Japanese hardware sales: Lite on its feet

Taking a break from my usual posting routine, I embarked on a totally manly picnic today and quickly found myself gazing up at the sky and trying to spot familiar shapes in the clouds. A tortoise, a banana, a wolf and Optimus Prime all gently floated by, though none of those were quite as interesting as the Japanese sales chart for the week ranging from 20 March to 26 March which quite unexpectedly made an appearance. I quickly jotted the information down right before the cloud morphed into an uncanny Woody Allen. The ranking, according to number of units sold, is a follows:

• DS Lite: 119,986
• Phat DS: 39,307
• PS2: 34,169
• PSP: 31,077
• GBA SP: 5,627
  
• GB Micro: 4,883
  
• Gamecube: 1,458
  
• Xbox 360: 1,415
• Xbox: 117
• GBA: 98

Before you whip out your calculators, let me break it to you bluntly: The DS Lite sold more units than everything else on the chart combined (and that's including our Phat friend). Coupled with the news that my DS Lite has finally embarked upon a journey across the ocean, it makes for a very happy Nintendo day indeed.

Previous Japanese hardware charts:

• Lite get! (13 March - 19 March)
• Lite's out (27 Feb - 5 March)
• Once more, with feeling (20 Feb - 26 Feb)