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Japan: PSP dislodges PS3 from top of charts

Posted on June 27th, 2008 at 08:10 EDT

Weekly PlayStation 3 sales in Japan have slumped following an initial boost on the back of Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, while the PlayStation Portable repositions itself back at the top of the charts.

According to Media Create, the PSP sold through 59,351 units for the week ended June 22, peaking ahead of both the Wii and DS, which shifted 41,037 and 36,599 units each, respectively.

Despite seeing a drop in sales over the previous week, PS3 sales still remained impressive, shifting over 20,000 units during the same period and maintaining its lead over the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360.

Full sales figures can be seen below.

PSP - 59,351
Wii - 41,037
Nintendo DS - 36,599
PlayStation 3 - 20,336
PlayStation 2 - 6,346
Xbox 360 - 2,555

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posted 8:20am EDT - June 27th, 2008
1

wow, its surprising to see the psp ahead of everything in japan. and to see the 360(lol ghey lol) down there. oh oh!

posted 8:48am EDT - June 27th, 2008
2

wow major drop for ps3.

but u gotta lol at the 360 XD

posted 9:07am EDT - June 27th, 2008
3

Wow impressive how well the PS2 is still doing after nearly 8 years

posted 9:10am EDT - June 27th, 2008
4

good to see the old PS2 still hanging in there

posted 9:45am EDT - June 27th, 2008
5
Ouch.. I feel very sorry for Microsoft Japan, terrible sales every week. Strange that people even buy it over there, Nintendo and Sony own Japan when it comes to games consoles.
posted 9:59am EDT - June 27th, 2008
6

I didn´t really paid any attention to the PSP when launched, but I just recently bought one....And I must say it´s a really nifty piece of hardware. I now understand why the popularity

posted 11:38am EDT - June 27th, 2008
7

the ps2 has got to be the best system of any system that came out.

posted 12:20pm EDT - June 27th, 2008
8

i dont get why people buy a ps2 instead of saving up for a ps3 it doesnt make any sense

posted 12:30pm EDT - June 27th, 2008
9

Maybe some people are just now getting into the PS2 games, and are not yet ready for the PS3.

posted 12:35pm EDT - June 27th, 2008
10

maybe they will price drop the psp soon, at least i hope so

posted 1:34pm EDT - June 27th, 2008
11

That is pretty bad. The PS3 is WAAAY down. I thought it would keep selling about 35-40k at least for a month. The 360 actually had a good week.  That's weird.

The PSP has been kicking *ss for months now.

posted 2:55pm EDT - June 27th, 2008
12

PSP still ahead after some time also PS3 still has high units and beating the 360 lol.

posted 8:55pm EDT - June 28th, 2008
13

The PS3 needs to be smaller and cheaper in Japan

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