wraggster
April 14th, 2011, 22:48
The PSP has again outsold the 3DS in Japan, with sales of Nintendo's new handheld dropping by 10,000 units to just 32,910.
All formats have seen a drop though in what has been a very slow week for the market in Japan, with the best-selling software (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-04-14-earth-defence-force-portable-takes-japanese-number-one-spot) title recording just 64,000 unit sales.
According to data obtained by Andriasang (http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/04/14/media_create_sales/), sales of the PSP-3000 alone dropped by almost 22,000 in just the space of the week, to a total of 35,478. Combined sales with 356 units of the PSPgo stood at 35,834.
The PlayStation 3 experienced a drop of 5000 units to 22,431, but remained easily the best-selling home format. Wii sales fell by around 1500 units, dropping to a four digit total of just 8825.
The Nintendo DS family of consoles sold 16,935 units in total (DSi XL: 8386, DSi: 8035, DS Lite: 514) - a drop of just over 2000 units. The PlayStation 2 was down a few hundred to 1395, but the Xbox 360 was up slightly to 1906.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-04-14-psp-outsells-3ds-again-in-japan
All formats have seen a drop though in what has been a very slow week for the market in Japan, with the best-selling software (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-04-14-earth-defence-force-portable-takes-japanese-number-one-spot) title recording just 64,000 unit sales.
According to data obtained by Andriasang (http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/04/14/media_create_sales/), sales of the PSP-3000 alone dropped by almost 22,000 in just the space of the week, to a total of 35,478. Combined sales with 356 units of the PSPgo stood at 35,834.
The PlayStation 3 experienced a drop of 5000 units to 22,431, but remained easily the best-selling home format. Wii sales fell by around 1500 units, dropping to a four digit total of just 8825.
The Nintendo DS family of consoles sold 16,935 units in total (DSi XL: 8386, DSi: 8035, DS Lite: 514) - a drop of just over 2000 units. The PlayStation 2 was down a few hundred to 1395, but the Xbox 360 was up slightly to 1906.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-04-14-psp-outsells-3ds-again-in-japan