Japanese hardware sales, Nov. 15 - Nov. 21: Innovative edition

This week, two pieces of gaming hardware saw major boosts in Media Create's Japanese sales charts for one central developmental philosophy: Innovation. For example, the 360 got a 229 percent boost in sales on the back of the launch of the innovative, motion-sensing Kinect, which moved 26,000 units during its first two days on Japanese store shelves. That's an increase of 4,934 Xbox 360s sold, most of which likely came from the Kinect console bundles which launched alongside the device.

The PSP, on the other hand, saw a 139 percent increase up to 96,601 units sold, largely due to the fact that Monster Hunter Portable 3rd's Japanese release is less than a week away. Now, you may be wondering exactly why we'd consider that innovative -- see, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd's Japanese release has never been less than a week away before. Booyah. Innovation.

- PSP: 96,601 [UP] 56,273 (139.54%)
- PS3: 29,058 [UP] 7,944 (37.62%)
- Wii: 27,851 [DOWN] 11,457 (29.15%)
- DSi LL: 21,836 [UP] 3,125 (16.70%)
- DSi: 20,550 [UP] 6,556 (46.85%)
- Xbox 360: 7,083 [UP] 4,934 (229.60%)
- DS Lite: 1,904 [UP] 152 (8.68%)
- PSP Go: 1,816 [DOWN] 911 (33.41%)
- PS2: 1,255 [UP] 22 (1.78%)

Read: The motion-sensing archives

Reader Comments (39)

Does anyone in Japan live in a house big enough for the Kinect to work correctly?

@Hoops It has nothing to do with space. Japan is very prideful country, that being said they would rather own some thing made in Japan than made in America.

@Kevinsilhouette

I think a lot of it has to do with space, in addition to what you mentioned.

@Kevinsilhouette

The whole Japanese consumers only love Japanese products is weird considering they love McDonalds, iPods, Levis, and American rock and roll to name just a few. People find it hard to believe other cultures don't like products that they like. Different cultures have different tastes and the Xbox with its FPS heavy lineup doesn't fit Japanese tastes.

@FriedConsole

Don't forget Star Wars, Star Wars changed Japan on so many levels.

@FriedConsole
We don't take kindly to rational folks around here ;p

@Kevinsilhouette Well, duh. I think Japan's always had some sort of issue with America since 1945.

@My Prerogative Why bring up the war? For your information, modern Japan prefers to look back at that time with a sense of regret and a willingness to move on. Something YOU could do well to learn from.

Name some other examples of how Japan has issues with America? You see, if you'd actually been to visit instead of making wild, baseless accusations, you might notice how their culture embraces the old as well as the new, forging quite a unique sense of identity. Japanese honour and politeness combined with an interest in Western style and technology, amongst other things, results in an amazing country.

@Premature ejaculation man

Now, calm down, Premature ejaculation man. He ain't hurtin' nobody.

@Kevinsilhouette

It's actually the opposite: Japanese love quality stuff. No matter where they're made, it has to lasts. Americans are the ones who are patriotic about their products: only in America you see American-made stuff selling well and always bitching when something is made in China. Do you see a lots of GM, Ford cars selling well outside of the US? No. You mostly see trends like Toyota trucks in the African jungle and not the Jeep brand.

@My Prerogative
Damn you just got hit with the facts!

@My Prerogative

The two major problems between the USA and Japan are:

1. Strife over the military base in Okinawa. The locals simply don't want a US base there. I don't blame them, it's not fun having a foreign nation occupying.your native soil (ever wonder why the USA won't allow foreign military on US soil?)

2. Issues between the Bank of Japan and the Federal Reserve on monetary policy.

The first one is isolated to a small population and the other is too abstract to understand, and most people in each nation are oblivious to the problems. Otherwise, Japan pretty much eats up everything American in origin, such as the love affair with 7-11 convenience stores.

I am actually interested in seeing the type of games the Japanese market bought for Kinect. Even though 229% of a small number isn't really that much, it's still a large increase in sales so they must have been excited for something.

@Lerkero

Probably the same stuff that sold well in the US and UK, since it's most likely expatriates that bought them, for the most part.

@Lerkero

There's a Brain Age game for Kinect that's only sold in Japan right now.

If Nintendo made Kinect, Japan would be all over it.

@Milkman4321

Correction: If they made Idol Master Kinnect, Japan would be all over it.

The Wii is down but the PSP is up? I'm confuzzled

@Ventus New Monster Hunter game coming next week in Japan, iirc. Also the Wii has been dropping for a while now.

@Ventus 2 psp colors launched.

@Ventus
Monster hunter on anything makes Japan go crazy.

It's funny how badly the PSP Go does, even in Japan. What a miserable failure.

@Hoops
"even in Japan"? The PSPgo was actually expected to do more poorly in Japan than in other markets. There are even fewer Japanese consumers into the download-only model than Western consumers.

Oh, Mrs. PSP and Mr. PS3. It makes me jump in joy to see you two up there.

@TheKevinButler

/high-five

AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT LIKES THE GO BETTER THAN 3000. ITS SEXIER, MORE SLEEK I LOVE THE ANALOG PLACEMENT AND I LOVE THE BLUETOOTH FEATURE....WHICH THE 3000 IS MISSING. -____-

@Limit3d Yes

@Limit3d

Am I the only one who gets agitated by people who like to post responses with their caps locked. It's as though they are screaming for attention. I like intellectual responses to posts and some common decency which they seem to be lacking.

@Stevetrop Man of Mystery

Cruise control for cool, man.

@Stevetrop Man of Mystery Who said i liked to post responses with caps lock on. I don't comment much on joystiq so this is the first time i commented with caps on. So relax. Its just capitol letters. You wont die

@Guts

Is this your first Japanese hardware sales post?

96...600!!

Are the Monster Hunter games REALLY that good? I may have been missing out all this time!

Does anyone know if these sales are a result of our overseas troops buying them or is it strictly actual Japanese sales? Just curious. Thx.

And I'm referring to the sales of the xbox 360 consoles/kinect sales in particular.

@Jouten Yeh the racial breakdowns of video game sales usually release on Tuesdays. Sexual orientation on Thursdays and IQ breakdowns on Fridays.

@Jack Kevorkian IQ breakdowns are my favorite one.

@Jack Kevorkian
Awesome comment, best of the week at least... also I would seriously love at least some of those statistics.

For example, it would be so awesome if, in Japan, 94% of people who bought Gears of War are literally gay. Suddenly all those online insults are accurate! Also it turns out that Marcus Fenix is actually really hot. Who'd have thought?

Japanese hardware sales, Nov. 15 - Nov. 21: Innovative edition

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Posted: Nov 28th 2010 10:38PM Hoops said

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