17 Feb
Posted by Darren Stevens as Business, GameCube, Nintendo DS, PSP, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
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.
Via Joystiq
Tags: Business, GameCube, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
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18 Responses
Quartecks
February 17th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
1If… 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.
tidles
February 18th, 2007 at 12:22 am
2Again, 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.
Zac
February 18th, 2007 at 12:32 am
3But the Japanese are kings of gaming!
Kaiser Soze
February 18th, 2007 at 4:31 am
4What happened to tidles? It’s a gaming site showing gaming news. No thanks?
Zac
February 18th, 2007 at 9:40 am
5America’s a single country. Stats are released about them.
Quartecks
February 18th, 2007 at 11:26 am
6Ever seen a Japanese person do math? Besides, PS3 was made in Japan.
Zac
February 18th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
7Japan has always been a very big and influential market for games.
Evander
February 18th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
8Japanese 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.
tidles
February 18th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
9“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.
Zac
February 18th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
10“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?
Ruined
February 19th, 2007 at 4:09 am
11Japan 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
john q
February 19th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
12nintendo 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!
Quartecks
February 19th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
13Use 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.
Ruined
February 20th, 2007 at 7:11 am
14John 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
Zac
February 20th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
15Shortage of lack of demand?
*insert halloween music*
Ruined
February 21st, 2007 at 4:25 am
16Two 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
Zac
February 24th, 2007 at 6:41 am
17I don’t think he can.
Zac
February 24th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
18(his way of saying he can’t)
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