Mon, Apr 06, 2009 | 16:13 BST

PS3 beat Wii in Japan last month

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Enterbrain’s confirmed that PS3 outsold Wii in Japan in March, the first time the Sony machine’s been ahead of the Nintendo console for 16 months.

PS3 sold 146,948 units in the five weeks up to March 29, compared with 99,335 units the Wii and 43,172 units of Xbox 360.

Yakuza 3‘s been pegged as the reason for the spike.

10 comments

Blerk
06/04/09, 4:15 pm

PS3 saved in Japan by… Sega! Oh, the ironies!

G1GAHURTZ
06/04/09, 4:16 pm

It’s official now.

The Wii is a fad!

Syrok
06/04/09, 4:25 pm

Ah, I wondered when you would post that news.

Shatner
06/04/09, 4:38 pm

What? That makes no sense!

Nintendo aren’t in competition with Sony or Microsoft so this comparison is meaningless.

Blerk
06/04/09, 4:46 pm

It isn’t, you’re right. And both sides would agree. Unless for some reason they ‘get one over’ on the other and it’s beneficial to their marketing departments to temporarily forget that fact.

Ratso
06/04/09, 5:16 pm

Ding dong, the witch is dead!

Or just sleeping for a month.

SERAPHEMZ
06/04/09, 5:21 pm

Even though they arent in competition its a great feat to sell more then the Wii. I beat if it was Xbox Greenturd would be having a field day with this news.

Prof Power Glove
06/04/09, 6:26 pm

Well done Sony. At least in Japan, people will always love you and the way you do things with Sega.

SlayerGT
06/04/09, 6:51 pm

Good. Now bring the game west.

#10

samaBR
06/04/09, 7:12 pm

well, it’s no big deal.
at this point, every japanese has your wii. time to move on.