Japanese hardware charts, August 2-8 - DS wins as Sony formats relax

Following a massive surge for both PSP and PS3 in Japan last week, DS has re-taken the lead.

The releases of Sengoku Basara 3 for PS3 and Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd for PSP in the previous week injected the formats with turbo juice, but the effect dropped off this week to hand the overall lead back to DS.

For the record, we have no idea what either of those games are. Japanese people clearly like them, though.

Here's the lot, showing combined SKUs, for August 2-8:

1. DS - 43,708
2. PSP - 31,105
3. PS3 - 28,630
4. Wii - 18,238
5. Xbox 360 - 5,639
6. PS2 - 1,524

Last week's data's here.

Here's the breakdown by SKU for the same week:

1. PSP - 30,397
2. PS3 - 28,630
3. DSi LL - 21,018
4. DSi - 18,318
5. Wii - 18,238
6. Xbox 360 - 5,639
7. DS Lite - 4,372
8. PS2 - 1,524
9. PSP go - 708

Japanese hardware sales, year-to-date:

1. DS - 1,414,972
2. PSP - 1,265,137
3. Wii - 925,156
4. PS3 - 887,417
5. Xbox 360 - 136,217
6. PS2 - 52,880

And the amazing graph showing this year's sales so far:

Source: Media Create. Pic.