According to the latest sales data from Enterbrain, the Wii has sold 7,024,239 units from its December 2, 2006 launch through this past Sunday, November 23, 2008. Bumping it over the hill was mostly the work of Animal Crossing: City Folk, moving 303,204 copies itself this past week. Other data figures include a total of 24,127,175 Nintendo DS units (including the DS Lite and DSi) since the unit’s December 2004 launch, and 276,049 copies of Crono Trigger sold in the week ending November 23rd.

What does all that mean? It means that Nintendo will continue swimming in money for the forseeable future, and that we can almost bet on City Folk 2 in the Wii’s lifetime. Or maybe just Nintendogs-like promotion on the first City Folk for the next several years. Yeah, that’s it.

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Whoa, I’ve REALLY been gone a while. Since when does the DS Lite outsell the PSP in Japan these days? Look back through some records, it looks like this is actually the first week in a long time Nintendo’s handheld outsold Sony’s, but that’s quite a revelation for me to come back to. Those Xbox 360 numbers, too. Sheesh.

On the software side, Tales of Vesperia is solely responsible for those 360 sales numbers. The DS was carried by the release of Fire Emblem: New Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light on August 7th - meaning the Japanese had a whopping one day to play before dropping their handhelds to go watch the Olympics.

• DSL: 60,434
• PSP: 58,501
• Wii: 38,506
• X360: 24,962
• PS3: 9,673
• PS2: 8,503

Full software sales rankings can be found after the break.

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This week’s numbers make much more sense all around than Media Crate’s suspicious numbers last week. The DS managed to jump back into second place for sales in Japan during the week ending July 6th, but it came at the expense of the Wii dropping to #3.

Despite Initial D Extreme Stage’s strong launch for the PS3, that platform actually saw the largest drop in sales for the week. The hardware sales were as follows.

• PSP: 56,439 (-2,912)
• DSL: 47,455 (+10,856)
• Wii: 44,525 (+3,488)
• PS3: 14,359 (-5,977)
• PS2: 11,768 (+5,422)
• X360: 4,776 (+2,221)

Full software sales rankings can be found after the break.

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Hardware sales in Japan are getting closer to what we’ve become used to seeing these last few months. The DS and Wii got boosts compared to last week, thanks to games such as Band Brothers DX, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, and… Derby Stallion DS.

• PSP: 58,861 (-490)
• Wii: 48,480 (+7,443)
  
• DSL: 48,884 (+12,285)
• PS3: 17,973 (-2,363)
• PS2: 7,673 (+1,327)
• X360: 5,104 (+2,549)

I might update this post in the near future if I get better info, but I’m a little skeptic about this week’s reports. Media Crate and Famitsu’s data for the week varies by a wide margin, especially in Wii and Tales of Symphonia sales. Media Crate even lists the Wii as in second place for the week despite reportedly selling less than the DS. So…yeah.

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Even though some individuals hope that Snake’s latest offering can de-throne the Big-N as king of this generation, it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.  While Sony managed to sell an impressive 139,494 PS3s for the month of June, it was no match for the 235,990 Wiis sold.  While Metal Gear made the sales gap smaller for both consoles, it looks like Sony will have to bring more to the table if they hope to topple Nintendo.

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Looks like not even the second week of Metal Gear Solid 4 is enough to keep the Wii down in Japan. Nintendo’s closest rival in home platforms had the spotlight last week, but the Wii managed to pull ahead again last week. In software sales, Super Mario Stadium Family Baseball opened at #3, pulling in sales numbers of about 58,000 copies.

• PSP: 59,351 (-5,324)
• Wii: 41,037 (-4,527)
  
• DSL: 36,599 (-2,602)
• PS3: 20,336 (-54,975)
• PS2: 6,346 (-951)
• X360: 2,555 (+392)

Full software sales rankings can be found after the break.

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