1. Nintendo said they were going to phase out the old DS, so maybe that's the cause of this sudden drop. That, or the market has stabilized and stores have a steady supply of Lites now. Or maybe both are happening.

Posted at 8:37PM on Apr 28th 2006 by VoiceofPower 0 stars

2. Most likely both if they are intent on phasing out the old model DS. They may be making DS original for the US and Europe till the lite hits.

At least they won't be repeating the mistake of keeping the no backlight gba in manufactoring when the SP came out.

Posted at 9:13PM on Apr 28th 2006 by idioteraser 0 stars

3. Xbox 360: 3,990 ^ 2,064 (107.17%)

wow.

Posted at 11:53AM on Apr 29th 2006 by kleger 0 stars

4. Game Boy Micro has incredible rise. I think, reason of rise is diminutive of devices

Posted at 5:18PM on Apr 29th 2006 by 16F877 0 stars

5. Yeah 360 did rise due to Nintety Nine Nights but we have to see how long that will last. Final Fantasy 12 did do a quick drop off the top ten after all when people commented on how it was when they played it.

Posted at 2:46AM on Apr 30th 2006 by idioteraser 0 stars

6. Excuse my ignorance. I enjoy this feature each week, but how relevant are Japanese sales figures to the rest of the world? Is it possible to track how each console does in North America and Europe? Or do you only report the region where the DS actually does really well?

I mean if I'm going to be a fanboy and proselytize my poor, ignorant American friends, I need some better ammo than "It's really popular in Japan."

Posted at 6:19PM on Apr 30th 2006 by Tom B. 0 stars

7. Tom B,

Sales data only comes out once a month in the USA, and about the same for Europe. In Japan it comes MUCH quicker, once a week; so you are obviously going to see a lot of Jap sales before you get US or European ones.

"Or do you only report the region where the DS actually does really well?"

The DS has been a brilliant success in all regions, you don't need to worry about any region where the DS is failing, because there isn't one! :-)

Posted at 9:58AM on May 1st 2006 by Jacob 0 stars

8. "Excuse my ignorance. I enjoy this feature each week, but how relevant are Japanese sales figures to the rest of the world?"

It is relevant because Japan is the gaming hub of the world. Anything and everything important to gaming revolves around Japan for the most part. While Microsoft has been trying their hardest to change that, this is still true.

Which is also why these charts are weekly instead of monthly. The rest of the world isn't really in the whole gaming picture like Japan is, so it really isn't expected as much.

And yeah, the comment before mine is correct, the DS is kicking ass and taking names in every market, not just Japan. So it's not because of bias.

Posted at 10:53AM on May 1st 2006 by Pip 0 stars