14 DAY TRIAL // The PlayStation 3 is the best sold console in Japan for the week that ended on September 6, managing to sell no less than 151,783 of the new Slim gaming consoles, which are cheaper, use less energy and occupy less space while offering the same performance when it comes to gaming as their bulkier cousins.
This comes as Sony slashed the price of its home console from 39,980 to 29,980 Yen. Before the new version of the device was released, it was only selling about 7,000 units on the Japanese market. It remains to be seen for how long the PS3 can keep this up.
The Nintendo DSi managed to take second place, with sales of 60,419 units, which is on par wit its recent performance, followed by the PlayStation Portable, which moved 22,184 consoles to gamers. The Nintendo Wii sold 21,557 home consoles, followed by the now old DS Lite and by the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, which only sold 6,827 units. The PlayStation 2 is still moving units in Japan, with a little over 3,000 in one week reaching gamers.
Namco Bandai is either extremely lucky or very, very shrewd as it managed to top the videogame chart in Japan with Kidou Senshi Gundam Senki: Lost War Chronicles. The game is sold exclusively on the PlayStation 3 and it seems that virtually everybody who picked up a Slim console also bought the game, which led it to sales of 178,000 copies on release.
Second spot went to last week’s number one, Tomodachi Collection from Nintendo, which managed to sell another 87,000 units, while Dragon Quest IX from Square Enix stays at number three with 50,000 copies sold. Love Plus from Konami is a new entry at number four, while Wii Sport Resort from Nintendo is in fifth spot.