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Japan Chart: Nintendo DS line leads
Monday, October 25th, 2010
The total sales of Nintendo DS line in Japan market has led all other platforms this week i.e. DSi LL, DSi and DS Lite, says tracking firm Media Create. The PSP and PS3 of Sony saw a sales boost.
The PSP-3000 sold 37,127 units this week ended October 17. It is about a 4,000 unit increase from the last week. The PlayStation 3 saw an increase of 2,000 unit approximately. It jumped to the second position from number four on the charts.
PSP Go experienced a sales boost. From last week’s 1,373 units, it jumped to 1,715 units this week.
On the other side, the sales of DS hardware of Nintendo remained constant. Only the DSi hardware had seen a notable change. It sold about 1,500 fewer units than the previous week. It came down to the foruth position.
The total sales of the DS line this week were 47,101 units. It is enough to lead the sales of all-platforms.
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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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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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DS the best sold gaming console
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
It seems that Japan is still interested in handhelds and in Wii Sports Resort. The chart shows that the Nintendo DS is the best sold gaming console. Through the chart it also seems that the Nintendo made game still leads the software charts with a very good margin.
46,855 units of DSi was sold in one week and its only rival, the PlayStation Portable from Sony, took the second place with sales figure of 32,849 units. The DS Lite is at 7,500 units in one week.
In the home gaming console the Nintendo Wii sold close to 25,000 units and it was on the top. It is more than the PS3 and the Xbox 360 managed to sell together.
The big news is from the software charts in which Wii Sports Resort sold more 155,000 copies in the second week of its shelf life. The overall sale of it is more than half a million units.
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Japan hardware sales down
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Sales of every platform decline in the week ended on 17th in Japan. The data has been given by tracking firm Media Create.
Nintendo DSi sold 34,152 in this week. Though it lead all other platforms for the second consecutive week, but weekly sales for the platform were down by 20,000 units from the previous week.
Sony’s PSP was the second with 28,683 units sold. It is down from 43,000 the week before.
The sales of PlayStation 3 received a strong boost over past weeks from few good releases like Yakuza 3 and Resident Evil 5 in Japan. Not to forget the Blu-ray release of the movie Final Fantasy VII.
Nintendo’s DS Lite, Sony’s PS2 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 rounded out the depressed hardware charts.
The Chart (Week of May 11-17)
DSi: 34,152
PSP: 28,683
Wii: 15,116
PS3: 11,605
DS Lite: 4,888
PS2: 4,020
Xbox 360: 3,233
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