Japanese hardware sales, 28 August - 3 September: verbose edition

As per our fine comrades at the affluent webcomic Penny Arcade, we residing at the fanboy congregated to bestow upon you a post of great vim. Certainly, the readership is quite familiar with the veritable monarchy that the DS Lite has been erecting via its accrued sales numbers; today, the standing ruler has evidently resisted its supplantation. The fact that the DS Lite might even transcend a neoteric console (in its third revision!) is a statement of certain verisimilitude, as we can easily ascertain from the following quantitative analysis:

– DS Lite: 228,939 65,665 (40.22%)
– PSP: 27,499 2,446 (8.17%)
– PS2: 22,703 874 (4.00%)
– GBA SP: 2,751 32 (1.18%)
– Game Boy Micro: 1,791 28 (1.54%)
– Xbox 360: 1,250 53 (4.43%)
– Gamecube: 855 18 (2.15%)
– DS Phat: 320 90 (21.96%)
– GBA: 22 8 (57.14%)
– Xbox: 0 12 (100.00%)

One might even conjecture that the leading candidate was, at one point, an inscrutable conundrum.

[Source: Media Create]