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Japanese Hardware and Software Chart for Week Ending May 10th, 2008

VGChartz reports that their estimated numbers for Japanese hardware and software chart for week ending May 10th, 2008 was as follows:

Total Hardware: [Last Week #]

PSP: 75,710 (-21%) [96,324]
Wii: 72,366 (+3%) [70,108]
DSL: 51,010 (+3%) [49,764]
PS3: 8,223 (-24%) [10,800]
PS2: 7,876 (-15%) [9,232]
360: 1,534 (-22%) [1,970]

Top 10 Software:

1 Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 109,180 1,198,297
2 Monster Hunter Freedom 2nd G (PSP) 82,446 2,110,896
3 Wii Fit (Wii) 55,933 2,035,259
4 Link no Bowgun Training (Wii) 49,292 142,814
5 Meccha Taiko no Tatsujin DS Nanatsu no Shima no Daibouken (DS) 30,752 119,182
6 Pokemon Ranger: Batonnage (DS) 26,311 520,692
7 Wii Sports (Wii) 19,734 3,021,192
8 Mario Kart DS (DS) 18,418 3,197,082
9 Deca Sporta (Wii) 16,868 185,204
10 Hajimete no Wii (Wii) 15,379 2,396

Software Totals:

DSL: 323,413 (-23%) Tie Ratio: 4.29
Wii: 318,561 (-26%) Tie Ratio: 3.44
PSP: 123,207 (-29%) Tie Ratio: 1.93
PS2: 53,978 (-23%) Tie Ratio: 5.65
PS3: 35,979 (-28%) Tie Ratio: 2.48
360: 8,309 (-35%) Tie Ratio: 4.47

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Bordel_19006582d ago

PS3 and X360 sales in Japan are laughable.

snakeater36582d ago (Edited 6582d ago )

360 sales in japan are five times more laughable than ps3s :)

dan-boy6582d ago

sony are lucky that europe stayed with them, and the 360 never even arrived in japan. the ps3 is getting hammered by nintendo at home! it's unbelievable how far sony have fallen this gen!....they wont be selling 120mil ps3s thats for sure!b

shine13966582d ago (Edited 6582d ago )

sony and x360 were 'hammered' in the usa, i believe...they sold nearly three quater's of a million...never mind by how much worldwide... now if only psp performed like that elsewhere... where are the casual games for PSP...

Shaka2K66582d ago

360: 1,534 (-22%) [1,970]
360: 1,534 (-22%) [1,970]
360: 1,534 (-22%) [1,970]
360: 1,534 (-22%) [1,970]
360: 1,534 (-22%) [1,970]
360: 1,534 (-22%) [1,970]
360: 1,534 (-22%) [1,970]
360: 1,534 (-22%) [1,970]
360: 1,534 (-22%) [1,970]
360: 1,534 (-22%) [1,970]

36th0.

sinncross6582d ago

wow, MH2 surpassed Wiifit!

thank goodness.

I wonder if this mite get DMC back into production or some other big hitters for PSP.

PoSTedUP6582d ago

dam no top10 softwear for ps3

Britjadg6582d ago

or for ps2 or for 360, whats ur point?

kwicksandz6582d ago

It would seem ps3 fanboysim is his point

ice_prophecy6582d ago

Can someone please tell me, how these numbers come about? at best these are estimates. but even estimates have to be somewhat educated and have a sort of basis.

Cyrus3656582d ago

They just get their data from Famitsu, and put their own spin on it, they get their japanese data like about a day ago, and input it so it looks close to this:

http://www.vgchartz.com/new... (That was posted on may 14th, their chart only came up today at some point.)

SamuelRSmith6582d ago

This is actually not true. VGC gets its data the exactly the same way as Famitsu and MediaCreate does.

Not to mention the fact that one of the analysts on the site posts a preview to the Japanese data (which is usually very accurate) before any other Japanese figures are out.

shine13966582d ago

the estimates do have quite a big leverage that it looks half assed, i.e.psp will sell between, 70,000 and 100,000, they were right but...

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-Foxtrot25d ago

Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.

They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

solideagle25d ago

they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted

Relientk7725d ago

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

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Relientk7729d ago

I remember playing this back in the day on PS2. What a sick game!

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ActualWhiteMan31d ago (Edited 31d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg31d ago

My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.

Smellsforfree30d ago

Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.

Loktai30d ago

Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.