Sony ps 3 sales hunch in Japan

After the a laugh and games of the playstation  three launch closing month, the figures are in for the first full weeks of sales in Sony's domestic territory of Japan and they're not as shiny as anticipated.

although Sony does not release such details and commonly won't comment on income besides, Tokyo-primarily based marketplace-research firm Media Create continues track of the records.

consistent with Media Create, forty two,099 PS3 consoles were offered between 13 and 19 November. This contrasts sharply with the eighty one,693 gadgets shifted on eleven and 12 November alone. the fall persisted the following week, with just 32,622 PS3s being offered inside the week to 26 November.

The steep fall in income can be due to a shortage of consoles, despite the fact that Sony has adhered to the road that shipments are intending as deliberate to stores in Japan and the united states.

by way of contrast with competing consoles and handhelds, here's the full breakdown for games hardware sales in Japan inside the week to 26 November:

    DS Lite 201,378

    PS3 32,662

    PSP 30,815

    PS2 26,263

    Xbox 360 7,007

    game Boy 2,526

    GameCube 576

    Xbox zero

even as the lead established by way of Nintendo's DS Lite is as unsurprising because the 0 income attributed to the authentic Microsoft Xbox, it's fascinating to observe that the PS2 is simply 6,000 sales beyond its younger sibling, the PS3.