News - Japan: Weekly hardware sales for 4/10 - 4/16
Posted by
Josh Freund
at 12:24:45 AM EST on 4.21.2006.
Japanese hardware sales for April 10 - April 16:
System - Weekly sales (2006 sales)
1. DSL - 140,969 (827,737)
2. NDS - 37,204 (738,884)
3. PS2 - 27,549 (504,216)
4. PSP - 26,340 (609,398)
5. GBASP - 6,372 (100,814)
6. GBM - 3,676 (62,668)
7. 360 - 1,926 (37,288)
8. NGC - 1,080 (43,649)
9. GBA - 46 (2,396)
10. XBX - 30 (1,357)
Total sales: 245,192 (down 30,459 from last week)
Last week's: 275,651
Notes: As with software sales, hardware sales were down across the board this week. Combined sales of the DS Lite and regular DS were about 20,000 lower than last week's. The only consoles to not have a weak week were the GBA SP (which saw weekly sales rise by about 1,000) and Xbox 360 (which only sold 14 less than last week).
The weekly positions stayed the same, save for the PS2 being back on top of the PSP. Milestones of note include the DS passing 1.5 million total sales for 2006, the PS2 passing 500,000, and the GBA SP passing 100,000.
For reference:
Last week's sales
Source: Media Create
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drumlord 4.25.2006 at 02:36:55 PM
Just because you didn't throw the first french fry doesn't mean you weren't involved in the food fight. I was giving fair warning in case the ranting continued.
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nekofrog 4.25.2006 at 12:41:16 PM
Hey, I didn't even remotely start any of it. I also was the one to end it.
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drumlord 4.25.2006 at 08:53:39 AM
Stop the off topic inane rantings or both of you could get a temp ban. These aren't forums; they are comments for a news article. All discussion should be at least somewhat mildly related to the topics in the article.
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bignfanboy 4.25.2006 at 01:19:04 AM
http://www.englishforums.com/English/AQuickQuestion/ckljr/Post.htm
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nekofrog 4.24.2006 at 11:59:05 PM
Don't blame me... I'll take the high road however and cease taking his trollbait.
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oni 4.24.2006 at 11:49:30 PM
haha
cmon... now you're just desperate for something to argue about
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bignfanboy 4.24.2006 at 10:38:37 PM
You misspelled one? What the hell were you trying to spell when you typed out "auditory"? And yes, they are both wrong. I can understand perfectly well why you would think "audibly" is the proper word, but I can assure you it is not. I know, believe me. I have gone through this before many times. You said "Visually and auditorally, it was Silent Hill." And then the online dictionary that you yourself used as a reference states "the new musical was visually and aurally appealing". I mean what more proof do you want?
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nekofrog 4.24.2006 at 08:14:48 PM
I did not make a word up out of thin air. I misspelled one. Then you claimed that both usages of my words were incorrect.
They were not.
Do you even read your own posts before you make them?
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bignfanboy 4.24.2006 at 06:19:36 PM
How was I wrong to begin with? And a moron? You made up a word out of thin air and all I did was correct you... I wasn't even in your conversation. And I am sorry, but you are still wrong. I am not going to call you a moron or get defensive like you are doing because I have made the same mistake in the past and have been corrected because of it. It's okay to be wrong, no one is perfect.
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nekofrog 4.24.2006 at 04:20:07 PM
Yes.
I said that audibly, it was Silent Hill.
Meaning, what could be heard in the movie was Silent Hill.
Is that difficult to understand? Seriously, you are one of the biggest morons I've run across on the forums. What did one single word matter spiraling the entire conversation like this? Especially when you were wrong to begin with?
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bignfanboy 4.24.2006 at 03:32:16 PM
audible is something that can be heard.
as opposed to something that is inaudible, which cannot.
if someone is speaking too low, you ask them to speak audibly.
the correct word is "aurally".
from http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=aurally
"aurally-
adv : with regard to sound or the ear; "the new musical was visually and aurally appealing""
the end.
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drumlord 4.24.2006 at 12:52:28 PM
Wow, way to be off topic here. jesusfreakdk: Please avoid posting to directly bring discussion off topic. That goes double when it leads to spoilers. And triple when it leads to idiocy like the posts below this one.
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nekofrog 4.24.2006 at 06:48:00 AM
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=audibly
"That is heard or that can be heard."
Done with you, kid.
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bignfanboy 4.24.2006 at 03:19:41 AM
someone give him that dictionary he was asking for.
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bignfanboy 4.24.2006 at 01:11:55 AM
sorry, pal... still not it.
keep trying
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nekofrog 4.23.2006 at 11:03:37 PM
And, just so you know, audibly IS a correct term.
Dictionary, please.
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nekofrog 4.23.2006 at 11:01:58 PM
And I'm laughing because you care enough to bother pointing out a person's word usage on the internet.
Especially when yours is nothing to be proud of.
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bignfanboy 4.23.2006 at 10:47:43 PM
I am laughing because "audibly" is not correct either...
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bignfanboy 4.23.2006 at 10:42:31 PM
hahahhahahahahhahahaha ohhh nekofrog
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jaws 4.23.2006 at 10:24:46 PM
Ok, erase the "stupid japanese" words, and replace it for "ifrit people"
Much better?
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ifrit 4.23.2006 at 10:20:30 PM
lets try it:
"The stupid Germans"
"The stupid French"
"The stupid Nigerians"
yup. all sounds pretty racist to me.
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ifrit 4.23.2006 at 10:19:27 PM
"the stupid (insert race here)" is a good way to get yourself labelled a racist.
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jaws 4.23.2006 at 09:25:24 PM
I did thing that the XBOX 360 was a failure, until I saw the performance of the machine in my SAMSUNG LCD with HDTV (1080i)...I saw the HEAVEN!!!.. Burnout, COD2, GRAW and Oblivion are really great games...and the XBOX LIVE is to great to describe.
So, The stupid japanese only take care of the RPG`s games and litle screen ala DS...that is being close of mind..
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nekofrog 4.23.2006 at 07:22:37 PM
That's nice. Care to actually post something that adds to the discussion? No? Okay, sit back down.
Replace that with audibly.
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bignfanboy 4.23.2006 at 05:49:57 PM
And by the way Nekofrog... "auditorally" is not a word.
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bignfanboy 4.23.2006 at 05:42:52 PM
I liked the Super Mario Brothers movie.
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nekofrog 4.23.2006 at 02:17:21 PM
Uh, no?
It's not that difficult to adapt something as deep and as rich as Silent Hill (pick any, they all work -- except SH4).
You can adapt the first game almost as an exact clone and still add explanations to make it make sense to the average viewer. It's NOT that difficult.
The problem is, people like to "reimagine" things to make it seem like THEY created it. That's where problems begin.
People seem to be missing the point. Visually and auditorally, it was Silent Hill.
Plotwise, no. Not even close.
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onizuka sensei 4.23.2006 at 11:32:12 AM
You know thse kind of adaptions are weird, half fans expect to see the film exactly like the game but if that was done that would onlt please gamers when the mainstream filmgoers and horror fans might not have played the game.
I don't care what highbrow mags and website think of it but the majority of what I've heard has been good . Silent Hill is a damn sight better than the likes of Doom or Resident Evil.
Silent Hill is a positive step in the right direction. I'm glad atleast Neko liked SH's atmosphere, because I feel REs went out the door when they started playing that damn rock soundtrack instead of similar creepy music the games have.
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nekofrog 4.23.2006 at 05:51:04 AM
No, the script itself is downright awful. The cinematography is what was good.
Seriously, ye olde speake was cheesy 50 years ago, now it's just stupid. And not scary.
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dr.ew 4.23.2006 at 02:48:51 AM
Am I the only person that liked the Mario Bros movie? There has to be at least one other person!
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oni 4.23.2006 at 02:06:18 AM
haven't you people learned to stay away from videogame adaptations?
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eggmanimn 4.23.2006 at 01:00:34 AM
So what? It wasn't supposed to be the first game's storyline. It was supposed to be a film using elements from the games. You could far far pickier than that. Hell, you could point out that the song played during the credits (You're Not Here) is from Silent Hill 3 and not either 1 or 2 like every other element. Or how Dahlia was the one that tried to create a god using her daughter? It's obvious that they weren't going for the same story at all so why try to pick on them for it?
The movie had a different backstory from the game but it used things (settings, characters, some ideas, etc) from the original storylines.
Also, the reviews for the movie are garbage. Yes, a lot of the acting is laughably bad but the script itself isn't bad.
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nekofrog 4.22.2006 at 11:34:58 PM
Uh, yeah, it DID rape the backstory.
In the original, there was an actual reason for burning the child and keeping her in that state for 7 years. To birth the other half of the demon.
There was no demon. There was no Samael. There was no cult. It was just a bunch of Jesus freaks who still did the whole Salem witch hunts. That was really retarded.
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d.lo 4.22.2006 at 11:25:47 PM
Oh come on - neko is usually an idiot, but here he says something TRUE and you jump on him for that? All the reviews are giving it 1/5 etc:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/reviews/article359025.ece
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060420/REVIEWS/60421001/1023
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117930293?categoryid=31&cs=1
http://www.moviefreak.com/artman/publish/movies_silenthill.shtml
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eggmanimn 4.22.2006 at 10:51:29 PM
Oh boo hoo, nekofrog didn't get it. Oh no, it wasn't EXACTLY what the games did. Too bad. Doesn't mean it RAPED the backstory at all.
And no, watching the movie doesn't give anything away for the other movies. It takes pieces of the first two games and mostly makes its own story out of them.
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dr.ew 4.22.2006 at 10:18:59 PM
I only played the first game. Will watching the movie give away anything important from the sequels?
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nekofrog 4.22.2006 at 08:10:29 PM
No, Silent Hill was awful. Great visuals, but a total raping of the backstory. There is nothing to "not comprehend". The writing and dialogue were especially attrocious.
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mahew 4.22.2006 at 05:52:37 AM
Maybe Silent Hill is a brilliant movie that the mainstream reviewers just can't understand? The contrast between the hype and the reviews is certainly interesting.
Isn't calling this week's sales weak a little strange just based on a fluctuation of a few thousand consoles? The DSes are doing superbly as always. The 360 on the other hand has had nothing but weak weeks.
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eggmanimn 4.22.2006 at 02:43:28 AM
Silent Hill was a great movie. The plot was kind of confusing but I got through it just fine. It ended up being very enjoyable. You just can't like happy endings.
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bignfanboy 4.21.2006 at 11:48:51 PM
Yeah, I heard that too. The funniest thing I have read about the Silent Hill movie is that its the best videogame movie yet. I guess thats gotta count for something.
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jesusfreakdk 4.21.2006 at 10:00:45 PM
In other news, Silent Hill just released today. However, I was pretty reluctant to see it after it's horrific (no pun intended) reviews...20/100, 17/100, etc...
Here's a particularly fun gem I found:
"Uwe Boll had nothing to do with this movie, but it has his general feeling of murkiness and poor plot structure."
-- Kevin Carr, 7M PICTURES
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dscuber9000 4.21.2006 at 05:42:42 PM
A possiblility of the DS Lite selling it's one millionth unit next week! Hurrah!
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mornflame 4.21.2006 at 03:16:35 PM
"caulfield - 4.21.2006 at 10:18:23 AM
Profit's have to exceed the cost of development for them to matter."
profit equals revenue (income) minus costs. so for there to be a profit at all the revenue has to exceed the costs. if revenue and costs are equal we would say the company "breaks even," if costs are greater than revenue then the company suffers a loss (e.g. microsoft with the original xbox).
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dclam 4.21.2006 at 02:05:09 PM
You know, I always wonder who the poor saps are that bought those 30 Xboxes and 46 GBAs.
Also, please ignore the poster who cannot grasp the point of business, which is to make money, not to engage in pissing contests about how many units your home console has sold.
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bignfanboy 4.21.2006 at 01:13:19 PM
I love the people at GAF.
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joesteele 4.21.2006 at 12:24:20 PM
nice article, but it would hold a bit more merit with more on Sony (and how their gaming division is keeping the company afloat right now)
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manueldelalas 4.21.2006 at 12:12:08 PM
I recomend reading this, it's an old article, but a very good one.
http://ds.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3147953
(neko could learn something from this)
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sracer108 4.21.2006 at 12:11:43 PM
Just for reference:
DSLite: 140,969
Everything else (including the original DS): 104,223
And while the analogy is silly, it does work. :P
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dacuk 4.21.2006 at 11:19:12 AM
You can't call it a weekend without nekofrog attacking Nintendo...
I wonder if, in his childhood, he was denied a NES for Christmas....
Mmmm, I could sell this idea for an horror movie script...
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byourdan 4.21.2006 at 10:49:37 AM
Neko, according to some of your previous posts in past weeks no one else in the console market is even "trying" anyway (or whatever). Well, this lack of "trying" is going to have the Revo go neck n neck with PS3 in Japan. Go ahead and shoot this down with all ya got and call me a fanboy and whatever other $*&# you want but it's gonna happen, you'll see. For the record I own ALL major consoles and handhelds and enjoy them all so I'm not being bias.
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caulfield 4.21.2006 at 10:18:23 AM
Profit's have to exceed the cost of development for them to matter.
I think that Nintendo might sorta look at the GC with shame, purely because it was them giving in to pressure from their competitors. There's nothing about the console that makes it better or different from PS2 or an XBox (besides the game library). To me, that makes the little beast just kinda another average console.
If they have to bow out of the market, I'd rather it happen with something like the Rev. Something risky and interesting.
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kenshin73 4.21.2006 at 09:52:34 AM
Ifrit: couldnt have said it better myself.
Especially with the 90 million $ lawsuit thay they have.
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joesteele 4.21.2006 at 09:12:39 AM
Nintendo is making a profit off the gamecube.
Therefore, it is doing fine.
"wow, that is stupidest analogy I have ever heard."
Not quite. Looking at Nintendo as a sanitation worker is good, since they're cleaning up the crap of Sports games/GTA/racing with innovative game design.
Microsoft would be retarded since it's not all that clear they know what they are doing (though getting better, I will admit).
Sony is easily the doctor. Know why? The systems they make keep breaking so you keep having to send them back to the doctor to get fixed. OH SNAP!
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troid23 4.21.2006 at 08:16:19 AM
The gamecube isn't shameful...it was fairly successful, just not compared to the PS2 (which sold outrageously well this gen). And the hype surrounding the revolution is pretty high, if you haven't noticed. Not just here, but Japan as well. I mean, as far as japan goes, if you release a brain training game along with some new Nintendogs games for the Rev...that alone would solidify them as a contender during the first few years in Japan (alog with the mario's and zelda's and SSB's). Here in America though...Nintendo will need those and some new IP's, which they have promised us. Let's see if they keep that promise.
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ifrit 4.21.2006 at 08:09:55 AM
hahahaha
these comments are really entertaining.
and if jus' cuz the GC isnt doing wicked-awesome-cool, doesn't mean ninty should give up.
i don't think they'll ever give up. until they go bankrupt.
and i think sony's closer to bankruptcy than nintendo.
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bignfanboy 4.21.2006 at 08:02:46 AM
your mother is the stupidest analogy i have ever heard.
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nekofrog 4.21.2006 at 07:26:00 AM
wow, that is stupidest analogy I have ever heard.
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bignfanboy 4.21.2006 at 06:36:08 AM
say if you have three children. one grows up to be a doctor, one grows up to be a garbage man, and the third is just plain old retarded. you wouldnt call the garbage man a shame to the family would you? nintendo is that sanitation worker.
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cainkid 4.21.2006 at 04:06:01 AM
guys right, sales are shameful, very few ifs and or butts about it.
though they are not really relavent at this point since the only company who is still getting big console sales in japan is Sony anyway, and that's already an awkward phenom anyway.
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oni 4.21.2006 at 04:04:31 AM
oh... aND neko's here
time to get the party started!
now where's that oversensitive nintendo fanboy!?!
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oni 4.21.2006 at 04:03:26 AM
yes jekku... im full of sarcasm today!
...or just like always
but i kind of do honestly believe that zelda: tp is coming for rev... or i want to anyway hehe
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bignfanboy 4.21.2006 at 03:33:34 AM
the gamecube isnt really a shame. yeah its not doing very well at all but saying it is shameful is really a stretch.
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exbk 4.21.2006 at 03:28:23 AM
"I wonder what the impact of Final Fantasy 5 and 6 will have on the GBA market."
The question is: what impact will this week's release of Mother 3 have on GBA sales or at all? Since DS is backward-compatible, will Mother 3 boost DS/DSL sales instead?
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nekofrog 4.21.2006 at 03:27:19 AM
You can stop looking, I'm here.
The Gamecube continues to shame Nintendo's console market. If the Rev fails, they should just stop trying altogether.
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ifrit 4.21.2006 at 03:17:45 AM
*looks around for nekofrog*
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ninx 4.21.2006 at 02:20:12 AM
Wow the DSL is still that high. Guess they really love that thing. Good job Nintendo for being able to manage both L and the original so well.
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jekku 4.21.2006 at 01:29:33 AM
Oni, please-please-please tell me you're being sarcastic.
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bignfanboy 4.21.2006 at 01:12:19 AM
wow, total surprise this week!
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oni 4.21.2006 at 01:10:58 AM
if it's coming for the gamecube....
or at all?
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paul_gale 4.21.2006 at 12:39:06 AM
I wonder what the impact of Final Fantasy 5 and 6 will have on the GBA market. Maybe combined sales of Nintendo GameBoy Advance units will reach 600,000 for the year end. Also, what kind of impact will Zelda: Twilight Princess have on the GameCube? I'd guess at least 200,000 units total for the year...
Paul Gale
1up.com
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paul_gale 4.21.2006 at 12:27:18 AM
Wow, fantastic sales for the Nintendo DS Lite yet again. It's now passed up the original DS in terms of total sales for 2006. Meanwhile the PS2 still hangs in and sells a half a million units for 2006; old but solid.
Paul Gale
1up.com
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