Fri, Aug 20, 2010 | 14:04 BST
Japanese hardware charts, August 8-15

Both DS and PSP sales increased in Japan this week, although Nintendo’s handheld is the clear winner this time around.
Level 5′s latest DS title, Spark/Bomber helps the handheld increase overall sales by around 13,000 units this week, selling a total of 57,582, while Project Diva and Tales of Phantasia helped PSP sales to an impressive 36,342.
While PSPgo sales remain slow, with only 608 units sold, the 33,057 PS3 sales this week will make good reading for Sony.
This week’s hardware sales:
- DS – 57,582
- PSP – 36,342
- PS3 – 33,057
- Wii – 25,072
- Xbox 360 – 5,065
- PS2 – 1,675
Here’s this week’s data by SKU:
- PSP – 35,734
- PS3 – 33,057
- DSi LL - 27,923
- Wii – 25,072
- DSi – 24,850
- Xbox 360 – 5,065
- DS Lite – 4,809
- PS2 – 1,675
- PSP go – 608
Here’s last week’s data for comparison purposes:
- DS – 43,708
- PSP – 31,105
- PS3 – 28,630
- Wii – 18,238
- Xbox 360 – 5,639
- PS2 – 1,524
Japanese hardware sales, year-to-date:
- DS – 1,472,554
- PSP – 1,301479
- Wii – 950,228
- PS3 – 920,474
- Xbox 360 – 141,282
- PS2 – 54,555
Source: Media Create.


4 comments
#1
RomaTotti10
20/08/10, 11:38 am
It looks like the Wii is losing steam worldwide and I think this will make Nintendo release a new console in early 2012.
#2
reask
20/08/10, 1:09 pm
Just thinking that myself Roma.
#3
Psychotext
20/08/10, 1:23 pm
Great week for the PS3 (is there some software pushing that, or is it still the newer model?)… and on the flipside of that, if the PSPGo keeps slipping as it is then soon enough they’ll stop tracking it.
#4
Gekidami
20/08/10, 1:41 pm
Sengoku Basara 3 did pretty well so maybe its because of that.