Nintendo Sales | DS Lite Shortages Hurt Children of Mana

Hardware - This Week | Last Week | Total 2006 Sales | Life Sales Since 2002

1.) Nintendo DS Lite - 68,438 | NEW | 68,438 | 68,438
2.) Nintendo DS - 49,118 | 47,462 | 500,492 | 6,147,444
3.) PlayStation Portable - 43,110 | 31,742 | 412,535 | 3,095,497
4.) PlayStation 2 - 25,778 | 24,104 | 391,155 | 11,668,343
5.) Game Boy Advance SP - 5,493 | 4,964 | 55,823 | 5,759,662
6.) Game Boy micro - 3,213 | 3,175 | 41,317 | 456,404
7.) GameCube - 1,489 | 1,836 | 35,716 | 3,192,036
8.) Xbox 360 - 1,240 | 1,203 | 26,415 | 96,982
9.) Xbox - 101 | 61 | 925 | 473,376
10.) Game Boy Advance - 98 | 113 | 1,793 | 4,555,351


Japanese Software - This Week | Total Sales

1.) Gundam Clamix U.C. (PS2, Bandai) - 157,036 | NEW
2.) Seiken Densetsu Children of Mana (NDS, Square Enix) - 102,555 | NEW
3.) Sengoku Musou 2 (Samurai Warrior) (PS2, Sega) - 97,646 | 424,944
4.) Brain Age 2 (NDS, Nintendo) - 90,800 | 1,433,557
5.) Animal Crossing Wild World (NDS, Nintendo) - 77,346 | 2,035,023
6.) Valkyrie Profile (PSP, Square Enix) - 70,084 | NEW
7.) Devil Summoner Kuzunoha Raidou (PS2, Atlus) - 63,833 | NEW
8.) English Training (NDS, Nintendo) - 52,855 | 574,427
9.) Brain Age (NDS, Nintendo) - 51,215 | 1,641,975
10.) Monster Hunter 2 (PS2, Capcom) - 25,527 | 442,058

Of note, Mitchell's PuzzLoop has not made the impact it should have done considering its high scoring review in Famitsu. Polarium launched with the original DS and made the Top 10 and Polarium Advance hit close to the release of the Game Boy micro, also breaking the Top 10. It was expected that as well as Children of Mana doing so well, it would also sell strongly.

Children of Mana's sales are also lower than expected, possibly pulled back by the PSone port of Enix's Valkyrie Profile to the PSP, opening higher than most other PSP games of late.

The question is whether Children of Mana can hold on for a few weeks more, taking advantage of the 11th March release of the Enamel and Ice Blue DS Lites. Spare a thought for Baten Kaitos II on the GameCube, which debuted at No.15 last week with sales of around 15,920 units and is not even in the Top 30 this week!

11.) Mario Kart DS (NDS)
12.) Monster Hunter P (PSP) - 21,000 | 541,000
13.) Suikoden V (PS2)
14.) Doraemon DS (NDS)
15.) Capcom Classic Collection (PS2)
16.) Disgaea 2 (PS2)
17.) Tenkanin (PS2)
18.) Pop'n Music 12 (PS2)
19.) Initial D (PSP) - 13,000 | 64,000
20.) Daito Giken Pachislot Simulator (PSP)
21.) Big Brain Academy (NDS)
22.) Neo Angelique (NDS)
23.) Puzzloop (NDS) - 11,000 | NEW
24.) Winning Eleven Bonus Pack (PS2)
25.) Tamagotchi (NDS)
26.) Derby Time 2006 (PSP)
27.) Eyeshield 21 Portable Edition (PSP)
28.) Eyeshield 21 (NDS)
29.) Right Brain Expert! Machigai Museum (NDS)
30.) Daredemo Asobi Taizen (NDS)

Daikoukai Jidai IV: Rota Nova (NDS) 2,500 | NEW
Sengoku Musou (PSP) - 1,600 | 100,000