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Nintendo DS tops the Japan hardware chart
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
Nintendo DS again leads in the Japan hardware chart. During the week that ended on October 3, the DS tops despite a large drop off in sales after the launch of Pokemon Black & White.
The combined DS sales of the DS fell to 54,890 from 89,199 units and the PSP sales dropped to 37,842 units from 38,476.
On the other side, the PS3 continued to outsell Wii and the DS Lite sales more than double. Today, it is also learned that the Pokemon Black & White is in the top spot on the weekly software chart and the Okamiden and Dead Rising 2 is on the top ten as debuts.
The hardware sales week ended October 3 and the previous week sales are shown in brackets:
PSP: 37,088 (37,576)
DSi: 24,937 (49,411)
DSi LL: 24,246 (32,777)
PS3: 20,363 (20,694)
Wii: 13,360 (16,908)
DS Lite: 5,707 (7,011)
X360: 2,769 (2,599)
PS2: 1,247 (1,514)
PSPgo: 754 (900)
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PSP was sold more than Nintendo DSi, XL in Japan
Monday, June 14th, 2010
In the recent sales data from Japan it is revealed that Sony Corp.’s PSP handheld SKUs outsold the Nintendo DS SKUs.
According to Media Create Co., the PSP has ranked No. 1 by selling 23,588 where as the PSP go sold 1,026 units and it occupied the 9th place between May 31 and June 6.
If we look at the comparison, it is seen that the Nintendo DSi LL sold 10,737 units and it is ranked on the 4 position for hardware. Addition to this, 8,219 units were sold of Nintendo DSi in the same period.
For the same week the DS Lite sold 1,743 units.
In the month of March Nintendo released for the U.S. retail the Nintendo DSi XL. It included
two 4.2-inch LCD screens. Each of the screens were 93 percent larger than Nintendo DS Lite handheld. It also has 2 digital cameras, larger stylus, DSi Sound application and of course improved battery life.
It is priced at $189.99 each and is being sold in Burgundy and Bronze colors.
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Europe drops DS price
Sunday, June 13th, 2010
After Japan, now it is Europe to cut price. The price of both model DS’s falls, but not that of the XL.
Nintendo Europe confirmed that Nintendo DS Lite’s and the DSi’s prices will be dropping from June 18 in Europe.
Well, there has been no set amount yet for the drop in the prices because it will be left up to the retailers. They will be deciding the reduced price for the consoles.
It is not clear why this move comes from Nintendo. Is it that it is to clear stock for a new handheld that is coming soon?
Also in Australia there was a price fall of Nintendo DSi and the DS Lite was ignored after the DSi came to the market.
Well, don’t expect any more drop.
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DS line again leads hardware sales in Japan
Monday, May 31st, 2010
The sales of three-models of Nintendo DS led the hardware sales charts of Japan for the week ended May 23 reveals Media Create latest sales charts. The chart says that week-on-week the overall hardware sales were stagnant.
Including the DSi LL, DSi and DS Lite, the total DS sales were 26,145. The previous week it was 28,564 unit.
During the most recent week the segregation of the sales are as given below:
DSi LL - 14,108
DSi - 9,356
DS Lite - 2,681
The PSP-3000 of Sony led individual platform rankings. It was sold 23,313 units, which was down from the previous 24,475 units.
Initially in this month the PSP sales was double with the release of Konami and Hideo Kojim’s Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. The total PSP line sold more than 61,000 units.
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DS XL is being sold more than PSP in Japan
Monday, May 24th, 2010
According to the latest retail data from Japan, the Nintendo DS SKUs of Nintendo has outsold the PSP handheld of Sony.
On Friday the Media Create Co. reported that 15,879 units of Nintendo DSi LL were sold units and it ranked No. 3 hardware between the time period of May 10 and May 16.
In the same period 9990 units of Nintendo DSi were sold.
For the week the DS Lite was sold by 2,695 units.
The PSP ranked No. 1 and it had sold 24,475 units and the PSP go sold 871 units. It was ranked at No. 9.
In the month of March Nintendo also released the Nintendo DSi XL to the U.S. retail. It is
better known with the two 4.2-inch LCD screens and each of it is 93 percent larger than the Nintendo DS Lite handheld. It also features 2 digital cameras. It has improved battery life and comes with larger stylus.
This handheld was price tagged at at $189.99.
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DS on the way of becoming best seller of all time
Friday, May 14th, 2010
This time Nintendo is expecting a dent in profits and this is for the first time if we count the last six years of this gaming giant. The sales Wii maker and also of Nintendo DS took a plunge and it has been dropped by 23 percent.
Nearly ten percent the profits fell of the company but it seems to them that the worst will soon be faded out. based in Kyoto, Japan.
Based in Kyoto, Japan, the Nintendo DS was running very closely second behind the PlayStation 2. Nintendo is expected to become the top in sales by this year end.
NPD Group’s Anita Frazier said, “The NDS is approaching the PS2 as the best-selling hardware system of all time”.
On the other hand the competitor Microsoft reported in the begining of this year of reaching the sales figure of more than 40 million Xbox 360s. According to the current figures, the PlayStation 3 of Sony has sold 33.5 million units. More than 71 million is the sales figure of Wii and the Nintendo DS are has sold so far about 129.
Nintendo is also planning of launching a 3DS version by this year end and this will be offering 3D technology, sans 3D glasses.
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PSP tops the Nintendo retail sale chart
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
The Nintendo DS PSP is ahead of other games of Nintendo in sales according to recent retail data released in Japan.
On Friday Media Create Co. revealed that 59,315 units of PSP was sold and it has ranked No. 1 and 1,890 units of PSP go was sold. It is ranked on as No. 8. The data updated the sales between Apr. 26 and May 2.
Nintendo DSi LL was at No. 4 with a sales figure of 25,569 units for the week and the Nintendo DSi sold 15,628 units. During the period the DS Lite sold 4,069 units.
In the month of March Nintendo released the Nintendo DSi XL to the U.S. retail. It includes two 4.2-inch LCD screens and it is larger by 93 percent than the Nintendo DS Lite handheld. The new handheld also has two digital cameras, larger stylus, DSi Sound application, and also a improved battery life. It was released in two colors, Burgundy and Bronze, and it was price tagged at $189.99 each.
The new handheld had pre-installed software such as Brain Age Express: Arts & Letters, Brain Age Express: Math and Photo Clock, and two free applications: the Nintendo DSi Browser and Flipnote Studio.
The Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP Entertainment Pack will hit the market in the month of June this year. This pack will include a ‘Spirited Green’ PSP-3000 hardware, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker UMD, exclusive in-game Camouflage Uniform with FOX logos and Stealth Gun feature. It will also have Playstation Network movie download voucher apart from a 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo. It will be price tagged at $199.99.
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DSi LL launched in Japan
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Good news for Japan as well as for the Nintendo fans. Over this weekend all the gamers in Japan were able to play the latest iteration of the Nintendo’s DS handheld. It is the DSi LL.
It has attracted the fans with its two large, in fact much large, screens compared to the previous versions, which is the DSi and the DS Lite. It also has two new touch pens (both a large and a small) and 3 pre-installed WiiWare titles. It will go on sale in Japan on the 21st of December, or last Saturday.
In Europe this game will be known as DSi XL and it will be available there in the first quarter of next year.
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Bigger screens for Nintendo DS from next month
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Nintendo is going to launch its latest version of the DS next month. This new version will be having a larger screen.
It will go on sale on November 21 in Japan for 20,000 Yen, little more than what it charges for the present version of DS.
In the overseas market this new version of Nintendo will go on sale by the first quarter of the next year.
Each screen of this DS will be of 4.2-inch in size, which is double the area of the 3-inch screens on the DS Lite. It is even larger than the screen of DSi.
Though bigger screens, but the resolution remains the same. It is equivalent in battery life. As of the DS, it also has 3 hours battery life, which is half hour more than the DSi.
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First time PS3 outsells Nintendo in Japan
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
For the first time PS3 video-game console outsold the Wii of Nintendo in Japan. This data has been revealed by market researcher Enterbrain Inc. It says that for the first time it had happened on a monthly basis in Japan in the month of September. This was the result of the earlier price cut.
According to the data from August 31 to September 27 there were 309,939 PS3s sold. This was a monthly record for the console in Japan. Enterbrain Inc., the Tokyo-based research firm said that Nintendo’s DS Lite and DSi handheld players sold a combined 297,060 units.
Sony had cut the price in Japan of PlayStation 3 on September 3 by 25%. After discount the price stands to 29,980 yen i.e. $335. Sony also introduced a model that of one- third size of the original and it consumes 34% less power.
A same type of price cut in the U.S. market helped the Tokyo-based company sell over one million units globally in just 3 weeks and it brought it closer to its annual sales target of thirteen million.
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