It looks like the Pokemon weren't enough to keep the DS Lite's sales numbers anywhere near what they were last week. However, this week wasn't kind to any of the hardware as the top five systems each dropped in sales numbers compared to what they were a week earlier.- DS Lite: 124,137
150,252 (54.76%)- PS2: 28,264
3,728 (11.65%)- PSP: 21,050
4,269 (16.86%)- Xbox 360: 2,101
94 (4.28%)- GBA SP: 1,532
279 (15.41%)- Game Boy Micro: 1,273
170 (15.41%)- Gamecube: 488
35 (6.70%)- DS Phat: 260
7 (2.77%)- GBA: 12
2 (20.00%)- Xbox: 8
5 (166.67%)The DS Lite still gave the PSP a good spanking, outselling it by more than 100,000. But hey, look on the bright side, the PSP kicked the DS Phat's ass!
[Source: Media Create]
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10-14-2006 @ 1:59PM
PSP Come Back said...
OMG...is PSP really making a come back? Time to fanboy bash DS fanboy
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10-14-2006 @ 2:11PM
Ladsaber said...
Lol @ the DS,it sales went down 50%,ds phail.
And PSP kicked Ds phat,gameboy advance ass.
Lol ha ha ha Ds is PoS.
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10-14-2006 @ 8:26PM
rkrocks123 said...
Man, I knew I shouldn't even have looked at PSPfanboy comments. It is a Sony system, after all, with more than it's share of fanboys (even after loads of bad PR). Obviously Japan only needs one handheld, and it's not Sony's do-everything-in-mediocrity machine. The only reason the DS Lite dropped so much, incidentally, is that IT IS SOLD OUT IN MANY PLACES! I'm sure there are plenty of people in Japan STILL waiting to buy a Lite, especially with the newest version of Pokemon.
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10-14-2006 @ 9:29PM
Unkelski said...
Yup, My bro is in Japan at the moment, He only just got one of the 183 shipped DS's that were at one of the game shops, He had to get there really early and there were apparently over 300 people there.
The title is false, even if it does say "sort of.."
The DS sales are only less because game console sales obviously rise when a highly anticipated game such as Pokemon is released.
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10-15-2006 @ 12:48PM
Kaiser Soze said...
"Lol @ the DS,it sales went down 50%,ds phail.
And PSP kicked Ds phat,gameboy advance ass.
Lol ha ha ha Ds is PoS."
This better be a joke. How can anyone write something as stupid?
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10-15-2006 @ 2:23PM
KageNaruto said...
wow psp come back, did you even read anything but the title of this article? 100000 more units were sold of the Ds than the psp, what kind of comeback is that?
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10-16-2006 @ 5:58AM
Mark said...
PSP is PoS. DS Lite is killing the PSP.
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10-16-2006 @ 7:33PM
rkrocks123 said...
Wow, Sony fanboys are outnumbered even on a site designed specifically for them.
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10-17-2006 @ 5:02AM
JD said...
#8 Well thats cuz they know that they dont have anything to stand on!
Comeback, HAHAHA! lets get this years totals so far shal we?
2006 Totals for Japan:
DS Lite: 4.983.903
DS Phat: 955.644
DS Total: 5.939.547
PSP: 1.381.966
Lets do some maths:
1.381.966 / 5.939.547 x 100 = 23.27%
Meaning: The PSP only managed to sell 23% of the DS sales.
In other words:
5.939.547 / 1.381.966 = 4.30
Meaning: The DS is outselling the PSP by more then 4 to 1. So for each PSP sold Nintendo sells 4.3 DS'.
Sometimes even I love numbers :-P
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