DS Tops Japan Hardware Charts For Third Week Running

Sony's PSP-3000 sold the most units on a per-platform basis in Japan for the week ended April 18, but combined sales of Nintendo's DS line topped charts for the third week running. The combined sales of the Nintendo DS Lite, DSi and DSi LL were 31,255, down from last week's 36,459 tracking firm Media Create reported Friday. Individually, the DSi LL sold 17,146, DSi sold 11,240 and DS Lite sold 2,869. The PSP-3000 sold 28,635 units and the UMD-less PSP Go sold 1,915 during the week for a total of 30,166. Sales of all hardware except for the relatively low-selling PSP Go and PS2 dropped week-on-week. Below are the full sales rankings from Media Create for the week ended April 18, 2010. (The second chart lumps together sales of all models in a given line of hardware.)