Nintendo demonstrates massive US sales power
Huge sales Stateside – Money pit swelled
Nintendo has announced record figures for the Thanksgiving period in the US, with consumers snapping up an incredible amount of hardware coast-to-coast.
DS sales saw, according to the firm, a 90% sell-through rate with current estimates claiming around 500,000 units sold.
Game Boy Advance sold through 800,000 hardware units, another massive slew of sales. Not software attach rates were offered.
Over to Reggie:
"Consumers have voted the Nintendo DS as the hot item this holiday, so if you see one, you'd better buy it," says Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales & marketing. "Nintendo owns the hand-held market, and once again we're the hit of the holiday season."
Fair enough.
DS sales saw, according to the firm, a 90% sell-through rate with current estimates claiming around 500,000 units sold.
Game Boy Advance sold through 800,000 hardware units, another massive slew of sales. Not software attach rates were offered.
Over to Reggie:
"Consumers have voted the Nintendo DS as the hot item this holiday, so if you see one, you'd better buy it," says Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales & marketing. "Nintendo owns the hand-held market, and once again we're the hit of the holiday season."
Fair enough.
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saurian 1 Dec 2004 15:06
1/9
And dont forget the 32 GameCubes !!!
LUPOS 1 Dec 2004 15:20
2/9
saurian wrote:
And dont forget the 32 GameCubes !!!
Hey! I have a game cube and i love it... i play games on it all the time like... uh... hmmm... ok so i havent turned it on in like two months(ans that was to play monkey ball two)... it still looks very nice on the entertainment center (i.e. the floor next to my tv stand). The funniest thing about the ds is it has the best metroid game going right now(imo), i can't stand the controls on the cube but the ds actully has really good controls with the thumb thing(for metroid that is, its almost painfull playing mario 64 without the analog stick). i would actully play that game if i had any free time where i wasnt near a tv. unfortunatly i cant play while driving to work in the morning, thats aparently illegal or or dangerous or something, stupid cops!
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Joji 1 Dec 2004 16:30
3/9
Looks like the idea for the thanksgiving launch paid off. Good luck to Nintendo.
PSP sales in japan should prove interesting reading this month too. Don't see Sony overtaking DS until in the new year, very early days though in this handheld war and a long way to go before there is a clear victor.
PSP sales in japan should prove interesting reading this month too. Don't see Sony overtaking DS until in the new year, very early days though in this handheld war and a long way to go before there is a clear victor.
Ditto 1 Dec 2004 16:39
4/9
I tend to play games in short intensive bursts. mainly because I just don't have time to play them continually.
Brown Force 1 Dec 2004 17:07
5/9
Well this is good news for Nintendo. Unfortunatly its bad news for me as I've got to wait until 15th December to get mine! Grrr its not fair :(.
Not sure who is going to win the war really. Sony has the style and hype...but Nintendo have the Gameplay and price rapped up. Going to be close.
Not sure who is going to win the war really. Sony has the style and hype...but Nintendo have the Gameplay and price rapped up. Going to be close.
Pandaman 1 Dec 2004 23:40
6/9
Forgot to mention that the Mario Kart bundle has sold about 250,000 since it came out in mid November.
nintendoblows 3 Dec 2004 03:26
7/9
Nintendo is a total joke. All their products after the NES and SNES were trash. The DS is such a cheap, poorly designed system it isn't even funny. The pitiful selection of launch games are laughable, and the second screen is worthless. What were these people thinking? I wouldn't believe their sales hype, SPONG should look for objective 3rd party sales figures to find out the real truth. The reality is that this system will fizzle in much the same way that the ridiculout Virtual Boy did, and once the PSP launches, it will be dead. Luckily it can play older GBA games so it isn't totally useless, but they should have used their brains and designed it with a single, larger (and higher quality/resolution) screen, and dropped the stupid second screen.
OVERALL: Total joke system, doomed to certain failure in the near future.
OVERALL: Total joke system, doomed to certain failure in the near future.
kid_77 3 Dec 2004 09:41
8/9
So you're undecided on the DS v PSP battle, then?
config 3 Dec 2004 10:55
9/9
kid_77 wrote:
So you're undecided on the DS v PSP battle, then?
LOL