If you thought hardware sales in Japan couldn’t bottom out any harder than they did last week, we ask you to politely reconsider. Frankly, we’re starting to worry. You okay, Japanese gamers?
https://kotaku.com/weekly-japanese-hardware-sales-still-takin-it-easy-5137569
‘Cause if you’re a little short on cash, we could let you borrow some. Admittedly, post holiday sales aren’t typically spectacular, nor is the line-up of recent releases anything to get excited about — GameCube remakes, anyone? But numbers are far, far lower than they were last year.
http://kotaku.com/351405/simple-2000-the-japanese-hardware-chart
Let’s look!
Nintendo DSi – 51,618
PSP – 38,280
Wii – 26,770
PlayStation 3 – 17,708
Nintendo DS Lite – 13,686
Xbox 360 – 7,663
PlayStation 2 – 5,077
Yeah. Unimpressive! That’s 160,802 consoles sold this past week, according to Japanese sales tracker Media Create. The country snapped up some 281,870 consoles during the same week in 2007.
