GameBoy Advance Sp selling 110000 units a week!

[Glitchny]

Artical posted a few posts down
I dont think nintendo will have to make any other consoles! the Sp is selling like hotcakes.
And nintendo now has the top 3 highest selling games in the industry this year. If they can only keep it up

 

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[isekii]

most everyone says Nintendo games are kiddie like.

I personally like em. Yes some might be kiddish but they're like all sequels to past time classics.

 

[Glitchny]

Originally posted by: SammySon
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[06.09.03]

Game Boy Advance SP Hits Million-Unit Sales Mark
Nintendo announced today that the Game Boy Advance SP has sold 1.1 million units in America in the ten weeks since its introduction. Nintendo also announced that The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker for the GameCube, and both Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire for Game Boy Advance have reached one million unit-seller status since their March launch dates, and are the industry's three best selling games thus far in 2003

 

[AU Tiger]

Explains why there are never any in my local Circuit City for pickup.

 

[chin311]

geez, personally i think 100$ is kinda steep for the SP, ahh well, but im not much of a gamer so meh

 

[Glitchny]

if Nintendo is averaging $100 per unit on the GBA SP that means that in just 10 weeks off of only GBA SP sales (no games, no normal GBA, no GC) they have made $110,000,000. And they have made half that much just off Wind Waker alone... seems they arent going anywhere

 

[brunswickite]

Sony's portable is coming out soon, that should be interesting

 

[Glitchny]

Originally posted by: brunswickite
Sony's portable is coming out soon, that should be interesting

true gotta see how they price it

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: Glitchny

Originally posted by: SammySon
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[06.09.03]

Game Boy Advance SP Hits Million-Unit Sales Mark
Nintendo announced today that the Game Boy Advance SP has sold 1.1 million units in America in the ten weeks since its introduction. Nintendo also announced that The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker for the GameCube, and both Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire for Game Boy Advance have reached one million unit-seller status since their March launch dates, and are the industry's three best selling games thus far in 2003

Your original claim is a bit misleading. They never talk about selling 110000 units per week. For all we know half those sales might have come in less then a week. So it?s foolish to assume they will sell 110000 a week. Anyway, that?s still impressive. Maybe I can get the older GB advance for a cheap price now. BTW, didn?t PS2 sold more then a million in its first day?

 

[Glitchny]

Originally posted by: SSP

Originally posted by: Glitchny

Originally posted by: SammySon
Post the article, I'm not registering just to be bombarded with advertisements.

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[06.09.03]

Game Boy Advance SP Hits Million-Unit Sales Mark
Nintendo announced today that the Game Boy Advance SP has sold 1.1 million units in America in the ten weeks since its introduction. Nintendo also announced that The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker for the GameCube, and both Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire for Game Boy Advance have reached one million unit-seller status since their March launch dates, and are the industry's three best selling games thus far in 2003

Your original claim is a bit misleading. They never talk about selling 110000 units per week. For all we know half those sales might have come in less then a week. So it?s foolish to assume they will sell 110000 a week. Anyway, that?s still impressive. Maybe I can get the older GB advance for a cheap price now. BTW, didn?t PS2 sold more then a million in its first day?

I averaged the total units sold, i figured that it would be acceptable.

 

[0roo0roo]

why u'd want an old one i dnno. u can't change buttons that wear out. no light is just horrible.

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: brunswickite
Sony's portable is coming out soon, that should be interesting

If by soon you mean over a year from now, then OK.

 

[Glitchny]

Originally posted by: mpitts

Originally posted by: brunswickite
Sony's portable is coming out soon, that should be interesting

If by soon you mean over a year from now, then OK.

good point, i just want to see how it fares against the GBA or the next iteration of the GB, everything else has failed to move it from dominating the handheld market... i dont think sony will be able to either

 

[Smolek]

Originally posted by: Glitchny

Originally posted by: brunswickite
Sony's portable is coming out soon, that should be interesting

true gotta see how they price it

Im assuming it will be in the 100.00 price range. The machine doesnt come out until Holiday 2004 though so it has some time to go and by that time any prospective handheld gamer will have probably picked up an SP by then.

 

[Pocatello]

I wonder if Sony will push Nintendo out of the way in the handheld market, just as it did with the console. Nintendo better sell those GBA SP fast and make as much money as possible, because the lean years are ahead. The Gamecube is already facing stiff competition and trailing behind MS, even when its games are better than the XBOX IMHO.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Originally posted by: Pocatello
I wonder if Sony will push Nintendo out of the way in the handheld market, just as it did with the console. Nintendo better sell those GBA SP fast and make as much money as possible, because the lean years are ahead. The Gamecube is already facing stiff competition and trailing behind MS, even when its games are better than the XBOX IMHO.

Nintendo has a huge advantage in that everything is backwards portable - every GB game ever made is playable on the SP. I don't know what format the Sony portable will be (if it will be cartridge based or if it'll play old PS1 cds or what) but Sony has a huge uphill climb with their portable. It'll be successful to a certain degree but nothing like the @$$ raping that the PS1 was to the N64 or the PS2 is to the XBox/GC. (N64 was doomed with it's cartridge format, more expensive games, and the fact that it came out a year later. PS2 had the advantage of backwards compatibility as well as a year head start)

 

[rgwalt]

Originally posted by: Pocatello
I wonder if Sony will push Nintendo out of the way in the handheld market, just as it did with the console. Nintendo better sell those GBA SP fast and make as much money as possible, because the lean years are ahead. The Gamecube is already facing stiff competition and trailing behind MS, even when its games are better than the XBOX IMHO.

The one thing that Nintendo's GameBoy has that the sony handheld won't have is a library of over 1000 games available for it. It is backwards compatable with all the previous games published. As a result, a person who already owns a GameBoy and a collection of games is much more likely to buy the next iteration of GameBoy hardware than the Sony hardware.

Now, if Nintendo could release another handheld at approximately the same time Sony does (not a year or even a half year later), I think Nintendo could push Sony right back out of the handheld market.

 

[snik]

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello

Originally posted by: Pocatello
I wonder if Sony will push Nintendo out of the way in the handheld market, just as it did with the console. Nintendo better sell those GBA SP fast and make as much money as possible, because the lean years are ahead. The Gamecube is already facing stiff competition and trailing behind MS, even when its games are better than the XBOX IMHO.

Nintendo has a huge advantage in that everything is backwards portable - every GB game ever made is playable on the SP. I don't know what format the Sony portable will be (if it will be cartridge based or if it'll play old PS1 cds or what) but Sony has a huge uphill climb with their portable. It'll be successful to a certain degree but nothing like the @$$ raping that the PS1 was to the N64 or the PS2 is to the XBox/GC. (N64 was doomed with it's cartridge format, more expensive games, and the fact that it came out a year later. PS2 had the advantage of backwards compatibility as well as a year head start)

And remember the launch price of N64 games? My friend bought NBA Hangtime for $90 :Q I wanted to buy Cruisn' USA and Funcoland wanted $99.99 for the game.

 

[Glitchny]

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello

Originally posted by: Pocatello
I wonder if Sony will push Nintendo out of the way in the handheld market, just as it did with the console. Nintendo better sell those GBA SP fast and make as much money as possible, because the lean years are ahead. The Gamecube is already facing stiff competition and trailing behind MS, even when its games are better than the XBOX IMHO.

Nintendo has a huge advantage in that everything is backwards portable - every GB game ever made is playable on the SP. I don't know what format the Sony portable will be (if it will be cartridge based or if it'll play old PS1 cds or what) but Sony has a huge uphill climb with their portable. It'll be successful to a certain degree but nothing like the @$$ raping that the PS1 was to the N64 or the PS2 is to the XBox/GC. (N64 was doomed with it's cartridge format, more expensive games, and the fact that it came out a year later. PS2 had the advantage of backwards compatibility as well as a year head start)

IIRC the new sony handheld will use a format somewhat like Minidisks. And Sony will not puch nintendo out of the handheld market since making the 100 dollar price point may be harder for them sicne they are not as experienced as Nintendo. The GBA will be hard to upset since the only game that doesnt work on the SP is Kirbys tilt and tumble (the device that detects how the cartridge is oriented reads backwards cause where the cartridge goes). Sony will have to get support from everyone to make games fore their system while nintendo can just keep pulling classic titles out of the original GB library

 

[Glitchny]

Originally posted by: rgwalt

Originally posted by: Pocatello
I wonder if Sony will push Nintendo out of the way in the handheld market, just as it did with the console. Nintendo better sell those GBA SP fast and make as much money as possible, because the lean years are ahead. The Gamecube is already facing stiff competition and trailing behind MS, even when its games are better than the XBOX IMHO.

The one thing that Nintendo's GameBoy has that the sony handheld won't have is a library of over 1000 games available for it. It is backwards compatable with all the previous games published. As a result, a person who already owns a GameBoy and a collection of games is much more likely to buy the next iteration of GameBoy hardware than the Sony hardware.

Now, if Nintendo could release another handheld at approximately the same time Sony does (not a year or even a half year later), I think Nintendo could push Sony right back out of the handheld market.

Agreed and the GBA has been out for a little while now so I wouldnt doubt that they are already working on a sucessor, possibly with integrated Bluetooth... that would be sweet

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Originally posted by: snik

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello

Originally posted by: Pocatello
I wonder if Sony will push Nintendo out of the way in the handheld market, just as it did with the console. Nintendo better sell those GBA SP fast and make as much money as possible, because the lean years are ahead. The Gamecube is already facing stiff competition and trailing behind MS, even when its games are better than the XBOX IMHO.

Nintendo has a huge advantage in that everything is backwards portable - every GB game ever made is playable on the SP. I don't know what format the Sony portable will be (if it will be cartridge based or if it'll play old PS1 cds or what) but Sony has a huge uphill climb with their portable. It'll be successful to a certain degree but nothing like the @$$ raping that the PS1 was to the N64 or the PS2 is to the XBox/GC. (N64 was doomed with it's cartridge format, more expensive games, and the fact that it came out a year later. PS2 had the advantage of backwards compatibility as well as a year head start)

And remember the launch price of N64 games? My friend bought NBA Hangtime for $90 :Q I wanted to buy Cruisn' USA and Funcoland wanted $99.99 for the game.

Holy $hit! I thought it was $60 debut price?

 

[snik]

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello

Originally posted by: snik

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello

Originally posted by: Pocatello
I wonder if Sony will push Nintendo out of the way in the handheld market, just as it did with the console. Nintendo better sell those GBA SP fast and make as much money as possible, because the lean years are ahead. The Gamecube is already facing stiff competition and trailing behind MS, even when its games are better than the XBOX IMHO.

Nintendo has a huge advantage in that everything is backwards portable - every GB game ever made is playable on the SP. I don't know what format the Sony portable will be (if it will be cartridge based or if it'll play old PS1 cds or what) but Sony has a huge uphill climb with their portable. It'll be successful to a certain degree but nothing like the @$$ raping that the PS1 was to the N64 or the PS2 is to the XBox/GC. (N64 was doomed with it's cartridge format, more expensive games, and the fact that it came out a year later. PS2 had the advantage of backwards compatibility as well as a year head start)

And remember the launch price of N64 games? My friend bought NBA Hangtime for $90 :Q I wanted to buy Cruisn' USA and Funcoland wanted $99.99 for the game.

Holy $hit! I thought it was $60 debut price?

Maybe it's a regional thing? This was in Chicago. Games were limited too.

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello

Originally posted by: snik

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello

Originally posted by: Pocatello
I wonder if Sony will push Nintendo out of the way in the handheld market, just as it did with the console. Nintendo better sell those GBA SP fast and make as much money as possible, because the lean years are ahead. The Gamecube is already facing stiff competition and trailing behind MS, even when its games are better than the XBOX IMHO.

Nintendo has a huge advantage in that everything is backwards portable - every GB game ever made is playable on the SP. I don't know what format the Sony portable will be (if it will be cartridge based or if it'll play old PS1 cds or what) but Sony has a huge uphill climb with their portable. It'll be successful to a certain degree but nothing like the @$$ raping that the PS1 was to the N64 or the PS2 is to the XBox/GC. (N64 was doomed with it's cartridge format, more expensive games, and the fact that it came out a year later. PS2 had the advantage of backwards compatibility as well as a year head start)

And remember the launch price of N64 games? My friend bought NBA Hangtime for $90 :Q I wanted to buy Cruisn' USA and Funcoland wanted $99.99 for the game.

Holy $hit! I thought it was $60 debut price?

Whoa where were you buying!!! It was around $55-60

 

[theNEOone]

damnit my g/f was supposed to get me an sp for my bday.....it's not here!