Japan Up - Week 37 - Sep 10-16 2012

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UncleScrooge said:

Japanese School Holidays are over, right? Sales always drop in Japan when school starts.

I remember back in autumn 2008 when the original DS was still outsold and moved up to 300k units in Japan in a single week - it suddenly dropped, over the course of a couple weeks, to below 80k units and stayed there for the rest of the year. It was like a bubble had burst or something.

Sales usually stay pretty depressing until late November in Japan, when the holiday rush starts to set in. We're in for some rather boring 2 months now.

DS had huge stock issues in Japan. During that time Nintendo sold what it could produce, producing huge bumps in the charts. Maybe that's more likely.