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Ubisoft announced 7 launch titles just this last week.

http://www.nintendoplayers.com/article.php?article ID=418
Midway also announced 6 titles.

http://www.nintendoplayers.com/article.php?article ID=419
Ubisoft announced 7 launch titles just this last week.

http://www.nintendoplayers.com/article.php?article ID=418
Midway also announced 6 titles.

Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam is the only confirmed launch title that will feature online play. A page on Nintendo's website actually specificly talked about the online functions, but was taken down shortly after (it wasn't done- there was still placeholder text on the page).

However, Square Enix officials talked about Crystal Chronicles being online way back when we were still calling it the Revolution. They haven't mentioned it since, so they may have dropped it, but it was *supposed* to be online.

I'd guess Madden, Need For Speed Carbon, and Call of Duty 3 would be online too, as those games are online on other platforms. That's just a guess though, don't quote me on that.

However, there is very little first-party online support from Nintendo. We've got an article on that over at NintendoPlayers...
http://www.nintendoplayers.com/feature.php?feature ID=18
(written before Tony Hawk was confirmed to be online, but still just as relevant about first party games)

Considering that Nintendo just finished denying that there was no redesigned DS, this came as a surprise.

Perhaps that explains the DS shortages in Japan? Maybe Nintendo was busy manufacturing the new models?

Anyway, it's smaller, thinner, lighter, brighter, and only $10 more. What's not to like? I wonder how much I'll get on trade-in with my current DS...

Zonk failed to mention a very important detail...those numbers aren't actually for all of 2005, they were compiled from weekly stats between 12/27/2004 and 12/25/2005. Gran Turismo was released on December 29, 2004 and sold 634,679 units in the week of 12/17/2004 - 1/2/05. So if these numbers were actually from January 1st to December 31st, Gran Turismo wouldn't have been in the top 10, while Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, and some of the other newer DS games would've had even better numbers.

Please visit NintendoPlayers.com for weekly Japanese sales numbers.

Well, as we reported at NintendoPlayers.com, the DS has absolutely dominated the PSP in Japan, outselling it every single week for the past 8+ months and selling over a million hardware units in the last 3 weeks alone. In Europe, the DS has sold about 3 million units compared to the PSP's 1.5 million. The North American picture is a lot harder to figure out, because sales numbers aren't readily available to the public. The DS has sold more hardware units in North America than the PSP has, but the margin is much less than anywhere else...the PSP is performing best in America, while the DS is performing best in Japan.

Worldwide, the DS has sold over 13 million units, while the PSP has only sold about 7 million. If you try to look up the numbers, you have to be careful because Nintendo accurately reports the number of units purchased by consumers, while Sony inflates their numbers by only disclosing the number of units "shipped to retail," which include all the units that are still sitting on store shelves.

I know one person with a PSP but have never seen them play it. I have about 5-6 friends with a DS, who I play with quite frequently. Of course, I also know a lot of people in forums who have DS systems, but that isn't a fair representation of how many people actually own a DS. You're definitely right about retailers carrying more PSP movies than PSP games, because surprisingly enough, the movies seem to be selling better (partly because there really isn't much good software for the PSP). I haven't personally watched a movie on the PSP, but it really doesn't make sense to me why you would want to. You can buy a portable DVD player for half the price of a PSP, that plays actual DVD movies (not UMD) so you can watch them at home too, and has a bigger screen than the PSP. So if you aren't going to buy a PSP for gaming, it really doesn't make sense to buy one at all.

We post updated hardware and software sales statistics every week, so please be sure to visit NintendoPlayers.com again in the future (we're all about Nintendo, but our sales numbers include all consoles). And feel free to join our forums!

Well, as we reported at NintendoPlayers.com, the DS has absolutely dominated the PSP in Japan, outselling it every single week for the past 8+ months and selling over a million hardware units in the last 3 weeks alone. In Europe, the DS has sold about 3 million units compared to the PSP's 1.5 million. The North American picture is a lot harder to figure out, because sales numbers aren't readily available to the public. The DS has sold more hardware units in North America than the PSP has, but the margin is much less than anywhere else...the PSP is performing best in America, while the DS is performing best in Japan.

Worldwide, the DS has sold over 13 million units, while the PSP has only sold about 7 million. If you try to look up the numbers, you have to be careful because Nintendo accurately reports the number of units purchased by consumers, while Sony inflates their numbers by only disclosing the number of units "shipped to retail," which include all the units that are still sitting on store shelves.

I know one person with a PSP but have never seen them play it. I have about 5-6 friends with a DS, who I play with quite frequently. Of course, I also know a lot of people in forums who have DS systems, but that isn't a fair representation of how many people actually own a DS. You're definitely right about retailers carrying more PSP movies than PSP games, because surprisingly enough, the movies seem to be selling better (partly because there really isn't much good software for the PSP). I haven't personally watched a movie on the PSP, but it really doesn't make sense to me why you would want to. You can buy a portable DVD player for half the price of a PSP, that plays actual DVD movies (not UMD) so you can watch them at home too, and has a bigger screen than the PSP. So if you aren't going to buy a PSP for gaming, it really doesn't make sense to buy one at all.

We post updated hardware and software sales statistics every week, so please be sure to visit NintendoPlayers.com again in the future (we're all about Nintendo, but our sales numbers include all consoles). And feel free to join our forums!

If it weren't for the extremely strong sales of the Nintendo DS and the launch of the Sony PSP, 2005 would've been a horrible year, so the analysts' concerns were completely warranted. The home console market is going stagnant because of increased prices for consumers and a lack of original content. I don't see how that is even disputable...sales of home console hardware and software was dismal in 2005, even considering that the current generation is ending. It seems like only Nintendo has figured that out, which is why 2006 will bring a dramatically new product in the Revolution. If affordable enough for non-traditional gamers, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Revolution carried the industry in 2006, 2007, and beyond. Only time will tell which direction the industry is truly headed.

Check NintendoPlayers.com for weekly industry sales numbers, information about the Revolution, and the direction of the industry once the console launches.