DS Sells 20 million, 17 Million More by March 2007 115
Wowzer writes "Nintendo announced today that sales of its hand-held, dual-screened video game player, the Nintendo DS, have topped 20 million worldwide (guesstimates say 21,270,000). Nintendo expects DS (Lite) sales to be 17 million between April 2006 and March 2007. From today's financial report: 'The company raised its full-year sales forecast of the DS handheld game players to 17 million units for the year ending March 2007, up from 16 million unit sales projection made in May. Sales of DS game titles are projected to rise to 75 million units, from 70 million.' The report refers to PSP owners as just combat-game fans, while the DS is said to target a wider audience with more diverse games such as the 6 million seller Nintendogs." I will say, I was very skeptical when I first heard about the DS and the split screen — but having played a number of different games, I've found I like it. But I have not played Nintendogs, unlike some other people I know.
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Well said - if only there was some way of kicking the "Nintendo is dying" trolls in the teeth with that statement.
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I would think the "hardcore gamer" is the videogame equiv
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The gaming industry is still the domain of enthusiasts. For every game like the Sims or Civ that appeals to a "casual" gamer market, there are a dozen WoWs, Dooms, and UTs. Read
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But at any rate, what can I say? I picked up a DS in January or February, and ever since then it's had so much momentum build up it's insane. Before now, though, what I'd seen from Nintendo was the regurgitation of the same old and tired, though beloved, franchises - yip-de-fuck
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You know what, I can recognise american players pretty easily (I may be wrong sometimes). These are people that think what is happening in the USA is the same as what happens everywhere in the world.
Nintendo is not an american company, Nintendo was never struggling either. Nintendo l
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I'm one of them, I hate to admit.
Two 10-minute deathmatches in MP:H and my hands feel like I've been playing Guitar Hero for six hours.
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Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll release an MP:H for Cube or for Wii?
I'm also terribly reluctant to pick up any of the other FPS's for DS for the same reason. I love FPS games, but I'm very wary of them on the small screen.
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OK, mate. first off, yes, yes I am an american gamer. The Nintendo that I see, and interact with, is Nintendo of America. I know very well that Nintendo of Japan will continue, and quite strongly, without NOA. Japan is way cooler than the US, etc, etc. And gets all the awesome Nintendo toys that the American market never sees, which pisses me off to no end.
But allow me to clarify some things for you, so you can sleep easier tonight, K? K.
When I say I see Nintendo(NOA) struggling, I mean that I see i
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Of course you can also argue tha is someone has one customer that makes him a profit bigger than the 20 M. seperate products that that is a superior product...
Like I said agree with you, but it does depend on definitions.
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My Mom has one now (Score:5, Insightful)
Then a few weeks ago I got a DS Lite and my mom visited for a few days. She started playing Brain Age and that was it. When they left, my dad asked how much they were and where they could be purchased. A week later, she's busy playing Sudoku and Mario on her own DS Lite.
If you want to get one and your spouse gives you a wary eye, go get it and get Brain Age at the same time. You'll be a hero. But you may wind up arguing who gets to play with it.
Re:My Mom has one now (Score:3, Funny)
You're a geek with a wife. You shouldn't be arguing over who gets to play with it, she should have full permissions, rights, and access to anything of yours she wishes to play with, with minimal downtime.
So stock up on batteries and vitamin E.
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If I got a DS Lite, and she wanted to play it, I'd probly hit her with it. No, J/K. I'd let her play, then I could get another DS Lite!
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You can always say you can't speak, but my wife is hit by the blue bug as well, but I'm not. I think she'll be glad to hear that others are having the problem as well.
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That's why to be truly heroic, you buy two.
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And don't forget "Animal Crossing". We had to get a second DS for her so I could have mine back.
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Same here (Score:2)
But she saw an add for Brain Training and had to have it. After looking all over town for a DS Lite, she finally got one at WalMart and I haven't heard from her since....
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About two days later he calls me, complaining that he hasn't had a chance to really try any of the games. Eventually, he just took it to his work but she would call him and ask him if the dog had been fed, bathed, walked,
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That, or you just buy an import Royal Pink DS Lite just for her (unless she doesn't like pink, in which case you can also buy a Navy Blue or a Light Blue import, or a Polar White or Jet Black one from your nearest dealer)
(Unless you're in the USA, in which case you'd also have to import the Jet Black one)
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I have heard a lot of good stuff about Brain Training for the wife, but I have never tried it yet. One thing I would like to know though is, is the game more like "Any-Brain Training" or "Brain-that-speaks-English-fluently Training"? My wife's mastery of English is far from perfect, and losing points because of that would suck (no
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French version is sold under the name "Brain Training - Programme d'Entraînement Cérébral du Dr Kawashima : Quel âge a votre cerveau ?" (english name "Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!", original name "Tôhoku Daigaku Mirai Kagaku Gijutsu Kyôdô Kenkyû Center Kawashima Ryûta Kyûju Kanshu - Nô o kitaeru Otona no DS Training").
I strongly suspect that the US game would work as well (most DS games are multilingual), but i'm not sure. Anyway, if y
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Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately, Amazon.fr can only ship it in the UE, and I'm in Quebec, Canada. I'll keep an e
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And soon enough you're having pickup tetris tournaments on the couch.
Word of advice: As many posters have already said, BUY TWO! The first week I had mine, it ended up in my gf's purse. So I had to buy her one, too (a shiny black one!)
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Lets say she's hooked on Animal Crossing now. I never believed it could happen. She's all over collecting sea shells, bugs, paying off the mortgage, designing clothes & decorating.
Now I know what it looks like when I play WoW all day. Pretty soon I'm gonna want my wife back (and play WoW a little less too).
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Our family owns a few (Score:5, Insightful)
My wife and I like the brain training games so two units are used by four people.
I'm sure my mum (79 years of age) will like the brain training games too so I bought a DS lite (white) with two games for her which I will give to her next Saturday.
What makes a god-fearing, law-abiding family father buy expensive electronic toys? High amounts if good (and mostly clean) fun!!!
I' still think I'm not a Nintendo fanboy but I sure like the stuff they make!
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You clearly haven't picked up Advance Wars...
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It is deceptively deep, though, and fiendishly addictive.
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Wow. Let me guess. You're probably a "know-it-all teenager," and you don't have any kids. You're "so progressive." I'll bet when you have kids, you won't let your daughter have a barbie, and you'll make your son put on pink dresses, because you don't want to teach him "gender-specific" ideas. Wow. Your kids are going to turn out SO NORMAL!
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OK, I'll bite.
Speaking of my doughter, she's very bright and can solve complex problems. If she really wants to, that is...
The thing is that she likes to play with dolls and wants everything colored pink. Her most valuable tool is a bag to put stuff in.
Neither me nor my wife like girly things. We don't know where our doughter got the girly attitude but she has it. A LOT.
The son is a typical boy and likes blue. Didn't force him into that either. Society might but I
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Not as an excuse but I'm not a native english speaker, don't live in an english spellng country, too lazy to spell check, too lazy to install FF with spell checking,
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It may come as a surprise to you but it's okay for a girl to like pink. It's also okay for a girl to want to cook too. It's okay for a girl to have children and stay home and raise them properly.
It's also okay for a boy to like blue, play football and hunt critters.
Just because you have been trained to be a close minded biggot blinded by your facist l
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Meanwhile, you can get a simple passthrough card and a slot-2 storage device for the DS for under $100, these days. You can then grab devkitarm and hack away. And you'll love it... the DS hardware is very simple and easy to work w
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The official one from Nintendo is really well made, doesn't drop video frames and supports real standard
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=246&prod ucts_id=8168& [lik-sang.com]
I've been using that one on my Mac with Quicktime Pro. I use "export to MPEG-4" along with "preserve aspect ratio"
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http://www.m3adapter.com/ [m3adapter.com]
It has its own wiki too
http://m3wiki.com/ [m3wiki.com]
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I'm sorry but I once had an M3. Not sure if the new firmware is a whole lot better, but when I used it the GBM/GBS files were crap, took a huge amount of space, the framerate was low, the sound quality was crap, and it required Windows-only software to convert everything to its GBM/GBS formats.
The Nintendo Play-Yan micro
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I have one of the older blue DSs... and I love it. I've played with the Lites, and I'm impressed, but as long as what I have plays the games well, I'm happy with it.
I'll add 1 to the April 2006-March 2007 (Score:1)
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You could buy them import from europe or japan (e.g. Lik Sang). DS' are not region-protected, only the games somewhat are and even then it's not too much of an issue.
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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid= 18478 [gamesindustry.biz]
This will probably fan the flames of fanboyism,,, (Score:4, Interesting)
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sorces [videogamecharts.com]
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You misspelled "outshipped". There's a stack of PSPs at Wal-Mart, but I can't find a DS Lite in my whole city.
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Huh, I can't think of any reason why that could be [google.com]...
(Sorry, I usually try not to be a fanboy, but this one I couldn't resist.)
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Reporting Sales (Score:1)
I'm not sure if its the same with the DS, but all the major retailers DID report sales for the GBA SP. As soon as the unit was rung up and the serial number scanned (which is why it was visible from outside the box), the serial, date, and name/location of the store was sent on to Nintendo. That's part of how they kept track of warranty information.
I found this out first-hand when I tried to exchange a silver SP (still unopened) that I bought on clearance at K*B for a black one at Wal-Mart the next day.
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Not to mention little things like, you know... being able to get more in stock.
Re:This will probably fan the flames of fanboyism, (Score:2)
a) There's only so much inventory a retailer's going to have lying around. If the PSP didn't sell no retailer would order more from Sony.
b) If Nintendo doesn't want people to compare Sony's shipped versus their sold figures all they have to do is publish their own shipped figures. They just have to add it as an afterthought to the sold figures (20 million sold and over 768 million shipped).
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psp has been out selling the ds in America but psp games haven't done nearly as well.
(maybe locoroco and tekken will help change that. doesn't look like it though)
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As I said before, Nintendo is a bit like Apple (Score:5, Insightful)
The iPod would be almost useless without iTunes (the program, not the iTMS - iTunes Music Store), and the Nintendo DS would be pointless if all it could play was the same games as on the SNES/N64/Gamecube.
More processing power? Sure. Better graphics? Of course. But not at the expense of innovation and good software.
I don't remember who said it, but it goes something like this: "The most powerful computer on the planet would be useless without software to run on it."
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Umm, I think you just accidentally proved that it is Sony who is the Apple of the portable games market.
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And even then, you forgot a few advantages of the NDS over the PSP:
In the PSP/DS match, Nintendo has the numbers, it has the variety, and it has the quality.
Meanwhile the PSP has better 3D.
And the last, but not the least, mo
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Since it starts at the 3rd level of brightness by default, I just kept it at that. I also often use 3rd level in daylight, 1st level is just too dim.
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What are you smoking ?
Nintendo never lost the huge market share. It lost it if you bypass handheld sales, which were always going strong.
And they always made money too.
Now, it's even worse for (bad) competitors, as Nintendo has a big chance of getting back a huge share of home consoles share with the Wii.
Fortunately, Nintendo is the only console vendor that still makes cons
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I can imagine that Nintendo understands this, but Apple?
Well trolled, sir, well trolled.
Guesstimates? (Score:3, Informative)
Source [planetgamecube.com] - this is off PR Newswire, so it's a regular press release.
Not to mention the idea of posting this article without a reliable news source. Blogging a quarterly shareholder meeting is one thing, but when Nintendo has released press releases with the same information, why bother falling back on a pretty-much no-name blog? And if you don't think PGC is "reliable", then pick one more to your liking [google.com]. Preferably one without a stupid animated GIF in it.
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It's also a good game to sit and take a casual half hour break with every day or two, so it really focuses on a different part of the potential gaming audience.
I had no fundamental objection to the PSP, and there were 3 or 4 games I'd have played on it, but when I tried one the loading times were really intolerable.
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The industry has been turned inside out (Score:5, Interesting)
-It would lead a gaming renaissance in Japan, making the Japanese game market larger than America so far in the year 2006.
-It would outsell the PSP in all markets.
-It would be very popular among girls too.
-And popular among older people with a game called 'Brain Age'. This demographic the industry thought was impossible to reach.
-Animal Crossing Wild World would outsell Final Fantasy 12 in Japan (could Final Fantasy 3 outsell FF12?)
-A game called Nintendogs will outsell Halo and is set to outsell Halo 2.
-Companies like Electronic Arts will struggle on the system as they do not know how to deal with disruption technology. But smaller companies like Atlus shall rise.
-Let's not forget a new 2D Mario (after fifteen years) turning the markets on fire everywhere.
You would think the person had gone mad. And many people thought Nintendo had gone mad in late 2004 (just as many thought they had gone mad with the Wii)
Where is the PSP? Well, the software for the PSP is abysmal in Japan. The DS sales lead over the PSP in Japan is so gigantic that if you begin to combine PSP markets, the PSP still doesn't outsell the DS.
So what is different? Nintendo sees the DS's true competition of those who aren't interested in games at all. The company mission is taking affect: "Make as many gamers as possible."
Two years ago...
-Japan had been in a slow decline and analysts were wondering if it worth the effort to 'win' Japan anymore.
-Everyone predicted the PSP would do to the DS what Playstation did to the Nintendo consoles.
-America's game market was extremely healthy with blockbusters like GTA: SA and Halo 2.
-Nintendo was about to go third party.
Now...
-Japan's game market is now bigger than America's and is rapidly expanding.
-Everyone's lofty PSP predictions now have egg on their face.
-America's game market has been in free-fall since 2004. People are ignoring this issue and calling it a 'transition period' without mentioning that the next-gen systems out such as the PSP and Xbox 360 are not growing the market in any way.
-Nintendo swims in profits.
Anyone who believes the seventh generation of consoles will match the PS2 era is deluding themselves. Let the Seventh Generation of Consoles be known as the Fragmentation Era as the games market is dividing into seperate realms.
Welcome to the new world.
You're a bit off. (Score:2)
And the Japanese gaming market was always larger than the USAs. Unless you go back to the days of Atari and Intellivision.
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Glad you saw that too. I remember reading an article a few years ago where the president of nintendo said, in no uncertain words, that they would always be in the hardware business and never be a 3rd party developer.
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Some said it, but it seems hard to do with an USA centric view.
-It would lead a gaming renaissance in Japan, making the Japanese game market larger than America so far in the year 2006
This is BS and american centric view : japanese game market was always bigger. It wasn't when you didn't count handhelds.
It would outsell the PSP in all markets
Only hardcore 3D (mostly FPS) 20-ish gamers believed the contrary. I'm an old time gamer,
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Re:Not to fanboy here... (Score:3, Interesting)
I was very highly sceptical about GBA-GC connectivity at first and saw it as a ploy to suck more money out of people, but its really one of the best features of any current-generation cons
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It was less of a pain since there was only 1 wire required, and the rest were wavebirds getting passed around. I can't imagine how much of a mess that would be with 4 cabled controllers. Even though they do offer backwords cabled support with the GameCube docking station, I would love it if they had a wireless mod built into the Wii. Wireless just keeps it cleaner.
What I would love to know is why can't the 'DS
Even layer 1 differs between GBA and DS wireless (Score:1)
For the same reason you can't connect to a Wi-Fi network using a Bluetooth adapter. Just because it's radio doesn't mean it's the same frequency, the same modulation, the same data link protocol, or the same network protocol.
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