Japanese hardware sales, Sept. 6 - Sept. 12: Live from Tokyo edition

We've had a nice stay in the Land of the Rising Fun™, but as the Tokyo Game Show has drawn to a close, it's time for us to repack our Samsonites and return to American soil. What have we brought with us? Well, other than a week's worth of cherished memories and a whole address book full of new pen pals, we've also obtained a deeper understanding of the weekly Japanese hardware sales statistics -- from our position on the ground in Tokyo, we got a pretty good look at how the sausage gets made.

You guys wouldn't believe how crazy intricate the whole process is: People, they, like buy stuff. Or they don't. And that makes the numbers in the chart go up. Or down! We know, we can barely wrap our minds around it ourselves.

- PSP: 30,761 [DOWN] 4,078 (11.71%)
- PS3: 19,907 [DOWN] 2,320 (10.44%)
- DSi LL: 19,076 [UP] 147 (0.78%)
- DSi: 16,345 [DOWN] 623 (3.67%)
- Wii: 15,031 [DOWN] 1,049 (6.52%)
- DS Lite: 4,328 [UP] 289 (7.16%)
- Xbox 360: 2,915 [UP] 55 (1.92%)
- PS2: 1,363 [DOWN] 7 (0.51%)
- PSP Go: 809 [DOWN] 118 (12.73%)

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