PS3 sales double in Japan, tops hardware sales charts ending March 21
Thanks to the combined power of the Torne DV-R add-on and Yakuza 4, the Sony PS3 shot to the top of the Japanese hardware sales charts ending March 21.
Thanks to the combined power of the Torne DV-R add-on and Yakuza 4, the Sony PS3 shot to the top of the Japanese hardware sales charts ending March 21.
The PS3’s sales for the week of March 15 to march 21 nearly doubled the previous week’s numbers. At 50,164 units sold, the Sony home console managed to dethrone the usual top contenders: Sony’s own PSP and the Nintendo DS. It’s still the same case even if you combine the sales of all the DS models.
Here are the official numbers from Media Create. The numbers in parentheses denote the previous week’s figures.
- PS3 50,164 (26,481)
- PSP 38,017 (39,125)
- Wii 31,101 (31,460)
- DSI LL 20,765 (21,604)
- DSI 14,256 (13,581)
- DS Lite 3,953 (3,920)
- Xbox 360 2,419 (2,668)
- PS2 1,711 (1,825)
- PSP Go 1,491 (1,191)
Via [Gamasutra]
