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[GhaleonEB]

Sony has got to be freaking out about those PS3 sales. That's one steep drop off for them. It's going to be looooooong haul to hit the 1m the PS2 did in one week. Nintendo is taking them over, big time.

 

[Kobun Heat]

 

[jamesinclair]

Stop the presses, everybody!

:lol



Holy shit the real numbers are even worse!?!?!?!?!?!?

And DSL under 100k? Its over

 

[Deku]

DS beats PSP for the first time in this time of the year.

PSP down 16%~ from this time last year.
DS up 64%

 

[cank stoochie]

What are the major game releases coming out in the next weeks - particularly those for PS3 and Wii, which could change the playing field a bit?

nothing for the ps3. seriously its looking very grim for them

 

[Leonsito]

PSP down 16%~ from this time last year.
DS up 64%

Yeah I know, I was adding some drama :lol

 

[AniHawk]

nothing for the ps3. seriously its looking very grim for them

Virtua Fighter 5

 

[meltpotato]

PSP down 16%~ from this time last year.
DS up 64%

DS was in shortage so that number is pretty much useless

nothing for the ps3. seriously its looking very grim for them

isn't VF relatively soon? even the 360 saw a slight bump with DOA4

 

[cank stoochie]

Virtua Fighter 5

well i was referring to next week release for ps3

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Virtua Fighter 5

Do you really think that's going to push units significantly? I really can't see that happening.

 

[Deku]

Virtua Fighter 5

I think Gundam Mousou might do it.

 

[Kobun Heat]

Do you really think that's going to push units significantly?

It's like the PS3's Blue Dragon.

 

[Deku]

DS was in shortage so that number is pretty much useless



isn't VF relatively soon? even the 360 saw a slight bump with DOA4

Have we confirmed there's a shortage? Cvx?

Edit: What's the LTDs for the PS3, Wii, DS and PSP?

 

[VOOK]

It's like the PS3's Blue Dragon.

Three weeks of good sales and then back to crap?

 

[cank stoochie]

Three weeks of good sales and then back to crap?

pretty much

 

[Stumpokapow]

How can he confirm a shortage? The DS has been selling out at most locations week after week every week since the DSLite was released.

 

[Kobun Heat]

Three weeks of good sales and then back to crap?

It's like the PSP's Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops.

 

[Eteric Rice]

Fire Emblem comes out next month for the Wii, I think.

 

[Slippers]

So, if Wii and DS are both selling out, Nintendo knows what's going to be on top of the list by which they shipped more of.
They should make it a tie just to see what happens.

 

[Fio]

I can see from here the satanic smile on Yamauchi face.

 

[sphinx]

isn't mario party 8 also out sometime in the coming weks?

 

[Kaeru]

Do you really think that's going to push units significantly? I really can't see that happening.

co-sign

Im more excited about FLOW :/

 

[castle007]

Wii 93,708
DSL 89,287
PSP 48,804
PS3 25,531
PS2 22,663
Xbox360 9,035
GBM 1,959
GBASP 1,547
GC 611
GBA 79
DS 41

that is a big difference from the Famitsu numbers.

Wii domination begins :O

 

[Jonnyram]

isn't mario party 8 also out sometime in the coming weks?

I have a feeling they might slip it out at the end of April, for the Golden Week holidays.

 

[Leonsito]

The ship carrying the 1m PS3 to Japan must be the same that was carrying the 2m Wii to USA.

 

[RaijinFY]

PS3 is so doomed It's not even funny...

 

[Haunted]

hay guys what's going on in thi. *sees M-C numbers*

<_< >_>...

Wii > DS



PS3 sold 25.000 units...

@_@

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

I don't really see Mario Party extending those numbers either. Though I could be wrong. It'll be interesting to see what happens when Virtua Fighter comes out.

 

[MrSardonic]

The PSP results are once again disappointing - down on last year and paired with terrible software sales yet again. In the top 100 of 2006 the Wii managed to sell more software than the PSP. The PSP is doing extremely badly when it comes to software sales.

 

[jj984jj]

So Wii's got Mario Party 8 and Fire Emblem and PS3's got Virtua Fighter 5 and Gundam Musou in the next few months, right? What big hitters am I missing?

 

[AniHawk]

Hardware - This Week | Last Week | 2007 | LTD

1.) Nintendo Wii - 93,708 | 195,331 | 289,039 | 1,208,682
2.) Nintendo DS Lite - 89,287 | 344,878 | 434,165 | 7,857,489
3.) PlayStation Portable - 48,804 | 118,186 | 166,990 | 4,699,119
4.) PlayStation 3 - 25,531 | 69,944 | 95,475 | 553,033
5.) PlayStation 2 - 22,663 | 52,037 | 74,700 | 20,229,559
6.) Xbox 360 - 9,035 | 18,235| 27,270 | 291,972
7.) Game Boy micro - 1,959 | 3,311 | 5,270 | 565,200
8.) Game Boy Advance SP - 1,547 | 2,364 | 3,911 | 5,918,951
9.) GameCube - 611 | 1,258 | 1,869 | 4,171,337
10.) Game Boy Advance - 79 | 57 | 136 | 8,823,245
11.) Nintendo DS - 41 | 75 | 116 | 6,582,471

DS + DSL combined LTD = 14,439,960
GBA + GBASP + GBM combined LTD = 15,307,396

 

[Busaiku]

I don't really see Mario Party extending those numbers either. Though I could be wrong. It'll be interesting to see what happens when Virtua Fighter comes out.

Mario Party (even for the GCN) has done fairly decent numbers.
I think Mario Party 7 did around 450k, though the previous ones did greater numbers (over 600k I think).

 

[GreenNight]

Fire Emblem wont sell as much as the portable iterations does. I compare it to Pokemon - selling a shitload on handhelds, but not so much on consoles.

 

[RaijinFY]

So Wii's got Mario Party 8 and Fire Emblem and PS3's got Virtua Fighter 5 and Gundam Musou in the next few months, right? What big hitters am I missing?

Honestly nothing? No Winning Eleven?

 

[jarrod]

isn't mario party 8 also out sometime in the coming weks?

Yep, the rest of Q1 for the next gen machines looks like...

Xbox 360
01.25 The Godfather (Electronic Arts)
01.25 The Idol Master (Bandai Namco)
01.25 Vampire's Rain (AQ Interactive)
01.25 WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007 (Yukes)
02.08 Diario: Reverse Moon Legend (Idea Factory)
02.22 Riot Act (MGS)
02.22 Splinter Cell: Nijuu Spy (Ubisoft)
03.08 Fuzion Frenzy 2 (MGS)
03.22 Armored Core 4 (From Software)
03.29 Absolute: Blazing Infinity (Idea Factory)
03.29 Call of Duty 3 (Konami)

PlayStation 3
01.25 ~em~ Enchant Arm (From Software)
02.08 Virtua Fighter 5 (SEGA)
02.22 Fatal Inertia (KOEI)
02.22 Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom (Spike)
03.01 Gundam Musou (Bandai Namco)
03.08 Power Smash 3: Sega Professional Tennis (SEGA)
03.15 Fight Night Round 3 (Electronic Arts)
03.15 Madden NFL 07 (Electronic Arts)
03.22 Mist of Chaos (Idea Factory)

Wii
01.25 Mahjong Taikai Wii (KOEI)
02.08 Cooking Mama: Minna to Issho ni Oryouri Taikai! (Taito)
02.22 Fire Emblem: Akatsuki no Megami (Nintendo)
02.22 Naruto Shippuuden: Gekitou Ninja Taisen EX (Takara Tomy)
03.01 Densha de Go! Shinkansen EX: Sanyou Shinkansen Hen (Taito)
03.08 Bomberman Land Wii (Hudson)
03.08 Eyeshield 21: Field no Saikyou Senshi Tach (Nintendo)
03.15 G1 Jockey 4 (Taito)
03.15 Sonic to Himitsu no Ring (SEGA)
03.21 San Goku Shi XI with Power-Up Kit (KOEI)
03.22 Cars (SEGA)
03.22 Puzzle Series Vol. 1: Sudoku (Hudson)
03.29 Mezase!! Tsuri Master (Hudson)

 

[AniHawk]

You know things are really bad when you're being outsold by the PSP.

 

[splattergnome]

I don't really see Mario Party extending those numbers either. Though I could be wrong. It'll be interesting to see what happens when Virtua Fighter comes out.

I agree - Mario Party has a high chance of targetting the same gamers as Wii Play and Wii Sports - and maybe even less of them, because of the Mario Party legacy IP that might scare some people off.

Fire Emblem - that could have the opportunity of being a small system seller but for the fact that the Wii already sells out. I am afraid that the majority of the buyers so far are (hardcore Nintendo fans aside) casual gamers, gamers migrating over from the DS, and people fascinated by the wiimote as seen in Wii Sports - not the target demographic for a strategic tactical RPG. Its a bad position for Nintendo this early in the game - Nintendo needs "hardcore" games for "hardcore gamers" to attract them to the system, but at the same time they don't have the user base yet to actually make the games an overwhelming success. Just look at the first year of the DS - Advance Wars, Kirby Canvas, ect - all games which would have certainly done much better later in its lifetime.

 

[jj984jj]

Fire Emblem wont see as much as the portable iterations does. I compare it to Pokemon - selling a shitload on handhelds, but not so much on consoles.

I don't expect VF5 to sell that much either, but I listed it as well.

Edit: Completely forgot about Naruto.

 

[jarrod]

So Wii's got Mario Party 8 and Fire Emblem and PS3's got Virtua Fighter 5 and Gundam Musou in the next few months, right? What big hitters am I missing?

Naruto GNT EX for Wii. 300k+ potentially.

 

[GreenNight]

PSP, the N-Gage of the new generation.

Also, Fire Emblem is the only game that will get me to purchase a Wii.

 

[Stumpokapow]

So Wii's got Mario Party 8 and Fire Emblem and PS3's got Virtua Fighter 5 and Gundam Musou in the next few months, right? What big hitters am I missing?

Wii:
January: Excite Truck (today)
February: Cooking Mama, Fire Emblem
March: Sonic
Unspecified, but likely by April/May: Mario Party 8, Dragon Quest Swords

PS3:
January: Enchant Arm
February: Virtual Fighter 5
March: Gundam Musou

The Wii has a few more games in total looking at the lists, but a lot of them are junk and even the heavy hitters are really only medium-level games. The PS3 has basically nothing at all other than the three games mentioned, but both Gundam and VF5 should do pretty well.

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Mario Party (even for the GCN) has done fairly decent numbers.
I think Mario Party 7 did around 450k, though the previous ones did greater numbers (over 600k I think).

Maybe i'll just shut my mouth now.

 

[Busaiku]

So Wii's got Mario Party 8 and Fire Emblem and PS3's got Virtua Fighter 5 and Gundam Musou in the next few months, right? What big hitters am I missing?

There's that Naruto game coming out around the same time as Fire Emblem, I think. The Gekitou Ninja Taisen games have all sold over 300k (not sure about the 1st one). And, to add to that the new series starting (Hurricane Chronicles or whatever) may further boost the sales.

 

[Green Biker Dude]

1 month until "How can Sony improve PS3 sales?" threads start. I just hope the PS3 price drops soon. It better.

 

[argon]

The ship carrying the 1m PS3 to Japan must be the same that was carrying the 2m Wii to USA.

:lol

 

[jj984jj]

I wonder how many PS3s Sony will ship with VF5?

And maybe I'm blind... but I don't see MP8 on jarrod's list.

 

[Eteric Rice]

I wonder when Dragon Quest Swords will be released?

 

[Avalon]

Wow, serious... February might just be the deathblow. Unless people really love their Virtual Fighter 5.

 

[RaijinFY]

You know things are really bad when you're being outsold by the PSP.

:lol :lol :lol :lol


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