IGN: PS3 Last Place in Japan.

Nintendo continues to tear up the Japanese sales charts with the most unthreatening of game releases. Friend Collection remained at the top of Media Create's weekly sales charts this week, staying level with its sales for the past few weeks and slowly climbing its way towards a million units.

The casual-friendly DS title, which lets players place their Mii collection in a virtual world, beat out a few major new releases. Soul Calibur Broken Destiny and Super Robo Academy, both heavily promoted, didn't even cross the 30,000 mark. D3 Publisher's Xbox 360 host club sim, Dream Club, debuted with 46,000 units -- an impressive figure considering the system's limited audience.

Here's the full software chart covering 8/23 to 8/29:

• Friend Collection (Nintendo, DS): 80,000 (890,000)
• Dragon Quest IX (Square Enix, DS): 71,000 (3,794,000)
• Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, Wii): 46,000 (1,085,000)
• Dream Club (D3 Publisher, Xbox 360): 46,000
• Monster Hunter 3 (Capcom, Wii): 34,000 (836,000)
• Soul Calibur Broken Destiny (Namco Bandai, PSP): 29,000
• Super Robo Academy (Namco Bandai, DS): 28,000
• How Money and Things Work DS (Nintendo, DS): 21,000
• Monster Hunter Freedom Unite PSP the Best (Capcom, PSP): 18,000 (925,000)
• Haku Ouki (Idea Factory, PS2): 17,000

There wasn't much of a change in the hardware race. The PS3 continued to plummet, presumably as stock dried out and people realized that by waiting an additional week, they could end up with a cheaper, thinner, quieter system, and get an extra 40 gigs too!

• DSi: 59,881 (59,578)
• PSP : 26,081 (27,187)
• Wii: 25,038 (26,972)
• DS Lite: 7,304 (5,735)
• Xbox 360: 7,254 (8,979)
• PS2 : 3,179 (3,295)
• PS3: 1,040 (2,052)

Next week's charts will likely see a PS3 re-emergence, both in hardware, thanks to the PS3 slim, and in software, thanks to Namco Bandai's Gundam Senki. Both were released on Thursday.Nintendo continues to tear up the Japanese sales charts with the most unthreatening of game releases. Friend Collection remained at the top of Media Create's weekly sales charts this week, staying level with its sales for the past few weeks and slowly climbing its way towards a million units.

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Lame thread dude, let it sink into the abyss

Zaibach

[QUOTE="Zaibach"]

Lame thread dude, let it sink into the abyss

MortalDecay

[QUOTE="Zaibach"]

Lame thread dude, let it sink into the abyss

MortalDecay

can we call the fad over yet?surrealnumber5

Yes the PS brand is irelevant now sadly:(

Console in short supply selling in low numbers the week before a new SKU releases? Never would of thought.....ReaperV7

[QUOTE="Zaibach"]

Lame thread dude, let it sink into the abyss

MortalDecay

I love how the 360 fanboys are making threads about this. I guess they don't know that the PS3 slim is not out yet. Pathetic. :roll:

[QUOTE="Zaibach"]

Lame thread dude, let it sink into the abyss

MortalDecay

Lame because there's already been various threads on the subject. Lame because it's already been explained why sales were so low. Lame because the title really feels like flame bait.

Various reasons really.

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]can we call the fad over yet?NinjaOmega

Yes the PS brand is irelevant now sadly:(

[QUOTE="NinjaOmega"]

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]can we call the fad over yet?2beers_in_hand

Yes the PS brand is irelevant now sadly:(

that sales wise and 4 years later PS3 is finally performing as good as it was supposed to do day one. Still, it will only happen in Japan :P

[QUOTE="Zaibach"]

Lame thread dude, let it sink into the abyss

MortalDecay

Will you post next week's numbers when they're released?

[QUOTE="2beers_in_hand"][QUOTE="NinjaOmega"]

Yes the PS brand is irelevant now sadly:(

PAL360

that sales wise and 4 years later PS3 is finally performing as good as it was supposed to do day one. Still, it will only happen in Japan :P

How do you know though. Theres a chance that PS3 can outsell the 360 you know :P

[QUOTE="PAL360"]

[QUOTE="2beers_in_hand"] So whats going to be you excuse in the next couple of months? When the PS3 steamrolls all over the 360's numbers.Desmonic

that sales wise and 4 years later PS3 is finally performing as good as it was supposed to do day one. Still, it will only happen in Japan :P

3 years mind you. That 8 million gap was made during that whole full year when the Xbox 360 had no HD competition.

And even at a MUCH HIGHER price, the PS3 sold pretty well in these 3 years. I wonder what would have happened if the 360 had the same price as the PS3 from launch. Even at 600$ people wanted the PS3. You can't say that for the Xbox 360 can you?

The gap was smaller when the PS3 first came out, so its only been getting larger...

It's over for the PS3 in Japan.....

Or is it 8)

[QUOTE="MrSlippery39"]

[QUOTE="Desmonic"]

3 years mind you. That 8 million gap was made during that whole full year when the Xbox 360 had no HD competition.

And even at a MUCH HIGHER price, the PS3 sold pretty well in these 3 years. I wonder what would have happened if the 360 had the same price as the PS3 from launch. Even at 600$ people wanted the PS3. You can't say that for the Xbox 360 can you?

Desmonic

The gap was smaller when the PS3 first came out, so its only been getting larger...

Well, you don't say? I wonder why a cheaper porduct sold more in 4 years than a much more expensive product (which only got cheap a few days) in 3 years.....

I repeat, if the PS3 and Xbox 360 were at the same price from launch ( bet it 600$, 400$ or 300$) I think ( I may be wrong here) the PS3 would have the lead. No by much, but it would have the lead. Of course, in this scenario we must forget the Wii's obliteration of both consoles xD

Of course the 360 would not have sold as much at the $600 price. Microsoft did not have the Playstation brand to sell the system. PS3 sold very well for a system at that price with the games that were released the first year. In my opinion, if it wasn't for the Playstation name, it would be dead today. Sony was very lucky that they had the fanboys when they released the system. Of course many of those hardcore PS2 fans went to 360 because of the lack of quality software when the PS3 was released. The PS3 only became a great system in the last year or so!

[QUOTE="NinjaOmega"]

can we call the fad over yet?surrealnumber5

Yes the PS brand is irelevant now sadly:(

You, my kind sir, are a lem fanboy to the extreme. And that's why whatever you say about the PS brand is purely irrelevant. Now, go play some Gears and leave.

[QUOTE="Desmonic"]

[QUOTE="NinjaOmega"]

Yes the PS brand is irelevant now sadly:(

Phazevariance

You, my kind sir, are a lem fanboy to the extreme. And that's why whatever you say about the PS brand is purely irrelevant. Now, go play some Gears and leave.

:roll:

Of course. Its PS3, You and the others need to bash it because its a PS3 right?

Where isnt the PS3 in last place. $ony failed to honor the PlayStation 1 and 2 with that debacle.

Console in short supply selling in low numbers the week before a new SKU releases? Never would of thought.....ReaperV7

Funny all this trash talk and about the PS3 and it just beat the wii and the 360 last week in sales in hte USA. How much you want to bet it does the same when its relesed in Japan?

[QUOTE="ReaperV7"]Console in short supply selling in low numbers the week before a new SKU releases? Never would of thought.....DeadMagazines

No hes telling you why would anyone buy a ps3 when a cheaper version is coming out shortly after? Its really not rocket science kids.

[QUOTE="DeadMagazines"][QUOTE="ReaperV7"]Console in short supply selling in low numbers the week before a new SKU releases? Never would of thought.....Polaris_choice

No hes telling you why would anyone buy a ps3 when a cheaper version is coming out shortly after? Its really not rocket science kids.

can we call the fad over yet?surrealnumber5

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]can we call the fad over yet?Tjeremiah1988

Considering nobdoy is buying games for the Wii (unless they come with a prephrial ) i still think the wii could be put in the fad zone. Hell the Backstreet Boys were a fad they just happned to last 4 years.

Japan is waiting for the Slim, that's all.

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]can we call the fad over yet?Tjeremiah1988

Yep. Everyone is waiting for the Slim. Nothing new :Paaronmullan

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PS3. Just Wait :lol: BoloTheGreat

That should have been the PS3 slogan instead of "It Only Does Everything". Worse slogan ever for a game console.

[QUOTE="Tjeremiah1988"][QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]can we call the fad over yet?surrealnumber5

Hmm MGS4 already sold over 4 million , and no im not a cow I actually own all platforms except the Wii. And how exactly is the PS3 a fad when the Xbox brand based its self off the Playtation brand.You seem to be a little uneducated about what a fad actually is. The Wii could be considred a fad because it sold extremley fast based off motion controls. Neitehr the Ps3 or 360 could be called a fad because they built there platfroms around traditional gaming guide lines which have been going on for over the past 20 years.

[QUOTE="PAL360"]

So whats going to be you excuse in the next couple of months? When the PS3 steamrolls all over the 360's numbers.2beers_in_hand

that sales wise and 4 years later PS3 is finally performing as good as it was supposed to do day one. Still, it will only happen in Japan :P

3 years mind you. That 8 million gap was made during that whole full year when the Xbox 360 had no HD competition.

And even at a MUCH HIGHER price, the PS3 sold pretty well in these 3 years. I wonder what would have happened if the 360 had the same price as the PS3 from launch. Even at 600$ people wanted the PS3. You can't say that for the Xbox 360 can you?

I love how the 360 fanboys are making threads about this. I guess they don't know that the PS3 slim is not out yet. Pathetic. :roll:

IlovemyAbs

[QUOTE="Desmonic"]

[QUOTE="NinjaOmega"]

Yes the PS brand is irelevant now sadly:(

Phazevariance

You, my kind sir, are a lem fanboy to the extreme. And that's why whatever you say about the PS brand is purely irrelevant. Now, go play some Gears and leave.

^Win. I mean, look, Ever since PS 1st arrived, other competitors always turned out to be better than them in both graphics & multiplats.

Sega Saturn & N64>>>PS1.

Dreamcast, X-Box & Gamecube>>>>>PS2.

X-Box 360>>>>>PS3.

When will this trend end?