Latest Japanese Hardware Sales


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August 4 - 10

Hardware

DSL - 60,434

PSP - 58,501

Wii - 38,506

360 - 24,962

PS3 - 9,673

PS2 - 8,503

Software

1. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable - 148,230

2. [NDS] Fire Emblem: Shin Ankoku Ryuu - 144,905 (NEW)

3. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold - 130,412

4. [360] Tales of Vesperia - 108,328 (NEW)

5. [NDS] Dragon Quest V - 72,598

6. [NDS] Sangokushi Taisen Ten - 32,734 (NEW)

7. [NDS] Summon Night 2 - 29,715 (NEW)

8. [WII] Wii Fit - 27,414

9. [WII] Mario Kart Wii - 22,739

10. [PS3] Soul Calibur IV - 22,575

Nice 360 bump this week.

August 11 - 17

Hardware

DSL - 78,667

PSP - 64,413

Wii - 53,036

PS3 - 11,393

PS2 - 10,168

360 - 7,358

Software

1. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold - 137,000

2. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable - 74,000

3. [NDS] Dragon Quest V - 74,000

4. [WII] Wii Fit - 47,000

5. [WII] Mario Kart Wii - 36,000

6. [NDS] Fire Emblem: New Shadow Dragons - 35,000

7. [NDS] Band Brothers DX - 24,000

8. [NDS] Drum Island - 20,000

9. [PS2] Power Pros 15 - 19,000

10. [WII] WarioLand Shake - 18,000

Was gonna say maybe the 360 numbers are down to due the supposed hardware shortage, but Tales of Vesperia ain't even in the top 10 anymore :(

Well, maybe all the people with 360s bought ToV already and since there are no more 360s left there is no reason to pick up ToV?

Was gonna say maybe the 360 numbers are down to due the supposed hardware shortage, but Tales of Vesperia ain't even in the top 10 anymore :(

People won't really buy a game if they don't have a console to play it on! I do hope sales increase onces MS gets supply back in stock in September but I guess its a missed opportunity.

However, ToV may have peaked already, who knows, we'll have to wait and see when stocks come back in!

Maybe they sold all the copies they had ready? I mean 110k or so isn't a bad number really. Everyone makes big noise when you hit 1mil+ but those aren't all the games. Lots are in the green with just 500k sold depending on how much it cost to make.

August 18 - 24

Hardware

DSL - 55,995

PSP - 47,604

Wii - 35,173

PS3 - 9,020

PS2 - 8,420

360 - 3,551

Software

1. [PS2] J-League Winning Eleven 2008 - 79,000 / NEW

2. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold - 57,000

3. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven - 41,000 / NEW

4. [NDS] Dragon Quest V - 32,000

5. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable - 31,000

6. [WII] Wii Fit - 30,000

7. [NDS] Harukanaru Toki no Naka - 26,000 / NEW

8. [NDS] Sigma Harmonics - 23,000 / NEW

9. [WII] Mario Kart Wii - 19,000

10. [NDS] Daigasso! Band Brothers DX - 16,000

August 25 - 31

Hardware

DSL - 56,439

PSP - 41,664

Wii - 35,755

PS3 - 9,775

PS2 - 8,810

360 - 3,124

Software

1. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold - 75,824

2. [PS3] Afrika - 38,423 (NEW)

3. [PS2] J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship - 37,927

4. [PSP] Fate/Tiger Colosseum Upper - 34,190 (NEW)

5. [WII] Wii Fit - 31,134

6. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven - 29,245

7. [PS3] Battlefield: Bad Company - 25,603 (NEW)

8. [NDS] Dragon Quest V - 23,389

9. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable - 23,106

10. [WII] Mario Kart Wii - 22,621

Afrika's first week numbers aren't so bad. I'm still amazed this is a Japanese exclusive. Seems everyone bar the DSL is down though, and even then the DSL is only up by 444 units. Mixed bag in the software section, too. Sony/Nintendo going 50/50.

September 1 - 7

Hardware

DSL - 51,412

PSP - 34,462

Wii - 33,128

PS3 - 8,317

PS2 - 7,948

360 - 1,044

Software

1. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 55,276 / 668,000

2. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 31,970 / 2,609,000

3. [NDS] Blue Dragon Plus (AQ Interactive) 21,174 / NEW

4. [PS3] Afrika (SCEI) 18,567 / 57,000

5. [PS2] J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship (Konami) 18,342 / 136,000

6. [NDS] Fire Emblem: New Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light (Nintendo) 17,349 / 222,000

7. [NDS] Dragon Quest V (Square Enix) 15,454 / 1,164,000

8. [NDS] Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (Nintendo) 14,688 / 326,000

9. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 14,207 / 1,748,000

10. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven (Level 5) 13,803 / 85,000

Did Sony announce the PSP-3000 too early? Shortages finally hitting the 360? Will Wii Fit ever stop selling? Hmm.

These numbers probably take into account the shortages they've talked about. We'll see how they stack up next week. They should have new stock in by then to account for things.

September 8 - 14

Hardware

DSL - 63,859

PSP - 30,156

Wii - 29,686

360 - 28,188

PS3 - 8,053

PS2 - 7,669

Software

1. [NDS] Pokemon Platinum (Nintendo) 963,000 / NEW

2. [NDS] Quiz Magic Academy DS (Konami) 119,000 / NEW

3. [360] Infinite Undiscovery (Square Enix) 90,000 / NEW

4. [WII] One Piece Unlimited Cruise: Episode 1 - Nami ni Yureru Hihou (Namco Bandai) 61,000 / NEW

5. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Heaven (Nintendo) 56,000 / 723,000

6. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 25,000 / 2,635,000

7. [PS2] D.Gray-man: Sousha no Shikaku (Konami) 15,000 NEW

8. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 14,000 / 1,762,000

9. [NDS] Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (Nintendo) 14,000 / 340,000

10. [PS2] J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship (Konami) 13,000 / 148,000

Almost...

Holy ****, nearly a million copies of diamond sold in a week. Insane.

And is it not pretty much identical to the other DS versions minus some tweaks? :rofl:

Pokemon fans are nuts!

And is it not pretty much identical to the other DS versions minus some tweaks? :rofl:

Pokemon fans are nuts!

Actually I heard there's quite a few more differences in this version compared to the differences in the other "third game" generations. Don't know how true this is, the only time I've bought more then 1 version of Pokemon in the same generation was the first (and I bought all 3, and regret buying blue when I already had red and yellow).

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