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[jett]

Third pillar my fucking ass. I wonder what is Nintendo going to call their next handheld. Gameboy DS?

 

[KINGMOKU]

What's strange is that Nintendo has seemed to have abandonded the most popular lable in all of videogamedom, the GAMEBOY, and is having even MORE success.

WTF?

Would Sony have done better had they dropped the "playstation" moniker?

 

[AdmiralViscen]

What's strange is that Nintendo has seemed to have abandonded the most popular lable in all of videogamedom, the GAMEBOY, and is having even MORE success.

WTF?

Would Sony have done better had they dropped the "playstation" moniker?

They avoided the Game Boy tag to avoid ruining it forever if the DS failed.

Using Game Boy would also be an extra hurdle for them to get over to convince nongamers to pick the thing up.

Nintendo pushed hard in Japan for DS to be seen as something new and different, and they also convinced the gamer crowd that it was a good replacement for a GBA. They failed on both counts in America, which is why you still see the strong Game Boy brand as number one here.

 

[A Link to the Past]

They avoided the Game Boy tag to avoid ruining it forever if the DS failed.

Using Game Boy would also be an extra hurdle for them to get over to convince nongamers to pick the thing up.

Nintendo pushed hard in Japan for DS to be seen as something new and different, and they also convinced the gamer crowd that it was a good replacement for a GBA. They failed on both counts in America, which is why you still see the strong Game Boy brand as number one here.

It wasn't that they didn't convince them, it's that they never have made an attempt. NoA doesn't seem to want to do anything that would make DS a huge success.

 

[speedpop]

Of course, this is Nintendo of America we are talking about.

 

[jj984jj]

I don't think the Adult crowd would buy a GB for Brain Training, so they were right to abandon the brand for the DS. I dunno if they should've done it here in NA or in EU though.

 

[heidern]

Well I thought I'd play with the numbers a bit, especially since people wanted an idea of how much revenue the DS games generated. So heres a table ordered by the lifetime revenue in US dollars of each of these games. It also has the monthly $ total. As you can see Animal Crossing is the big winner with over $70 million dollars in revenue already. Nintendogs is in second place, with Brain Training lagging behind in 6th place. Interestingly Tamagotchi is in 4th place thanks to its premium pricing.

The big thing is the total sales. These 26 games have generated over half a billion dollars in revenue and counting. In January alone they generated a massive $151,177,567. That compares with $357M for all games across all systems in the US in January.

Rank	  $ Jan		Units Jan   $ LTD 	Units LTD	Title		Price
1	 23,244,418.00 	569,711	 70,970,933.14 	1,739,468	Animal Crossing: Wild World	4800
2	 6,012,872.52 	147,373	 45,412,359.11 	1,113,038	Nintendogs (Shiba / Drinky / Chihuahua)	4800
3	 15,924,913.72 	390,313	 43,243,819.59 	1,059,888	Mario Kart DS	4800
4	 8,540,445.06 	199,355	 41,544,292.54 	969,746		Tamagotchi: Corner Shop	5040
5	 1,870,900.84 	45,855	 36,778,267.00 	901,420		Sawaru Made in Wario	4800
6	 11,626,428.44 	488,501	 35,696,560.87 	1,499,842	Brain Training	2800
7	 1,725,977.93 	42,303	 34,941,883.28 	856,411		Super Mario 64 DS	4800
8	 6,289,563.61 	264,265	 27,123,580.91 	1,139,636	Gentle Logic Puzzles	2800
9	 5,840,450.16 	143,147	 27,112,945.62 	664,527		Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon	4800
10	 25,819,828.98 1,084,857 25,819,828.98  1,084,857	Brain Training 2	2800
11	 1,895,381.06 	46,455	 20,829,852.27 	510,531		Jump Superstars	4800
12	 3,541,113.17 	109,631	 13,289,631.61 	411,440		Dare Demo Asobi Taizen	3800
13	 12,794,015.95 	313,576	 12,794,015.95 	313,576		Mario & Luigi RPG 2	4800
14	 795,280.76 	19,492	 12,073,236.66 	295,910		Touch! Kirby	4800
15	 3,175,597.22 	74,869	 10,649,950.95 	251,087		Slime Morimori Dragon Quest II	4990
16	 2,564,339.80 	59,858	 9,658,664.81 	225,457		Dragon Ball Z Bukuu Ressen	5040
17	 1,546,570.22 	47,881	 8,492,360.13 	262,919		Pokemon Trozei	3800
18	 7,486,238.38 	231,770	 7,486,238.38 	231,770		English Training	3800
19	 1,515,733.64 	37,150	 7,337,293.24 	179,834		Super Princess Peach	4800
20	 2,097,465.28 	48,960	 6,131,230.30 	143,118		Mushiking: Greatest Champion e no Michi DS	5040
21	 733,941.49 	17,132	 4,028,838.38 	94,043		Rockman EXE 5 DS Twin Leaders	5040
22	 1,547,694.61 	36,127	 3,929,491.53 	91,724		Power Pro Kun Pocket 8	5040
23	 1,316,784.93 	30,737	 2,628,514.70 	61,356		Harvest Moon DS for Girls	5040
24	 1,495,043.78 	34,898	 1,495,043.78 	34,898		BLEACH DS	5040
25	 1,155,790.76 	26,979	 1,155,790.76 	26,979		Biohazard Deadly Silence	5040
26	 620,777.59 	15,215	 889,121.60 	21,792		Puyo Puyo Fever 2	4800
	 151,177,567.87 	511,513,746.07

 

[Moor-Angol]

I remember in August 2004 i found GBA games at 4000yen instead of 4800yen during launch day, and i only went in 3 different shops


You must be a total dumbass to buy a game in Japan a full price

...or maybe very lazy

 

[MrSardonic]

Well I thought I'd play with the numbers a bit, especially since people wanted an idea of how much revenue the DS games generated. So heres a table ordered by the lifetime revenue in US dollars of each of these games. It also has the monthly $ total. As you can see Animal Crossing is the big winner with over $70 million dollars in revenue already. Nintendogs is in second place, with Brain Training lagging behind in 6th place. Interestingly Tamagotchi is in 4th place thanks to its premium pricing.

The big thing is the total sales. These 26 games have generated over half a billion dollars in revenue and counting. In January alone they generated a massive $151,177,567. That compares with $357M for all games across all systems in the US in January.

Holy fuck! The Brain Training series has also generated some $88.6m in revenue to date, and still going strong. Nintendo's yearly revenue for 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 is going to be enormous thanks to the DS

 

[ioi]

Animal Crossing approaching 2 million!? When was the last time a Nintendo game sold 2 million in Japan!? That's fucking insane, and a real show of return to form.

Well I did call 2m ages ago, but even I am suprised at just how well the games are doin.

I'm now calling 3m+ for Animal Crossing and 2.5m+ for both Brain Trainings.

The last non-Pokemon game from Nintendo to break 2m was Mario Kart 64 which did 2.24m back in 96 and the last game to break 3m is Donkey Kong Country in 94 which Animal Crossing is tracking about 300k behind at the moment but gaining... http://www.everythingandnothing.org.uk/vg/japcomp.php?name1=Animal+Crossing%3A+Wild+World&name2=Donkey+Kong+Country

 

[A Link to the Past]

So, does anyone wanna bet that the March Monthly Charts are going to be half DS? I just have a hunch that thanks to the DS Lite, all DS games sales will increase a good deal (WarioWare and Super Mario 64 DS will have broken 1 million, Jump! will have broken 600,000).

 

[Cheebs]

So, does anyone wanna bet that the March Monthly Charts are going to be half DS? I just have a hunch that thanks to the DS Lite, all DS games sales will increase a good deal (WarioWare and Super Mario 64 DS will have broken 1 million, Jump! will have broken 600,000).

I wouldnt be suprised. Feb will be rather weak seeing how DS Lite is on the way and it would make sense to hold on to big shipments till launch to build hype.

 

[A Link to the Past]

I wouldnt be suprised. Feb will be rather weak seeing how DS Lite is on the way and it would make sense to hold on to big shipments till launch to build hype.

Well, hardware yes, but software I think will be up to par, because a lot of people still don't own ACWW or the Brain Trainings.

 

[cvxfreak]

I do expect most Japanese gamers to pick up a game to go with their DS lite, especially Brain Training. But I have no doubts there will be many who will pick up SM64DS and Wario to finally push them over 1 Million. I think even Nintendo is expecting this to happen.

 

[A Link to the Past]

I do expect most Japanese gamers to pick up a game to go with their DS lite, especially Brain Training. But I have no doubts there will be many who will pick up SM64DS and Wario to finally push them over 1 Million. I think even Nintendo is expecting this to happen.

Exactly - really, the question isn't if they will get big boosts, it's a question of how big these boosts will be.

Will we see 100k for Slime MoriMori 2/Jump?

Will Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon Blue come close to 1 million, or even pass it?

Will Rangers have huge sales?

 

[ethelred]

Exactly - really, the question isn't if they will get big boosts, it's a question of how big these boosts will be.

Will we see 100k for Slime MoriMori 2/Jump?

Will Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon Blue come close to 1 million, or even pass it?

Will Rangers have huge sales?

Slime Morimori's been doing a very impressive job selling under the radar -- it's been clinging to the top 30 chart for quite a while now, for the past few weeks in the high twenties, going down to 30 most recently. A generalized bump in software will probably give it a very nice boost -- we saw that happen before, when the sales explosion first picked up; every semi-popular title started selling more. 100k more for Slime Morimori seems very doable.

Mysterious Dungeon should get close to 1 million, but I'm not sure if it'll pass it. Well, it probably will eventually, I'm just not sure if that'll be any time soon.

It's hard to say on Rangers, but the game should end up doing, at the very least, over 5/600k.

 

[cvxfreak]

I think Slime Morimori will be on the Top 100 charts for a long time. The DS lite should help that.

But, when the March Top 100 comes, I will post the chart but withhold all DS numbers for a week unless 25 Photoshops are made for the occasion.

 

[Archie]

I think Slime Morimori will be on the Top 100 charts for a long time. The DS lite should help that.

But, when the March Top 100 comes, I will post the chart but withhold all DS numbers for a week unless 25 Photoshops are made for the occasion.

Time to enroll in a Photoshop class.

 

[A Link to the Past]

I think Slime Morimori will be on the Top 100 charts for a long time. The DS lite should help that.

But, when the March Top 100 comes, I will post the chart but withhold all DS numbers for a week unless 25 Photoshops are made for the occasion.

I'll live.

>_> But GAFers, get going on that, just in case.

 

[Fuzzy]

I think Slime Morimori will be on the Top 100 charts for a long time. The DS lite should help that.

But, when the March Top 100 comes, I will post the chart but withhold all DS numbers for a week unless 25 Photoshops are made for the occasion.

Don't forget to delay them further every time someone asks for the numbers.