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Nintendo’s handheld has enjoyed its highest domestic weekly sales since launch following the recent price cut.

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Sales figures for the latest instalments in Nintendo’s long-running franchise suggest Japan and the US like different flavoured Pokémon.

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Media Create has released the unit sales figures for Japanese hardware and software for the week ending March 27, and it finds PSP back on top and a new software title stealing the top spot from Dynasty Warriors 7.

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Media Create has released its Japanese hardware figures for the week ending September 26 and the figures show another increase in sales for DS on all SKUs except DS Lite, which was down 126 units over last week.
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Media Create has released its Japanese software figures for the week of July 5-11, and Nintendo’s Wii Party moved 235K units during its first week of availability.

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Enterbrain’s published Japanese hardware and software sales figures for the first six month of the year, following news last night that the market has dropped back 21.3 percent in the period.

Thanks, Kotaku.

Hardware

DS (DS and DS Lite)
First half of the year: 1,314,919
Total units sold: 23,484,680

PSP
First half of the year: 1,583,731
Total units sold: 10,157,757

Wii
First half of the year: 1,105,174
Total units sold: 6,800,753

PS3
First half of the year: 352,457
Total units sold: 2,361,949

360
First half of the year: 138,740
Total units sold: 741,298

Software

Mario Kart Wii
First half of the year: 1,744,387
Total units sold: 1,744,387

Monster Hunter Portable 2ndG
First half of the year: 1,602,386
Total units sold: 2,425,651

Pokémon Platinum
First half of the year: 1,481,725
Total units sold: 1,481,725

Dragon Quest V
First half of the year: 1,152,229
Total units sold: 1,152,229

Wii Fit
First half of the year: 845,238
Total units sold: 2,607,431

Enterbrain figures have shown that PSP lost out in the Japanese sales charts to DS in August, the first time the machine’s been beaten to the top of the pile since March.

Great month for 360, there, with sales fuelled by the release of Namco RPG Tales of Vesperia.

• PSP – 292,000
• DS – 333,000
• Wii – 181,000
• PS3 – 53,000
• 360 – 45,000
• PS2 – 45,000

Thanks, MCV.

PSP can do no wrong in Japan, it would seem, with the latest Media Create figures showing the handheld at over 100,000 units a week. Here‘s the last chart. Stats for week ending May 4.

• PSP – 100,870
• Wii – 71,518
• Nintendo DS – 52,542
• PlayStation 3 – 10,177
• PlayStation 2 – 8,802
• Xbox 360 – 1,725

According to Enterbrain figures published by Reuters, PSP had a huge month in Japan in April thanks to Monster Hunter popularity, outselling DS by 2:1.

Numbers in full:

• PSP: 380,867
• DS: 169,911
• Wii: 187,121
• PS3: 37,676

Xbox 360 and PS2 figures weren’t given in the report.

We seem to have skipped one of these in the GTA IV madness, but Monster Hunter seems to still be doign the do for PSP in Japan. Here’s the last one we published. Figures are for the week ending April 27.

• PSP – 92,411
• Wii – 48,796
• Nintendo DS – 42,435
• PlayStation 3 – 9,107
• PlayStation 2 – 7,108
• Xbox 360 – 1,283

New hardware figures from Japan show PSP holding strong, although everything’s down in general after the joyous ejaculation that was Monster Hunter. Here’s last week’s stats. Figures below are for the week ending April 14.

• PSP – 85,721
• DS Lite – 47,158
• Wii – 46,296
• PS3 – 8,232
• PS2 – 6,834
• Xbox 360 – 1,147

Spurred on by the huge success of Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, PSP’s still lording over the hardware chart in Japan. PS3 had better watch its back there: it’s about to be overtaken by PS2. Figures are for the week ending April 6.

• PSP – 120,964
• Nintendo DS – 55,190
• Wii – 44,618
• PlayStation 3 – 11,303
• PlayStation 2 – 10,423
• Xbox 360 – 1,452

Reuters is reporting that Wii sold three times as many consoles than Playstation 3 in Japan in March.

Based on the latest Enterbrain figures, Wii sold 265,542 units compared to PS3′s 81,579.

Further, PSP is still top of the tree in the Japanese handheld stakes, selling 415,415 units in March compared to DS’s 255,124: that figure means the PSP sold more than the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 put together.

Regarding the latter, Microsoft’s console remains somewhat off the pace of its rivals, with only 13,127 units for the whole month.

By Mike Bowden

According to Famitsu figures, DS was by far the biggest selling console in Japan for fiscal 2007, moving 6.3 million units in the 12 months ending March 30 2008.

Here’s the breakdown for the period:

• DS – 6,343,547
• PSP – 3,427,971
• Wii – 3,741,946
• PlayStation 3 – 1,197,418
• Xbox 360 – 235,318

According to Famitsu figures, Nintendo’s Wii Fit was the biggest selling game in Japan last year with 1.76 million units sold for the period ending March 30 2008.

Mario Party DS was second with 1.66 million, and Wii Sports was in third place with 1.62 million.

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Famitsu figures confirm that the Japanese market saw a 3 percent increase for the 12 months ending March 30 2008 compared to the previous year.

According to GamesIndustry.biz, “In a comparison of the Japanese market from fiscal 2006 to fiscal 2007, combined hardware and software sales showed a 3.8 per cent increase to JPY 677 billion (USD 6.59 billion / EUR 4.23 billion).”

From Neogaf via Media Create. Still waiting on the hardware figures, but there are some flaky estimates doing the rounds that show PSP had a giant seven days on the back of 2nd G last week. These numbers are for the week ending March 30.

01./00. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) – 880,000 / NEW
02./01. [NDS] Pokémon Ranger: Batonnage (Pokémon) – 106,000 / 348,000
03./00. [NDS] Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Bandai-Namco) – 49,000 / NEW
04./05. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 42,000 / 1,794,000
05./00. [PSP] Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion: Lost Colors (Bandai-Namco) – 34,000 / NEW
06./07. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) – 34,000 / 1,524,000
07./00. [PS2] Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion: Lost Colors (Bandai-Namco) – 30,000 / NEW
08./02. [WII] Deca Sporta (Hudson) – 29,000 / 94,000
09./04. [NDS] SimCity DS 2: From the Past to the Future (EA) – 25,000 / 74,000
10./08. [NDS] Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi wo Yobu Cinema Land (Banpresto) – 19,000 / 54,000

PSP and Wii are still tussling at the top of the Japanese hardware chart, but it would seem our Far Eastern brethren just can’t get enough portable Sony. Figures are from Media Create.

• PSP – 57,651
• Wii – 55,845
• Nintendo DS – 53,266
• PlayStation 3 – 14,934
• PlayStation 2 – 9,930
• Xbox 360 – 1,744

According to GameFront, quoting figures taken from Famitsu, Nintendo was by far the biggest publisher in Japan last year, in case there was any doubt, selling over 23.5 million units of software. Square Enix and Bandai Namco came second and third respectively with around 7.5 million sales a piece. List below.

1. Nintendo: 23,520,000
2. Square Enix: 7,580,000
3. Bandai Namco: 7,500,000
4. Capcom: 5,560,000
5. Konami: 4,910,000
6. Sega: 2,930,000
7. Pokemon: 2,870,000
8. Sony: 2,230,000
9. Koei: 1,940,000
10. Banpresto: 1,790,000