DSi Pushes Nintendo Ahead Of Sony In Japanese Hardware Sales

The numbers are out for last week’s hardware sales in Japan, and the competition is still hot for the number one spot. The handhelds together are the super sellers, but this week, the DSi gave Nintendo the edge it needed to keep Sony down at number two. DSi sales were down about 13,000 units from the previous week, however, and there was a noticeable drop in DS Lite sales as well. The PlayStation Portable sold about 8,000 units fewer this week than last week. Across the board, console sales seem to have dropped off, except for the Xbox 360, which jumped from 7,812 units to 10,134 units. Here’s the official chart, as reckoned by Media Create:

• Nintendo DS – 47,542
• PlayStation Portable – 40,886
• Nintendo Wii – 13,349
• PlayStation 3 – 16,701
• Xbox 360 – 10,134
• PlayStation 2 – 4351

Now, let’s take a moment to regroup and really focus in on our objective: We’ve got to make sure the world is stuffed from corner to corner with Sony PlayStation Portables, in order that our year of the PlayStation Portable can fully live up to its title. In order to accomplish this goal, each one of us has to purchase approximately sixteen PlayStation Portables every seventy-seven minutes for the next two weeks. We’ll see you at the local big box, and you better have your plastic ready. We’re not going to stop until there’s PlayStation Portables oozing out of every niche, cranny, chasm and groundhog hole on the six mainstream continents (and we’ll talk about our Antarctica operation next time, because one must never overlook that gnarly, alternative / underground land mass).

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