Japanese hardware sales: 22-28 May

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Japanese hardware sales: 22-28 May

Posted Jun 2nd 2006 5:20PM by Ludwig Kietzmann
Filed under: News, GBA

We just received the Japanese hardware sales charts for the week ranging from 22 May to 28 May via singing telegram. It took several hours for the song to run its informative course, and yet we still can't manage to get the tune out of our heads. The ranking, according to number of units sold:

DS Lite: 285,025 124,843 (77,94%)
PSP: 27,2272,770 (11,33%)
PS2: 19,798 835 (4,05%)
GBA SP: 6,652 478 (7,74%)
Phat DS: 4,126 12,741 (75,54%)
Game Boy Micro: 2,013 232 (10,33%)
Xbox 360: 1,242 161 (11,48%)
Gamecube: 1,116 65 (6,18%)
GBA: 44 19 (76%)
Xbox: 8 12 (60%)

As you can see, the DS Lite outsold the PSP more than ten times over, no doubt a fact that will be brought up in countless fanboy arguments in the coming week. The Phat DS continues its sad slide down the charts, content in the fact that it has paved the way for its younger brother's colossal success. There's some sort of profound image in there, but we can't be bothered.

[Source: Media Create]

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1. Poor Phat... we'll miss him...

Posted at 5:42PM on Jun 2nd 2006 by phipps

2. kind of sad that only 8 Xbox's were sold in the last week for the entire country. That many NES's will probly sell on ebay in the next 30 minutes

Posted at 8:00PM on Jun 2nd 2006 by greatslack

3. Don't you mean 100 times over?

Posted at 8:00PM on Jun 2nd 2006 by Garold

4. It's pretty sad that in almost all of these charts the original, non-SP Game Boy Advance outsells the original XBox.

Posted at 9:02PM on Jun 2nd 2006 by CTU Kyoto

5. ole' sweet

now show me some US chart plz

Posted at 9:03PM on Jun 2nd 2006 by OyoyoY123

6. Its no wonder the phat is dropping, being priced the same as the lite how many people are gonna get it?

Posted at 9:23PM on Jun 2nd 2006 by Bob799

7. only 8 xboxs? lol

Posted at 10:56AM on Jun 3rd 2006 by Jason C.

8. Its funny how people are buying almost as many gamecubes as xbox 360s.

Posted at 1:45PM on Jun 3rd 2006 by Thomas Averin

9. Bob799:
While that is true for America, it isn't true for Japan. In Japan, the retail price for DS is still ¥15,000. The DS Lite retails for ¥16,800.

Of course, that's if you find one in a retail store... Considering how hot DS has been in Japan, they usually sell out pretty quickly. And expect to pay a premium from second-hand sellers...

Posted at 2:32PM on Jun 3rd 2006 by BPMΩ

10. Does anybody else share my urge to eat the ds lite. I just want to sink my teeth into it. It reminds me of the urge to eat chapstick when I was a kid. Although I actually went through with eating chapstick, I will not be eating my ds lite when I finally get it. I just wanted to see if anyone else shared my strange fetish.

Posted at 2:16AM on Jun 4th 2006 by Chunk

11. 10 times more that PSP? More than 1/4 Million DSL's in a week? That's some selling. Makes me concerned for the amount of units that we will have for the UK and US releases.

Posted at 2:09AM on Jun 5th 2006 by Murphy

12. How about sinking your teeth into a babyruth instead?

Posted at 2:26PM on Jun 5th 2006 by Matters

13. the DS lite rocks and no wonder its on the top

Posted at 11:41AM on Jun 7th 2006 by DS

14. not interesting....US and UK numbers please!!

Posted at 5:38PM on Jun 8th 2006 by bignerd972

15. ha ha ha, i laugh at the futile attempts of sony, anyways its no surprise the lite is up, poor poor phat, i got my phat about a month before the lite (traded in my pathetic psp for a real handheld...by which i mean ds phat of course) u no what they say "once u go phat u cant go back", i love my ds, (US charts?)

Posted at 11:30PM on Jun 9th 2006 by tha1guy95

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