DS-x2.com - Weekly Japanese Sales: 01/09

20th of January 2006

WEEKLY JAPANESE SALES: 01/09 - 01/15

Nintendo DS shortages continue to effect sales even after the holiday season is over in Japan.

Software:
01. NDS Brain Training 2 - Nintendo - 141,307 (845,885)
02. NDS Animal Crossing DS - Nintendo - 50,032 (1,565,251)
03. NDS Brain Training - Nintendo - 49,774 (1,321,504)
04. NDS Mario Kart DS - Nintendo - 39,182 (990,369)
05. PS2 Gun Parade Orchestra - Sony Computer Entertainment - 35,709 NEW
06. PSP Monster Hunter Portable - Capcom - 34,937 (377,138)
07. PS2 Kingdom Hearts II - Square-Enix - 32,880 (1,000,509)
08. NDS Mario & Luigi 2 - Nintendo - 29,639 (260,799)
09. NDS Gentle Brain Exercises - Nintendo - 25,780 (1,023,979)
10. NDS Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop! - Bandai - 24,550 (870,921)

Hardware:
PSP - 57,686
NDS - 54,284
PS2 - 39,076
GBASP - 9,982
GBM - 6,341
X360 - 6,107
GCN - 5,465
GBA - 233
XBX - 119

LTD
NDS - 5,792,615
PSP - 2,873,405
NDS Lead - 2,919,210

Well as you can see the holidays are now over in Japan and sales are returning to normal. Nintendo DS shortages continue and retailers are starting to jack-up the price of the system for the few they recieve on the shelves each week. Right now the DS is selling for about the same price as the PSP in Japan and people seem to still be buying the handheld at this insane price. Hopefully Nintendo will increase the shipment soon enough so the price will go back down and sales should go back to normal.

src: Media Create

Posted by Jay

Reader comments

MikeMania said:

well this time around, the difference is way smaller. I think this is PSP's last week in first place.

And looking at software, DS continues to dominate.

shinneri said:

I wonder what compelled those 119 people to buy Xboxes...

themole said:

Most likely Americans living in Japan.

flipping_heck said:

its coming back to normality for every console now.. but lets wait until the DS stock is replenished, then we see a domination :)

darkshadow61 said:

2 words.. DS OWNZ! thats all for now folks

NPC said:

still...this isn't a good trend, Nintendo has to stop these DS shortages.

Olpus Bonzo said:

Jacking up the Nintendo DS price is legal in Japan?

shinneri said:

Why would it be illegal anywhere? An MSRP is the Manufacturer's SUGGESTED Retail Price. It's like when you go to a store and pay twice or three times as much for something as you do online.

sam999 said:

OMG!!! the ds is wooping in the software market even thogh theres bearly any ds to get!!! gogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogooggogo!!!! and the price goes up to and its still seeling amazing!! it will stay like this till rev and ps3 come out ibet!!!