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Following many weeks of Japanese market dominance on the part of the PSP, Nintendo’s DS has put its hand up to challenge Sony’s towering beast. The result?
Both the DSi and DSi LL have managed to topple the creature and exceed the weekly sales numbers accrued by the PSP.
The release of Pokemon Black and White in Japan last week just might have something to do with this turn of events…
It’s another week at the top of Media Create’s Japanese Hardware Sales chart for Nintendo’s DSi LL, with over 32 000 units sold for the period ending July 4th, thanks in no small part to the whopping release of Inazuma Eleven 3: World Challenge!! for the DS.
Nintendo’s DSi LL continues its newfound dominant streak this week in the Japanese hardware sales chart, still riding the wave of popularity thanks to a welcome price drop and the introduction of a range of new colours for the system, managing to sell just over 40 000 units for the week.
The recent release of Love Plus + and Tokimeki Memorial: Girl’s Side 3rd Story for the DS probably didn’t hurt sales either.
As expected, however, sales of the other DS models, the DSi and Lite, are around about flat compared to the week previous, as would-be DS customers look for the better deal.
The DSi LL shoots to the top of the Japanese hardware chart, thanks to the price drop and new colours being released this week. The latest iteration of Nintendo’s handheld sells an impressive 30 183 units, almost three times last week’s rather dismal performance of 11 138 units.
Sales of the Nintendo DS have been stagnant over the past few weeks with would-be purchasers holding out for the new price point for both the DSi and LL and new range of colours (blue, yellow and green) for the DSi LL which were released in Japan on the 19th of June.
Nintendo Japan has announced that both the DSi and DSi LL (known as the XL everywhere else) will receive significant price drops in the region, as both handheld consoles will see over $25 removed from their usual prices.
Additionally, a brand new range of colour options have been revealed for the DSi LL, and the console will soon be available in Blue, Yellow and Green on June 19th (… in Japan at least).
Nintendo’s full year fiscal results were released late last week, and despite the publisher’s continued dominance in the videogame market, the numbers revealed a 22 percent decline in sales, to $15.24 billion (¥1.43 trillion), as net profits fell 18 percent to $2.44 billion (¥228.6 billion) and operating incoming dropped 36 percent to $3.80 billion (¥356.57 billion).
Earlier today news broke out regarding Nintendo’s 3DS, a new DS handheld from the hardware and publishing giant that is set to incorporate 3D technology without the need for special glasses to enable the visuals.
While we’ll only officially get our first look at the 3DS hardware itself and software running on the device at this year’s E3 in June, unconfirmed details have begun to emerge as to what kind of specifications we can expect, and what kind of technology is running the 3D capabilities of the handheld.
During Nintendo’s media summit in San Francisco yesterday, the publisher confirmed that their larder, more feature-rich handheld, the DSi XL, will be releasing in North America at the end of March for the price of $189.99, complete with pre-installed software.
During the nine months ending December 31st 2009, Nintendo saw profits fall 9.4%, despite what the company called a “robust” holiday season, and noted that its holiday sales “exceeded last year.”
Alongside life-to-date sales numbers for Nintendo’s slate of software, the publisher also released sales numbers for its Wii and DS consoles covering their respective life spans, as they racked up 67 million and 125 million units sold respectively, worldwide.
Those figures can be broken down by region, thus:
Nintendo has revealed an official release date for the next iteration of their world conquering handheld, the DSi XL, which features not only a (much) larger screen, but a larger pen-like stylus in addition to a standard DS-style stylus… say that ten times fast.
The DSi XL (known as the LL in Japan) also comes standard with pre-installed DSiWare software Dr Kawashima’s: Little Bit of Brain Training: Arts Edition, Dictionary 6 in 1 with Camera Function and Flipnote Studio, and the Nintendo DSi Browser.
According to data posted by Japanese game magazine Famitsu, Nintendo’s DS was (by far) the best selling console in Japan over 2009, racking up sales of just over 4 million units, contributing to lifetime sales of 29 million units for the console in the region.
The second-best selling console in Japan last year was the PSP, followed by the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360.
Full sales figures for each console follow below:
After the previous week’s massive sales debut for Nintendo’s DSi LL, racking up an amazing 100 553 units in one week alone, console’s sale performace has dropped down to a less competitive 67 243 units sold for the week ending November 29th, which is still impressive by anyone’s standard.
This helped the DS family of handheld consoles reach an incredible 111 532 units sold for the week, while the Wii managed to find its way into the hands of 46 673 Japanese gamers, up by 14 000 from last week.
The Nintendo DSiLL has debuted in Japan with a whopping 100 553 units. The new DS system, featuring two larger screens, two new touch pens and three pre-installed DSiWare titles, went on sale in Japan on the 21st of November. Quite impressive sales given it reached this figure in only two days.
All together the Nintendo DS Lite, DSi and DSiLL sold 137 674 units. The PSP was next on the chart with a combined total of 37 326 units, with the PSP selling 32 752 and the PSPgo just 4 574.
Nintendo’s latest handheld, the revised edition of the DSi known as the DSi LL (and DSi XL in Europe), released last Saturday (November 22nd) in Japan, and according to data published by the local sales tracker, Enterbrain, the new console managed to sell 103 524 in only two days.
Compared to the launch of the original DSi in Japan at the end of 2008, and over a similar period of time, that console managed to shift around 170 000 units, while the PSPgo only sold 28 725 units during its first day on sale when it released earlier this year.
Source: Kotaku
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