Maybe the key is on our sigs?

 Really? What are you expecting? 40,000?

No upset for this week. Next week will be quite similar I think.

If they are so lucky.  Once again, hardly any new release for the Japanese audience to get excited about.  I really don't get Sony this generation.

Bah there is WKC and gundam 2 next week. Early next year, you got yakuza 3 and FFXIII demo. PS3 should do fine till the end of march.

Are you referring to the recession? System sales appear to be largely unaffected (and considerably higher) almost everywhere else in the world, why is Japan different? I know that the unpopular HD consoles will probably die alot sooner in Japan than elsewhere, but whats with the drop in Wii and PSP sales, and to a lesser extent DS sales? Is Japan simply losing interest in gaming, or is it a price issue, or a software issue? Is it a different mindset that Japan has compared to the western world on how to deal with an economic recession?

 Oh dont get me wrong the Wii is down loads. It sold like 170k this week last year so that is a fall of 80k year over year! That is pretty bad. BUT the Wii still outsold the PS3 and 360 combined by over 2 to 1. I dont really think we can start saying the Wii is going tits up when it has those sort of figures behind it, we would be very picky wouldnt we.

Sales for pretty much everything are down in Japan apart from the 360, but even those numbers i dont think are worth bragging about. The UK really has now killed off Japan as a gaming sales monster in my opinion. Who would of thought that?

Never knew.

Its amazing that the DS numbers are so high.. even with the DSi release I thought everybody in Japan already had one.

First one sold about 300k in Japan so this could give decent boost, but you never know what happens in Japan. =)