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    May 28, 2009 7:20 PM 11,083
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    Japanese Hardware War Now Officially Boring

    Minor fluctuations in the currently tepid Japanese console race don't make this week's Media Create chart all that exciting, to be honest. A slightly slinking PlayStation presence and marginally expanded Nintendo one isn't exactly thrilling.

    But neither was the software contest, which saw a pair of Nintendo DS titles beating out the Japanese release of Mass Effect. The Xbox 360 game gave Microsoft's console a slight bump in sales, but not enough to push it past PlayStation 2 sales.

    Wii sales are slightly up, PS3 sales slightly down. And that's about as heated as it got. The numbers are after this.

    • Nintendo DSi - 33,833
    • PSP - 27,536
    • Wii - 16,233
    • PlayStation 3 - 10,932
    • Nintendo DS Lite - 5,631
    • PlayStation 2 - 4,075
    • Xbox 360 - 3,854


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