Tue, Oct 21, 2008 | 09:14 BST

Lifetime Japanese console sales sees 360 grow 157% in last half year

According to GameDaily, current generation lifetime console sales in Japan show that Xbox 360 has grow 157 percent in the last seventh months; higher than any console or handheld on the market.

“During the March-September period, the Xbox 360 sold 138,740 units compared to 88,292 during the same time a year earlier,” says the piece.

“Conversely, the DS Lite, which has already sold a whopping 17 million in Japan, grew only 37.1 percent. The PS3 meanwhile grew 88.5 percent, the Wii 68.2 percent, and the PS2 57.1 percent.”

It’s still in last place, mind. Full figures below:

  • PS2: 21,454,325
  • DS Lite: 17,080,747
  • PSP: 10,181,888
  • Wii: 6,826,612
  • DS: 6,449,206
  • PS3: 2,369,484
  • Xbox 360: 748,992

Bit more through the link.

By Mike Bowden

10 comment-trail-alt Posted in: DS, Hot, Japan, PS2, PS3, PSP, Retail, Wii, Xbox 360
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#1

G1GAHURTZ
21/10/08, 9:17 am

It might not be in last place come this time next year…

Just you wait and see.

#2

Blerk
21/10/08, 9:18 am

Heh – no chance. I think they’ll probably break a million, and I’m sure they’ll be pretty happy with that. The real question for them is how to get off to a better start next time around.

#3

G1GAHURTZ
21/10/08, 9:21 am

Yeah, well this time last year, nobody thought that the 360 would outsell the PS3 for 5 weeks in a row…

Now look.

#4

Blerk
21/10/08, 9:37 am

Yeah, but nobody expected the PS3 to sell like dog shit either. :-D

The 360 doesn’t sell consistently well enough to even catch the PS3, never mind pass it.

#5

morriss
21/10/08, 10:14 am

Yeah, no chance. If they can reach between 1-1.5 million units sold by this time next year they’ll be delighted.

#6

Psychotext
21/10/08, 10:18 am

Yeah, you wont find many people that would have thought the 360 could do a million in Japan. Then again, you wont find many people that would have thought the 360 could be outselling the PS3 2 years after the PS3′s launch in the US either.

#7

LeD
21/10/08, 10:47 am

People may laugh at MS’s fortunes in Japan, but they’re just stubbornly grinding their way up, which seems to be fitting in the land of RPGs! With so many local devs on boards, and relative success abroad with new IPs or existing licenses, I think they have every chance of a breaktrough with their next console.
They’ll have to make an extra effort for design, reliability, size and launch price though.

#8

Blerk
21/10/08, 10:56 am

I don’t think there are many people laughing any more, tbh. The only people in a position to laugh are Sony and… well… they don’t really have much to laugh about.

#9

Tonka
21/10/08, 11:46 am

You know you are in trouble when that kind of growth leaves you in the 3rd place.

LOL!

#10

Tonka
21/10/08, 11:46 am

See. That wasn’t so hard.

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