Japanese hardware sales, 23 October - 29 October: platinum premium edition

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Nov 3rd 2006 at 9:55PM }

Though we've gone to great lengths to deny and cloak the truth, it is frequently in our best interests to be direct with our readers. You see, we've been having trouble making ends meet. In fact, all of our efforts to do so have resulted in one of the ends physically and quite brutally assaulting the other. One even tried to hire a hitman. Our lack of financial power has become so abysmal, that one of our boggers has had to make due without "L" key on his hideously malfunctioning keyboard. His description of the Xbox 360's Eragon demo as "ame" lacked a significant amount of punch, not to mention sense.

And that's why we've decided to make more cents. In a bold move to build up our shared bank account under the pitiful pretense of providing the reader with choice, this week's Japanese sales chart will find itself next to equine protection devices and sleek sports cars -- huddled beneath the gigantic umbrella of microtransactions. By clicking once and going through to the second half of the post, you agree to pay Joystiq 12 Joy Points to unlock the information. You can purchase 11 Joy Points at a time for just 1200 Microsoft Points. Don't worry, as a matter of convenience, we've already obtained your credit card information.

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- DS Lite: 158,681

41,740 (35.69%)
- PSP: 25,908

5,637 (27.81%)
- PS2: 21,832 548 (2.45%)
- GBA SP: 1,858563 (23.25%)
- Xbox 360: 1,565

278 (21.60%)
- Game Boy Micro: 1,351 309 (18.61%)
- Gamecube: 644

6 (0.94%)
- DS Phat: 114 16 (12.31%)
- GBA: 15 22 (59.46%)
- Xbox: 7

1 (16.67%)

[Source: Media Create]

CHART UNLOCKED

- DS Lite: 158,681

41,740 (35.69%)
- PSP: 25,908

5,637 (27.81%)
- PS2: 21,832 548 (2.45%)
- GBA SP: 1,858563 (23.25%)
- Xbox 360: 1,565

278 (21.60%)
- Game Boy Micro: 1,351 309 (18.61%)
- Gamecube: 644

6 (0.94%)
- DS Phat: 114 16 (12.31%)
- GBA: 15 22 (59.46%)
- Xbox: 7

1 (16.67%)

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Tags: japanese hardware sales, JapaneseHardwareSales

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Limey @ Nov 3rd 2006 10:00PM

Heh, microtransaction jokes. Topical.

_habit_ @ Nov 3rd 2006 10:02PM

I assume .999~ Joy points = 1 Joy point, correct (This way I can save .001 Joy points to the Joy point!)?

draco @ Nov 3rd 2006 10:04PM

LOL, I like how the Anti-Sony news piece is the only affordable transaction :)

maybe now the sony fanboys can stop telling you your biased when in reality you already know :P lol

that will make the threads much easier to read in the future.

jaysins @ Nov 4th 2006 12:49AM

Great post. I actually look forward to how your going to put a spin on the sales figures. Very clever. The jabs at EA was also good. Anyone think the 360 will break 10,000 a week from now til xmas? I think it may.

FuzzyPickles @ Nov 3rd 2006 10:26PM

Yeah, but without the Sony fanboys.... where will the lolz come from? Lolz don't just grow on trees, ya know.

bob @ Nov 3rd 2006 10:38PM

At #2
.999~ is exactly equal to 1

Want proof?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.999
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/math99/math99167.htm
http://qntm.org/pointnine

Spuky @ Nov 3rd 2006 10:41PM

give me back my joy...points

so, if a anti-sony cost that little(im soooo getting 3 anti-sony rants), how much does it cost a pro-sony post?

lets just put the gun down and we go get me those fries @ Nov 3rd 2006 10:42PM

loving those hardware sales microsoft baby, i really do. fuckin loosers.

slacker @ Nov 5th 2006 6:28PM

microsoft sucks. their hardware only lasts 6-8 months.

Insomnia Bob @ Nov 3rd 2006 11:11PM

I do like the way the sales arrows resemble a particularly challenging DDR sequence.

BPM? @ Nov 3rd 2006 11:04PM

Hey, PSP finally sold better than PS2 again. It's been a while since it was outselling its older, bigger brother (or sister... or whatever the relationship is in the PlayStation family... second cousin thrice removed?).

And the gap between 3rd (PS2) and 4th (GBA SP) is about 20k units. Amazes me the gap is so big... I can't believe there are still people in Japan who don't have PS2 yet...

And, once again, Kietzmann comes up with another funny way to present mundane information. Way to go.

lets just put the gun down and we go get me those fries @ Nov 3rd 2006 11:09PM

"And, once again, Kietzmann comes up with another funny way to present mundane information. Way to go." - BPMΩ

i second that, props.

spike117 @ Nov 3rd 2006 11:11PM

The infamous Spike117 finds this post three thumbs up!

Andy @ Nov 3rd 2006 11:48PM

BPM, it's because many people in Japan don't have a PS2, because they do. It's more likely due to the fact that the slimline PS2 is infamous for breaking easily. I know people who have gone through 3 PS2 slimline consoles, and they take care of them.

h2c @ Nov 4th 2006 3:26AM

I don't know when these Japanese hardware sales posts started to get all crazy, but they're hilarious and I thank you. :-)

Paul Gale @ Nov 4th 2006 2:29AM

Almost 6.5 million DS units sold for the first 10 months of 2006. Anyone want to guess what the handheld's total sales will be for the entire year?

Meanwhile in Sony land, it's good to see that PSP topped PS2. Whenever a 6 year old system beats out a new handheld, somethings not right. And what of the Xbox 360? Blue Dragon's impact = minimal? We'll see...
Paul Gale
1up.com

eight @ Nov 4th 2006 12:39AM

oh microtransactions... if they weren't real they would be hysterical, instead theay make me want to cry.

razer @ Nov 4th 2006 1:10AM

Hah, I love the 360 but I have to laugh at these jabs at it. They are soooo well deserved! The 360 is breaking all over the place, MS and their mess of a marketplace and the points system, etc.. and now after seeing that slick web browser the PS3 is going to have, Sony have my attention! MS are just hanging onto their US customers by a thread, they are finished before they started in Japan. I'm sure the Japanese are laughing their ass off at the MS dashboard update that cooked many a machine (mine included). American programming hah!

Jeff @ Nov 4th 2006 1:48AM

"Anyone think the 360 will break 10,000 a week from now til xmas?"

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the Xbox 360 will never break 10,000 a week in Japan. And that includes the week of the Blue Dragon bundle's release.

We'll see if I'm wrong pretty soon.

BPM? @ Nov 4th 2006 2:51AM

#12 Andy:
"It's more likely due to the fact that the slimline PS2 is infamous for breaking easily. I know people who have gone through 3 PS2 slimline consoles, and they take care of them."

Really? I hadn't heard about the PS2 model 2 breaking so easily, just the first model (My younger cousin has had three of the older models stop reading discs).

Funny, though, as I'm still on my first PS2 (the big one). Then again, I rarely use it... I've only been playing it a lot lately since I got SoulCalibur III (yay for Greatest Hits price!), and haven't played it for months since I was done with We ♥ Katamari...