Nintendo still king of the castle in Japan
But PS3 gains momentum.
Nintendo systems are winning Japan once more after a greedy Christmas period.
The DS is streets ahead of competition for the week ending 11th January, but down by over 100,000 sales from last week. Only three games for the handheld populate the top ten, but a further 20 are counted in the overall top 50.
The best-sellers this week are on PSP, which finishes second in the hardware chart. Action spin-off Dissidia: Final Fantasy leads the way, followed by the budget version of Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G. Seven PSP titles in all are in the top 50.
At third, unsurprisingly, is the Wii, which counts platform stalwarts Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii among the top ten. Wii Music, incidentally, is down at 37. In total, 13 Wii games litter the top 50.
The PS3 continues to gain momentum and finishes at four, as JRPG White Knight Chronicles sits at six in the software stakes, followed by Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III at seven. A further three PS3 games place outside the top ten.
Xbox 360 finishes with under half the PS3 weekly sales, and has no games in the top 50.
Hobbling OAP PS2 finishes last, meanwhile, but manages a top ten entry with a Limited Edition of Gundam Musou 2, and some unpronounceable game at 49.
Various tables, courtesy of Media Create and NeoGAF (we'd marry you if we could) are below.
| Position | Title | Platform | This Week | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dissidia: Final Fantasy | PSP | 49,000 | 818,000 |
| 2 | Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) | PSP | 34,000 | 305,000 |
| 3 | Rhythm Tengoku Gold | DS | 33,000 | 1,568,000 |
| 4 | Wii Fit | Wii | 29,000 | 3,155,000 |
| 5 | Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode | DS | 29,000 | 644,000 |
| 6 | White Knight Chronicles | PS3 | 26,000 | 304,000 |
| 7 | Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III | PS3 | 25,000 | 292,000 |
| 8 | Gundam Musou 2 (Limited Edition) | PS2 | 25,000 | 225,000 |
| 9 | Kirby Super Star Ultra | DS | 23,000 | 1,021,000 |
| 10 | Mario Kart Wii | Wii | 21,000 | 2,155,000 |
| Platform | This Week | Last Week | This Year | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo DS | 101,630 | 230,678 | 332,308 | 25,451,951 |
| PlayStation Portable | 60,495 | 157,088 | 271,583 | 11,575,747 |
| Nintendo Wii | 41,243 | 119,965 | 161,208 | 7,640,109 |
| PlayStation 3 | 28,144 | 60,654 | 88,798 | 2,711,226 |
| Xbox 360 | 10,554 | 19,964 | 30,248 | 860,788 |
| PlayStation 2 | 6,628 | 12,548 | 19,176 | 21,418,700 |
| Platform | This Week | Last Week | This Year | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo DSi | 78,201 | 182,518 | 78,201 | 916,771 |
| Nintendo DS Lite | 23,429 | 48,160 | 23,429 | 17,374,394 |
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Congratulations on successful products. I can't believe those DSi numbers though, almost a million already! Even though I've got one I never knoe it would be so popular.
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Looks like the 360-PS3 separation distance is pretty steady, with PS3 having three times the numbers of 360 in basically all of those posted stats. I think MS can kiss goodbye to any kind of strong Japanese presence, to be honest.
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Its obviously costing alot of money to stay there.
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Their aim was to get 1M 360 is Japan. They might succeed in 2009. That will enable them to have decent software numbers. They already have the support of the Japanese devs anyway.
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"Microsoft might aswell completely pull out of Japan and give up on these sub par RPG releases. Its obviously costing alot of money to stay there."
On the other hand, they've already sold considerably more 360's than original Xboxes.
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I hope I'm not falling into a carefully laid trap here when I say that the Nintendo DS total is the Lites + the DSIs.
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Anyway, not all 360 RPGs suck: I still enjoy Lost Odyssey. It's old fashioned, but it's still pretty enjoyable.
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Do sheep play games?
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True, but at least they can show to investors that they've managed to double their presence in Japan and still haven't finsihed yet!
As long as no investors ask "Yeah, but double of what....?"
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So going by your proposed strategy for MS, Sony should pretty much pull the PS3 from the store shelves because they've gone from 1st to dead last in every country but 1?
Sometimes things happen overnight and sometimes they don't. To just give up though when you're at least making SOME headway? Nonsense.
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I bet you were being sarcastic. Not always easy to spot in written language.
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This answered the question if MS made progress and/or Sony losing their once unquestionable dominance.
Never expected X360 to take the crown or better PS3/Wii but MS looked for an improvement from the last gen.
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"Do sheep play games?"
You are thinking of New Zealand.
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What happened to the simple reasoning that Japanese consumers will always go for a Japanese product first. That was all I heard last gen from fanboys.
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