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Japan Celebrates Christmas By Buying Many, Many Wiis, DSis
After taking a backseat to Final Fantasy XIII and the PlayStation 3, Nintendo had a very merry Christmas week in Japan, another 215,000 Wiis in Japanese gamers' waggle-hungry, Mushroom Kingdom-platforming hands. More »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »PlayStation 3 Is Japan's Bestselling Platform
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 »Bayonetta Brushes Back Pokemon, Tops Japan's Game Charts
PlatinumGames and Sega's Bayonetta kicked her way to the top of the Japanese game charts, moving nearly 200,000 copies during week one, making it the country's bestselling game. So long Pokemons! More »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »Weekly Japanese Hardware Charts Say Sayonara To Old PS3
See that tiny little sliver of PlayStation 3 sales? Think of this week's barely perceptible performance from Sony's current-gen console the end of the chrysalis stage, set to burst forth in a beautiful butterfly of reinvigorated sales. More »DSi Honors Japanese Bestelling Hardware Tradition
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. More »DSi Reclaims #1 Spot In Japan, Hi-Def Console Sales Still Low
Last week's strong showing by the Wii doesn't repeat this week, as the Nintendo DSi rightfully reclaims its seat at the top of the Japanese hardware sales chart. Things quickly get ugly in the bottom half. More »