For the first week in quite some time the PSP has been toppled from its spot at the top of the Japanese weekly hardware chart. Sony won't be crying about it though - the baton has been passed to PS3.
It's not that PSP has given up it charge - in the week ending March 26 it only sold a thousand less than the previous week. But PS3 sales have almost doubled from around the 26K mark to 50,164.
This would seem to be thanks to the release of Sega's Yakuza 4 (Ryu ga Gotoku 4), which smashed the software chart for the week with 383,972 sales, dwarfing sales of the latest Gundam release on PSP which took second with 90,994 units.
Here's the full hardware sales chart for the week ending March 26.
PS3 50,164 PSP 38,017 Wii 31,101 DSi LL 20,765 DSi 14,256 DS Lite 3,953 Xbox 360 2,419 PS2 1,711 PSP go 1,491
My god, I havent seen sales figures for ages, last I knew, DS and Wii were king.
Just shows that Sony will do fine and will probably sell a hell of a lot more when Move is launched, I believe people are starting to tire of the Wii, and will move to PS3 when they see the improvement over the quaility of games.
Its shocking to see how bad Xbox is doing over there tho. And PSPgo, I knew it wasnt doing well, but that is surely embarassing, and shows people dont want to pay full price for a download game, which could expire when Sony say so, costs less to distribute, and has no physical form to play on multiple consoles or resale value.
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Though chances are I'll just buy a pre-owned one when I do, so it won't show up in their sales figures 
