Nintendo Sales | DS Cracks 2 Million in France Alone!

By Adam Riley 18.12.2006 16

With the Nintendo DS consistently selling in amazing numbers both in the US, Japan and Europe as a whole, the French arm of the company has gone on record with some sales figures. According to Nintendo of France, the DS has now passed two million sales in France alone, which is quite some feat considering the system launched in March 2005 and took until June 2006 to hit its first million!

During the week of 4th-10th December, 150,000 Nintendo DS units were sold. Stephan Bole, General Director of Nintendo France, stated,

"The Nintendo DS appeals to all members of the public, which explains why it is the first console to break through the 2 million barrier so quickly after its launch in France. For the last few days, more games are being sold on Nintendo DS than on any other games platform in France, and more and more publishers are actively participating in this dynamic. The sales trend is actually experiencing a phenomenal acceleration without precident in the videogames market."

All of this and Christmas is just on the door-step. Can anything stop the DS steam-rolling the competition? It looks highly doubtful at the moment.

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dojo is offline. dojo 18.12.2006#1

Ah! C'est fantastique! J'ai envie de savoir la proportion des eux qui

 
Cheesing It Up is offline. Cheesing It Up 18.12.2006#2

I suspect the DS could go on to become the best selling games console of all time. (it'll certainly smash through 100 million anyway)

 
MC hammered is offline. MC hammered 18.12.2006#3

Wii Wii I Jadore DS. About as french as I know, and as far as I'm willing to go towards emulating those cheese eating surrender monkeys.

Enoch Powell was right, and you know it.
 
dojo is offline. dojo 18.12.2006#4

Don't diss French Vyse, unless you wanna face the wrath of the language that held more prestige for 400 years

Smilie

( Edited on 18.12.2006 19:57 by jesusraz )

 
avicard is offline. avicard 18.12.2006#5

Je suis un peu fier d'etre francais

 
jesusraz is offline. jesusraz 18.12.2006#6

Listen, tolerant as we are, if the xenophobic slant to this topic doesn't cease, then sadly I'll just have to start deleting people's posts.

Please stick to the topic at hand - the wonderful sales of the DS in France Smilie So, what does that make it...something like 8.5 million across Europe, with the majority of sales coming now from the UK and France?

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dojo is offline. dojo 18.12.2006#7

I wouldn't be surprised if Germany were the next to step on the DS-loving bandwagon. I'm sure marketing has really been pushed recently over there. Smilie

 
Nekoala is offline. Nekoala 18.12.2006#8

dojo99, are you dumb?? France Do love Nintendo! You can notice it just by visiting french vg sites, where many Nintendo communities live.

 
The Croft is offline. The Croft 19.12.2006#9

Vyse said:
Wii Wii I Jadore DS. About as french as I know, and as far as Im willing to go towards emulating those cheese eating surrender monkeys.

Was that really needed, if England was right beside Germany, the English would have been crushed.

jesusraz said:
Listen, tolerant as we are, if the xenophobic slant to this topic doesnt cease, then sadly Ill just have to start deleting peoples posts.Please stick to the topic at hand - the wonderful sales of the DS in France Smilie So, what does that make it...something like 8.5 million across Europe, with the majority of sales coming now from the UK and France?

Cheers for that Raz, the topic needed that.

So 150k DS's were sold in France this week with 105k in GB, quite in incredible.

I would say GB, France and Germany are the 3 big markets in Europe and around 2m in Germany as well.

Kudos to Nintendo.


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J4K is offline. J4K 19.12.2006#10

Well this is quite a feat! I agree with you Fenno, at the rate the DS is flying off the shelves, it could go on to be the best selling video game machine of all time.

 
Girlfriend is offline. Girlfriend 19.12.2006#11

Nekoala said:
dojo99, are you dumb?? France Do love Nintendo! You can notice it just by visiting french vg sites, where many Nintendo communities live.

Haha actually NO he isnt. He's right. If Germany does as he said, it dosnt mean France automatically stop buying the DS does it?

Nope.


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Nekoala is offline. Nekoala 19.12.2006#12

teary green eyes > I was talking about his first post, in which he says he didn't think France to love Nintendo.

 
zcollvee (aka zafarali) is offline. zcollvee (aka zafarali) 19.12.2006#13

wow?


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The Croft is offline. The Croft 19.12.2006#14

Well the French and the Germans both took well to the GameCube in fact the Cube outsold the Xbox on mainland Europe. The Cube just flopped in the Uk and ireland.


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dojo is offline. dojo 19.12.2006#15

Mr.Ashcroft said:
Cube outsold the Xbox on mainland Europe..

By how many? About 100 units? It couldn't have been that far between the two. Smilie

 
The Croft is offline. The Croft 20.12.2006#16

dojo99 said:
Mr.Ashcroft said: Cube outsold the Xbox on mainland Europe..
By how many? About 100 units? It couldnt have been that far between the two. Smilie

By 143 units to be precise Smilie

It was somewhere in the region of 750k to 1m units in W.Europe, with the exception of UK & Ireland.

Don't quote me i saw them figures a while ago.


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