Posted Sep 01, 2006 at 02:28AM by Alaric S. Listed in: News, Animal Crossing, Super Mario Bros. DS, Brain Age, Final Fantasy III, Mario Hoops 3-on-3, Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon, Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 2 Tags: Japan, GameCube
Ó

MediaCreateFrom August 21 to 27, the Nintendo DS dominated MediaCreate's Japan game console sales chart moving 163,274 units within a week. This brings the total DS Lite units sold to almost 4 million. PSP is a distant second (21, 829) while the Xbox 360 was at No. 6 (1,197). The "other" DS sold 410 units putting it at No. 8.

On the games title chart, Final Fantasy III for DS went straight to the top on its first week of release selling more than half a million copies. The only other new release, Rune Factory, landed at No. 3 with 42,210 copies sold. All games in the Top Ten are DS titles.

Note: The number in parenthesis is the total units sold since the system/game was originally released.

Game Consoles:

  1. Nintendo DS Lite - 163,274 (3,967,887)
  2. PlayStation Portable - 29,945 (3,911,800)
  3. PlayStation 2 - 21,829 (19,662,064)
  4. Game Boy Advance SP - 2,719 (5,881,627)
  5. Game Boy Micro - 1,819 (533,249)
  6. Xbox 360 - 1,197 (139,243)
  7. GameCube - 837 (4,156,706)
  8. Nintendo DS - 410 (6,577,160)
  9. Game Boy Advance - 14 (8,822,654)
  10. Xbox - 12 (475,522)
Game Titles:
  1. Final Fantasy III - 503,051 (NEW)
  2. NEW Super Mario Bros. - 65,556 (2,901,264)
  3. Rune Factory -  42,210 (NEW)
  4. Brain Age 2  -  41,784 (3,073,195)
  5. Cooking Navi - 37,326 (384,045)
  6. Tamagotchi 2 - 30,504 (430,934)
  7. Mario Basketball 3-on-3 - 30,355 (233,762)
  8. Animal Crossing Wild World - 30,023 (3,149,130)
  9. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day - 22,866 (2,736,150)
  10. English Training - 17,465 (1,401,669)



[Via DS Revolution] Permalink  |   Email this  |   Linking Blogs   |   Digg It!

Bookmark / Find this article on:


16 Comments


Sort by:
   by photoboy (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » Surely...

Surely it should only be news when the DS isn't raping the PSP in terms of sales in Japan?

   by ***** (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » Wtf

Why the ***** is this ***** posted here ***** head. DS is a pile of *****.

   by kura (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » lol

only 19 million PS2s sold?

   by clouducla - 2006-09-01
 » ds

...this really crappy handheld can really sell games...maybe if the psp were as crappy it would sell more....how do they do it????

   by hmm (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » it accually does show the ds is raping psp

DS lite 3,967,887
DS big 6,577,160
Total 10,545,047


PSP 3,911,800

Diff 6,633,247

Ouch that hurts. Plus if you add up all the totals for Nintendo products it's a little over 30mil! So who's saying Nintendo is failing?

   by hmm (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » Also dang

Can't forget to point out the fact that even though Nintendo themselves said they did a poor market job on the Gamboy Mico it still out sold the 360 >< even in total sales. Plus almost all the top selling games are DS!

   by Timmy A (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » ...

Just to clarify, that software sales list is for all platforms, not just DS. So the top 10 selling software titles were all DS. Those Japanese sure love there DS (and so do I!)

   by rich (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » ????

let me see now....considering the ds, psp, ds lite, micro gameboy etc out sell the 360 is because its cheaper!! these are crappy statistics and facts. whats the point in this info being on this site somone please tell me

   by Advertising -
   by hmm (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » it's okay

Rich it's okay that these statistics don't match your want. It's just facts that japanese love all these things better than the 360. No need to feel threatened you'll be okay just lie down that's right close your eyes.. good good sleep yes sleep and dream your dreams of a loving world in japan for the 360... ah feel better? Good because that's the only place the 360 will sell well in Japan.. in your dreams that is

   by pspowner2010 (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » Getting the PSP!

nintendo has done well considering the amount of resources sony and microsoft have. I glad :) Another price drop i will just buy the sony psp to watch porn!

   by lol (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » nice

#10 very funny. Yea it does seem that the psp is more of a movie player than a gaming machine anyways/gps/camer/anything other than games.

   by 754boy (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » lol@ #10

I agree man. After a PSP price drop, I'm most likely getting one too.

   by hax (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » You see

Game companies don't care about Japan. I doubt even Sony cares all that much wether or not the PS3 does well there. Out of the 100 million PS2s sold, not even 20 million were sold in Japan. That's less than 20%. The big money is elsewhere. So stop making it seem like it's a big deal if the 360 doesn't do well there, because Microsoft doesn't care either.

   by GD (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » G

I DONT CARE ABOUT JAPAN SALES

   by hmm (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » just to remind ya

Game Consoles:

Nintendo DS Lite - 163,274 (3,967,887)
PlayStation Portable - 29,945 (3,911,800)
PlayStation 2 - 21,829 (19,662,064)
Game Boy Advance SP - 2,719 (5,881,627)
Game Boy Micro - 1,819 (533,249)
Xbox 360 - 1,197 (139,243)
GameCube - 837 (4,156,706)
Nintendo DS - 410 (6,577,160)
Game Boy Advance - 14 (8,822,654)
Xbox - 12 (475,522)
Game Titles:

Final Fantasy III - 503,051 (NEW)
NEW Super Mario Bros. - 65,556 (2,901,264)
Rune Factory - 42,210 (NEW)
Brain Age 2 - 41,784 (3,073,195)
Cooking Navi - 37,326 (384,045)
Tamagotchi 2 - 30,504 (430,934)
Mario Basketball 3-on-3 - 30,355 (233,762)
Animal Crossing Wild World - 30,023 (3,149,130)
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day - 22,866 (2,736,150)
English Training - 17,465 (1,401,669)


It's been a bit since you last looked at them and.... oh yeah only people on this forum are pro ms or pro ps.. lets not forget that Nintendo is part of the gaming comunity and well we all know that they are selling.

   by lol (Unregistered) - 2006-09-01
 » lol

sony fanboys just cant get it thru their minds ds owns the psp, they always have to critisize the ds's specifications because, they can't do it to anything else :(.




Add QJ.NET
Add to My Yahoo!
Google Reader Subscribe with Bloglines
Add  to your Kinja digest Subscribe in NewsGator Online
Subscribe with Pluck RSS reader Add 'www.qj.net' to Newsburst from CNET News.com
Subscribe with SearchFox RSS del.icio.us www.qj.net
Add to Technorati Favorite! Add to My AOL
furl! it Stumble for Treehugger!

 Username: 
 Password:
Forgot password
New user registration



Categories
Emulators
Titles
Archives