Japanese hardware sales, Oct. 12 - Oct. 18: Almost pure evil edition
by Griffin McElroy 
{ Oct 25th 2009 at 9:30PM }
Imagine our terror as we read over the following chart. If one turns the sales reduction of the DSi upside-down -- there's one! If one less person would have bought a PS3 this week -- there it is again! If you add 360 (like, from the Xbox 360) to the system's sales increase, then you take the number of letters in "DS Lite" and add that to the sales reduction of the PS2, and then you subtract that number from the first number -- oh, no, here he comes!
"What? These shoes? These are Sketchers. What? No, Sketchers are still really cool! You ... you're a jerk, you know that, Lucifer?"
- DSi: 49,145
999 (1.99%)- PSP: 33,508
6,592 (16.44%)- PS3: 30,231
665 (2.15%) - Wii: 29,965
776 (2.52%)- Xbox 360: 3,662
336 (10.10%)- DS Lite: 2,590
2,864 (52.51%)- PS2: 2,109
24 (1.13%)[Source: Media Create]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Pantsparty @ Oct 25th 2009 9:32PM
Go Go Xbox Go.
WINterfang ( Now with the power to piss you off ) @ Oct 25th 2009 10:43PM
360 your so fine, your so fine you blow my mind.
360! hey hey.
360!
vidGuy @ Oct 25th 2009 9:33PM
Up the Irons!
[oh, cool sales chart, too]
THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) @ Oct 25th 2009 10:22PM
UP THE IRONS!!! (and your comment)
Pip @ Oct 26th 2009 10:08AM
One of the best Metal albums ever made.
\m/ Up the Irons! \m/
Arekusu @ Oct 26th 2009 9:06PM
UP THE IRONS!!
Mr Khan @ Oct 25th 2009 9:34PM
A flat week, except for PSP, who is more steadily descending from the price-drop high.
Apollo @ Oct 25th 2009 9:35PM
DA RA DA DA!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sly @ Oct 25th 2009 9:40PM
what's even scarier is how the PS2 refuses to die. lucifer has nothing on that.
RKN @ Oct 25th 2009 9:57PM
March of next year will be its 10th anniversary in Japan.
Matt @ Oct 25th 2009 10:03PM
It'll die, you just have to give it a couple years to develop a Disc Read Error.
Sly @ Oct 25th 2009 10:03PM
good god...
chris @ Oct 25th 2009 11:34PM
A can of air and a lens cloth will bring it back to life, Really? I've had six of the damn things, and I still have a launch model I use to play dvds and persona. Never once had one break.
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 25th 2009 11:40PM
I've got an '01 console, and I've never had a problem with it. Don't say they all fail.
Finito (PSN: Wretched_Walrus) @ Oct 26th 2009 1:00AM
Japanese people are RPG crazy, so its obvious the PS2 is still their holy grail.
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 25th 2009 9:49PM
Just how long will the PS3 hang on to that top spot (for consoles)? I'm aware that things will change with FFXIII, but...
Dartmerc @ Oct 25th 2009 10:33PM
What?
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 25th 2009 10:34PM
I'm saying that, barring FFXIII, will the PS3 be able to keep ahead of the Wii?
Sly @ Oct 25th 2009 10:37PM
yeah, it will be able to hold its own against the wii. part of it comes from the new model, the new price drop, and the fact that everyone in japan already has a wii.
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 25th 2009 10:39PM
I'm not sure about everyone (the DS keeps selling more, and it's been out longer) but I would hope Sony can pull it off. They've been taking it in the shorts for a long time.
Das Boot @ Oct 25th 2009 10:02PM
No.... Six six SEVEN.
The neighbor of the beast, get it?
CBAkiba25 @ Oct 25th 2009 10:05PM
Well, whatever's going on, the 360's behind it...
WINterfang ( Now with the power to piss you off ) @ Oct 25th 2009 10:44PM
Perfect version of Bayonetta perhaps?
HeXeN @ Oct 25th 2009 10:08PM
There's no stopping (for 09') the rampage that's PS3 and DSi.
Uncontrol @ Oct 25th 2009 10:11PM
the actual number of the beast is 616 sorry bro
The Dark Wayne [Planeteer: Power of the Batusi] @ Oct 26th 2009 1:02PM
the main marvel universe continuity takes place on Earth-616! Stan Lee is secretly Satan Lee!
Asmerom (PSN: neon6plz) @ Oct 25th 2009 10:12PM
Wasn't the Xbox initially shunned from Japan?
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 25th 2009 10:43PM
Still is. They've only managed to clear a million units since launch, as opposed to over thirty million throughout the rest of the world. The PS3 has sold 3.4 million units in Japan, and the Wii has cleared eight million.
&rew @ Oct 25th 2009 10:12PM
If you take away one from PS2's sales reduction you get 23, and according to Jim Carey, that means .666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666...
Bobby Kotick 2: Echoes @ Oct 25th 2009 10:29PM
I'm guessing, then, that Bruce Dickinson's shoes have endured a bunch of smack talk from history's worst excuse for a bad guy.
Markez (attempting to call me less of a man because i knew so much about pans) @ Oct 25th 2009 10:42PM
I certainly didn't expect to ever see Eddie in a 'stiq post :P
Courtney @ Oct 26th 2009 2:41AM
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/07/rock-band-weekly-iron-maiden-hives-stone-temple-pilots/
XBL: xGeneral DEATHx PSN: Deeth82 [Planeteer | Power of General Hostility and Angst] @ Oct 26th 2009 8:13AM
NIGHT WAS BLACK
WAS NO USE HOLDING BACK
'CAUSE I JUST HAD TO SEE
WAS SOMEONE WATCHING MEEEEE?
/Dickinson/
*Ahem*
Sorry...MAIDEN FAN OVER HERE!
/Francis/
Mabui @ Oct 25th 2009 10:49PM
How come DSi is split from DS lite - but PSP Go isn't split from PSP?
WINterfang ( Now with the power to piss you off ) @ Oct 25th 2009 10:56PM
To give everybody a chance.
No Kill Tayler @ Oct 25th 2009 10:58PM
Because the Go isn't an improvement.
And the DSi is arguable if it is or not.
BPMOmega [XBL, PSN, Steam] @ Oct 25th 2009 11:04PM
PSP Go isn't released in Japan until Nov. 1. When it does, it will likely be counted as a different system (while the 1K, 2K, and 3K models were counted as the same; DS, DS Lite, and DSi were counted seperately).
R (Planeteers | Power of Penile Pulse) @ Oct 25th 2009 11:43PM
DSi hardware is actually a good amount more powerful than the DS lite. I think the processor is like 4x faster or something.
Go wiki it.
Sly @ Oct 25th 2009 11:56PM
considering the DSi and DS lite are running separate right now, i'm just gonna assume that the go and the regular PSP are gonna be separate too. and yeah, it comes out on nov. 1 in japan.
Liquid man @ Oct 26th 2009 4:35PM
maybe because nobody bought a PsP Go yet?
F1: Basu Gasu Bakuhatsu @ Oct 25th 2009 10:53PM
God that was a good album.
WINterfang ( Now with the power to piss you off ) @ Oct 26th 2009 12:11AM
was?
XBL: xGeneral DEATHx PSN: Deeth82 [Planeteer | Power of General Hostility and Angst] @ Oct 26th 2009 8:14AM
I still remember blasting that album at full volume in the stock room of the shitty grocery store I used to work for, not realizing that the windows and doors to the meat dept. were open so all the customers could listen to it, as well. Ah, the days...
...yeah, I know...cool story, bro.
Special Agent Steve @ Oct 25th 2009 10:58PM
You also could've used the White Album.
Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9.
Sly @ Oct 25th 2009 11:56PM
dreamcast anyone?
(PSN) Mecha37 @ Oct 25th 2009 11:09PM
What have you done you have doomed us all just u watch in a few years when the advanced consoles are infected with viruses and the only game that can be played is that E.T. game because it rose from its landfill grave ill blame you
Stevetrop @ Oct 25th 2009 11:12PM
Hells Bell's
monkeyzamm @ Oct 25th 2009 11:20PM
Why would this happen just after i saw Paranormal Activity??:((((((((((((((((((((((
WINterfang ( Now with the power to piss you off ) @ Oct 25th 2009 11:44PM
"If one less person would have bought a PS3 this week -- there it is again!"
I don't get this one.
Sly @ Oct 25th 2009 11:57PM
it was down 665 from last month. if one less person bought it, it would have been 666.