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Nintendo DS Selling like Wildfire around the world
Trauma-san:
Yesterday, Nintendo upped it's projected sales figures for the Nintendo DS, for a second time... this thing is surpassing all sales expectations. It was originally slated to sell 3.5 million copies by March, then was upped to 4 million copies, and yesterday, they raised estimates to 5 million copies. Also, they raised estimates on their gameboy advance, which is expected to sell 16 million copies by March. Profit margins are triple what they were last year.
On thanksgiving weekend alone, Nintendo sold 500 THOUSAND DS systems in America alone, which represents 90% of all the units available for sale, in the U.S. They expect to sell 1 million systems in America alone by Christmas (1 month)... by contrast, it took the apple Ipod 19 months to sell 1 million pieces.
They also sold 800,000 gameboy advance systems in the past week, and in the past 2 weeks, have sold 250,000 gamecubes, a system that has been out for several years now.
WOW, WHAT A FLOP!!!
Shallow:
I never doubted it would be an initial success. The question that remains is can it last? Nintendo is still fight for 3 rd in a 3 company race. Big deal. Playstation 2 is at about 80 million units world wide, while the original Playstation broke the 100 million mark. I don't care for Sony, but they're way ahead. I can never see Nintendo passing Sony, and for XBox to do it they'd have to come up with a set of killer exclusive games.
E. J. Rizo:
--- Quote from: Trauma on December 01, 2004, 08:01:18 AM ---Yesterday, Nintendo upped it's projected sales figures for the Nintendo DS, for a second time... this thing is surpassing all sales expectations. It was originally slated to sell 3.5 million copies by March, then was upped to 4 million copies, and yesterday, they raised estimates to 5 million copies. Also, they raised estimates on their gameboy advance, which is expected to sell 16 million copies by March. Profit margins are triple what they were last year.
On thanksgiving weekend alone, Nintendo sold 500 THOUSAND DS systems in America alone, which represents 90% of all the units available for sale, in the U.S. They expect to sell 1 million systems in America alone by Christmas (1 month)... by contrast, it took the apple Ipod 19 months to sell 1 million pieces.
They also sold 800,000 gameboy advance systems in the past week, and in the past 2 weeks, have sold 250,000 gamecubes, a system that has been out for several years now.
WOW, WHAT A FLOP!!!
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that contrast with the ipod isnt that great for the reason being that the ipod when first introduced was a mac only product and did not have a previous ipod that people could relate too...so no one knew how good it was or couldnt base it on any previous products......lets see how many ipods are sold this month alone in december....not to say that the DS is not doing well....because those a great looking numbers...
Sikotic™:
Holiday shopping mixed with price slashing mi amigo, what did ya expect?
Trauma-san:
That doesn't devalue the achievement, though. That's like saying "Yeah, Eminem sold a lot of records, but shit, he lowered the price!!! That's cheating!!!"
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