Japanese Hardware Sales: September 1st - 7th, 2008

[Shrygue]

Well, it's another round of data for Japan's weekly console sales again. Today, they maintain same postions like last time but all see a drop like two weeks ago:


Nintendo DS Lite: 51,412
Playstation Portable: 34,462
Nintendo Wii: 33,128
Playstation 3: 8,317
Playstation 2: 7,948
Xbox 360: 1,044

DS lite is down roughly 5,000. PSP drops 7,200. Wii goes down 2,000. PS3 reduces in sales by 1,600, PS2 is down 900 and Xbox 360 is down 1,080.

[Veskgar]

Either the PSP is slipping or people are holding out for a PSP 3000. I'd like to think its the latter.

[gutbub]

Whats the ratio of DS to person in Japan? I'm guessing that every Japanese person owns at least 2 DS's by now.

[jamotto]

Either the PSP is slipping or people are holding out for a PSP 3000. I'd like to think its the latter.

I think it is the lack of RPG's the next one doesn't get released until October 23.

[Veskgar]

Whats the ratio of DS to person in Japan? I'm guessing that every Japanese person owns at least 2 DS's by now.

Well, its very popular among families to get most everyone in the household a DS Lite. As there are a lot of multiplayer, family friendly type games.

Some collector's like myself may have more than 1 DS Lite. Japan usually gets cool collectible limited edition systems. I've got a sealed Limited Edition Gold Zelda DS Lite that just stays in the package. Then I use another DS Lite to play.