Nintendo DS outselling PS2 in Japan

Nintendo DS outselling PS2 in Japan

This is interesting news. The latest reports in says that the Nintendo DS gaming console is outselling the vastly popular PlayStation 2 since the last couple of months in the Japanese market. Nintendo ruled the market with their DS console in the month of June. The report was released by the major game magazine Enterbrain. Sony also managed to sell around 80,000 units of the Playstation Portable.

Nintendo sold around 130,000 units of the DS gaming console compared to just 100,000 PlayStation 2 consoles last month. In fact, it was for the third consecutive month that the DS outsold the PS2 in Japan. However, the surprise of the reports was the most popular game sold last month. ‘Kabutomushi Oja: Mushi King’, a game developed for the Sega’s Game Boy Advance console was the most popular game last month with sales of around 220,000 units.

It was followed by ‘Drag-on Dragoon 2’, a game developed for the PlayStation 2, which sold 170,000 units. ‘No wo kitaeru otona no DS training’ for the Nintendo DS was the third most popular game in the Japanese market with 120,000 copies sold in the market. The overall sales for the month of June were 62.5% more than the units sold in June last year.