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PSP continues strong sales in Japan

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 16 Oct 2009 12:13 User comments (1)

PSP continues strong sales in Japan The Sony PSP handheld continues to sell well in Japan, following the recent price cut on the PSP-3000 unit.
Overall, sales amounted to 40,100, enough to stay near the top of the chart but down from the 52,215 units sold the previous week.

The DS/DSi remained on top, pulling in 50,144 sales, which was down week-on-week but still strong overall.

The PS3 came in third at about 31,000, still holding strong from the release of the Slimmed down model. The Wii came in slightly behind the PS3, at 30,741.

The Microsoft Xbox 360 lagged far behind at 3,326 units sold:

The full list for the week ended October 12th:



* 01 Nintendo DSi - 50,144
* 02 PlayStation Portable - 40,100
* 03 PlayStation 3 - 30,896
* 04 Nintendo Wii - 30,741
* 05 DS Lite - 5,454
* 06 Xbox 360 - 3,326
* 07 PlayStation 2 - 2,133

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116.10.2009 16:35

I'd love to know how many were "PSP3000" units and how many were the lame "Go!" units.

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