I kind of understand where fronn is coming from though, especially when you have people looking at sales charts going "wow, Game A is doing awesome!! Go Game A!! " even though they haven't even played it or barely know anything about it except for being on a certain platform they're "cheering" for. But that kind of behaviour isn't DS exclusive of course, more like DS is doing better than any other platform in Japan so we're simply seeing more DS titles up there followed by more excited cheers from parts of the crowd.
Could you also post the number of games added up for each platform in your total sales numbers? Not saying it would neccessarily change anything, but I think it would be interesting to see (and sorry if those numbers have been posted before).
Dalthien said:I've completed all of the updates again - so the chart (1st post of this thread) is all caught up once more. As always - big-time thanks go to cvxfreak.
Based on monorojo's and Jarrod's comments recently, I also went ahead and did some 3rd-party calculations from my chart:
DS 3rd-party totals = 4,183,221
PSP 3rd-party totals = 3,965,988
DS 1st-party totals = 15,914,093
PSP 1st-party totals = 1,362,011
The first thing that jumps out at me is that Sony has to be very disappointed that they've only managed to sell a bit more than a million units of 1st-party software in almost 1.5 years on the PSP. And more than 500,000 of those total sales are just from Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee.
Anyway, these numbers confirm monorojo's claims that 3rd-party sales have been pretty much even between the two platforms thus far. But when I break the numbers down further, Jarrod's claims begin to bear fruit.
I split up the 3rd-party sales between the extended launch period, and post launch. The extended launch period runs from launch through until mid-2005, this includes a holiday season, as well as the first half of 2005 (through June/05). The 2nd half of 2005 plus 2006 (Media Create thru Mar 26/06 and Famitsu thru Mar 19/06) is included in the post launch period.
DS 3rd-party launch sales (released through June/05) = 1,201,230
PSP 3rd-party launch sales (released through June/05) = 1,835,679
DS 3rd-party post launch sales (released after June/05) = 2,981,991
PSP 3rd-party post launch sales (released after June/05) = 2,130,309
Could you also post the number of games added up for each platform in your total sales numbers? Not saying it would neccessarily change anything, but I think it would be interesting to see (and sorry if those numbers have been posted before).