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Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 19 - Feb. 25: text adventure edition

You wake up disoriented, in a dark room. You have no idea where you are.

>look

It's a dark room. You can't see anything. We know you're disoriented, but do try to keep up.

>look exits

Fine. Okay. You stumble around the room until you find a wall. Keeping one hand on the wall, you walk the perimeter of the room, looking for doors. You find a door on the east side of the room. You also find a key hanging from a hook on the wall. And by "find" we mean "get poked by." We hope you find some Neosporin on this adventure.

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>take key

You pick up the key.

>inventory

You have a key.

>go east

You trace your route back to the door you found earlier. You find the knob and turn it, expecting it to be locked. It is not. You turn the knob and open the door. You go into the room.

>look

This room is as dark as before, because those are the easiest kinds of rooms to describe in text adventures. Seriously, you can't see a thing, except a softly glowing orb in the northwest corner. It is giving off an eerie white light that is not nearly bright enough to illuminate the room.

>look orb

Excited about the treasure you see before you, you run toward the northwest corner of the room. You trip over 59 Game Boy Advances and fall directly into a pile of 136,128 DS Lites. You have died before you could even use your key.

- DS Lite: 136,128 718 (0.52%)
- PSP: 100,210 65,705 (190.42%)
- Wii: 78,506 14,888 (23.40%)
- PS3: 19,315 1,361 (6.58%)
- PS2: 15,054 1,138 (7.03%)
- Xbox 360: 4,183 1,027 (19.71%)
- GBA SP: 1,035 192 (22.78%)
- Game Boy Micro: 907 46 (4.83%)
- Gamecube: 323 24 (6.92%)
- DS Phat: 132 21 (13.73%)
- GBA: 59 19 (47.50%)

[Source: Joystiq]

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1. I love these, even better than joystiq's! >.>

Posted at 3:07PM on Mar 3rd 2007 by Lucretius

2. Ooo the Wii gets overtaken by the PSP... is the DS next or is Monster Hunter done driving up PSP sales?

Posted at 3:25PM on Mar 3rd 2007 by Nik

3. @ Nik - it's just for the week. I'm sure PSP sales will decline next week and return to their normal 35K/week level in less than a month... not that there's anything wrong with that.

(I wonder how well Monster Hunter would do on the DS.)

Posted at 4:47PM on Mar 3rd 2007 by Steve 3.2

4. You need to be eaten by a grue

Posted at 12:49AM on Mar 4th 2007 by Dead_Prophet

5. Whoa the PSP sure moved up on the charts!

Posted at 1:07AM on Mar 4th 2007 by Tristan

6. Yells downstairs,

"Honey, where's the graph paper???"

Posted at 9:41AM on Mar 4th 2007 by strider_mt2k

7. Dude Monster Hunter would be to be honest crap on the DS only because those type of games aren't suited to the DS, DS just can't do the Monster Hunter genre very well, the DS even has to stick to the old fashioned style of Final Fantasy cause the DS can't cope with current game graphics let alone come ever close.

And I think that the PSP moving up is just temporary but it might not go back to 35K maybe more like 45K-50K

Posted at 1:40PM on Mar 4th 2007 by Darkfly

8. Haha, these are always so original.

Posted at 10:12PM on Mar 5th 2007 by randomguy132

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