Charts: Latest Japanese Software & Hardware Sales
Posted 20 Feb 2006 at 07:21 by guest
Sales ending February 12th reflect dwindling DS supply...even while DS software continues to dominate.
Courtesy of Media-Create, we have the most recent sales figures from Japan.
Sales of the Nintendo dual-screen portable hit its lowest mark in months as supply continued to prove elusive. Apparently due to the lunar New Year (Chinese New Year) shipment of new stock ceased for a two-week span culminating in the current supply shortages. Next week's numbers may prove quite a bit higher... unless the impending release of the Lite (which most Japanese would have found out about just recently as a result of new commericals and Nintendo's DS Conference) convinces potential new buyers to wait until March.
The week's console numbers:
| No. | Console | Week Sales | Last Week Sales | Year Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PlayStation Portable | 24,977 | 25,905 | 310,253 |
| 2 | PlayStation 2 | 22,383 | 24,780 | 217,840 |
| 3 | Nintendo DS | 10,223 | 25,321 | 351,803 |
| 4 | Game Boy Advance SP | 5,405 | 5,649 | 52,337 |
| 5 | Game Boy Micro | 2,934 | 3,199 | 31,987 |
| 6 | GameCube | 2,025 | 2,138 | 30,577 |
| 7 | Xbox 360 | 1,288 | 2,194 | 22,658 |
| 8 | Game Boy Advance | 150 | 115 | 1,477 |
| 9 | Xbox | 84 | 101 | 671 |
On the software side, DS continued to prove popular as the "Training" series led the way for yet another week. New DS software was also present in the Top 10 in the form of Namco's Machigai Museum, a pick-up-and-play title that has players quickly idenitfy inconsistencies in the game's "levels".
The weekly software numbers:
| No. | System | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DS | English Training 72,290 | Nintendo |
| 2 | DS | Brain Training 2 70,407 | Nintendo |
| 3 | DS | Animal Crossing: Wild World 57,335 | Nintendo |
| 4 | PS2 | Siren 2 49,780 | SCE |
| 5 | DS | DS Training For Adults: Work Your Brain 32,082 | Nintendo |
| 6 | DS | Right Brain Master! Machigai Museum 21,132 | Namco |
| 7 | PS2 | Tourist Trophy 20,433 | SCE |
| 8 | PSP | Monster Hunter Portable 20,126 | Capcom |
| 9 | PS2 | Onimusha Dawn of Dreams 19,916 | Capcom |
| 10 | DS | Mario Kart DS 18,304 | Nintendo |
