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160,000 Nintendogs Sold During First Week In Europe
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Die Squirrel Die
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sonycowboy said:
That's what's annoying me. I would gladly pick up a Nintendogs pack (and pay out the arse for CV if I have to) if the colours were decent.
Anyway as for the ads. I've both seen it often and think that it's quite good. If Nintendo had advertised like this all the way during the GC's life it might have gone further. Hopefully this sends the message to Nintendo that advertising=good.
Xrenity said:
Wait, B-title? Castlevania a B-title? What kind of sick world do we live in??!!!
But yeah, I know that they don't get all titles. That's the problem with the Blokker-group (EPLaza, Bart Smit), a friend of mine works at the EPlaza and she finds it disturbing that certain titles never even show up. Stupid mainstream bastards at the top, they don't know jack unfortunately.
ratcliffja
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This is teal, not electric blue. Teal is a much lighter blue, with a bit of green I believe.
Oh well... makes it that much easier for me to wait for the updated version (whenever it comes out). I don't want silver, I don't want that ugly blue and I sure as hell don't want pink.ratcliffja said:
Anyone know if the new, backlit SP is out in Europe?
Castlevania has been in very low supply, at least here in Spain. The game is now sold out and Konami may deliver a new shipment by November.
Right now, the Blue DS + Nintendogs bundle is the most sold here. So far, more than 200,000 DS's have been sold through customers (for comparison, Sony have shipped 144,000 PSP's), and Nintendo of Spain expect Nintendogs to reach 150,000 units by Christmas.
Right now, the Blue DS + Nintendogs bundle is the most sold here. So far, more than 200,000 DS's have been sold through customers (for comparison, Sony have shipped 144,000 PSP's), and Nintendo of Spain expect Nintendogs to reach 150,000 units by Christmas.
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Xrenity said:
yeah, free record shop (why is it called that?) of the three i went to had 1 copy of awars under fire as well. The little game store, whose name I forget told me that castelvania was coming in "I think november"
damnit. Got a bart smit flyer in the mail today and they have a full page nintendogs bundle advert. PSP with spiderman on the cover though.
Vashu said:
Shut up, man. Where's Threepio when you need him?
Nintendo of Europe is doing a lot of advertising for Nintendogs that we, as hardcore gamers, are not seeing.
In fact, I would go as far as saying this is one of the best campaigns Nintendo has ever done.
I agree with you that overall DS marketing could be better, but sales are strong and PSP isn't selling that great outside the UK.
:lol Awesome, these numbers are even more impressive than the US numbers. It hit 220K in five days over there, it should be able to sell 30-60K in the following 3 days in Europe to hit 200Kish in the same timeframe. However it has the disadvantage of a lower userbase of ~1.4M compared to 1.9M in the US at the dogs launch and also some of the hardcore would have imported. Not only that, but in the US hardware went up 150-300% whereas here it's 400-700% which is very impressive. That's pretty much the entire previous month or month and a half in one week.
As for the UK weekly chart, there were 3 SKUs. Say it sold 43K total that could be 17K, 14K, 12K respectively. Knock some off for the hardware packs and it seems fairly reasonable to me. As for how much hardware actually sold, it's hard to say. UK DS sold ~4,625 the week of the psp launch(GBA was at ~6,166), so if sales have been fairly steady we'd be looking at around 15-25K in the UK alone for the week and I'd guess ~55-90K in Europe as a whole. A very impressive number that I'd imagine put a pretty hefty increase into the lead the DS enjoys over the psp. Judging by the kind of legs Nintendogs has and Nintendo's great line up the performance should continue strongly.
Of course GTA:LCS launches in a couple of weeks so the psp will probably get a nice boost from that to say the least(or a massive explosion of demand to be more precise). Then a couple of weeks later the GBM hits which should make a splash as it is £20 cheaper than the GBA launched so it is not really overpriced like in the US. Then a week later there's Mario Kart online and a couple of weeks later the 360(and thus according to some the neX-generation) hits. Gonna be lots of fun, especially if we start getting real numbers as MCV reported.
As for the UK weekly chart, there were 3 SKUs. Say it sold 43K total that could be 17K, 14K, 12K respectively. Knock some off for the hardware packs and it seems fairly reasonable to me. As for how much hardware actually sold, it's hard to say. UK DS sold ~4,625 the week of the psp launch(GBA was at ~6,166), so if sales have been fairly steady we'd be looking at around 15-25K in the UK alone for the week and I'd guess ~55-90K in Europe as a whole. A very impressive number that I'd imagine put a pretty hefty increase into the lead the DS enjoys over the psp. Judging by the kind of legs Nintendogs has and Nintendo's great line up the performance should continue strongly.
Of course GTA:LCS launches in a couple of weeks so the psp will probably get a nice boost from that to say the least(or a massive explosion of demand to be more precise). Then a couple of weeks later the GBM hits which should make a splash as it is £20 cheaper than the GBA launched so it is not really overpriced like in the US. Then a week later there's Mario Kart online and a couple of weeks later the 360(and thus according to some the neX-generation) hits. Gonna be lots of fun, especially if we start getting real numbers as MCV reported.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Speaking of which, was K7 released in Europe?
I don't even know as I havent heared a peep from it.
Man, I wanted this game to be a cult classic.
Doesnt seem like it.
Has it 50K WW yet even?
I don't even know as I havent heared a peep from it.
Man, I wanted this game to be a cult classic.
Doesnt seem like it.
Has it 50K WW yet even?
CXastlevania was hard to find in the US as well, atleast it was on Saturday.
I went to TRU, Best Buy, and Gamestop but they were all sold out. I had to go to Ebgames and endure that hell hole of a place, but it was worth it for castlevania.
So, it's no surprise that it's low in qaunitity in Europe, I'm even surprised it shipped so early there.
I went to TRU, Best Buy, and Gamestop but they were all sold out. I had to go to Ebgames and endure that hell hole of a place, but it was worth it for castlevania.
So, it's no surprise that it's low in qaunitity in Europe, I'm even surprised it shipped so early there.
silver said:
Well, I don't know where you live, but over here it's really lackluster. It has nothing to do with being a hardcore gamer that we don't see advertising, it's just not there. At least, here in the Netherlands. I only heard one remark about a short commercial for the game and that came from some kid whom I know for hanging in front of the television the entire day and doing nothing but watching it.
The rest of Europe could be good, but over here, nobody really sees it. Not even towards the demographic they tend to really capture with it.
John Harker said:
Yeah, it was released. But it kinda went underwhelming, which is too bad. But then again, it might have been a bit too queer for the standard gamer. I believe prices already dropped on it.
EU = 160,000 according to this threadDeku said:
NPD = 209,727 for August, we get September numbers this week
JP = 639,000 through August 28th from CVXFREAK's thread
You know, Nintendogs is now the fastest selling new handheld IP ever in the worlds 2 biggest gaming markets(US and Europe). For this stage in it's life cycle it is very much OMGGTA and OMGPOKEMON. Even in Japan, it's launch saw the DS quadruple the psp and subsequently heralded the point where the DS outsold psp every single week for the 6 months since then.jman2050 said:
Miyamoto-san's brilliance amazes.
I mean, who would have known that this would be the smash success it was?
What other company would have put the resources behind something like this?
He clearly has his finger on the pulse of the games industry.
We at gaming age who think we know how the gamer thinks totally have no idea.
Hardcore does not equal mass market.
Here that Drinky?
I mean, who would have known that this would be the smash success it was?
What other company would have put the resources behind something like this?
He clearly has his finger on the pulse of the games industry.
We at gaming age who think we know how the gamer thinks totally have no idea.
Hardcore does not equal mass market.
Here that Drinky?
Naysayers first said Nintendogs was a hit in Japan, only because they could not afford real dogs in their tiny appartments. Then they said it would not sell in US & EU. Now they contest the impact of the sales figures. Next they'll say the Revolution will only succeed in Japan. You know what comes next.
Frankfurter
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@heidern Do you have UK hardware numbers or where do you have the NDS and GBA numbers from? Btw. when (and how long ^^) will we get hardware numbers from MCV and will the be weekly and available for everyone (similar to Media Creates numbers for example)? It will be really interesting to see how PSP/DS perform in the UK approaching christmas.
snatches said:
I'm really not sure if Miyamoto was the one who came up with the idea. He could have been, and I'm not saying he wasn't, but for every damn new Nintendo game that comes out, he's there to pimp it because he's the only recognizable face in the company (though Aonuma is becoming somewhat of a star himself). The director of Nintendogs was Kiyoshi Mizuki, who directed Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, and produced by Hideki Konno (who directed MK64, Super Mario Kart, Yoshi's Island, Yoshi's Story, and Luigi's Mansion).
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Frankfurter said:
NPD are actually partnering with Chart Track on that soon. It should be up and running for December IIRC.
Frankfurter
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Mrbob said:Since when did Nintendo play the shipped number game in PR releases?
Maybe they have learned a thing or two from Sony and MS.
AFAIK they are talking about 160,000 sold through Nintendogs, don't they?
@radiohead Ah ok, thank you.
@Mashing That's what I said one or two months before the launch in the USA here to people that though Nintendogs would be a japanese phenomena.
Zerodoppler said:
Well I have seen more commercials for this game than for any other Nintendo game in a long time. I'm not a huge TV fan though.
The commercials are not very good, but well - at least there are some. In Germany the game is advertised with Eva Padberg (quite successful model)
See:
http://ms.nintendo-europe.com/dsfilme/Nintendogs_Page_Bundle.mov
http://ms.nintendo-europe.com/dsfilme/Nintendogs_shopping.mov
The numbers were given by SC and Izzy. As for the MCV thing, here's the link to their story. Oh, and one other thing helping the DS is that the Nintendogs bundle is at the magic £99.99. There's no messing around with memory cards or having to buy the game or whatever. If you want Nintendogs the price of entry is a nice round hundred smackers.Frankfurter said:
Rocket Punch
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AniHawk said:
Nintendogs is Miyamoto's baby. He said so in several interviews. I don't think he takes credit for stuff that's not his. I recall commenting about Animal Crossing on N64 for example, being something that he was very impressed by being made by other people at EAD.
crisdecuba
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He did say it was his idea... came to him a couple of years ago when they got a new puppy or something.
~Cris