Retail tracker Media Create reports that for the week of 4/18 to 4/24, Nintendo managed to sell 95,000 DS hardware units in the country. In addition to this, four DS titles placed in the top ten software chart: Naruto at number 3 (87,000 units sold), Nintendogs: Shiba & Friends at number 4 (75,000), Nintendogs: Miniature Dachshund & Friends at number 5 (49,000) and Nintendogs: Chihuahua & Friends at number 7 (44,000).
Adding up the individual Nintendogs titles, you come to a total of 169,000 units. This makes Nintendogs the fastest selling DS title ever in Japan.
The DS hardware sales represent a 4.2 times jump from the 22,000 units sold in the previous work. The DS saw a similar jump in hardware sales when black and white units were released on 3/24, suggesting that this week's jump could be attributed to the 4/21 release of pink and blue units, in addition to the presence of some big name software.
