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Neo-GAF's first Nintendo Cashcow LTD numbers

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Meier

Member
Code: 
SUPER MARIO ADVANCE 2 	$64,971,455 	2,176,977
POKEMON RUBY	        $62,803,899 	1,996,309
SUPER MARIO ADVANCE	$60,386,804 	2,014,374
POKEMON SAPPHIRE 	$57,007,605 	1,805,187
MARIO KART: CIRCUIT 	$54,891,660 	1,830,975
ZELDA: LINK TO PAST 	$34,536,741	1,188,475	
MARIO BROS 3: MARIO 4 	$33,690,490 	1,144,575
YOSHI'S ISLAND:MARIO3	$30,744,579 	1,070,507	
METROID FUSION	        $25,681,729 	882,182	
KIRBY: NIGHTMARE	$25,184,834 	840,336	
MARIO & LUIGI SAGA      $22,147,496 	745,236
DONKEY KONG COUNTRY 	$22,087,784 	762,451
GOLDEN SUN 	        $21,320,310 	742,385	
WARIO LAND 4	        $20,437,358 	717,424	
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS 	$18,178,104 	537,165
POKEMON PINBALL: R&S 	$13,025,829 	425,376	
GOLDEN SUN: LOST AGE 	$12,13,4476 	403,935
ADVANCE WARS 	        $11,586,603 	400,465
GAME & WATCH GALLERY4	$9,969,165 	342,935
FIRE EMBLEM 	        $9,124,939 	289,104
METROID ZERO MISSION 	$9,076,882 	311,452
F-ZERO MAX VELOCITY	$7,906,751 	270,373
ADVANCE WARS 2: BLACK	$7,374,159 	250,322	
WARIOWARE INC: MEGA 	$6,052,451 	203,126	
HAMTARO: HEARTBREAK 	$5,604,415 	192,051	
SWORD OF MANA 	        $5,329,953 	175,038
DISNEYS MAGICAL QUEST 	$3,259,379 	120,365
MARIO VS. DONKEY KONG   $1,297,909      45,399

What's with the huge amount of space between the ended code and the text after it? Weird.
 
Alcibiades

Alcibiades

Member
when you combine those numbers with the GCN franchises and see how all the titles are giving themselves competition (look at 4 Mario games on GBA + several Mario-related on GCN), it looks like Nintendo is doing pretty well for itself at the moment...
 
Alcibiades

Alcibiades

Member
Society said:
If you ignore the competition, sure Nintendo is doing well.
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Actually, if I bring in the competition (XBox division of Microsoft losing money, that recent thread stating Sony hasn't made up for PS2 investment), then compare that to Nintendo (profits), Nintendo is doing really well...
 
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Meier

Member
The one thing to truly stand out to me from this month's sales was that both Super Mario Advance and Super Mario Advance 3 sold under 11k units -- especially low for the original Super Mario Advance. Hopefully Nintendo takes note and lowers them to $20 soon (yeah right). I am still waiting on a price drop of SMA 2 and 3 to buy them as I simply refuse to buy such old releases for full price.

I think the most impressive sales number is Mario Kart Super Circuit which sells another 20k or so every month. Nintendo is dumb for having never released a GBA sequel.. the NDS version should sell quite well however.
 
T

TheGreenGiant

Banned
So.. I guess they're not going third party.

Can anyone put a figure towards average GBA development costs? The fact that they're creaming off this much money on ports is nothing short of magic.
 
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Mason

Member
TheGreenGiant said:
Can anyone put a figure towards average GBA development costs? The fact that they're creaming off this much money on ports is nothing short of magic.
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"If you haven't seen it, it's new to you!"
 
M

Meier

Member
Sales of Pokémon GBA titles this gen
$132,837,333

Sales of Pokémon GCN titles this gen (rough estimation for Pokémon Channel)
$31,905,990

Total sales
$164,743,323

Fad what?
 
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AniHawk

Member
Meier said:
Sales of Pokémon GBA titles this gen
$132,837,333

Sales of Pokémon GCN titles this gen (rough estimation for Pokémon Channel)
$31,905,990

Total sales
$164,743,323

Fad what?
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When did the whole fad idea come up?
 
M

Meier

Member
As for the Japanese figures (again, a rough estimate -- likely closer to say $200,000,000 after lowered prices and all)...

(4800¥ * 5.1 million) / (108 ¥/$) = $226,666,666.67
 
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Meier

Member
Pokémon Fire Red/Leaf Green sales
(4800¥ * 2.1 million) / (108 ¥/$) = $93,333,333.33

Pokémon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire sales
(4800¥ * 320,000) / (108 ¥/$) = $14,222,222.22

Pokémon Colosseum sales
(5800¥ * 600,000) / (108 ¥/$) = $32,222,222.22

In all likelihood including the minor sales of Channel and Box in Japan, we're looking at roughly $600 million off of the games this gen. Colosseum has apparently sent the GC sales soaring throughout Europe as well although of course we have no hard numbers. I know that as of Nintendo's last financial report, Ruby/Sapphire was at 12.7 million copies worldwide so that would be at least 3 million copies sold in Europe. I know the retail price in the UK is £29.99 which would be a whopping $54.35 although I'm not sure what it's like throughout the rest of Europe.
 
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Doogdogg

Member
Meier said:
The one thing to truly stand out to me from this month's sales was that both Super Mario Advance and Super Mario Advance 3 sold under 11k units -- especially low for the original Super Mario Advance. Hopefully Nintendo takes note and lowers them to $20 soon (yeah right). I am still waiting on a price drop of SMA 2 and 3 to buy them as I simply refuse to buy such old releases for full price.

I think the most impressive sales number is Mario Kart Super Circuit which sells another 20k or so every month. Nintendo is dumb for having never released a GBA sequel.. the NDS version should sell quite well however.
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Mario Kart is one of those 1 per console..... :eek:
 
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sc0la

Unconfirmed Member
wow, strong sales all around.

Even "niche" WarioWare sold 200K.

EDIT: whoever claims 2D is dead is an idiot. The proof is in the pudding.
 
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Memles

Member
I think AW2 and Wario Ware are a little low, but can't complain with the rest of the sales. All in all, some definite ownage.
 
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CrisKre

Member
Wow, I didn't know Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire where at almost 4 mil in the US. God, if nintendo wants DS to succeed just launch it with Pokemon and all will be good. I mean, the system's interface is begging for a rendition of the franchice- just think of kids actually CALLING pokemon out, cheering them and even petting them?
 
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