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Playstation 3 is officially outselling Wii in Japan for 2009
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According to the latest Media Create numbers, the Playstation 3 has surpassed the Nintendo Wii in hardware sales for 2009 in Japan.
With the release of last week’s sales data, the current year-to-date numbers put the Playstation 3 at 447,700 units sold while the Nintendo Wii is at 431,833 units sold.
The takeover is a result of the small rise of the Playstation 3’s popularity. In the past few months, the much scrutinized video game system has gotten several big blockbuster games: White Knight Chronicles in late December, Yakuza 3 and Street Fighter IV in February, Resident Evil 5 in March and now the Final Fantasy XIII demo in April. Because of these titles, the Playstation 3 got a small surge without a price drop.
The weekly units sold average for the Playstation 3 went up by nearly 10,000 from 20,027 last year to 29,846 in 2009.
The bigger story here is the decline of the Nintendo Wii, which saw a dramatic decline in sales. The popular system averages 57,360 units sold per week in 2008. Its popularity has dropped significantly in 2009 with just about 28,789 units sold per week.
Don’t expect this trend to last long, however, as Nintendo Wii have Wii Sports Resort and two Monster Hunter games coming soon. Then again, the Playstation 3 is also getting Final Fantasy XIII (which is an exclusive title in Japan) by the end of 2009. Needless to say, the battle for home console supremacy in Japan will be a lot closer in 2009 than it was in 2008.
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