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6th of January 2006

JAPANESE HARDWARE/SOFTWARE SALES

Take a look inside Japans hardware/software sales.

December 26 - January 1

Hardware:

DS - 390,181 (Sold Out)
PSP - 110,741
PS2 - 78,646
GBA SP - 15,998
GC - 12,579
Xbox 360 - 12,300
GBM - 11,234
GBA - 447
Xbox - 121

Software:

1. NDS Brain Training 2 - 414,556
2. NDS Animal Crossing DS - 205,119 (1,382,228)
3. NDS Mario Kart DS - 168,680 (836,478)
4. PS2 Kingdom Hearts 2 - 156,837 (884,428)
5. NDS Brain Training - 153,189 (1,157,870)
6. PS2 Front Mission 5 - 146,209
7. NDS Mario & Luigi 2 - 132,726
8. NDS Gentle Brain Training - 82,789 (935,535)
9. NDS Tamagotchi - 63,433 (784,537)
10. NDS Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Blue Rescue Force - 61,154 (572,858)

Posted by Matt Ducky

Reader comments

twilight said:

on software side, 8 of 10 games are for DS. :P

caleb DS-X2 said:

I bein to worry about the Japanese. Sure, the DS is excellent, but if they are seriously buying *Tamagotchi* then something is definitely wrong. That goes double for Pokemon MD: BRF.

Matthew DS-x2 said:

Brain Training: (40k) Brain Training 2: (400k)

Thats Amazing... :p

cubeenigma said:

Damn...just imagine how much the DS would have sold if it had not sold out O__O

Skitz said:

The DS' game sales aren't bad for the fact that the DS is sold out. Nice...

Look at the 360's sales. :D Its a BRAND NEW console, and the week's sales are 12,300. :D The Japanese must REALLY, REALLY not like Microsoft/Bill Gates/The Xbox Systems. :D

darkshadow61 said:

thats crazy! the ds is taking over japan.

yofrancis26 said:

japan buyying tamogatchi is nothign wrong. tomagotchi 1 and 2 for gameboy color both sold about 1.4 mllion in japan

Plat Sajack said:

Nintendo freaking owns Japan. Literally. Sony and M$ should just back off while their ahead(sorta) I guess I'm a fanboy, but whenever I see Nintendo sales dominating the bunch... I get this incredible urge to become, well.. fanboy(ish) What's really sad, though, is that the brain training title would never do that good here in the states. Seemingly, American children would never purchase a game that could possible exercise 45% of their brain. All we like to do is indulge in games which deal with Killing, more killing, and even more killing(GTA, anyone?). The Japanese rock, Go Go NoJ!

Ben DS-x2 said:

Japanese buy GTA alot too y'know. Very popular. But DS is really owning, now release Brain Training 3 when Sony release something good and they will secure the charts.

Matthew DS-x2 said:

I agree with Ben.

Gibran DS-x2 said:

Japan does not like GTA at all. Its' popularity is like Famicom in the States. Only a few people know about it.

Matthew DS-x2 said:

Gibran, Not all Japanese people are the same.

NPC said:

I think Nintendo needs to restock FAST, I hear they won't have more ds's untill late January. That gives another 3 weeks or so for the PSP to catch up. In case you haven't noticed PSP sales were not bad either, imagine what they might be for this month.
:/

Ray00101 said:

GTA is moderately popular in Japan, although not the megton it is here in the US of A.

Gibran DS-x2 said:

Matt, you must understand that GTA is "very popular". It sells just enough to make a profit, but not enough to be a hit.

Nintendude said:

DS is just selling like crazy. w00t!!!

Ben DS-x2 said:

It's very popular in Europe too, since I live near the place where it's made unfortunately. Damn Scotland and there stupid games.

ndreamer said:

dam look at all those million sellers on the ds animal crossing will soon break 2million in japan alone.

rocken said:

Front Mission 5 isn't going to stay in the top 10. In another two weeks its gone.

Part 2 said:

What the hell IS brain training exactly? It's been selling like crazy.

Good to see the DS is selling healthily (to understate it). With handheld sales like this I doubt Ninty will ever pull a Sega, regardless of home console sales.

flipping_heck said:

That list basically tells me how varied the DS games lineup is, Brain Training games for educated people, Tamogotchi for the people who love simulators (looking at girls/kids), then there's Mario Kart and M&L for those gamers.

Nintendo is right in trying to break into different sectors of the market and it certainly shows here in Japan.

It be interesting to see how the DS shortage will affect sales next week.

twilight said:

I heard Nintendo will include a special sudoku mode to the European version of Brain Training (release date is 31st March) and they will have a BIG marketing campaign geared towards the non-gamer crowd.

I think the sudoku mode is pretty smart move from Nintendo especially now when sudoku (you know, that Japanese puzzle sensation) is HUGE in Europe.

zaraf said:

lol, more gamecubes sold than Xbox 360 :P

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