DS software passes a huge milestone and Mario Kart Wii sells big.
Mario Kart Wii made a bold entry in Nintendo’s home territory this week, selling well over half a million copies. Super Smash Bros. Brawl continued to slowly build on its 1.5 million sales so far, just barely in the top 10. Monster Hunter Portable, however, has already surpassed Brawl’s sales in a little over two weeks.
This week, Media Create chimed in with a few significant milestones that were reached, the most notable that DS software sales have topped 100 million units in Japan alone. In fact 21 of the 922 DS games currently available are million sellers in the territory, with New Super Mario Bros at the top with 5,174,163 sold. Even more impressively, the DS managed all of this in just under three and a half years, beating out the previous champion (the PS2) by almost a year.
Weekly Sales/Total Sales to date
01. [Wii] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) – 594,000 / New Entry
02. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) – 222,000 / 1,590,000
03. [PS2] Musou Orochi: The Evil King Returns (Koei) – 56,000 / 283,000
04. [Wii] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 31,000 / 1,865,000
05. [NDS] Pokemon Ranger: Batonnage (Nintendo) – 30,000 / 436,000
06. [NDS] Tottado! Yowiko’s Deserted Island Life (Namco) – 26,000 / 65,000
07. [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 5 (Konami) – 22,000 / 102,000
08. [PSP] Star Ocean 2: Second Evolution (SquareEnix) – 18,000 / 108,000
09. [Wii] Deca Sporta (Hudson) – 17,000 / 133,000
10. [Wii] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) – 14,000 / 1,563,000
This week painted a very confusing picture for Sony due to a celebration of the strong PSP sales paired with lackluster PlayStation 3 sales.
01. PSP – 85,721
02. DS – 47,158
03. Wii – 46,296
04. PS3 – 8,232
05. PS2 – 6,834
06. Xbox 360 - 1,147
