A Very Special Episode of Japanese Console Sales

After a bit of a shake up in Japan’s weekly hardware [[link]] contest, things [[link]] return to “normal,” with the PSP and PlayStation 3 sitting atop the charts, Nintendo proudly taking the middle and one platform veering closer to obscurity.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); This is the first week that the PSPgo managed to sell less than a thousand units in Japan, according to sale tracker Media Create’s numbers. That can’t be good. Admittedly, it’s a slow week across the board, but maybe a price drop is needed to keep this platform—which accounts for a wee 3.4% of all PSP sales this week—from falling even lower. For the week of May 1o to May 16, here’s how the console war in Japan went down. PSP – 24,475 PlayStation 3 – 20,463 Wii – 17,570 Nintendo DSi LL – 15,879 Nintendo DSi – 9,990 Xbox 360 – 4,370 Nintendo DS Lite – 2,695 PlayStation 2 – 1,293 PSPgo [[link]] – 871