DS Lite Beats PS3 and 360 Combined in Japan

The situation isn’t pretty in Japan for either Sony or Microsoft as the DS Lite ran away with the highest sales of any system during PlayStation 3’s first week on the market. The system sold nearly twice that of the PS3 with nearly 150,000 units, compared to approx. 82,000 PS3s. The Xbox 360 tied the GBA SP for 5th at fewer than 5,000 units. Nintendo’s Wii does not launch in Japan until December. We will report first week sales of Wii in Japan as soon as we get them. Below is a list of hardware sales for the week ending November 12, 2006:

1. DS Lite – 148,147
2. PlayStation 3 – 81,639

3. PSP – 19,123
4. PS2 – 16,157
5. GBA SP – 3,864
5. Xbox 360 – 3,864
7. GB Micro – 1,213
8. GameCube – 496
9. DS – 279
10. GBA – 19
11. Xbox – 3 units

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