Japanese DS Sales Spike Last Week in Mysterious Circumstances
Posted by James Newton
Whatever could be the driving force?
Of course, Pokémon Black & White saw their Japanese release last week, with hardware sales more than doubling across the country.
Previous week's DS sales stood at a respectable 39,749 across all models, with last week's figures passing 85,000 units sold across the entire week. In fact, the DS range outsold every other console combined, testament to the ongoing appeal of Nintendo's monster-catching series.
But crucially how many units did the games themselves shift? The answer is a staggering 2.6 million in just two days, making it the fastest selling game ever in Japan, overtaking Square's Final Fantasy VIII. Gamers in Europe, Australia and North America can expect localised versions to hit in Spring 2011.
[via vg247.com]
#1
irken004 said:
Just another day of printing money...
#2
Angelic_Lapras_King said:
Wait, all models? Does that mean they still make the DS Fat over there? 0.o
#3
SuperPeach said:
The printer that never runs out of ink and paper...
#4
zezhyrule said:
Wow, they didn't have one for D/P already?
#5
mjc0961 said:
Hurray! I'm all for anything that knocks Square down a peg.
#6
Yadoking said:
Alright guys and gals, let's try to top Japan's sales!
#7
James said:
All models = DS Lite upwards. DS original isn't manufactured anywhere any more that I know of
#8
SuperMarioFan96 said:
DSi and DSi XL INDIVIDUALLY topped all the other systems. That doesn't usually happen, usually you have to combine sales of both and even then its sometimes not passed the PSP, so the sales for this week were a huge achievement.
"...a staggering 2.6 million, making it the fastest selling game ever in Japan..."
Didn't DQIX sell over 3 million first week?
#9
LordJumpMad said:
The Money Train, Never ends
#10
Nintenzo said:
We haven't seen anything until the 3DS comes out.
#11
theblackdragon said:
@JumpMad: ahahaha that updated gif is amazing~
#12
James said:
@SuperMarioFan96 Whoops, forgot to put in the article - Pokemon sold 2.6m in just two days!
#13
MeloMan said:
2 in one day, JumpMad? That is HILARIOUS! That's the second time I ROFLMAO today
#14
super-nintendo said:
@jumpmad
That rocks bro. I laughed so hard...lol. Where can I get that gif?
#15
SuperMarioFan96 said:
@James Oh, I didn't realize it had been out for such a short time!
#16
Yasume said:
Can't wait for Black & White to hit the west.
#17
YoshiSage said:
@JumpMad: Lmao. Nice
#18
Rasche said:
It is pretty frickin amazing that Pokemon Black and White managed to do this. Hopefully the same will happen in the West!
#19
fishman100 said:
Yup, not surprised that Pokemon takes the throne once again...
#20
motang said:
Japanese peeps love Pokemon for sure!
#21
LuWiiGi said:
@JumpMad That is the second amazing gif you've posted recently! Where do you get these?
#22
realar said:
Snaky is happy his game contributed to the sales spike!
Regardless of this can't post content fiasco.
#23
realar said:
@Nintenzo You have a point.
#24
Blink said:
Noice. Impressive numbers to be sure.
#25
GamesX99 said:
Of course Pokemon is a top seller in Japan! The Japanese gamers are going see Pokemon soon
#26
ninjaboy1212 said:
Another day of Nintendo printing money _
#27
HADAA said:
I'd say the driving force was indeed from Pokemon B&W. B&W requires players to use two DSes in order to transfer Pokemon from previous games, and I know a number of Japanese friends who purchased another DS Lite/i just for the purpose of transferring. Not to mention new Pokemon = incoming newbies = more DSes sold.