Japan: PS3 still outselling Wii despite dip

By Robert Purchese Published 2 October, 2009

Halo 3: ODST has chart impact.

Japanese PS3 sales have dipped following the release of PS3 Slim, but are still way above the nearest console competitor, Wii.

Sony's machine managed nearly 40,000 sales for the week ending 27th September, while Nintendo's console dipped to a low of 11,731.

The clear winner, however, is DS - which Media Create says sold 78,399 units during the seven-day period. Handheld rival PSP remains a footnote with 17,334 units sold, although the launch of PSPgo there on 1st November may change that.

Down further, Xbox 360 and PS2 sold 4854 and 2347 units respectively.

Tomodachi Collection regains the software lead ahead of Pokemon Heart Gold and Pokemon Soul Silver, and all three DS games have now broken 1 million sales.

PS3 RPG Tales of Vesperia stays strong with nearly 50,000 units sold to take fourth, ahead of Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 4 (PSP), Wii Sports Resort (Wii) and SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu - Goddess of Destiny (DS).

Old leader Dragon Quest IX edged closer to a lifetime total of 4m down in eighth, followed by the muffled landing of Halo 3: ODST in ninth - not quite the Euro wallop we experienced.

Yu-Gi-Oh! somethingorother rounds the chart out in 10th.

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  • makeamazing #1 2 years ago

    So VGCharts says the figure is 50,000 (from the Japense sales site) and EG says its nearly 40,000,... I would probably go with the nearly 40,000 figure but as these sites all seem to pull their data from the same place.. its a shame there are so many mistakes happening.

  • penhalion #2 2 years ago

    I don't think they are mistakes as much as they are simply lying. Such discrepencies suggest the figures were not even looked at. More likely someone shouted over a desk "It's around 40k" and someone else just typed it!

  • GreyBeard #3 2 years ago

    There are three sources for game sales info in Japan; Dengeki, Enterbrain and Mediacreate.
    Not suprisingly they tend to offer different figures due to the day of the week they are published on, and the method with which data was collected.

  • fjharps #4 2 years ago

    Not bad for the PS3 and with the release of Bayonetta over there soon and GT5 + FFXIII PS3 has a great xmas line-up in Japan why are we not so lucky.

  • StooMonster #5 2 years ago

    these sites all seem to pull their data from the same place..

    Yes, it's out the air ... well, not quite, statistical extrapolation of sample populations.

  • FladgeMangle #6 2 years ago

    I dunno Stoo', seem to be pretty specific numbers to guesstimate.

    The magic Box reports that the PS3 sold 39,960 and the DSi 63,342, according to Media Create.

    http://www.the -magicbox.com/gaming.htm

  • mr_goop #7 2 years ago

    @fjharps GT5 + FFXIII PS3 has a great xmas line-up

    well, half a great xmas line-up

  • des #8 2 years ago

    PS3 is going down down...
    Wii price cut is happening soon,well see what it does...

    On the topics of sales trackers,
    When are you people going to learn that Japan has 3 independent trackers that cover about 60-80% of the market and they extrapolate the rest using statistical methods.
    And market coverage is not identical,some shops covered by Media-Create are not covered by Famitsu,Dengeki and vice-versa.
    And they are all equally good.

    Media-Create is used more often because its more "official",not because its "more accurate".

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #9 2 years ago

    vg chartz reported 50k last week, and vg chartz are actually reporting initial figures of under 40k for this week, based on the media create data.

    You need to realise VGchartz always runs just over a week behind on its figures as it waits for multiple sources to come in with figures before posting there results.
    Edited by 1 at 02/10/09 @ 11:04

  • Doctor_What #10 2 years ago

    @ Des: yes, of course PS3 sales are lower after the immediate launch period... Your point is what exactly?

  • Kapo! #11 2 years ago

    Des is an anti-Sony troll. Don't feed it.

  • des #12 2 years ago

    "yes, of course PS3 sales are lower after the immediate launch period... Your point is what exactly? "

    That sales have not reached sustainable bottom line,if sales drop bellow 20k in the next few weeks,then Sony effort was a bit pointless a temporary bump,if not then you have a real price cut effect.
    Same goes for Wii price cut...

  • Alterego-X #13 2 years ago

    The Wii is a week before it's price cut, obviously sales were down because of this.

  • Stormflood #14 2 years ago

    You see what a lower price point does to sales Sony? Now how about selling the PSPGo for a price that doesn't make customers run the other way...

  • MeBrains #15 2 years ago

    donnie: figures close to or above 1.250K in the month since Slim's release and in most of it in September doesn't sound like a "massive" failure either, does it?

    I'd even say - success, almost a "massive" one, but I would give that evaluation more time.

  • KDR_11k #16 2 years ago

    I suppose the Wii is seeing the pre-drop valley that the PS3 saw as well (remember those weeks of the 360 outselling the PS3?)

  • JahB #17 2 years ago

    DS is incredible. Absolute domination. The true heir to the PS2.

    but only in sales numbers. the games catalog is lightyears behind that of the PS2

  • davisorle #18 2 years ago

    @MilkybKid1985
    I dont se why you worry or care about the ratings, specially when there is too many tards that the slightest they consider it trashtalking against their console of prefferance. Say what you wanna say and dont even check your rating, trust me :) You make sence mostly if you ask me. The thing is that Vesperia etc are tittles that sell so much more than they did on the 360 when originally came out cause thats how the market works there and why never similar to the European nor American one. Like penutbutter I only ate in the US and very popular product yet in Greece never did nor am now that im back and you barely ever see it on a self in the market :p.

    @JahB
    Ill dissagree with you cause same reasons why Wii is selling like crazy yet is millions times back in titles compared to the 360, thats just a matter of what sutisfies your needs ( well in the Wii case a lot buy it and let it be but you get what i mean :p ). Or the PS3 is selling so many times omre than the 360 yet you can do the title count.. right? Doesnt mean anything apparently or PS3 would have died a long time ago. I also dont belong in the Wii nor DS type of gamer but doesnt mean they suck. They are just good at what they are made for. DS has shitloads of titles compared to anything I think as well just... bad for our taste.

    From my point of view the only way for the PS3 to ever go under the 360 again in their market and stay that way for more than a week will have to be either an extremely popular title as exclusive ( heavyweight aka FF which wont be happening ofc any time soon, just as example.. ) and I guess the only "realistic case" is IF the Natal has a surprising acceptance, since they are tech/cyber shavy too much into it, with a few exclusives that are indeed impressive and again I find it kind of hard. Other than that in this gen 360 has no much game to play in that territory no matter how many exclusives they have or better looking crossplatform games even if they keep coming also out first on the 360. As odd as it is when you think about it that just wont change there any time soon. As for Wii when the steam has blown off from the Slim release I think its more likely to climb back up on their charts but you never know. 360 wont do anything since there are no MS retards that you will say something about MS or their 360 and they will go nuts about it kind of thing :p We have those only in our ways. There there are only Sony "fans" of any kind. Good and bad.

  • Les #19 2 years ago

    "msoft are planning for the future of the xbox brand and they have done far,far better than last gen. regardless the U.S. is the largest market in the world and dwarfs japan and there the 360 is uncatchable this gen"

    1) MS is still doing shit this gen. It's just that they perform marginally better than last gen while PS3 performs way worse which makes idiots think they're doing great (so that includes 99% of the video game press). What MS is exactly planning for the future, other than trying to be like Apple and failing, remains to be seen...
    2) The Wii is uncatchable in the US this gen. 360 has a solid 2nd place though

  • RedSparrows #20 2 years ago

    '1) MS is still doing shit this gen. It's just that they perform marginally better than last gen while PS3 performs way worse which makes idiots think they're doing great (so that includes 99% of the video game press). What MS is exactly planning for the future, other than trying to be like Apple and failing, remains to be seen... '

    I'd say, Japan aside, MS has done very well. It's not as if Playstation as a brand has totally evaporated, but Xbox has taken a fair chunk of its market.

  • No1_Dave #21 2 years ago

    @Les

    donnie only knows 3 things:

    1) Sony/PS3 bashing & hating, would do so to levels that defies logic or reasoning.
    2) MS/360 madly loving, to a level that he would probably do ANYTHING that MS asks him to do.
    3) Totally ignoring the Wii in nearly all his arguements about this Gen's console war, Wii is actually the Best selling console this Gen, even in the US market which he likes to flaunt about as being the biggest market & his beloved 360 being the dominant seller there, news flash! Wii is beating both 360 & PS3 hands down in sales, even in the US!

    But hey, why look at the facts or have a fair discussion, as long as he can get his daily fix of Sony/PS3 bashing? nothing else matters as far as donnie is concerned.

  • davisorle #22 2 years ago

    @Les "1) MS is still doing shit this gen"

    Are you for reals?

    Edit: actually its Sony being like apple denying faulty hardware / updates or exploding ipods and now bricked PS3s and making the poor guys, that rushed to go buy their freaking hardware, pay more than half their conolse's worth to repair it even if you dont belong in that share of people. You would have no trophies nor a constantly PSN being improved to catch up to a great XBL. And as a console itself in capabilities, im sorry but MS offered you a console a year before PS3 and yet performs better up till now, like it or not graphically so far as its been proven.

    So where along the lines is MS is a failing company cause I really think you are incapable to see when a company is doing better or worse when actually MS is doing significantly better even if I dont give a crap about MS. I care much more about Nintendo in the gaming bit than MS but i just dont find Wii interesting unfortunately.
    Edited by 1 at 03/10/09 @ 12:36

  • djcool3005 #23 2 years ago

    lol as if ps2's are still selling. PS2 is the epic console haha

  • Shotaro #24 2 years ago

    With the 250gb PS3 slim out soon they are probably waiting for that