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Japan Chart: Nintendo DS line leads

Monday, October 25th, 2010

The total sales of line in market has led all other platforms this week i.e. LL, and Lite, says tracking firm . The and of saw a sales boost.

The -3000 sold 37,127 units this week ended October 17. It is about a 4,000 unit increase from the last week. The 3 saw an increase of 2,000 unit approximately. It jumped to the second position from number four on the charts.

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 hardware of remained constant. Only the 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 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 , it is revealed that the again remains the best-selling in . The data is for the week ending 18th of October.

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

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

There was a slight increase in the sales of . It is the only 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 video-game outsold the of in . This data has been revealed by market researcher . It says that for the first time it had happened on a monthly basis in 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 in . ., the -based research firm said that ’s Lite and handheld players sold a combined 297,060 units.

had cut the price in of 3 on September 3 by 25%. After discount the price stands to 29,980 yen i.e. $335. 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 -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 is still interested in handhelds and in Sports Resort. The chart shows that the is the best sold gaming . Through the chart it also seems that the made game still leads the software charts with a very good margin.

46,855 units of was sold in one week and its only rival, the Portable from , took the second place with sales figure of 32,849 units. The Lite is at 7,500 units in one week.

In the home gaming the sold close to 25,000 units and it was on the top. It is more than the and the managed to sell together.

The big news is from the software charts in which 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 . The data has been given by tracking firm .

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.
’s was the second with 28,683 units sold. It is down from 43,000 the week before.
The sales of 3 received a strong boost over past weeks from few good releases like Yakuza 3 and Resident Evil 5 in . Not to forget the Blu-ray release of the movie Final Fantasy VII.
’s Lite, ’s PS2 and Microsoft’s rounded out the depressed hardware charts.

The Chart (Week of May 11-17)

: 34,152
: 28,683
: 15,116
: 11,605
Lite: 4,888
PS2: 4,020
: 3,233

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