Japanese sales charts: Nintendo = hotcakes

By David Hinkle

The latest numbers are in from Japan and everyone's favorite handheld received another week of near-stroke due to excessive heat from so much time spent in the spotlight. Software on the system also flew off the shelves. Without further ado, here are your numbers for 5/01/06 – 5/7/06:

Software

  • Tetris DS (Nintendo): 160,148 (378,247 total)
  • Motto Otona no DS Training/Brain Training 2 (Nintendo): 112,392 (2,164,256 total)
  • Winning Eleven 10 (Konami / PS2): 100,860 (561,409 total)
  • Brain Training/Brain Age (Nintendo): 84,075 (2,136,857 total)
  • Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo): 83,564 (2,645,481 total)
  • Pokemon Ranger: Diamond & Pearl e-no Michi (Nintendo): 69,415 (496,834 total)
  • Eigo Zuke/English Training (Nintendo / DS): 59,614 (998,343 total)
  • Mario Kart DS (Nintendo): 37,037 (1,353,596 total)
  • Mother 3 (Nintendo / GBA): 34,591 (291,428 total)
  • Dragon Quest Mystrious Dungeon Yangus (Square-Enix / PS2): 33,279 (215,237 total)

Hardware

  • DS Lite – 161,010 (1,383,391 total)
  • PSP – 37,946 (720,552 total)
  • PS2 – 32,030 (591,846 total)
  • DS Phat – 24,428 (842,947 total)
  • GBA SP – 7,144 (127,727 total)
  • Gameboy Micro – 3,830 (89,331total)
  • Xbox 360 – 2,019 (46,143 total)
  • GameCube – 1,460 (47,340 total)
  • GBA – 87 (2,608 total)
  • Xbox – 44 (1,446 total)

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