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Japan retailers report big DS preorders

Posted by Dice on 23 October 2004 - 00:39 · 16 comments & 1667 views

On preorders alone, the Nintendo DS is the third best-selling system in Japan this week.

The Nintendo DS is the third best-selling video game console for the week of October 11-17, Nikkei BP Consulting reports today. Of course, the machine isn't out until December 2 in Japan, but electronics retailers are including preorders for the system in their sales calculations.

First place in this week's chart went to Nintendo's other handheld, the Game Boy Advance SP. The standard PlayStation 2 hardware was ranked at second place, and fourth place was taken by preorders for the upcoming redesigned version of the PS2. The Nintendo GameCube came in at fifth place.

News source: GameSpot

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Outside of those two stand-out titles, however, it's a quiet week for the Japanese market, with no other games breaking through the 10,000 sales mark, and overall sales down by almost 40 per cent from last week to just under 500,000 units.

Nintendo's recent releases continue to sell fairly well, with Pokemon Emerald at number three and Fire Emblem: Seima no Kouseki at number four, while Bandai's anime franchises are also still ranked highly - Naruto: Narutimate Hero 2 is at number five, while Gundam SEED: Never Ending Tomorrow is at six.

In hardware terms, the GBA is once again the best selling platform on the market, enjoying a massive 57 per cent market share compared to 36 per cent for the PlayStation 2, while the GameCube makes up the remaining seven per cent.

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#1 Posted by frogworm on 23 Oct 2004 - 01:07: and nowhere to mention is Xbox .... Japan is just mad because America is taking part of the industry created by Atari back.

Ok, i will add that i want a Nintendo DS

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#2 Posted by SeMz... on 23 Oct 2004 - 01:45: come on gamecube you can do better

#3 Posted by Mav Phoenix on 23 Oct 2004 - 04:17: The DS looks to be great.

(4 replies) #4 Posted by thenewbf on 23 Oct 2004 - 04:41: *chants* PSP! PSP! PSP!

#5 Posted by knight1 on 23 Oct 2004 - 08:02: I think im going to get it. Im getting bored with the same old thing from video game companys. It's time for something a little diferent.

#6 Posted by nitin jadhav on 23 Oct 2004 - 16:56: you ****

(2 replies) #7 Posted by ABC½ on 23 Oct 2004 - 18:19

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Of course, the machine isn't out until December 2 in Japan

WHAT? I thought it was going to be out on November 21th in the US?

ABC and a half!

#7.1 Posted by Glatz on 23 Oct 2004 - 19:12: Thats why it says in japan.

#7.2 Posted by Mav Phoenix on 23 Oct 2004 - 21:47: Wow I didn't think someone could be that slow.

#8 Posted by S7R1K3R on 23 Oct 2004 - 23:35: LOL

#9 Posted by 1337.h4x0r on 24 Oct 2004 - 20:19

#10 Posted by Albert on 25 Oct 2004 - 09:29: I hope this encourage Sony to put PS Portable out of its pre-mature miseries - short pattery life, lousy launch titles, etc does not a great portable platform make.

Nintendo has always understand the limitation and advantages of their portable platform, and the significance of launch titles - I guess it is too hard to expect developers to realized that direct port (or cut-down versions) of console titles always spell a quick and painful death for their platform.

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