Japanese hardware sales, Jun. 4 - Jun. 10

[wraggster]

New in are the sales details from Japan and as usual the DS/Wii Combo are ruling the waves:

Heres the figures for you to digest:

- DS Lite: 117,193
- Wii: 64,529
- PSP: 24,711
- PS2: 11,097
- PS3: 8,776
- Xbox 360: 2,533
- Game Boy Micro: 481
- GBA SP: 302
- Gamecube: 167
- DS Phat: 35
- GBA: 16

One question that puzzles me is that how many people live in japan, surely everyone there owns a DS by now ?

[Shrygue]

I also wonder if everyone in Japan has a DS Lite too, seeing that so many are sold each week.

Right now, it looks to me that console sales have fallen comparing to the last reading. Low demand maybe?

[Solidsnake3000]

good the psp is still out there another price drop and it could be number 1

[iceman100]

#1 lol right

[yaustar]

I don't get it. How the heck is the DS STILL selling that many? Surely everyone in Japan has one by now :/

[devination]

I don't get it. How the heck is the DS STILL selling that many? Surely everyone in Japan has one by now :/

Yeah i know what you mean, I thought the same thing about the PS2 when it was in front for so long before

[alienanthropologist]

8:1

[DarthPaul]

One question that puzzles me is that how many people live in japan, surely everyone there owns a DS by now ?

Ahahaha yeah! Weird..

[jmendes]

Ahahaha yeah! Weird..

They must be using Ds´s as glass coasters

[telboy007]

The PS3 is doing appallingly bad...

[JKKDARK]

I'm sure people is getting more than one DS (with different colors)

[Veskgar]

I don't get it. How the heck is the DS STILL selling that many? Surely everyone in Japan has one by now :/

That thought has crossed my mind too. But I remember reading an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto and he was asked how many DS Lites his family had. I think the number was like 4. 1 for everyone in the household.

So it would appear that entire families are getting DS Lites and it makes good family time with the multiplayer.

Go Nintendo!

[alucard001]

That thought has crossed my mind too. But I remember reading an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto and he was asked how many DS Lites his family had. I think the number was like 4. 1 for everyone in the household.

So it would appear that entire families are getting DS Lites and it makes good family time with the multiplayer.

Go Nintendo!

wow goddamm rich japanese

[Basil Zero]

Actually the population of japan is larger than 50 million(which is the amount of ds's sold).

So its not quite surprising, except for the fact that every gamer in japan by now has one ds.

[redkimdk]

Population: 127,433,494 (July 2007 est.)
CIA World factbook

[Basil Zero]

.....July 2007 Est?

how...its not even july LOL

anyways

ya, wow...half of the people are gamers...incredible LMAO

[Game_Collector]

It will be interesting to see if the PS3's sales spike up in the next few weeks with Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Folksoul and most of all, Minna no Golufu 5. I read that MnG5 has over 300,000 pre orders. I guess it is going to suppass Gundum Musou by a fair margin as the biggest selling PS3 game so far.

I don't know if NGS is going to sell that many copies in Japan (I know I will certainly be buying it, I love the XBOX version) but I am more interested to see how an original game like Folksoul does. It recieved good reviews in Famitsu and I quite liked the demo even if the story was some what typical and unoriginal.

[mcdougall57]

The PS3 is doing appallingly bad...

i think this is due to it haveing no innovation (which the japanese really like) its pretty much like a beefed up ps2 while the wii and ds are somewhat different