DS maintains Japanese lead in quiet week

Console hardware sales continue to decline in Japan, though the DS remains at the head of the pile for now.

Total sales of the combined DS range - XL, DSi and Lite - came to 24,418, slumping from over 36,000 at this time last month.

Sony's PSP range lurked just behind at 22,380, having been at nearly 32,000 a few weeks ago. The PSP-3000 handheld remained the best-selling single unit, though it was just 1000 sales ahead of the Wii.

It was bad news for Sony's PlayStation 3, which sold just less than 18,000 units despite having been comfortably ahead of the Wii and selling 29,000 units mere weeks ago.

Really suffering, though, was the download games-only PSPgo, which mustered a mere 700 sales. The PS2 and Xbox 360 remain relatively unchanged.

Japanese weekly hardware sales:

PSP: 21,662
Wii: 20,588
PlayStation 3: 17,676
Nintendo DSi XL: 11,138
Nintendo DSi: 10,172
Xbox 360: 3,225
Nintendo DS Lite: 3,108
PlayStation 2: 1,291
PSPgo: 718

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...-in-quiet-week

Wow, I know sales in Japan have really been trailing but it's been a long time since I see them this low.