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 again remains best-selling in Japan

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

According to the data released from Media Create, it is revealed that the Nintendo DS again remains the best-selling console in Japan. The data is for the week ending 18th of October.

Nintendo DS sold 51 735 units in combined total. In it the DSi contributed 49 145 and the DS Lite just 2 590. It is also learned from the data that the sales of the DSi has dropped marginally from last week’s tally but there was a drop of 2800 units on DS Lite.

In the second place is the PSP with 33 508 units. It has dropped quite substantially from last week’s 40 100. The third place is reserved for the PS3 with 30 231 units. It is just 266 units ahead of the Wii in fourth place with 29 965. The sales of both remains steady from last week.

There was a slight increase in the sales of Xbox 360. It is the only console to record a sales boost with 2 109 units sold. The PS2 is steady with 2 109 units.

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