The battle for hardware dominance in Japan is, once again, kind of a wash, with the PSP and PlayStation 3 sitting atop the country’s weekly console war casualty count. The PSPgo and PlayStation 2 sit at the bottom.
Wedged in between that PlayStation sandwich are Nintendo’s offerings, with the Wii taking second to the PS3 by little more than a thousand units. The Nintendo DS platform, with all three variations combined, runs neck and neck with the PSP platform. Yep, everything seems to check out here.
Potentially exciting prospect in the coming weeks: will the PSPgo creep past the Xbox 360? Sony’s download-only PlayStation Portable has been gaining the tiniest bit of traction lately.
PSP – 28,635
PS3 – 25,590
Wii – 24,344
DSi LL – 17,146
DSi – 11,240
DS Lite – 2,869
Xbox 360 – 2,442
PSP go – 1,915
PS2 – 1,531
