Nintendo accounts for over 70% of consoles sold in Japan last week.
Total Gamer Zone, reporting Japanese hardware sales figures for the week of July 23-29, shows Nintendo’s market domination in its home country is as strong as ever. The DS Lite leads the pack with a reported 150,494 units sold while the Wii follows in second place with 77,169 consoles sold. The DS Lite and Wii combined are responsible for just shy of 74% of all console sales for the week.
The PSP and PS3 finished third and fourth respectively with 35,068 and 28,829 units sold. That number represents a small surge for PS3 sales figures that Total Gamer Zone attributes to the release of Hot Shots Golf 5, a popular series with Japanese gamers. The PS2 claimed the fifth spot in the sales chart with 11,757 consoles sold, while the Xbox 360 continues to struggle in the Japanese market with only 3,872 units sold.
How long can Nintendo’s winning streak last? Will Nintendo’s market performance in the rest of the world be able to keep pace with the blistering benchmarks being set in Japan? Stay tuned, only time will tell.
