PS3 slowly rising in Japan sales
September 4th 2007 11:50
Japan seems to be the homeland of the Wii, while the UK reached its first million Wii owners last month, 3.4 million Japanese gamers, at the same time, are happily playing with their Wii’s. Now the PS3 is slowly gaining back ground.
According to Bloomberg.com, August saw 3 Wii units sold for every PS3 sold (245,653 to 81,541). Doesn’t sound good for Sony but the month before seen 4 Wii’s sold to one PS3 and 6 Wii’s sold to every PS3 in May and June.
Sony has slowly made its way back into the gaming race, in Japan at least, and is, unsurprisingly, ahead of 360 sales whom only sold 11,288 units.
A total of 1.1 million PS3 units and 442,290 Xbox 360 units were sold from market shelves since launch.
Sony has held the crown in last generation's console wars. Now the Wii's innovative gameplay has taken their crown for the current and sits high on the sale charts. August figures show there is still love for Sony in Japan. Maybe Sony will taste its former glory once again if they keep playing their marketing cards correct in the coming year. The 360 should continue to do what they are doing now and focus in the America and European markets.
The sales gap is closing in between Sony and Nintendo, making this a small victory for the PS3 this month.
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