Japanese hardware sales, May 3 - May 9: Steam-powered world edition

by Ben Gilbert on May 16th 2010 9:30PM

We'll make no bones about it -- a lot of the Joystiq staff punches keys all day long on Apple devices, gritting their teeth while writing up PC game sales posts. Sure, booting into Windows is always an option, but who's got the time? Life's too short for green bananas, we say! Thankfully, Steam has arrived on an operating system more readily accessible to our hands and things will assuredly never be the same (oh, and you should probably join our Steam group!).

While we're not 100 percent sure if Steam's Mac release made an impact on the hardware sales of gaming consoles in Japan this past week, we're really, really, really excited about finally playing some games on the ol' workhorse. But those Japanese hardware sales? Yeah, they're mostly down. Has the Japanese public shifted its purchasing focus towards Valve's downloadable push onto the Mac? Clearly that's what happened!

... Or last week's big game releases in Japan have begun to peter off. One of the two.

- PSP: 35,233

24,082 (-40.60%)
- Wii: 31,399

642 (2.09%)
- DSi LL: 26,733

1,164 (4.55%)
- PS3: 26,185

6,689 (-20.35%)
- DSi: 15,739

111 (0.71%)
- Xbox 360: 4,278

665 (-13.45%)
- DS Lite: 4,026

42 (-1.03%)
- PSP Go: 1,464

426 (-22.54%)
- PS2: 1,491

86 (-5.45%)

[Source: Media Create]

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Reader Comments (53)

Why is the PSP GO above the PS2 if the PS2 outsold it?

Because, as far as we know, Ben Gilbert isn't a robot (and if he is a Robot, he must be running on an outdated version of Windows).

i think the better question is why is the sandwich out of order

because Ben Gilbert hates the ps2

Join the Joystiq Steam chat while you're at it!

THIS RIGHT HERE YO AMIRITE?

In before....

"B-b-but if you combine the 20 different DS SKU's, it actually outsold the PSP lololol."

inb4 obvious rebuttal.

.... Joystiq seems snobby today.

As of now, the selection is Steams catalog for Mac is shitty if not lame. I really really hope devs make mac versions for many games like Fallout and Mass Effect... who the hell wants to keep playing indi games all the time?

New Mac games will release every Wednesday.

This is what people haven't realised, even though steam is on mac that doesn't mean devs will start putting their games on it!

Mac gaming is a pretty niche market. I don't think you're going to see many ports to Mac just because Steam has it now.

Can you DIY a mac? Can it run Crysis? (Not trolling, genuine question)

coming from a pc gamer, all i play are source games. imo valves game's are the best available on the pc nowadays. I know plenty of ppl. disagree, but if u have enough time to sink 5 hours into dragon age, you have enough time to boot into windows. it's great being able to pop in a quick game of team fortress or counterstrike. just my 2 cents (not saying that it wouldnt be even better to have all of the popular game available on the mac, but just have the selection of valve games is amazing)

Well, if newer tools become available that make it easy to author (or at least create a great deal of content) Mac titles at the same time as PC games then it might stand a chance. It's an extra avenue of potential customers.

*the following question is from someone who knows nothing about it*
If Mac and the PS3 both use OpenGL, would it also be possible to work on both platforms at once?

Nintendo needs to step up its Wii game in Japan. They're back on top, but they weren't for too long for a market leader.

I think there's bound to be more ups and downs and jostling for top spot in Japan because obviously in Japan there's one dominant HD console, the PS3, so it has that market pretty much all to itself and hence is able to give the Wii much more of a run for its money. Whereas in the West the two HD consoles are more or less even in popularity and so that market is divided evenly between the PS3 and 360. If there was one dominant HD console in the West the weekly/monthly hardware charts would be similar to Japan's.

speaking of Steam, I downloaded Portal today and it runs like crap in my PC :(

oh and Go PS3!

I can't even run it, but the way I see it why not just have it on your account if it's free.

My PC barely ran it. However, once I set the resolution to the lowest, and ran in window mode, it ran a lot better. Try that out!!! I managed to play the entire game pretty smoothly (for the most part) like that! :]

I probably should have had the sense to try cranking the graphics down a bit. now it's running pretty smoothly. Thanks!

How the hell can you even own a PC that won't run Portal? The draw distance is negligible; I remember being able to play it on my HP Media Center from like 2006 with integrated graphics while I waited for my 3650 to be delivered.

Good times...

well its not a PC its a laptop(samething right?)

also I took your advice and now it runs perfectly

Go PS3?

As in... continue losing sales as compared to last week? :\

Steve... Navy Seals

"Has the Japanese public has shifted"

Not to be a grammar jerk, but I instantly focused on this segment while reading.

Too bad Macs can't correct those types of mistakes...

Also, if you click on the picture, it takes you somewhere completely unrelated:

http://www.m-create.com/ranking/

It actually took me a second glance to realized what was wrong. It's like one of those mind tricks where you don't notice there's an extra word.

"a lot of the Joystiq staff punches keys all day long on an Apple device, gritting their teeth"

The End

add me on steam everyone!

Hell Yeah Babe....... I Always Got Room On My Steam Friend List For Hot Chicks!

My Steam Names MuscleStud69 ;)

Barking up the wrong tree... *Cough*

uh... you can stalk Hayley Williams on her twitter if that's what you wanted?

everyone knows that there are no girls on the internet.

I never realized you guys were such Mac-heads. Though I suppose I should have guessed based on the elemntary-school level of the glibness in every PC-gaming related post.

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll give a great review for Napoleon Total War when it comes out for Mac in 2024.

They're just jealous ;) But yeah, I don't understand why Jostiq keeps posting about PC gaming either.

It's pretty obvious they are mostly Mac users considering how often Joystiq recycles all the old Crysis needs a supercomputer and Vista problems from 2007 jokes.

I think Joystiq gets to recycle those jokes as long as the commenters keep recycling Jeff Gertsmann jokes.

PSP dropped 40% and is STILL the top seller. Amazing

I just don't understand mac users... at all.

I just can't fathom why people honestly think there is a fundamental difference between Windows and Mac users... at all... because... well... there isn't. Use what you like and shut up, pretty please with sugar on top.

In actual related news I really hope DQM Joker 2 makes it over here soon!

@cuteSavage...

I've never had a Windows user try to convince me that Windows was all that....I've never had a Mac user NOT try to convince me.

I dunno, I've had a lot of people tell me how suck Mac is when they hear that I have one. TBH I've never really met mac users outside my family so I can't comment on that, but I doubt they'd be any difference.

I don't know why anybody would think that people act differently because they own a different kind of computer.

Well, I also don't know many Mac users in real life... But all I hear (read) online is "hurrrrr Mac suxors!1!!"

@Ishatonu

don't get me wrong man, I used windows all my life, but one day my pc broke during an important work that I was doing (no big deal, computers break.. and the files were on ext. HD so I didn't lose anything), so I had to borrow my friends mac for a while.. I got used to it and liked it.. He wanted to buy a new one so he sold me his and I never returned to PC again... So much less headache now days believe it or not..

@KSPRAYDAD

I am the opposite, especially on Joystiq. The Windows users that I encounter on here and other places are the ones starting Mac attacks and telling us how stupid we are for not using their computer of choice.

Each side has their assholes. It's ridiculous to think that one side is "out to get the other" or something like that

They only reason i used to have an anti-Mac agenda was because of those damned lying commercials, which gracefully seemed to have faded away. Ultimately there is no real difference for the average user.

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