320,000 copies of DS game sold in first day!

[PC-Engine]

According to Magicbox, Nintendo sold 320,000 copies of the DS fighting game Jump! Super Stars in the first day.

 

[jvd]

wow impressive

 

[London Geezer]

Bloody hell...

Just to put things into perspective, it's hard for a new CD to sell that amount in the first WEEK in the US. A new CD with an "installed userbase" of a couple hundred millions in the US (i take it almost everyone has Cd players there, more or less). DS has a userbase of what, bit more than 4 million units?

I think that says a lot about videogames, and the videogame market today, those are crazy sales figures and it's been like this for a while.

Can't wait till the day everyone wakes up and realises that videogames are maybe the most widespread and profitable form of entertainment today, and pour some serious money into them, like they do with movies.

 

[Teasy]

DS sold 43,000 systems last week in Japan making it again the best selling videogame system (PSP was 20,000 and PS2 was 38,000 if I remember correctly). God knows what its going to sell this week with a game like Jump Super Stars selling 320,000 in its first day

 

[StefanS]

Jump Super Stars was almost guaranteed to sell that well in Japan. Super Smash Bros meets most popular manga characters. Instant success, though the sales numbers are still impressive.

 

[Dizzy]

PC Engine were did you get you get your figueres. According to magic box Jump! super Stars have a sold a total of 278,035 since it came out so it couldn't have sold 320,000 on the first day.

During the week of August 15-21 it sold 57,123 for a grand total of 278,035.

"2 Jump! Super Stars NDS Nintendo 57,123 278,035"

 

[Corwin_B]

IIRC, 320 000 was the first "print". There were around 200 000 pre-orders.