HappySqurriel on 15 May 2007
Looking at the yearly hardware and software totals in Japan, it becomes clear that the PS2 and PS3 are not moving much hardware and the PSP and PS3 are not moving much software:
Hardware:
| Console | Year | Total |
|---|---|---|
 | 2,860,179 | 16,913,437 |
 | 1,428,246 | 2,401,714 |
 | 853,129 | 5,467,970 |
 | 432,622 | 905,227 |
 | 328,210 | 21,815,246 |
 | 98,596 | 383,910 |
 | 38,378 | 16,682,376 |
 | 6,668 | 4,020,318 |
| Total | 6,046,028 |
Software Totals:
| Console | Year | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 14,563,879 | 66,706,593 |
| 4,242,387 | 118,359,213 |
| 3,599,239 | 5,637,292 |
| 2,199,738 | 10,815,561 |
| 720,743 | 1,176,122 |
| 383,670 | 1,276,119 |
| 194,151 | 46,643,808 |
 | 15,714 | 8,646,086 |
| 4,120 | 21,317,638 |
| Total | 25,923,641 |
At the same time the DS and Wii are moving a lot of hardware and the Wii's software totals are improving at a pretty steady rate.
Generally speaking, stores hate carying hardware because it is expensive, takes up a lot of space and they have (very) poor margins on it; in theory (with current sales) the store may have wanted to stop carying PS2 or PS3 hardware and Sony threatened that they couldn't sell any Playstation products if they stopped supplying PS2/PS3 hardware.
