Just checking out the latest Japanese hardware sales figures. Interesting stuff. The DS is outselling the PSP, probably due to the incredible success of Nintendogs (plus the fact that there is a lull in decent PSP games). While down the bottom is the poor old Xbox, which sold a pitiful 98 units in Japan last week. This compares to Gamecube's still relatively paltry 2267 and the PS2's 25,518 (surely there can't be too many people left in Japan who don't already own a PS2?) Even the dear old Game Boy Advance sold 4 times as many. We already knew it, but 360 certainly has its work cut out, while DS proves that, in Japan anyway, it is the handheld king.
Hardware - This Week | Last Week | Total 2005 Sales
1.) Nintendo DS - 68,123 | 72,167 | 1,766,415 [ Sales to date: 3,262,002 ]
2.) PSP - 50,629 | 70,152 | 1,335,996 [ Sales to date: 1,818,252 ]
3.) Game Boy Advance micro - 46,529 | 170,306 | 216,835
4.) PlayStation 2 - 25,518 | 24,396 | 1,452,226
5.) Game Boy Advance SP - 12,483 | 11,147 | 538,187 [ Sales to date: 5,533,240 ]
6.) GameCube - 2,267 | 1,882 | 159,391
7.) Game Boy Advance - 448 | 624 | 19,987
8.) Xbox - 98 | 109 | 10,111 [ Sales to date: 470,546 ]
