Kotaku
It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who religiously follows the Media Create weekly hardware sales, but a report from Enterbrain (publishers of Weekly Famitsu) shows that the Wii is outselling the PLAYSTATION 3 by a considerable margin. A gap wide enough to fill a blue ocean, you might say.
Enterbrain's figures, by way of Bloomberg, peg Wii sales at 1.95 million consoles compared to 812,000 PS3s during a similar time period. Actually, the PS3 has been available to Japanese consumers and Chinese nationals working for scalpers nearly a month longer.
So where is Sony keeping pace with Nintendo in the home turf console war? Total yen sales! With some 47.6 billion yen in sales versus Nintendo's 48.7 billion yen, that high price is helping them in one way. For the record, I'm estimating that with a fairly generous 20% of those PS3 sales being of the 20 GB variety.
Oh, and with PS3's eleven pound shipping weight, I'm sure Sony is crushing them in total pounds shipped.
Nintendo's Japan Wii Sales Double Those of Sony's PlayStation 3 [Bloomberg]
