PlayStation 3 best selling hardware in Japan last week

According to Media Create's numbers, the PlayStation 3 was the best selling hardware in Japan for the week ending 1st March.

We brought you Yakuza 3's Japanese launch sales yesterday, which saw the game push almost 400,000 copies. It also prompted sales of the PlayStation 3 itself, though you might have expected more than 35,000 sold when the game was able to push so many copies.

However, the Famitsu hardware numbers we were given yesterday are not quite as telling as Media Create's. Although Famitsu showed that the PlayStation 3 had pushed past Nintendo's Wii during the week, we didn't expect the console to sell the most out of all the video gaming hardware.

That's the case if you separate the Nintendo DSi and the DSLite (together they have sold 47,601), which I'm sure some of you won't agree with, but it still makes for an impressive chart for Sony to drool over. Especially when the PlayStation 3 was only able to sell 16,000 units last week, behind the Xbox 360.

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MEDIA CREATE HARDWARE

PlayStation 3 - 36,513

DSi - 35,827

PSP - 35,588

WII - 17,876

Xbox 360 - 11,795

DSL - 11,774

PlayStation 2 - 5,099