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Wii sales were well up in Japan this week on the back of Monster Hunter Tri, from 24,000 units to over 95,000. Substantial.

Last week’s chart here. Data below for the week ending August 2.

1. Wii – 95,357
2. DSi – 73,710
3. PSP – 33,049
4. DS Lite – 12,027
5. PS3 – 8,760
6. PS2 – 3,617
7. Xbox 360 – 3,552

Dragon Quest IX was fun while it lasted, wasn’t it? Back to the mire.

Last week’s chart here. Data below for the week ending July 26.

• DSi – 80,362
• PSP – 30,523
• Wii – 23,995
• DS Lite – 12,385
• PS3 – 8,997
• PS2 – 3,305
• Xbox 360 3,080

Dear Mr Square,

Just a note to say thanks for Dragon Quest IX. We really like those little dudes, and all the fighting and shit. You’ve done a great job. If you could just bring out more than one a decade, that’d be awesome: we’ve sold almost 290,000 DSes in the past three weeks in Japan. It’s just peachy.

Beer next week? As long as we don’t end up in that tit place again, we’re good.

Cheers,

Mr Nintendo

• DSi – 96,986
• PSP – 24,053
• Wii – 20,807
• DS Lite – 9,932
• PS3 – 8,865
• PS2 – 3,352
• Xbox 360 – 2,899

The final Media Create Japanese hadrware sales for the week have shown that, as predicted, DS exploded on the launch of Dragon Quest IX, nearly tripling from last week to almost 130,000 sales across DSi and DS Lite.

Numbers below for the week ending July 12.

• DSi – 118,202
• PSP – 26,527
• Wii – 22,141
• DS Lite – 10,161
• PS3 – 9,864
• Xbox 360 – 3,561
• PS2 – 3,508

Here it comes. Over 2 million people have now pre-ordered Dragon Quest IX, which goes on sales for DS in Japan this week, meaning we’re almost certainly about to see a huge DSi-DS Lite hardware sales spike. Both machines started to pick up last week.

Which is great. Because if we’d had to write up another week of upabitdownabit Japanese hardware figures we may have started self-harming.

Last week’s chart here. Data below for the week ending July 5.

• DSi – 46,855
• PSP – 32,849
• Wii – 24,971
• PS3 – 11,196
• DS Lite – 7,507
• Xbox 360 – 5,876
• PS2 – 3,734

How can we make this interesting? We can’t. Some of these numbers have gone up and down a little since last week.

If you’ve got any ideas about how we can “pep” the weekly Japanese hardware figures up a bit, we’re all ears.

Data below from June 22-28.

• DSi – 39,885
• PSP – 26,789
• Wii – 21,790
• PS3 – 11,310
• Xbox 360 – 5,766
• DS Lite – 5,595
• PS2 – 3,578

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The great circle of life inextricably wheeled again this morning, Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett passing into the everafter while the Japanese videogames industry appeared to emerge from the ashes. So poignant. So fitting.

Here’s last week’s figures. We love you, Michael.

• DSi – 40,464
• PSP – 27,884
• Wii – 19,386
• PS3 – 10,359
• Xbox 360 – 6,734
• DS Lite – 5,531
• PS2 – 3,770

Doing these every week is just depressing. Flat lines of dreariness, moving imperceptibly up and down. Sad Japanese people trudging into flaking games shops, grumpily buying a PS2 for little Yoshi to play ten year-old Gundam games on a black and white TV in the basement.

Go nuts, Japan. Have some kind of PS3 fit, or something. Data below for the week ending June 14. Last week’s charts here.

• DSi – 36,872
• PSP – 26,904
• Wii – 18,442
• PS3 – 10,009
• Xbox 360 – 8,015
• DS Lite – 5,408
• PS2 – 3,498

Run for the hills. The dream’s over. Start making boats out of matchsticks, or something. Japan’s surrendered. Flee. Flee.

Data for the week ending June 7. We missed a week here. Blame E3. Here’s the last one. You get the idea.

• DSi – 38,783
• PSP – 29,070
• Wii – 17,177
• PS3 – 10,173
• Xbox 360 – 6,625
• DS Lite – 5,664
• PS2 – 4,096

Examiner has totalled the Media Create console sales in Japan for May 2009 and guess what? DSi won.

In other shocking news, PSP came in second closely followed by Nintendo Wii.

Full list including totals below:

1. Nintendo DSi – 238,037
2. PSP – 181,036
3. Nintendo Wii – 95,102
4. Playstation 3 – 77,035
5. Nintendo DS Lite – 33,399
6. Xbox 360 – 24,325
7. Playstation 2 – 22,831

The debuts of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, and Gyakuten Kenji helped boost sales of DSi in Japan this week almost doubling the numbers from last week.

All platforms were up over all, with PSP coming in second and Wii third.

The list and lovely pie chart are courtesy of Kotaku.

• Nintendo DSi – 65,537
• PSP – 32,251
• Wii – 17,810
• PlayStation 3 – 12,427
• Nintendo DS Lite – 7,519
• Xbox 360 – 4,857
• PlayStation 2 – 4,120

Flee. Before it’s too late. Japan has apparently stopped liking videogames, which accounts for the fact that this week’s hardware sales figures are incontestably rubbish.

Last week’s charts here. Data for the week ending May 24.

• DSi – 33,833
• PSP – 27,536
• Wii – 16,233
• PS3 – 10,932
• DS Lite – 5,631
• PS2 – 4,075
• Xbox 360 – 3,854

This isn’t looking very rosy, is it? Either Japan had something more important to do that play videogames last week, or it really has given up.

Last chart here. Data below for the week ending May 17.

• DSi – 34,152
• PSP – 28,683
• Wii – 15,116
• PS3 – 11,605
• DS Lite – 4,888
• PS2 – 4,020
• Xbox 360 – 3,233

DSi’s on top in Japan this week, taking pole position back from PSP a week ago.

Looking pretty woeful for 360 and PS3, there.

Data below for the week ending May 10.

• DSi – 55,382
• PSP – 43,009
• Wii – 24,397
• PS3 – 18,483
• DS Lite – 7,821
• PS2 – 5,137
• Xbox 360 – 5,068

No real change in the Japanese hardware charts this week. DS Lite’s popped up above 360, but that’s about it.

Last week’s figures here. Data below for the week ending May 3.

• PSP – 49,557
• DSi – 49,133
• PS3 – 23,588
• Wii – 21,546
• DS Lite – 7,540
• Xbox 360 – 7,313
• PS2 – 5,479

PSP’s back on top in Japan this week, after the FFXIII demo propelled PS3 to dizzy heights the week previous.

Last chart here. Data below for the week ending April 26.

• PSP – 41,187
• DSi – 37,495
• PS3 – 23,351
• Wii – 18,439
• Xbox 360 – 7,016
• DS Lite – 6,374
• PS2 – 4,524

Media Create hardware figures for the week ending April 19 have shown a huge surge in PS3 sales thanks to the release of the Final Fantasy XIII demo.

God help us all when the real thing launches later this year. Last week’s data here.

• PS3 – 62,527
• PSP – 40,065
• DSi – 38,287
• Wii – 13,221
• Xbox 360 – 8,652
• DS Lite – 6,438
• PS2 – 4,230

Wii has spent a yet another week below PS3 in terms of Japanese unit sales, and now apears to be in danger of being overrun by Xbox 360. PSP rules the roost this week.

Last week’s chart here. Data for the week ending April 12.

• PSP – 40,886
• DSi – 40,673
• PS3 – 16,701
• Wii – 13,349
• Xbox 360 – 10,134
• DS Lite – 6,869
• PS2 – 4,531

The latest Japanese hardware figures show PS3 is still outselling Wii, news likely to have Mr Sony jumping for joy.

Here’s last week’s chart. Data for the week ending April 5.

• DSi – 53,680
• PSP – 48,118
• PS3 – 20,362
• Wii – 15,525
• DS Lite – 8,729
• Xbox 360 – 7,812
• PS2 – 5,394

It’s uneventful in the world of Japanese hardware sales this week. Everything dropped, pretty much, compared to the last chart.

We don’t know why. More insight next week!

• DSi – 57,401
• PSP – 54,148
• PS3 – 22,825
• Wii – 17,276
• DS Lite – 8,408
• PS2 – 5,246
• Xbox 360 – 4,849