Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 12 - Jan. 18: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes edition

by Griffin McElroy on Jan 25th 2009 9:00PM

Are you there, God? It's me, the Japanese Hardware Sales post.

A lot of the guys around the office have been talking about a bunch of scary-sounding changes coming to the site, and I'm beginning to worry about my place in the Ultrastiq. Will there still be room for me when the Fanboy sites interlock with the main site, Voltron-style? Will the features making their way over from the Fanboy sites be mean to me? Will they be ... further developed than I am? I hear Philosony has been wearing a bra for over two months now. I'm not sure I can stand up to that kind of pressure.

I'm also pretty bummed that all the consoles' sales are falling even further. I thought it couldn't get any worse after last week! If people in Japan stop buying consoles altogether, am I going to cease to be? I guess it doesn't matter. I think I'm going to run away, tonight. Nobody would notice. The Joystiq Podcast gets all the attention, anyways. I've never forgiven him for swallowing my turtle.

Well, God, I think I'm going to go. I've been mixing my Judy Blume allusions for about a paragraph now, and I want to make a clean break before I do any more damage.

- DSi: 62,525

15,676 (20.05%)
- PSP: 42,559

17,936 (29.65%)
- Wii: 32,333

8,910 (21.60%)
- PS3: 20,690

7,454 (26.49%)
- DS Lite: 18,809

4,620 (19.72%)
- Xbox 360: 9,576

978 (9.27%)
- PS2: 5,760

868 (13.10%)

[Source: Media Create]

See: The superfudged archives

Tags: japanese-hardware-sales, japanesehardwaresales

Reader Comments (66)

Now's your chance to win the war Sega. Release the Sega Genecast 720x.

We don't need anything doing WORSE than the 360. It's painful enough as it is.

Excuse me, did you say worse than the 360? Um, did you perhaps mean to say PS3?

Am i reading the list wrong?

He is meant to say, as hard to pronounced.

HEY! The PS3 is a great Blu-Ray player!

Seriously guys no need to start another flame war.

My console is better than Johnny's

My Sega 32X is still selling. Yes, that's right. I am the real Sega :O

I'm not trying to start a console war, but why just look at Japan? I mean seriously, do they play anything besides Pokemon and Hello Kitty games?

And dating sims and train simulators.

they play a huge number of porn games...

but the pc HARDwear sales never make it into the list.

@somebody who was obviously having an off day by asking the same question that's been asked 70 bajillion times each week since the beginning of time:

Japanese sales are reported every week because this is the only region where reliable weekly sales (with actual numbers!) are made public. In other regions, money-grubbing poll companies are reluctant to release their *monthly* data.

Whenever any of the three large regions (US, Europe, Japan) release numbers, they're usually posted on sites like this one. Japan is no less relevant than the others...

And I appreciate the Judy Blume schtiq because let's face it there was nothing else of interest this week. Sure sales are continuing a decline after Christmas/New Year season peaks, but other than that nothing changed at all.

The_Punisher gets JRPG treatment.

...

Ok. I get it. They keep track of sales, and no one else does. But there's still no point. Every week it's the same old thing. Nintendo rules, everyone else sucks. Of course that's not my personal opinion, but we never see anything different coming from Japan.

@offday: Actually, PSP sells much better in Japan than elsewhere; hardly 'Nintendo rules, everyone else sucks' when a Sony system reliably sells better than Wii. (Sony systems also have #3, 4, 5, and 7 in the software charts which you can read - in Japanese - if you click through. I don't think Joystiq translates the software chart? Not sure why. Or maybe it was in another post I missed.) So if anything, Nintendo's domination is even greater in other markets.

And there *are* changes even if they're gradual. 360 used to sell about a tenth of PS3; now it's sticking around half. That's a significant change and has an impact on worldwide sales, since Japan is the only region where historically 360 sales are insignificant.

The other interesting thing is that you can see when particular games generate console sales (or don't). As far as I know there wasn't anything particularly interesting released to correspond with this week's sales, though. The Mario Tennis remake is at #1 but unsurprisingly it didn't do anything spectacular for Wii sales.

it's weird that i was thinking about this book the other day.

Don't worry JHS, you will forever be my friend.

Within the spreading darkness I pledged a vow to the revolution. I can't let anyone interrupt it. The future that the forbidden fruit foretells...Im going to change the dream into reality. The ending that everybody wants. Someday I'll show you a bright an ideal world

btw, Im only on episode 14 so you fuckers better not spoil the ending or I will shove my left foot through the interwebz and kick you in the throat and balls at the same time

JHS: My favorite post of the week.

Wow. That's....that's....62,000 DSis? I'm sure even South Africa buys twice that in a month. The only conclusion I can come up with is that Godzilla has risen again and the citizens are afraid to leave their houses.

either that... or the over sold wii has begun to manifest its own being and thought, and is beginning to take over the world as we know it...

Are you trying to suggest that the Wii is Skynet?

no, i am simply implying that the other consoles are obviously worthy of purchase, not to say that the wii isnt inovative, but the ps3/360 are pushing technology, and they are given no love at all, well at least not by consumers... and the wii is simply taking over the world and the industry 1 sale at a time

They would have formed together into a gigantic AI network and attempted to anihilate all life on Earth.

But on the verge of their amalgamation a hero stepped into the fray and managed to cut them off from one another.

And you all though Friend Codes were useless...

are you there god? it's me, ras trent!

Rude boy living in the shanty dorms, me toil part-time at ja Cold Stone Creamery.

Ouch!

So, what, is today the last day for the old 'stiq? Is this the last story of the old stiq? Should i take a screen capture of this to cherish the moment? Or will i awaken monday to find it was all a dream?

Oh, and Bury the Shovelware is going to try and push you around, but it just wants attention

You mean like this?

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7873/joystiqfg0.png

Does only recognizing the title of that book because it was parodied in the episode title of a Venture Bros episode make me a bad person?

Or just a really big geek?

Both.

no, venture bros is awesome, and in no way should you feel bad, or even a geek

Venture Bros is second only to Haruhi on the Bestshoweverometer.

The book title was also parodied in a Lawrence Arms song.

...Ultrastiq?

I'M POSTING IN THE LAST THREAD ON JOYSTIQ EVER!

TOMORROW THERE WILL ONLY BE JUDYBLUMESTIQ OHHH NOOOOESSSS

The Mayans were wrong!! It isn't 2012! It's the last day of the joystiq as we know it as being the last days of earth ...

I'm going to miss the old Joystiq... so many memories.

I have a lot of good friends (well, virtual friends) from Joystiq on my MSN. And some of them are really good friends, and we not only talk about games. It was nice to have received phone calls (and made some phone calls) to some of my best Joystiq friends last Christmas. Even if some of them are Sony fanboys (and kinda like "rivals" here in Joystiq) I have a very good friendship with them.

Thanks Joystiq for allow me to be part of this great community. And I'm sure that the new changes are going to improve the site a lot. And I hope I can be an active member of this amazing community again.

Thanks Joystiq, you guys are amazing.

i have a dream, a dream where fernando and killjebus and that gundam guy can gather around a few bowls of nintendo cereal at a nice little breakfast nook

... i have a dream

And on that fateful night, each and every Joystiq blogger and commenter around the globe, shared a moment, and shed a single tear for the happiness and comraderie spread by our dear Fernando on the eve of Joystiq future.

Wait wait what, what's happening to Joystiq!?!?

They're changing it into a site about French masturbation techniques.

I mean, obviously I'll keep it in my bookmarks, but I'll be coming here for totally different reasons.

Masturbation has techniques!?

Don't let him teach you the 'sandpaper technique'. It's a gag, and it's not funny.

at least you won't have to change your avatar...

Hey, did 'yalls know you could leave comments on Google search results now? I left comments on some of your screen names, like the Easter Bunny laying his eggs.

What?

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