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Software:

Rank/ System/ Title/ Developer/ Sold This Week/ Sold Total

1/ PS2/ Devil May Cry 3/ Capcom/ 194,530/ 194,530
2/ PS2/ Dragon Ball Z3/ Bandai/ 90,911/ 517,807
3/ PS2/ Rumble Roses/ Konami/ 73,935/ 73,935
4/ PS2/ D1 Grand Prix/ Yukes/ 26,286/ 26,268
5/ PS2/ Gladiator: Road to Freedom/ Ertain/ 14,336/ 14,336
6/ PS2/ Gran Turismo 4/ SCE/ 12,863/ 956,690
7/ PSP/ Popolocrois Monotagari: Pietoro Ouji no Bouken/ SCE/ 11,956/ 45,715
8/ DS/ Catch! Touch! Yoshi!/ Nintendo/ 11,591/ 120,696
9/ PS2/ Shinseki Yusha Daisen/ Atlus/ 10,487/ 10,487
10/ PSP/ Minna no Golf Portable/ SCE/ 10,353/ N/A- Game was not on last week's Top 10 Chart to calculate complete total


Hardware:

System/ Sold This Week/ 2005 Total
PS2/ 38,954/ 432,091
PSP/ 38,314/ 400,669
DS/ 22,363/ 328,042
GBASP/ 10,849/ 148,736
GC/ 3,256/ 55,428
GBA/ 399/ 4,421
Xbox/ 295/ 3,595

Xiu Xiu

Where's Resident Evil 4? :[

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DayLahs

HA! damn not even in the top 10. anyways, great sales for DMC 3 cant wait to pick it up next week. Gran turismo is almost to a million sold EXCELLENT. Has the Ds outsold the psp any this year yet?

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nenned

I beleive PSP has outsold DS every week this year but DS has still outsold PSP LTD.

Xavius

All is not right in the world.

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BuzzJive

Not like DMC3 did a whole lot better than RE4 - considering the difference in userbase. But yeah - too bad RE4

PSP is really not selling that well considering they are available everywhere now. It will be interesting to see what happens when the DS and PSP finally start releasing some software. I wonder if Sony is starting to panic yet.

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Crusader

I don't think Sony has any major reason to panic. Third party support for the PSP is solid to say the least, and PSP hardware sales are neck and neck with PS2 sales.

Anyway, the DS's sales are not especially good, but not that many games have been released on it as of late. I hope Another Code does well. Yeah, here's hoping....

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sonicblue

Why should Sony be panicing? Isn't Nintendo the one who hasn't outsold the PSP once this year?

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nenned

But Nintendo is used to loosing to Sony. Sony loosing steam in Japan must be shocking to them.

Xiu Xiu

Man .. that announcement sure hurt RE4's sales. I hope DMC3 falls off the charts quickly.

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BuzzJive

No reason to panic? Even at this pace it will take a year to match the sales of the DS. The problem is that within that year span - plenty of good games will come out for the DS and it WILL surge ahead several times. Sony needs to sell as many units as fast as they can, and right now they are not.

The DS has it's problems as well for sure, but is Sony going to wait for more DS to strike out again, or are they going to do something?

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Crusader

I don't see Sony losing steam. Hardware sales dropped across the board, and playstation software dominated the charts this week (there are even PSP games up there).

EDIT: Buzzjive, Sony doesn't need to surpass the DS's userbase in one fell swoop. All they have to do is gradually establish the PSP and build up their own handheld userbase. Also, the DS release list has no major hitters for a while. Don't forget, the PSP is not without its own good games [in development].

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sonicblue

Losing steam? Didn't they start off being way behind Nintendo? And since then they've done nothing but stay ahead of Nintendo. Where's the steam they're losing?So only the DS will get good games and sales surges? Why can't the PSP get great games too and get even bigger surges than the DS?

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sonicblue

So only the DS will get good games and sales surges?

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BuzzJive

PSP will have surges. Sure. It will go both ways - but here's the real point I'm making:

There weren't even 1 million people in Japan that were convinced that the PSP is a "must have" item.

The demand has waned. They are available everywhere, and consumers are not inclined to buy them. Heck - Apple sells more iPods in any given week I'm sure, and all they do is play music. The GBA and the GBASP were FLYING off the shelves at this point. Sony isn't JUST competing with the DS (who's sales have slowed - yes), they are trying to break into a much bigger market that includes iPods and GBA's as well. Where is the demand? How much lower will it go? That is what Sony should be panicking about.

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Crusader

I think you're exaggerating the problem. Sure, the PSP isn't doing amazingly well. Okay. Yet, it is selling at the same rate as the PS2. Such a rate of sales is undeniably good. That is not something to worry about. Also, the DS's weeky sales, I think, are a greater cause for concern.

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sonicblue

Are you sure of that? I was under the impression that Sony was still only sending out limited amounts of PSPs. Limited in comparison to however many DS's Nintendo is able to ship out. Got any shipping numbers?
Different market, different country, no proof.

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captain of america

bigger sales surges than what pokemon, final fantasy, dragon quest, mario, zelda, xenosaga, castlevania, secret of mana, kirby, ... can do for DS sales?
do you think so?
anyway, nintendo is a holiday season company that most of its sales in terms of hardware and software come from holiday season. during these past weeks PS2 could outsell GC nearly 10 to 1 but these ratio during holiday season was less than 3 to 1.
so even if PSP can outsell DS with this margin during next 9 months (its impossible) then again during holiday season (just like last year) DS will crash PSP.

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Old School Gamer

I personally feel the PSP will fail as a gaming machine. A lot of consumers in North America are going to buy the system for movie playback (how uninformed they are of the shortcomings) and other media options. A dollar spent on "other media" is a dollar taken from game developers. When game developers cannot turn a profit, they're going to go a different route (basic law of common sense).

I've also heard that even at $249.99, the PSP is still losing a lot of money per system. If software doesn't sell well after the initial boom phase, Sony should be worrying.

The DS isn't selling well lately because people are waiting on more games. Unlike the PSP, they DS is a game player, period. I'm in that crowd. When the DS gets around five solid games that I would be interested in, I will make my motion to buy one. The games have to be fun and something I can play between class breaks. I'm not interested in playing titles that belong on a console although I'm sure the system will get some of those that are damn fine, but I don't use handhelds in that way.

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