PS3 turns one year old, outsells Wii in Japan last week

It sure looks like Sony has plenty to celebrate on the PlayStation 3's first birthday today, as the console has not only doubled its sales in the US since that little price cut, but it also apparently outsold the Wii in Japan last week. What's more, it seems that the PS3 actually beat the Wii by a fairly wide margin, selling 55,924 units in the week ending November 11th, as opposed to just 34,546 for the Wii. Of course, those numbers could also have a little something to do with the Wii's short supply, but we don't expect that little detail will put much of a damper on Sony's enthusiasm.

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Read - Joystiq, "PS3 outsold Wii in Japan last week"

[Jonathan Keim @ Nov 16th 2007 3:37PM]

"those numbers could also have a little something to do with the Wii's short supply, but we don't expect that little detail will put much of a damper on Sony's enthusiasm."

lol

[George @ Nov 16th 2007 4:14PM]

I sold my wii after 2 months once i got bored of wii sports. The graphics are looking more and more outdated and the only games worth having are nintendos titles. Sorry but online doesnt even exist for wii really, this console should have came out 5 years ago and with all the crappy titles the sales should sink like the titanic in the next year or so when ps3 and xbox 360 titles look even better.

[Majortom1981 @ Nov 16th 2007 4:19PM]

George stop with the bashing. Al ot of us enjoy the wii. I am happy with mario galaccy,wii sports, Zack and wiki , and will be happy when smash comes out.

[Arthur Nonamiss @ Nov 16th 2007 4:39PM]

Yes, yes... the Wii has a lot of shortcomings. That's why it's selling so poorly in the console wars... Oh wait, it's not. It's outsold both XB360 and PSIII. And XB360 had a whole year jump-start to get ahead.

Face it, you can bash all you want, but numbers don't lie. Worldwide, more people are buying the Wii. Maybe everyone in the world isn't looking for the same thing in a gaming system that you are. Learn to see the world from different perspectives than your own.

[Craig @ Nov 16th 2007 5:48PM]

Maybe you should get some real friends George, not virtual ones. The Wii is the ultimate party console!

[Brent @ Nov 16th 2007 4:25PM]

It's nice to see the PS3 sales are picking up. It really is a great piece of hardware. Never have had any problems with mine. I wish I could say the same for my 360 (I'm on my third one).

[Naris @ Nov 16th 2007 4:31PM]

Would it be a tremendously uncouth of me to say that those 55,924 people who bought a PS3 already own a Wii? It would seem most disgraceful for a true gamer in Japan to not own both if they had the money to do so.

[shanoboy @ Nov 16th 2007 4:36PM]

Personally I love the Wii.

Yes, the graphics do look out dated more and more all the time, especailly after spending some time playing games in HD on the PS3 and XBOX360. But fun is fun!

Excite Truck, as crappy as it looks compared to some of the racers I've seen on the other 2 next gen consoles is still loads funner due to it's motion controls.

[holycow @ Nov 16th 2007 4:40PM]

as i said earlier.. "PS3 era has begun!"

[AlexP @ Nov 16th 2007 5:21PM]

lol, no.

[holycow @ Nov 16th 2007 5:32PM]

lol, yes.

[Mark Nelson @ Nov 16th 2007 4:49PM]

Yes, Excite Truck is the most fun I've had playing a racing game since Wipeout XL for the PS1. Of course, I was using an negcon controller in those days... ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeGcon

[niicholas @ Nov 16th 2007 10:51PM]

Wipeout + NegCon = pure awesomeness.

[Tim @ Nov 16th 2007 5:34PM]

Meh, i will buy one of these when its £100/$200


The blu-ray is all im intrested in and the DVD upscaling. Im not sure i have enough room next to my 26" samsung HD. With my high spec PC underneath my sub for my surround sound an d wii standing so gracefully on top of the dvd unit xD.

[TMM @ Nov 16th 2007 6:10PM]

One year of PS3 ... and one good game for every candle on the cake, hm?
Don't forget to wish for more, when you blow it out.

Now, please don't kill me for this, fanboys ;)

[Silverfrog @ Nov 16th 2007 6:19PM]

Apparently there's only so much Cooking Mama, Brain Training, Dog Training and microgames people can take before moving on to bigger and arguably better things. And, when I say better, I mean that Wii does not have online multiplayer, leaderboards, stats, achievements, voicechat, videochat, voicemail, a hard drive for storing data, or any of the modern features that PS3 and Xbox 360 owners have come to enjoy and love. I equate it to Tivo on television. Once you have the features that Tivo offers, you don't want to accept anything less. Now, bring the fanboy flames. I'm ready.

[DelSource @ Nov 16th 2007 6:28PM]

On the Wii point, something just ain't right here. It has been reported today that Nintendo are making 1.5m Wiis a month. Are they selling that many a month? Not according to all the major techblogs.

Something smells fishy......

[tekdemon @ Nov 16th 2007 7:55PM]

umm...you do realize that if they sold 34K in one week in japan, that means they sold something like 150,000 of them in Japan that month? And I don't know if you realize this, but Japan isn't the only country the Wii is sold in.

[Jay @ Nov 16th 2007 8:37PM]

@tekdemon - outside of Japan too? Really?

Japan is the Wii's biggest market. Are you saying they only count for a tenth of Wii sales?

Anyway, official figures show an average of about 1.1m Wii sales a month. Now, if they are not selling that many at the moment (lack of supply, no-one can find one, shelves empty etc) then where the hell are these 1.5m a month off the production line going to exactly?

[DelSource @ Nov 16th 2007 8:43PM]

umm...dude, read my post again. Quote:

"It has been reported today that Nintendo are making 1.5m Wiis a month. Are they selling that many a month? Not according to all the major techblogs."

See: it's reported they are not selling as many a month as they claim they are manufacturing! Spot the discrepancy....

[SamC @ Nov 16th 2007 7:56PM]

happy birthday. This means the wii is coming up in a few days.

[Fruition @ Nov 16th 2007 9:27PM]

Happy birthday, PS3! Just in time for Uncharted!

[Mark @ Nov 17th 2007 3:19AM]

What's the title that's picked up sales in Japan? And why isn't it out here??

[mike @ Nov 17th 2007 10:08AM]

I'm a nintendo fanboy, I seem to take this as a good news, competition between those consoles will be good for me after all :)

[Bryan @ Nov 17th 2007 10:30AM]

shit, that sucks! But oh well, time to get a ps3!

[Rverriotto @ Nov 17th 2007 3:52PM]

Ok, I have to add something to this post. I haven't yet bought a Wii, PS3, or an XBox but I have to say, despite my reservations towards Sony products these days, I am really starting to warm up to the PS3. I was at an alectronics store last night and I played both Gran Turismo HD concept and Ridge Racer 7 for at least 30 minutes both (yes, I am a race fan). WOW! The graphics on that machine are absolutely stunning.

If not for anything else I may buy a PS3 for the race experience; because I don't think any other system will come close to it for that type of game.

[myk @ Nov 19th 2007 5:08AM]

have you tried Forza 2 and PGR 4 on the 360?

[Carados @ Dec 1st 2007 9:44AM]

You can't even come close with Forza, it's a really terrible racing game compared with the Gran Turismo series. I gave Forza a shot on my friend's 360 and was disgusted with how fake it felt.

[Wuffer @ Nov 18th 2007 11:09AM]

Im a happy PS3 owner, that thinks it has a lot of good games and a ton of potential.

Its cool for everybody that the PS3 sales are up, competition.

Anywhoo if I had the money I would go for one of each, but since most of the good 360 games comes to the pc I choose the PS3 way.


Rverriotto, PS3 has/will have great racing games, but the 360 has some really good ones too.