Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 28 - Feb. 3: The unremarkable return

February 09th, 2008 | Category: Games

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

After a towering sabbatical, the Japanese hardware sales have returned! Well, folks in Japan have continued purchasing game systems week after week, it’s just that we’ve now stopped ignoring them. It would be more accurate to say next, that our weekly sales chart has finally come bursting through the office door, eliciting admiration both for its fine holiday tan and renewed work drive.

It returns to a strange new world, one where the PSP has managed to best the DS Lite (again) and, perhaps more disturbingly, where glorified spread sheets become personified and go on

vacation. We used to be able to invent sense of all that. Perhaps you could be kind suitable to leave some suggestions in the comments? Tell us how you’d like us to improve that weekly feature, be it through moar statz or fewer words.

- Wii: 94,473 19,929 (26.73%)
- PSP: 72,528 5,405 (6.94%)
- DS Lite: 67,472 11,898 (14.99%)
- PS3: 41,796 7,433 (21.63%)
- PS2: 12,115 751 (6.61%)
- Xbox 360: 6,060 1,764 (41.06%)