Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | 06:58 GMT
Japanese hardware sales – PSP rampant
For the week ending March 2. We enjoy posting these just to see how badly 360′s doing every week.
- PSP – 73,706
- Wii – 64,535
- Nintendo DS – 51,922
- PlayStation 3 – 13,520
- PlayStation 2 – 10,986
- Xbox 360 – 2,282
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Posted in: Japan, Retail
Tags: japanese hardware sales charts
8 comments
#1
Blerk
07/03/08, 9:02 am
PSP turnaround still makes me o_O.
#2
patlike
07/03/08, 9:14 am
You never know. I may actually buy one soon. Why are the Japanese so hot on it? What’s out for it at the moment over there?
#3
Blerk
07/03/08, 9:24 am
They just keep buying Monster Hunter over and over again, as far as I can tell. And there’s a new colour machine every week so they all have to buy new hardware to maintain their collections.
#4
patlike
07/03/08, 9:25 am
I saw a Dengeki poll yesterday that said Monster Hunter was the favourite game in the past year. Those wacky Japanese and their alternative tastes.
#5
Hero of Canton
07/03/08, 9:30 am
It’s very strange, this. It can’t just be Monster Hunter that’s behind the rise. Has there been a price cut? For the first time ever, DS looks like it’s struggling. Though that’s no doubt partly because Nintendo has started focussing internal development on Wii stuff, almost exclusively. Congrats to Sony, they’re clearly doing something right in Japan.
#6
Blerk
07/03/08, 9:34 am
The revised model kicked it off, a bundle of new colours sustained it. And… yeah, I’m pretty much struggling after that. They still don’t seem to be buying any games for it (other than Monster Hunter).
#7
patlike
07/03/08, 9:37 am
Don’t forget the dock and remote control. An extra 300k units right there.
#8
Hero of Canton
07/03/08, 9:57 am
Musou Orochi is selling well actually. But that’s about it. Is there some kind of non-game peripheral for it over there? Like a TV tuner or something, perhaps?