Gamesindustry.biz has the latest console sales figures from Japan. Guess what? DS and Wii are doing really well, while Sony platforms... aren't quite matching up. We'll start with DS:
"Even though sales of the handheld dropped for the week ended June 3, the 123,211 units sold still leaves behind Sony's PSP, which during the same period managed 26,358 units sold. Year-to-date sales of the DS are now almost 3.5 million, compared to just under 1 million of the PSP."
Meanwhile, Wii shifted 69,748 units in the last week, bringing this year's total to 1.6 million units. PlayStation 3 sold 8,998 units, with its domestic figures for the year now standing at 453,179. Sony shouldn't feel too glum though - PS2 managed 11,814 sales in the featured week - that's 369,024 altogether this year.
Xbox 360? Er... 2,219 sales in the past week, with year-to-date figures of 101,944. In circulation terms it's sort of the console equivalent of a parish newsletter.
Still VGChartz.com, a site that collates console sales figures from retailers worldwide, has Xbox 360 clinging to its position at the top of the heap with 9.91 million sales compared to Wii's 7.95m. Nextgenwars.com has the Xbox 360 and Wii figures slightly higher, but Microsoft is still ahead.
