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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.
More on Reuters.
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Blerk said:
PS3 saved in Japan by… Sega! Oh, the ironies!
G1GAHURTZ said:
It’s official now.
The Wii is a fad!
Syrok said:
Ah, I wondered when you would post that news.
Shatner said:
What? That makes no sense!
Nintendo aren’t in competition with Sony or Microsoft so this comparison is meaningless.
Blerk said:
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 said:
Ding dong, the witch is dead!
Or just sleeping for a month.
SERAPHEMZ said:
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 said:
Well done Sony. At least in Japan, people will always love you and the way you do things with Sega.
SlayerGT said:
Good. Now bring the game west.
samaBR said:
well, it’s no big deal.
at this point, every japanese has your wii. time to move on.