Xbox 360 tops PS3 in Japan, again

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Xbox 360 tops PS3 in Japan, again

Posted Sep 26th 2008 12:15AM by Xav de Matos
Filed under: News

According to weekly sales figures from Media Create in Japan, Microsoft has beat Sony on its home turf for the second week in a row. Reduced to nearly half of its console sales last week Microsoft was still able to inch out the PlayStation 3 in the Land of the Rising Sun. Of course, Nintendo's DS and Wii one-two-combo remained at the top with Sony's PSP landing comfortably in third. Sales figures, according to Media Create for last week look like this:

Nintendo DS - 61,242
Wii - 29,921
PSP - 28,674
Xbox 360 - 13,777
PlayStation 3 - 8,156
PlayStation 2 - 7,720

On the software side, the Xbox 360 exclusive Infinite Undiscovery fell to #13 in its second-ish week of release with timed-exclusive Tales of Vesperia down to #28. Along with the two recently released titles the Xbox 360 received a price drop that is assumed to be a huge factor in the figures. Or Japanese gamers now love the Xbox. Yeah, that has to be it.

Tags: business, japan, media-create, salesfigures

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

9-26-2008 @ 12:20AM

Zoot Suit Jedi said...

3 out of 4 Asian women are totally bangable.

9-26-2008 @ 12:37AM

ryan said...

i approve of this statistic.

9-26-2008 @ 12:48AM

u kno said...

i gotta agree 2 lefty needs plastic surgery

9-26-2008 @ 5:20AM

stukorn said...

I agree, I would like a bigger version of this image please!

9-26-2008 @ 9:56AM

Boff said...

Call me fussy but only no #3 is doing it for me.

9-26-2008 @ 10:47AM

Robert said...

i gotta agree with the 3 outta 4. where's your head at Boff?

9-27-2008 @ 8:23AM

Conor said...

I approve of the above comment.

9-26-2008 @ 12:26AM

ryan said...

are you sure it's 360 consoles that beat the PS3 and not Hello Kitty faceplates? those gals look extremely pleased with their purchase.

9-26-2008 @ 12:28AM

wickedpheonix said...

13,777

Well I dunno if I prefer lucky 7's or if I had rather the first 7 be a 3...

9-26-2008 @ 1:04AM

gaymerxbox360 said...

If M$ can ship over some sweet Japanese anime faceplace, everything will be a-okay!

9-26-2008 @ 4:44AM

Enon777 said...

Who the hell cares? Oh wait, fanboys care. That's right MS pays them to be fanboys.

9-26-2008 @ 8:22AM

Mr Bunky said...

Then Microsoft should ask for their money back for the one on the left.

9-26-2008 @ 9:05AM

Mike said...

Looks like they want 2 more.

9-26-2008 @ 9:19AM

myabsolution said...

Tales of Vesperia is a confirmed Timed-Exclusive?

say what? :O

9-26-2008 @ 10:45AM

Philip said...

sorry but whats that on top the xbox :-O

(sorry if this sounds anti-xbox just meant to say, sony still tops its no time to brag keep pushing ms)

9-26-2008 @ 12:47PM

Knight Marquise said...

Phillip,

It's called a "hand-held". Somewhat different then a "console". MS doesn't have a handheld to compete with the DS or PSP.

Apples and oranges my friend.

9-29-2008 @ 9:17AM

DjDATZ said...

Hell freezes over again. Pigs fly too.

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