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Aw man I can't bring myself to make the joke.
Who let the Nin...
Nah, forget it.
From 4cr
Week of August 15-21
Nintendo DS outsold both PS2 and PSP combined. It's anarchy in the Nippon!Code:-= Hardware Sales =- Platform Sales Year Total 1 Nintendo DS 80,945 1,462,984 2 PlayStation 2 33,292 1,322,678 3 PlayStation Portable 23,923 1,150,150 4 GameBoy Advance SP 16,721 483,335 5 GameCube 3,960 148,345 6 GameBoy Advance 822 17,219 7 Xbox 263 9,458
--Dave
Who let...
Aw man I can't bring myself to make the joke.
Who let the Nin...
Nah, forget it.
This might be a sales spurt due to the release of a DS fighting game featuring a lot of the Shonen Jump characters. GameScience.com had the DS outselling the PSP at a 2:1 ratio the previous week rather than the 4:1 ratio for this week.
Still, nice to see Nintendo kicking ass.
Does that really mean a whole 263 XBoxen sold??? Holy sh... :o
Yes, the sales are almost entirely due to Shonen Jump Superstars, plus the otaku-bait limited edition DS that launched with it. It's colored Virtual Boy Red.
The original Gameboy Advance (not SP) sold 3x more than the Xbox.Originally Posted by Agent X20
That's funny.
Turning the DS into a Tamagotchi was a good move, which most had predicted - overall saleswise the PSP seems to be doing fine, though.
Nintendogs was released in Japan in late April. They sold 96,000 DS's that week. This latest boost is a separate thing from that.
"That was weeks ago, motherfucker!" --Rick James
I'm going to pretend that this hardware spurt happened because everyone is finally figuring out how awesome Ouendan is.
Not a word, and I wish people woudl stop using made-up words by the Linux community. :/
You've got something against Unixen?
I always thought that "en" suffix thrown on box was a german plural form or somesuch. Can't really prove that but considering some of leetspeak's grosser sins against our language I can't get too worked up over "Xboxen"Not a word, and I wish people woudl stop using made-up words by the Linux community. :/
Considering that we already have the English word "boxes" as a precedent, is it too much to expect people to write "XBoxes"? :P
LOL you guys have got some serious hang-ups. It's not an expression I would normally use. I only used to it to emphasise the incredibly small number of sales... as in so small it was almost unworthy of saying "xboxes" as in the plural.Not a word, and I wish people woudl stop using made-up words by the Linux community. :/
Profound apologies - and no I'm most definitely not a proponent of leet speak. :roll:
Teacher: Brian, how do you make a word a plural?
Brian: Um, you put an "s", you put an "s" at the end of it.
Teacher: No, let me show you, Brian. Erwin, Erwin, what's the plural of "ox"?
Erwin: Oxen. The farmer used his oxen.
Teacher: Very good, now Brian, what is the plural of "box"?
Brian: Boxen. I bought two boxen of doughnuts.
Teacher: No, Brian, let me show you again. Erwin, what's the plural for "goose"?
Erwin: Geese. I saw a flock of geese.
Teacher: Now Brian --
Brian: Whaaaaat?
Teacher: Brian, what's the plural of "moose"?
Brian: ... pause ... MOOSEN! I saw a flock of MOOSEN! There were many much moosen, eating grass -- GREESE! The moosens were eatingen all of the foodingen.
Teacher: Brian, you're an imbecile.
Brian: Imbecillen.
Apparently so.
Anyway, Unix and Linux guys created "boxen" just to be cute and further seperate themselves from all those OTHER, LESS hardcore computer geeks and regular people that they can't stand because they can't see the beauty of Unix/Linux. It's like their own little handshake. You need more Windows BOXES, but you need only half as many Linux BOXEN to do the same work, see? :roll: Yes, it sorta comes from the german pluralizing rule - except you stick it on the end of english words, like "box."
Then when the Xbox started to come out and Slashdot got all giddy with the idea of buying cheap $300 Pentium 3 computers to link together into linux server clusters, they started calling them Xboxen.
type "boxen" into wikipedia, or dictionary.com. They will confirm it made-up-ness.
Actually, Wikipedia credits comic Brian Regan for coining the word, something I discovered while searching for the quote I posted above.
Who really cares?
Actually, I'm surprised that the PSP is so close to the DS in sales, considering that it launched a few months later and costs a lot more.
So in seven days in sunny august the PS2 sold 33,292 and the Xbox sold 263. No but seriously, what the fuck? No, really?
[size=1]I have no such compunctions.[/size]
Who let the Nintendogs out!!
In Japan the launches were within a few weeks of each other and both before the holidays. It was the rest of the world where the DS got a few month headstart on the PSP.
And the PSP was also cheaper at launch in Japan than here- approx $178 US if I remember correctly (they weren't forced to get the value bundle we were).
That's just year-to date-- from January on. DS sold a lot in 2004 too.
That makes more sense, then.
Yeah, those numbers are only for this year. They sold like 2 million before Christmas last year or something like that.
--Dave
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