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Donkey Kong 64
Topic Started: Apr 28 2007, 09:36 AM (148 Views)
Rapueda	Apr 28 2007, 09:36 AM Post #1
Gemini Squadron Posts: 3,014 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: April 5, 2006	I remember back when DK64 was coming out, Nintendo expected it to be the best-selling game of all time and break Zelda: OoT's initial sales record. But since nothing much was said about it after the release, I'm guessing that it didn't break the record.



Electro	Apr 28 2007, 09:43 AM Post #2
Advanced Member Posts: 50 Group: Member Member #76 Joined: April 22, 2007	It sold well enough, but it was hardly an all time record-breaker. According to vgchartz, DK 64 sold more than 5 million copies worldwide, more than 3 million copies sold in the US alone: http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=D...her=&sort=Total



Mop_it_up	Apr 28 2007, 02:22 PM Post #3
Dark Birdo Posts: 5,133 Group: Admin Member #24 Joined: August 8, 2006	I wonder why Nintendo expected sales to be that strong? I also wonder if the game requiring the Expansion Pak affected the sales. 5 million worldwide is still pretty darn good. How many games from the last generation sold more than 5 million? The only ones I'd guess are the GTA's and the Halo's, but I don't know for sure.
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Deleted User	Apr 28 2007, 02:56 PM Post #4
Deleted User	5m is good sales, although the figure on Wikipedia is only 3.77 million. As always, trying to find accurate sales info for games is difficult, and some of the figures on Wikipedia seem to be wrong; for example Super Mario Sunshine apparently sold more then Mario Kart Double Dash although this was previously the other way around! Anyway, here are the N64's strongest sellers according to Wikipedia: Super Mario 64 - 11 million Mario Kart 64 - 8.47 million GoldenEye 007 - 8 million The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 7.6 million Super Smash Bros. - 4.89 million Diddy Kong Racing - 3.78 million Donkey Kong 64 - 3.77 million And here's some recent games that have sold more than 5m. As we can see, it's only very high profile games that make the list: Xbox # Halo 2 (8 million)[41] # Halo: Combat Evolved (5 million)[42] Gamecube # Super Smash Bros. Melee (6 million)[67] # Super Mario Sunshine (5.5 million)[68] Playstation 2 # Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (14 million)[116] # Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (13 million)[117][43] # Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (11 million)[108] # Grand Theft Auto III (11 million)[117] # Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (7 million)[118] # Kingdom Hearts (5.6 million shipped)[86] # Final Fantasy X (5 million)[11] DS # Nintendogs (13.6 million)[74] # New Super Mario Bros. (9.5 million)[74] # Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (8.51 million)[87] # Pok�mon Diamond and Pearl (6.21 million approximately, 5.21 million in Japan,[74] 1.0 million in US)[88] * Pok�mon Diamond (2.50 million in Japan only)[89] * Pok�mon Pearl (2.05 million in Japan only)[90] # Animal Crossing: Wild World (5.75 million approximately, 4.01 million in Japan,[91] 1 million in Europe[92] 800,000 in US)[93] Once again, I'd treat these stats with suspicion, as the difference between games being shipped and sold doesn't appear to have been addressed (VG Chartz also seems to count shipments rather than sales) and some of the references are dubious (would you believe a game sold so many units simply because a games journalist had said so?).
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Mop_it_up	Apr 28 2007, 03:21 PM Post #5
Dark Birdo Posts: 5,133 Group: Admin Member #24 Joined: August 8, 2006	alxbly Apr 28 2007, 04:56 PM 5m is good sales, although the figure on Wikipedia is only 3.77 million. I'm pretty sure that figure was just for the US release. But you're right, finding accurate sales data isn't easy, especially for older systems. I have this suspicion that companies try to keep that data hidden from the public. Either that, or sales are difficult to keep track of. Maybe both.:unsure: I'm also wondering if the PS2 GTA sales are really just for PS2, or if they were mixed up with the numbers for all platforms (probably not, but I'm still wondering).
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Deleted User	Apr 28 2007, 03:49 PM Post #6
Deleted User	The DK sales figure is for the US and Japan (Europe seems to have been missed out and it sold reasonably well over here, although perhaps not well enough to account for the missing 1m+): # Donkey Kong 64 (3.77 million approximately, 2.67 million in US,[60] 1.10 million in Japan)[58] Forget to provide the link in my last post so here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best_...and_video_games It's possible that the GTA sales are for all platforms (the reference is Take 2's fiscal report) but even then the actual PS2 figure is still likely to be very close, as the PC and Xbox sales of GTA only made up a small percentage of overall sales.
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dagoss	Apr 28 2007, 09:02 PM Post #7
Level 1 Scholar / Level 10 Wizard Posts: 2,851 Group: Member Member #29 Joined: September 20, 2006	I'd be highly suspicious of those stats Alxbly. 13.6 million copies of Nintendogs whereas Halo only sold 5 million? 13.6 is more than Mario 64!
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migulic	Apr 29 2007, 01:29 AM Post #8
Veteran Member Posts: 531 Group: Member Member #33 Joined: September 30, 2006	dagoss Apr 29 2007, 05:02 AM I'd be highly suspicious of those stats Alxbly. 13.6 million copies of Nintendogs whereas Halo only sold 5 million? 13.6 is more than Mario 64! Actually, the Nintendogs sales numbers have as source a PDF - Consolidated Financial Statements - Nintendo, so they should be pretty accurate. Probably if you combine the sales of all version, the outcome will be around 13-14 million.
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Deleted User	Apr 29 2007, 05:54 AM Post #9
Deleted User	dagoss Apr 29 2007, 04:02 AM I'd be highly suspicious of those stats Alxbly. I am, as the last paragraph of that post indicates: "Once again, I'd treat these stats with suspicion, as the difference between games being shipped and sold doesn't appear to have been addressed (VG Chartz also seems to count shipments rather than sales) and some of the references are dubious (would you believe a game sold so many units simply because a games journalist had said so?)".
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Kerr Avon	Apr 29 2007, 03:48 PM Post #10
Veteran Member Posts: 265 Group: Member Member #52 Joined: December 13, 2006	Wikipedia is a great site for finding information, but you should always treat anything you learn there as possibly suspect. It's true of every WWW site, of course (well, and every source ever, in fact), but especially with Wikipedia being open to creation and editing by anyone. And yes, accurate sales figures are notoriously hard to come by. Production figures are easier to ascertain, but this doesn't take account of the pirate copies that are sold to people who believe that they are buying real products.



Deleted User	Apr 29 2007, 05:10 PM Post #11
Deleted User	^ Pirated N64 games are like Sasquatch: they are either very, very rare or they don't exist at all.
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Mop_it_up	Apr 30 2007, 11:27 AM Post #12
Dark Birdo Posts: 5,133 Group: Admin Member #24 Joined: August 8, 2006	Doesn't the 13.6 million figure for Nintendogs count every version of the game? If so, then it makes for an unfair comparison.
	===MISQUOTE OF THE MONTH=== "2D games are dull and boring." -alxbly


Applepieman	Jun 3 2007, 07:57 PM Post #13
Honorable Member Posts: 1,069 Group: Member Member #83 Joined: June 3, 2007	I'm suprised Donkey Kong 64 sold so weel, with all the criticism it got from the media.



Deleted User	Jun 4 2007, 02:08 AM Post #14
Deleted User	^ That's kind of a myth that's built up since it's release. At the time it was released most gaming magazines and webistes gave it a good review, as you can see from sites like Game Rankings: http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages4/191702.asp An average of 87% from 29 reviews is pretty good for any game. Since then, though, it's been held up as an example of how collecting can be heavily relied upon as a feature to extend a game. And it's true, there is a lot of collecting in DK64. There's a lot of other good stuff too but that often gets forgotten. I think perhaps one of the reasons DK64 gets a hard time these days is that people with no liking for Nintendo can slag it off, and many of the Nintendo "hardcore" (I hate that term so much...) will agree; there's no love lost for Rare since they "jumped ship" to Microsoft.
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Deleted User	Jul 2 2007, 01:18 PM Post #15
Deleted User	I've recently bought some promo stuff for Donkey Kong 64, so I thought I'd show you guys. Guess the first thing I should show is the mega rare DK64 controller!!! Okay, okay, so it's not actually the DK64 controller. This is some weird cover for the N64 controller... I've no idea why anyone thought this was a good idea! Maybe it's for long playing sessions when your hands get sweaty??? That's kinda gross. I mean, surely it would start to smell after a while? Anyway, this one is fresh and will stay that way because it's not gonna get used. It just makes the controller look silly, anyway. If anyone knows the history of this thing then please post. Perhaps it was given away with a magazine (Nintendo Power, perhaps?), I have no idea! Next up, some real promo stuff: This is a hologram badge sent out to videogame stores for the release of Donkey Kong 64. The badge reads "Ask me about!" and when tilted, shows an image of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong 64 text and bananas as a background. I had a bit of trouble getting a photo of the Donkey Kong view, but you can just make out DK and the banana background in the photo on the right. I also got this Donkey Kong banana notepad. This was also a promo item given out to stores. And it came with... You might have guessed, it's a Donkey Kong 64 banana pen! Last of the promo items is this: This DK64 barrel was originally shrinkwrapped but my curiosity got the better of me. It opens up to reveal.... A Donkey 64 shirt! Nice. And, of course, no Donkey Kong collection would be complete without: That's right, it's the Nintendo Power Donkey Kong 64 Banana Bunch controller. So I've finally managed to track down the last of the limited edition Nintendo Power controllers. I'll take a few more photos and put them up on www.N64answers.com.
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Rapueda	Jul 2 2007, 03:52 PM Post #16
Gemini Squadron Posts: 3,014 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: April 5, 2006	That controller cover is... yeah... ummm... it seems like it would make playing games more difficult. How big is that barrel? It's awesome. You could use it to put your loose change in or something. And in high school I worked in the video game area of a Toys R Us, and I remember we had those buttons, the pads of paper, and the banana pens when the game came out. Ahhh, so many memories! I wish I had hung on to the pen. It's pretty sweet. Great finds, alxbly!



Deleted User	Jul 2 2007, 06:07 PM Post #17
Deleted User	Thanks Rapueda. The barrel is just the right size for keeping change in (it's just a little smaller than a pint glass). I wonder if I should test out the controller cover? Nah...
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Zaidou	Jul 3 2007, 01:53 AM Post #18
Veteran Member Posts: 169 Group: Member Member #84 Joined: June 12, 2007	You freak. now you have all the power controllers.....millenium X, DK, and 100. When the universe is inevitably yours i ask for a quick and painless death.......
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Applepieman	Jul 3 2007, 08:45 AM Post #19
Honorable Member Posts: 1,069 Group: Member Member #83 Joined: June 3, 2007	Man I wish had some money to go hunting for cool stuff like this How much you spend all together on all of these?



spikie	Jul 3 2007, 10:20 AM Post #20
End All Sorrow Posts: 625 Group: Member Member #55 Joined: January 3, 2007	on the controller jacket it seems some buttons are slightly covered up Eg: a bit of the start. Does this jacket effect gameplay il try find some info on the cover
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Deleted User	Jul 3 2007, 12:02 PM Post #21
Deleted User	Spikie: The only gameplay button affected is c-up, which the cover slips over if you press the button down. Not exactly helpful. That said, I think the elastic holding the cover on would stretch after a while, so that this wouldn't be a problem. Since this thing is likely to be about eight years old (assuming it was released at the time of DK64's release) and it's never been used, it's probably safe to say that the elastic has lost some of it's stretch. Maybe... Applepieman: Including shipping from the US to the UK, this lot came to over $100 (US).
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D.J Cat	Jul 5 2007, 03:18 AM Post #22
. Posts: 261 Group: Member Member #70 Joined: March 17, 2007	Well, the top photo - that cover thing is definitely some kind of banana design. Hmm, I don't know why but it seems to appeal as being comfortable to me. What is the material?



Deleted User	Jul 5 2007, 03:23 AM Post #23
Deleted User	Feels like nylon. I'll see if it says anywhere on it what it is.
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Zaidou	Jul 5 2007, 07:39 PM Post #24
Veteran Member Posts: 169 Group: Member Member #84 Joined: June 12, 2007	does it have washing instructions too?
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Deleted User	Jul 5 2007, 07:49 PM Post #25
Deleted User	Nah, all it has is "Made In China" on a tiny label. The mystery continues...
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dataDyne	Jul 6 2007, 04:21 AM Post #26
You don't stand a chance Posts: 3,864 Group: Admin Member #4 Joined: April 13, 2006	Oh wow, nice finds! That DK64 cover for the controller looks excellent.
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Stephen Young	Jul 6 2007, 08:18 AM Post #27
StYoung Forever Posts: 2,609 Group: God Member #17 Joined: July 13, 2006	Wow.
	dagoss Nov 17 2007, 05:13 PM OMG, this is the best topic ever made. I nominate Steve for God!


sweetpea	Jul 6 2007, 09:23 AM Post #28
Member Posts: 33 Group: Member Member #69 Joined: March 16, 2007	Some cool stuff that you have there. B)



Zaidou	Jul 6 2007, 06:52 PM Post #29
Veteran Member Posts: 169 Group: Member Member #84 Joined: June 12, 2007	the cover is nothing compared to the actual DK64 controller.
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Deleted User	Jul 9 2007, 03:15 PM Post #30
Deleted User	Got some other weird crap a while ago... not really Donkey Kong-related or promotional... These were given away with Taco Bell meals. There was a whole range of N64-themed toys: I've also got the Mario Maze, but it's not very exciting. The Starfox Shootout looks cool... although it's probably rubbish!
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