could be disappointed with this outcome is if Nintendo has been holding back cartridges on it...which probably is the case, since Nintendo needs them for Pokemon.

Seriously, though, having too many customers is hardly ever a bad thing.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Media Create - Sept. 25th - Oct. 1st

Software:
1. DS Pokemon Diamond - 820,047
2. DS Pokemon Pearl - 768,687
3. PS2 .hack//G.U. Vol.2 - 122,800
4. PS2 Minna no Tennis - 68,755 / 383,545
5. DS New Super Mario Brothers - 57,508 / 3,193,679
6. DS Zaidan Houjin Nihon Kanji Nouryoku Kentei Kyoukai Kounin Kanken DS - 45,292
7. DS More Brain Age - 39,897 / 3,261,647
8. DS Final Fantasy III - 39,165 / 751,294
9. PS2 Sangokushi 11 - 29,304
10. DS Animal Crossing Wild World - 26,287 / 3,282,457

Pokemon total: 1,588,734

11. Brain Age
12. Dead Rising
13. Cusine Navigator
14. Mogitate Tingle no Bara Iro no Rupee Land
15. Kuryuu Youma Gakuenki Recharge
16. Tamagotchi 2
17. English Training DS
18. Rhythm Tengoku
19. Poppin' Music 13
20. Eiyuu Densetsu Sora no Kiseki FC
21. Mario Kart DS
22. Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Kenkyaku Rouman Tan'enjou! Kyoto Rinne
23. Mario Hoops 3 -on- 3
24. Aria The Natural
25. Tetris DS
26. Gindamashii DS
27. Nounenrei Nou Stress-kei Atama Scan
28. Rune Factory Shin Bokujou Monogatari
29. Project Sylpheed
30. Monster Hunter Portable PSP The Best

Hardware:
to follow

OMG @ Pokemon O.O
FFIII still selling strong
Dead Rising(a 360 game) actually selling strong at #12!?!?!

[IceCold]

Hey, you're back - welcome! I was jut going to post about you in the "Missing Poster" thread..