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Media Create Software Sales 19th-25th Dec
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soundwave05
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pixelbox said:
It's considerably more than any week for the GBA actually.
soundwave05
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I don't think the PS2 has ever sold 400k+ in a non-launch week in Japan either. The old weekly chart had numbers for that.
It's frightening to think if Nintendo could actually supply that many, the DS might be able to sell 700-800k, which would be double the biggest weeks for either GBA or PS2 in Japan.
What's happening here is definitely not normal.
It's frightening to think if Nintendo could actually supply that many, the DS might be able to sell 700-800k, which would be double the biggest weeks for either GBA or PS2 in Japan.
What's happening here is definitely not normal.
Time for Izzy to chime in:
According to Dengeki,
-Nintendo sold 604k DS units
-the rest of the hardware sold REALLY well - 403k units
-Last week's DS:rest of the hardware ratio was almost 2:1, but this week's 'only' 3:2 (which means something sold disproportionately well - especially considering MONSTROUS DS sales; whether it's PS2, X360, GBA or PSP - I have no bloody idea)
-combined hardware sales were 1007k units (67.6% increase over last week)
-combined software sales were at 4374k units (80.4% increase over last week)
According to Dengeki,
-Nintendo sold 604k DS units
-the rest of the hardware sold REALLY well - 403k units
-Last week's DS:rest of the hardware ratio was almost 2:1, but this week's 'only' 3:2 (which means something sold disproportionately well - especially considering MONSTROUS DS sales; whether it's PS2, X360, GBA or PSP - I have no bloody idea)
-combined hardware sales were 1007k units (67.6% increase over last week)
-combined software sales were at 4374k units (80.4% increase over last week)
TurtleSnatcher
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Izzy said:
Probably ps2 sales were the off one with kingdom hearts 2.. and people buying ps2's for it..
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Kobun Heat
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I don't want to be passing around bad information, so if anybody who knows more about this wants to correct me, go ahead, but:
What I always heard was that the Japanese don't give lots of Christmas presents to the kids -- the big holiday on which young people receive free crap is New Year's, where they are given giant packets of money on the 1st. So what happens is, when the stores all open back up again on the 4th after three days of stupid clueless gaijin being confused and hungry, the kids go in and spend spend spend.
That means that the first week of January could be ridiculous, too.
What I always heard was that the Japanese don't give lots of Christmas presents to the kids -- the big holiday on which young people receive free crap is New Year's, where they are given giant packets of money on the 1st. So what happens is, when the stores all open back up again on the 4th after three days of stupid clueless gaijin being confused and hungry, the kids go in and spend spend spend.
That means that the first week of January could be ridiculous, too.
Kobun Heat
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Sorry, I haven't been paying attention over Christmas and all.Fuzzy said:Someone posted that a couple of pages ago.
I wonder if this year's total sales for the Japanese industry are going to actually increase over 2004's? That would be interesting, to say the least (and give Iwata a fun new Powerpoint slide).
elektrotal
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Kobun Heat said:
Japan closing down nearly caught me off guard today, so i'm glad i got all of my grocery shopping done before the downtime. ugh. as a clueless gaijin, i have to ask--when they say _everything closes_, does that even include conbinis?
jamesinclair
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Jonnyram said:
Obviously artificial demand.
norinrad21
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There should be no lunch break for our chinese sweat shop guys until they make enough DSs for the great hunger thats about to kick in. I repeat NO LUNCH BREAK for our sweat shop men and women in china
norinrad21 said:
I guess this is one of the drawbacks of having manufacturing in China. If the DS were in this large a demand in the US or Europe, Nintendo will have kicked itself in the teeth. Japan is thankfully close enough to China, a point I've emphasized a million times already, so stock can be replenished. But even that's not enough apparently. Nintendo used to manufacture their systems in Japan too (my launch Jet GC and Spice GC is from Japan, platinum from China). If they still did I'm sure supply wouldn't be too big a deal since they could literally ship them out every hour or so (Japan's small enough to accomodate that).
BlackNMild2k1
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fixed for controversynorinrad21 said:
Going by past trends only (so this isn't fact but surely a good indicator):
Expect software sales of big games like AC, MK etc to drop to about 60% next week then climb slightly the week after.
Expect hardware to dip slightly next week to ~80% of this week and then climb back up in the third week, possibly to even more than this week.
As I say, there are only rough indicators from previous years, I guess the reason software gets such a hit is the release of more new titles in the following weeks.
My *very rough* guess would be something like:
DS
475k next week
650k week after
~6.3m total
Animal Crossing
220k next week
250k week after
~1.7m total
Mario Kart DS
160k next week
180k week after
~1.05m total
Brain Training 2
300k next week
190k week after
~500k total
Also for this week, I think people are overestimating PS2 a little, I'd put it at just under 100k, this far down it's lifecycle I can't see people rushing out to buy one for KH. If anything the large increases will be from GBA / GC which traditionally see some big boosts this week.
Expect software sales of big games like AC, MK etc to drop to about 60% next week then climb slightly the week after.
Expect hardware to dip slightly next week to ~80% of this week and then climb back up in the third week, possibly to even more than this week.
As I say, there are only rough indicators from previous years, I guess the reason software gets such a hit is the release of more new titles in the following weeks.
My *very rough* guess would be something like:
DS
475k next week
650k week after
~6.3m total
Animal Crossing
220k next week
250k week after
~1.7m total
Mario Kart DS
160k next week
180k week after
~1.05m total
Brain Training 2
300k next week
190k week after
~500k total
Also for this week, I think people are overestimating PS2 a little, I'd put it at just under 100k, this far down it's lifecycle I can't see people rushing out to buy one for KH. If anything the large increases will be from GBA / GC which traditionally see some big boosts this week.
To those who said that DS is barely outselling GBA:
It's doing more than DOUBLE the nearest competitors BEST YEAR EVER.
GBA in 2002 had Pokemon along with a deluge of other big games.
That was certainly the previous best since 1998, I'm not sure about 97- I need to try and find some numbers from then for comparison. I seriously don't think either PS or GB were selling any better than GBA in 2002 though.
756 vs 1,482- it's practically double (and that's true of virtually every week, so double GBA weeks 5-7 and should give a good indication of future DS numbers)...
Code:
Week PS2 2001 GBA 2001 GBA 2002 DS 2005
1 108 108 44 44 120 120 177 177
2 103 211 39 83 135 255 299 476
3 184 395 121 204 197 452 409 885
4 222 617 265 469 304 756 597 1,482
5 249 866 216 685 263 1,019
6 315 1,181 286 971 317 1,336
7 114 1,295 88 1,059 85 1,421It's doing more than DOUBLE the nearest competitors BEST YEAR EVER.
GBA in 2002 had Pokemon along with a deluge of other big games.
That was certainly the previous best since 1998, I'm not sure about 97- I need to try and find some numbers from then for comparison. I seriously don't think either PS or GB were selling any better than GBA in 2002 though.
756 vs 1,482- it's practically double (and that's true of virtually every week, so double GBA weeks 5-7 and should give a good indication of future DS numbers)...