Following last weeks’s heavy drop in combined hardware sales, partly due to the end of the DSi’s launch buzz, total sales for the week ending Nov 16 continued to fall.
Nintendo’s Wii was the only console that didn’t drop, slightly climbing from sales of 24,726 last week to reach 26,787. Last week’s figure for the Wii marked a turnaround for the console, as it had suffered successive drops for several weeks before last week's results.
Nintendo also saw its DSi handheld, once again, take the biggest fall. It dropped from 104,897 to 85,327, and this outcome may come as a relief for Nintendo, as sales results of the new handheld last week saw it nosedive from 171,925.
The arrangement of consoles this week remains largely the same. Sony’s PSP range saw another successive sales drop, from 43,726 to hitting 38,153 this week. The PS3 remains largely consistent, trimming sales from 18,354 to 17,448 this week.
Just behind the PS3 in the charts is again the Xbox 360, though this week Microsoft’s console fell rather more sharply from 12,759 to 7,983.
At the bottom of the charts the PS2 to a similar fall to its successor, with sales trimming by a largely insignificant 322 units to reach 5,421. The console did actually see another machine drop past it; the DS Lite. Sales of the previous DS model took the biggest proportional drop, falling from 8,381 last week to 3,559.
Full list according to Media Create:
Nintendo DSi - 85,327
PSP - 38,153
Wii - 26,787
PlayStation 3 - 17,448
Xbox 360 - 7,983
PlayStation 2 - 5,421
Nintendo DS - 3,559
Xbox 360 outsold the Playstation 3 in Japan from August until November all because of the steady string of great software such as Tales of Vesperia, Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant, and many others.
These holiday season sales numbers for Japan are the worst I have ever seen for the Japanese market. Some of this may because of the Japanese recession that has hurt hardware sales. But these are definitely very low sales numbers, and I fully agree with everyone who points out that the Japanese sales market has very little impact in today's market.
This is completely wrong. It's the most factually wrong thing I've ever seen you say. The 360 outsold the PS3 for one week in August and that was because of Tales of Vesperia. It didn't outsell it any other week in August. In September and October it definitely outsold the PS3, likely due to the price drop. But it didn't outsell the PS3 at all in November.
It's really misleading when you post a four month spread (which covers close to 17 weeks) as when the 360 was outselling the PS3 when it was actually closer to 9 weeks.
There it goes, the X360's win was nothing but a temporary effect due to price drop. Again, it will take some steady pace but the PS3 will catch up on all fronts!
More than anything, these weekly hardware numbers demonstrate how increasingly irrelevant Japan has become to the home console market (although still a factor in handhelds).
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