Japan: PS3 Top In May

You may have heard by now that PSPGo has not been a sales success. If he believes that Sony would try to save them, what ten games for free when you buy in the United Kingdom and the creation of 10 € range Essentials PSP? In the U.S., Sony is bundling three games with the handheld and created the $ 10 range favorite PSP. The fact that the Agreement of American Racing, bundled by the end of March next should be the last nail in the coffin of the "new PSP E3 2010" rumors. Personally, I had the money to appear on a PSP2 next year though.
Not only the United States and the United Kingdom or, as a few weeks ago we learned that he sold only PSPGo 20-25000 units since its launch in Australia. SCE Australia head Michael Ephraim said: "The handheld space is very crowded, and we must remember that to keep the] PSPGo [was the first device of its kind on free packaged products to launch." No word if the introductory price of its high.
Now you are probably wondering why the first paragraphs of the post Japanese hardware sales this month, not on hardware sales in Japan. The reason for this is that form with the laggards PSPGo the Japanese sales charts for several months, someone in the comments, as well as he is asking all over the world here. This month I had some answers, I thought I would answer that question before she asked.
The time to talk about the last month of the console sales in Japan then. Let me start with the two consoles for the lowest score each week to fight, PS2 and PSPGo. Why? Well, it is usually a close-run thing, but the scandalously bad PSPGo had two weeks in mid-May retail sales of less than 900 units of each of these two weeks. In addition, since the two devices that are selling fewer units, the lines on the graph always look pretty flat, so they give a chart of them can see that the sales do not fluctuate from week to week as consoles to sell that tens of thousands every week.
End of April sold Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker published for the PSP, and 2 434 366 units in May. While that was just enough to drive the MGS title to second place in the software, behind two Dragon Quest Monsters Joker DS, which sold 624 000 units, was very healthy sales of the PSP, with sales of UMD-toting PSP-3000 and nearly 60,000 units are PSPGo almost 1,900 units.
The PS3 and 360 also has a software release this week as the super hit Street Fighter IV to the shelves. The PS3 version has reached the third place with 80 882 in software sales, while the 360 version hit fifth place after selling 28 454 units. After the peaceful end of April, the software release week was nearly triple the sales of software than in the previous week.
The week ending 9 May was the Golden Week holiday week as Japan, where there is a new version of the software to shake up the graphics hardware known. The only hardware buck trend of falling sales this week, the Wii, DSi and DSi LL, which perhaps suggests that during the holiday week was not hardcore gamers and families that are headed for the purchase.
This was the situation a little figures released Media Create revive Golden Week this year compared with last year. conducted in relation to the hardware of the PS3 package with a turnover of 40%, the Wii was 35%, the family saw PSP sales by 6%, while the family and the DS has seen the 360 sales down 24% and 26 %.
The following week, hardware sales fell in all sectors, with the notable exception of the 360 that has increased slightly. This week, falling sales within the PSPGo three digits for the first time, when decreased their total weekly sales fall to just 871 units.
A PS3 titles hit the top of the charts software in the week ending 23 with Lost Planet 2 is the first game to be able to eliminate from its Dragon Quest number one. Sale of 84 607 for the PS3 version has a wide margin at the top, while the 360 version up to fifth place with a turnover is 33 563. Hardware sales growth again this week, although it does little for the 360 and Wii, the PSPGo ITS hit record lows last week, was conducted on 851 sales.
Software for the Nintendo console graphics software owned by the last week of May, with new versions for Wii and DS fill the top four and Dragon Quest fifth. In the Italian plumber adopted home of Japan, no one will be surprised to know that Super Mario Galaxy 2 went straight to number one with 339,901 sales. The second place was the latest entry in the Super Robot Taisen series removed almost 260,000 sales behind Mario, with sales of "only" 80 764. In a reversal of the situation in the last two weeks, sales have to increase hardware if you have Microsoft.
The regular monthly battles resolved as follows: The PS3 plays the Wii by about 1,000 units, the PS2 beat the PSPGo nearly 700 units and the PSP beat the DSS sold 176 024 units compared to 172 847.
The pie shows how to split the company in May to market for products based on sales amount. Nintendo beats Sony with only 48.6% against 47.9% Microsoft leaving the remaining 3.5%.
If you are still awake, here is the data in a table of the month to see:
Second
Ninth
16th
23rd
30th
Total
360
4943
4278
4370
4656
3546
21 793
PS2
1577
1491
1293
1175
1463
6999
PS3
32 874
26 185
20 463
19 075
20 987
119 584
Wii
30 757
31 399
17 570
18 465
20 476
118 667
DS Lite
4068
4026
2695
2681
2961
16 431
DSi
15 628
15 739
9990
9356
10 324
61 037
DSi LL
25 569
26 733
15 879
14 108
16 267
98 556
PSP
59 315
35 233
24 475
22 462
25 054
166 539
PSPGo
1890
1464
871
851
1232
6308
Total
176 621
146 548
97 606
92 829
102 310
615 914
Media Source: Create