Japanese hardware sales: 22-28 May

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Jun 2nd 2006 at 5:20PM }

We just received the Japanese hardware sales charts for the week ranging from 22 May to 28 May via singing telegram. It took several hours for the song to run its informative course, and yet we still can't manage to get the tune out of our heads. The ranking, according to number of units sold:

DS Lite: 285,025 124,843 (77,94%)
PSP: 27,227 2,770 (11,33%)
PS2: 19,798 835 (4,05%)
GBA SP: 6,652 478 (7,74%)
Phat DS: 4,126 12,741 (75,54%)
Game Boy Micro: 2,013 232 (10,33%)
Xbox 360: 1,242 161 (11,48%)
Gamecube: 1,116 65 (6,18%)
GBA: 44 19 (76%)
Xbox: 8 12 (60%)

As you can see, the DS Lite outsold the PSP more than ten times over, no doubt a fact that will be brought up in countless fanboy arguments in the coming week. The Phat DS continues its sad slide down the charts, content in the fact that it has paved the way for its younger brother's colossal success. There's some sort of profound image in there, but we can't be bothered.

[Source: Media Create]

Tags: DS Lite, Japan, Nintendo, Phat DS, PhatDs, Sales charts, SalesCharts

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

phipps @ Jun 2nd 2006 5:42PM

Poor Phat... we'll miss him...

greatslack @ Jun 2nd 2006 8:00PM

kind of sad that only 8 Xbox's were sold in the last week for the entire country. That many NES's will probly sell on ebay in the next 30 minutes

Garold @ Jun 2nd 2006 8:00PM

Don't you mean 100 times over?

CTU Kyoto @ Jun 2nd 2006 9:02PM

It's pretty sad that in almost all of these charts the original, non-SP Game Boy Advance outsells the original XBox.

OyoyoY123 @ Jun 2nd 2006 9:03PM

ole' sweet

now show me some US chart plz

Bob799 @ Jun 2nd 2006 9:23PM

Its no wonder the phat is dropping, being priced the same as the lite how many people are gonna get it?

Jason C. @ Jun 3rd 2006 10:56AM

only 8 xboxs? lol

Thomas Averin @ Jun 3rd 2006 1:45PM

Its funny how people are buying almost as many gamecubes as xbox 360s.

BPMΩ @ Jun 3rd 2006 2:32PM

Bob799:
While that is true for America, it isn't true for Japan. In Japan, the retail price for DS is still �15,000. The DS Lite retails for �16,800.

Of course, that's if you find one in a retail store... Considering how hot DS has been in Japan, they usually sell out pretty quickly. And expect to pay a premium from second-hand sellers...

Chunk @ Jun 4th 2006 2:16AM

Does anybody else share my urge to eat the ds lite. I just want to sink my teeth into it. It reminds me of the urge to eat chapstick when I was a kid. Although I actually went through with eating chapstick, I will not be eating my ds lite when I finally get it. I just wanted to see if anyone else shared my strange fetish.

Murphy @ Jun 5th 2006 2:09AM

10 times more that PSP? More than 1/4 Million DSL's in a week? That's some selling. Makes me concerned for the amount of units that we will have for the UK and US releases.

Matters @ Jun 5th 2006 2:26PM

How about sinking your teeth into a babyruth instead?

DS @ Jun 7th 2006 11:41AM

the DS lite rocks and no wonder its on the top

bignerd972 @ Jun 8th 2006 5:38PM

not interesting....US and UK numbers please!!

tha1guy95 @ Jun 9th 2006 11:30PM

ha ha ha, i laugh at the futile attempts of sony, anyways its no surprise the lite is up, poor poor phat, i got my phat about a month before the lite (traded in my pathetic psp for a real handheld...by which i mean ds phat of course) u no what they say "once u go phat u cant go back", i love my ds, (US charts?)