Why is this dropping? This game has cleared 1million on the wii. DS has a far bigger install base. Its the olympic games ! it has to sell well. Im sure they are going to advertise huge at the olympics and taking a look at how DS mario games are selling eg mario party has sold about 2 million allready. This should be near 2.5million at least.
"SEGA's Olympic Games design will be coming to the portable in just a few weeks, though, and the company let us stretch our legs with a near-final version of the dual-screen handheld edition this week."
@Just_Ben,Looking at how well wii version is selling i think this could reach 3million because of the install base of DS is about 4 times that of the wii.all im thinking is that its being released a month after christmas so if i were a child i would be eager to get any game.There are not allot of games coming out in january.I think we have this underpriced.
It will sell 1 Million in japan alone, but thats my opinion. I won't invest though, the release date is to far away. And before that, there won't be any hard numbers. Didn't post to negate you point, just correcting view on the data source.
@Just_Ben, Sorry i guess i was misreading the chart the link in my last post went too. I guess i was looking at mario and sonic games on the DS world wide that haven't sold under 1.3 million. The game you listed was #25 at 1.37 million copies. Meaning this game would sell at least that based on hype alone. Being that people will already know this game because they've seen it on the Wii, where as nobody knew about Mario vs. Kong because it wasn't on any other platform. And either was the first Mario vs. Kong which flopped at 250k on the GBA, so i think that's a bad comparison to this game because of the fantastic success the Wii version of this game will produce! I believe if the Wii sells over 1 million copies. So will this. Going off the three games listed below. Mario and Sonic fans will most likely relate to the Lego Star Wars games. This is because think of the difference between the three games. Now if a customer is able to pay for his or her own game, which game would they probably get. The Star Wars one probably because the older audience that can buy their own games arn't going to get Shrek and Harry potter on their DS. Come on. So like the Star Wars brand, the Mario brand/title can interest all owners of the DS, not just fans of the little kid movies. Also both Shrek and Harry Potter lacked multiplayer. So like Star Wars, people will pick this game up because it is fun to play against other people (but unlike Star Wars it won't be buggy as hell which will boost sales well past Star Wars), and with the release date of the multiplayer mini-game monster being late January...It will be at the top of the list when people go to buy a game for their new DS in January. That's just my impressions...Do you really think this game won't sell over a million?? What do you think?
@Bleezy, There isn't a mario game or a sonic game on the DS that's sold under 1.3 million in the USA according to VGC. Also the news of the leaderboards should help boost sales right? Especially in the USA i would think that would help sales (in Asia i think they're more accustomed to this kind of thing, probably doesn't help sales so much). But really, when you look at the list of top selling DS games, i just think this should be on there. And with Mario and Sonic Olympics having the biggest individual sales of a Wii game in one week, some of that should transfer to DS sales i would think.
Yup, the good news is that via the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection, DS players from around the world will be able to upload their best Olympic performances for all to say, adding much-needed longevity to what boils down to a rather unsatisfying single player experience. On the multiplayer side, it has been revealed that up to four DS owners will be able to compete at once in events that range from the 100m sprint and archery to trampoline and the so-called Dream Events...
In each case the game that gets the best review score sells the most. There probably aren't enough Wii-DS multi platform games to form a solid conclusion from, but I think if Nintendo decides to focus more on the development of one game, the sales of the other game will suffer.
It seems to vary greatly between the games, here are a couple examples:
Shrek the Third (DS) 102,650 sales (US) vs Shrek the Third (Wii) 72,976 sales (US)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (DS) 64,212 sales (US) vs Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Wii) 83,408 sales (US)
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (DS) 373,962 sales (US) vs Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (GC) 614,402 sales (US)
Those are vgchartz numbers, but hopefully they are at least representative of ratios each game on each system sold with respect to the same game on the other system. From this no clear answer emerges, I will try to find more sources and data to see if a trend emerges between sales numbers between the same game on two different systems (namely the Wii and DS).
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