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Monthly US Sales (June 2006) - Holy DS, Batman! |
Listed in: News Tags: Canada, GameCube, GBA, Microsoft, PS2, Super Mario
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For those who want to compare the last month or two with this month, check out our numbers for March, April, and May! Anyway, the sales numbers for the month of June 2006 in the United States of America are in and as Satoru Iwata once said, "You will say WOW!" Of course, he wasn't talking about this, but that's what I want to say anyway. The DS, spurred on by the launch of the DS Lite, made a killing this month. I'll let the numbers speak for themselves before going in-depth. They are from a subscriber of the NPD marketing group who are the most trusted sales tracking organization in North America.NDS - 593,000
PS2 - 312,000
360 - 277,000
PSP - 221,000
GBA - 189,000
GCN - 51,000
XBX - 24,000
In the USA, the Xbox 360 has now finally reached 2 million units sold. This is something they'd likely have reached long ago if it weren't for the initial launch shortages. The PlayStation 2 is its biggest competitor right now. It's the only next-generation system out so it has no real competitors yet. The Wii and PS3 will change that this fall. At the moment, Microsoft is just trying to hit maybe 6 million sold for a good headstart. It's likely at 3 million worldwide (Canada + PAL Regions + Ja... OK, Canada + PAL Regions). They'll be trying to capitalize on PS3 and Wii shortages this holiday season.
GameCube and Xbox are dead systems. I'm pretty sure neither Nintendo nor Microsoft cares about the current generation anymore and are both hoping that next-gen will be different. The GameCube does have a few exclusive hits left in Super Paper Mario and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess but they've basically moved on. The Xbox only has multiplatform titles left. Neither system has the staying power of the PS2 which should sell well even after the PS3 comes out.
The GBA refuses to die even though its successor has been out for around 20 months now. The cheap price tag must attract parents when they're searching for something for their kids. The more interesting battle is between the DS and the PSP. The PSP has been selling more than the DS for months now and they were at around the same number sold, but this month put the DS back up front. Currently the DS is at around 5.2 million units sold in the US with the PSP trailing closely behind at roughly 4.5 million units sold. The DS Lite put sales higher than anything people had predicted and software sales boomed as a result.
New Super Mario Bros. was the best-selling game of the month with about 450,000. The second best selling game of the month was the PS2 port of the PSP title Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories selling roughly 400,000. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day sold over 200,000 copies. It has sold more in the USA than it did in Japan in the same time frame! 7 PS2 titles, 3 DS titles, 1 360 title, 1 GBA title, 1 GCN title, 0 Xbox titles, and 0 PSP titles sold over 100,000 last month.
Note: NPD Numbers are only available to members.
Via NPD Funworld
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DS for the WIN!!!
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and besides, I'd been wanting a DS for quite some time so I could hack it too... cant wait for that
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I've played the new super mario, its great and all...but I just wish Nintendo would focus more on new things...instead of milking Mario 100% of the time....Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Mario This Mario That....
I know its thier main selling point and all...but to me, it feels like I'm playing the some mini game half the time...
oh well tahts my opinon
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Mario is re-hashed a lot, I agree. And I fully believe, one day, the PSP will have some games that are truly fantastic, but for now I fully believe the DS has the best. Head over to ds.qj.net and check out the video for Final Fantasy on the DS. That is one fantastic looking game.
I also agree Loco Roco will be great, but it it not going to turn things around for the PSP. In fact all this talk of Sony dropping UMD movies isn't going to help either.
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FF3 is coming soon...can't wait for that!
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It always has must have games around the corner currently im gonna get when they come out
Starfox
Final fantasy 3
Mario HOOPs
I cant wait!!!
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for me, it just shows the power of the brand "Playstation". i might get labelled a fanboy for all this and to be honest i don't give 2 hoots, at the end of the day the ps2 is still far outselling the 360, not just in the US, but in my home nation UK.
i agree with no.16, the GP2X is for me a more superior machine to both nintendo's ds and sony's psp, yet it just goes to show if you dont have a big global name in gaming, you aint going to get that far (gizmondo, while i played it and thought it was a great machine, did f**k all in the uk).
People forget that Sony have been rather brave to enter the handheld gaming arena, knowing how Nintendo have dominated that field for so many years now. And the PSP has sold well, just because it hasn't sold to the heights of the DS doesn't make it a failure. I agree the UMD format for films didn't work, not that it wasn't a good idea, but pricing them the same as DVD's was never going to take off. I am also quite suprised Sony didnt come out with either a) an official add on to take video and sound to a tv set or b) released a stand-alone umd player too. at least with either of those, coupled with the price being cheaper than dvd, would have seen the umd format gain some decent ground.
The only problems i see with nintendo ds are that unless you like mario or puzzles, there isnt a WIDE range of great games (Nintendogs was good for 5mins, apart from that i haven't played much that has woo'd me) and that they keep bringing different versions of handheld consoles out. People always blame Sony for being robbing people with their slimline consoles and silver versions etc, yet its ok for ninty to give us pink, silver, black coloured ds's, then release a ds lite which is meant to be slightly better than the normal ds, and not forgetting that they did the same with all previous gameboys.
perosnally, all consoles *****ing rule!! i just love games. i don't side with a company and say everything else is *****, so longs the game rocks i couldn't care less what machine its put on
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It's unfair to expect the PSP to sell anywhere near the DS though as it's much more expensive. The DS will always sell more because of the price. And with the brain games contributing to the DS' wider appeal I suspect the gap can only widen.
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About the typo, sorry, I worded it badly. I meant that PS2 iis the one that could be considered the 360's current competitors, however, 360 won't have a real competitor until PS3 and Wii. For now, PS2's just a placeholder for those systems.
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when the ps3 gets released with 2-3 mil units available at launch, they will sell it all and be king!!! ps3 FTW!!
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...whoa... that's crazy.
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I have been now forced to pay nintendo to screw me just so I can get what should have been the product from the first place. No wonder the Lite did so good this month, most of us losers were forced into it.
F-U Nintendo, how about next time you don't make me buy Two consoles. You know, the PSP is looking pretty Sexy right about now.
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that means your $400 console transforms from a long-term investment to a one time only junk.
now do you wana pay more for longer term payoff?
or do you want to just play now and forget about the future.
I'm waiting to see which will payoff:D
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the 360 isnt selling at all...
the ds is selling a lot...
i find it sad that microsoft cant beat the "last gen" system from their biggest competitor
just wait until the ps3 comes out
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Do you know how many games are still to be released??? GTA was nothing comparing to the games that WILL come.
Games like: GTA Vice City Stories, Silent Hill Origins, Tekken DR, Jak, Resident Evil (maybe a portable Outbreak), Crash Bandicoot, Mortal Kombat Unchained, Gran Turismo, Loco Roco, God Of War (maybe II or III) or EVEN Soul Calibur IV.
PLUS the PSOne emulator, which will add some thousands of games in the PSP Scene (including Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Star Ocean, Grandia, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Crash Bandicoot, Tekken, Gran Turismo, Parasite Eve, Dino Crisis, Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat, Tales Of... and thousands of other games).
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Super Mario brosthers CREATED the side scrolling adventure game. and in the 20 since nintendo has 5 side scrolling mario games.
The same mario franchise then INVENTED the 3D adventure and nintendo has made only 2 of those in the last 10 years.
The mario franchise also PIONEERED the kart racing genre 5 games across 5 different systems in 15 years
Add to that the "Party" game which is now a staple of every game system. Nintendo has done 7 of those and yes that is too many but nintendo invented that genre as well.
That's 4 different genres that for the most part didn't exist until nintendo and mario led the way. How did nintendo create entirely new genre's if they're just the same old sequels?
On top of that nintendo has also created mario games in established genres. Paper Mario is nintendo's own take on RPG's. Smash brothers is a very unique fighting game.
Saying "nintendo just makes mario games" is like saying "GM just makes cars" GM makes sports cars, luxury cars, SUV's. minivans, economy cars, etc. There are an equal variety of mario games.
Look at super mario strikers, if nintendo had taken out the mario characters and replaced them with generic toons and called it "nintendo soccer" would that have made the game better? would the game be more playable? These are meant to be fun sports games as opposed to EA's real sports games which EA unquestionably dominate the market.
And none of this addresses the fact that nintendo is constantly creating new franchises. animal crossing, pikmin, nintendogs These are nintendo's greatest hits and no one but nintendo has the guts to try games as different as these. And how many of these games ever get bad reviews? can anyone cite a first party nintendo game that ever got a bad review anywhere? I bet you can't name two.
First party game development is way more lucrative than 3rd party because your profiting from the game and not just making a license fee. Executives at both microsoft and sony would happily trade first born children for nintendo's first party game development resources.
Take nintendo's so called "endless sequels" put them together and you have an amazingly varied and complete library covering almost every genre from fps shooter (metroid) to adventure (mario and zelda) puzzle (tetris and pikmin) RPG's (Mario and Pokemon) social games (nintendogs and animal crossing) to sports and racing games (again Mario) and most of these games are stand outs in their respective genres especially in the playability department.
Nintendo is still in business and unlike the competition they're turning a profit AND not laying off masses of employees. they must be doing something right.
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all nintendo is doing right nowadays is appealing to a young audience
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If the DSLite had mp3 playback right of the box I'd say good bye to my PSP.
I was a PS fan for sometime, and I still play my PSOne, but now i'm seriously considering moving to Nintendo.
It appears they are doing things right this time around.
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by yoshinatsu
"Games like: GTA Vice City Stories, Silent Hill Origins, Tekken DR, Jak, Resident Evil (maybe a portable Outbreak), Crash Bandicoot, Mortal Kombat Unchained, Gran Turismo, Loco Roco, God Of War (maybe II or III) or EVEN Soul Calibur IV."
GTA:VCS Well, lets take a look here: GTA:LCS was buggy, played and looked worse than the 5 year old game it was based on, and the control was terrible. Once the "cool factor" of playing GTA3 on the go was gone, the glitchy and buggy game mechanics were unignorable.
Silent Hill Origins: isn't that a comic book?
Tekken: port (jerky gameplay in all of its releases anyway)
Jak: mario clone (hopefully its atleast before he got a goatee and became a jerk. He'd also drop a few 4 letter words to sound cool. As we all know, saying "damn" is a measure of coolness. Badditude can ruin a good series. See the last 2 Prince of Persia games.)
Resident Evil: Was this anounced? Outbreak = "Resident Evil : White Noise."
Crash: Naugty Dog doesn't make em anymore.
Mortal Kombat: I hope that was a joke...
Gran Turismo: Well I guess if it still offers something new for you.
Locoroco: That looks pretty cool.
God Of War: I never heard that GoW was coming out for PSP. Is there a reliable source or an early preview?
Soul Calibur IV: Sorry don't think that this was ever anounced, or even rumored, for that matter. Besides, given the timing, I'd say that the odds are that the next soul calibur would be next gen anyways.
*Please only post about factual games please*
And not a mention of Lumines II: you invented some games yet you forgot this?
When I look at the PSP I see two good games lumines and loco roco. Neither of which are ports. Both lumines and loco roco are original properties. They are aren't sequels, spin offs, ports of games that exist elsewere. If sony wants to truely challenge ninty in the portable market, its gonna take more ps2 ports and sequels to do that.
Oh and I wouldn't get to excited about sony's PS1 emulator. You have to buy each game not the emulator, or in some cases, rebuying games you already own for PS1.
Oh and as for the Homebrew PS1 emulator, if programmers can't get some snes games working (yoshi's island, tetris attack...), how on earth can they get PS1 working?
PSP will lead us into the handheld gaming ghetto.
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