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"

Where did you get you figures, and what does the number in brackets represent? The amount sold this year?

Where did you get you figures, and what does the number in brackets represent? The amount sold this year?

I believe so, considering that the DS Lite' s is the same as its amount sold in the week.

I found this on Magic Box, by the way...

but who would' ve thought that, within just a week of lauch, the DS Lite would take over the charts in such rapid success?

Everyone who knows anything about games.

The DS is surprising me, With animal crossing and andvanced wars, I almost feel like selling my psp for a ds light.

i just noticed something. has another system finally beat the ds in sales? it said the GBASP had like 10,000 more sales then the orig ds. OR is it me just noticing for the first time

Edit* I just noticed that the orig ds had one more zero in its sale than the sp [:' (]

The 360 being outsold by the GC! Microsoft might as well just pull out of the Japanese market now.

Just did a wee bit of maths.

Units sold by manufacturer:

Nintendo: 127,751 (64.52%)
Sony: 68,888 (34.8%)
Microsoft: 1,341 (0.68%)