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Japan Hardware Sales 23/4-29/4

Here are the hardware sales for Japan, week starting 23rd April, straight from Media Create.

DSL 255,971
Wii 102,522
PSP 33,860
PS3 12,791
PS2 12,584
Xbox360 3,162
GBM 630
GBASP 495
GC 167
DS 92
GBA 0

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Published: 973 days 16 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | Wii | Sony PSP | Nintendo DS | PlayStation 2 | Industry News

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MaximusPrime - 973 days 16 hours ago

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why are we interested in this junk?

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deep - 973 days 16 hours ago

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because this is a gaming site, and this is gaming news.

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TriggerHappy - 973 days 16 hours ago

2.1 - thank you

i was going to say the same thing to him

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ericnellie - 973 days 16 hours ago

3 - Poor PS3 & 360

I love my 360 and my PS3 - it hurts to know that neither one is really selling well in Japan! Keep hope alive my boys....lol ;)

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TriggerHappy - 973 days 16 hours ago

3.1 - ps3 beat..

the ps2 ? wow...The sales are slowly picking up steam. Good news.

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deep - 973 days 16 hours ago

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PS3 has beaten the ps2 every week except two (last week was one of them)

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mr_steveo - 973 days 16 hours ago

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Japan sure do like there own products. But if things were the opposite so we hated there products and loved our own...they would b ruined. Ive always admired them, but they seem kind of blind to products that they dont produce themselves.
Or, simply its them stating our products are old tat lol.

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TriggerHappy - 973 days 16 hours ago

4.1 - "Everyone likes their moms cooking best"

Thats a fact. I mean they make it and they know how effective and reliable it is, why wont they buy it ? I think other reason as to why the 360 is not doing so well is the vibe surrounding it as not been too reliable. ie. RING OF DEATH

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SlippyMadFrog - 973 days 14 hours ago

4.2 - ^^^^

Very untrue, the "ring of death" happens everywhere in the world, not just Japan, if it had a big effect on sales, we would have seen it all over the world.
But I think the main reason is the culture and taste difference. Xbox have a lot of FPS's while the Playstation has more Japanese RPG's. Microsoft have picked this up and started to release more Japanese-like titles like Blue Dragon. As more Xbox japanese style rpg's are released, this gap will close. Or maybe it will never close, who cares (except MS and Sony).

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Lumbo - 973 days 15 hours ago

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i always thought this was INDUSTRY news, not gaming news ....

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decapitator - 973 days 15 hours ago

5.1 - Gaming, Indutry News, Offtopic Stuff

all can on N4g.com, just one of the reasons that make this site the place to be holmes.

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r1000 - 973 days 15 hours ago

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Japanese people must have one DS lite in the bathroom, one in the kitchen, one in the living room, one in their bedroom etc etc..

255K jeez...

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Funky Town_TX - 973 days 10 hours ago

6.1 - Maybe

Nintendo gives away a car with it. This goes to show it's about making great devices for the market you want to capture. Why sell AC units to people in freezing weather. Great job Nintendo.

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anh_duong - 973 days 15 hours ago

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at least the xbox360 and ps3 is beating the gba!!

seriously the problem for the ps3 in japan - an area where it should do well - is the lack of new games releases. even the games that we see here aren't released in japan. nothing revolutionary but only time can solve this problem.

i suspect that a lot of ps2 sold are actually replacement for old consoles that have broken down.

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PS360WII - 973 days 15 hours ago

8 - wow

even 360, ps2, ps3, and psp combine can't even compete with just the Wii... and this is only one week. 225k my god that's insane and they still have a shortage...

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NikV3 - 973 days 12 hours ago

8.1 - there is always

plenty for them, they should send some of there stock over here where its needed and would sell just the same

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kewlkat007 - 973 days 15 hours ago

9 - Whats up with

DSL? Is the Japanese gaming culture getting into the the online thing after all?

I mean I have a DS, but I still do not understand why everyone in Japan has one. I mean do they rather play a DS at home instead of a CONSOLE? It takes me 2 hrs, to and from work and I get on 3 types of transportation so my DS and PSP suites me well, when I'm not reading the Metro.

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sajj316 - 973 days 15 hours ago

10 - hate saying it ...

But the Japs love the gimics. They love Pokemon, they love whacky names (Wii?), and they love Miyamoto. No doubt that the Wii and DSLite bring something new and fresh to the table but even fresh food gets stale. Considering the lack of software for the PS3 now, the Wii should be selling 200K.

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shakka - 973 days 14 hours ago

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i always hear that the psp is a failure but it sells better than consoles in a lot of places the only problem is that is like people eat ds for breakfast or something.

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PS360WII - 973 days 14 hours ago

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they only say psp is a failure when putting it next to the DS.

Sony, of course, talked up the psp as the future and Nintnedo handheld killer. Everyone will buy it and Nintendo will be crying because they don't own the handheld world anymore(exaggerating of course). As we know this did not happen. DS has over twice as many users and is still selling more then they can produce and PSP got a price cut not by sony wanting but because realtors told them to do it or they won't sell it.

So PSP in no way is a failure, well only when compared to the DS. It's more like the first xbox just there to make a splash and get people to know it's name.

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id dot entity - 973 days 14 hours ago

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Too bad the 360 is not selling big time in Japan. Very weird that there are "only" sold 12k PS3's...

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nicodemus - 973 days 13 hours ago

13 - Amazing for Nintendo...

It'd be interesting to compare these sales with those in US and Europe. No way Nintendo has THAT kind of margin everywhere!

Those are some ridiculous numbers. The Wii looks like it would sell more in two weeks than the 360 would all year (a month and a half for the PS3's year).

Seriously should have bought some Nintendo stock...

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kewlkat007 - 973 days 11 hours ago

13.2 - Well Gamers seems to forget

ANYTHING the 360 sells is always POSITIVE over there, as Opposed to the Market Leader Sony, in which after 10 years is loosing its grip.

-One is Declining
-The other is sloooowly crawling up.(yes even if its a slow crawl)

The 360 does not have strong Expectations such as Market Leader SONY. specially in Nintendo's and Sony's back yaaaard.

It is, what it is..for now, until things pick up.

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LiQuiFiedArt - 973 days 11 hours ago

14 - I am clueless...

I have a PS3 and i've played the Wii on several occasions. Besides the Price point. The Wii has ZERO games worth buying. I dont understand where or HOW in the world the Wii got hyped so high?

Its auctally a pretty lame excuse for a console overall. Software/Hardware/Gimmicky Controls? Am i the only one to see these truths?? I would never buy a wii, its a waste of 250$.

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HaKeRsCanRotINHEL - 973 days 6 hours ago

14.1 - No, your not the only one................

for I too think its a ridiculously over priced Gamecube rehash with only one game worth buying!

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SomeAnalyst - 973 days 5 hours ago

14.2 - Wii software is now outselling PS3 software by 33:1 in Japan.

www.vgchartz.com/japweekly.php

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Juno - 973 days 4 hours ago

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i swear ppl were talking of it dropping to lows of 5000.

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MySwordIsHeavenly - 973 days ago

16 - wait

No GBA's sold? These numbers are off...

Not one Japanese person bought a GBA??? Come on...

Oh, and liquifiedart...you're right. It will die out very soon because of those factors. It was a gimmick to begin with...and wii sports was NOT that fun at all. I had little to no fun playing it.

I do love Warioware though...YAY!!!

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Sly - 970 days 23 hours ago

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wonder why the japs like the Lite so much? I guess maybe because the price. Those cheap, smart bastards.

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