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DS Lite Sells 10 Times More Than PSP

On June 13th, 2006 in Uncategorized -

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Enterbrain analysts report that for the week ending May 28 Japanese hardware sales figures show that the Nintendo DS outsold the PSP by a factor of 10. The DS Lite sold 295,103 units, while the PSP managed to sell 27,191. The PS2 takes the third place with 21,827. The DS Lite represents over 70% of total hardware sales in Japan at the moment. DS games are also popular, 6 of the 10 most sold games in Japan are DS games. New Super Mario Bros. sold almost 850,000 copies in the first days, with the 1 million mark surpassed after a week.

Nintendo hasn’t been able to keep up with the demand of DS Lite, and announced they will increase the production by 300,000 units per month.

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