The PlayStation Portable absolutely killed it in Japan last week, sales-wise, gobbling up a huge portion of the hardware sales market and giving Sony the dominant portion of the pie. Who’s responsible?
The one-two punch of MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Ailu Mura and Ace Combat: Joint Assault helped propel the PSP to sweet sales last week, according to sales tracker Media Create. Neither did much for the PSP’s UMD-less sibling, which still languishes in last place.
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For the bestselling hardware in Japan for the week of August 23 to 29, look at this bullet-pointed list.
PSP – 55,112
PlayStation 3 – 25,053
Nintendo DSi LL – 19,010
Nintendo DSi – 17,057
Wii – 15,989
Nintendo DS Lite – 3,925
Xbox 360 – 2,665
PlayStation 2 – 1,358
PSP go – 836
