Console sales in Japan continue to fall
Gaming systems aren’t doing very well on the Japanese market these days, announces Gamasutra.
According to the market research conducted by Media Create has revealed details about the weekly hardware sales in the week before September 2nd and things aren’t looking up.
The Nintendo DS reached a seasonal low with under 100.000 units sold this week, managing to ship out 94.339 systems. Despite still being console king in the sales chart, the Wii also dropped about 7.000 units this week, with only 39.371 sold units. The Game Boy Advance sold 474 units while the Game Cube managed to ship out a measly 73 systems.
Sony is doing a little better though, their PS3 system managed to increase sales by over 1.500 units, reaching 18.068. The handheld PSP fell by almost 4.000 units to 22.196, while the aging PS2 managed to ship out 14.280 units, falling by 800 units.
Finally Microsoft’s Xbox 360 fell under 2.000 sold units this week, selling 1635 units.
