PS3 overtakes Wii in Japan (software)

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ktay95 on 05 April 2014

pezus said:

Yep, this just happened this week.

Japan Software by Platform

Platform	Weekly (change)	Total
PS3	559,186	(+62%)	68,931,645
PSP	45,600	(+202%)	76,690,239
Wii	8,382	(-17%)	68,780,862

I wonder if it can catch PSP?

Tales of Zestiria and Persona 5 will help that push to beat PSP

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Zekkyou on 05 April 2014

It should be able to catch up to the PSP pretty easily, and relatively soon. It's weekly software numbers have been good, and it still has quite a few big Japanese titles coming.

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 05 April 2014

Does the award go to GTA V for being the final game that pushed it over the edge?

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paulrage2 on 05 April 2014

Nice PS3! It is possible to achieve 80 million software at the end of life cycle in Japan

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Carl on 05 April 2014

pezus said:

paulrage2 said:
Nice PS3! It is possible to achieve 80 million software at the end of life cycle in Japan

I think so too. I wonder what PS2 did

http://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/Software/Global/

PS2 sold over 222 Million units of software in Japan. Only beaten by the original PlayStation and the NES.

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binary solo on 05 April 2014

Would it be reasonable to predict that PS3 would have more digital sales than Wii? So probably sales of all software has probably been higher on PS3 than Wii for some time.

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Cobretti2 on 05 April 2014

well piracy on WIi was so much easier so not bad.

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Azhraell on 05 April 2014

It's a fact that will pass PSP. It will end up at 75-80 millions or so. Not bad considering the lower userbase compared to its predecessors.

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Roar_Of_War on 05 April 2014

Pretty easy accomplishment, given that few, if any, Wii games are still being made since the Wii U released. Nintendo dropped the Wii support too early, if you ask me. It didn't start dying until Nintendo slowed down support around 2009 or so (Until NSMBW), and dropped too fast after the surge in 2010.

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EricFabian on 05 April 2014

It will pass PSP with Persona

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