Posts tagged japanese-hardware-sales 
PSP is Japan's best-selling console of 2010, Pokemon Black/White the top game
You could probably guess the two best-selling games in Japan this year: Pokemon Black and White and Monster Hunter Portable 3rd. The DS monster collecting adventure and the PSP monster murder adventure sold 4,734,064 and 3,163,750 units respectively, according to a year-end report by ASCII. Monster ...
Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan for fourth time, Four Horsemen draw closer
The Xbox 360 has only outsold the PlayStation 3 several times before, so we're reticent to bring the Four Horsemen out of their winter hibernation. However, if Japanese hardware sales tracker Media Create is to be believed, the 360 not only outsold the PS3 in Japan last week, it handily trounced ...
Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 2 - Feb. 8: Redundant redundancies edition
Here's an interesting fact: In order to earn money through product placements, you actually have to have a pre-arranged deal with the advertised company. You can't just start interjecting their brand name into conversations and wait for them to send you a check. Alas, our meticulous plan for ...
Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 26 - Feb. 1: Money, money makin' edition
Times are tough, folks. If you live in the economically beleaguered U.S. of A., we think you're probably aware of what we're DRINK PEPSI talking about. We know you guys place us on a towering, resplendent pedestal, high above the recession's unforgiving grasp, but just like everyone else, we've ...
Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 12 - Jan. 18: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes edition
Are you there, God? It's me, the Japanese Hardware Sales post. A lot of the guys around the office have been talking about a bunch of scary-sounding changes coming to the site, and I'm beginning to worry about my place in the Ultrastiq. Will there still be room for me when the Fanboy sites interlock ...
Japanese hardware sales, Jan. 5 - Jan. 11: Pep talk edition
Oh. Oh, dear. While the first full week of the year is rarely typified by outrageous console sales explosions, we certainly didn't expect to see all seven of our competitors have their sales figures sundered in twain. We imagine the respective companies behind said consoles (and their curiously ...
White Knight Chronicles sells more Japanese PS3s than MGS4
The latest Japanese hardware sales figures show White Knight Chronicles' continued impact throughout the region. Numbers rose from 45,989 during WKC's launch week to 60,654 the next. A rare occurrence, as sales have tended to substantially drop the week after a big release in the past. In fact, the ...
Japanese hardware sales, Dec. 29 - Jan. 4: New, new media edition
We're all pretty torn up about the collapse of Electronic Gaming Monthly, a magazine that got some of us through many a dull Social Studies class during our formative years, but with the sorry economic state print publications currently find themselves in, it wasn't a completely shocking turn of ...
White Knight Chronicles debuts with impressive first week sales
The official sales figures for White Knight Chronicles' Japanese debut are finally out. Media Create shows that the game sold just under 207,000 units during the week of December 22nd to the 28th. Bearing in mind that White Knight Chronicles is a new IP and that this figure accounts for only three ...
Japanese hardware Dec. 15 - Dec. 21: Quite Striking Edition
We have good news and bad news. The good news is we've figured out how to close strike tags, the bad news is Microsoft isn't taking Japan by storm anymore. According to data company Media Create, Microsoft pushed 12,914 units of its Xbox 360 SKUs between December 15 and December 21 and while sales ...
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