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Japanese Hardware Sales Heavy On Handhelds
The Japanese sales figures for this past week don't show a lot of movement, and guess what – the Nintendo DSi remains the country's most popular system.
In fact, Nintendo did pretty well for itself (see chart below), with the DSi, DSi LL, and Wii getting respectable numbers. Meanwhile, Sony's PSP climbed from the number three position in the previous week to number two – thanks in part to the release of Sega's Black Leopard: A New Tale of Yakuza coming out, and the PS3 outsold the Wii as well.
Japanese Hardware Sales From Media Create For The Week Ending September 26.
Chart shows this week's and last week's sales
1 DSi 49,411 47,379
2 PSP 37,576 29,866
3 DSi LL 32,777 31,254
4 PS3 20,694 21,096
5 Wii 16,908 14,833
6 DS Lite 7,011 7,137
7 Xbox 360 2,599 5,804
8 PS2 1,514 1,390
9 PSP Go 900 863
via Gamasutra
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