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Should this really come as a huge surprise? I think the better question here is how did the software sell?
DR2K said:What console hasn't sold out on day 1, lol?
?EatChildren said:Here's some various shipping/sold stats for Japan.
DS: 500,000 shipped. 230,000 sold on first day.
DSi: 200,000 shipped. 170,779 sold in two days.
Wii: 400,000 shipped. 370,000 sold in two days.
PSP: 200,000 shipped. 200,000 sold in two days.
PS3: 81,639 sold in one day.
DR2K said:What console hasn't sold out on day 1, lol?
GoldenEye 007 said:
casuals don't buy games?nextgeneration said:Should this really come as a huge surprise? I think the better question here is how did the software sell?
Boney said:casuals don't buy games?
This is what I want to know as well.nextgeneration said:Should this really come as a huge surprise? I think the better question here is how did the software sell?
Strike said:http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/4/26/129167586636177506.gif[IMG][/quote]
That has got to be one of my all-time favorite GIFs.
ShockingAlberto said:
CLOSE ENOUGH
DECK'ARD said:How does this compare to the 360 launch in Japan?
I'd wager Layton will probably be the top selling gamerhino4evr said:I'm sure the top game will be nintendog followed by Street Fighter.
I wish tw system was region free..would really help the resale value when my system arrives on day 1
You are bad at predictions.rhino4evr said:I'm sure the top game will be nintendog followed by Street Fighter.
Why was he not at the launch?Michan said:
No contest there. It's in a completely different tier than the other launch games (the "this is fucking Layton 5!" tier). Nintendogs might win in the long term, however.ShockingAlberto said:I'd wager Layton will probably be the top selling game
I was waiting for this picture to show up sometime.Michan said:
Nice!antonz said:
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Osuwari said:how come the N64 gets blasted so much even though nintendo made more money with it than with the SNES? the console was a shithole for japanese support but it still sold good numbers in america/europe relative to its predecessor. japan was the crack in the armor for that era.
the GC is the only console that has really suffered worldwide and that really lowered nintendo's profits. the VB is the only true failure from them and it is easy to see why it did so badly.
the 3DS launch seems to be in a blaze in japan now. i was thinking about waiting until OoT 3DS released to get a 3DS when it comes out in america but now i'm thinking if i should buy the thing before that..
HiroProtagonist said:What information is this based on? Sure, it makes sense pre-orders are first come- first served, but where do you get that they've sold out of their estimated first shipment numbers?
I believe Iwata hated it as a programmer because it was hard as hell to program for. The N64 was pretty much the Rare/SGi/Nintendo love child that didn't live up to its expectations.Osuwari said:how come the N64 gets blasted so much even though nintendo made more money with it than with the SNES? the console was a shithole for japanese support but it still sold good numbers in america/europe relative to its predecessor. japan was the crack in the armor for that era.
the GC is the only console that has really suffered worldwide and that really lowered nintendo's profits. the VB is the only true failure from them and it is easy to see why it did so badly.
the 3DS launch seems to be in a blaze in japan now. i was thinking about waiting until OoT 3DS released to get a 3DS in america but now i'm thinking if i should buy the thing before that..
Osuwari said:how come the N64 gets blasted so much even though nintendo made more money with it than with the SNES? the console was a shithole for japanese support but it still sold good numbers in america/europe relative to its predecessor. japan was the crack in the armor for that era.
the GC is the only console that has really suffered worldwide and that really lowered nintendo's profits. the VB is the only true failure from them and it is easy to see why it did so badly.
the 3DS launch seems to be in a blaze in japan now. i was thinking about waiting until OoT 3DS released to get a 3DS in america but now i'm thinking if i should buy the thing before that..
Ah I see you're not familiar with the PSP Go.DR2K said:What console hasn't sold out on day 1, lol?
I feel that the GC could've easily hit 40 million or more of Nintendo didn't throw in the towel. After 2003/2004 they shifted over to DS already. They never released a 2D platformer and Nintendogs was a GameCube game before they moved it to DS. I believe Yoshi Touch & Go started out on GameCube too and they had the 3D LCD-screens ready but they were too expensive. In fact they just kept all the ideas they had for the Cube under wraps and unleashed them on DS and later Wii(motion controls). Nintendo had a lot of plans from the GameCube, I believed Miyamoto was the first who came up with the now often ridiculed "10 year plan" when he said that Nintendo would stick with the GameCube for at least 8 years.Fritz said:N64 was the shit console that only survived on the reputation the SNES had build. GC was a great console with great games that had every odd against it.
Go figure.
[Nintex] said:I feel that the GC could've easily hit 40 million or more of Nintendo didn't throw in the towel. After 2003/2004 they shifted over to DS already. They never released a 2D platformer and Nintendogs was a GameCube game before they moved it to DS. I believe Yoshi Touch & Go started out on GameCube too and they had the 3D LCD-screens ready but they were too expensive. In fact they just kept all the ideas they had for the Cube under wraps and unleashed them on DS and later Wii(motion controls). Nintendo had a lot of plans from the GameCube, I believed Miyamoto was the first who came up with the now often ridiculed "10 year plan" when he said that Nintendo would stick with the GameCube for at least 8 years.
It really is a beauty. The excitement of big, colourful, enthusiastic signage contrasted against nothing but an utter lack of desire.Parl said:I was waiting for this picture to show up sometime.
I upgraded my shipping method a week or two ago ;_;boomerisgod said:That's generally how amazon does pre-orders. But a sales rep also told me this over the phone. He told me changing my shipping method could push me to the "back of the line" when shipments go out. Since the preorders and shipments were based off when you ordered it.
It would make sense since it's the fairest way to do it, and because they are still taking pre-orders, even though there is no way at this point they can honor all of them at launch time (unless they get like 100k units!)
They're listed as one of the places to pre-order on the Official 3DS website so I would think that they would get a large shipment.boomerisgod said:That's generally how amazon does pre-orders. But a sales rep also told me this over the phone. He told me changing my shipping method could push me to the "back of the line" when shipments go out. Since the preorders and shipments were based off when you ordered it.
It would make sense since it's the fairest way to do it, and because they are still taking pre-orders, even though there is no way at this point they can honor all of them at launch time (unless they get like 100k units!)
[Nintex] said:I feel that the GC could've easily hit 40 million or more of Nintendo didn't throw in the towel. After 2003/2004 they shifted over to DS already. They never released a 2D platformer and Nintendogs was a GameCube game before they moved it to DS. I believe Yoshi Touch & Go started out on GameCube too and they had the 3D LCD-screens ready but they were too expensive. In fact they just kept all the ideas they had for the Cube under wraps and unleashed them on DS and later Wii(motion controls). Nintendo had a lot of plans from the GameCube, I believed Miyamoto was the first who came up with the now often ridiculed "10 year plan" when he said that Nintendo would stick with the GameCube for at least 8 years.
boomerisgod said:That's generally how amazon does pre-orders. But a sales rep also told me this over the phone. He told me changing my shipping method could push me to the "back of the line" when shipments go out. Since the preorders and shipments were based off when you ordered it.
It would make sense since it's the fairest way to do it, and because they are still taking pre-orders, even though there is no way at this point they can honor all of them at launch time (unless they get like 100k units!)
I'm fairly certain that anyone who wants a 3DS pre-order should be able to find one easily.So anybody pre-ordering at this point will have to wait a while to get one.
Cygnus X-1 said:No, I disagree. The Gamecube was doomed exactly like the Wii right now is declining because third parties dropped the ball. After RE4, it was the infernal void and Twilight Princess was far, far away, exactly like Skyward Sword and DQX are looking now faaaaar away on Wii.
The difference is that Wii burned like crazy for 5 years thanks to Waggle/Wii "insert name" series/great Nintendo's games, whereas the GC did not.
Ah, and the Gamecube had the disappointing Mario Sunshine. The Wii had Galaxy 1 and 2.
[Nintex] said:I feel that the GC could've easily hit 40 million or more of Nintendo didn't throw in the towel. After 2003/2004 they shifted over to DS already. They never released a 2D platformer and Nintendogs was a GameCube game before they moved it to DS. I believe Yoshi Touch & Go started out on GameCube too and they had the 3D LCD-screens ready but they were too expensive. In fact they just kept all the ideas they had for the Cube under wraps and unleashed them on DS and later Wii(motion controls). Nintendo had a lot of plans from the GameCube, I believed Miyamoto was the first who came up with the now often ridiculed "10 year plan" when he said that Nintendo would stick with the GameCube for at least 8 years.
I don't know, if Rare hadn't fired their lead coder we might've seen Perfect Dark Zero during holiday 2002. If Nintendo had finished the Zelda OOT2 game they showed at Space World instead of starting from scratch with The Wind Waker and developed Mario 128 based on something like this tech demo instead of turning a non-Mario game(Sunshine) into the flagship Mario title things might've ended up different. There's like a dozen GameQube related 'what if's' including the gyro sensor controllers that they had originally planned.Cygnus X-1 said:No, I disagree. The Gamecube was doomed exactly like the Wii right now is declining because third parties dropped the ball. After RE4, it was the infernal void and Twilight Princess was far, far away, exactly like Skyward Sword and DQX are looking now faaaaar away on Wii.
The difference is that Wii burned like crazy for 5 years thanks to Waggle/Wii "insert name" series/great Nintendo's games, whereas the GC did not.
Ah, and the Gamecube had the disappointing Mario Sunshine. The Wii had Galaxy 1 and 2.
...that was a tech video. There wasn't anything to "finish."[Nintex] said:I don't know, if Rare hadn't fired their lead coder we might've seen Perfect Dark Zero during holiday 2002. If Nintendo had finished the Zelda OOT2 game they showed at Space World
I laughed out loud!DennisK4 said:
In any case I feel that they changed everything too quickly. Like everyone had this image of OOT Link and they went with a new Link instead. I feel that 2001-2003 should've been the 'normal sequels' time. With Mario 128 and OOT2 and all that to make enough money to fund all the cool and awesome Wind Waker/Sunshine experiments.ShockingAlberto said:...that was a tech video. There wasn't anything to "finish."
Unless you mean "If Nintendo had just made a game based on that and not tried to do something else."
[Nintex] said:instead of turning a non-Mario game(Sunshine) into the flagship Mario title things might've ended up different.
How are you defining OoT2? There's MM which is a direct sequel and there is WW, which is also a direct sequel[Nintex] said:In any case I feel that they changed everything too quickly. Like everyone had this image of OOT Link and they went with a new Link instead. I feel that 2001-2003 should've been the 'normal sequels' time. With Mario 128 and OOT2 and all that to make enough money to fund all the cool and awesome Wind Waker/Sunshine experiments.
HiroProtagonist said:I can't imagine that Amazon would continue to accept pre-orders once they reach their estimated stock numbers. It was a best seller in videogames the week it went on pre-order then fell into the depths of the top 100. Nintendo of America have had no commercials, no public demos, nothing that would incite any kind of rush.
Amazon.co.jp closed pre-orders when they reached stock estimates, so I would expect Amazon.com to do the same. Plus, Amazon have had more than enough experience with Nintendo shortages over the last 5 years to be caught with their pants down.
I'm not changing my pre-order, or advising anyone else to, but I don't think you're working with enough info to tell people: I'm fairly certain that anyone who wants a 3DS pre-order should be able to find one easily.
Also, your Amazon pre-order 'order on the pre-order list' is determined by your 'order number' which is not affected by a change in shipping method.
(Could I use the word 'order' more? geeze.)