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Japanese software sale 5-12 Dec 2005

Fuzzy

I would bang a hot farmer!
Jonnyram said:
So the DS could soon pass GBA SP sales to date?
That's insane.
That chart isn't complete and it doesn't show that all versions of the GBA combined (GBA, GBASP, Micro) is at about 15 million LTD in Japan. Of course there are many people in that combined number that has bought each of them.

ioi, do you have the link to the chart comparing weekly sales of the GBA to the DS and PSP?
 
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Deleted member 1235

Unconfirmed Member
littlewig said:
I remember people were claiming PSP would be a sure win for Europe...

I think you mean sonyland.
 

ioi

Banned
Fuzzy said:
That chart isn't complete and it doesn't show that all versions of the GBA combined (GBA, GBASP, Micro) is at about 15 million LTD in Japan. Of course there are many people in that combined number that has bought each of them.

ioi, do you have the link to the chart comparing weekly sales of the GBA to the DS and PSP?

I do but I haven't updated it yet :)

But safe to say my original prediction of DS doing 5 million by the end of 2005 is looking very likely now and doing much better than GBA's first xmas...

http://www.everythingandnothing.org.uk/vg/dspsp.php
 

Fuzzy

I would bang a hot farmer!
ioi said:
I do but I haven't updated it yet :)

But safe to say my original prediction of DS doing 5 million by the end of 2005 is looking very likely now and doing much better than GBA's first xmas...

http://www.everythingandnothing.org.uk/vg/dspsp.php
Could you please do what I asked and move the PSP numbers up one week so it's easier to compare?

BTW how do you get to that page from the main menu? I don't see a link.

EDIT: I have another question about the chart, does it factor in that the GBASP was launched during the week ending 17-Feb-02?
 

ioi

Banned
Fuzzy said:
Could you please do what I asked and move the PSP numbers up one week so it's easier to compare?

BTW how do you get to that page from the main menu? I don't see a link.

EDIT: I have another question about the chart, does it factor in that the GBASP was launched during the week ending 17-Feb-02?

Erm... it'll probably get updated tomorrow when I have time. I don't see the point in moving the PSP up as it is aligned week by week with the DS, don't see as it makes a lot of difference either way though.

And about the SP it was launched in 2003 not 2002- that would have been less than a year after the original GBA launch!!

And yes, I should add a link on the main page amongst other things :)

To give an idea how DS is doing so far and what we can expect over the next few weeks:

Code:
GBA 2001		GBA 2002		GBA 2003		DS 2005	
09-Dec-01	 39 	08-Dec-02		07-Dec-03	 44 	04-Dec-05	 177 
16-Dec-01	 121 	15-Dec-02	 242 	14-Dec-03	 60 	11-Dec-05	 299 
23-Dec-01	 265 	22-Dec-02	 325 	21-Dec-03	 155 	18-Dec-05	
30-Dec-01	 216 	29-Dec-02		28-Dec-03	 197 	25-Dec-05	
06-Jan-02	 286 	05-Jan-03		04-Jan-04	 277 	01-Jan-06	
13-Jan-02	 88 	12-Jan-03		11-Jan-04	 81 	08-Jan-06

Incomplete numbers from 2002 and also they are kind of mis-aligned a bit for example the top week on "GBA 2001" ended the 9th Dec and did 39k which is probably a better comparison to this week ending 11th Dec 05 for DS.

I think people fail to realise that the boost only really starts around TODAY (~15th Dec) and in fact it's from now that numbers will double. If the DS was on 300k already, 150k for Animal Crossing, 50k for Brain Training / Tamogotchi etc then who knows what kind of numbers we'll be getting in two weeks (ending 25th Dec) when things really go wild???

500k for DS? 250k for Animal Crossing? another 200k for Mario Kart, 100k+ for Brain Trainings, Tamogotchi, 75k for Nintendogs?

We will have to see...

I'm calling hardware sales at:

18th 300k
25th 500k
01st 350k
08th 400k

That's another 1.55 million!!- 5.8 million total

May be optomistic, will have to see :D
 

Oxymoron

Member
CVXFREAK said:
Joshua, you need to bring back those "it'll be 1990 before PSP and DS meet up again" dealies. :lol
2754777DS + 299328DS/W * t W = 1832948PSP + 86403PSP/W * t W
921829 = -212925t
t = -4.3

If both systems keep selling at the rate they are now, they will meet up in early november 2005.
Those numbers only give wacky dates when DS and PSP are very close.
 

ziran

Member
ioi said:
Apart from in the USA (who knows why???) the DS is selling stupid numbers all round the world at the moment, it really is impressive stuff !!
yeah, i'm not sure why the ds isn't selling well in NA...

i mean it's doing okay, but when compared to europe and japan it's relatively low. maybe it's because the gba is still doing amazing numbers in NA and that's eating into the ds sales? once ds hits $99 there could be a swap over and an increase in units sold and i'm sure pokemon diamond/pearl and new smb will help.

it's odd though.
 

Izzy

Banned
Since when PSP needs saving?

Valkyrie Profile is not going to be a (huge) system seller, although it might sell reasonably well. For PSP in Japan (in 2006), that could be Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core or/and Gran Turismo Mobile. Or something else...
 

ioi

Banned
Kseutron said:
french numbers for the last weeks

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Where is this chart coming from, do we actually have any more numbers and a more up to date version (this is two weeks old by the looks of it)??
 

Izzy

Banned
ioi said:
Where is this chart coming from, do we actually have any more numbers and a more up to date version (this is two weeks old by the looks of it)??

It came from Nintendo France - and considering the way Liberty City (released on 1/12) and PSP are selling in the FR right now, I don't think will see an update soon...maybe when Pokemon DS hits :)
 

ioi

Banned
Izzy said:
It came from Nintendo France - and considering the way Liberty City (released on 1/12) and PSP are selling in the FR right now, I don't think will see an update soon...maybe when Pokemon DS hits :)

Are you sure?

I'm sure I've seen an earlier version a couple of weeks less than that and to be honest from what we've been told DS is still outselling PSP 2.5:1 right now so I can't see that being a problem :D
 

Izzy

Banned
ioi said:
Are you sure?

I'm sure I've seen an earlier version a couple of weeks less than that and to be honest from what we've been told DS is still outselling PSP 2.5:1 right now so I can't see that being a problem :D

That ELSPA report in early 2006 will come quite handy... :)
 

ioi

Banned
Anyone wanna start making predictions for next week??

340k Tales of the Abyss
180k Mario Kart DS
170k Animal Crossing
135k Final Fantasy IV
....
65k Tamogotchi
60k Brain Training
50k Gentle Brain Training
45k Nintendogs

DS 300k
PSP 95k
PS2 65k
GC 20k
GBA 35k
X460 20k
 

Izzy

Banned
ioi said:
Anyone wanna start making predictions for next week??

340k Tales of the Abyss
180k Mario Kart DS
170k Animal Crossing
135k Final Fantasy IV
....
65k Tamogotchi
60k Brain Training
50k Gentle Brain Training
45k Nintendogs

DS 300k
PSP 95k
PS2 65k
GC 20k
GBA 35k
X460 20k

95k is too high for PSP - that are no big new releases to drive the hardware sales. Maybe 80k.
 
Next week is really the begining of sales season.

DS 365k
PSP 125k
PS2 85k
GC 30k
GBA 60k
X360 30k

There should be similar rises in software, for example Brain Training might be close to pushing 100k.
 

starship

psycho_snake's and The Black Brad Pitt's B*TCH
I think by the end of holiday season we have these figures for DS:

5 - 5.5m - Japan
4.2 - 4.5m - NA (already at 3m and another 1.2 - 1.5m in December)
3.5 - 4m Europe (1 - 1.1m in UK, 700 - 750k in France, 550 - 600k in Germany, 550 - 600k in Spain, 700 - 950k others)
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12.7 - 14m - total
 

ioi

Banned
Chibbi Brady said:
Next week is really the begining of sales season.

DS 365k
PSP 125k
PS2 85k
GC 30k
GBA 60k
X360 30k

There should be similar rises in software, for example Brain Training might be close to pushing 100k.

well, maybe the following week, I think next week will not quite be that high...
 

jj984jj

He's a pretty swell guy in my books anyway.
Predictions for this week (13-20)? I dunno, I wish we could get yesterday's first day game sales. Tales of the Abyss? FFIV? I dunno.

But next week we all know what will be the best selling game. :D *plays Passion*
 

starship

psycho_snake's and The Black Brad Pitt's B*TCH
Prediction for next MC chart

DS - 320k
PSP - 85k
PS2 - 60k
GBM 35k
Xbox360 - 30k
GC - 20k
GBA SP - 20k
 

NR1

Member
Those DS hardware numbers are just insane! What can stop this beast?!?! I wonder what Metroid Hunters will do for sales in the US and Europe? I don't think it will fly in Japan, but maybe it could push the DS to sale better.

Hunters (DS) = 007 GoldenEye (N64)?

Not to get off topic, but does anyone know where the "Nintendogs Version" of the below image can be found? Search pulled up a hundred Nintendogs topics, but the image wasn't in any of them. ???

shigerumiyamoto-satoruiwata-01.jpg
 

KINGMOKU

Member
What's surprising me is not the DS sales. (Well kinda. It's going critical) It's the PSP sales. For such an expensive toy, and a watered down version of it's big-brother, it's selling suprisingly well.

I mean, normally this type of sales out of the PSP would be awesome for the portable market, but with the DS sitting there just DESTRUCTING everything else, it's a little out of focus.

What's really disturbing are the game sales for the PSP. I really would love to know how many people are buying the PSP JUST for movies, porn, e.t.c.

Maybe Sony should market it more as a movie player, and just run with it?
 

Spike

Member
Imagine what the DS sales are going to be when Pokemon proper, and the new Mario Bros game come out....

BTW, is the next Pokemon game WiFi enabled?
 
Chibbi Brady said:
Next week is really the begining of sales season.

DS 365k
PSP 125k
PS2 85k
GC 30k
GBA 60k
X360 30k

There should be similar rises in software, for example Brain Training might be close to pushing 100k.

Are there really 30,000 Japanese who wanted to wait a week for 360? Why wouldn't they have picked it up this week?

Spike said:
BTW, is the next Pokemon game WiFi enabled?

I'm pretty sure Nintendo has mentioned it among WiFi titles, but don't quote me on it.
 
So we still don't have the actual MC numbers? Awww. -_-

And yes, Pokemon Diamond/Pearl will be Wi Fi enabled. Up to 16 players will be able to play at once, so hopefully we'll see some MMO features.
 

datruth29

Member
PhoenixDark said:
So we still don't have the actual MC numbers? Awww. -_-

And yes, Pokemon Diamond/Pearl will be Wi Fi enabled. Up to 16 players will be able to play at once, so hopefully we'll see some MMO features.

After seeing the damage that games like AC:WW, MK:DS, and Brain Training has done, Pokemon Diamond/Pearl will be of Atomic proportions....
 

monkeyrun

Member
datruth29 said:
After seeing the damage that games like AC:WW, MK:DS, and Brain Training has done, Pokemon Diamond/Pearl will be of Atomic proportions....
all hell will break lose. Pokemon on GBA managed to stay on the top 5 for months :lol
 

Oblivion

Fetishing muscular manly men in skintight hosery
I had the scariest dream yesterday. I dreamt that the new Mario Bros. game came out already....but it was developed by EA!! *cue ominous music* Gamespot gave it a 5.7. I then suddenly woke up with my heart beating fast and all sweaty and whatnot. It was horrible. :(
 

Monk

Banned
Izzy said:
Since when PSP needs saving?

QFT


All the people claiming doom and gloom for the psp are idiots. If there is anything that will make the psp into something that needs saving is its tie ratio. But unlike the ps2 they arent losing as much on the psp when it launched so they dont have to have a huge tie ratio.
 
Oblivion said:
I had the scariest dream yesterday. I dreamt that the new Mario Bros. game came out already....but it was developed by EA!! *cue ominous music* Gamespot gave it a 5.7. I then suddenly woke up with my heart beating fast and all sweaty and whatnot. It was horrible. :(

I've already seen too much Mario from EA :(
 

polg

Member
in these 2 weeks before new year... can NDS sales keep going up with no releases until ML2 and Brain Training?

300K is a LOT...

my predictions

DS overflow*
PSP 80 - 90K
PS2 80 - 90K
Xbox360 80 - 90K
GC 17K
GBASP 20K
GBM 25K (boost by FFFIV?)
GBA 1K
Xbox -300

*280 - 300K

and for those calling Valkyrie Profile and FFVII system saviours... I remind you what happened to WE and Talkman. Not saying those are not big caliber titles, just that... we have to wait and see what happens.
And PSP still has to prove that it is a platform where a new franchise can be launched and succeed.
Maybe it is destined to be used as a portable pr0n machine in japan :s
 
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