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[Netrunner2k2]

Wow, when is the last time the DS(L) was under 100,000?

 

[Leonsito]

Wow, when is the last time the DS(L) was under 100,000?

6 - 12 March: 89.790

68.438
89.790
104.452
119.986
149.371
154.731
140.969
168.809
225.835
161.010
91.895

 

[Barf_the_Mog]

...

 

[Archie]

Wow, HUGE drop off for the DS and Lite. Looks like the non game fad is finally coming to an end. Go Sony and PSP!

 

[Jonnyram]

DSlite is still sold out everywhere. It's obvious now that they're prepping units for the western launch. I wonder why they haven't improved their production speed though.

 

[Clever Pun]

DSlite is still sold out everywhere. It's obvious now that they're prepping units for the western launch. I wonder why they haven't improved their production speed though.

so are these low numbers more a function of a lack of supply than a lack of demand?

 

[mj1108]

Only 91k?

Obviously doomed.

Wow, HUGE drop off for the DS and Lite. Looks like the non game fad is finally coming to an end. Go Sony and PSP!

:lol :lol

 

[jamesinclair]

Fat DS....

From memory, hasnt it been 60,000 -> 8,000 -> 40,000 -> 3,000 ?

Looks like some serious supply issues.

 

[donny2112]

It's just the severe shortage rearing its head again based on Jonnyram's statement. The DS should pass 8 million this week.

Regular DS: 50K -> 37K -> 8K -> 43K -> 24K -> 3K

 

[Hurricane_Chris]

You still can't walk into a major store (Bic, Yodobashi, Sofmap, Sakuraya, etc) in Tokyo and find a DS OR DS Lite. I will have friends wanting a Lite but are never lucky enough to walk into a store that just got them in stock. I assume they're getting ready for their US launch, I wonder what Nintendo's DS/DSL production capacity is.

 

[Gahiggidy]

Xbox360 2,019 >> 1,355



That's a [font size=190pt]33% DROP.[/font]

 

[metropolis]

must be a weird choice for nintendo.. on the one hand they sell every DS Lite unit they can produce in Japan alone. On the other hand they couldn't hold off the launch for the rest of the world forever... so they had to just start saving some for america and europe.

 

[Yamauchi]

Obviously 150-200k weekly sales are unsustainable, and it looks like Nintendo is diverting production to prepare for the DSL launch in the rest of the world. However, I'm thinking demand will increase with NSMB.

 

[Mrbob]

DSlite is still sold out everywhere. It's obvious now that they're prepping units for the western launch. I wonder why they haven't improved their production speed though.

Should have prepped for western launch earlier. I can't believe I have to wait till June 11 to play NSMB. :/

 

[Archie]

Should have prepped for western launch earlier. I can't believe I have to wait till June 11 to play NSMB. :/

if you kept up with the official thread you'd know it is the worst mario ever and doesn't have any magic and probably kicked a few dogs so you probably aren't missing much!

Spoiler

it is pretty awesome

 

[cvxfreak]

Obviously 150-200k weekly sales are unsustainable, and it looks like Nintendo is diverting production to prepare for the DSL launch in the rest of the world. However, I'm thinking demand will increase with NSMB.

If Nintendo screws the pooch with DS Lite/DS demand on May 25, then... oh boy. 1.3 Million retailer orders has got to yield a considerable amount of hardware, too.

 

[Akia]

If Nintendo screws the pooch with DS Lite/DS demand on May 25, then... oh boy. 1.3 Million retailer orders has got to yield a considerable amount of hardware, too.

True Dat. Nintendo can fubar launch but they can't mess up NSMB. There has to be truckloads of Lites.

 

[ThirdEye]

Xbox360 2,019 >> 1,355



That's a [font size=190pt]33% DROP.[/font]

Xbox 36

50% drop.

 

[jamesinclair]

It's just the severe shortage rearing its head again based on Jonnyram's statement. The DS should pass 8 million this week.

Regular DS: 50K -> 37K -> 8K -> 43K -> 24K -> 3K
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Thats what I was thinking of. Theres no way in hell that this is a demand issue, thats suppl all the way. 8k -> 43k for no reason? 24k -. 3k? Maybe after 6 months.

If Nintendo can get 20,000 FatDss in stores next week, we'll see 18,000 sold.

 

[Rock_Man]

The "low" sales of DS hardware makes the software sales even more impressive. The tie ratio
for the brain trainings haven't been this high since DS lite launched, except for golden week.

 

[Frankfurter]

DSlite is still sold out everywhere. It's obvious now that they're prepping units for the western launch. I wonder why they haven't improved their production speed though.

They have Sth. like 550k -> 750k (with the possiblity that they already began to stock units for the western launch in April).

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

DS after 11 weeks: 1.8 million

GBASP after 11 weeks: 0.84M
DSL after 11 weeks: 1.48M
Time for GBASP to reach 1.48M: ~27 weeks

"GBA after SP" after 11 weeks: 226K
"DS after DSL" after 11 weeks: 395K
Time for "GBA after SP" to reach 395K: ~27 weeks

When I initially set up my spreadsheet for the above figurings, I gave it the first 29 weeks of GBASP and GBA-after-SP. I definitely must give it more to keep up.


Average DS system ownership: 33.9 weeks
Average PSP system ownership: 40.0 weeks

 

[cvxfreak]

Heh, interesting final two stats you have there, Joshua.

 

[lightcrisprefreshing]

i guess its time for a new ds. ds micro?

 

[lancubap]

No more DS.

You said this, you said all. Shortages are coming...

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Heh, interesting final two stats you have there, Joshua.

It is a fun little stat. Usually it just inches forward pretty evenly, but the influx of DS Lite owners has kept things pretty still. The week before Lite launched it was 32.1 weeks for DS, 33.8 weeks for PSP.

 

[flipping_heck]

DSL 91,895
PSP 27,127
PS2 21,138
GBASP 6,317
DS 3,438
GBM 2,628
Xbox360 1,355
GC 1,069
GBA 40
Xbox 36

Wht a drop! The DS sales really fluctuate per week, Nintendo make more of this beast and its liter brother please!

 

[The Innocent X]

These sales are for the week after Golden Week in Japan, so everyone would have spent all thier money in Golden week and have none left for buying stuff. Its normal to see such low numbers IMO.

 

[Frankfurter]

i guess its time for a new ds. ds micro?

Huh?

 

[MrSardonic]

Nintendo need to sort out these supply issues. When NSMB launches they'd better be ready with 1m+ DSL

 

[marc^o^]

Just seen on Next-gen.biz

"Of note is that there are STILL no DS units of any kind stocking store shelves. No regulars, no Lites. The drought continues. At first it was kind of triumphant for Nintendo -- they should have been proud of having a surprise hit. At this point, some six months later, it looks simply amateurish. DS Lite launched two months ago, and you still can't buy the damned thing. Word is more units will be available when New Super Mario Bros. launches, though there's really no telling."

 

[Magicpaint]

Nintendo really needs to get their acts together, this has been an issue since the holidays, damn.

 

[Frankfurter]

They have already shipped about 2.5m DS(L) this year to Japan. They simply couldn't forsee that (DS in 2005 hit that mark at the end of November!).

 

[«þ»]

All the productions probably going to America.

 

[MrSardonic]

Just seen on Next-gen.biz

"Of note is that there are STILL no DS units of any kind stocking store shelves. No regulars, no Lites. The drought continues. At first it was kind of triumphant for Nintendo -- they should have been proud of having a surprise hit. At this point, some six months later, it looks simply amateurish. DS Lite launched two months ago, and you still can't buy the damned thing. Word is more units will be available when New Super Mario Bros. launches, though there's really no telling."

Is it amateurish? This thing seems to be selling at a faster rate than any videogame hardware ever in Japan (100-200k a week is insane), and no doubt they are stockpiling millions of units for the European and US launch of DSL. They've done a better job of getting units out there than MS did with the X360 outside of Japan.

But for the sake of sales-age, they need to get plenty of stock out to Japan so we can see what kind of weekly numbers it is capable of

 

[First Children]

Just seen on Next-gen.biz

"Of note is that there are STILL no DS units of any kind stocking store shelves. No regulars, no Lites. The drought continues. At first it was kind of triumphant for Nintendo -- they should have been proud of having a surprise hit. At this point, some six months later, it looks simply amateurish. DS Lite launched two months ago, and you still can't buy the damned thing. Word is more units will be available when New Super Mario Bros. launches, though there's really no telling."

I can't find this on the site... do you have a link?

 

[marc^o^]

Here you are

 

[Moor-Angol]

Its normal to see such low numbers IMO.

I wonder if Sony considers 90k units as "low numbers"... :lol

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Oh snap. If anyone mentioned this in the last week or two I missed it, but the DS+DSL YTD for 2006 is 2,321,671. PSP's yearly total for 2005 was 2,200,710.

 

[Akia]

Metroid Prime Hunters launches on June 1st in Japan.

I wonder if Japan will like it. But based on the past Metroid sales in Japan it'll probably bomb.

MPH Japan Commerical

 

[cvxfreak]

Metroid Prime Hunters launches on May 24th in Japan.

I wonder if Japan will like it. But based on the past Metroid sales in Japan it'll probably bomb.

MPH Japan Commerical

Hunters is actually out on June 1.

I doubt it will sell much. Metroid Dread would do better if it ever actually came out.

 

[mutsu]

Yeah, I think no matter how the game population expands in Japan, they are just not going to like the FPS genre... It will never become a mainstream genre over there.

 

[Mr. Pointy]

When does the May 15-22 Media Create come in?

 

[jj984jj]

When does the May 15-22 Media Create come in?

Wednesday like every week?

 

[Rotanibor]

Metroid Prime Hunters launches on June 1st in Japan.

I wonder if Japan will like it. But based on the past Metroid sales in Japan it'll probably bomb.

MPH Japan Commerical

Humm. How often do you see non-Japanese people in Japanese commercials? It seems like they only threw the white guy in because its a popular type of game in the west or some weird shit.

 

[Ghengis Cohen]

Humm. How often do you see non-Japanese people in Japanese commercials? It seems like they only threw the white guy in because its a popular type of game in the west or some weird shit.

I think this is meant to mean that the wi-fi is worldwide, and not to remind Japanese consumers that white folk play first person shooters.

 

[Oblivion]

Yeah, I think no matter how the game population expands in Japan, they are just not going to like the FPS genre... It will never become a mainstream genre over there.

It's why dummy Nintnendo should have made the Prime games in 3rd person. At least then it might have had a chance in Japan.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Yeah, I think no matter how the game population expands in Japan, they are just not going to like the FPS genre... It will never become a mainstream genre over there.

FPS Training 1mil sales

 

[Mr. Pointy]

FPS Training 1mil sales

If that works, Halo 3 will be a system seller there as well.