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What a terrible thing it is to hold sin in your hands, gently pressing its buttons and marveling at the pleasing electronic beeps and boops it emits. Its digital delights entertain for hours on end, but they merely distract from the gnawing guilt and anguish inside. Only when it is turned off is the perpetrator revealed, reflected in a glossy LCD screen.

You've come to depend on us for providing you with the Japanese hardware sales chart -- the objective and unaltered numerical truth of all consoles and handhelds. Full disclosure must triumph! Towards the end of our trip to Tokyo, on September 24th, we altered the course of sales events. We passed our greedy hands over the chart's fate and altered it ourselves, adding one Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII edition PSP to the outcome. The price was heavy, but the price of our meddling was far heavier.

Also, we just had to buy 3,528 Xbox 360s in anticipation of Halo 3.

- PSP: 102,808 + 1 174,985 (62.99%)
- DS Lite: 72,895 2,372 (3.36%)
- Wii: 24,143 849 (3.40%)
- PS3: 13,105 2,373 (22.11%)
- PS2: 12,980 1,607 (14.13%)
- Xbox 360: 5,215 3,528 (209.13%)
- Game Boy Micro: 229 14 (5.76%)
- Gamecube: 73 5 (7.35%)
- GBA SP: 49 57 (53.77%)
- GBA: 41 8 (24.24%)
- DS Phat: 30 15 (100.00%)

[Source: Media Create]

See: Previous Japanese hardware sales charts