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1-GRAN TURISMO 4
2-METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SNAKE EATER
3-FIFA STREET
4-SUPER MARIO 64 DS
5-THE SIMS 2: UNIVERSITY
6-WARIO WARE TOUCHED!
7-MERCENARIES
8-STAR WARS: REPUBLIC COMMANDO
9-SONIC MEGA COLLECTION PLUS
10-RAYMAN DS
11-THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE
12-ASPHALT: URBAN GT
13-GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS
14-THE SIMPSONS: HIT & RUN
15-THE URBZ: SIMS IN THE CITY
16-TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 2005
17-PLAYBOY: THE MANSION
18-POKEMON DASH
19-SPIDER-MAN 2
20-NEED FOR SPEED: UNDERGROUND 2
21-FIFA 2005
22-PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 4
23-THE INCREDIBLES
24-SONIC HEROES
25-ROBOTS
26-UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2004-2005
27-STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC 2
28-SIMPSONS: ROAD RAGE
29-PROJECT RUB
30-PROJECT: SNOWBLIND
31-FINDING NEMO
32-ACE COMBAT: SQUADRON LEADER
33-SHREK 2
34-ODDWORLD: STRANGER'S WRATH
35-GTR FIA GT RACING GAME
36-FOOTBALL MANAGER 2005
37-SPONGEBOB: REVENGE OF FLYING DUTCHMAN
38-THE SIMS 2
39-ZOO KEEPER
40-POLARIUM

Nintendo DS achieves the biggest launch week for any UK console (either CD or Handheld) with a projected UK sales of 87,000 units. Nintendo's UK GBA launch week (week 25, 2001) was an estimated 67,000, while GBA SP managed 47,000 (week 13, 2003). However, before today Nintendo's Gamecube was the fastest selling console over a launch week with 69,000 units (week 18, 2002) thanks to an extremely low launch price for a static console (around £127). DS launched on Friday with 16 titles available compared to 13 for the launch of the original GBA.

Sony's 'Gran Turismo 4' (PS2) becomes only the fourth title to sell more than a quarter of a million in a launch week, becoming the 4th fastest selling game ever behind 'San Andreas', 'Vice City' and 'Halo 2'. Sony's ultra-realistic car racing game almost squeezed past Halo 2 (260k total market units) and nearly outdid the combined launch week sales of Gran Turismo 1, 2 and 3 (285k total market units). Gran Turismo 4 is streets ahead at No1 in an All Formats Top 40 filled with Nintendo DS new releases. Konami's 'Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater' (PS2) slithers down to No2 leaving the next 4 places to new entries - EA's 'FIFA Street' (PS2/XB/GC) No3, Nintendo's 'Super Mario 64 DS' No4, EA's 'The Sims 2: University' (PC) No5 and Nintendo's 'Wario Ware Touched!' (DS) No6. A total of 12 DS games make it into the All Formats Top 40 with 3 breaking into the Top 10. Behind the Mario and Wario games comes Ubisoft's 'Rayman DS' at No10 and 'Asphalt: Urban GT' at No12 with the DS releases of EA's 'The Urbz: Sims in the City' and 'Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005' helping both titles jump up the chart to No15 and No16 respectively.
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However, before today Nintendo's Gamecube was the fastest selling console over a launch week with 69,000 units (week 18, 2002) thanks to an extremely low launch price for a static console (around £127).
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And we all know how great it's still doing. :lol
 
Go DS!!

Damn, they had a better launch lineup than we in the US did. So did Japan. Ah well. Heh. :D

Even Polarium made the charts.. at number 40, but it's there, nonetheless!
 
Dav2k said:
4-SUPER MARIO 64 DS
6-WARIO WARE TOUCHED!
10-RAYMAN DS
12-ASPHALT: URBAN GT
15-THE URBZ: SIMS IN THE CITY
16-TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 2005
18-POKEMON DASH
19-SPIDER-MAN 2
25-ROBOTS
29-PROJECT RUB
39-ZOO KEEPER
40-POLARIUM
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Holy crap, DS may end up having the best tie ratio in Europe of all places. :/

Nintendo and UbiSoft especially are cleaning up.

6 million is in the bag, sorry Pimpy. :P
 
Have there been any final reviews of Rayman yet? I'm curious to see how it's turned out.. considering I haven't played a Rayman game since Rayman 1 on the PSOne, but oh well.. :lol
 
Just wanted to say that the DS is the fastest-selling console ever in my store as well :) But I don't understand people when it comes to choosing games. Everyone except two or three have bought Super Mario (which probably is the best of the games, to be fair), but the other games are almost totally overlooked. Try something new, people!
 
So, is 87k units for a week good, when the UK is ~1/3rd of Europe, right?

So that would be 261k for the week, or lets go up to 300k.

USA first month = 479k in November
Japan first week = 468,883k, first month = 1,495,596 in December


Seems like a pretty good launch to me, especially since it's not launching during the holidays.

And now, we know Halo's numbers in the UK, 260k first week.
 
Sweet 87,000 units sold in the UK is great! Is anyone else wondering what the Game Boy's role will be in the future? With Nintendo DS taking more and more of the spotlight and Nintendo creating more and more games for it (Advance Wars, Animal Crossing etc..) I can't help but imagine the confusion among casual buyers who know the brand "Game Boy" yet they see that Nintendo is supporting it's "DS" system more.


Third pillar my ass.
 
But this is projected sales right? And the DS has only been on sale since Friday. SO does this mean that 87,000 are expected to be sold by this Friday based on the sales so far or is 87,000 an estimate on what has been sold so far?

Either way this is pretty good I think. Plus they seem to have managed to meet demand with supply. Can't remember exactly how many they had ready for the UK but I think it was well over 87,000. Not like the N64 launch which had about 20,000 if I remember rightly.

Interesting to think what will happen to all the DS owners when the PSP launches...DS needs some killer apps or things will go pearshaped methinks.
 
Jimbob said:
Either way this is pretty good I think. Plus they seem to have managed to meet demand with supply. Can't remember exactly how many they had ready for the UK but I think it was well over 87,000. Not like the N64 launch which had about 20,000 if I remember rightly.
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It was about 150,000 units for the UK.
 
Yeah, there's a bit of confusion there. Virtually every major EU country has a decent videogames market... it's just that the biggest are the UK, France and Germany. It's not like they share a third each...
 
No, there were actually 16 at launch I think. Maybe Ping Pals shouldn't be counted as a game though as it is practically redundant given the in-built picto-chat.

Has anyone used this yet anyway? Do you actually have to have picto-chat loaded, with chat rooms visible and all, before you know if there is someone is in range? Or will it let you know some other way? Seems kind of silly when you have to go around with the chat-room page loaded in orderto pick out someone to chat to.
 
Europe has really grown as a videogame market especially the UK. The UK is now almost completely dominated by Sony in the home console market which makes this news even better. Not only does it show that the UK market is now huge, it also shows that perhaps the PSP could live side by side with the NDS and not completely crush it which looked more likely to happen here than perhaps any other major market in the world. I can see only good coming from this competition unless Sony gains too much of a market lead.
 
sonycowboy said:
So, is 87k units for a week good, when the UK is ~1/3rd of Europe, right?

So that would be 261k for the week, or lets go up to 300k.
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"Going up" would probably be more appropriate given how the UK's likely a much smaller segment of Nintendo's European base than a third. 87k for a Nintendo platform in the UK is like Microsoft suddenly selling 40k Xboxes in Japan one week. :)
 
wasnt there a thread last week claiming that the ds had the most successful game system launch ever in australia as well?
 
Great King Bowser said:
There were 16 games available at launch?

I saw like 10 tops in GAME. Or do they mean "launch window"?
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Mario 64 DS
Rayman 2
Polarium
Zoo Keeper
Spiderman 2
Urban Asphalt GT
Ping Pals
Sprung
Project Rub
Wario Ware: Touched
Atari Retro Collection
Pokemon Dash
Mr Driller: Drill Spirits
The Urbs
Tiger Woods

I believe one other game may have slipped in at the last moment too. Unless theyre talking about the Metroid demo.
 
radioheadrule83 said:
Yeah, there's a bit of confusion there. Virtually every major EU country has a decent videogames market... it's just that the biggest are the UK, France and Germany. It's not like they share a third each...
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The ~1/3 has been a metric that's been out there for a couple of years now and it was ONLY ever for the UK market. Not saying it's right or wrong, and clearly it's an extremely simplified numbers, but the UK is widely regarded as the largest VG market and in analyst reports that number was quoted quite frequently. I haven't seen any of those reports for a while now that used to come out (Wedbush, Arcadia, Merrill, etc Last big industry I report was from June 2004).

In any case, there's nothing to say except: DAMN!

As far as launches are concerned: NDS > GCN ,PS2, GBA, XBX, everything else ever released
 
Jimbob said:
No, there were actually 16 at launch I think. Maybe Ping Pals shouldn't be counted as a game though as it is practically redundant given the in-built picto-chat.

Has anyone used this yet anyway? Do you actually have to have picto-chat loaded, with chat rooms visible and all, before you know if there is someone is in range? Or will it let you know some other way? Seems kind of silly when you have to go around with the chat-room page loaded in orderto pick out someone to chat to.
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Nah its pretty pre-meditated. I believe there was some talk of the DS "waking up" at some point if someone was near.... I've yet to test that.

Pictochat is a lot of fun I assure you. It usually degenerates into people creatively dissing each other and drawing no end of penises... but it's a good laugh. Something to do inbetween games of Mario / Metroid / Polarium et al!
 
radioheadrule83 said:
Mario 64 DS
Rayman 2
Polarium
Zoo Keeper
Spiderman 2
Urban Asphalt GT
Ping Pals
Sprung
Project Rub
Wario Ware: Touched
Atari Retro Collection
Pokemon Dash
Mr Driller: Drill Spirits
The Urbs
Tiger Woods

I believe one other game may have slipped in at the last moment too. Unless theyre talking about the Metroid demo.
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That would be Robots :)
 
milanbaros said:
Europe has really grown as a videogame market especially the UK. The UK is now almost completely dominated by Sony in the home console market which makes this news even better. Not only does it show that the UK market is now huge, it also shows that perhaps the PSP could live side by side with the NDS and not completely crush it which looked more likely to happen here than perhaps any other major market in the world. I can see only good coming from this competition unless Sony gains too much of a market lead.
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Europe has grown ALOT over the past 5 years. It's now considered to be equal in size to the US' market and is expected to grow at a much faster rate than the US going forward. The biggest problem has been for the consoles to take market share from the PC, which is a much, much stronger gaming platform in Europe than in the US. However, that's exactly what the console market has been able to do for a few years now.
 
radioheadrule83 said:
Yeah, there's a bit of confusion there. Virtually every major EU country has a decent videogames market... it's just that the biggest are the UK, France and Germany. It's not like they share a third each...
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I've seen figures before that place the UK as roughly 40% of the EU console market and roughly 20% of the overall EU videogame market. France is stronger in handhelds and Germany's much stronger in PC games iirc. The UK is strongly PlayStation country though and has a long history of being generally unreceptive to Nintendo platforms.
 
Oh, quite a few of those weren't on shelves in HMV and GAME near my college then.

Was pretty downhearting to see most 3rd party games with a big fat £34.99 sticker on them. Was planning on picking up Project Rub, but bought Wario Ware instead. :)
 
What I find particularly odd is that I can't find Zoo Keeper here in the Netherlands. Instead there's Retro Atari Classics, which goes unmentioned in UK press. Has anyone played that one? It doesn't even look remotely good, but I've been fooled by looks before.

As for myself, I got the Japanese DS months ago along with US versions of Mario 64 and Feel The Magic. I did get Polarium when it was launched here. A nice diversion of a game, even though the graphics are pretty much non-existant. It helps that I traded in a bunch of old games and only had to pay 7.50 euro for Polarium.

I'll be waiting for stuff like Lost in Blue, Another Code, Meteos, Castlevania, Mario Kart, Advance Wars, Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon (and hell, maybe even Nintendogs, Pac Pix and Elektro Plankton). But most of them are a way off.
 
Jimbob said:
But this is projected sales right? And the DS has only been on sale since Friday. SO does this mean that 87,000 are expected to be sold by this Friday based on the sales so far or is 87,000 an estimate on what has been sold so far?
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*cough*

My understanding of this is the same as Jimbob's. Would someone care to clarify this?
 
Impressive! And btw, why UKers always have to do something to disappoint me (especially with EA's crap)? FIFA street? Who the hell was retarded enough to buy that crap?

And we all know how great it's still doing. :lol
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Actually if it weren't for NOE to be so fucking worthless GC would still be selling tons of consoles. Europeans always treated Nintendo better than Nintendo treats them. If NOE remains the same, I expect DS numbers to plummet too.
 
Jimbob said:
But this is projected sales right? And the DS has only been on sale since Friday. SO does this mean that 87,000 are expected to be sold by this Friday based on the sales so far or is 87,000 an estimate on what has been sold so far?
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Charttrack claims to catch 80% of UK retail sales and extrapolates the other 20% from this. The numbers are for the first two days of DS sales only. DS launched on Friday and Charttrack's week is from Sunday-Saturday. The week ending on the 12th after the DS launched on the 11th.
 
cja said:
Charttrack claims to catch 80% of UK retail sales and extrapolates the other 20% from this. The numbers are for the first two days of DS sales only. DS launched on Friday and Charttrack's week is from Sunday-Saturday. The week ending on the 12th after the DS launched on the 11th.
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Wow, 87,000 in two days is impressive but then you have to think that this contains a lot of die-hards fans who will pick up at launch. Either way the Ds is due for a great week, one of the most successful launches ever. I've been particularly impressed by the ad campaign on TV. Not kiddy, quite cool, funny and even dirty. You can imagine the reaction when that lady on the ad whispered 'touch me' during a passionate clinch between me and my girlfriend in bed last night :lol
 
Cheers for the chart Dav - I knew you'd get your mits on it early - And what a week aswell !! Nintendo are certainly doing much better than some expected, especially since the UK is pretty much SONY's main artery in the European markets.

Hats off to Nintendo for an incredible marketing campaign in the UK, it was almost impossible to escape the DS. Whats even more surprising is knowing that hundreds, maybe thousands of UK residents had already bought a DS from the US and Japanese launch, and the other hardcore Nintendo fans lapped up the 3,000 VIP Paks.

Nintendo seem to be reaching a very wide audience with DS, good news indeed.
 
Wow, I remember there were riots in UK when PS2 was released, and still DS sells more in a first week (even GC sold more?!).
 
Biglesworth23 said:
Have there been any final reviews of Rayman yet? I'm curious to see how it's turned out.. considering I haven't played a Rayman game since Rayman 1 on the PSOne, but oh well.. :lol
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I don't see any at Game Rankings yet, but I second this curiosity. I'm no Rayman follower, but I'm curious about how Rayman's take on touch-screen analog control works. Just recently got Super Mario 64 DS but its way of doing things just isn't working for me.
 
Marconelly said:
Wow, I remember there were riots in UK when PS2 was released, and still DS sells more in a first week (even GC sold more?!).
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Well, if there was anything approaching a riot, it was probably due to low supply.
 
Tempy said:
What I find particularly odd is that I can't find Zoo Keeper here in the Netherlands. Instead there's Retro Atari Classics, which goes unmentioned in UK press. Has anyone played that one? It doesn't even look remotely good, but I've been fooled by looks before.

As for myself, I got the Japanese DS months ago along with US versions of Mario 64 and Feel The Magic. I did get Polarium when it was launched here. A nice diversion of a game, even though the graphics are pretty much non-existant. It helps that I traded in a bunch of old games and only had to pay 7.50 euro for Polarium.

I'll be waiting for stuff like Lost in Blue, Another Code, Meteos, Castlevania, Mario Kart, Advance Wars, Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon (and hell, maybe even Nintendogs, Pac Pix and Elektro Plankton). But most of them are a way off.
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Weird, I found it to be easily accesible in my area, Zoo Keeper that is. If you still need it, I got a place you can get it from...

Too bad I don't have the money to get the system myself, I'm eager to play games like Zoo Keeper, Mario 64, Wario Ware, Project Rub, Polarium and whatnot. Why is March the new November??!?!?! :(

Good for Nintendo though, if they did sell the DS that much. I just hope we are FINALLY going to get the treatment we deserve... Don't treat us, your customers and fans, like shit NOE!
 
Odnetnin said:
Polarium?! NEED IMPRESSIONS. No other region has had this yet!
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I've heard it's as addictive as crack off a whores back...tempted myself, it's the cheaper of the launch titles at 20 quid
 
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