Japan Hardware: Sony Console Gains, Wii Still Leads
All Nintendo platforms see sales drop, but is still #1 in console chart.
On the back of the continuing success of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Nintendo's little white box maintains its lead over all other platforms as the best selling console for the week in Japan (28th December 2009 - 3rd January 2010).
It's at the cost of a post-holiday sales drop though, with the Wii selling over 50,000 units less than the week before. The closest contender, Sony's PlayStation 3, is still a good couple of metaphorical miles away with over 114,000 units sold, but it otherwise enjoys a slight sales increase.
The Xbox 360 sees marginal gains, and the PlayStation 2 is making something of an outstanding comeback from a few weeks ago, when it was selling a mere 2,000-odd units and it looked like it was finally running out of chart steam. Apparently not.
In the handheld chart, the PSP gets a bit of a kick up the arse, most likely due in part to the sales boost of Sega's Phantasy Star Portable 2, which hit #9 in the Media Create software Top 10. Sony's UMD platform is the only portable seeing any sales gains this week, with the DSi a good 40,000 units behind and the PSP Go coming down from its seasonal high.
Figures are below. Previous week's are in ( ).
Chart courtesy of Media Create.
Home Console
Wii: 163,855 (215,129)
PS3: 114,368 (110,519)
360: 6,878 (6,489)
PS2: 4,023 (3,747)
Handheld
PSP: 132,911 (105,801)
DSi: 92,461 (113,984)
DSi LL: 70,643 (81,430)
DS: Lite: 17,388 (17,695)
PSP Go: 3,903 (4,192)
It's at the cost of a post-holiday sales drop though, with the Wii selling over 50,000 units less than the week before. The closest contender, Sony's PlayStation 3, is still a good couple of metaphorical miles away with over 114,000 units sold, but it otherwise enjoys a slight sales increase.
The Xbox 360 sees marginal gains, and the PlayStation 2 is making something of an outstanding comeback from a few weeks ago, when it was selling a mere 2,000-odd units and it looked like it was finally running out of chart steam. Apparently not.
In the handheld chart, the PSP gets a bit of a kick up the arse, most likely due in part to the sales boost of Sega's Phantasy Star Portable 2, which hit #9 in the Media Create software Top 10. Sony's UMD platform is the only portable seeing any sales gains this week, with the DSi a good 40,000 units behind and the PSP Go coming down from its seasonal high.
Figures are below. Previous week's are in ( ).
Chart courtesy of Media Create.
Home Console
Wii: 163,855 (215,129)
PS3: 114,368 (110,519)
360: 6,878 (6,489)
PS2: 4,023 (3,747)
Handheld
PSP: 132,911 (105,801)
DSi: 92,461 (113,984)
DSi LL: 70,643 (81,430)
DS: Lite: 17,388 (17,695)
PSP Go: 3,903 (4,192)
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Comments
YenRug 8 Jan 2010 13:44
1/3
Yet again, Sony does not gain ground, they are just not falling behind as slowly. Only whilst Sony are selling more PS3's than Wii's can they said to be gaining ground/catching up; whilst they are selling less the gap is increasing and they are falling behind.
Stop stating that just an increase in sales means they gaining on Nintendo.
Stop stating that just an increase in sales means they gaining on Nintendo.
Rockstar3F09 8 Jan 2010 22:51
2/3
I hope Playstation 2 will sell better then the Wii. [gets excited and plays video games]
Dreadknux 9 Jan 2010 10:01
3/3
YenRug wrote:
Yet again, Sony does not gain ground, they are just not falling behind as slowly. Only whilst Sony are selling more PS3's than Wii's can they said to be gaining ground/catching up; whilst they are selling less the gap is increasing and they are falling behind.
Stop stating that just an increase in sales means they gaining on Nintendo.
Stop stating that just an increase in sales means they gaining on Nintendo.
If you'd like to point out where we've implied that the PS3 is catching up to the Wii's total sales, that would be grand. Otherwise, I'll point out that we're talking about weekly charts here. Week-on-week, the PlayStation 3 enjoys a slight sales increase. That statement isn't false.