Nintendo 3DS is still the top-selling console in Japan

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Typically sales surges for hardware in Japan come on the backs of new software releases, but this has not been the case for the 3DS, which has topped the charts each of the past four weeks after trailing behind Sony's PSP.

In this particular case, it appears that hype surrounding games yet-to-be-released -- such as Capcom's Monster Hunter 3G, which has an ongoing advertising campaign in the country -- is driving its sales.


The hardware charts for Japan for the week ending October 16, as tracked by Media Create, follows:

1. Nintendo 3DS - 55,025
2. PlayStation 3 - 28,596
3. PSP - 25,271
4. Wii - 12,161
5. Nintendo DS - 4,791
6. Xbox 360 - 1,887
7. PlayStation 2 - 1,280

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inb43dsstilsucks

 

[notmeanymore]

This is coming from a 3DS preorderer and supporter.

The 3DS is the only new console. PS3, second place, has been out for 5 years. The sales make sense.

Plus Japan has a sexy as hell line-up. Those lucky bastards.

 

[kevan]

If PS Vita pre-orders where there it would be a different story

 

[KingVamp]

This is coming from a 3DS preorderer and supporter.

The 3DS is the only new console. PS3, second place, has been out for 5 years. The sales make sense.

Plus Japan has a sexy as hell line-up. Those lucky bastards.

It is true, they have way more games then us... like always...

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Just wait until Monster Hunter comes out.

 

[RupeeClock]

Well plenty of good titles are coming out for the christmas season.
There's nothing really immediate though.

 

[Necron]

Surely japan loves Monster Hunter.

 

[emigre]

Personally I'm impressed at how the 360 has sold more than the PS2.

EDIT: 3DSstillsucks

 

[Jamstruth]

Personally I'm impressed at how the 360 has sold more than the PS2.

Surely everybody and their mother in Japan has a PS2 at this point.

 

[gokujr1000]

The PS2 still gets sold in Japan? o.o

 

[Erdnaxela]

Monster hunter isn't a system seller, 3DS haters said...
Well, after all, it was just trolls and whines, like always~