Japanese hardware sales, April 12 - April 18: Dry spell edition

by Griffin McElroy @http://twitter.com/griffinmcelroy on Apr 25th 2010 9:30PM

Poor, poor April. After a quarter of pretty enormous video game releases, we've seen a noticeable slowdown over the past 25 days. Normally, we'd relish the opportunity to get caught up on the surplus the past few months have brought us, but ... well, we miss the action! The excitement! The variety! The occasional disappointment!

In an attempt to recapture these raw emotions, we've been forced to seek out other hobbies with even more frequent additions. Like, for instance, comic books. There's new ones of those every week! Coins? There are so, so many coins out there -- and we already have at least a pocketful of them. Oh, birds! Scientists are discovering birds like, everyday. Best of all, looking at birds doesn't cost anything. Unless you, like, buy stock photos of birds and look at those. But that's cheating.

We suppose we'll stick with our most beloved hobby of all, which is, of course, tracking the sales of video gaming hardware in Japan. This week's update is particularly exhilarating, with the two slowest horses being the only ones to not lose steam over the past week. We mean, they're still pretty slow. They're just not ... getting any slower. For now.

- PSP: 28,635

1,131 (3.80%)
- PS3: 25,590

3,383 (11.68%)
- Wii: 24,344

1,001 (3.95%)
- DSi LL: 17,146

2,226 (11.49%)
- DSi: 11,240

2,498 (18.18%)
- DS Lite: 2,869

480 (14.33%)
- Xbox 360: 2,442

776 (24.11%)
- PSP Go: 1,915