DSi Honors Japanese Bestselling Hardware Tradition

6:40AM August 29, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

Not much activity in the Japanese hardware market these days, as the Nintendo DSi remains atop Media Create’s weekly sales chart, with the PlayStation 3 an understandably distant third.

Hey, when there are no PS3s to buy, the console can’t very well show itself in an impressive way in terms of console sales. Depleted stock and a wait and see attitude reflected in last week’s sales, something that will likely be turned around by Sony’s recently announced price drop and hardware redesign. For now anyway, the numbers aren’t pretty.

Nintendo DSi – 59,578
PSP – 27,187
Wii – 26,972
Xbox 360 – 8,979
Nintendo DS Lite – 5,735
PlayStation 2 – 3,295
PlayStation 3 – 2,052

Comments

Jay

August 29, 2009 at 1:01 PM

Yeah, before reading the actual text, i was pretty much =O at the Xbox compared to the PS3.

Shame it’s due to shortages.

Kav

August 31, 2009 at 10:01 AM

OMG!!!!! Xbox360 out sold the PS2 !

k'Fox

August 31, 2009 at 12:16 PM

Bigger shock… PS2 + PS3 sales combined can not beat the sales of Xbox 360… do the math

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