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.
The latter likely has Forza Motorsport 3 to thank for its jump in sales. And though the Wii may have been harder in sales than its nearest competitor, the still strong PlayStation 3—which pulls further away from the Wii this week—a little bit more than half of the chart belongs to Nintendo platforms.
Will the announcement of the Nintendo DSi LL have an effect on DS/DSi sales on next week’s chart? And what color will we use to represent the third DS platform in the pie when it ships?!
Nintendo DSi – 42,199
PSP – 32,865
PlayStation 3 – 29,977
Wii – 25,917
Nintendo DS Lite – 6,550
Xbox 360 – 4,470
PlayStation 2 – 1,951
