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Top Selling NDS Games in Japan
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Eteric Rice
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It's amazing when even the scraps third parties are fighting over are very profitable.
Nintendo rules with an iron fist, but the DS seems to have room for everyone.
Nintendo rules with an iron fist, but the DS seems to have room for everyone.
Zerodoppler
Member
No Game Center CX on that list makes me sad.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Realistically, there are five games on that list that could make a million:
- Layton 2 will hit a million if it displays any legs at all.
- Zelda: PH will hit a million
- Yoshi's Island DS could hit a million.
- Jump Ultimate Stars has an outside shot if it's not replaced by another Jump game, since JUS basically killed JSS.
- Layton 1 has an outside outside chance of hitting a million if it keeps the ridiculous legs it's had past the release of Layton 3.
- Layton 2 will hit a million if it displays any legs at all.
- Zelda: PH will hit a million
- Yoshi's Island DS could hit a million.
- Jump Ultimate Stars has an outside shot if it's not replaced by another Jump game, since JUS basically killed JSS.
- Layton 1 has an outside outside chance of hitting a million if it keeps the ridiculous legs it's had past the release of Layton 3.
DS passing the NES... probably not
DS passing PSX ... I guess it will.. it still has 2~3 years in its lifecycle..
Nintendo will probably do one more Pokemon Remake (makes one guaranteed millionseller)
Square Enix will publish DQ V, VI and XI (maybe even VII) which will likely all pass one million... maybe one more DQM... FF remakes.. well we have to see how FF IV does.. but its probable that there will be more in the line..
Capcom... Monster Hunter DS..? I see probabilities here..
Sega.. uh... love and berry 2.. no forget it..
DS passing PSX ... I guess it will.. it still has 2~3 years in its lifecycle..
Nintendo will probably do one more Pokemon Remake (makes one guaranteed millionseller)
Square Enix will publish DQ V, VI and XI (maybe even VII) which will likely all pass one million... maybe one more DQM... FF remakes.. well we have to see how FF IV does.. but its probable that there will be more in the line..
Capcom... Monster Hunter DS..? I see probabilities here..
Sega.. uh... love and berry 2.. no forget it..
Coolio McAwesome
Member
New Super Mario Bros. is a juggernaut. Outside of the Pokemon titles, the only other game to clear 5 million in Japan was the original Super Mario Bros.
Magicpaint
Member
Because one of the SKU was a GBA game?farnham said:
AniHawk said:
Ah, yeah. Forgot to update that. Fixed. Though PSP is unfortunately still at just 1, as far as I can tell -- doesn't look like MHP1 passed the million mark officially.
HK-47 said:
Because I've found it's wise to not underestimate the sales potential of Nintendo's DS games, even a year after they've been released. I wouldn't put even money on the two of them passing that threshold, but they're close enough that I sure wouldn't rule it out.
Stumpokapow said:
I don't think there's any shot for Jump Ultimate Stars, but I agree the possibility/probability exists for the two Layton games, Zelda, and Yoshi. There are also a few non-games that have a good chance, like Flash Focus.
farnham said:
Durrrr.
Captain Smoker
Member
Code:
NES 40 N64 11
PSX 31 GBA 4
SNES 29 Wii 4
GB 25 SAT 1
PS2 22 PSP 1
NDS 21 GCN 1Some titles may have the wrong title [Google Translate ^^]
Anything missing?
Clever Pun
Member
Rock_Man said:
isn't love 'n berry on the Famitsu top 100 that was just released?
edit:
here's donny's post
Yeah the DS is rocking. And it didn't even had a particularly strong 2007 year million seller wise I mean.
DS has still quite a bit of killer apps coming, that we already know of anyway, that will (potentially) be million sellers in Japan.
3rd Pokemon version
Dragon Quest V
Dragon Quest VI
Dragon Quest IX
Kirby Ultra Super Star
Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Yoshi's Island 2?
New main Pokemon?
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games?
And I'm sure Nintendo has a few unannounced big DS titles in the works as we speak that they'll hopefully announce soon.
DS has still quite a bit of killer apps coming, that we already know of anyway, that will (potentially) be million sellers in Japan.
3rd Pokemon version
Dragon Quest V
Dragon Quest VI
Dragon Quest IX
Kirby Ultra Super Star
Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Yoshi's Island 2?
New main Pokemon?
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games?
And I'm sure Nintendo has a few unannounced big DS titles in the works as we speak that they'll hopefully announce soon.
TJ Spyke said:
:lol
TJ Spyke said:
This list is using Famitsu data, which is multiple times over available in a more complete form than Media-Create data. Why does that matter for your question? Famitsu combines those games when they list the sales, while Media-Create does not.
They are different enough to count them separately. To say otherwise is like saying Ninja Gaiden/Ninja Gaiden Black/Ninja Gaiden Sigma should all be counted as 1 game (for example). IMO, it's stupid to say that "Pokemon Diamond and Pearl" is the top selling game in Japan when its two games.
TJ Spyke said:
If you'll take a look at the list, you'll see that New Super Mario Bros. is only the second best selling DS game.
If Ninja Gaiden, Black, and Sigma all came out on the same day on the same system with the same content and same visuals, they'd be the same game, too.
Japan-Gamecharts.com has 17 PS2 million sellers. Are there really five games missing, and if so which ones?
super funk
Member
I just took the time to read through the first two posts and Im still in amazement at how well the DS software has done in its short lifetime. Nice job ethelred (on the thread, not the sales).
TJ Spyke said:
Remakes or added content can change a game but Diamond and Pearl are not different in there content. Some Pokemon are swapped out with other Pokemon thats all. Its done to encourage Pokemon trading between the different versions. I don't see why they should be counted as different versions. But I recall that Pearl sold substantially worse than Diamond.
OliveJuice
Member
Anyone think that the success of Mario Party is, in part, due to the multiplayer of NSMB?
OliveJuice
Member
I was thinking that since NSMB is so popular, and the mini-games are very similar to the Mario Party mini-games, people might have looked at Mario party and said "Hey, I liked the mini-games in NSMB, so maybe this will be good as well". In no way do I believe that is the main reason for the sales, but word of mouth could have helped.ksamedi said:
jts
...hate me...
Super Mario Kart SNES 3,820,000¹
Mario Kart DS NDS 2,695,428
Mario Kart 64 N64 1,711,661
Mario Kart Advance GBA 938,175
Mario Kart Double Dash GCN 825,894
This is what amazes me the most. Mario Kart Super Circuit was a great game and the GBA was a VERY successful console, so what happened to have only sold 100k more than the GC (a very underperforming system)? And furthermore, seeing how MKDS is doing...
Or are the Japanese into the online thing after all?
Mario Kart DS NDS 2,695,428
Mario Kart 64 N64 1,711,661
Mario Kart Advance GBA 938,175
Mario Kart Double Dash GCN 825,894
This is what amazes me the most. Mario Kart Super Circuit was a great game and the GBA was a VERY successful console, so what happened to have only sold 100k more than the GC (a very underperforming system)? And furthermore, seeing how MKDS is doing...
Or are the Japanese into the online thing after all?