Japan's Software And Hardware Sales Before Christmas

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It is safe to say that Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is Sony's "go-to guy" in the land of the rising sun. We mentioned a couple of days ago that the game sold around 100,000 copies, just 24 hours after it was released. Well, when we're talking about a star player, we don't want rough estimates. We want the actual statistics, down to the most minute fraction.

According to Media Create, a total number of 178,370 copies of Konami's stealth game was actually sold in Japan during the week before Christmas. Despite this impressive number however, the game only came in second to DS title Pokemon Diamond. But then again, we're talking about Japan here and we know that this is Pikachu's territory. A second place outing is not that bad. Really.

The complete list of the software and hardware sales for December 18 to 24 in Japan is as follows:


Software

1. Pokemon Diamond (DS): 209,379
2. Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (PSP): 178,370
3. Pokemon Pearl (DS): 164,670
4. New Super Mario Bros. (DS): 154,107
5. Wii Sports (Wii): 152,756

Hardware

1. DS Lite: 485,584
2. Wii: 279,277
3. PSP: 138,588
4. PS3: 76,882
5. PS2: 46,209

Heh... At least the PSP is doing pretty good.

good to see MGS:PO doing well

Sony really shud make better games like MGS if they want more $$$$, I think the next big game for PSP is probly FFVII:Crisis core!!!!!! cant wait!!