Japanese hardware sales, Nov. 9 - Nov. 15: New direction edition

If you haven't noticed, just about every foreign sales post we do somehow references football (or, as our primitive North American minds have designated it, soccer) -- including the post you're reading right this hot second. The terrifically named, PSP-exclusive J. LEAGUE Football Club Tsukurou! 6 Pride of J took top honors in the Japanese charts this week, pushing the portable platform to a first-place finish over its ill-equipped, football-less competitors.

We know better than to stand in the way of progress -- so, from henceforth, Joystiq will be changing its focus from video games to the foot-centric sport which half of our posts tend to be about anyways. Yes, we know very, very little about the game, but we don't really think that's too important. You know what is important? Choosing a new name of our blog, which we've already done: Joykick. Or, in sticking with our current typographically-challenged theme: Joyqick. Yeah, that's solid gold.

We know this transition will be extremely difficult, but as you probably already know, we've always had a knack for achieving our lofty GOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLS! (See? It's already started.)

- PSP: 38,770 4,986 (14.76%)
- PS3: 38,498 10,427 (21.31%)
- DSi: 33,749 3,672 (9.81%)
- Wii: 26,764 5,046 (15.86%)
- PSP Go: 6,427 7,565 (54.07%)
- DS Lite: 5,036 479 (8.69%)
- Xbox 360: 4,124 555 (11.86%)
- PS2: 2,031 35 (1.69%)

[Source: Media Create]

See: The foot-centric archives