Japan's best seller list, as usual, paints an interesting picture

We live with the marketing hype every day. The big consoles have millions of dollars behind them; money that's dedicated to forcing the things into your hands. So it's always interesting to see how well that money is being spent. GameGossip has the latest Top 10 list of consoles sold in Japan.

  PlayStation Portable: 43,644 (Annual: 580,120)
  PlayStation 2: 40,270 (Annual: 602,316)
  Nintendo DS: 22,446 (Annual: 429,545)
  Game Boy Advance SP: 11,013 (Annual: 197,776)
  GameCube: 3,357 (Annual: 70,016)
  Game Boy Advance: 477 (Annual: 6,253)
  Xbox: 345 (Annual: 4,606)

PSP is kicking some major butt right now, besting its bigger brother, the DS, the GBA, everything. The Xbox numbers always make me cringe a little.

Head on over to GG for their analysis.