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Deku said:
Maybe Sony's trying to limit the losses over the holiday?
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Enterbrain Sales 3 - 9 Jan
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Maybe Sony's trying to limit the losses over the holiday?
Cruel Bastard Mario said:They also said that they'd have 100,000 units available weekly after the original benchmark. Either they lied, or they aren't selling. Pick your excuse
(edit: and I don't think they'll hit th 3 Million by March mark either.)
Easily will. Europe and US launches will be done.
Deg said:
I don't doubt their ability to launch in Europe and the US this March, I just think that if they do (certainly judging by their inability to properly stock just one territory) that they will launch with limited product. That's why I say 3 million by March isn't likely. I could be wrong, but again, I've been pretty good about calling these things so far
Edit: And as I said earlier, I still think that there is an outside chance that Sony will delay the launch in an effort to produce more product. That's Sony's choice, however. Lean launch in March vs. sufficient units and a delay of several months.
CerberusXXL
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I would bet that the DS has done better than what Nintendo expected.
Competition is good
Competition is good
Or try paying closer attention...the 100,000 a week was only through the end of december. Nothing was stated for shipments into 2005.Cruel Bastard Mario said:They also said that they'd have 100,000 units available weekly after the original benchmark. Either they lied, or they aren't selling. Pick your excuse
Like I said, see you then. So far your track record only shows you have a bad memory but no soothsaying ability, yet.
mashoutposse
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Something tells me that 45,000 PSPs aren't sitting on store shelves in Japan right now...
Heres the weekly Enterbrain and MC data since the psp launch in direct comparison:
Enterbrain - Media Create(rounded down to nearest 1000 units)
PSP
166,000 160,000
081,000 085,000
092,000 107,000
111,000 129,000
055,000 ???,???
DS
181,000 198,000
220,000 221,000
252,000 396,000
173,000 209,000
132,000 ???,???
In both cases Enterbrain has been fairly consistent in underscoring sales by a fairly small, but significant margin(apart from DS Christmas week). Expecting psp to jump and DS not to with MC is clutching at straws. Seems likely psp will be at 60-70K for the week, with the DS probably between 140-150K. Unless there has been a major cock up somewhere(although that seems unlikely).
The question is, have sony cut down on the supplies or are psps not being sold? If the latter, then sony are in deep shit. If the former, they really need to sort it, otherwise the DS will soon be 2M ahead, that's even before they release the killer app likes of JSS and Mario Kart.
They have a target of 3M by March, so with 500K already out that means another 2.5M these 3 months. I'd expect 500K for each launch, so that would leave 1.5M in Japan. That is 500K per month, or 125K per week. For a system to sell like that is very strong, especially now that the holiday season is over. I dunno, seems unlikely Sony will hit their shipment target.
Enterbrain - Media Create(rounded down to nearest 1000 units)
PSP
166,000 160,000
081,000 085,000
092,000 107,000
111,000 129,000
055,000 ???,???
DS
181,000 198,000
220,000 221,000
252,000 396,000
173,000 209,000
132,000 ???,???
In both cases Enterbrain has been fairly consistent in underscoring sales by a fairly small, but significant margin(apart from DS Christmas week). Expecting psp to jump and DS not to with MC is clutching at straws. Seems likely psp will be at 60-70K for the week, with the DS probably between 140-150K. Unless there has been a major cock up somewhere(although that seems unlikely).
The question is, have sony cut down on the supplies or are psps not being sold? If the latter, then sony are in deep shit. If the former, they really need to sort it, otherwise the DS will soon be 2M ahead, that's even before they release the killer app likes of JSS and Mario Kart.
They have a target of 3M by March, so with 500K already out that means another 2.5M these 3 months. I'd expect 500K for each launch, so that would leave 1.5M in Japan. That is 500K per month, or 125K per week. For a system to sell like that is very strong, especially now that the holiday season is over. I dunno, seems unlikely Sony will hit their shipment target.
jarrod said:
1.88m in Japan is SCE's official number, including bundled copies and greatest hits.
NPD has GT3 on around 3.5m if I remember including greatest hits, and the bundle did around 850k according to some figures that were released a short while back.
I'd put that at around 4.5m total then to cover any extra copies sold.
In Europe, the UK counts for about 1/3 of the market, and GT3 has "only" sold 850k there including Greatest Hits release.
FIFA 2004, which is enormous in Europe, has only sold 2.5 million. I find it hard to believe GT3 has sold more than 4.0m in Europe.
I'm not sure what these figures are that Sony publish sometimes, but 12m is a bit high...
Mario 64 DS has done around 600k in Japan, and I'd have thought a similar amount in the US, so yeah- 1.2-1.3m sounds about right.
Super Mario Advance did 4.5m, as did Mario Kart:SC and Mario Advance 2, so Mario 64 DS will have some legs yet...
heidern said:
I shouldn't think MC's numbers will be much different this week:
PSP 60k
DS 140k
Guess it's kinda impressive that Everybody's Golf and Dynasty Warriors did another 30k this week. I have a feeling the software tie-ratio is better for PSP than DS. Probably something like 1.6 compared to 1.3 at a guess.