Japanese hardware sales, April 6 - April 12: Persistent edition

Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft's fair-hued, green-eyed console -- that is to say, whether you're an Xbot, a Sonyholic or a True BeWiiver (that is the correct nomenclature, no?) -- you've got to admire the little guy's pluck. Amidst a seemingly unstoppable downward sales trend for all Japanese gaming hardware, he persistently climbs upward every week, a lonely chrysanthemum blossoming from a crisp snow bank, a salmon swimming upstream, trying to get him some strange fish tail.

We're hereby rooting for the 360 -- not due to some illogical bias that some of you are convinced we harbor -- but rather, due to the large section of our heart set aside for sympathizing with the underdog. Hopefully, with our motivational support, the 360 can continue its uphill battle -- though we're afraid the other six competitors will need encouragement of a much more potent variety.

- PSP: 40,886 7,232 (15.03%)
- DSi: 40,673 13,007 (24.23%)
- PS3: 16,701 3,661 (17.98%)
- Wii: 13,349 2,176 (14.02%)
- Xbox 360: 10,134 2,322 (29.72%)
- DS Lite: 6,869 1,860 (21.31%)
- PS2: 4,531 863 (16.00%)

[Source: Media Create]

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