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Japanese software sale 5-12 Dec 2005
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PhoenixDark said:
Link to that? Not in doubt, I just want to read more about it.
I don't see why they would put up to 16 players though, I mean 4 is really enough for the 2 on 2 battles. It's not as if they're going to have 8 on 8 battles. I really hope it doesn't involve MMO elements because I honestly don't see it working - especially with a mere 16 people at a time.
Mama Smurf
My penis is still intact.
http://www.gamespot.com/ds/rpg/pokemondiamond/news.html?sid=6128890
When they say wifi, I never know if they mean online or just local. Why didn't they give them different names, the prats. Anyway, not putting Pokemon online seems like a stupid idea, so I'm sure it will be. Personally I'll be happy with straight up battling and trading, a part of the series I've hardly ever been able to take part in, but anything else would be nice too.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Honestly that's been mostly boring, resulting in a lot of 2004 dates, or maybe a 2001 if the PSP had a decent week. However, this week's massive DS unit lead does give the interesting result of only requiring a bit more than 9 negative weeks for them to meet up; the closest it's been since the actual launch month. October 8, 2005, at 1,529,925 units apiece.CVXFREAK said:
Among the various stats my spreadsheet keeps track of, it is worth noting that this week Microsoft's share of all hardware sales for the year jumped up from 0.2% to 0.7%. By having 8.7% of the weekly share, they forced Sony into their lowest share this year (26.1%).
The first two seem possible enough, but not the last. That would require a week something like...Christberg said:
PSP: 10,000
DS: 400,028
or more realistically for the PSP and time of year, something like
PSP: 100,000
DS: 580,028
If, however, we were to live in a zany universe where this week's totals repeated indefinitely, DS would surpass double the PSP's LTD the first week of next year. Though it would be REALLY close the week before, coming within 500 units.
*side note*
Yesterday, Nintendo announced some numbers for the German market:
Nintendogs pulled off 250k in two months.. it sure could be more, if it wasn't completely sold out everywhere. I was lucky to get a pink ds bundled with nintendogs a week ago for the normal price of 140 Euro and sold it at ebay for 190 Euro. The bundles with the blue DS are even 200-230 Euro at ebay.
Mario Kart DS moved > 100k units in 3 weeks. In the same time 150k DS were sold.
So all in all, it's looking pretty good for the DS here too. -.-
Yesterday, Nintendo announced some numbers for the German market:
Nintendogs pulled off 250k in two months.. it sure could be more, if it wasn't completely sold out everywhere. I was lucky to get a pink ds bundled with nintendogs a week ago for the normal price of 140 Euro and sold it at ebay for 190 Euro. The bundles with the blue DS are even 200-230 Euro at ebay.
Mario Kart DS moved > 100k units in 3 weeks. In the same time 150k DS were sold.
So all in all, it's looking pretty good for the DS here too. -.-
The latest DS vs PSP vs GBA charts are up on Everything and Nothing:
http://www.everythingandnothing.org.uk/vg/dspsp.php
As well as this weeks numbers:
http://www.everythingandnothing.org.uk/vg/japweekly.php?date=38697
Oh and while you're there, check out some cool music at StudentBands.co.uk:
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http://www.everythingandnothing.org.uk/vg/dspsp.php
As well as this weeks numbers:
http://www.everythingandnothing.org.uk/vg/japweekly.php?date=38697
Oh and while you're there, check out some cool music at StudentBands.co.uk:
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Christberg
Member
JoshuaJSlone said:
*redoes math...
Yeah, that last one did appear a little funky.
The other 2 seem pretty likely to me though. Provided trends remain identical.
Just to give a bit of a heads up for the next couple of weeks, the following two websites are pretty good with their predictions:
http://www.kyoto.zaq.ne.jp/dkbkq103/yso/machi.htm
and
http://www2.realint.com/cgi-bin/tarticles.cgi?ralva+1489
which is a message board where (I think) the table on the other site comes from and basically the site (which is long established although it has recently changed) asks people to predict their top 3 games for the following week and is usually pretty accurate.
This week (ending today the 18th) is pretty easy to forsee I think:
1 Tales of the Abyss 300-350k (I think Jonnyram said somewhere between the last two tales games- Revirth did 385, Lengendia did 240)
2 Mario Kart DS 150-170k
3 Animal Crossing DS 140-160k
4 Final Fantasy IV 120-130k
Its the week ending the 25th I hadn't though ahead much to. This is the biggest week of the year, where sales really peak and Kingdom Hearts is out. People are predicting:
1 Kingdom Hearts 2 650-800k !!!!
2 Animal Crossing 200-250k (sailing past one million in the process)
3 Mario Kart DS 180-200k (around 600k total in 3 weeks)
4 Naruto 3 PS2 170-200k
5 Tamogotchi 120-150k !!!! (around 650k total !!)
DS 450k
PSP 200k
Brain Training 100k
Nintendogs 75k
Now I'd totally forgotten about Kingdom Hearts 2 and it's gonna be huge but I dunno if 750-800k is a bit high- I'd have said 500-550k. I think 200k + for Animal Crossing and close to that for Mario Kart is very possible though and huge jumps for older DS games like Brain Training and Tamogotchi are also possible (could Tamogotchi be another million seller??)
It's gonna be an interesting few weeks.
On a related note, how would people like to do a proper prediction thread every week (or at least interesting weeks like this around xmas) with points and stuff a bit like the NPD one?
http://www.kyoto.zaq.ne.jp/dkbkq103/yso/machi.htm
and
http://www2.realint.com/cgi-bin/tarticles.cgi?ralva+1489
which is a message board where (I think) the table on the other site comes from and basically the site (which is long established although it has recently changed) asks people to predict their top 3 games for the following week and is usually pretty accurate.
This week (ending today the 18th) is pretty easy to forsee I think:
1 Tales of the Abyss 300-350k (I think Jonnyram said somewhere between the last two tales games- Revirth did 385, Lengendia did 240)
2 Mario Kart DS 150-170k
3 Animal Crossing DS 140-160k
4 Final Fantasy IV 120-130k
Its the week ending the 25th I hadn't though ahead much to. This is the biggest week of the year, where sales really peak and Kingdom Hearts is out. People are predicting:
1 Kingdom Hearts 2 650-800k !!!!
2 Animal Crossing 200-250k (sailing past one million in the process)
3 Mario Kart DS 180-200k (around 600k total in 3 weeks)
4 Naruto 3 PS2 170-200k
5 Tamogotchi 120-150k !!!! (around 650k total !!)
DS 450k
PSP 200k
Brain Training 100k
Nintendogs 75k
Now I'd totally forgotten about Kingdom Hearts 2 and it's gonna be huge but I dunno if 750-800k is a bit high- I'd have said 500-550k. I think 200k + for Animal Crossing and close to that for Mario Kart is very possible though and huge jumps for older DS games like Brain Training and Tamogotchi are also possible (could Tamogotchi be another million seller??)
It's gonna be an interesting few weeks.
On a related note, how would people like to do a proper prediction thread every week (or at least interesting weeks like this around xmas) with points and stuff a bit like the NPD one?
Gahiggidy
My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
No, no. Nintendo's numbers are actual units sold and delivered to retailers. Sony's numbers are somewhat of a mystery but its understood that it can include both "orders" and units shiped out of the manufacturing plant to Sony warehouses arond the world.Mook1e said:
elektrotal
Member
As long as people have long ass train commutes to work in Japan, DS's will have a strong market.
PhoenixDark
Banned
So we never got the MC numbers?!?
PhoenixDark
Banned
Dark Dragon said:
Oh, they're on the first page of this thread already. Someone must have edited the hardware numbers in or something, or maby I'm just teh retard.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
P90 said:
No they are not. Sony says shipped.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
No see you gotta understand his point of view. You got it all wrong. See what it is, is this right.
Okay who am I kidding, he lied his ass off. Damnit I didn't know he did it like that. :lol
neo2046
Member
Famitsu numbers (Dec 5 ~11)
Code:
1. Mario Kart DS 224411
2. Rogue Galaxy 213289
3. Ryu Ga Gotoku 129863
4. Animal Crossing WW 116965 595259
5. Momotaro Dentetsu 15 77080
6. biohazard 4 75158 310075
7. Tamagotchi DS 72522 521826
8. Pokemon Dungeon Red 65264 287038
9. Pokemon Dungeon Blue 60945 295563
10. Monster Hunter P 53365 171682
11. Rockman EXE 6 49907 291601
12. Brian Training DS 43994 872696
13. Gentle Exercise DS 34364 741883
14. Mario Party 7 33882 183135
15. Daredemo Asobi Taiszen 32610 218740
16. Slime Morimori DQ 2 31979 75974
17. Nintendogs 30652 837212
18. Dragon Ball Z DS 30506 72786
19. Ridge Racer 6 29891
20. Mushiking DS 29394
21. Naruto GC 4 27239 137251
22. Bleach GC 26531
23. Summon Night CS3 22901
24. Sengoku Musou PSP 22817
25. Monster Farm 5 21450
26. Pokemon Puzzle 15890 155864
27. Perfect Dark Zero 14897
28. Namco's Drum game 6 14553
29 Rachant 4 14324 122451
30. Donkey Kong 3 GBA 13358 25153John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Wasn't there higher expectations for BLEACH GC?
I thought it was suppose to be good.
I thought it was suppose to be good.
thestopsign
Member
Wow Slime Mori Mori 2 and Dragon Ball both had better legs then I thought they would. Poor Mushiking DS bombed though.
Top 20 = 11 DS games
Top 20 = 11 DS games