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Japan lines up for Black DSL. x one-hundred billion (sold out)
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soundwave05
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cae said:
I'm not so sure this is true though. While of course you're going to have overlap, if it was really just the same people rebuying the system over and over again ... it would show itself in the software sales.
The software sales the DS is putting up simply aren't possible unless the userbase is pretty close to 10 million individual users or so. There's no way you can keep selling the types of numbers NSMB, Brain Training, Animal Crossing, etc. put up week after week unless there's a large influx of new users each week.
Cosmonaut X
Member
soundwave05 said:
Yup. The suggestion that it's the same people buying multiple systems really does fly in the face of the software sales - unless someone seriously believes that the same people who they think are buying two or three consoles are buying two or three copies of NSMB or Brain Training to go with it...
MrSardonic
The nerdiest nerd of all the nerds in nerdland
when Mario sells pretty close to 1m copies in its first week, nearly 10% of the entire DS user base, and 3 games have each sold to 30% of the entire DS user base, then arguments that a substantial portion of DS owners have multiple DS units are quite clearly flawed.
soundwave05
Member
If the DS was managing such software sales with just 5-6 million actual users that would be more impressive actually. The software tie ratio per user would have to be absolutely insane. It'd also be very, very, very, very unlikely.
soundwave05 said:
While you're totally right and i actually had that flawed thought that the same people were buying the same systems, technically, i refered to only the people on the queue, only those who are crazy enough to queue for hours for a new model of an already established console. I still think those guys have multiple DSs, heh.
Madden, NCAA, those games get some pretty crazy lines (no where near this crazy, but fairly crazy for america.)
Halo 2 was also crazy.
Im sure most of those people dont already have DS's as they are still super super hard to find. And yeah, there's still a good 110,000,000 people that dont own em.
Halo 2 was also crazy.
Im sure most of those people dont already have DS's as they are still super super hard to find. And yeah, there's still a good 110,000,000 people that dont own em.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Question....did the PSP beat the DS to 10m unit sales?
I remember just before christmas last year Phil Harrison...being asked how he feels about the DS out-selling the PSP and he responded by saying the PSP beat it to 10m units sold.
Or was it another of his mis-guided views?
EDIT:linky-poo
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62158
I remember just before christmas last year Phil Harrison...being asked how he feels about the DS out-selling the PSP and he responded by saying the PSP beat it to 10m units sold.
Or was it another of his mis-guided views?
EDIT:linky-poo
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62158
Frankfurter
Member
F#A#Oo said:
He was talking about shipped units.
Btw. it's hilarious. This DS craziness just doesn't end, 150k black DS Lites + perhaps another 100k from the other colors. Unless hell freezes over, NDS will definitely be the most successful console/handheld ever in Japan in a few years (not combining GB/GBC).
Frankfurter said:
Eurogamer: Moving on to the PSP, how do you think it's gone now we're three months on from launch? What do you make of the reports Nintendo DS is outselling it?
Phil Harrison: Well that's factually incorrect. PlayStation Portable has been the fastest-selling machine to ten million units. We are bringing in plane-loads of PSPs into Europe and the US as we speak in order to satisfy the demand in the run-up to Christmas, and if you talk to retail they'll tell you it's the hottest-selling piece of hardware right now - by far and away the number one demanded product in stores this Christmas.
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Extract from my link...So no he wasn't talking about shipped...he said "selling".
Frankfurter
Member
F#A#Oo said:
Yeah, Sony sold these 10m units. To retailers.
Btw. yeah, this sentence about PSP being "by far the number one demanded product in stores this christmas" is of course pure bullshit.
GoldenEye 007
Member
Still probably talking about to retailers, not consumers. DS I'm sure hit 10 million before PSP because DS was never behind PSP in worldwide sales.F#A#Oo said:
Sweedishrodeo
the smegma spreader
Link648099 said:
:lol secret function revealed! :lol
plagiarize
Banned
god... THAT eurogamer interview. worst interview they ever did i think. it reads like they were giving him a hand job while doing it.F#A#Oo said:
not only is the first question 'It's been an amazing year for the PlayStation brand. What's the feeling like internally now you've gone past the 100 million unit mark with PS2? ' but they don't question any of Phil's answers. I don't blame Phil for this interview at all... just the Eurogamer interviewer Ellie Gibson for having zero balls.
oh and... do people still think the handheld war in japan isn't over?
Moor-Angol
Banned
plagiarize said:
no, still 26 days left
Pureauthor
Member
The PSP is Japan post 1943 - struggling valiantly, but everyone knows it's not coming out on top.
Pokemon is the atom bomb to make official what everyone already knows.
Pokemon is the atom bomb to make official what everyone already knows.
Sgt. Killjoy
Member
Roders5 said:
There's only 1 person in this picture without a DSclue: his arms are crossed
omg i really do think they are all playing DSL. All their heads are looking towards the ground.
Pureauthor
Member
10 years from now, when the next batch of books that talk about video game history are released, the DS is going to go down as one of the single biggest videogaming successes of all time.
Femmeworth
Banned
With that many people playing DS you'd think Nintendo would be handing out complimentary battery packs to those in line.Sgt. Killjoy said:
Baron Doggystyle von Woof
Member
well ds is just good. but waiting lines for a color is zOMG.
I knew DS would be successful. I said it from the outset and I'm not surprised.
Essentially, nothing was different from when previous Nintendo hanhdhelds fought off competition except that the DS is better than all the gameboys. Most 'analyses' banked too much on the power of the Sony brandname on the PSP. Remember the wild predictions that people would even be returning DS hardware after PSP launched...lol.
Now for Wii vs PS3.
Essentially, nothing was different from when previous Nintendo hanhdhelds fought off competition except that the DS is better than all the gameboys. Most 'analyses' banked too much on the power of the Sony brandname on the PSP. Remember the wild predictions that people would even be returning DS hardware after PSP launched...lol.
Now for Wii vs PS3.
Pureauthor
Member
Diffense said:
Hey, guys, remember all those times when the GB sold 600K in a non-launch week? And remember when the GBC had the entire top ten chart to itself? And remember when the GBA had the potential to have three 3 million sellers in the top ten at the same time?
What, you don't? Why? Oh, right. That's because they never happened.
HocusPocus
Member
"These new next gen consoles are too expensive. I think I'll just get four styles and colors for my DS instead."
ahah
ahah
Pureauthor
Member
Diffense said:
Ah, apparently I did. My apologies.
But I still disagree. The PSPs had something from the outset that no other Nintendo handheld competitor did - significant 3rd party support.
Netrunner2k2
Member
Sgt. Killjoy said:
Their heads are down because they are praying to almighty Iwata..
plagiarize
Banned
the question isn't 'do all these people already own a DS' but more 'what do these people do with their existing DS now they have a new one.
i'm sure a good deal of them end up in the second hand shops or in family member's hands and the software sales support that belief.
i'm sure a good deal of them end up in the second hand shops or in family member's hands and the software sales support that belief.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Yep, I wouldn't be surprised if girlfriends/wives/children end up stealing someone's DS or DSL because they play em so much, so new colors can be an excuse to buy another one.plagiarize said:
Link648099
Banned
plagiarize said:
That's an interesting philosophy. Nintendo makes new DS colors and that increases software sales because it forces hardcore DS players to bring non-gamers into the mix?