Nintendo 3rd party vs. 1st party software figures.

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fkusumot said:
Here's 3rd party numbers on the DS in Japan for the first half of the year:

7. (DS, Square Enix) Dragon Quest Monsters Joker - 765,365
10. (DS, Level 5) Professor Layton and the Mysterious Town - 586,676
15. (DS, Capcom) Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney - 455,540
36. (DS, Marvelous Interactive) Harvest Moon: The Island I Grew Up On - 250,580
42. (DS, Sega) Love and Berry Collection - 199,877
59. (DS, EA) Sim City DS - 158,230
73. (DS, Atlus) Etrian Odyssey - 119,584
99. (DS, Capcom) Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Justice for All - 87,849

It looks like the 3rd party publishers aren't getting much action. ;)

 7, has sold more than a million LTD

10, probarbly Level 5 best selling game ever.

15, The best selling game in the serie

36, Harvest moon has sold more that ever on the DS, never been a million seller.

42, Over a million by now.

59, More or less the only game EA has in Japan.

73, Atlus almost never sells more than 200k

99, A game that is still selling even when it has a number of sequals out.

DS sales isn't that bad that people belives their is some Nintendo games that dwarfs everything that is true, doesn't mean that 3rd party is doing bad numbers.