The Nintendo DSi LL, having officially launched in Japan this past week, has outsold everything else to the tune of 100,000-plus units, adding a “wine red” slice to the weekly Japanese hardware chart. Welcome, wine red.
After giving up pie chart real estate to Sony for the past few weeks, the ninth hardware platform on the Media Create weekly sales chart pushes Nintendo back into the leadership position in a major way. The DSi LL’s closest competitor was the PlayStation 3, which commands a second place spot this week, outsellingābut not by a whole lotāthe Wii, PSP and regular sized Nintendo DSi. It’s a fairly close race for second these days, with four platforms running neck and neck on the hardware sales front.
Not much of a competitor this week is the PSPgo, which settles for a spot between the DS Lite and Xbox 360.
The full list of hardware numbers is after this, along with a less colorful chart that may paint a better picture of how the general platform content is working out.
Nintendo DSi LL – 100,553
PlayStation 3 – 34,752
Wii – 32,844
PSP – 32,752
Nintendo DSi – 32,070
Nintendo DS Lite – 5,051
PSP go – 4,574
Xbox 360 – 4,085
PlayStation 2 – 2,024
