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June NPD: Solid Snake farts in our general direction

Posted Jul 18th 2008 3:30PM by Phil Larsen
Filed under: News, Sales

June was the month of Sony, Sony, Sony ... and DS. With the PlayStation brand achieving positive results across the board (MGS4 undoubtedly being the reason for doubling May's PS3 figures), Microsoft picked up a small increase in sales for the Xbox 360. The DS performed spectacularly as always, and gained a massive jump in sales thanks to Guitar Hero: On Tour.

The only console on a downslide for the month was the Wii, yet it still trounced all non-Nintendo competition. It's like those guys at school who barely even tried and still got top marks, while everyone else studied their butts off to scrape by. Ah, the mysteries of life.

• DS: 783K 368.2K (+ 88.7%)
• Wii: 666.7K 47.5K (- 6.6%)
• PS3: 405.5K 218.4K (+ 116.7%)
• PSP: 337.4K 144.7K (+ 75%)
• X360: 219.8K 31.8K (+ 16.9%)
• PS2: 188.8K 64.4K (+ 51.7%)

Software sales are waiting for you after the break! YA RLY!

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May NPD: Buoyant

Posted Jun 13th 2008 12:30PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News, Sales

"Safe and steady" was the theme of May's NPD figures, with no console either enjoying a majestic surge or suffering a crushing collapse -- the DS simply registered a decent if unspectacular 9% rise in hardware sales. As it turns out, that bump was timely, because it meant the console reached 20 million units sold in North America, a landmark that has now been passed in all major regions.

Of course, we could snicker at how the PSP only clinched 29% of the handheld market, and so we will.

• Wii: 714.2K 39.1K (5.5%)
• DS: 414.8K 37.8K (9.1%)
• PSP: 192.7K 10.4K (5.4%)
• Xbox 360: 188K 1.4K (0.8%)
• PS3: 187.1K 21.6K (11.5%)
• PS2: 124.4K 8.3K (6.7%)

Software sales are waiting past the break.

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Big in Japan: DS coasts to fiscal 2007 victory

Posted Apr 3rd 2008 12:00PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News, Sales

Been keeping up with sales figures from Japan recently? If so, you'll have noticed something unusual: for the first time in years, the DS isn't absolutely creaming the competition. Whether the PSP's resurgence will last is another debate for another post, but it hasn't been able to prevent Nintendo's handheld from taking top spot in fiscal year 2007.

The DS won in style as well, selling 6.34 million units (that's one DS sold every five seconds, FYI) and comfortably beating the Wii (3.74m sales) into second place. In case you're wondering, that sound you can hear is Iwata, Reggie, and Shiggy clinking champagne glasses on board their yacht of solid gold.

The gap between the Wii and PSP is considerably smaller, while the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 occupy fourth and fifth place respectively (mystifyingly, the PlayStation 2 wasn't counted). And it wasn't only hardware sales that Nintendo dominated -- the five best-selling games were all from the Nintendo stable, with Wii Fit, Mario Party DS, Wii Sports, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon doing the business. Make like Godzilla and stomp past the break for the charts.

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Blue Dragon casts its shadow on the DS

Posted Sep 21st 2007 2:00PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: News

Mistwalker seems to be pro-DS, which we guess means they like money. Not only are they bringing us ASH, which looks not completely terrible, but now it seems that they will be sending us Blue Dragon, the title that encouraged Japanese gamers to buy an Xbox 360. We smell a special edition DS Lite in the works for this one. After all, they have to try to drive system sales again somehow.

So what's the less-than-good news? It's a card game. Technically, a role-playing card game, according to the scan from Shonen Jump (available after the break). Mistwalker apparently likes to blend game types; one style just isn't enough for them when it comes to their DS offerings. We'll keep an eye out for more information on this one, because Mistwalker might just surprise us and turn out the best damned card game ever.

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