Australian Sales Charts, Week Ending 18/09/05

Hardly would affect the sales that badly. Piracy can come in the form of GBA games also, so I hardly see that as a problem - although GBA piracy is much harder to produce compared to Xbox and PS2, but it still can be done easily.

It's good to see the GBA is still going strong though, considering that the NDS is also out. Increase in NDS console sales in Australia also, which are good signs for Nintendo Australia for once.

I'd be interested to see the reaction of the Micro overhere though. I mean the console has already marked itself as a superb seller in Japan - surpassing first day Japanese sales compared to the GBASP, which is very surprising with the DS also out.

Not hardware sales, just what i've seen and heard. I was talking to my friend at the EB in the city the other day and he told me the DS sales had increase in a pretty high % over the past couple of months, despite the release of the PSP. And the K-Mart I work at I asked the manager if it was possible to gather a % increase for the DS and that had shown a fairly impressive increase also (couldn't show me value prices though, doubt I could work out the units in the sales figures though since each store puts a mark-up on their products). And while not being able to get exact numbers, I asked a few other stores around the place and they mentioned that while the PSP sales were going strong, the DS, on average, still had an increase despite the launch.

While I keep speak for all Australia, the guy I know at the EB in the city is pretty trust worthly, and same goes for the manager at my work. But the general perspection was that the DS was still selling strong despite the PSP's release. I would suspect that to change once GTA is launched though.

And in other news, Nintendogs is out so that might play a role on the charts next week. Nintendo have been advertising that quite hard over the past two weeks, which is a bit of a surprise.