Media Create Japanese hardware and software charts: PSP is king of the hardware hill, Resident Evil 5 scores big

Posted Mar 12, 2009 at 8:57PM by Karl B. Listed in: Magazines, News Tags: Capcom, Japan, Media Create, Nintendo, PS2
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The PlayStation Portable proved to be the king of the hardware hill for the week of March 2 to March 8 Japan. Combined sales of the DS Lite and DSi put the Nintendo handheld at second place. The PS3 also did good, outselling the Wii 2 to 1. The Xbox 360, meanwhile, was just six thousand units behind the Wii, no doubt due to the recent release of Resident Evil 5.
  • PSP: 59,568
  • DSi: 32,102 + DS Lite: 11,240 = 43342
  • PS3: 39,835
  • Wii: 16,560
  • 360: 14,994
  • PS2: 4,954
On the software side, both versions of Resident Evil 5 made it the top three. The PlayStation 3 version ended up at the top spot while the Xbox 360 version took third place. Sandwiched between the two was Seventh Dragon for the Nintendo DS. Shin Sangoku Musou: Multi Raid for PSP still hung around at the fourth spot while Yakuza 3 (Ryu ga Gotoku 3) took fifth.
  1. [PS3] Biohazard 5 - 319,590
  2. [NDS] Seventh Dragon - 79,757
  3. [360] Biohazard 5 - 79,157
  4. [PSP] Shin Sangoku Musou: Multi Raid - 63,584
  5. [PS3] Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (Sega) - 52,974
  6. [NDS] Mario & Luigi RPG 3!!! - 44,027
  7. [NDS] Aibou DS - 42,618
  8. [PS2] Super Robot Taisen Z Special Disc - 27,934
  9. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, PSP the Best - 17,234
  10. [DS] Tennis no Oji-Sama: Doubles no Oji-Sama - Girls, Be Gracious! - 13,855



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by Santhiel - 2009-03-12 15:58
» PS3 on top again

who's ur daddy uh? PS3 on top again, as it should be. Funny thing how big is da difference between biohazard 5 for PS3 and 360...

by kupomogli - 2009-03-12 16:28
» Well obviously

Hardly anyone in Japan owns a 360. That's why RE5 PS3 is so much higher.



I hope something like this gets devs to think about supporting the PS3 more. Sure it's a big number on one game, but devs probably won't think of it on that issue and will only look at the big number(hopefull y.)



So hopefully the games are all multiconsole or exclusive to Sony. We all know that Sony really needs some exclusives. Hardly getting any compared to the 360 getting them left and right(only a couple being good though)

by ptspyder - 2009-03-12 17:18
» LoL

Monster Hunter Portable 2G is still in 9th place. That game came out about a year ago.

by Xis - 2009-03-12 18:28
» I am NO 360 fanboy

wouldn't the 360 be like 1.5 thou approx from wii Its like 14,995 Wii is like 16,000 am I seeing thing sorry if I didnt see this correctly...

by ov3rkill - 2009-03-12 19:50
» yeah only in japan...

it's pretty hard to make developers think on making more ps3 games when it's not widely embraced worldwide. but of course more marketing and advertising from sony would do it. it just needs a little push on the worldwide market. japan rocks... to bad i can't understand japanese. i guess it's time to study and polish your japanese language. it's quite helpful in many ways like for animes and of course games. haha

by NathanDrake - 2009-03-12 22:47
» meh

Sony's got several big exclusives coming though (including God of War III and Uncharted 2) which far outclass anything I've seen announced for Xbox360 at present.

by NathanDrake - 2009-03-12 22:50
» yeah

This ones listed as 'PSP The Best'. Ain't that their Greatest Hits/Platinum thing. Guess a cheaper price renewed interest in a game the japanese already love to bits anyways.

by NEOL - 2009-03-12 23:18
» Yeah

I saw it too and i though they maybe talk about old charts but when i check it back it never say anything about the old charts so i guess its a typo, QJ.net fix it on lol :)

by hush404 - 2009-03-13 01:30
» Wow

Has the Wii ever slowed down!

by Homurro - 2009-03-13 04:12
» ...

maybe the planets have line up?

by the by - 2009-03-13 08:20
» @ ov3rkill

how can you say that the ps3 is doing badly worldwide?



its only a toe away from the 360 everywhere apart from the US!

by TheDude - 2009-03-13 13:47
» exclusives

This is getting so old hearing about sony and their exclusives. Anyone that owns a ps3 has been playing awesome exclusive games for quite some time now and starting last year the quality of these games jumped off the charts. Easily equal to if not better than 360 for 2008 (MGS4 and LBP winning goty awards)and 2009 is looking awesome as well. Killzone 2 speaks for itself. You are right about only a couple of the 360 exclusives being good though. As for the rest, I don't give a damn about them because they suck and wouldn't waste my time playing them even if they were on my system of choice which happens to be ps3. Quality over quantity any day. Good to see ps3 selling so well over seas.

by Justingraziano - 2009-03-14 11:23
» ...

Wow, theres only 14,994 brain dead people in Japan. That's alot less than in the US.

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