Quantifying the DS Lite's Japanese Dominance

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday June 15, 2006 @06:13AM from the adding-numbers-to-knowing dept.

kukyfrope writes "According to the data trackers at Media Create, for the week of May 29th through June 4th the DS Lite sold 135,614 units in Japan, easily beating out the PSP (24,595 units), PS2 (18,513 units) and Xbox 360 (just 1,245 units). New Super Mario Bros. for DS also sold 334,208 units, putting total sales at about 1.2 million, in just 2 weeks. 'From the end of last year up until right now the sales of DS and DS Lite in Japan have been simply explosive. It was unprecedented in the Japanese game [industry] history for there to be that kind of incredible demand for one platform,' said Nintendo President Satoru Iwata."

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Just replacing a regular DS? by NeMon'ess · 2006-06-15 06:33 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The Japanese are heavily indoctrinated into buying new things, like toys or cell phones, long before there is any good reason to. The fact the device is a few years old and there's a new replacement is enough for them. I'd like to know how many DS owners are simply replacing theirs for a more compact model that is basically the same otherwise?