Sony platforms dominated hardware sales in Japan during the week ended November 15.
PSP-3000 sales rose by 5,000 units week-on-week to head the rankings, although sales of the company's latest handheld, PSPgo, more than halved to an underwhelming 6,427 units.
Despite a 10,000 units sales drop PS3 only narrowly missed out on the top spot, while DS and Wii, in third and fourth, saw weekly sales fall by around 3,500 and 5,000 units respectively.
DS Lite, Xbox 360 and PS2 sales saw marginal sales declines.
On the software front, a football title claimed the top spot for the second week running, with Sega's J-League Soccer for PSP racking up 85,000 sales in its debut week.
Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver for DS sold 63,000 copies to finish second, ahead of new entry Dragon Ball: Raging Blast for PS3 in third.
The week's other new entries were Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers for Wii and Mega Man Battle Network: Operation Shooting Star for DS, which placed eighth and ninth respectively.
01. J-League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 6: Pride of J (Sega, PSP) - 85,000 (New) 02. Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver (Pokemon Co., DS) - 63,000 03. Dragon Ball: Raging Blast (Namco Bandai, PS3) - 58,000 (New) 04. Tomodachi Collection (Nintendo, DS) - 56,000 05. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo, Wii) - 53,000 06. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 (Konami, PS3) - 49,000 07. Inazuma Eleven 2: Threat of the Invaders (Level 5, DS) - 37,000 08. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers (Square Enix, Wii) - 35,000 (New) 09. Mega Man Battle Network: Operation Shooting Star (Capcom, DS) - 23,000 (New) 10. Persona 3 Portable (Atlus Co., PSP) - 17,000
Hasn't DragonBall been getting very poor reviews saying that the game is broken on so many levels? I know the Japs go nuts over DBZ but surely they actually read some sort of review before spending their hard earned Yen. Especially when they've been buying the original PSP in so many numbers and nearly sending the PSPGo into Xbox numbers.
Hasn't DragonBall been getting very poor reviews saying that the game is broken on so many levels? I know the Japs go nuts over DBZ but surely they actually read some sort of review before spending their hard earned Yen. Especially when they've been buying the original PSP in so many numbers and nearly sending the PSPGo into Xbox numbers.
Hasn't DragonBall been getting very poor reviews saying that the game is broken on so many levels? I know the Japs go nuts over DBZ but surely they actually read some sort of review before spending their hard earned Yen. Especially when they've been buying the original PSP in so many numbers and nearly sending the PSPGo into Xbox numbers.
I was about to type that exact same thing, Mark. The Japanese seemed to love rubbish games, the Americans love rubbish tv and the Bristish seem to love rubbish music.
It's some kind of universal balance or something. Maybe.
Hasn't DragonBall been getting very poor reviews saying that the game is broken on so many levels? I know the Japs go nuts over DBZ but surely they actually read some sort of review before spending their hard earned Yen. Especially when they've been buying the original PSP in so many numbers and nearly sending the PSPGo into Xbox numbers.
Since when did popular stuff have to be good?
In japan if something is popular it'll still sell well even with crappy reviews. When I was in Japan last it was May 2007 and Gundam Musou was out on the PS3. It was crap but I was in a games shop looking at PS3 games and I picked up the box and I was looking at it, then the guy next to me said that it was 'super great'. I took the Japanese mans advise and brought the game. Once I got back to England I tried it out and it was rubbish. But I do remember being in quite a few shops and seeing lots of copies being sold.
Loads of things have sold well in western territories that have been terrible. The recent increase in internet activity has reduced this to some extent recently. But I still remember the likes of FIFA Street doing pretty well in the last few years.
The mainstream has mainly been dictated by marketing. Even when something is of high quality and deserves to do well. The music industry is a great example in my eyes of the majority of people's choice not to buy something in comparison with the comparitively small masses who send things like Westlife and the latest Xfactor winner to number one. It is entirely self fulfilling and the media is complicit.
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Hasn't DragonBall been getting very poor reviews saying that the game is broken on so many levels? I know the Japs go nuts over DBZ but surely they actually read some sort of review before spending their hard earned Yen. 
