Japanese Hardware Sales, Feb. 5-11
February 17th, 2007 by Darren Stevens in Business, GameCube, Nintendo DS, PSP, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox360
For several weeks in a row, the DS and Wii have been dominating the Japanese hardware sales charts, and last week was no exception. The DS Lite is, totally unexpected, once again the top seller, followed by the Wii.
- DS lite: 201,177
- Wii: 78,550
- PSP: 32,175
- PS3: 23,431
- PS2: 16,033
- Xbox 360: 4,811
- GBA SP: 980
- GameBoy Micro: 884
- GameCube: 383
- DS: 121
Via Joystiq
Tags: Business, GameCube, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii, Xbox360
February 17th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
If… I…..had….invested….. Seriously though, it looks as though the Japanese don’t ever go for the lower model. Poor DS, it did worse than the ‘Cube, that’s gotta hurt.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Again, who give a shit what the Japanese are doin on the other side of the word… its a sales drop in the ocean in a world market… jeez, can we see their top sales of toilet paper plz, its just as of much interest… no more plz.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:32 am
But the Japanese are kings of gaming!
February 18th, 2007 at 4:31 am
What happened to tidles? It’s a gaming site showing gaming news. No thanks?
February 18th, 2007 at 9:40 am
America’s a single country. Stats are released about them.
February 18th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Ever seen a Japanese person do math? Besides, PS3 was made in Japan.
February 18th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Japan has always been a very big and influential market for games.
February 18th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Japanese kids start their education at 3 I believe, not pre-school crap either. How else are thye going to entertain themselves when they aren’t doing homework? Plus its a small country, all those people need to do something while cramped up on the subways/trains and whatnot.
February 18th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
“Japan has always been a very big and influential market for games.”
Not now or ever from where I live… this site should realise that.
February 18th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
“Not now or ever from where I live… this site should realise that.”
Well I guess the site doesn’t live where you live.
Why don’t you explain why Japan isn’t what we think it is?
February 19th, 2007 at 4:09 am
Japan has always been a leading market for the games industry.
The more interesting observation is how Ps3 is doing over there. Japan has traditionally been dominated by sony (at least last generation is was) and its their home market.plus look at US sales figures ps3 isn’t doing well there either
Japs are also much more technology orientated than we are so if they don’t care about bluray its a problem.
Like it or not europe is no 3 games market so figures from japan and america are very relevant to how things do here
February 19th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
nintendo got lucky creating the ds LITE if it wasnt for the lite the ds would be down down down in the fiery pitts of the hall of shame where sega, the xbox, the gamecube, the virtual boy and other failed inventions are!
February 19th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Use common sense please, Many of those people who got DS lites would have still bought regular DSs if the Lite wasn’t available. i’m not saying all of them would, but a majority.
February 20th, 2007 at 7:11 am
John q DS Lite launched in 2006 and DS in March 2005. DS has been dominating the PSP in the handheld market since Autumn 2005 so how does the DS Lite saving them work ?
Oh sorry I forgot blind Sony fanboydom means you have to make ridiculous sweeping statements to enforce the fact that you have based your somewhat empty lives around worship of an electronics brand
February 20th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Shortage of lack of demand?
*insert halloween music*
February 21st, 2007 at 4:25 am
Two points.
1 - PS3 is readily available across the US wheras you can’t get a Wii anywhere because they are selling as fast as they are shipped. So how come Wii is in the top ten and PS3 isn’t. Perhaps your fanboy logic can answer this one
2 - The fact you just called me a noob proves without a doubt that you are a 15 year old virgin who spends too much time in World of Warcraft
February 24th, 2007 at 6:41 am
I don’t think he can.
February 24th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
(his way of saying he can’t)