Media-Create Japan Hardware Sales: Feb. 5-11

So with Virtua Fighter 5 reigning as the #1 selling game in Japan from February 5th-11th, it left us to wonder what sort of impact it'd have on the PlayStation 3's sales. And the answer is...not much. Truly showing that the fighting genre has little life left in it to carry consoles, sales of the PlayStation 3 saw a jump of about 5k units over last week's.

But it is Nintendo's DS that continues to be the show-stopper, selling a staggering 201k systems! The Nintendo Wii offered a respectable number of over 78k consoles sold. Overall, hardware sales went up, with the exception of PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360. The X360 sold 4800 consoles, and the PS2 moved 16k. Now the next thing left to anticipate for the PS3's sales is the release of the Gundam Musou game and the Musou PS3 bundle, both coming March 1st.

February 5th-11th

Nintendo DS Lite - 201,177
Nintendo Wii - 78,550
Sony PSP - 32,175
Sony PlayStation 3 - 23,431
Sony PlayStation 2 - 16,033
Microsft Xbox 360 - 4,811

January 29th - February 4th

Nintendo DS Lite - 146,073
Nintendo Wii - 65,740
Sony PSP - 31,216
Sony PlayStation 3 - 18,727
Sony PlayStation 2 - 17,540
Microsoft Xbox 360 - 6,130

2/15/2007 Arnold Katayev