PS3 sales tumble in Japan as Metal Gear effect drops off

[Shrygue]

via Games Industry


Sales of the PlayStation 3 have dropped in Japan following last week's boost for the system after the release of Konami's Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

Hardware numbers from Media Create show the PS3 shifted 20,336 units for the week ended June 22, compared to over 75,000 units last week.

However, Sony can still claim the best-selling hardware in the region, as the PSP handheld sold 59,351 units in the past week, more than Nintendo's Wii (41,037) and DS (36,599).

The nine year-old PlayStation 2 continues to outsell Microsoft's Xbox 360, with 6,346 units compared to 2,555 units.

[John Vattic]

I believe psp is still a year or two ahead of it's time.

Developers are stupid to bail now.

[Eviltaco64]

where's jkkdark when you need him

[mike_jmg]

where's jkkdark when you need him

LOL

[Triv1um]

Lol, I know. He could bring some humour to this thread. Haha.

It's not suprising. It was bound to happen, it could not keep with those sort of sales.

[iceman100]

I believe psp is still a year or two ahead of it's time.

Developers are stupid to bail now.

How exactly is psx hardware ahead of it's time? and sonys back to poor sales is not news people just get tired of their games to fast nowadays.

[Eviltaco64]

How exactly is psx hardware ahead of it's time? and sonys back to poor sales is not news people just get tired of their games to fast nowadays.

PSP is far more powerful than PS1. And it's also outselling the Wii and DS in Japan

[Shrygue]

Well, the PS3 was bound to slide back into it's usual 4th place as soon as the MGS4 rush would finish. At least last weeks' reading was a change to see for at least one time only this year. It'd be astounding for that to happen again though.