Japan Hardware: Pokemon Fails To Ignite DS Sales
PSP gets ahead despite hosting the lower profile game.
Pokemon Ranger might be kicking butt in the Japanese software charts right now, but that hasn't translated into DS sales at all, as week-on-week figures have actually dropped for every platform in the touch screen family. In a strange twist, the PSP is the clear winner this week, beating total DS sales handily by more than 20,000.
Home Console
Wii: 33,880 (36,241)
PS3: 28,824 (27,763)
360: 2,764 (2,510)
PS2: 1,839 (1,912)
Handheld
PSP: 64,808 (37,338)
DSi LL: 23,611 (24,605)
DSi: 15,017 (15,586)
DS Lite: 4,316 (5,029)
PSP Go: 1,275 (1,296)
(Previous week's unit sales in brackets for comparison)
(Charted from 1st - 7th March 2010, courtesy Media Create)
It seems that .hack//Link has done more for Sony's handheld than Pokemon has for Nintendo's, which is quite the surprise. The PlayStation 3 also sees a marginal sales increase on the console side, but it's not enough to overcome the Wii despite a considerable drop in figures for the latter.
We wonder if there will be a high-profile DS game that would seriously ignite sales in the platform, if Pokemon can't do it. Has Nintendo's dual-screen wonder hit saturation point? Is the only way down? Well, it can't ever be worse off than Sony's poor PSP Go, which is inching closer towards that dreaded sub-1,000 unit mark every week.
Home Console
Wii: 33,880 (36,241)
PS3: 28,824 (27,763)
360: 2,764 (2,510)
PS2: 1,839 (1,912)
Handheld
PSP: 64,808 (37,338)
DSi LL: 23,611 (24,605)
DSi: 15,017 (15,586)
DS Lite: 4,316 (5,029)
PSP Go: 1,275 (1,296)
(Previous week's unit sales in brackets for comparison)
(Charted from 1st - 7th March 2010, courtesy Media Create)
It seems that .hack//Link has done more for Sony's handheld than Pokemon has for Nintendo's, which is quite the surprise. The PlayStation 3 also sees a marginal sales increase on the console side, but it's not enough to overcome the Wii despite a considerable drop in figures for the latter.
We wonder if there will be a high-profile DS game that would seriously ignite sales in the platform, if Pokemon can't do it. Has Nintendo's dual-screen wonder hit saturation point? Is the only way down? Well, it can't ever be worse off than Sony's poor PSP Go, which is inching closer towards that dreaded sub-1,000 unit mark every week.
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headcasephil 12 Mar 2010 15:58
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i think the pspgo is going to have a hard time for a long time as most games like the fact that there games come on disk and have some thing to show off i mean for me i like the fact that some one comes over and all ways (what the f**k ) 110 ps3 game i like showing off about it it would be a hell of a lot different if they were all on a hdd its like my music collection its big but its all come from itunes and its not the same.
i think that nintendo are on a bit of a down with the ds for one thing i feal that the ds ll/xl came out far to soon after the dsi and it has confused people i all so think the brown or red are wrong should have stuck to black or white
i think that nintendo are on a bit of a down with the ds for one thing i feal that the ds ll/xl came out far to soon after the dsi and it has confused people i all so think the brown or red are wrong should have stuck to black or white