Comments on: Eight news stories 31.7

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:12:55 +0000

BC. DS sales down 75% and Wii sales down 50% isn’t a dip it’s a disaster.

JC Barnett. I don’t think seasonality has anything to do with it. If you read properly you will see that the figures are year on year. And I assume that even in Japan the seasons come at pretty much the same time each year.

Nintendo are reacting to this with a big anti piracy drive, see first story, and with a rumoured new DS later this year.

By: JC Barnett

JC Barnett — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:47:33 +0000

DS software sales are down due to piracy? Wii sales WILL go down when piracy finally hits proper?
Seriously? There is absolutely nothing else at play here? Like, say, a seasonal dip in sales, recession, a glut of substandard shitty DS games, it’s all piracy? Wow.

By: BC

BC — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:27:57 +0000

Lots of news about a new DS

You think that the reporters were lazy and just put a few assumptions together like I did?

By: Ian Osborne

Ian Osborne — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:28:06 +0000

Item One – a story about how the DS is losing its viability as a platform due to piracy.

Item Two – a story about Nintendo’s profits being up by 34%.

Shurely shome mishtake?

By: Callum Godfrey

Callum Godfrey — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:12:28 +0000

I might be in the minority here with my opinion but I am quite pleased to see the dip in form at Future for a couple of reasons:

1) Monopoly of a market isn’t usually a good thing, and Future have a monopoly on the printed gaming media.

2) Due to the lead times on magazines it is so much harder to cater for their needs and yet still supply them with fresh information on a game. The obvious advantages of the internet here make life much easier for those working on products and trying to keep the public informed on progress. Sending review code to a magzine before you have finished the game just to be included in a magazine for your launch month is a huge burden.

By: BC

BC — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:25:08 +0000

Wasn’t there always going to be a Wii/DS dip in sales in Japan as everyone already has one, and there are only so many colours in the rainbow to resell the DS to folk. All they have to do is release a smaller, brighter DS and things will pick up again. Also, now they can sit back and allow games sales to rack up thanks to Wii’s being in so many homes already.

As for the piracy killing the DS, it’s a shame that nintendo are just making an amazing amount of money, rather than a stupidly amazing amount of money on game sales. Poor them.