Hardware sales not all that surprising. In the wake of big software and of course they both had had pricedrops/new SKUs, both PS3 and Wii should start seeing some hardware increases. Generally for Japan, sales start going up in early December compared to in America/Europe when it occurs early November. Different culture of course. PSP and DS sales still going strong but obviously DSi LL has been more effective than that of the PSP Go which shouldn't come off as too much of a surprise.
Software wise, Professor Layton lives up while many discredited it as being able to match the rest of the series. Few other evergreen titles stay up there and oddball out is of course the Pro Evo game on PS3 which is holding quite nicely. Wouldn't say it has legs... as people so mistakingly have put it, but it definitely is showing selling power. Trust me, legs isn't determined after 3-4 weeks of sales... that is just silly. But the title is showing that it may have the potential to be a long term seller in Japan for the PS3 and even get some significant rises come this holiday season.
Last week though is going to be a kind of borefest compared to this week. NSMB Wii is expected to do in the 800k-1000k range and push Wii well over the 100k mark. Samurai Warriors 3 will do about 150k first week with Kamen Rider doing another 60k-70k. Also PSP will have Phantasy Star Portable 2 and the Mobile Suit Gundam game probably perform over 200k first week and drive PSP sales up. Be a pretty good week this week.
