We knew it was going to be popular in Japan. We also knew that the DS has been the best selling system for months - but who would' ve thought that, within just a week of lauch, the DS Lite would take over the charts in such rapid success?



Here are the latest Japanese console hardware sales for the week of Feb 27 - Mar 5, 2006:

DS Lite - 68,438 [68,438] units
Nintendo DS - 49,118 [500,482] units
PSP - 43,110 [412,535] units
PlayStation 2 - 25,778 [291,155] units
GBA SP - 5,493 [68,347] units
GB Micro - 3,213 [41,316] units
GameCube - 1,489 [35,716] units
Xbox 360 - 1,240 [26,415] units
Xbox - 101 [895] units
GBA - 98 [1,793] units

This is certainly saying a lot for Nintendo' s forthcoming machine, of which they claim will be " revolutionary"