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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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Nintendo DS line tops Japanese hardware sales

Saturday, September 11th, 2010

For the week ended September 5, the Nintendo DS line tops the sales chart of Japanese hardware, announced by Media Created on Friday. The reason behind the Nintendo’s top status is the recent sales boost of PSP. It remained on the top of the individual hardware versions chart. With this, the Nintendo DS is above the overall handheld of Sony.

Capcom’s Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Ailu Village was relased last week when the PSP sales rose. The slower sales of the title this week mirror to the hardware’s return to #2.

Nintendo sold 39,936 units. DSi LL alone sold 18,929 units, the DSi and the DS Lite sold 16,968 and 4,039 units respectively.

From last week the sales of all the platforms remained consistent, apart from the PSP. It indicated the steady hardware sales and it left the rankings almost unchanged.

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30 million Nintendo Wii sold in US so far

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

The fastest selling games console in the history of US is Nintendo’s Wii. Since its launch the company has sold more than 30 million units of the Wii and that too in just 45 months.

In a recent statement, the Nintendo said that the Wii offers motion gaming and it has surpassed the 30 million units marks in the United States. The company further said that the Wii had sold faster than PS2 of Sony.

According to analysts, the Wii is going to become the most popular games console in the world.

Nintendo claims that as of June 2010 the company has sold 74 million of Wii units globally.

Currently the PS2 of Sony is the most sold games console of the world. In last 10 years Sony has sold 145 million units of PlayStation2.

Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of sales and marketing Cammie Dunaway said, “More than any other video game system in history, Wii has expanded the world of video games to new audiences. This milestone is another reminder that people want fun games they can play with others — all at a value-minded price.”

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Why has the Nintendo DS done so well in the UK history

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

It was too much assumed way back in the year 2005 that the Sony PSP may win the battle of the handheld games consoles. The reason behind this is that the PSP was sleek and have gorgeous widescreen display. Where as the Nintendo DS looked like a toy. Though the two screens were included but it was not enough to get anyone excited. However, the PSP has done well enough and it sold over 50m units. But the Nintendo was not so bad even. The ugly duckling has grown into a phenomenon.

Nintendo has now shifted over 100m units. In this recent trend, the Nintendo DS has overtook the PlayStation 2 and has become the biggest selling games console in the history of UK.

The big question arises that why has the Nintendo DS done so well?

There are three main factors to be credited. It has the ability to jab at a screen with a stylus and this was usually enough for gamers to attract. More to this the sleek and the minimal styling of the later models helped it to become more famous. And not to forget, the most important of all, the console has been popular due to the variety of content.

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Nintendo DS leads in UK market

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Nintendo DS became the best selling games console in the history of UK says new research.

The research figures released by market research company GfK Chart-Track revealed that a little more than 10 million Nintendo DS machines, and its successors the DS Lite and DSi, had been sold till now in the English market. It beats the previous bestseller PlayStation 2 of Sony. Sony has been on sale for about a decade.

The success of Nintendo DS is due to the broad appeal of its family-friendly titles.
Brain Training titles are among the biggest selling games on Nintendo DS. In this game the players are required to solve maths and also reasoning puzzles, and Nintendogs, in which people create and take care of virtual pets.

According to experts the simplicity of Nintendo DS is the key of success. It has only few buttons and it is in fact mainly controlled by poking and writing on a touchscreen with the help of a stylus. It is also appealing to those who are playing video games for the first time.

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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.