Japan: Xbox 360 outsells PlayStation 3 for September; handheld sales decline

Third time’s the charm for Microsoft. The latest numbers from Japan show that the Xbox 360 has once again outsold the PlayStation 3 for the third week running. And crunching some numbers reveal that the Xbox 360 outsold the PlayStation 3 for the entire month of September.

It’s a little too early for Christmas miracles, so I’d say this is… a Halloween miracle?

Third time’s the charm.

The latest numbers from Japan show that the Xbox 360 has once again outsold the PlayStation 3 for the third week running. Crunching some numbers reveal that the Xbox 360 outsold the PlayStation 3 for the entire month of September. It’s a little too early for Christmas miracles, so I’d say this is… a Halloween miracle?

September saw 54,793 units sold for the Xbox 360, but only 31,798 PlayStation 3s were liberated from shelves for the month. If that’s what a price cut did for the Xbox 360 in Japan, I am highly curious to see what it did for other regions, particularly in North America. We’ll have to wait on the figures form the NPD Group to find out.

On the handheld side of things, both the PSP and DS have declined in sales, and no wonder. People are waiting for both the PSP-3000, and the new camera-fied Nintendo DSi. I’m surprised they still manage to sell any. Here are the numbers from Japan for the week ending on September 28:

• DS Lite: 57,847
• Wii: 26,314
• PSP: 25,671
• Xbox 360: 11,291
• PS2: 9,848
• PS3: 8,275

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Via Media Create