You know, we never thought about this ourselves, but the ratio of people to DSes in Japan is pretty amazing. With an estimated 127,433,494 people living in Japan and 18.11 million units sold in the country, it comes to about 1 DS unit for every 7 people. If you want to go by a different figure, VGChartz has the handheld selling 19.72 million in the area, bringing that figure down to 6.4.
When you break the numbers down to something more personal like this, it really makes the weight of the sales figures that much more significant, wouldn't you agree?
Fun fact: 1 DS for every 7 people in Japan
Posted Oct 22nd 2007 10:40AM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Sales
Tags: japan, salesfigures
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10-22-2007 @ 12:21PM
tismatron said...
that's lke 1 for every 2 families. insane. would mean half the houses in my neighbourhood would have one. thats crazy.
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10-22-2007 @ 1:02PM
Matt said...
That does sound pretty cool, also when checking the amount sold of GBA's and SP's, they've sold a combined 22 Million in Japan -- so the huge number of sales isn't unprecedented!
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10-22-2007 @ 2:18PM
Croove55 said...
Pictochat might actually be USEFUL over there. Wow, imagine opening pictochat and actually having about 10 other people around you using it too.
Also, Shiggy and Iwata really need to announce a release date for the DS counterfeiting machine. They could call it the USDS!
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10-22-2007 @ 2:46PM
FantomRedux said...
Haha. USDS x9
Just wish I knew how many people live in the UK vs how many DSs have sold here. Probably be a lot less but still...
GBPDS =3
u_u wouldn't work
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10-22-2007 @ 6:56PM
Jeff said...
You ever think a large portion of these sales are purely designed for export to places such as Hong Kong and China where Nintendo has a very little presence there.
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10-26-2007 @ 11:21PM
kendrew said...
@jeff
nintendo actually has a pretty big presence in hong kong, from what i remember going there during the summer it was probably one in every 4-5 people on the subway were playing ds... so its pretty crazy... even the older people (like 45+) are playing it
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