Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata may have recently identified an "urgent" situation in Japan that saw lagging sales of the Nintendo Wii, but the hardware was in top form this week.
For the week ended December 13, the Wii sold 135,898 units, a 2009 record for the Wii in Japan. That figure was up from the previous week's already very strong 106,555, and enough to put the Wii on top of the hardware charts for the second week in a row.
The Wii's strong figures arrived as Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros. Wii hit store shelves on December 3, selling strongly. The weeks just prior to the game's release saw Wii hardware sales ranging from around 25,000 to 45,000 units.
The PlayStation 3, which recently hit 4 million units sold in Japan, saw sales rise to 75,086 units, up from the prior week's 57,782. PSP sales grew to 71,885 from 67,880. Total sales of the DS line (DSi LL, DSi, DS Lite) were 137,566 for the week, up from 113,793.
Xbox 360, whose performance typically lags in Japan, also saw a bit of a sales boost, as the console moved 10,646, up from 5,314 units a week ago. Below are the full sales rankings from Media Create for the week ended December 13.
Wii: 135,898
PS3: 75,086
PSP: 71,885
DSi: 68,184
DSi LL: 58,006
DS Lite: 11,376
Xbox 360: 10,646
PSP Go: 3,077
PS2: 2,463
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I'm curious to know what Nintendo's been working on since they announced the need to address the "urgent" situation. The competitions' upcoming motion controllers were quite a surprise, so I expect Nintendo to come up with something unexpected too (and this doesn't count their E3 announcements because the "urgent" need was recognized long after that).
" I expect the PS3 to sell anywhere from 200 - 250k next week"
Pretty good prediction.
Famitsu has PS3's sold last week at 245,406 units.
FF XIII sold a massive 1,516,532 last week.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20091221-00000023-oric-ent
This is by far the PS3's biggest weekly sales since the PS3 was launched.
Also, FF XIII first week sales make it the biggest selling PS3 game in Japan by a long shot.
First Week(FW)/Life to Date(LTD) sales for past FF games:
（First Day） First Week 2nd 3nd LTD FW/LTD
FF7 (****) 2,034,879 329,740 167,865 3,277,766 62.08%
FF8 (****) 2,504,044 270,993 205,779 3,501,588 71.51%
FF9 (****) 1,954,421 328,404 123,827 2,707,301 72.19%
FF10. (1,456K) 1,749,737 233,429 *85,703 2,325,215 77.19%
FF10-2 (1,200K) 1,472,914 181,798 *80,295 1,960,937 75.11%
FF12. (1,441K) 1,840,397 217,438 *91,078 2,322,541 79.24%
FF13. (~1,000K) 1,516,532
Given that FF XIII was launched in the very high selling holiday period, it should make 2 million LTD easy, and could sell even more than that by January ending.