Japanese Charts: PSP Surges on Dissidia Launch, DS Still On Top - Gamasutra- PSP News

This week’s Japanese game hardware and software charts - covering the period ending December 21st, saw the PSP’s weekly hardware sales surge — but Nintendo’s DSi still topping hardware charts. While the PSP surged to 146,000 units sold, the Wii was still third, at 131,000 units, and the DS Lite continued strong sales at 50,300 units. Further down Media Create’s Japanese system countdown, the PlayStation 3 also got a slight boost from game software — in this case, Gundam Musou 2 — with PS3 hardware sales up from 33,700 to 39,000 units for the week as a result. Sony’s system is now regularly outselling the Xbox 360 in Japan by major amounts, with Microsoft’s console managing 12,900 units for the week ending December 21st in the territory, ahead of only the PlayStation 2 at 8,700 units. read more

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