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Weekly UK chart (GTA:LCS #2, RE4 #7)

If Nintendogs is selling that well then it has to be one of the most succesful bundles in the UK for years. Have Nintendo of Europe released any press releases yet? Surely it's worthy of one, considering their track record and all in the UK

I don't even remember the GT bundle doing that well.

I'd like to know where these numbers are coming from and what the source is?
 
You have to give credit to Nintendo bundles. A game + a console in a cool package at that low price is a no brainer. Impulse buy here we go.
 
Juno said:
If Nintendogs is selling that well then it has to be one of the most succesful bundles in the UK for years. Have Nintendo of Europe released any press releases yet? Surely it's worthy of one, considering their track record and all in the UK
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Nintendogs has been an unbelievable success for Nintendo. Reggie recently stated that Nintendogs has already sold 2 million units, with a DS installed base of just over 8 million, giving Nintendogs a 24% penetration worldwide. Those are amazing numbers - and Nintendogs has been the most successful (by far) new franchise from Nintendo in a long time. Throw in the mass-market appeal of the dogs, and it shouldn't be a surprise that it would make a successful bundle. The bundle will also do extremely well in the US this holiday season. And then you realize that Mario Kart hasn't even hit yet - and the DS already owns Japan - and this could very well be one holiday season to remember for the DS.
 
Wow great DS numbers. It seems like Nintendogs bundle is cleaning up the place. Things will get very interesting when the Mario Kart bundle comes out.
 
If Sony don't get their act into gear, the PSP is going to be in big trouble here in the UK. There's only so much waiting people will do, and many are perfectly satisfied with the DS as an alternative, as the sales figures show.
 
TheDrowningMan said:
If Sony don't get their act into gear, the PSP is going to be in big trouble here in the UK. There's only so much waiting people will do, and many are perfectly satisfied with the DS as an alternative, as the sales figures show.
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Just wait til PES5
 
Gaybrush Threepio said:
This weeks' sales -

DS = 35,000 units
Game Boy (including SP and Micro) 25,000 units
PSP = 16,000 units
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WTF!? DS has sold more units in that week than in the average week in September in the USA :lol
Crazy!
 
Hehe people on about the PSP being out of stock? Not where I live! I could walk into Whsmiths in town and get one right now. I could go into gamestation and pick one up. Easy. Fact is when I talk to people in gamestation they say that while there is interest in the PSP most people opt for the cheaper DS and save the extra for an X360. Whats also odd is that there haven't been loads of GTA ads on the TV. Nintendo seem to be advertising the DS much more than sony are advertising the PSP. Nintendo sponsering comedy programs on Channel 4 was a clever move.
 
pulsemyne said:
Hehe people on about the PSP being out of stock? Not where I live! I could walk into Whsmiths in town and get one right now. I could go into gamestation and pick one up. Easy. Fact is when I talk to people in gamestation they say that while there is interest in the PSP most people opt for the cheaper DS and save the extra for an X360. Whats also odd is that there haven't been loads of GTA ads on the TV. Nintendo seem to be advertising the DS much more than sony are advertising the PSP. Nintendo sponsering comedy programs on Channel 4 was a clever move.
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The "short supply" and "sold out" excuse isnt going to hold much ground for the PSP anymore. It's only a matter of time before PSPs get back into stores, and if sale numbers remain the same, then all of the crying over DS selling more is for nothing. The holidays is coming up, if 360 can make it into stores, then so can the PSP.
 
Sony is hardly advertizing the psp. Facing a financial crisis, companies tend to cut their marketing and communication budgets. Plus the psp is certainly selling at a cost, so Sony may need to keep its advertizing budget low to remain a bit profitable.
 
I just walked into London on my lunch break, checked out Game & HMV, both are saying they'll have more PSPs soon (didnt ask when they sold out), more shocking to me was the fact GAME are charging £40 for GTA!!



I got it for £29 online.
 
marc^o^ said:
Sony is hardly advertizing the psp. Facing a financial crisis, companies tend to cut their marketing and communication budgets. Plus the psp is certainly selling at a cost, so Sony may need to keep its advertizing budget low to remain a bit profitable.
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:lol Come on, this is such bull. They may not be advertising much, but the reason is certainly not a financial crisis or that the psp is selling at a cost. If there is a reason for not advertising much right now other than just a sales strategy, it could be the supposed shortages.
 
Yeah what the hell is up with GTA's pricing? It's really expensive in some places. The problem is when people think portable they think cheaper games and if companies try to sell at console prices then they will get low sales. Daft really.
 
That's another possibility indeed, but in France there's no shortage and very few ads so I don't know... it's weird knowing the psp is a machine that would need huge advertizing (a la ipod) to sell massively.
 
marc^o^ said:
That's another possibility indeed, but in France there's no shortage and very few ads so I don't know... it's weird knowing the psp is a machine that would need huge advertizing (a la ipod) to sell massively.
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I know what you mean, I don't think there are shortages here either and I haven't see many PSP ads here since launch and I haven't seen a GTA PSP ad either. Then again, I've never really seen many iPod ads either on tv or so, I may watch the 'wrong' channels. :P

And I think they could really use a good tv ad campaign here that is comparable to their PS2 ads but with a different personality. November has only just begun though, they may ramp up advertising near the end of the month or so.
 
If there really are big shortages in UK with sales like these, I really don't understand how Sony could have fucked this up so badly. They've had months of extra time preparing for this launch in UK and while their launch was great, they expected to sell 1 million in UK alone before the end of the year. Why don't they have any PSP's ready to ship when needed then? Hell, this has been going on for weeks now.

Sales across the world are not that great either while they even upped their production forecasts... Where are all of those PSP's then? Are they waiting for a massive end of year campaign or what?
 
Shortage is real and Threepio's numbers are accurate.

Gaybrush Threepio said:
1 in 5 PSP owners in the UK bought GTA in the first couple of days of launch - not that bad a performance for them.
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It's bloody amazing - GTA franchise is still strong in the good old Blighty.

EDIT: Oh, one more thing - those are very impressive DS numbers - congrats, Ninty! :)
 
I work in a major central lodon retailer and can tell you we have no PSP's, and won't have them for a while.

you can't sell something, that isn't there.
 
It's great. Sony wants to ship a million PSP's till the end of the year in the UK alone. But how the hell should they do that if they obviously only ship something like 10 or 20k per week...?
Btw. has anybody got the Reggie picture with "that's not our problem" on it? :D
 
I belive threepio's numbers. During the unveiling of Revo controller he gave us hints as to what it would be like and they were all true so he seems to have reliable facts.
 
imo the micro has sold as expected in japan, but underperformed everywhere else.

saying that, i think the micro is the final thing nintendo could do to get some extra sales from gba. i think it's a great device but a tad expensive. overall micro has helped keep gba current.
 
How can Sony drop the ball like this? Get those systems in stores while the GTA newness is in full effect. Christ what are they doing? Is this a sign of how they'll handle PS3 shipments as well? :\
 
Razoric said:
How can Sony drop the ball like this? Get those systems in stores while the GTA newness is in full effect. Christ what are they doing? Is this a sign of how they'll handle PS3 shipments as well? :\
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Of course it is... it's also a sign of how the handled the Playstation shipments, the PSOne shipments... the Playstation 2 shipments... the PSTwo shipments...

Shortages at some point during the consoles life(usually a bad time) have been the norm for Sony.
 
This may be "teh oldz", but I gather that GTA:LCS has been delayed to december 2nd for mainland Europe (same day as the 360 launch, coincidence?). Can anyone confirm if this is "teh true"?
 
DarienA said:
Of course it is... it's also a sign of how the handled the Playstation shipments, the PSOne shipments... the Playstation 2 shipments... the PSTwo shipments...

Shortages at some point during the consoles life(usually a bad time) have been the norm for Sony.
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Yeah true, I wonder if they'll ever learn. :P
 
I would imagine that the poor PSP sales in the UK might improve once PES5 is released. Imn the UK its a very popular franchise and could help sell more PSP's.
 
Razoric said:
Yeah true, I wonder if they'll ever learn. :P
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Is it a question of learning, or is it a question of using bleeding edge techniques for product manufacture is always asking for trouble?
 
Gaybrush Threepio said:
This weeks' sales -

DS = 35,000 units
Game Boy (including SP and Micro) 25,000 units
PSP = 16,000 units

Surprised by the lack of performance on Resi 4 on PS2, thought that would be top three.

1 in 5 PSP owners in the UK bought GTA in the first couple of days of launch - not that bad a performance for them.
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Sony1: "Oh, oh..."
Sony2: "No Problem, GTA is coming!"
Sony1: "GTA already in stores..."
Sony2: "WTF... but... no problem: We have got the GIGA PAK"

:lol:
 
Ignatz Mouse said:
Amazon UK still has none, claims 4-6 weeks.

Is the "no shortage" thing just smoke? What do PSPs go for on ebay in the UK?
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Just checked, not too much actually. Between 130 - 190 quid
 
so I guess it shows that GTA IS a great selling game but ISN'T a system seller..

and yes, I do feel vindicated. I have been saying from the beginning that the PSP can't possibly have a system seller right now. You could release a game on the scale of FFVII (for those who remember what tha tdid for PSX sales) and it STILL wouldn't move any significantly larger amount of PSPs... Sony needs to drop the price down to at least $199, but IMHO no more than $50 above the DS. Yes the PSP hardware is a ton more capable and advanced than the DS... So was the TurboExpress comapred to every other handheld at the time.. but the fact is that the mass market doesn't want to pay a significant amount of money for something they deem as part time... and until handhelds are closer to console level graphics and have TV outs builtin, they will always be also rans compared to home consoles, thus they can't be PRICED like home consoles.

psycho_snake said:
I would imagine that the poor PSP sales in the UK might improve once PES5 is released. Imn the UK its a very popular franchise and could help sell more PSP's.
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again, unlikely.. at least to any significant degree. I mean look how well GTA has been reviewed, and its sales this week were impressive all things considered.. and it didn't even manage to make a blip on sales. Sony will have to lower the price before the system can get any real system seller software.

I honestly believe there is still a chance even that we will get a price drop before the holiday.
 
borghe said:
so I guess it shows that GTA IS a great selling game but ISN'T a system seller..

and yes, I do feel vindicated. I have been saying from the beginning that the PSP can't possibly have a system seller right now. You could release a game on the scale of FFVII (for those who remember what tha tdid for PSX sales) and it STILL wouldn't move any significantly larger amount of PSPs... Sony needs to drop the price down to at least $199, but IMHO no more than $50 above the DS. Yes the PSP hardware is a ton more capable and advanced than the DS... So was the TurboExpress comapred to every other handheld at the time.. but the fact is that the mass market doesn't want to pay a significant amount of money for something they deem as part time... and until handhelds are closer to console level graphics and have TV outs builtin, they will always be also rans compared to home consoles, thus they can't be PRICED like home consoles.
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Congrats on the ego stroking... but if there are shortages which seems to be what folks are saying in this thread how could you come to that conclusion?
 
DarienA said:
Congrats on the ego stroking... but if there are shortages which seems to be what folks are saying in this thread how could you come to that conclusion?
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if there were shortages to the degree that some people are claiming they wouldn't be going for normal prices on ebay. I'm not saying every store has plenty in stock.. I don't know.. but ebay is typically a nice exaggerated representation of the real state of things. if prices aren't even slightly higher on ebay it either means: people either aren't interested in the system or if they are interested they aren't having a hard time finding it.
 
Farmboy said:
This may be "teh oldz", but I gather that GTA:LCS has been delayed to december 2nd for mainland Europe (same day as the 360 launch, coincidence?). Can anyone confirm if this is "teh true"?
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It's out here. :)
 
borghe said:
again, unlikely.. at least to any significant degree. I mean look how well GTA has been reviewed, and its sales this week were impressive all things considered.. and it didn't even manage to make a blip on sales. Sony will have to lower the price before the system can get any real system seller software.

I honestly believe there is still a chance even that we will get a price drop before the holiday.
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Well if all the talk about stock is true, then you cant really say that it wont be a system seller. maybe its true that the systems are just not there, however, I do doubt that it is the full story. Im sure that sales are just quite poor overall. A price drop could help sales especially since Sony have games such as GTA and PES.
 
borghe said:
if there were shortages to the degree that some people are claiming they wouldn't be going for normal prices on ebay. I'm not saying every store has plenty in stock.. I don't know.. but ebay is typically a nice exaggerated representation of the real state of things. if prices aren't even slightly higher on ebay it either means: people either aren't interested in the system or if they are interested they aren't having a hard time finding it.
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So I'm assuming that PSTwo prices were higher on eBay when it came out and had it's shortage? First the Wal Mart rules... and now the eBay factor... I just can't keep up....
 
Considering its price, the PSP is selling well.
Considering its Playstation brand, the PSP is underperforming.
Considering its shortage in UK, the PSP is selling well.
Considering its rival sales, the PSP is underperforming.

Could we agree both consoles are doing great, that Nintendo fans were right to feel offended by undeserved mockery in the early months, and that now both consoles have gained respect we should all be happy with what we have?
 
marc^o^ said:
Considering its price, the PSP is selling well.
Considering its Playstation brand, the PSP is underperforming.
Considering its shortage in UK, the PSP is selling well.
Considering its rival sales, the PSP is underperforming.

Could we agree both consoles are doing great, that Nintendo fans were right to feel offended by undeserved mockery in the early months, and that now both consoles have gained respect we should all be happy with what we have?
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Oh come on...
At first it's 'Omg PSP outsold in UK first day! SUCCES! DS IS DOOOOOMED!'

And now it's like 'ah well, both doing a great job'.
PSP is not doing GREAT. It just isn't. No matter what reason.

PSP does quite well though and if Sony gets more units shipped, it'll prolly do better.
 
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