The PlayStation 3 was not only the top-selling home console in Japan for the week ended November 8, but it even managed to edge out the typically dominant Nintendo DSi handheld.
Sony's console, which recently saw a price cut and a hardware form factor revamp, sold 48,925 units during the course of the week, compared to the DSi, which sold 37,421 during the same period,
Media Create reported. Including the DS Lite, the DS line sold 42,936 units overall.
PS3 also has had the top-selling games for the past two weeks in the form of Konami's
World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 and Sega's action game
Bayonetta. Both games also saw releases on Xbox 360, but those versions did not perform as strongly as their PS3 counterparts.
A week without DSi as the top-selling piece of hardware is not typical. The last time the DSi relinquished the top slot was in early September, when the cheaper, slimmer PS3 originally launched to the tune of over 150,000 units sold during the week.
Meanwhile, Sony's PSP came in third place after the PS3 and DSi with 33,784. Combined with PSP Go sales, the PSP line sold 47,776 -- which would be enough to capture second place behind PS3 for the week.
PSP Go sales, however, dropped substantially week-on-week from 29,109 sold in its debut week last week (which included only one day of sales) to 13,992 for this most recent week.
The Wii, which also saw a price cut recently to help boost sales, sold 31,810 units during the week to come in fourth overall. Nintendo has recently characterized Wii sales as "stalled."
Below are the Japanese hardware charts for the week ended November 8:
PS3 48,925
DSi 37,421
PSP 33,784
Wii 31,810
PSP Go 13,992
DS Lite 5,515
Xbox 360 4,679
PS2 2,066
