Wii building sales lead over PS3 in Japan once again

[Jitway]

After successfully cutting into Nintendo's considerable lead in console sales over the past several months, Sony is once again losing ground. According to statistics provided by Japanese game magazine Enterbrain, Nintendo sold 331,627 Wii consoles in the four weeks ending February 24, compared to 89,131 for the PS3. This is larger than the 3-to-1 margin in January.

 

As has been practically consistent since its launch, the Xbox 360 lagged far behind with only 14,079 consoles sold during the same period. With such broad success during the month, Wii games also stood atop the best selling games. Nintendo sold some 1.33 million copies of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, followed by Wii Fit, which had sales of 309,311 units. Both games are produced directly by Nintendo.

 

 

Of course it is. The GBA and then the NDS were always big over there. Handhelds rule in Japan. So the WII being interactive and all of course it would be a hit there and out sell the PS3. They are no dummies.

 

Source HERE

[Lucandrake]

This is cool and bad at the same time.

 

I still find it so hard to believe Nintendo owning everything left and right, I didn't expect it on this scale !

[Jitway]

Nintendo always owned in Japan. Not here till the WII came out but in Japan Nintendo has and always will be king. I know this for I have been there. Even back in the NES and SNES days it was king there.

[Lucandrake]

I meant the gamecube, and the N64 was OK.