M-create : The #1 game at the Week ending January 6, 2008 is Mario Party DS, with sales of 196K / week, and LTD of 1.484 Million (1.5 Million after rounding) #2 game is Wii Fit, with 1 Million LTD, and #3 is Wii Sports, with 2.6 Million LTD.
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Mario Party DS reached 1 Million in < 2 Months (released on Nov 8, 2007) Babelfish translation, and edited (and added) for easier reading : Mario Party DS sales exploded, with sales of 300K last week (period Dec 17 - 23), bringing its LTD to 1 Million in less than 2 months. Edit : Removed the Japanese text as per request.
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As you'd expect, the minigames themselves will largely depend on the DS' unique input features. Based on the minigame-selection screen, it looks like there will be several dozen minigames in the final package, once you've unlocked everything.
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Nintendo managed to move over 90,000 units on the first day, according to Enterbrain. We are looking at sales of 200,000 to 400,000 for the first week.
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Nintendo’s Mario Party DS has enjoyed a strong second week at the top of the Japanese sales charts, with 116,000 units sold, edging ever closer to the lifetime-to-date total for Super Mario Galaxy – which sold around 40,000 units in its third week.The highest new entry of the week is Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles at number two...
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Mario tops the charts again this week, with Mario Party DS selling close to a quarter million copies in its debut week in Japan.
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Decent visuals and bonus puzzle games aren't enough to make Mario Party DS worth a purchase. It suffers from the same problems as the other games in the series. The mini-games, on the whole, are badly designed and boring. Watching other players take turns round the board is tedious. Even if you win every single mini-game, the stupid star system means you could still lose overall.
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It's honestly very difficult to get excited for yet another Mario Party-even though it's the first time it's been made for the Nintendo DS system. What's here is a solid multiplayer mini-game experience with a lot of the flaws of the previous versions. It doesn't do anything truly special than create a bunch of touch screen and microphone-centric minigames, but it at least comes together as a better title than the last console Mario Party design.
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