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[Soulbrighter]

1 PS2 Winning Eleven 8 Liveware Evolution Konami
2 PS2 Wild Arms 4 SCEI
3 NDS Touch! Kirby Nintendo
4 PS2 Shining Force Neo Sega
5 PS2 Dynasty Warriors 5 Koei
6 NDS Egg Monsters HERO Square-Enix
7 GBA Dynasty Warriors Advance Koei
8 PSP BLEACH - Heat the soul SCEI
9 NDS Harvest Moon : Korobockle Station Marvellous
10 PS2 ONE PIECE Great RUSH Bandai
11 NDS Sawaru Made in Wario Nintendo
12 PSP Tales Of Eternia Namco
13 NDS Pac-Pix Namco
14 PS2 Sangokushi X Koei
15 NDS Super Mario 64 DS
16 GC Starfox Assault Nintendo
17 GC ONE PIECE Great RUSH Bandai
18 PSP Saru Get you P! SCEI
19 PS2 NANA Konami
20 PS2 Dragonball Z 3 Bandai

 

[Timen]

Go Kirby!

 

[Grubdog]

Holy crap, Mario and Wario still there? Is Super Mario 64 DS going to top the original Super Mario 64 eventually? Donkey Konga 3 disappeared... doh.

 

[Kseutron]

looks like the new DS colors helped pac pix, sawaru and mario 64

 

[CrisKre]

I WANT METEOS ON THAT LIST DAMN IT!!!!!

Other than that, NDS games are kicking ass, and its nice to see Kirby up there if it is as good as people claim for it to be.

My gut feeling: The next big hit in japan will be Nintendogs, and it will sell shitloads.

 

[AniHawk]

I WANT METEOS ON THAT LIST DAMN IT!!!!!

Other than that, NDS games are kicking ass, and its nice to see Kirby up there if it is as good as people claim for it to be.

My gut feeling: The next big hit in japan will be Nintendogs, and it will sell shitloads.

I doubt it's gonna really take off the way people are expecting/hoping. It'll probably do relatively poorly, like 23k-32k for each version (for the first week).

 

[Ruud_Luiten]

The NDS does sell a LOT of software.
Even the third party games sell decent, which is amazing. The quality of titles like Egg monster isn't very high, but it sells very well (little effort big win).

If these sales continue and if the same will happen in Europe and VS, I can see why so many developers want to put content on the NDS. Games are a lot cheaper to develop and will generate more money than expensive PSP games.

I would love to see the hardware numbers for this week. Maybe the new colors gave the NDS a new spurt.

 

[AniHawk]

The NDS does sell a LOT of software.
Even the third party games sell decent, which is amazing. The quality of titles like Egg monster isn't very high, but it sells very well (little effort big win).

If these sales continue and if the same will happen in Europe and VS, I can see why so many developers want to put content on the NDS. Games are a lot cheaper to develop and will generate more money than expensive PSP games.

I would love to see the hardware numbers for this week. Maybe Easter gave the NDS a new spurt.

The only numbers we have for this week is 56k for the DS. Not sure if it's been 100% confirmed though.

 

[Ruud_Luiten]

56K is pretty decent.

I forgot about easter though...
The PSP is likely to surpass 56K and makes the gap smaller (the PSP gained about 200.000 since the spurt).

 

[Rock_Man]

3 NDS Touch! Kirby Nintendo
6 NDS Egg Monsters HERO Square-Enix
9 NDS Harvest Moon : Korobockle Station Marvellous
11 NDS Sawaru Made in Wario Nintendo
13 NDS Pac-Pix Namco
15 NDS Super Mario 64 DS

Seems like a lot of people celebrates Easter on Wednesday...

 

[milanbaros]

SAF is still in the top 20. Despite sales being poor it does seem to at least have some legs.

 

[Izzy]

56K is pretty decent.

I forgot about easter though...
The PSP is likely to surpass 56K and makes the gap smaller (the PSP gained about 200.000 since the spurt).

Not really - not this week.

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

Well it appears the DS had a pretty good week. Hopefully Nintendogs can continue this streak.. I'm not exactly sure if it can, but here's hoping..

 

[Juice]

Go DS. I bought one expecting it not to be supported a year later, any extension of that and I'll consider myself pleasantly surprised.

And anyone saying that Nintendogs isn't going to sell any better than this third party shit is on crack. Everyone who got Harvest Moon will probably buy it, on top of the Nintendo elite (minus the overlap). I'm sure it'll do fine.

I have a friend importing two copies of each version, so that's +6

 

[NLB2]

What the fuck is wrong with your friend?

 

[cvxfreak]

What the fuck is wrong with your friend?

Is it wrong to get the game at all, or 6 copies total?

 

[NLB2]

Is it wrong to get the game at all, or 6 copies total?

Six of the same god damn game. And its a game he hasn't played and hasn't seen any reviews for. Tell him to give some of his extra money to me, juice

 

[Jeff-DSA]

It makes me happy seeing that many DS titles on the list. I'm expecting the handheld to just explode once the big hitters start coming more regularly.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

56K is pretty decent.

I forgot about easter though...
The PSP is likely to surpass 56K and makes the gap smaller (the PSP gained about 200.000 since the spurt).

Izzy already said "Not really", but to back that up, the last time PSP was over 56K was the week of January 24. Since then it has averaged 43K, so I'd say it's unlikely.

 

[heidern]

I reckon psp sales will be 40K this week. Bleach and Easter may push that up, but doesn't seem too likely to me. Also, I don't want to be presumptious, but it looks like the DS may not only have taken the lead, but is keeping it this week. The reason I say that, is that the DS launch games Mario 64 and Wario are both in the charts(presumably selling to new DS owners) whereas Hot Shots and Dynasty Warriors are not. In fact Wario is even ahead of the biggest post launch PSP game(Tales). Things are really heating up.

 

[Spiritreaver]

I think the DS will do well throughout April as well, it may not always top the PSP in hardware sales the next couple of weeks, but it'll definitely stay up there with another huge spike when the next two colors release, maybe a bigger one, but I'm only taking that with salt from IGN's anecdotal evidence about the Pink DS being the "hardest" of the four colors to get a preorder for.

But who knows, it may be able to maintain a steady sales number throughout April and possibly May, but looking back on the past couple of months and the jumpy sales, I doubt that.

 

[michael000]

Taken from Gamestop

TOKYO--New hues is good news for Nintendo. With the release of the colored DS models, sales of the handheld are better than ever in Japan. According to sales data obtained by Dengeki Online, Nintendo saw its DS sales rise more than twofold during the week of March 21 to March 27. Sales for the week were 54,000 units, compared to the previous week's sales of 21,000 units.

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KAAAAAAAAAABIIIIIIIIIIIIII

 

[GaimeGuy]

kabi?

it's kirby, bitch.