DS Sales North America, Week 41

DS Hardware = 111,861 (-18%)
Software = 726,725 (-22.1%)
Software top ten total = 352,000 (48% of total software)

Notables:

#1 - Zelda: PH, down 58% from launch week. Sold about 20% more at launch in NA than it did in Japan. Expect it to have very long legs.

#7 - Drawn to Life, up 68%! There must be some word of mouth going on here. It's definitely starting to look like a sleeper hit.

Next week (out this week) look forward to the debut of:

• Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day
• Hannah Montana: Music Jam

Drawn to Life debut at #3 on the Australian charts this week - there is definitely some buzz around the game. It has also scored a high level of retailer promotion.

Finally seeing some Zelda ads on TV - they are really cool. Loving the game as well.

You can draw wangs for everything in the game. That's enough word of mouth right there.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/09/22

Wow, old comic. They looked so much younger back then ;)

Aww, did you post that comic just 'cuz I said wang? Shucks, thanks.

Seemed appropriate.  If Kurt Vonnegut can say it, why can't we all?

 I've seen some very accomplished artwork done for the game.  No pictures from me but some of the best drawn I've seen are "Penis Man" who shoots gobs of spooge and "Turd Man" who shoots feces. This game seems to bring out the Beavis and Butthead in a lot of people.

I started with one of the defaults: the small kid on stilts who's carrying fake arms and has a smiley face on a stick coming out of his back, but then I made his stilts white like giant tusks, and covered them in blood, and I redid the smiley to be all mangled and bloody with horns. All the platforms I jump on though? If they're not wangs, they're n00d gurlz lol.

I have just played through Drawn to Life and i thought it was excellent, although some of the platform section were a little rough around the edges, overall its great fun. The storyline and script, although quite basic is charming, memorable and funny. I hope it does sell well so they developer makes another, or atleast something similar.