Topic: Nintendo Owns Another Week In Japanese Console Sales

[miket]

Weekly sales figures show Nintendo sailing strong.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=14205

 Weekly Japanese sales figures from Media Create indicate that Nintendo’s stranglehold on console sales is continuing strong through the otherwise slow days of summer. For the week of July 30 through August 5, the DS Lite sits head and shoulders above other hardware offerings accounting for half of all consoles sold with 135,729 units taken home by Japanese gamers. The Wii brings up the second spot with 61,498 units sold.    

Sony’s PSP ranks in third place with 33,886 consoles sold for the week. The DS Lite and PSP combined to account for 62% of all units sold for the week. While Wii has been stealing more headlines in the popular press around the world, these sales figure reconfirm the strongest area of market expansion in Japan is still firmly rooted in the handheld space with home consoles coming in a clear second.    

The PS3 and PS2 round out the top 5 with 24,289 units and 12,784 units sold for the week. Xbox360 sold 2,691 consoles.

[NWR_pap64]

Sales for the Wii are still dropping...Should we worry?

[Kairon]

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Originally posted by: pap64
Sales for the Wii are still dropping...Should we worry?

Supply. Nintendo must be stockpiling again.

[GoldenPhoenix]

Nintendo is doomed, PSP has almost caught up with Wii!

[SalesBot]

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Hardware - This Week | Last Week | YTD | LTD
1. DS - 135,804 | 150,584 | 4,693,678 | 18,699,357
2. Wii - 61,498 | 77,169 | 2,365,438 | 3,285,081
3. PSP - 33,886 | 35,068 | 1,255,519 | 5,787,648
4. PS3 - 24,289 | 28,829 | 584,420 | 1,041,978
5. PS2 - 12,784 | 11,757 | 488,870 | 20,643,729
6. 360 - 2,691 | 3,872 | 133,122 | 397,824
7. GBA - 641 | 532 | 43,471 | 15,341,550
8. GC - 68 | 102 | 9,000 | 4,178,468

It also appears that DS has <2million to go before passing the PS2 in LTD sales
and that the Wii has <1million to go before the GC LTD sales in japan.
At the current rate of sales, they should both achieve their sales marks at around the same time, give or take a few weeks.

source: NWR's Official Wii Sales Thread  

[Kairon]

Do we really need weekly boastings of how well Nintendo is doing in Japan?

[Bill Aurion]

Yes, because they deserve it... =)

[SalesBot]

To be exact estimates put the DS overcoming the PS2 in 15 weeks and the Wii overcoming the Cube in 14 Weeks in Japan.  The last States figures they dropped the numbers for the Cube but the DS had just surpassed it in the States.

Though overall it was a slump of a week compared to last week which was a slump for Nintendo but an excellent week for everyone else compared to the week before.
This Week:

Last Week:


As always the full set of graphs are displayed at Fun With Numbers  

[nickmitch]

Who's buying GameCubes?

[BlackNMild2k1]

I am!!

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[Klapaucius]

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Originally posted by: SalesBot

It also appears that DS has <2million to go before passing the PS2 in LTD sales
and that the Wii has <1million to go before the GC LTD sales in japan.
At the current rate of sales, they should both achieve their sales marks at around the same time, give or take a few weeks.

source: NWR's Official Wii Sales Thread

LTD is how many it has sold in total? So, its been less than a year and Wii has almost sold more than Gamecube ever? o_o;

[Ceric]

If things goes as predicted.  In Japan, yes barely.  It has a long road in the States because, as mentioned, the DS just broke over GC sales.