Updated Wii sales tracking (Figures for all 3 markets).

[Julius Seeker]

Wii outsold the DS (according to this data) by approximately 180,000 units. It also held 4 pieces of software on the charts while the DS only managed 3 which is also the lowest number it has held on the charts in some time. It will be interesting to see how things go next week, if DS will spring back into first, or if Wii will remain dominant.

Rank Game Title Platform Publisher Sales Total
1 Tales of Destiny PS2 Bandai Namco 269,756 269,756
2 Wii Sports Wii Nintendo 176,167 176,167
3 Hajimete no Wii Wii Nintendo 174,297 174,297
4 Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess Wii Nintendo 139,011 139,011
5 Final Fantasy VI Advance GBA Square Enix 137,810 137,810
6 Summon Night 4 PS2 Banpresto 115,701 115,701
7 Pokemon Diamond NDS Nintendo 70,190 1,897,417
8 Jump Ultimate Stars NDS Nintendo 66,269 216,572
9 Odoru Made in Wario [WarioWare: Smooth Moves] Wii Nintendo 63,954 63,954
10 Oshare Majo Love and Berry NDS Sega 60,041 481,268

- Here are the latest Japanese console hardware sales for the week of Nov 27 - Dec 3:

Platform Sales Total
Wii 350,358
DS Lite 176,901
PlayStation 3 31,436
PSP 23,917
PlayStation 2 23,115
Xbox 360 4,053
GBA SP 1,572
GB Micro 1,252
GameCube 821
Nintendo DS 140
GBA 22
Xbox 11

[Julius Seeker]

But not in North America where the DS continues to dominate. Though it seems that Microsoft came up short of their 700K goal for November. It looks like Wii and PS3 cut into its sales. Microsoft lost marketshare vs. Sony, and Nintendo leads the way with 935 million dollars of the 1.7 billion dollars revenue from this November (which is a huge increase over last years 1.3 billion). These are US sales through November 26th as tracked by NPD:

Top Software
1. 360 Gears of War - 1,000,000 / $61.5M
2. PS2 Final Fantasy XII - 896,000 / $49M
3. Wii Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess - 412,000 / $20.2M
4. PS2 Guitar Hero II - 356,000 / $28M

Hardware (by Units)
NDS - 918,000
PS2 - 664,000
GBA - 641,000
360 - 511,000
Wii - 476,000
PSP - 412,000
PS3 - 197,000
Nintendo - 2.1 million
Total - 3.9 million

[Julius Seeker]

Wii release has European record breaking sales for a system launch at 325,000 units sold. DS broke the record for highest selling weekend sales, previously held by... The DS =P

Wii CAME, Wii SAW AND Wii CONQUERED!

325,000 units in two days makes Wii the fastest selling home console in history and DS breaks its own records with 515,000 sold last week.

- Wii sells out across Europe with 325,000 units sold in two days –

13th December 2006 – Wii made its highly anticipated debut across Europe on Friday 8th December, with thousands of people desperate to get their hands on Nintendo’s new console. As the must-have product for the festive season Wii was an instant hit. Attracting vast crowds and selling out in stores all over Europe in just a matter of hours, a breathtaking 325,000 units were sold in the first two days making it the fastest selling home console in history.

Demand for Wii has been so great that shops all over Europe had large queues forming outside for up to three days before the launch and hundreds of shops opened their doors at midnight on launch day to allow gamers to get their hands on Wii. After just one weekend on sale, shops across Europe sold out of Wii consoles and daily shipments are now arriving across Europe to replenish stock.

The Legend of Zelda®: Twilight Princess, proved to be a favourite for avid gamers, with 240,000 copies snapped up over launch weekend in Europe, representing 74% of all hardware purchasers. Wii Play was also a big hit with over 50% of people buying the game (which includes a Wii Remote) along with their Wii console.

Laurent Fischer, Marketing Director for Nintendo Europe commented: “Wii has become an overnight success in Europe with people of all ages rushing out to get their hands on the console. Even at this early stage it is clear that Wii is delivering on its promise to expand the gaming market, with a uniquely diverse audience all keen to experience the sensation for themselves. For those who were unable to buy Wii during the launch weekend, rest assured more stock is already on its way and we are doing everything possible to ensure that a steady supply of Wii units is shipped to stores across Europe throughout December and into 2007."

Commenting on the launch Tim Ellis, Head of Games, HMV UK said: “"The demand for Wii has been truly amazing, and the official launch at our Oxford Street store was one of the biggest events we've ever staged there. HMV has received a huge amount of customer pre-orders - beyond anything we've ever seen before, including from family shoppers as well as dedicated Nintendo gamers. This suggests that while Wii is obviously one of the must-have items this Christmas, it also has the potential to appeal to a huge mainstream audience over the longer-term."

Wii mania in Europe follows the phenomenal success of Nintendo’s console in the Americas and Japan, where over a million units have been sold in just three weeks. In the Americas, where the console launched on the 19th of November, 600,000 consoles were sold in the first 8 days from launch. The Japanese launch saw similar success with around 400,000 units being shipped to stores for launch day and selling out during the first morning on sale. After just a few days of sales in Europe the Wii seems to be achieving similar success.

While Wii enjoyed a hugely successful launch Nintendo DS also had a record-breaking week, with 515,000 units sold across Europe last week, which is not only the highest weeks sales since the console’s launch but also the most any console across all formats has ever sold in a week! Nintendo’s handheld phenomenon has taken Europe by storm since its release in March 2005, with over 8.5 million consoles now sold across Europe.

[Zeus]

I'm getting Wii Play regardless. I hope to hell it comes with a Wiimote

[Julius Seeker]

I'm getting Wii Play regardless. I hope to hell it comes with a Wiimote

It does, But I already have an additional Wiimote (bought one so I could play Wii Sports and stuff at friends places); just no wii as of today =)

I was in line at EB games, they got 8 in, and I was 9th. They expect even more in tomorrow, though he said "we're getting at least 3." So I am going to just quit this BS coming 2 hours before EB opens and go at 4:00 AM tomorrow (6 hours before it opens) =P

I'll have company though, so the wait won't be that bad.

[Julius Seeker]

- Japanese wholesalers reported that approximately 110,000 units of Wii were sold in Japan in the second week after launch, which pushed the installed base to around 460,360 units.

So Nintendo Wii Japan = 460K
Nintendo Wii Europe = 325K
Nintendo Wii North America = 600K
Nintendo Wii total = 1.4 million units

It is more than that, most places around here have doubled and some tripled their launch shipment with subsequent shipments. Though we have to wait for official numbers or sales tracking resources to confirm.

My estimate is that the North American numbers are between 1.1 and 1.3 million at this point in time. The last official statement for this market was over two weeks ago. Wii has likely exceeded 2 million by this point.

[Blotus]

They don't list their sources, but it could be accurate.

http://nexgenwars.com/

[Zeus]

They don't list their sources, but it could be accurate.

http://nexgenwars.com/

Those don't look like they're too far off. For Nintendo (easiest one to track), we know they've sold 600k in US in week 1, 400k in Japan in week 1, 110k in Japan in week 2, and 325k in Europe in Week 1. That's 1.435 million, which means they've sold another 300k or so in the US since the launch? Yeah, I'd believe that. It has been nearly 4 weeks since launch.

On a related note, if Sony only currently has 450k systems out worldwide, how are they gonna hit the 2 million by year end they said they're going to (see my post from today)? If they're on track, that means the PS3 should be rather plentiful in the next couple of weeks, which is great for everyone except for Ebayers :-)

[Julius Seeker]

They don't list their sources, but it could be accurate.

http://nexgenwars.com/

Yeah, I have seen that site, but it is not tracked figures, they are all speculation. The site is mainly in existence for the yahoo ads.

[Zeus]

Hmm, accoring to that site, Nintendo's only sold another 100,000 since last week? Has to be due to the stockpiling for launches around the wold and the lead time to get the supply replenished. That'll mean they'll be substantially below their 4 million worldwide launch figure (assuming what's shipped is generally sold, which is what's going on if you read the reports). About half, give or take (we'll see what the final numbers are at the end of the month; maybe Best Buy and other retailers holding back 'til the week before Xmas skews this). And Sony at 500,000 is going to be barely hit 1/4 of their expected numbers? Wow, that's gotta hurt. Seems like they're diverting some of those diodes to the normal blu-ray players as well.

And Seek, before you even try, I'm assuming they're relatively close based on my post last week.

[Julius Seeker]

That site is fake Zeus.

[Zeus]

That site is fake Zeus.

Proof?

[Julius Seeker]

That site is fake Zeus.

Proof?

It's obviously a yahoo ads scam site. You fell for it.

I will point out that the numbers are nowhere NEAR accurate. They don't cite anything at all. Using the Xbox 360 as an example:

http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/ ... q1_07.mspx

Microsoft confirms that as of OCTOBER 26 2006, Xbox 360 has 6 MILLION sales to date (which in Microsoft terms, includes all units shipped to retail). NPD reported an additional 511K sales during November; that means about 6.5 million. How likely do you think it is that 2.4 million units sold in Europe during that month?

[Zeus]

That site is fake Zeus.

Proof?

It's obviously a yahoo ads scam site. You fell for it.

I will point out that the numbers are nowhere NEAR accurate. They don't cite anything at all. Using the Xbox 360 as an example:

http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/ ... q1_07.mspx

Microsoft confirms that as of OCTOBER 26 2006, Xbox 360 has 6 MILLION sales to date (which in Microsoft terms, includes all units shipped to retail). NPD reported an additional 511K sales during November; that means about 6.5 million. How likely do you think it is that 2.4 million units sold in Europe during that month?

Those are up to the end of September 2006. Those were Microshaft's first quarter numbers (year end is June 30). More support for that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#Sales

So, how likely is it that they've sold 3 million or so worldwide in the last 3 months of the year? I'd say decent chance. They'll still be short of their estimates if that's the case. They're production is relatively high and the demand is pretty solid right now, so there's a good chance.

Like I was sayin' before, they appear to be close in their figures judging by the Wii sales, which we could more easily follow since they're reported every freakin' week. It can be used as a rough estimate rather than a hard figure.

[Julius Seeker]

Well, I guess Zeus isn't going to respond. So I will make an update on sales:

North America: 600,000
Japan: 400,000 + 110,000
Europe: 350,000
Australia: 40,000 units
Total: 1,500,000 units total.

Though I will note that these numbers are indeed way out of date. Officially though, 1.5 million Wii units have sold.

[Zeus]

Well, I guess Zeus isn't going to respond. So I will make an update on sales:

North America: 600,000
Japan: 400,000 + 110,000
Europe: 350,000
Australia: 40,000 units
Total: 1,500,000 units total.

Though I will note that these numbers are indeed way out of date. Officially though, 1.5 million Wii units have sold.

Patience, my young padawan

[Julius Seeker]

Patience, my young padawan

Wait, we were posting at the same time.

Those are up to the end of September 2006. Those were Microshaft's first quarter numbers (year end is June 30). More support for that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#Sales

So, how likely is it that they've sold 3 million or so worldwide in the last 3 months of the year? I'd say decent chance. They'll still be short of their estimates if that's the case. They're production is relatively high and the demand is pretty solid right now, so there's a good chance.

Like I was sayin' before, they appear to be close in their figures judging by the Wii sales, which we could more easily follow since they're reported every freakin' week. It can be used as a rough estimate rather than a hard figure.

Only Japanese sales are updated every week.

According to NPD the 360 sold about 700K during October and November combined. That would bring the total to 6.7 million units, I doubt 2.15 million units have sold in Europe in that period of time. That site is fake. Those Wii numbers are also off.

The site is fake, it is not accurate, its total purpose is to make money off of the yahoo ads.

[Julius Seeker]

Wii sold 108,237 this week for a total of 544,034 in Japan according to Famitsu's sales tracking. Wii Sports has sold over 300K units. DS dominated heavily this week on both hardware and software though, with Wii in a very distant second.

Total numbers are tracked to over 1.6M now.

[Julius Seeker]

Wii sales at 680K in Japan. So that makes a total of 1.63 million according to major sales tracking resources. Of course, the North American numbers have not been updated in 4 weeks now and we only have European launch figures.

Other than that, the DS had gigantic sales in Europe and Japan this month. We'll have to wait on North American numbers, but I am guessing they'll be in the 2 million+ range. In Japan sales have exceeded 14 million, in Europe they have exceeded 10 million, if North American numbers are in the 2 million+ range for December, that puts DS above 35 million WorldWide which would have it remaining as the fastest selling system by far. At this rate, it is currently accomplishing what the PS2 did in under 65% of the time.

[Julius Seeker]

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/165735

Explains the situations of Wii and PS3 and how PS3 in Toronto is NOT selling off the shelves as Zeus claimed it was.

[Zeus]

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/165735

Explains the situations of Wii and PS3 and how PS3 in Toronto is NOT selling off the shelves as Zeus claimed it was.

Seek, you're really going to have to find something that helps, rather than hurts, you when you're trying to prove your point is "correct". It says there that it may take a day to get rid of a PS3, not that they're not moving.

[Julius Seeker]

Japanese Wii numbers for this past week ending on the 24th, from Famitsu:

Wii 279,277 823,311

Wii has about tripled PS3 sales in half the time (Wii has been out for 3 weeks, PS3 for 6).


It looks like, based on these numbers (Japan will get about a million by NYE) that Nintendo has achieved their 4 million shipment promise.

Yesterday's shipment to my local EB Games was actually extremely large considering it was after Christmas, it must have been a late one. It was a shipment of 9 units (all sold out right away still, but at least I didn't have to deal with crazy Christmas shopping parents) which seemed like it should have been a part of that last Christmas Eve of 23rd of December shipment that was probably the largest shipment to date with exception of launch. Lets just say, if you haven't been able to get one yet, the madness has died down, you can probably get one now just showing up at around when the shipments occur (like other not so crazy people our age).

[Julius Seeker]

I am wondering if Nintendo will release precise figures on their VC sales at the end of the quarter? I have seen a lot of sales tracking for forum users at various forums. The top games are almost always the same: Gunstar Heroes, Bonk, and Super Mario 64. Sonic the Hedgehog, surprisingly (considering all the different compilations that game is in now) is also usually up in the top 5 or 6.

I have a feeling Super Castlevania will soon ascend to the #1 position though.


Here is an example from a forum I came across:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=130693
http://www.modojo.com/media/misc/dec29vc.png

[SineSwiper]

What the fuck is Gunstar Heroes?

[Julius Seeker]

What the fuck is Gunstar Heroes?

One of the top Genesis games around the peak of the 16-bit era. If you were a hardcore gamer around that time period, you had that game =)

If you think back just a little bit harder, I am SURE you'll remember it.

[Zeus]

What the fuck is Gunstar Heroes?

Imagine Double Dragon but with more depth. The sequel, Guardian Heroes, actually gets you to fight on three different planes and is one of the most popular Saturn games.

Gunstar Heroes was released 'cause the hardcores freakin' love it. That's how we got Gunstar Super Heroes and Advance Guardian Heroes for the GBA

[Lox]

I wouldn't call it Double Dragon-like. It feels more like Contra to me, but with crazy action all over the place.

It's really fun. I never owned it for the Genesis so I bought it now.

[Julius Seeker]

Preliminary numbers are coming in between 1.8 and 2.1 million for the North American market. The official NPD numbers won't be in for a couple of weeks. This would put Wii sales up to over three million units considering European launch figures and current Japanese figures. Add in this last week for Japanese figures (which will be posted soon) and whatever the European sales for the rest of December might be, and the numbers will be around 4 million; which was what Nintendo claimed it would be shipping.

[Nev]

(sucking sounds as Seek deep-throats a Nintendo executive's nuts)

[Julius Seeker]

(sucking sounds as Seek deep-throats a Nintendo executive's nuts)

I thought I was posting on a gaming messageboard you dimwit.

[Eric]

(sucking sounds as Seek deep-throats a Nintendo executive's nuts)

I thought I was posting on a gaming messageboard you dimwit.

Then get your mouth off their nuts damnit!

Though official NPD Group numbers haven't been released, market analysts at IDC told CNBC their preliminary results suggest Xbox 360 sold roughly 2 million units over the holiday season, with Wii trailing behind at 1.8 million machines. Picking up an Xbox 360, however, was no problem. Wii? You had to wait for hours every week following the launch in order to find one. Even then, it was no guarantee.

While more Wiis would have likely allowed Nintendo to topple Microsoft in the Christmas war, Sony's own problems left them out of the race entirely; IDC estimates only 750,000 machines were circulated.

As more machines appear on shelves and supply reaches demand, however, the real litmus test for next-generation supremacy begins. Could I be a little more melodramatic?

[Julius Seeker]

(sucking sounds as Seek deep-throats a Nintendo executive's nuts)

I thought I was posting on a gaming messageboard you dimwit.

Then get your mouth off their nuts damnit!

My mouth is no more on a company's nuts than yours is on Nev's cock.

[Eric]

I thought I was posting on a gaming messageboard you dimwit.

Then get your mouth off their nuts damnit!

My mouth is no more on a company's nuts than yours is on Nev's cock.

You have love juice on your cheek!

[Julius Seeker]

You have love juice on your cheek!

*spinkicks Eric in the teeth*

[Eric]

You have love juice on your cheek!

*spinkicks Eric in the teeth*

;p

[Julius Seeker]

Here are numbers from Enterbrain on the Japanese market. It looks like Wii is seeing a good launch, but DS continues to heavily dominate the charts having most of the chart positions (followed by Wii which has 4 games on the charts); Brain Training 2, New Super Mario Brothers, Pokemon DS, and Animal Crossing have all passed the 4 million mark. Also, Enix expects to sell over 5 million copies of Dragon Quest 9 in Japan alone.

1 Dragon Quest Monsters Joker - 641,250
2 Pokemon Diamond / Pearl DS - 139,500 (4,496,750)
3 Wii Sports - 104,750 (589,000)
4 Wii Play - 84,500 (534,750)
5 New Super Mario Bros - 83,250 (4,013,750)
6 Common Knowledge Training DS - 74,000 (1,033,000)
7 Brain Training 2 DS - 69,500 (3,986,500)
8 Seiken Densetsu 4 - 62,000 (218,000)
9 Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops - 56,250 (209,500)
10 Animal Crossing: Wild World - 53,500 (4,044,500)
11 Kirby Squeak Squad - 52,750 (789,750)
12 Jump Ultimate Stars - 51,750 (561,250)
14 Love and Berry DS Collection - 48,500 (801,000)
15 Rockman Star Force - 46,750 (249,250)
16 Wario Ware Smooth Moves - 41,250 (205,250)
17 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 34,750 (292,000)
18 Mario Kart DS 33,000 (2,024,000)
20 Brain Training (30,750 3,273,250)

DS - 294,750
14,239,250
Wii - 181,250
1,040,250



As far as total Japanese sales go, these are all the games that have sold over 4 million copies in Japan according to VGcharts:

Pokemon Red / Blue / Green GB Nintendo 10.23
Pokemon Gold / Silver GB Nintendo 7.21
Super Mario Bros NES Nintendo 6.81
Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire GBA Nintendo 5.34
Pokemon Diamond / Pearl DS Nintendo 4.82
Tetris GB Nintendo 4.24
Super Mario Land GB Nintendo 4.19
Animal Crossing: Wild World DS Nintendo 4.18
New Super Mario Bros DS Nintendo 4.15
Dragon Quest VII PS Enix 4.12
Brain Training 2 DS Nintendo 4.02

These are the total console sales according to VGcharts:

Xbox 360:
0.32m Japan
5.38m Americas
2.64m Others
8.34m Total

Nintendo Wii:
1.20m Japan
1.86m Americas
0.94m Others
4.00m Total

Sony PS3:
0.55m Japan
0.86m Americas
0.00m Others
1.41m Total

Nintendo DS:
14.62m Japan
10.74m Americas
10.98m Others
36.34m Total

Sony PSP:
4.96m Japan
7.49m Americas
7.45m Others
19.90m Total

[kali o.]

NPD Dec (US only of course)


NDS 1.6 million / 9.2 million
PSP 953.2 K / 6.7 million
GBA 850.7 K / 35.1 million
Overall, though, portable hardware sales were still down 5.7 percent year-over-year in December and essentially flat on an annual basis.


PS2 1.4 million / 37.1 million
Xbox 360 1.1 million / 4.5 million
Wii 604.2 K / 1.1 million
PS3 490.7 K / 687.3 K

[kali o.]

btw - I should point out this data does not support the data Seeker provides from VGCharts (always been my view they inflate Nintendo numbers), unless one makes the following jump in logic:

- Nintendo allocated ~65% of base US units to "other Americas"
- Sony allocated ~25%
- MS, who has recieved media print to just how well they have done in Canada, for example, allocated 19%

Bullshit. VGCharts is a junky site.

[Julius Seeker]

REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 11, 2007 – There has never been anything like it. Independent U.S. sales figures released by the NPD Group today confirmed a red-hot launch for the new Wii™ system by Nintendo, and the crowning of the portable Nintendo DS™ as the best-selling video game device of any type for both the holidays and all of 2006.

Along with stunning success for The Legend of Zelda®: Twilight Princess and historic sales of accessories, including more than 1.5 million extra controllers for Wii alone, Nintendo recorded the most successful across-the-board holiday performance in U.S. video game history.

Among key results:

* Consumers purchased every Wii console available at retail—more than a million in just the 44 days between U.S. launch and year end.
* With sales of another 1.6 million systems in December alone, Nintendo DS achieved full year sell-through of 5.3 million.
* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was purchased by an extraordinary 86 percent of Wii buyers, or more than 900,000 games for that system alone. Coupled with the companion version released in December for Nintendo GameCube™, the two versions of the newest Zelda title totaled approximately 1.5 million unit sales in less than seven weeks, which would represent one of the five best-selling games for the entire year.
* Wii owners also purchased an average of three additional games from a wide library of choices, in addition to the Wii Sports title packed in with every hardware system.
* Two Nintendo DS titles, New Super Mario Bros.® and Brain Age™: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day, also were top-10 sellers for the year.
* Throughout the November/December holiday shopping period, Nintendo accounted for more than half of all video game hardware systems sold in America.
Earlier this week, Nintendo increased its projected worldwide financial performance for the year ending on March 31 to be the best in company history.

“Millions of players, both hard-core and brand-new, are already enjoying the unique entertainment provided by Wii, but demand for the system remains incredibly high," says Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. “So our work is just beginning. We're dedicating ourselves to maximizing both manufacturing and distribution full bore throughout 2007, to make sure everyone who wants to experience the future of video gaming can do so just as soon as possible."

The momentum behind Wii will continue unabated through the early weeks of 2007, with retail debuts of WarioWare™: Smooth Moves, Wii Play™ and Mario Party® 8 from Nintendo; a host of third-party releases; and a steady stream of classic games made available via download with the Wii Shop Channel.

[Julius Seeker]

NPD posted a correction (they were off big time with software numbers):

[UPDATE 10:30am PST] The NPD Group has sent a correction to its top 10 best all platform software sellers for the month of December.

December's monthly top all-platform seller was Electronic Arts' Madden NFL 07, with 1.9 million unit sales, followed by the combined Wii and Gamecube results for Zelda, at 1.5 million. Activision's Call of Duty 3 and THQ's Cars came in third and fourth, at 1.1 million and 874k respectively, followed by another Electronic Arts hit, with Need for Speed: Carbon at 871k units sold.

Source: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_i ... tory=12375

[Julius Seeker]

Some updates:

The IEAA has released data on console hardware sales in Australia in the fourth quarter of 2006, with its main finding being that the Wii's three weeks of 2006 sales already beat out the whole three months of the Xbox 360's first Holiday season.

Games analyst Daniel Morse has released quarterly figures that show Nintendo sold 51,744 Wiis in the quarter, with the 360 trailing at 45,036 sold from the beginning of October through the end of December.

Source: http://palgn.com.au/article.php?title=F ... 40d701ea1b


Japanese weekly sales from famitsu

January 8 - 14, 2007
Wii - 93,708
DSL - 89,287
PSP - 48,804
PS3 - 25,531
PS2 - 22,663
X360 - 9,035
GBM - 1,959
GBASP - 1,547
GameCube - 611
GBA - 79
DS - 41

January 8 - 14, 2007
1. 61,399 - Wii Sports (Wii)
2. 55,180 - Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (DS)
3. 54,578 - Wii Play (Wii)
4. 35,819 - Common Sense Training (DS)
5. 34,628 - New Super Mario Bros. (DS)
6. 32,865 - Brain Training 2 (DS)
7. 32,864 - Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)
8. 28,152 - Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (PSP)
9. 22,982 - Pokémon Diamond (DS)
10. 22,640 - Mario Kart (DS)

Curious as to why DS hardware sales have gone down so much when compared to all of last year. Perhaps everyone in Japan already has one? =P I am not sure, it is either that or the anticipation of a possible Dragon Quest DS version coming out later in the year, which is what they did with Final Fantasy; though Dragon Quest is MUCH bigger in Japan than any other game series.

According to Nintendo, DS has exceeded 10 million sales in Europe continuing as the fastest selling piece of hardware in the history of the continent since its launch. The top selling game is Nintendogs with over 5 million sales. Since Wii follows a similar (and highly successful) philosophy as the DS, it will be interesting to see if Wii can actually beat DS sales by this time in 1 year and 10 months. Wii seems to be off on a stronger foot than the DS was during its launch window; selling at a blazing speed out of the starting gate.


CANADIAN SALES:

Wii sold 84,000 in its first six weeks in Canada. It is constantly sold out still, Nintendo needs to ship WAY more units to the country.

"It was all supply," said Ryce. "In both cases, if there had been a higher level of inventory out there, they definitely would have sold more. These were the two hottest need-to-find kind of articles for Christmas this year.

"Everybody was talking about them."

Top selling games were NHL 2007 and New Super Mario Brothers, and aside from Gears of War and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the other top selling games were all DS and PS2. 933 million was spent on videogames total, which is a record.

Source: http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=39516

[Zeus]

It's a couple weeks after Xmas. Likely a combination of a shortage of new games, people's money, and hardware availability. January's traditionally a bit slow due to all these factors anyways (this is why EB's year end is January, so they can get their books in order during a slow time). Just wait and see in a month

[bovine]

How come no one is talking about how great warioware is?

[Julius Seeker]

Nintendo released financial reports.

The first three quarters of the 2007 fiscal year broke the annual record for the company.

Sales in that 9 month period:

17.5 million units of Wii software
18.8 million DS hardware in the last nine months, bringing DS sales to 35.6 million worldwide
and 93.8 million DS games in the last nine months
19 software titles for Nintendo systems launched in the period exceeded a million sales: 3 Wii titles, 3 GBA titles, and 13 DS titles.

In addition, Nintendo manufactured 4 million Wii hardware units by the end of December, and shipped 3.2 million of them. 1.5 million Virtual Console titles sold.

Nintendo maintains that it will ship at least 6 million units by the end of the fiscal year. Net sales were up 72.8% and operating income was up 102.5% from the same time period last year. Profits exceed 1 billion USD.

[Julius Seeker]

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9078/1092/

Wii at 4.5 million worldwide. That's about 1.3 million units sold worldwide in January. Considerably less than December (which had about double that), but that's to be expected due to hardware production.

January 15 - 21, 2007
DSL - 127,647
Wii - 86,395
PSP - 37,032
PS3 - 21,105
PS2 - 20,169
X360 - 7,041
GBM - 1,864
GBASP - 1,498
GameCube - 554
DS - 123
GBA - 94


DS picks up a little steam in Japan. PS3 continues its downward slide. It is barely selling double Xbox 360 now.

Also according to IGN, Microsoft has lowered their fiscal year shipment forcast from 15 million to 12 million. Microsoft's Fiscal year ends at the end of June. Peter Moore says that Microsoft will focus on selling out the large number of Xbox 360's to consumers; Microsoft has shipped 10.4 million Xbox 360's and has sold 8.1 million. Peter Moore also said that he feels that he is not worried about Wii or PS3. He feels that Wii and Xbox 360 are unique enough that gamers can enjoy both systems (Not new news, Peter Moore was the originator of the "Wii360" concept when he said it would be better to buy a Wii and 360 instead of a PS3). On the PS3, he says that Sony demonstrated in short "how to totally fuck up a system launch." Moore feels that Microsoft has nothing to learn from Sony, and that it is obvious now that Microsoft is going to be the winner between the two.

Peter Moore also commented on Japan, saying that the Japanese market is hard, but that Microsoft is making progress in that market. Gears of War recently hit the top 10 charts in Japan, Blue Dragon also hit charts earlier.

Next Gen has an interview with Dave Karraker of Sony. Sony believes that PS3 will dominate the market, that the reason why Wii has sold so much is because people are making impulse buys when they see the system. He says he believes that not much software will sell on the Wii as a result of this.

Of course, Sony is ignoring the fact that people line up daily outside of stores hours before they open, on order to get a Wii (contradicts the "Impulse buy" claim). And also contradicts the already highly successful VC and software sales (17.5 million software units sold and 1.5 million VC titles sold. That is approximately 4.3 games per system after 2 months). Not to mention that Sony is also ignoring the almost universal negative press the PS3 has been receiving worldwide.

In addition Sony also confirmed that they have no plan to make an economy model of the PS3, that Blu Ray is a part of the PS3 strategy, and that PS3 cannot be looked at as just a gaming system (despight the fact that everyone does). No mention of the Xbox 360 was made by the Sony rep.

I think Microsoft's scenario is most likely, Wii and Xbox 360 selling well alongside one and other without directly harming each others sales. Microoft and Nintendo have a fairly healthy relationship with the DS.

Nintendo's comments are posted above, they mainly just focussed on their huge recent successes.

[kali o.]

The amount of spin and deceptively linked facts-to-speculation is actually pretty impressive. I'm serious.

Luckily, the Shrine archives go way back...so I can re-read the GC launch and pre-launch era where you actually did the same thing; exaggerate every Nintendo number (sales, attach rate, the amount of people with broadband, etc) you can find and blantantly lie about the amount of 3rd party support.

Truthfully, it's really really neat - I just genuinely wonder whether you believe anyone takes you seriously with the histroic amount of spin you put on everything...?

On a related note - I was surprised to find, through archive reading, Oracle was a massive Nintendo shaft rider as well. I'm now in agreement with others here, Canadians are dumb as shit

[Oracle]

I'm, uh, what?

I know back in the day I defended the GC pretty heavily since it was the system I had the most fun with (I always had friends over playing SSBM, Mario Cart, etc). I like my Wii and DS, sure. They get lots of use.

I'm a Nintendo fan, but I won't defend them to the death if they fuck up (for example, the N64 is the only Nintendo system besides virtual boy that I haven't owned). Numbers and shit hold little interest to me. As long as I purchased a product I like, who cares?

I'll be the first to admit that it's pretty frustrating to wait for games to trickle in any time Nintendo has a new system release. It was especially bad for the GC. I hope the same thing doesn't end up happening for the Wii.

[Flip]

Nintendo has done well appealing to the non-gamers, thats very true. And that is a market way bigger than actual gamers.

Everyone i know who doesnt play games wants a wii, which turns me off immediately.

Its a system for the masses, not the hardcores.

[kali o.]

I'm, uh, what?

I know back in the day I defended the GC pretty heavily since it was the system I had the most fun with (I always had friends over playing SSBM, Mario Cart, etc). I like my Wii and DS, sure. They get lots of use.

I'm a Nintendo fan, but I won't defend them to the death if they fuck up (for example, the N64 is the only Nintendo system besides virtual boy that I haven't owned). Numbers and shit hold little interest to me. As long as I purchased a product I like, who cares?

I'll be the first to admit that it's pretty frustrating to wait for games to trickle in any time Nintendo has a new system release. It was especially bad for the GC. I hope the same thing doesn't end up happening for the Wii.

I was reading archived posts yesterday and came across some pretty blantant spin, exaggeration and trolling (the Xbox) from you. Of course I don't care, I just found it interesting that I completely forgot about it.

You should read the archives sometime - it's pretty damn entertaining. It's a real shame they don't go back further and all that other stuff is lost forever.

[Oracle]

I actually do go back in the archives a fair bit. I just find it hard to sort through all the shit sometimes.