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Media Create Sales 3/17 - 3/23
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Count Dookkake
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Is the PS3's shaming on these charts as bad as the Gamecube's was?
kukaku shiba
Member
its funny how the saturated system is out selling all the other systems.
donny2112 said:
Which holiday?
DS is getting near saturation, but Nintendo can do so much more to make this baby still do 100,000-plus a week. Roll out the new colors, a price drop, perhaps the long overdue Player's Choice line, and last and certainly not least MORE GAMES PERIOD.
Seriously, Nintendo support for this handheld has dropped significantly. The DS can do so much more for them, but I think they're just content on making as much profit as they can from the system and just letting it ride to the best-selling-system mark.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
C.T. said:
I just kinda hoped I wouldn't have to say it but...
Sakura Taisen is dead confirmed.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Jammy said:
Vernal equinox.
uh more games are not going to drive ds hardware at this point. It's like suggesting that more PS3 games will drive PS2 hardware. The vast majority of anyone who would buy a DS for <x game> has at least a dozen <x games> in the current library. After a certain point a console just sells on momentum.
A price drop would increase sales. New colours would spike but not increase sales.
I do think that Nintendo's support is dropping, but their first half 2008 support is pretty much exactly equal to their first half 2007 support so I don't know why you'd say it "has dropped significantly".
For reference:
Nintendo DS 2007 January 1 - March 23
Wario the Seven
Hotel Dusk
Picross DS
Jet Impulse
Yoshi's Island DS (US released first)
Nintendo DS 2008 January 1 - March 23
Sonic and Mario at the Olympics
Soma Bringer
Beautiful Character Writing
Pokemon Ranger 2
4 games versus 5 games, and in terms of sales they interleave pretty well.
If you add in the rest of March and April, you get:
2007 - Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2 (US released first), Clubhouse Games+ (US released first), Panel de Pon DS
2008 - We Are Fossil Holders
Titles after that period for 2008:
Crosswords DS (E3 2007), Eternal Chronicle (Nintendo World 2007), Fire Emblem DS (Nintendo World 2007), Kirby Superstar Deluxe (Nintendo World 2007), Wander Donkey (Feb 21, 2007)--announcement dates in brackets. So, basically Nintendo's summer should be covered with pre-existing titles and then by the fall we should see new announcements.
In the mean time, you can see in my post history that out of 34 internal and frequent external dev teams for Nintendo, 26 of them do not have publicly known in-progress projects for Nintendo. Interesting, hey?
Psychotext
Member
PS3 is looking in serious trouble there... and I think I was wrong about Wii Fit not being able to overtake it.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Odysseus said:
Ever since the tide turned back in November, Japanese developers have been running headlong away from the Wii. I heard Nintendo's only keeping afloat thanks to its profitable Hanafuda card division.
[crazyness]
i bet those 26 teams have combined to bring us a new 2D Metroid for DS. it will be so big that only DQ9 will stand up to it in overall impact.
[/crazyness]
the DS got the biggest bump this week. interesting.
i wonder how big the PSP bump will be on next week's numbers (or if there's a bump at all)
i bet those 26 teams have combined to bring us a new 2D Metroid for DS. it will be so big that only DQ9 will stand up to it in overall impact.
[/crazyness]
the DS got the biggest bump this week. interesting.
i wonder how big the PSP bump will be on next week's numbers (or if there's a bump at all)
titiklabingapat
Member
Ninty said it themselves. The whole company is gearing up thier support for the Wii and forsake the DS on its own.Jammy said:
Stumpokapow said:
I disagree. The DS is all about new experiences and new markets. The DS may be saturated at it's current pricepoint with it's current market, but I'm sure Nintendo is working on some games to even further expand the market. It'll have to be something very different from what they've already done, a new training game isn't going to be the key. Whether or not they can still further expand the DS' target market is not guaranteed, but it is possible.
Or they could just drop the price, I guess.
Let's not exaggerate:titiklabingapat said:
If you had one platform that had dominated the competition for years and had a flood of high-quality software, and a platform that was still relatively young and finding its place in the market, which one would you focus more support on?king zell said:
RumblingRosco
Member
Culex said:
I think they've been worried, but what can they do at this point? They've had enough solid software out and that's not doing any good, they dropped the price (if I remember correctly, once in Japan, despite it already starting at a lower price than in the U.S.), and they released a different color (the white 40GB, right?). If I were them, I'd be stumped.
Psychotext
Member
They also have a silver model now.Soka said:
Souldriver
Member
Look at that PS3 go!
RumblingRosco
Member
Psychotext said:
Well I'll be damned.
Anecdotal evidence time: MH2Gp was sold out at my local gaming store around 6pm yesterday, and it's a massive store. The students visiting late without a preorder were pretty pissed off. I think shipments were a lot smaller than the last game, though, largely because it's more of an upgrade than a proper sequel.
Souldriver
Member
Well, seeing how the PSP got a second life with the redesign, I bet Sony is preparing the PS3Slim right now!Mojo said:
(it won't help though)
Agent Icebeezy
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Mojo said:
Er.. this cycle has been set. It's all Wii all the way out. Waiting for a slimmer PS3 sounds like a foolhardy thought. Of the 360, PS3 and Wii, the Wii just got over 80% of the market this past week. People should stop the cheerleading and the wondering about what Sony could do because I'm sure that Sony has stopped doing that themselves a while ago.
Souldriver
Member
Because every other PS3 saviour has failed to deliver. I think PS3 has settled pretty well in the 2nd place position, just like the gamecube. A new color or redesign wouldn't have turned the tide for that console either.Mojo said:
Then again...the PSP...but that's a handheld. Probably not really comparable.
Souldriver said:
It also hasn't turned the tide as a video game machine. The PS3 might get a sales boost from Blu-Ray adoption or other non-gaming functions, but I think the chances for a PSP-level turnaround based mainly on games are kind of low.
ethelred said:
It'd be quite nice if they just announced ports of all the FC/SFC Fire Emblem games and Super Metroid DS. It doesn't have to be all new IPs to keep the system roaring for years to come.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
donny;
Did you pick up drinking everclear this holiday season? You seem strangely uninhibited :lol
Did you pick up drinking everclear this holiday season? You seem strangely uninhibited :lol
Psychotext
Member
I just looked up some old gamecube numbers for Japan. At this time of year and at roughly similar points in the life of the console it was hitting 6-16k weekly... so the PS3 isn't quite there yet (on the lower side).
Well of course Wii is going to always dominate, I never said otherwise, but I doubt a slim PS3 won't at least help it sell better over there. Ever since PSone I've always waited for the 2nd revision of Sony consoles/handhelds, I'm sure some other people feel the same.Agent Icebeezy said:
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
Souldriver said:
Disregarding the fact that the PSP is a handheld there are a couple of other dynamics that make the PSP race very different than the gamecube.
1. The PSP is battling against 1 console, as opposed to 2 or 3
2. The PSP already passed gamecube numbers long before it got a revival of some kind.
3. The PSP continues to get exceptionally strong releases, particularly in Japan.
Even considering those three factors, it doesn't make sense to compare the PS3 to the PSP.
Souldriver
Member
So you're just nodding agreeingly with me.Hcoregamer00 said:
(although, the PS3 also has only one competitor. The 360 is dead in Japan. But when you see this weeks Army of Two numbers... there are no certainties in life)
Psychotext
Member
No, it's dead. Unless MS want to buy out a few Japanese developers like Square. :lolSouldriver said:
(and then it would still probably be dead)
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
Souldriver said:So you're just nodding agreeingly with me.
(although, the PS3 also has only one competitor. The 360 is dead in Japan. But when you see this weeks Army of Two numbers... there are no certainties in life)
I was agreeing with you on a conditional statement.
The fact that the PSP is a handheld is irrelevant because a console could easily do a "PSP revival" if it was in the PSP's situation.
I also merely pointed out the fallacy in the belief that doing a PS3-2000 would not produce the same results as the PSP-2000 release.
Epiphyte said:
I remain unconvinced by this response. While there may be a theoretical limit, they're certainly nowhere near that line. Given the company's ability to expand its resources...
in any event, I emphatically reject the idea that resources applied to the Wii must come directly at the expense of resources being applied to the DS. I actually think it'd be possible to apply additional resources to both.
Psychotext
Member
I reckon it will do 750k by the time it's discontinued.neojubei said:
_Alkaline_
Member
Man, PS3 keeps falling whilst Wii goes up. The gap continues to widen. It's more like the grand canyon. PS3 will get second place but it's moot.
Infinite Frontier -Super Robot Wars OG saga-
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2808332
With the DS title of May...
I think that this game can be sold a lot.
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2808332
With the DS title of May...
I think that this game can be sold a lot.