DSi streets ahead in Japan

By Robert Purchese Published 22 December, 2008

Nintendo consoles dominate chart.

The DSi has romped Japanese hardware sales for the week ending 14th December, flogging a meaty 173,693 units.

Not quite as impressive - but also top of its respective console class - was the Wii, which sold 91,641 units, according to Media Create data (thanks NeoGAF).

These strong performances had ramifications in the software chart, where games for the two Nintendo machines dominated the top ten.

Of them, Animal Crossing continued to do well, notching up nearly 100,000 sales to steam over the half-million boundary. Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii also appear; the former nearing 3 million lifetime sales and the latter approaching a 2 million total.

Meanwhile, first-party fresher Wii Music struggled, spending the week down at 24.

Of the top 50, DS games held 23 places, Wii games filled 15 spots and PSP titles took seven seats. PS3 and PS2 games claimed two places each, leaving one solitary spot for Xbox 360 entry Fallout 3.

  1. Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Wii) - 105,941
  2. Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City (Wii) - 97,677 (lifetime: 587,000)
  3. Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe (DS) - 94,485 (lifetime: 629,400)
  4. Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode (DS) - 63,055 (lifetime: 341,700)
  5. Penguin no Mondai: Saikyou Penguin Densetsu! (DS) - 58,986
  6. Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel (DS) - 57,600 (lifetime: 492,000)
  7. Pokémon Platinum (DS) - 57,510 (lifetime: 2,066,300)
  8. Rhythm Tengoku Gold (DS) - 45,244 (lifetime: 1,289,400)
  9. Wii Fit (Wii) - 43,015 (lifetime: 2,916,900)
  10. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) - 34,339 (lifetime: 1,938,400)
  1. DS - 204,813 (DSi: 173,693)
  2. Wii - 91,641
  3. PSP - 71,540
  4. PS3 - 33,688
  5. Xbox 360 - 11,797
  6. PS2 - 6,659
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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • HiddenPooh #1 3 years ago

    I would like to be the FIRST to congratulate them.

  • Doctor_What #2 3 years ago

    So, the japanese don't buy games from the west much? Colour me surprised.

  • Rash' #3 3 years ago

    that price drop and all those RPGs have done less well than expected for MS
    Edited by 1 at 22/12/08 @ 10:10

  • JonFE #4 3 years ago

    Rash', did you (or anyone else for that matter) really expected x360 fortunes to turn in Japan or is your comment just an attempt to smoke the rather low PS3 (outsold 3-to-1 to Wii and 2-to-1 to PSP) sales?

  • mingster #5 3 years ago

    PSP will be first next week due to the final fantasy disidia release.

  • miiiguel #6 3 years ago

    everythingbutNintendoLOL!

  • Razz #7 3 years ago

    \o/ Yaay for Nintendo! Merry Christmas Iwata! Please don't go power crazy like Yamauchi did. :)

  • Phishfood #8 3 years ago

    AAH! I want Taiko no Tatsujin for the Wii, but first I have to chip my Wii and import the game, this is going to be so expensive but I want to play it so much!

  • Farzlepot #9 3 years ago

    It's kinda ironic that as soon as Microsoft started to make any headway in the global console market, ailing Nintendo came along and became the new Microsoft. How long before people give Nintendo a nickname to decry its capitalist ambitions?

  • bionutz #10 3 years ago

    @Farzlepot
    It's kinda ironic that as soon as Microsoft started to make any headway in the global console market, ailing Nintendo came along and became the new Microsoft. How long before people give Nintendo a nickname to decry its capitalist ambitions?.
    What are you talking about? Read around a little and then you can edit your post. Tch, ironic, You're ironic :p ! Who cares. If you're happy with the games on your console, make a statement by buying more of them.
    Microsoft is cool for their contribution to the gaming community, but not so cool for other things, which gained its bad reputation as money grabber. And all console firms are capitalist - as they make a profit.
    /mumbles: these bitter non-Wii fanboys
    /touches Wii