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more about #consoletaisen JoRo1986: Curious if this would have any impact on HDTV sales in Japan. I know they have been slow to jump on the HDTV train over there, but I wonder if seeing... more » Realmjumper: I'm pretty happy to see that. First Nintendo left the hardcore crowd when they went with the Wii. Secondly the Xbox 360 keeps failing. Go PS3! more » TVHead: For long I have watched the sales graphs in Japan posted on this site and for once I am a statistic... I bought the ps3 combo package (lightning editi... more » koldkalamity: Fucking love graphs, man, I'm tellin' ya'. One day, they should make a graph of a GRAPH! more » niyoko: Again the Xbox360 is never the best selling, but it hangs at a fairly steady number chart over chart. Over 8,000 is not to bad for the plucky little box. more » breakblossom: Well, FF XIII is the reason I'm getting a PS3 so it makes sense to me. more » RicoTheSaboteur: That's actually, and by a huge margin, the biggest week ever for the PS3 in Japan. As a reminder, the launch week was 80'000 units and the slim launch... more » bakagaijin: While PS3 sales being over three times what they were last week is impressive, what's really impressive is the software sales. 1 out of every 3 PS3 ow... more » PeachPurin: PSP Go should be renamed to PSP Gone. more » Rachel Fogg: Wow, I really thought XIII would push more PS3 to Pac-man territory.... Good thing I didn't place any money on that bet. more » (Starman) NONAME: Whenever I look at these charts, I tend to think of stuffed mouths and overbites. Like, Sony is trying to eat up Martha, but it just can't fit her in... more » jasonburnett: Whoo! Go Sony :) Glad to see my system getting some love... more » UsernameOfTheDead: Wow, the PSP Go looks to be Sony's Virtual Boy :) more » Funky101: Why the hell are people still buying Ps2's ? more » rich8606: Who expected PSPGo to sell well anyway? more » plasticmouse: I like my chart better. more » excel_excel: Dear god Super Mario Final Fantasy would sell like too much. If it ever happened. more » MR. FAP☆FAP! ｡◕‿◕｡: What is pushing those Wii sales? New Super Mario Wii? Edit: whoops, yeah. First line in the story. Silly me! more » Pretty Sneaky Sis: Can't help but notice that the tiny 360 slice keeps growing. -About 10.6k this week. -5.3k last week. -3.7k the week before. more » AngelMayLaugh Loves Rashida Jones: Anyone want to take bets on PS3's numbers next week? more » -
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Big Final Fantasy XIII Sales Mean Big PS3 Sales In Japan
When you're selling over 1.5 million copies of Final Fantasy XIII to the Japanese game buying public, you're gonna sell some PlayStation 3s to go along with it. How many? More than triple what Sony sold the week before. More » -
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Wii Dominance Continues In Japan, PS3 Dominance Due Shortly
Continued strong sales of New Super Mario Bros. Wii means continued strong sales of the Wii. In fact, this week's sales are much better than the week prior, putting the Wii atop the Media Create chart with 135,000-plus sales. More » -
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Interested In Japanese Wii And PS3 Total Sales?
Enterbrain, the publisher behind magazine Famitsu, has collected and crunched the new life-to-date totals for the Wii and the PlayStation 3. More » -
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New Super Mario Bros. Helps Wii Reclaim Top Spot In Japan
After months of so-so weekly sales in Japan, the Wii returns to the top of the country's hardware sales charts, its best weekly tally since the release of Monster Hunter 3. Thank New Super Mario Bros. Wii for that! More » -
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2009: The Year The Xbox 360 Practically Vanished In Japan
Looking back, 2006 and 2007 were awesome years for console sales. 2008 was so-so. 2009? Blergh. More » -
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Nintendo DSi LL Has Strong Second Week, Wii Squeaks By PS3 In Japan
The bigger, larger and more enormous Nintendo DSi LL continued to outsell the competition in its second week on the market in Japan, another 67,000-plus hardware units sold. It's a stark contrast to competitor Sony's most recent PSP revision. More » -
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Nintendo DSi LL Grabs XL Hardware Sales In Japan
The Nintendo DSi LL, having officially launched in Japan this past week, has outsold everything else to the tune of 100,000-plus units, adding a "wine red" slice to the weekly Japanese hardware chart. Welcome, wine red. More » -
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PlayStation Hardware Continues Pie Dominance In Japan
Avid readers of The Japanese Hardware Chart weekly updates won't be surprised—especially after reading about the PlayStation family's software dominance—that Sony hardware is selling better than the competition in Japan. No change this week. More » -
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PSPgo Gives PlayStation A Big Slice Of Japanese Hardware Pie
The Japanese release of Sony's PSPgo may have been low-key in terms of numbers, but we're only getting a look at one day of sales of the platform. It was enough to give Sony the upper hardware hand this week. More » -
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DS Lite, Xbox 360 Only Positives In This Week's Japanese Hardware Chart
Hardware buying was down ever so slightly in Japan this week, with Media Create's sales figures showing the Wii bearing the brunt of that slowdown. Two consoles were up, however — the Nintendo DS Lite and Xbox 360. More » -
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With Japanese Price Cut, PS3 Sales Up 700 Percent
A spate of price cuts has hit game hardware. Famitsu publisher Enterbrain examines how it has affected each platform. Let's have a look, shall we? More » -
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Nintendo DSi Leads Japan's Hardware Pack; PSP, PS3, Wii Tie
Technically, the PSP beat the PlayStation 3 which in turn beat the Wii (by a slimmer margin) in Japan this week, but sales of the three platforms were close enough, averaging around 30,000 units each. More » -
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Wii, PS3 Sales In Dead Heat In Japan
This week's report from Japanese sales tracker Media Create shows that recent price drops on Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 are having nearly equal impact on sales of each console, a slight edge going to the PS3. More » -
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Microsoft: We Will Outsell PS3 This Gen
Time for the baseball analogies! Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg compares the console wars to a game of baseball. So, batter up. More » -
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Wii, PSP Price Drops Invigorate Console Sales In Japan
Nintendo and Sony both issued hardware price drops in Japan, effective October 1, on the Wii and PSP-3000, respectively. The clear winner from those cuts? The PSP. More » -
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Japan Console War Sees PS3 Sales Slim, Wii Sales Bottom Out
This week's Media Create hardware sales numbers are in, with the Nintendo DSi retaining its top spot on the charts, thanks to continued software sales of Tomodachi Collection and the latest Pokemon re-releases. More » -
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DSi, PS3 Battle For Hardware Championship In Japan (Spoiler: DSi Wins)
Thanks to continued sales of the latest pair of Pokemon games, the Nintendo DSi holds onto its top spot on Japanese hardware charts. Also holding strong? The PlayStation 3. More » -
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Pokemon Fever Helps DSi Return To Hardware Dominance In Japan
The release of the newer, cheaper, more Gundam-filled PlayStation 3 gave Sony's console a massive boost in the hardware battle in Japan last week. This week, two chart topping Pokemon games give the DSi the number one spot. More » -
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PS3 Slim Gets A Huge Slice Of Japan's Hardware Pie
PlayStation fans in Japan lined up to get their hands on the newer, slimmer, cheaper PS3. Over 150,000 of them invested in the revised PlayStation 3, leading to a giant red slice of Sony dominance at home. More »
