Virtua Fighter 5 Boosts PS3 Sales

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February 19, 2007

Virtual Fighter 5 boosts PS3 sales
Upturn for Sony's console in Japan
Martyn Williams

The launch of Sega's long-awaited Virtual Fighter 5 for the PS3 (PlayStation 3) gave the console its biggest hit of the year so far, according to figures released on Friday.

The title launched on 8 February and topped the Japan software charts for that week with sales of almost 50,000 copies, according to data from Media Create. Its launch was also likely to have been one of the reasons behind a jump in sales of the console during the week of 5 to 11 February, to 23,431 units from 18,727 units in the previous week.

Media Create receives actual sales data from around 3,000 stores across Japan and uses that to estimate nationwide sales.

Sales of Nintendo's Wii also jumped and stood at 78,550 units for the week, according to the estimates. Once again Nintendo's handheld DS Lite device topped the hardware sales ranking at 201,770 units. Its nearest competitor, Sony's PlayStation Portable, managed sales of 32,175 units, according to Media Create.

Software titles for new-generation consoles occupied the top three positions for the week. After Virtual Fighter 5 at number one was Wii Sports and Wii Play

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23,000 units isnt anything to boast aboutlaughingman42

In JA, yes. In NA, no.

280,000 nintendo units sold vs 55,000 sony units. I think sony is still a little behind

[QUOTE="laughingman42"]23,000 units isnt anything to boast aboutchrismunx

In JA, yes. In NA, no.

[QUOTE="laughingman42"]23,000 units isnt anything to boast aboutchrismunx

In JA, yes. In NA, no.