Secret DS conference, Online, FF3, and whole bunch of shit...

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Thanks for the stats, avatar.

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Originally Posted by Dylan1CC

And Strider, I wanna see some links and doc that the PSP is outselling the DS "3-1 in NA." News sources such as the above say they are still "neck and neck," if not a small lead by the DS.

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If you want to talk overall sales, the DS has a small lead in total numbers. But the PSP has been averaging about 300k since it launched. Nintendo doesn't release individual DS figures, only an aggregate DS/GBA number every month, and that's been an average of 320k. Analyst types who would know say DS sales seem to account for roughly 1/3 of those numbers. So it doesn't take much to extrapolate that PSP is doing roughly 3 times as well so far.

If you want to see the actual numerical evidence, track down any forum or website that routinely posts NPD's numbers. They're not exactly secret. I think Gaming Age posts them religiously but I'm not a member there so I can't use their search function.

Don't forget, there was hradly anything for DS on store shelves until the past couple of weeks. Your average person doesn't know what's coming down the road, and remakes of 15 year old rpgs might not mean more to them than MP3s and movies anyway.

These are the Top Five games for August 2005 per platform based on revenue.

Handhelds

GBA Pokemon Emerald - $2.8M / 81,239
NDS Nintendogs: Dachshund and Friends - $2.5M / 81,979
NDS Nintendogs: Labrador and Friends - $2M
PSP Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition - $2M / 41,980
NDS Nintendogs: Chihuahua and Friends - $1.8M

Hardware
PS2 = 253,000
XBX = 134,000
GCN = 53,000
GBA = 180,000
PSP = 167,000
NDS = 103,000

Remember that the increase due to Nintendogs was pretty much only for the last week of August or so. September should be pretty interesting.

http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=16923

I think the only PSP game that came out in August was Namco Museum Collection. That seemed to cause a bit of a drop in sales. Before PSP launched I figured the one thing that might stop it would be its cost - I wonder how long it'll be before everybody who'd consider buying one at that price already has one? (Although Sony was bright enough to include a built-in price drop by only selling it as the value pack).