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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Nintendo DS tops in August

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

The sales of video game for the month of August this year was down from the previous year. But not for all. The PlayStation 3 sales were considerably up from the month prior. It sold roughly the twice amount. Let us give a thank note to the mid-month price drop.

The data of NPD Group reveals that Sony sold 210,000 PlayStation 3s in the United States last month. There was a $100 drop that took an effect at some of the retailers as early as August 18th. It likely translated to a price conscious boost in sales.

Oh yes, the Xbox 360 sales also experienced a late August drop. It got a minor boost.

Nintendo DS sold over half a million units in the month of August. It was a DS Lite and DSi combined.

Below is the details:

o Nintendo DS - 552,900
o Wii - 277,400
o Xbox 360 - 215,400
o PlayStation 3 - 210,000
o PSP - 140,300
o PlayStation 2 - 105,900

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Nintendo DS leads the industry while other suffers

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Nintendo DS has led the video game system sales of America in the month of May. It has sold 633,500 units. This is in fact a hike of 40% compared to the same month in 2008. The sales were split 369,000 and 244,000 of DSi and DS Lite respectively.

The sales of Wii console of Nintendo were down by 57% over May 2008 to 289,500 units. But, the sales of course pushed the console past the 20 million mark in the US after only 31 months on the market.

On the other hand the Xbox 360 suffered the least of the home consoles. It had only a 6% drop in sales over last year. It is a fact that this console is suffering and it shows just how much the US video game industry is suffering.

The total industry sales has dropped below $1 billion for the first time since August 2007.

The NPD Group’s analyst Anita Frazier says, “The video games industry continues to struggle with difficult comparisons to last year, and this is the first month that industry sales have dipped below $1 billion since August 2007. May is typically one of the lowest revenue-generating months in any given year for the industry in general.”

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DS platform again tops Japanese sales

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

It is again good news for Nintendo. Nintendo’s DSi once again tops the hardware sales of Japanese. This is revealed from the data provided by Media Create. The data is for the week ended February 1.

The latest iteration on the touch screen handheld shifted more than 55 thousand units. It was 55,613 units. When it was combined with the DS Lite sales of 15,147 then the total rose to 70,760 units.

The unique PlayStation Portable of Sony was only 44,135 units sold. The Wii took the lead in home console market. It sold 23,278 units.

PlayStation did a balancing act. It maintained a lead over the Xbox 360 of Microsoft in the region. It’s sales was 17,405. Its rival was at 8107.

PlayStation 2 sold 5334 units.

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