Fri, Apr 09, 2010 | 08:23 BST

Japanese hardware charts – the “two out of three ain’t so bad” edition

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It’s another one-two for Sony in Japan: PS3 takes the top bunk, with PSP on the bottom bunk. PSPgo sleeps on the floor.

PS3 sold 38k for last week, with PSP selling 37k of stock. Third place went to Wii with 30k worth of sales, while PSPgo comes last with 1,8k sold.

Get the full thing below. Last week’s data is here.

  • PS3 – 38,877
  • PSP – 37,445
  • Wii – 30,938
  • DSi LL – 21,583
  • DSi – 15,526
  • DS Lite – 4,110
  • Xbox 360 – 2,676
  • PS2 – 1,815
  • PSPgo – 1,803

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14 comments

#1

Blerk
09/04/10, 8:31 am

The wind really seems to have been knocked out of Nintendo’s Japanese sales of late. Wonder what can turn it around for them?

#2

Robo_1
09/04/10, 8:32 am

Nice write up. :)

PSPGo really is proper dead at this point. It’s saving grace has to be that Sony make money on each unit sold, but it can hardly be worth the manufacturing process if it’s selling at those figures.

I wonder when they’ll officially pull the plug? I imagine if E3 does have any PSP2 news, then that’s all she wrote for the Go.

#3

Blerk
09/04/10, 8:34 am

If we don’t see PSP2 at E3 I’ll be totally amazed.

#4

DrDamn
09/04/10, 8:42 am

I think Sony will have learned some lessons from the PSPGo – unfortunately for me I think they will concentrate on the wrong ones. The experience will help shape PSP2 and instead of being more aggressive with pricing of the console and the games I’m guessing they will feel the world is not yet ready for a handheld console where you can’t buy games in the shops.

#5

Erthazus
09/04/10, 8:52 am

Xbox 360 is still fighting.

#6

mojo
09/04/10, 8:53 am

1: Mario, Zelda, MEtroid maybe?

#7

DrDamn
09/04/10, 9:02 am

@6
Zelda maybe, but will more Mario and Metroid really convince people who have yet to buy? They both already have very high quality releases on the Wii. With Zelda there was at least the GC overlap.

#8

mojo
09/04/10, 9:28 am

oh now i know:
the vitality sensor + the riding saddle

#9

DrDamn
09/04/10, 9:46 am

Riding Saddle? Seriously?

Edit: That’s meant to read Seriously is there really a Riding Saddle coming?

#10

2plus2equals5
09/04/10, 10:10 am

@6:
Always the same (beautiful)games and characters.
It’ s for this reason i will never buy nintendo consoles.

#12

Hero of Canton
09/04/10, 11:00 am

@Blerk – it’s only really Wii that’s struggling a little bit in Japan, and given that there’s literally no third-party titles of interest announced for the next six months over there – there’s a running joke on GAF about the astonishingly low number of Wii games in Famitsu each week – 30,000 a week is surprisingly healthy. That said, PS3 is clearly now the home console hardware with the biggest future in the East.

But taking all its iterations into account, DS is comfortably still the top-selling hardware. Really, the PSP and Go figures should be amalgamated, as should the DSi, DSi LL and DS Lite. That’d give a truer picture of the handheld status quo.

#13

Bulk Slash
09/04/10, 11:58 am

It’s a shame the PSP Go has been such a flop as it’s a really nice piece of kit. If Sony had offered a proper upgrade path for UMD owners and had the full back catalogue available to buy online I think it might have done a lot better.

#14

theevilaires
09/04/10, 1:30 pm

everyone else has 4 systems they are juggling and they can’t even manage to sell the only 1 they have properly :D guess those exclusive deals for those couple of RPGs didn’t pay off huh.

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