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Media Create Sales: 20 - 26 March
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Battersea Power Station
Member
I still can't help but feel it would sell so much more for the GameCube. Strange decision by Clover/Capcom...Mama Smurf said:
jamesinclair
Banned
I was just wondering:
DS 39,307
PSP 31,077
What were the same sales at this week last year?
DS 39,307
PSP 31,077
What were the same sales at this week last year?
imastalker co.
Banned
late to the party, but booyah on Ace Combat.
meltpotato
Member
Fuzzy said:I would've been laughing also if it came from any other poster.
id have to say it is funny particularly because of the person who posted it. or rather... even funnier.
EDIT: oh and countdown begins... TWO WEEKS UNTIL EASTER!
jamesinclair
Banned
cvxfreak said:
So basically, if we look around the release week, sales have been consistant for both platforms?
Pretty amazing, considering that the DS Lite is selling on top of that.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Correct me if I'm misunderstanding what you asked for, but here's a chart that shows the change in lifetime-to-date percentage share from week to week... or maybe you're wanting the chart of lifetime-to-date shares on a week to wake basis, which is a lot easier to look at and gain something. Or maybe something slightly different. Oh well, doing two or three is nearly as easy as doing one.Deku said:
Displayed as change for DS; PSP would just be the negative version of this. To make the chart more readable I didn't include the PSP's very first week; the drop from 100% to 80.7% is so much bigger than any other week it would be hard to display.
And here the source of those changes, the weekly LTD shares. Launching first DS starts at 100%, quickly drops to 80%, and steadily goes down to 63-64%. Easter hits, and it fluctuates around there for months. When the holidays hit it goes up to 67-68%, faltering a bit during the shortage weeks.
Latest version of my spreadsheet here. Don't take it as complete gospel, though; I still haven't bothered to track down the 10 unit discrepancy I have in yearly Game Boy Advance totals.
JoshuaJSlone said:Correct me if I'm misunderstanding what you asked for, but here's a chart that shows the change in lifetime-to-date percentage share from week to week... or maybe you're wanting the chart of lifetime-to-date shares on a week to wake basis, which is a lot easier to look at and gain something. Or maybe something slightly different. Oh well, doing two or three is nearly as easy as doing one.
Displayed as change for DS; PSP would just be the negative version of this. To make the chart more readable I didn't include the PSP's very first week; the drop from 100% to 80.7% is so much bigger than any other week it would be hard to display.
And here the source of those changes, the weekly LTD shares. Launching first DS starts at 100%, quickly drops to 80%, and steadily goes down to 63-64%. Easter hits, and it fluctuates around there for months. When the holidays hit it goes up to 67-68%, faltering a bit during the shortage weeks.
Latest version of my spreadsheet here. Don't take it as complete gospel, though; I still haven't bothered to track down the 10 unit discrepancy I have in yearly Game Boy Advance totals.
Very very interesting. So the Nintendo DS has almost the 70% of market share in Japan. Uhm: and with the GameBoy Line ?
jamesinclair
Banned
lancubap said:
97% :lol
Are you sure that total sales is correct?neo2046 said:
According to M-C:
27 Feb - 5 Mar
DS Seiken Densetsu DS: Children of Mana Square Enix 102,555
6 - 12 March
DS Seiken Densetsu DS: Children of Mana Square Enix 26,571
13 - 19 Mar
DS Seiken Densetsu DS: Children of Mana Square Enix 17,574
So the total was 146,700 units and if you add 15k for last week, then the total goes over 161k.
neo2046
Member
no ideakia said:
I have copied the data from 2ch
those guys from 2ch copied these numbers from an secret site
so it is possible that there are copying mistakes (some digit differences) from me or them
sorry I cannot find those posts in 2ch again
but I am sure the orginal source is reliable, specially related to the hardware sales numbers
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Game Boy obviously predates DS and PSP by quite a bit. However, I do have an old bit on the spreadsheet I rarely pay attention to anymore, that estimates the number of a system sold since the PSP launched, by giving them an appropriate fraction of the week the PSP was released. Using that stat, the Nintendo portable share post-PSP is 70.6%. However, since that is post-PSP, it doesn't include the first 600K-ish DS sales. Toss those in, and it would be 72.2%.lancubap said:
Moor-Angol
Banned
cvxfreak said:
you should check now
1. old DS silver
2. English Trainer
3. Mother
4. Otona
5. Otona2
6. AC
7. WE10 (first non Nintendo product!!!)
...
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15. FF12
...
...
21. old DS pink
...
24. old DS black
25. old DS blue
DS owns Japan
Moor-Angol said:you should check now
1. old DS silver
2. English Trainer
3. Mother
4. Otona
5. Otona2
6. AC
7. WE10 (first non Nintendo product!!!)
...
...
15. FF12
...
...
21. old DS pink
...
24. old DS black
25. old DS blue
DS owns Japan
This remonds me, what are people expecting for Mother 3 sales?
I'm going out on a limb and with all the hype, being the last big GBA game, DS compatibility and everything else I reckon 400k first week, 650k total.
Any other thoughts?
Moor-Angol
Banned
I agree with you for first week, sounds strange only 250k after that.
Usually good Nintendo games have strong legs...
Usually good Nintendo games have strong legs...
JoshuaJSlone said:
Holy, you're good. I am actually looking (interested) at a 3rd stat. That's basically week market shares.
ie: PSP sold 30k for the week vs. DS 70k so DS=70% PSP 30% share. I think that data will best show trends in terms of which console is gaining momentum. Adding in LTD sales for overall historical market share dilutes this since we're only getting an average picture over a platform's lifetime.
Sorry if this is a lot of extra work, its just a point of interest and perhaps you can include it in all your future reports.
It won't... we'll still get the PS3 game though before the brand's laid to rest (again).mutsu said:
Sure, but I doubt a handheld Xbox is what SCEI really wanted out of PSP. A decline in JP software sales will eventually lead to a loss in JP support, which seems to be key in cementing every PlayStation's unparalleled in diversity/variety software library. Without Japan, Sony will never be the handheld leader, simple as that.Unison said:
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Heh, no problem, that was my next guess.Deku said:
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
Yes, sinobi put some numbers here:Khalid-S said:
http://ameblo.jp/sinobi/entry-10010804291.html
I'm unable to understand them correctly so I wait for someone else to try:lol
Cheebs said:Bebpo rocks, best RPG guy around but he did promise he'd leave. I have the post saved and if he doesn't leave I expect the mass Nintendo fanboy base will be making it VERY apparent on GAF that he lied about his bet.
I hope they do. Then they may all get banned for back seat modding. I see what Bebpo has done here, and it was a great idea.
PhoenixDark
Banned
Is Contact being advertised or hyped in Japan? It looks like the kind of game that would be successful in Japan to me.
PhoenixDark said:
From what im hearing from friends no. You guys have to understand, not ever hard core fap worthy game are meant to be targeted for a large audience.
Lots of decent and good games are released under the radar. They are never expected to do huge numbers, just keep dev teams employed and or because you have independent dev houses with limited funding trying to get their games out.
Think of games like contact as good Indy movies.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Other people are better at making these sorts of charts with all the extra details that get added to each week, whereas I tend to highlight whatever, make a chart of vaguely good width, and crop. However, for this time I have put on some text for the biggest peaks and valleys.Deku said:OK final request. throw in major game releases/hardware launches and what you have there is gold
The Temple of Sales Doom?Deku said:
EmCeeGramr
Member
20,000 for contact is repectable for a new ip, most established brands on psp and ds have a hard time moving units, with an exception here and there of course.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
I don't see them on Magic Box's platinum chart, so less than a million.Oblivion said:
Frankfurter
Member
CoolTrick said:
If true (could also be the predictions till Sunday based on the first day sales) these would be really good imho (atleast for Contact 20k for the first week would also be really good imo). Hell, Xenosaga could come really close to Namcos 'expectations'.
Count Chocula
Banned
PSP is doing well for a $200+ handheld. I would have one by now if it weren't for the price.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Those DS numbers do look good - while everyone i ssaying 20K for Contact is good, I still wanted more
But yea, thats a real good start. Hopefully word of it being online and its Earthbound-esque look will keep its legs going for awhile.
Oh, P.S. - Whats that new downward looking arrow do nexts to posts titles on the thread page?
But yea, thats a real good start. Hopefully word of it being online and its Earthbound-esque look will keep its legs going for awhile.
Oh, P.S. - Whats that new downward looking arrow do nexts to posts titles on the thread page?
If you click on them, you will go to first new post on that thread.John Harker said:Those DS numbers do look good - while everyone i ssaying 20K for Contact is good, I still wanted more
But yea, thats a real good start. Hopefully word of it being online and its Earthbound-esque look will keep its legs going for awhile.
Oh, P.S. - Whats that new downward looking arrow do nexts to posts titles on the thread page?
Anyway, I think Xenosaga and Contact sales are really good if they're first day sales (even if they're estimates for first week).
I think of 80k - 100k sales for Xenosaga (first week)
30k - 40k sales for Contact (first week)