Japanese Hardware Sales for March 26-April 1
by Nick Doerr 
{ Apr 10th 2007 at 3:00PM }
Whew! We took a very long respite from posting these. When was the last one? At least a two months ago. Those of you that've been reading here for a while may have missed it. The newer readers may think we've overlooked it. The newer readers were right -- but not overlooked by choice. Just... forgotten. Brain-farted. Whatever you want to call it. Anyway, here are the Japanese hardware sales for the week of March 26th to April 1st.- DSL - 79,897
- Wii - 51,365
- PSP - 39,077
- PS2 - 17,787
- PS3 - 16,889
- Xbox360 - 3,889
- GBASP - 609
- GBM - 588
- GC - 205
- DS - 115
- GBA - 9
Aside from the usual Nintendopoly, sales for most everything have slumped except, we think, the XBox360. Must be that time of year! The gap between PS3 and PS2 sales are narrowing viciously, but at these numbers, it's not a good thing for either Sony system.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dolla Dolla @ Apr 10th 2007 3:15PM
There's an upside and a downside. The upside is, when they release a good game on the PS3, it sells well (Gundam Mosou 175k) and it moves hardware above the normal rate (46k vs 20k). The downside is, the japan release list for PS3 looks grim until the end of summer/beginning of fall.
TheSh0wstopper @ Apr 10th 2007 3:47PM
only 9 GBA's!!! in the whole country for a whole month? 9!!!
TheSh0wstopper
K @ Apr 10th 2007 3:55PM
Currently, there's a big difference between ps3 and wii right now. wii is hacked and ps3 is not. When that happens to ps3, we'll see the sale rises.
mccomber @ Apr 10th 2007 4:12PM
Well, from two months ago the numbers have changed across the board by about the same percentages, at least my quick look at the two numbers for each says so in my brain. Except the DS and PS2, with a big loss and not much change at all. 360 is holding somewhat steady at not much, but it's still chugging along.
And yeah, that's all I've got. They definitely need to put out some good software on the PS3, fall is too far away. Any links to a release chart for Japan since I'm too lazy to look right now?
thatpspkid @ Apr 10th 2007 4:18PM
DSL???? forget that shit I am sticking to dial-up...
rfom @ Apr 10th 2007 4:25PM
I wonder..who are those 205 guys who bought Gamecubes? SOmebody tell them, just 1500odd dollars more gets them the wii. And forget XBOX360, sales for XBOX359 are waaaay down - to zero.