PSP Tops Japanese Charts, Sales Decline For Other Platforms

The PSP led the Japanese hardware charts this week, as nearly all other platforms experienced sales declines, reports tracking firm Media Create. For the week ended January 23, the standard PSP hardware sold 35,636 units, jumping past the PlayStation 3, which sold 23,792 units. While the original PSP model saw healthy sales, the PSP go only sold 198 units, down from 1,208 units last week. The Nintendo DS line saw declining sales across all its hardware versions, and fell to number three on the overall hardware sales chart. Other than the PSP, the PlayStation 2 was the only other platform to see a sales boost, selling an additional 200 units compared to the previous week. Below are the full sales rankings from Media Create for the week ended January 23, 2011. (The second chart lumps together sales of all models in a given line of hardware.

LW	TW	Platform	Weekly Sales	Last Week
2	1	PSP	35,636	29,806
1	2	PS3	23,792	33,190
3	3	Wii	14,547	21,291
4	4	DSi LL	11,720	17,452
5	5	DSi	8,990	13,416
6	6	Xbox 360	2,338	2,636
7	7	DS Lite	1,528	1,956
8	8	PS2	1,836	1,629
9	9	PSP go	198	1,208

LW	TW	Platform	Weekly Sales	Last Week
3	1	PSP	35,636	29,806
1	2	PS3	23,792	33,190
2	3	DS	22,238	32,824
4	4	Wii	14,547	21,291
5	5	Xbox 360	2,338	2,636
6	6	PS2	1,836	1,629