Nintendo dominates Japan, makes money doing it

by Candace Savino { Dec 12th 2007 at 5:00PM }

The Japanese sales numbers for the week ending 12/9 are in (via Famitsu), and there are some pretty notable things to point out regarding Wii sales:

Wii Fit unsurprisingly takes the top spot, after impressively debuting at #2 in last week's charts
Wii hardware sales continue to rise, as the system pushed 110,000 units for the week
Super Mario Galaxy hit the 500,000 mark in Japan, showing that the game has legs

All of these are good developments for Nintendo, we reckon, and keep in mind that we haven't even mentioned DS sales. The nitty gritty of the numbers and charts are listed, for your viewing pleasure, after the break.

Hardware:

DS: 165,000
Wii:110,000
PSP: 88,000
PS3: 38,000
PS2: 15,000
Xbox 360: 7,800

Software:

Wii Fit (Wii) --- 153,000 (407,000)
Tales of Innocence (DS) --- 108,000
Professor Layton 2 (DS) --- 101,000 (409,000)
Minna no Golf Portable 2 (PSP) --- 86,000
Mario Party DS (DS) --- 81,000 (602,000)
Lost Odyssey (Xbox 360) --- 60,000
SD Gundam G Generation Spirits (PS2) --- 52,000 (283,000)
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) --- 49,000 (501,000)
Power Pro Kun Pocket 10 (DS) --- 47,000
Winning Eleven 2008 (PS2) --- 44,000 (439,000)

[Via NeoGAF]

Tags: famitsu, japan, sales, super-mario-galaxy, wii-fit

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ants @ Dec 12th 2007 5:47PM

wow!! a 360 game made the software chart but did poorly in the hardwares. This just shows that people are buying ps3 to use as a media player.
cool nintendo rocks.

gevenstaines @ Dec 12th 2007 8:03PM

blow it on catnip!

Sonic_13 @ Dec 12th 2007 8:47PM

Wait, Nintendo's making money on video games?????

When did this start happening?

(I apologize if this is old news - I don't always get a great Internet connection living under my rock)

Shadow31 @ Dec 12th 2007 10:01PM

If you're talking about post SNES era, Nintendo has been making money since the DS came out, and even more so with the Wii. They are the top selling handheld and console respectively.

Sonic_13 @ Dec 13th 2007 12:26AM

I was only making a joke (thus my comment about living under a rock), because every single week there is a new article about how Nintendo is printing money or raising their financial forecast or how Miyamoto & Co. are swimming in pools full of cash, etc.