Hardware sales continue climb in Japan

via Games Industry


Hardware sales in Japan continue to climb, with new data from Media Create showing that all home and handheld consoles have seen a sales boost.

Again, the Nintendo DS continues to fly off shelves, selling 153,834 units for the week ended August 19, a climb of over 6600 from the previous week.

The Wii also performed well, shifting 73,938 units, over 8000 units up on the the week before.

Sony's PSP saw a modest rise in sales from 32,147 to 33,715, as did the PlayStation 3, from 21,321 units last week to 21,720 this week.

The PlayStation 2 sold 15,240 while Microsoft's Xbox 360 managed 2445 sales. The GBA family recorded 654 sales and the GameCube 145.

Thanks to Nintendo with the Wii and DS of course lol

Duh... Seriously now the DS KEEPS selling 150,000 units a week in Japan?!?!!?!
WHAT THE HELL?? DIDN'T ALL THE JAPANESE GET A DS OR TWO??!?!?!?!?

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Originally Posted by yoshinatsu

Duh... Seriously now the DS KEEPS selling 150,000 units a week in Japan?!?!!?!
WHAT THE HELL?? DIDN'T ALL THE JAPANESE GET A DS OR TWO??!?!?!?!?

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Obviously not?

Though it works out that just over a million DS units get sold in Japan every 6½ weeks. Either they must have an overly huge population, or the majority of DS consoles bought are not for use within Japan and are being re-sold worldwide for a profit?

poor xbox 360 you dont fair well in japan makes me wonder why they still sell it there