Charts: Latest Japanese Hardware & Software Sales
Posted 17 Apr 2006 at 02:44 by guest
Sales for the week ending April 9th showed no significant changes: DS Domination circa 2006 continues.
Courtesy of Media-Create, we have the most recent sales figures from Japan.
DS Lite again reigned supreme by handily outselling all other platforms combined. Inklings from retailers have recently been shaping a definitive notion of a May-June launch in the West - will consumer interest prove as ravenous as it has been in Japan? Time will tell.
The week's console numbers:
| No. | Console | Week Sales | Last Week Sales | Year Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nintendo DS Lite | 154,731 | 149,371 | 686,768 |
| 2 | Nintendo DS | 49,825 | 59,903 | 730,569 |
| 3 | PlayStation Portable | 30,565 | 36,943 | 583,059 |
| 4 | PlayStation 2 | 28,896 | 33,301 | 476,667 |
| 5 | Game Boy Advance SP | 5,211 | 6,732 | 94,442 |
| 6 | Game Boy Micro | 3,103 | 2,992 | 58,401 |
| 7 | Xbox 360 | 1,940 | 3,258 | 35,363 |
| 8 | GameCube | 1,224 | 1,492 | 42,568 |
On the software side, DS titles retained their torrid popularity and unchallenged lasting power. A pair of new PS2 baseball titles could not overtake More Brain Training. Also, English Training has now sold over 800k copies and seems to be on a steady march towards joining the DS Million-Seller Club in another month.
The weekly software numbers:
| No. | System | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DS | DS Training For Adults: Work Your Brain More 80,972 | Nintendo |
| 2 | PS2 | Pro Baseball Spirits 3 68,538 | Konami |
| 3 | DS | Animal Crossing: Wild World 62,729 | Nintendo |
| 4 | DS | DS Training For Adults: Work Your Brain 56,282 | Nintendo |
| 5 | PS2 | Pro Baseball Hot Star 2006 52,027 | Bandai Namco |
| 6 | DS | English Training 50,244 | Nintendo |
| 7 | DS | Pokemon Ranger 44,391 | Nintendo |
| 8 | PS2 | Final Fantasy 12 38,125 | Square-Enix |
| 9 | PS2 | Pro Soccer wo Tsukurou Europe Championship 23,375 | Sega |
| 10 | DS | Mario Kart DS 23,138 | Nintendo |
