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Media Create 17-23 April
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JonathanEx
Member
Did anyone make an animation of Cabel's DS Lite 'printing' money at a cashpoint? Would be perfect here...
Eddz said:
Thanks, but I was a bit shocked. The GBA hit 7m in the end of 2002, it launched in 2001, so about a year. The DS on the other hand, launched 2004, and just hit 7 m after more than one year. Oh well, the competetion is tougher now/ prices are higher, so it's ok.
Magicpaint
Member
The DS has definitely hit 7 million faster than the GBA.
jGuru said:
Also, the DS' entire lineup was really, really bad for like.. a year. And there haven't been enough DS units for ages.
Also, Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire spiked the GBA sales. If Diamond/Pearl came now and there were enough DS units to support them, DS sales would skyrocket.
jGuru said:
I have no idea what will be announced at E3, but I'm certain there is a lot more stuff coming out for the DS than we think. Ever since November/December, I've been thinking that publishers, looking at the system (and software's) monster sales, probably initiated a ton of big projects.
Right now, we're still seeing stuff getting announced that had begun development before that period. It's just really difficult to predict what might be coming.
Frankfurter
Member
Eddz said:
Wow
This really came out of nowhere. Fantastic sales for DSL and really good for GBM/GBASP. X360 looks like it could gain a bit of momentum.
Hmmm.. Eddz do you know for a fact about DS shipments because I can't just suddenly see them drop off like that unless there were severe shortages.
And yeah as people have already corrected the DS passed 7m a good while before the GBA did and is definitely pulling ahead.
Not including this weeks sales (yet):
And yeah as people have already corrected the DS passed 7m a good while before the GBA did and is definitely pulling ahead.
Not including this weeks sales (yet):
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Some things are subjective. There are many things I'm looking forward to with the Lite, but I really like the original DS d-pad over the Micro/Lite/Wii style.Jiggy37 said:Is there some way in which it's not?
I think your chart is not correct. Nintendo officially announced that DS is the fastest selling hardware to reach 5m units sell through in Japan, but in your chart its GBA.ioi said:Hmmm.. Eddz do you know for a fact about DS shipments because I can't just suddenly see them drop off like that unless there were severe shortages.
And yeah as people have already corrected the DS passed 7m a good while before the GBA did and is definitely pulling ahead.
Not including this weeks sales (yet):
americans like having the low model and high model.. it worked for the GBA, GB(C), etc for years.. so yeah, I imagine you will still see DSes priced $20-40 under the DSL for a year or two yet... until the cost difference between manufacturing the two becomes negligible and nintendo just lowers the DSL down to the DS price ($70?)Eddz said:
metropolis
Banned
cvxfreak said:
really? i've never used a DS lite yet but i'm not satisfied at all with the d-pad on the original DS i have. just doesn't feel right to me. i was hoping the DS lite d-pad was going to feel better somehow.
Barf_the_Mog
powerless or are they? o_O
borghe said:
I remember selling old model GBAs through the 2005 Christmas season at Circuit City. I think Americans, more than any other developed region of the world, are the most price-conscious.
marvelharvey
Member
Just some anecdotal notes for this coming week's chart:
Battlefield 360 is sold out in every single shop I've been to in Osaka today and yesterday (that's around 20ish stores) apart from Discpier in DenDen. Not sure if it's popular or undershipped, I'm hoping the former.
Tetris seems to be shifting a fair few copies, only the larger chains near me have good supplies left, the rest seem to be either sold out or only have a couple of copies on their shelves.
N3 is pilling up in the 'used' sections of Osakan game shops faster than any game I've seen (except for that recent FF game, Durge something? I've blocked the name from my mind)
Yesterday's Dominos Pizza came with a nice fullpage advert for New Super Mario Bros, which made the pizza taste that little bit better.
Battlefield 360 is sold out in every single shop I've been to in Osaka today and yesterday (that's around 20ish stores) apart from Discpier in DenDen. Not sure if it's popular or undershipped, I'm hoping the former.
Tetris seems to be shifting a fair few copies, only the larger chains near me have good supplies left, the rest seem to be either sold out or only have a couple of copies on their shelves.
N3 is pilling up in the 'used' sections of Osakan game shops faster than any game I've seen (except for that recent FF game, Durge something? I've blocked the name from my mind)
Yesterday's Dominos Pizza came with a nice fullpage advert for New Super Mario Bros, which made the pizza taste that little bit better.
Moor-Angol
Banned
marvelharvey said:
I presume the second option you said...
MrSardonic
The nerdiest nerd of all the nerds in nerdland
i wonder if lifetime DS sales will be greater than PS2 total (by the time PS2 stops selling much)
Frankfurter
Member
Eddz said:
That's missing 2001 and 2000 numbers for PS2.
cvxfreak said:
I think people are getting a bit tired of WE, at least in Japan, since the game is heading
lol ) too much towards the simulative aspect of soccer. I mean, with more realistic injuries, even while the players are simply running alone, with the managerial aspect of the game much more important and defined (I'll never forget the booooring training in WE8 master league to avoid the player statistics to go down from one season to another...) and the game generally becoming much less arcade than the previous editions I think japanese people could be on the verge of rejecting it, or at least thinking twice before buying it.And we should also take into account that WE9 came out not too much time ago (nearly one year or so, right?) and it didn't sell as much at lauch as the previous 1, nearly 100k difference more or less, if I remember well.
If we sum it all up these could be some reasons why it's not so much anticipated (if it actually isn't...), couldn't they?
Barf_the_Mog
powerless or are they? o_O
Eddz said:
I like when someone posts a reply thinking they've burned someone. :lol