A good week for Nintendo, less so for Sony, in the funtime nation of Japan, where everyone owns a Nintendo DS and the national birth rate is directly tied to new Nintendo hardware sales. Okay, I just made that up. I have no such statistics to make this argument.
But Nintendo sales were indeed up week-to-week on the handheld and household front. Even Microsoft's Xbox 360 saw a bit of a sales boost from the previous seven days. Here are the hardware sales for Japan for the week of March 19th to the 25th.
- Nintendo DS Lite - 130,549
- Wii - 75,571
- PSP - 41,546
- PLAYSTATION 3 - 20,459
- PlayStation 2- 16,961
- Xbox 360 - 3,492
- Game Boy micro - 765
- Game Boy Advance SP - 607
Sadly, Gamecube sales were down dramatically. I guess this really is the end of an era.
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