Japan: 350,000 Nintendo DS through-sells on 4 days

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Japan: So far approx. 350,000 Nintendo DS through-sells on 4 days

12/06/04 - Nintendo has in Japan in the time of 12/02/04 to 12/05/04 348,700 Nintendo DS through-sell. That announces Bloomberg with reference to data of Media Create.
The sell-through rate is about 76 %, 500,000 systems were shipped on 02.12.04.


Hmm. 230,000 launch day. Average of 40,000 next three days. 2 million pre-orders?
 
explodet said:
250K, 350K, 2 million, 5 million.... I'm so confused.
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It's easy 200,000 DSs sold on the first day. 350,000 have been sold up till now. 2 million pre-orders from stores (all of these are japanes #'s), and 5 million shipped worldwide by the end of the fiscal year.
 
So according to that site, the DS sold 163,000 units in 1.5 hours!

Okay, so really, has the DS sold over 500K in Japan?
 
deadlifter said:
Nice, remember it's 2 million store pre-orders, not individuals.
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Well, that number was always peddled as proof of massive anticipation for the system.

While the DS' performance is fairly impressive, the GBA did nearly 200k more according to Famitsu in its first four days, and it didn't have the benefit of the holiday season.
 
mashoutposse said:
Well, that number was always peddled as proof of massive anticipation for the system.
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And I reckon this is going to be one with a steady build up of sales rather than a spurt at the beginning. It's the kind of system that non-gaming friends see you play and then go out and buy one after they've tried it themselves, imho.
 
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Just kidding! Congrats Nintendo!
 
he he.

Anyways, the launch seems to have been handled well - they got the units out, with 12 launch titles, all interesting in their own way.

Even better, they have staff demoing the units in places like Tsutaya , Bic and Sakuraya. The shelves are well stocked, and they are ready to take peoples business.

Adverts are everywhere too and the 'touch' campaign seems to be getting across to non-gamers as well.

It's been a very well organised launch. Nintendo must be pleased.
 
Kseutron said:
"Nintendo's DS Console Sales Reach 513,000 After Debut (Update1)
December 6, 2004 04:20 EST -- Nintendo Co., the world's biggest maker of hand-held game machines, said sales of its new DS console reached 513,000 four days after the hand-held device was released in Japan. "

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conews&tkr=NTDOY:US
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Thats more like it. I knew something wasn't adding up. Why would stores even order 2 million if the demand wasn't there. 3rd pillar my arse. With numbers like this nintendo better not think about bring out gba2 for a long time.
 
whew.. I was right I guess. For the DS to sell 250k at launch and then to move an additional 100k in the following three days is just bad; says that the console has no momentum. If the 512k number is correct, then I'd say Nintendo had a good launch.

WOW. 1 Million DSs sold ww. And this is just US + JAPAN. :)
 
Japan Bloomberg has updated now. 513,000 hardware sold and 500,000 software. Nintendo aims to ship 1 million by the end of the year. Initially, they were supposed to ship 500,000 for day one - I'm guessing stocks must be a bit low now but I've not been to the shops since Thursday. The local shop only has Wario left out of all the games, anyway.
 
I KNEW this would happen. I had already banked heavily on the thought that we'd have well over 1 million sales worldwide by the end of this week. Even with the PSP launch looming, it sold past my expectations. I was really banking on a number similar to what was in the original post, and hoping we'd have around a 200k-300k sell through here this week. Didn't even need that. :P

Very very nice.
 
In all fairness, the GBA was the first true successor in the GameBoy line - which was nearly a decade old. The anticipation was great and hte launch games were impressive (Mario Kart, Mario Advance, Castlevania).

The Nintendo DS is facing one of the greatest years for console games, The juggernaut that is the GBASP, and it's first true competition in the PSP. Nobody should logically expect the DS to surpass historical numbers when there's never been a launch quite like this.

All told, I think the DS is doing very well. I hope this success can be sustained and expanded when some of the more promising future games are released.
 
Nintendo's DS Console Sales Reach 513,000 After Debut (Update2)
December 6, 2004 05:23 EST -- Nintendo Co., the world's biggest maker of hand-held game machines, said sales of its new DS console reached 513,000 four days after the device was released in Japan.

Nintendo Sells 350,000 DS Hand-Held Consoles After Japan Debut
December 6, 2004 01:27 EST -- Nintendo Co., the world's biggest maker of hand-held game machines, sold 350,000 units of its Nintendo DS console in the device's first four days of sales, Tokyo-based market researcher Media Create Co. said.

what happened to Bloomberg? This is confusing.
 
I wonder why the revised numbers aren't from media create. Maybe we should just wait for media ceate numbers to come out. I mean this isn't the most important thing in the world.
 
timlot said:
I wonder why the revised numbers aren't from media create. Maybe we should just wait for media ceate numbers to come out. I mean this isn't the most important thing in the world.
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:lol Most likely, though gamefront went along and gave the report a third update going with the 513k figures.
 
Tritroid said:
Well the initial shipment was 300k right?

So were they shipping more daily? How many?
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I think they upped it by 200k not long before the launch. That's what most sites are saying now. So 500k total I believe.
 
DarthWufei said:
I think they upped it by 200k not long before the launch. That's what most sites are saying now. So 500k total I believe.
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Ok, well that would make sense then.

Still, what are they going to be shipping from now until the end of the year, and how often?
 
StephaneC said:
200 000 DS sold between 1:27 EST and 05:23 EST :D
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The 510,000 domestic selling strength by Nintendo:"new style machine DS" the 5th and software are 50 Manmoto.
December 6 (Bloomberg): Nintendo, a major game machine company, is six days.
The selling number of the new handheld game machine "NINTENDO DS" put on the market on the 2nd the week before
It was shown clearly that it went up to 513,000 sets. According to Section Chief [ specializing in company public relations Minagawa.
The selling numbers of game software were about 50 Manmoto. Nintendo is 1 million sets in a country within the year. Shipment is aimed at.

Also statistics which the board-of-inquiry company of a domestic home video game market and the media create released on the evening of the 6th,
A result [ the real sale number of 468,900 sets and a soft selling number of DS is the same as that of 489,600 almost ]
If the selling number of DS main part contains a kept part of reservation, it will call it the hope exceeding 500,000 sets.

The number of real sale which the media creation announced as preliminary figures on the afternoon of the same day Although it was 348,700 sets
Then, it revised upward reflecting a sold part in a volume retailer etc. As opposed to the hard number of shipment The rate of digestion which is a ratio of the number of real sale is after correction, and is made into 89%.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=90001002&sid=aTIFX2jl97qQ&refer=jp_home

Another number? Media Create says 468,900 DS now? Looks like Media Create got owned by Nintendo.
 
DS has done very well. Its come a long way from its first comments and hints. I dont think even Nintendo were expecting it to be doing this good. Maybe they expected much better from PSP?

The DS should help diversify the market further. Gaming doesnt have stay in the same traditions and customs forever.
 
Media Create admits the initial figure was an "express" release and later more stores submitted data to give them the higher figure. M.C.'s software results were about the same as Nintendo's too, at 490k. The article sasy 89% of hardware has been sold through.
 
Why would anybody be concerned that the DS might not sell well in its first week on the market? There hasn't been a major new piece of game hardware from one of the usual suspects that hasn't sold well at launch in recent memory, thanks to early adopters and loyal fans.
 
DS is gonna be bigger than I thought. Every store I went to this weekend had the DS demo being mauled by some wide-eyed little gradeschool kid. I thin kword of mouth is spreading because prior to launch those demo stations were barely touched.
 
kaching said:
Why would anybody be concerned that the DS might not sell well in its first week on the market?
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Its just what the trolls have been saying. They were saying it was the next Virtual Boy and were trying to prevent people from buying it because they wanted to see Nintendo fail. How sad. :lol

At this rate the DS should be ahead of the worldwide sales of the Virtual Boy by tomorrow....
 
I'm not referring to trolls, I'm referring to people in this thread who legitimately seemed to have been concerned.
 
Nice! Still way to early to tell though. Didnt even flop of DC have great starting sales figures? Whos got dreamcast numbers?
 
kaching said:
I'm not referring to trolls, I'm referring to people in this thread who legitimately seemed to have been concerned.
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I don't think it's that people were concerned per say...some people (myself included) just have a devoted interest to sales figures. :lol

It's odd, sure, but it's also kind of fun to follow. Especially when you get a new console/handheld on the market.
 
STOP COMPARING DS TO DREAMCAST!!!!!!!!!

For godsake, what made dc fail wasn't necessarily its sales (for a while there they weren't bad at all), what made it fail was the business model Sega implemented with it (aka loosing money) so if anything (and I don't for one minute believe it to be so, but for comparisons sake it IS more fair) its closer to PSP's situation.
 
madara said:
Nice! Still way to early to tell though. Didnt even flop of DC have great starting sales figures? Whos got dreamcast numbers?
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DC wasn't a flop actually--Sega themselves were the flop. They stopped supporting the machine because they couldn't afford to.

I'm not really up on the stat history, but I do think the DS is doing good considering how different machine is to the GB and other portable game machines.
 
Oh kaching, leave the cheese on the cheeseburgers. :P

If it helps any, here are the sales for other consoles/portables during their first day(?) launch in Japan. Sadly, it doesn't have the total number of units that was shipped (Like the 150k DC, etc). Plus they're just numbers, you really can't compare any two system's sales as the variables (launch lineup, price, features, time of release,competition) are so widely different. Just fun with numbers to see where the DS ranks up.

Gameboy Color 155,774
Dreamcast 101,490
Wonder Swan 102,655
PS2 630,552
PSone 34,175
Wonder Swan Color 145,975
GBA 611,504
Gamecube 133,719
XBOX 123,929
GBA SP 117,859

http://web.archive.org/web/20011109052558/http://www.famitsu.com/game/column/2001/09/21/suji.html
 
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