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[Soul4ger]

Is Nintendo even going to have 800K on the shelves to sell?

 

[timbe]

What do you guys think, will D/P be able to exceed Red & Green?

According to ioi's site Red & Green sold 10 million copies approx.

Now in a few hours D/P has already sold 2 million.

Amazing.

 

[duderon]

That rumor is about as believable as anything neo posts.

Shut the **** up. Neo posts some of the most valuable stuff that can be found on this board.

 

[Masklinn]

And two consoles, since some evolution can only be obtained when a pokemon is traded, IIRC ? :lol

Why of course, but you already have at least a white and a black DS, if not also an ice blue and a navy blue, don't you?

 

[Chibbi Brady]

Holy crap if true. Wonder how online is holding up? I remember it buckling when MP:H was released, so I can only imagine the strain it's under now.

 

[future_pinoy]

Off topic

I wonder she will go to his Mysterious Dungeon in the after hours.

Source and higher rez pic please.



Congrats on the sale and I hope I get my copy of Perl at the end of the week (it was already shipped). Now I need to find a cheap wifi stick.

here is the source, while you're at it check out the Chocobo trailer to, just don't look at the 2 chicks, makes you wanna buy rubber !

http://www.dsfanboy.com/2006/09/27/chocobo-and-the-magic-picture-book-trailer/

 

[Aurora]

Holy crap if true. Wonder how online is holding up? I remember it buckling when MP:H was released, so I can only imagine the strain it's under now.

From what I've heard the online is going great.

 

[Vic]

Holy crap if true. Wonder how online is holding up? I remember it buckling when MP:H was released, so I can only imagine the strain it's under now.

this is my main issue about this game.

 

[Tarjeta Prepagada]

Im not getting this game.

It's popularity has no effect on me, nor should it on anyone else's. Yet for some reson it appears that whats popular in Japan is the main point of interest for most of you on this board.

Thats cool i guess, but i like thinking for myself (sorry if you find this idea of individuality odd)

Neat hats tho.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

Im not getting this game.

It's popularity has no effect on me, nor should it on anyone else's. Yet for some reson it appears that whats popular in Japan is the main point of interest for most of you on this board.

Thats cool i guess, but i like thinking for myself (sorry if you find this idea of individuality odd)

Neat hats tho.

holy **** can I suck your cock!

Pokemon holds zero interest for me as well, I do like to witness me a good cultural phenomenon though, no need to be a dick about it.

 

[Ronok]

I got Pokemon today..... I decided I would line up in Ikebukuro at Bic Camera. I was 31st in line at about 9:30..... By about 10 opening time there was about 100 people...... Plenty of copies for everyone by 12 when I got a copy for my girlfriend....... I didn:t look at the rest of the thread so bleh.... Thats it.

 

[blame space]

Im not getting this game.

It's popularity has no effect on me, nor should it on anyone else's. Yet for some reson it appears that whats popular in Japan is the main point of interest for most of you on this board.

Thats cool i guess, but i like thinking for myself (sorry if you find this idea of individuality odd)

Neat hats tho.

Oh yeah, we're exciting about Pokemon solely for the fact that it's popular in Japan. Am I missing sarcasm here?

 

[Koren]

Can you imagine DS hardware at 700,000, maybe even 800,000 this week?

Id assume it would be the highest DS hardware sales ever.

fix´d. i think the top for the DS has been 600k

Does we need the DS here ? Has a console ever sold 800k+ units in one single week, even during launch windows ?

(out of launch windows, i'm nearly sure its unprecedented... should check for FF VII release week in Japan, but I'm sceptical).

 

[BrodiemanTTR]

Oh yeah, we're exciting about Pokemon solely for the fact that it's popular in Japan. Am I missing sarcasm here?

Just an up-and-coming troll, carry on.

 

[EktorPR]

Are those numbers even real? If so, wow...it would be insane and the official victory of the DS in the portable wars.

 

[Magicpaint]

Im not getting this game.

It's popularity has no effect on me, nor should it on anyone else's. Yet for some reson it appears that whats popular in Japan is the main point of interest for most of you on this board.

Thats cool i guess, but i like thinking for myself (sorry if you find this idea of individuality odd)

Neat hats tho.

Says the guy who said this in the media-create thread:

I love it when Sony finishes #1 ^_^

Stop being a damn hypocrite and just say you don't like the effect of Pokemon because it's not to SONY's benefit.

 

[Tarjeta Prepagada]

Are those numbers even real? If so, wow...it would be insane and the official victory of the DS in the portable wars.

That point came like a year ago in Japan.

 

[Speevy]

so, wow...it would be insane and the official victory of the DS in the portable wars.

There don't seem to be any factors keeping Nintendo from winning this generation of portable wars anyway.

 

[Mithos Yggdrasill]

Says the guy who said this in the media-create thread:



Stop being a damn hypocrite and just say you don't like the effect of Pokemon because it's not to SONY's benefit.

Don't discute with him. It could be a trap.
Anyway, hate it or love it, it is a fact that Pokémon is a storm every time that a new version is out.

 

[Provider]

Where's that graph with the PSP/DS Hardware numbers that points out games/new colors releases for the spikes of the graph??... the one on most of the MC threads.

It shows how DS broke the record for highest selling non-launch weeks twice in like a month (in 2005).

 

[Tarjeta Prepagada]

Stop being a damn hypocrite and just say you don't like the effect of Pokemon because it's not to SONY's benefit.

If such an obvious joke post goes over your head i really don't know what i can tell you.

Stop taking the internet so literally maybe?

A games popularity has no effect on me, im a free spirit. I dont ejaculate to weekly media create like the majority here, im not bashing them for their ways im just pointing out that their little world doesnt reflect reality.

Sales dont effect quality, most of the time whats popular is not the best option.

I dont want to derail this thread,so please just take my words as they are meant to be taken. Advice, not critisism; also dont bother responding becuase i wont post in this thread again.

 

[Snaku]

"PSP still has a healthy lead, nothing to see here."

 

[Jiggy]

Meh, I might aswell translate it correctly:

Japanese sources have announced a shortage in stock for Pokémon Diamond/Pearl in the majority of retailers. Despite the 2 million copies allocated to shops for today (1 million per game), this was not enough to meet the demands.

Moving on to the DS Lite; 500,000 units were sold in just a few hours. Nintendo had predicted such a demand and so stocked retailers with 1 million DS Lite units.

I would have had my 2.35 million first-week sales prediction no problem (though it probably would have gone over) if the stock had just been there.

Any other Gaffers importing? (Or JGaffers getting?) I'm trying to decide which version to buy.

Already preordered both.

 

[MrSardonic]

so are the rumours that Pokemon D/P sold 2m in the first day and DSL sold 500k at the same time? o_0

 

[kirbutashi]

why do you people care about sales numbers so much ... jesus.

whatever it[Sonic Adventure 2] sold millions of copys your opinion hardly counts.

 

[Mithos Yggdrasill]

so are the rumours that Pokemon D/P sold 2m in the first day and DSL sold 500k at the same time? o_0

This is the rumor, but it is NOT confirmed.

 

[Magicpaint]

stuff.

Classic cop-out; "It's a joke."

 

[slaughterking]

Already preordered both.

And besides you are many other Gaffers. I wonder, why they are importing a japanese Pokemon game. I mean it's still a RPG, although I know Pokemon is very basic and not so much about the story. But still...I'm at least a little impressed how many of you don't care about the language barrier...

 

[Aurora]

And besides you are many other Gaffers. I wonder, why they are importing a japanese Pokemon game. I mean it's still a RPG, although I know Pokemon is very basic and not so much about the story. But still...I'm at least a little impressed of how many of you don't care about the language barrier...

You can easily finish the game without the faintest knowledge of Japanese. But I think a lot of us importing at least know some katakana and stuff.

 

[SaggyMonkey]

I picked up one of these at the launch party...

 

[eudaemonic]

I picked up one of these at the launch party...

:lol

 

[slaughterking]

You can easily finish the game without the faintest knowledge of Japanese.

Yeah, I can easily believe that. I played all the other versions and like I said its very simple and linear. But I imagine it's still an uncomfortable experience to not understand what exactly is going on. I couldn't ignore that.

 

[TekunoRobby]

"PSP still has a healthy lead, nothing to see here."

 

[Souldriver]

why do you people care about sales numbers so much ... jesus.

whatever it[Sonic Adventure 2] sold millions of copys your opinion hardly counts.

Oh, nice one. :lol

 

[GC|Simon]

 

[donny2112]

Where's that graph with the PSP/DS Hardware numbers that points out games/new colors releases for the spikes of the graph??... the one on most of the MC threads.

It shows how DS broke the record for highest selling non-launch weeks twice in like a month (in 2005).

Here's an older version.

The most up-to-date version is here, though. I'm anticipating changing the scale for next week's numbers. :lol

 

[Aurora]

Yeah, I can easily believe that. I played all the other versions and like I said its very simple and linear. But I imagine it's still an uncomfortable experience to not understand what exactly is going on. I couldn't ignore that.

You're quite right. It's obviously not going to be the same as playing it in English - but what can we do, we want to train our Pokemans now!

 

[levious]

nevermind...

 

[threeball]

Not trolling, but is there even a PSP title that has sold 2 million? If not, Pokemon sold more in one day than any PSP title has sold in its lifetime.

 

[flipping_heck]

GTA:LCS, RR and Everybody's Golf are the only PSP games to reach over 1million sales WORLDWIDE.

In Japan alone, no PSP title has got over 1 million yet

 

[slaughterking]

No PSP title sold even 1 Million

Spoiler

in Japan only

.

 

[BulletSmoke]

I kinda feel bad for Square Enix and FF3, it could have easily passed 1 Million if it wasn't for production shortage due to the Pokebomb, the same goes with the LE DSs which instead were stockpiled too.

Futher evidence that the Wii will be sold out in Japan come December....

 

[BrodiemanTTR]

So what's the general consensus? All other DS games (FF3, NSMB, ACWW, etc.) resurge on Pokemon's coattails? Or the Pokebomb flattens all, and the charts fall off from 1,000,000 down to 20k?

 

[Aurora]

I kinda feel bad for Square Enix and FF3, it could have easily passed 1 Million if it wasn't for production shortage due to the Pokebomb, the same goes with the LE DSs which instead were stockpiled too.

Futher evidence that the Wii will be sold out in Japan come December....

Don't feel too bad. FFIII has already surpassed S-E's predictions and they've confirmed more FF goodness for us all to enjoy. Plus, it's likely that FFIII will have good legs, so while people can't grab Pokémon they'll get FFIII instead.

 

[Moor-Angol]

Wait, POKEMANS comes in a cardboard box?

you can choose between regular version and version with action figures. Probably the card box is the action figure version or DSL special edition, regular version comes with normal plastic case

 

[darthmario]

 

[Smiles and Cries]

this thread needs more line photos and sale numbers

 

[miguel_c_hammer]

:lol One of my favorite movies

 

[cicero]

Im not getting this game.

It's popularity has no effect on me, nor should it on anyone else's. Yet for some reson it appears that whats popular in Japan is the main point of interest for most of you on this board.

Thats cool i guess, but i like thinking for myself (sorry if you find this idea of individuality odd)

Neat hats tho.

You are on Team Meanie, aren't you.

 

[threeball]