Fri, Sep 10, 2010 | 10:30 BST

Japanese hardware charts – PS3 poised for year-to-date Wii kill

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Media Create’s Japanese hardware figures today have put PS3 within striking distance of passing Wii in the country this year, with only around 3,000 units now separating the two systems in 2010.

We missed this data last week thanks to Duke Nukem Forever. The upside is you now get two sets of weekly figures in one go. Try to keep those pants on, boys.

Wii passed the million mark for the year in Japan this week, and now stands at a total of 1,000,482 consoles sold in 2010.

It now seems certain that PS3 will both achieve the same milestone next week and pass Wii for the year: the Sony system has sold 997,187 machines this year, and bested Wii by 6,000 units this week.

Xbox 360 enjoyed a new sales achievement in Japan this week, hitting the 150,000 mark this year to stand at 150,649 units sold.

Japanese hardware, year-to-date (combined SKUs):

  1. DS – 1,597,712
  2. PSP – 1,421,678
  3. Wii – 1,000,482
  4. PS3 – 997,187
  5. Xbox 360 – 150,649
  6. PS2 – 58,649

Japanese hardware, year-to-date (click for bigger image):

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Here are the numbers for this week.

Japanese hardware, August 30-September 5 (separate SKUs):

  1. PSP – 34,839
  2. PS3 – 22,227
  3. DSi LL – 18,929
  4. DSi – 16,968
  5. Wii – 16,080
  6. DS Lite – 4,039
  7. Xbox 360 – 2,860
  8. PS2 – 1,370
  9. PSP go – 927

Japanese hardware, August 30-September 5 (combined SKUs):

  1. DS – 39,936
  2. PSP – 35,766
  3. PS3 – 22,227
  4. Wii – 16,080
  5. Xbox 360 – 2,860
  6. PS2 – 1,370

And here are the ones we missed last week.

Japanese hardware, August 23-29 (separate SKUs):

  1. PSP – 55,412
  2. PS3 – 25,053
  3. DSi LL – 19,010
  4. DSi – 17,057
  5. Wii – 15,989
  6. DS Lite – 3,925
  7. Xbox 360 – 2,665
  8. PS2 – 1,358
  9. PSP go – 836

Japanese hardware, August 23-29 (combined SKUs):

  1. PSP – 56,248
  2. DS – 39,992
  3. PS3 – 25,053
  4. Wii – 15,989
  5. Xbox 360 – 2,665
  6. PS2 – 1,358

Here’s the previous week.

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20 comments

#1

Patrick Garratt
10/09/10, 10:32 am

I’m struggling with the pictures a bit now.

#2

JonFE
10/09/10, 10:33 am

Hmm, I wouldn’t mind *struggling* with her, I think…

#3

Psychotext
10/09/10, 10:37 am

RAPIST!

/lynches

#4

Patrick Garratt
10/09/10, 10:41 am

360′s going to go passed Wii in the US for this year soon, too. Numbers, eh.

#5

Psychotext
10/09/10, 10:45 am

Numbers indeed. Here, have a few.

3 7 12 27 50

(Bonus points if you can tell me the next number in the sequence)

#6

mington
10/09/10, 10:52 am

#7

Syrok
10/09/10, 10:59 am

“3 7 12 27 50″

96?

Err, I mean 105. :)

#8

Blerk
10/09/10, 11:02 am

69!

#9

mington
10/09/10, 11:04 am

Twelvety?

#10

Psychotext
10/09/10, 11:16 am

You are correct with 105 Syrok. Well done. :)

Also well done to Mington for raising spirits this early on a Friday. \o/

#11

mington
10/09/10, 11:23 am

i think she’s saying “bugger mint”

#12

JonFE
10/09/10, 11:24 am

I tell you what, Psycho, those raised spirits you mentioned, prevented some clear and unobstructed thinking to solve that number sequence; not that I minded though…

8O

#13

itsucks
10/09/10, 11:30 am

Japan means jack shit in terms of hardware sales. Wii never was strong there to start, it was DS that rape everything else.

#14

DrDamn
10/09/10, 11:31 am

@9
That’s NUMBERWANG!

#15

mington
10/09/10, 11:35 am

#16

Erthazus
10/09/10, 11:52 am

@Mington, bwahahaha *laughing my ass off* I’m stealing that pic.

#17

2plus2equals5
10/09/10, 11:58 am

Do you really want to tell me that ps3 and psp in japan will sell more than wii and ds? O_O
So is this the decline of nintendo consoles and the real reason of the launch of the 3ds?

#18

StolenGlory
10/09/10, 1:39 pm

@Pat +1 for the Japanese chick on the headline.

I’d smash.

#20

DaMan
10/09/10, 2:46 pm

vg247 is slowly but steadily becoming the /b/ of gaming news sites.

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