Japanese hardware sales chart - Aug. 21-27: Yeah, it got darker
Well if this week was going bad for the PSP, in terms of sales figures, it just got much worse as the new hardware sales numbers rolled in.
- DS Lite: 163,274
88,779 (119.17%)
- PSP: 29,945
11,590 (27.90%)
- PS2: 21,829
5,004 (18.65%)
- GBA SP: 2,719
1,104 (28.88%)
- Game Boy Micro: 1,819
447 (19.73%)
- Xbox 360: 1,197
296 (19.83%)
- Gamecube: 837
85 (9.22%)
- DS Phat: 410
302 (42.42%)
- GBA: 14
6 (30.00%)
- Xbox: 12
5 (71.43%)
While the DS Lite took a near 120-percent jump, the PSP saw a 28-percent decline. The surge in DS Lite sales can be mostly attributed to the release of Final Fantasy III, which also took the top spot in the software sales chart. Square's newest addition to the Final Fantasy franchise sold more than 500,000 copies in its first week of release.
And do you want to hear even sadder news? Gundam G Generation Portable recently became the best one-week selling PSP game ever in Japan by pushing out 150,000 copies. Do you see where I'm going here? Final Fantasy III outsold the PSP's best-selling game by more than 350,000 copies. Yeesh.
[Source: Media Create]
