Japanese hardware sales, 4 September - 10 September: Thick Irish accent edition

by Jason Wishnov { Sep 15th 2006 at 8:57PM }

So, weh here a' the Fanboy decided ta' switch nationalities for a Wii bit. (I could na' resist the pun!) It seems that o'er in Japan, the DS Lite has taken a bit of ah slide. The only explanation weh can offer is that a giant shipment ah Guinness draft arrived a' the pubs, and people were just too busy drinkin' to spend money on such a fine system. The PSP sales, o' course, went up, as people needed more fancy coasters to set their drinks upon.

- DS Lite: 113,831 115,108 (50.28%)
- PSP: 29,141

1,642 (5.97%)
- PS2: 19,882 2,821 (12.43%)
- GBA SP: 2,104 647 (23.52%)
- Game Boy Micro: 1,801

10 (0.56%)
- Xbox 360: 1,094 156 (12.48%)
- DS Phat: 1,058

738 (230.63%)
- Gamecube: 696 159 (18.60%)
- GBA: 13 9 (40.91%)
- Xbox: 5

5 (infinite%)
- Wii: 0

0 (0%)

Fellow blogger Ludwig, over a' Joystiq, decided ta' include the Wii in the sales charts for this one week, and since weh ~~pretty much try ta' emulate his every whimsical notion~~ are the Wii Fanboy, after oll, weh decided ta' do so as well.

[Source: Media Create]

Tags: Drinking, Guinness, Hardware, Ireland, Irish, Japan, Pubs, Sales

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

retro @ Sep 16th 2006 9:37AM

Oh wow. Ludwig, you are mental-crazy-insane. I love it.

...what's your xbox live score.

Jassen @ Sep 16th 2006 10:58AM

This really is a no brainer, look at the percentage increase on the DS Phat compared to everything else.

:)

bob @ Sep 16th 2006 12:24PM

leprechauns ftw

kobewan @ Sep 16th 2006 8:58PM

Haha, thats a new feature to advertise for the PSP. Although I must say, the coaster explanation is probably a more logical reason for the infinite percentage increase of the Xbox.

Also, how cool would it be to see a movie with somebody smashing a PSP/Xbox over somebody head in a barfight instead of the stock beer bottle?

Ponti @ Sep 17th 2006 7:55AM

I don't think it's correct to include Wii in charts. It's not selling yet. And no one has seen this system working

=['] @ Sep 17th 2006 9:44AM

That is the worst Irish non-accent i've ever read.

I could almost make out the American accent - it was like reading Tom Cruise's or Brad Pitt's scripts when they try and play 'Oirish' people.

Matt Category @ Sep 17th 2006 10:30AM

Yeah, that's a horrible Irish accent. And a horrible, horrible pun, seeing as the word "wee" refering to "small" is actually a Scotish dialect. It's like you're mocking New Yorkers for saying "aboot".

But aside from my rather anal view on the misuse of the English language, DS FTW!

V. Watermelon @ Sep 17th 2006 3:20PM

Wow, not only was it a little racist, it was more of a bad scottish accent really. I'd be more offended if you were actually aiming to offend hoardes of people. But whatever I'm not offended and few people I know would be. Although the refrences to alcohol abuse are coming a little close...

Aaaaanyway. It looks like even with the slip the DS lite's top spot is secure for a while yet.