Nintendo DS Is Now The Best Selling Gaming Hardware In Japan Ever

(DS Lite Launch Lines In Japan)

Media Create let a big cat out of the bag this week on their weekly ranking page but you’re going to have to translate the page and read the very last sentence to catch it. You’d think they might write a whole paragraph about it or something but in as many words they plainly say that the DS+DSL sales have eclipsed that of the Playstation 2’s all time sales. Seeing as the PS2 was the reigning hardware champion of Japan that makes Nintendo’s little portable that could the most popular gaming system ever in Japan. Maybe Shiggy will take the billions Nintendo will make in the next decade and buy an island and set up a theme park with DS Lite’s available for tourist navigation?

Since this weekly ranking from Media Create changes weekly I’ll preserve the important link here so you can head over to your local Bablefish or whatever and translate it for yourself.

2機種合計で50万台以上販売し、ハード市場の70％近くを占めている。また、DS+DSLの累計販売台数がPS2を抜き、国内の現行機の中で普及台数トップに躍り出ている。

If you check out the stats at the questionable VGChartz here, you’ll see that this was bound to happen and that their numbers aren’t horribly incorrect in this case.